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179323161Boston Massachusetts: Belknap and Ball 1793. 12 324 2 pages contents at back; including a portrait of Della Crusca and another of Anna Matilda both engraved by Sam. Hill Boston; 2 title pages one which describes this as the First American Edition from the Fourth London Edition; mostly short poetic pieces originally edited by Edward Topham; credited to Robert Merry Hannah Cowley Miles Peter Andrews Edward Jerningham others; printed at the Apollo Press Boston; approximately 4 1/2" x 6 3/4" size; previous ownership name-stamp of Mary G. Clark; bound in full contemporary polished tree-calf leather; spine with gilt decorations; much edge tips wear rubbing to boards worn binding split in half; lacks title label on spine; no front free blank endpaper; portraits darkened with the tissue guard of Anna Matilda having a tracing of the figure in line; some foxing soil and discoloration of leaves; in good condition. First American Edition. Leather. Good. Belknap and Ball books
195062294Oxford: John Adlard and Alan Brownjohn 1950. First edition. 8 pp. Light bump to base of spine else near fine in stapled wrappers. Poems by Elizabeth Jennings Marion Smith Lotte Zurndorfer Jenny Joseph Gillian Craig and Adrienne Cecile Rich a year before the appearance of her first adult title A CHANGE OF WORLD. Oxford: John Adlard and Alan Brownjohn unknown books
201463127San Francisco: Book Club of California 2014. First edition. 49 pp. Fine paper-covered boards with cloth spine. Two photographs by Campbell who also designed the book. One of 300 numbered copies on Zerkall Frankfurt paper SIGNED by contributors Joseph Stroud Kay Ryan Gary Young Martha Ronk and Michael Hannon. San Francisco: Book Club of California, hardcover books
199427581Providence: Brown University 1994. First edition. Loose Sheets. Fine. Tall single-sheet of paper printed on one side only. An attractive poster announcing A Festschrift for Barabara Guest sponsored by the Bwoen University Creative Writing Program on 12 - 13 April 1994. Poster rolled for mailing else in fine condition. It contains a single poem by Guest entitled The Poetess. SIGNED by GUest plus all of the participating poets in the event. Quite scarce thus. Poster measures 10 3/4" wide x 17" tall. Brown University unknown books
1827007776London: Printed for David Booker 1827. Near Fine bound in contemporary half morocco over marbled boards back ornatelt gilt top edge gilt marbled end papers light rubbling at tips scattered light foxing. "Illustrated with humorous wood-cuts and portraits of Butler and Thyer". . First Edition. Half Morocco. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Printed for David Booker Hardcover books
19721162New York and Philadelphia: Telegraph Books 1972. First Edition. <br /><br />12mo 7 1/8 x 4 3/4 inches; 184 x 120 mm 48 pages in wrappers featuring a cover photo by Rudy Burckhardt.<br /><br /><b>SIGNED</b> on the title page by Ron Padgett and Aram Saroyan. Some poetic musings about a trip to Boston with a "forward" sic by Aram Saroyan; "Ten Things about the Boston Trip" by Tom Clark; "Back in Cambridge Again" by Ron Padgett and "Ten Things About the Boston Trip: An Aside to Ron & Tom" by Ted Berrigan.<br /><br />Copies signed by more than one contributor are uncommon. This one is signed by Padgett and Saroyan. <br /><br />CONDITION: Some soiling to covers a bit of toning to pages nick to top of upper wrapper. A Very Good copy. Telegraph Books books
198510067m1985. TLS. 8.5 x 11 inch sheet 20lb white stock. Dated "6 July 1985." Stafford writing to Louis McKee the publisher of the literary magazine "The Axe Factory Review" apologizing profusely for his unintended duplicate submission. "I found to my horror that. "Listening to the Tide". is alas at two places now. and the only thing to do was write this note in great haste to minimize the damage." Stafford goes on to explain his manuscript management and how he could have made his mistake. Ends with "Humbly and guilty." Signed "Bill Stafford" in ink. Aprx two hundred and forty words. Folded twice for mailing slight wrinkling at lower corner; otherwise in Fine condition. Signed by Author. Unbound. Fine/Not Issued. Paperback books
1932008543New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1932. RARE in lovely dust jacket. Fine small period bookseller's ticket front paste down in Near Fine dust jacket small closed tear top edge rear panel faint sticker shadow top edge spine light wear at spine ends. . First American Edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Alfred A. Knopf Hardcover books
1979001598New York: The Dial Press 1979. First Printing. Scarce her 3rd book of poems. Dustjacket has 2 closed tears 1" and 1/2" and a tiny chip at the head of the spine. . First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. The Dial Press Hardcover books
