Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2nd pr., 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. One of the most pensive & delicious of all our poets, completed shortly before his death, Matthews seems to be looking his last . on all things lovely: music, food, wine, and especially love. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers, gilt title & design on spine, 84 pages. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1885, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 184 pages, blue cloth, gilt decorated cover and title. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf and minor edge wear, otherwise, clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1885, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth with blue and gilt design on cover and spine. 184 pages, top edge gilt. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Garden City NJ, Doubleday & Company , 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 242 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY TRANSLATOR on front flyleaf. Translated by William Meredith. Landmark in the history of French poetry. With an introduction and notes by Francis Steegmuller. Heavy fading to dust jacket spine. Minor rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Slight yellowing and age toning to prelim pages. Age toning to text block edges. A clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a chipped dust jacket. Blue cloth. Previous owner's inscription on title page, otherwise clean
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st , 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY STAFFORD on title-page. Dust jacket spine with light fading.
Hardcover. Ann Arbor MI, Kylix Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 75 pages. Mild fading to dust jacket spine. No markings.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY STRAND on the title page. Clean, like new.
Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 594 pages. A landmark in postwar American literary criticism, forty-one extended essays on contemporary poets, including Robert Bly, Sylvia Plath, Allen Ginsberg, W.S. Merwin, Denise Levertov, and James Merrill. Blending biography, textual analysis, and philosophical reflection, it defined a generation's poetic discourse. The book stands as both a map of mid-century American verse and a statement of Howard's erudite critical voice. Light shelfwear, fraying to top, bottom of dust jacket spine. Clean copy.
New York, HarperCollins, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, unpaginated, color illustrations by William Steig, very clean, tight copy, like new.
Hardcover. NY, Grove Press, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 259 pages. When Ada Calhoun stumbled upon old cassette tapes of interviews her father, celebrated art critic Peter Schjeldahl, had conducted for his never-completed biography of poet Frank O'Hara, she set out to finish the book her father had started forty years earlier. As a lifelong O'Hara fan who grew up amid his bohemian cohort in the East Village, Calhoun thought the project would be easy, even fun, but the deeper she dove, the more she had to face not just O'Hara's past, but also her father's, and her own. The result is a groundbreaking and kaleidoscopic memoir that weaves compelling literary history with a moving, honest, and tender story of a complicated father-daughter bond. Also a Poet explores what happens when we want to do better than our parents, yet fear what that might cost us; when we seek their approval, yet mistrust it.
Hardcover. Yokohama, Sumpusha Publishing, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 141 pages. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the first title page. English text. Clean copy.
NY, Laurel Press, 1st, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan boards with cream cloth spine, 88 pages. #199 of 450 copies. Previous owner's inscription front endpage. Corners lightly bumped, light edgewear. A late-sixteenth-century sonnet cycle written by Edmunde (Edmund) Spenser about his courtship and marriage to Elizabeth Boyle.
Hardcover. New York, W.W. Norton & Company, 1st, 1995, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 72 pages. Blue cloth, silver title to spine, pictorial dust jacket. Beautiful copy. Like new.
Softcover. Princeton, Princeton University Press, reprint, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 65 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. MInor wear, soiling to cover. Else a nice, clean copy.
Hardcover. Rome, Grafica Internazionale, 1st, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, oblong format, orange cloth covers stamped in brown and white. ITALIAN TEXT. Introduction by Elio Mercuri. Poetic texts by Langston Hughes, Owen Dodson, Sterling A. Brown, James Weldon Johnson. With 32 color plates and 60 black and white illustrations. 8vo, 100 pages, Aligi Sassu created all the plates reproduced here in 1969 for the scenic cantata ''Anch'io sono l'America'' by Mario Nascimbene, inspired by the texts of contemporary black poets. The work is; had its world premiere on 20 June 1969 at the Teatro Sociale in Lecco, interpreted by Helenita Olivares and Therman Bailey. Covers with fading, light soil. Interior clean.
Hardcover. New York, Penguin, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 101 pages. Minor shelf-wear to pictorial dust jacket, else like new.
Hardcover. Garden City, New York , Doubleday & Company, 1st US, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 48 pages, 1-color illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. dust jacket with edgewear, small tears.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 67 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very minor sun-fade to dust jacket spine, else a clean, tight copy.