19701510n.p. Santa Barbara: Unicorn Press n.d. 1970. First Edition. 8vo 8 7/8 inches / 226 mm tall unpaginated in wrappers. Light sunning along spine and on lower wrapper. Internally clean and bright. A Near Fine copy.SIGNED by Philip Levine on the title page. One of 1000 copies of the trade edition in wrappers. There was also a limited edition of 50 clothbound copies signed and numbered by Levine as well as 450 copies in sailcloth. The book contains five poems: Detroit Grease Shop Poem Saturday Sweeping Coming Home The Angels of Detroit and They Feed They Lion. While signed copies of the limited edition are fairly common signed copies of the trade edition in wrappers are more elusive. SCARCE. <br /><br /> Unicorn Press hardcover books
1977008976New York: Vantage Press 1977. Native American author's first book SCARCE in current commerce. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket tiny rubs at corners and spine ends. Laid in is a single sheel folded with the typed poem "Standing Rock Reservation" pencil signed lower right Elaine Jahner. Elaine Jahner 1924-2003 was a professor of English and Native American studies best known for her field work on the Standing Rock Reservation and her publications on American Indian culture literature and linguistics. Apparently an unpublished poem her published works were Lakota Belief and Ritual. 1980. coedited with Raymond J. DeMallie and Spaces of the Mind: Narrative and Community in the American West. 2004. . First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. Thin 8vo. Vantage Press hardcover books
1927A34059New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers. Near Fine in Very Good- dust jacket. 1927. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Fine condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown page. The price clipped dust jacket has several small edge tears nicks and some chipping to the spine ends along with some light toning to the spine and spine joints. "Countee Cullen is already established as one of the vivid figures standing out from the younger group of modern poets. The dust jacket are is wonderfully Art Deco. The interior illustrations are by Charles Cullen a white illustrator who was no relation to Countee Cullen. . Harper & Brothers, Publishers hardcover books
19321509London: Ernest Benn Ltd. 1932. First Edition. <br /><br />Octavo 8 1/4 x 5 3/8 inches; 210 x 135 mm 32 pages including the wrappers in stitched self-wrappers. <br /><br />A collection of 24 poems including some of his most famous works such as The Road Not Taken Mending Wall Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening and others. <br /><br />The binding is rather odd to say the least. The publishers took simulated linen paper and pasted it over the original self-wrappers. They cut a panel in the front cover exposing only "Robert Frost" in the title. Indeed you can see the original lettering if you hold both wrappers up to the light. This is "Binding B" according to the standard Frost bibliography Robert Frost: A Descriptive Catalogue of Books and Manuscripts in the Clifton Waller Barrett Library University of Virginia. Compiled by Joan St. C. Crane. Crane A16. <br /><br />Copies of this fragile volume are scarce to the market. <b>SCARCE</b>. <br /><br /> CONDITION: Some paper loss to spine closed tears to lower wrapper creasing to both wrappers general handling wear. A Good or better copy in the "B" binding. Ernest Benn Ltd. books
19542167Rome: Privately printed 1954. First Edition First Printing. <br /><br />Octavo 8 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches; 215 x 160 mm 12 pages in brown stapled wrappers. <br /><br />Transcript of a Vatican Radio broadcast by Portuguese poet and academic José V. de Piña Martins appealing for the release of Ezra Pound from incarceration in the United States. Piña Martins using the pseudonym Duarte de Montalegre maintains that Pound is not anti-American or anti-Semitic. <br /><br />Vatican Radio broadcast the talk on March 30 1954 while Italian Radio rebroadcast it later that evening. "A sustained campaign of articles editorials and letters followed in the Italian press" according to Pound's biographer A. David Moody. "Many of these articles were aimed at or were brought to the attention of Clare Boothe Luce the American ambassador in Rome who would as a matter of course pass them on to the State Department in Washington." See A. David Moody Ezra Pound: Poet. A Portrait of the Man and His Work Vol. III page 337. <br /><br />Pound's friend and correspondent Olivia Rossetti Agresti translated the talk into English for this publication. She was active in the international campaign to free Pound which culminated in his release from a mental hospital in 1958. Foreword by Leo Magnino. <b>SCARCE</b>. <br /><br /> CONDITION: Some sunning to wrapper edges light vertical creases to wrappers and internal pages. Overall a Very Good or better copy. Privately printed books
197350819NY: Farrar Straus Giroux 1973. First edition first prnt. Inscribed by Wright on the title page. "for Cynthia with dearest love Edie & James." Edie was Wright's second wife Edith Anne the "Annie" in his later poems. Front board with upper corner just tapped and two small shallow indentations on the cloth spine end cloth lightly rubbed; dustjacket with toned spine and flap folds wear at corners spine ends and folds and small perforation on the spine. Very Good condition in an about Very Good dustjacket with an archival cover. Wright's sixth collection published during his lifetime. . Inscribed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Farrar Straus Giroux Hardcover books
1666019th century Handwritten Composition book filled with handwritten poems and verses from a young lady in Lancaster County Pennsylvania 1880-1883. Original cloth boards. 8 1/4 x 7 in. "Compositions" embossed on front cover. 100 pages. Each page filled with handwritten poems and reflections including writing about attending school and nostalgia for being a student. "Mary A. Dunlap Willow Grove School 1880" written on first page. Original poems such as "Away to School" and "The School House on the Hill" "Fond memory paints the scenes of other years Green be their memory still And bright amid those joyous scenes appear the school house on the hill. // Cho. Oh I never can forget no I never can forget The old school house on the hill. // There hands the swing upon the maple-tree Where you and I once swung; There flows the spring forever flowing free As when we both were young. // There climb the vines and there the berries grow which once we prised so high; And there the ripe nuts glisten in the glow Of rich October sky."<br/><br/>Includes original history reports on American Literature and The Colonial Period 1640-1760. "The Colonial Age was mainly one of fighting and manual industry.The drama then the most popular form of literature in England was not tolerated by the Puritans and did not flourish therefore in America. Libraries were few and the means of communication but scant; hence the age was not favorable to literary development and the growth of American literature was slow indeed." Includes list of prominent American writers including: Thomas Jefferson John Greenleaf Whittier and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Excerpts from several of Shakespeare's most famous works including Twelfth Night "Music/ That strain again; it had a dying fall; Oh it came o'er my ear like the sweet south That breathes upon a bank of violets Stealing and giving odor" and As You Like It. "Sweet are the uses of adversity; Which like the toad ugly and venomous Wears yet a precious jewel in its head". Seven drafted letters at end of book regarding dinner invitations letters of condolence and a subscription to The Atlantic Monthly. Last several pages are ledger book of loans and debts. Brown stain in upper inside corner of book affecting last 40 pages. Very good condition. unknown books
1912007918London: Printed for James Ridgway 1912. Handsomely bound in contemporary full polished calf the back ornately gilt double gilt rules to covers matching marbled end papers and edges. Near Fine scattered light toning covers rubbed a bit at tips. . Later Edition. Polished Calf. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Printed for James Ridgway Hardcover books
182719587Cornish Maine: Published and Sold by the Author 1827. First edition. Thin slice from the calf of the upper board; some general rubbing and some browning; a good to very good copy of a pleasantly crude little book in a moderately odd format. How often does one see gathering M for the prelims preceded the subsequent gathering B. 12mo gathered in nines contemporary full calf dark blue morocco label gilt lettering 216 pages. A pleasantly crudely-made anthology largely of English poems though Key's "Star-Spangled Banner" does make an early appearance here. Even the poems on patriotic and peculiarly American reform themes--the visit of Lafayette to America the sale of a negro boy an American Indian speaking to a slave before a planned massacre of the slave owners--seem not only to hail from English sources but to have strange textual variants or errors introduced into their texts. With the printer's slug for John Adams Jr. of Portland on the verso of the title page. Somewhat later ink ownership inscription to the paste-down and a 1914 pencil inscription below that. Free endpapers excised. American Imprints 28543. Published and Sold by the Author, unknown books
186519202Nashua N.H. Byron DeWolfe 1865. First edition of each. One upper corner of the first song sheet town not touching text; some general wear and soiling; in good condition overall. Two broadsides mounted to heavier stock likely the leaf of a scrapbook the first measuring 8 x 4.5 inches the second 7.88 x 4.25 inches. Woodcut vignettes on each. Two ephemeral humorous topical song sheets from the indefatigable George Gordon Byron DeWolfe 1835-1873 the "Wandering Poet of New Hampshire." Per Chapin's Poets of New Hampshire 1883 the Canadian-born DeWolfe "came to the United States about 1855 and commenced the work which he followed until his death namely travelling from state to state from town to town writing verses on people places and popular events. . . . From the rapidity with which he wrote he was called the 'Steam-Machine Poet.'" Indeed DeWolfe could turn his hand with equal versatility to such topics as the capture of Jefferson Davis and his supposed attempt at escape in his wife's dress and the just desserts of Booth and Lee as here to the occasional murder ballad or commemoration of a clam-bake--and could evidently do so with a happy fluidity that was no doubt the envy of many a more sluggish laureate; as DeWolfe notes elsewhere in the colophon to some 1870 mendicant verses he had composed for a blind stone-cutter John Hobart "Mr. H. related some incidents of his life to 'The Wandering Poet' who composed the verses on this sheet in less than two hours and returned to his home in Nashua that afternoon. . . . Verses will be composed on reasonable terms on any subject for any person. All business correspondence will be kept confidential." The first song sheet evidently noted at seven locations on OCLC excluding likely electronic copies the second song sheet at two locations plus presumably a copy at the Library Company of Philadelphia. Fragment mounted on the verso of the leaf of a contemporary woodcut illustration of a crowd of slaves escaping into the Union lines as an African American soldier looks on. Byron DeWolfe, unknown books
200111111114Lenox: Qua Books 2001. First edition limited issue of 100 numbered copies signed by Ashbery and Burckhardt on the limitation page. Copy #8. Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Ashbery is the only poet to have received the Pulitzer Prize the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Signed By Author & Artist. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Tom Burckhardt. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition. Qua Books Hardcover books
196130288San Francisco: Borregaard's Museum 1961. First edition. Loose Sheets. Very Good. Tall folded sheet of paper measuring over 17" tall x 8" wide. Folded twice for mailing. An advertisement flyer for the museum the seven artist's whose work was exhibited there plus the poets who have read at their arts center. Folded twice for mailing. A very good example. This example was mailed to poet Philip Whalen at his 24th Street address in San Francisco. The postmark places this document at April 7 1961. Scarce beat art and poetry ephemera. Borregaard's Museum unknown books
1930008403New York: Doubleday Doran & Co. 1930. SIGNED BY AUTHOR at Dedication Page and uncommon thus. First Printing of the Illustrated Edition. Very Good hinge starting at half-title page author's note one page only with neat underlining in red ink. In about Very Good dust wrapper old internal tape mends chipping along edges and folds spine darkened still more than presentable appearance under mylar. Winner of the 1928 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry and a classic of American poetry. . SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Illustrated Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good Minus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Doubleday, Doran & Co. Hardcover books
1903008151London: Archibald Constable and Co. 1903. Three volumes of this 12 volume series all three with the small bookplate of John Masefield O.M. Poet Laureate. Bullen A.H. Shorter Elizabethan Poems 1903; Bullen A.H. Some Longer Elizabethan Poems 1903; and Lang Andrew. Social England Illustrated. A Collection of XVIIth Century Tracts 1903. All three Very Good light wear to cloth at spine ends and corners front hinge cracked but holding nicely Some Longer Elizabethan Poems. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jackets. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Archibald Constable and Co. Hardcover books
1772007772London: Printed by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols : For T. Cadell in the Strand 1772. Two volumes Very Good Plus in contemporary full calf back with gilt devices and rules leather label with gilt lettering covers with gilt rule later end papers which are stamped S & S light toning light rubbing to edges of covers overall a quite pleasing set. With preface and notes by the editor Bishop Hurd and a life of the author by T. Sprat. . Second Edition. Full Calf. Very Good Plus/No Jacket As Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Printed by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols : For T. Cadell, in the Strand Hardcover books
1838008733London: John Murray 1838. Uncommon edition each volume has added title page engraved with vignette. Eight volumes bound in contemporary brown embossed cloth gilt lettering at spines decorative end papers. Near Fine several corners bumped prior owner initials in ink. . Later Edition. Embossed Cloth. Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. John Murray Hardcover books
