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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
1885007648London: Elliot Stock 1885. Finely bound in contemporary white half morocco over marbled boards red leather label with gilt lettering and rules top edge gilt. Near Fine tidy owner signature front end page light soiling to spine. Quite well bound an attractive copy. . First Edition. Half Buckram Over Marbled Boar. Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Elliot Stock 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
1895007879London: Methuen & Co. 1895. #13 of an edition limited to 30 copies with binding signed by Zaehnsdorf for A.C. McClurg & Co. Finely bound in full polished calf back ornately tooled in gilt with red morocco labels and gilt lettering marbled end papers top edge gilt ornate floral gilt dentellessilk marker. Near Fine small rubs to joints at tips. RARE in this very limited edition finely bound. . Limited and Numbered Edition. Full Calf. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Methuen & Co. Hardcover books
1975WRCLIT83497New York: St. Marks Poetry Project 1975. Whole numbers 8 10 11 and 12 of 12 published plus Catalogue One of two. Five volumes. Quarto. Mimeographed sheets in stapled pictorial wrappers. Modest rubbing and dust smudging to wrappers otherwise very good to fine. Edited by Larry Fagin. Contributors to these numbers include Gallup Warsh Padgett Brainard Codrescu Baxter Whalen Waldman McClure Dawson Coolidge Wieners Schuyler Corso O'Hara Spicer Hawkins Ashbery Meltzer Koch Ginsberg Sanders et al. Number ten is an "anonymous" issue without identification of either the contributors or the periodical itself clothed simply in pornographic comic strips reproduced from Tijuana "Bibles." CLAY & PHILLIPS pp.194-7. St. Marks Poetry Project hardcover books
197619222New York: Adventures In Poetry 1976. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Tall side-stapled wrappers. Unpaginated volume of poems by Godfrey printed on rectos only. Cover artwork by Michael Goldberg. Some light staining to blank rear cover else a very good copy in stapled illustrated wrappers. This is Copy G of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by both Godfrey and Goldberg. <br/><br/> Adventures In Poetry paperback books
197031501New York: Adventures In Poetry 1970. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Tall side-stapled wrappers. An unpaginated volume of poems printed on rectos only. Small inked notation on the title page. Corner creases. A very good copy. Sepia cover photograph is not attributed. The total edition was 300 copies. Adventures In Poetry paperback books
197221872New York: Adventures In Poetry / Boke Press 1972. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Tall side-stapled wrappers. A 66 pp play by the New York School poet. Cover artwork by Alex Katz. Some light wear around the staples else a clean very good example. <br/><br/> Adventures In Poetry / Boke Press paperback books
196811911Washington DC: Howard University 1968. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Literary magazine published by the Liberal Art Student Council at Howard University. 48 pp. name on cover and prior owner inscription to inside front cover. Very good overall. <br/><br/> Howard University paperback books
196911912Washington DC: Howard University 1969. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Literary magazine published by the Liberal Art Student Council at Howard University. 72 pp. A fine clean copy. Contributions by Paula Giddings Linda McNear A. R. Lynch and much more. <br/><br/> Howard University paperback books
197625411New York: Vantage Press 1976. First Edition. Octavo 21cm.; original simulated cloth in pink pictorial dust jacket; 1034pp. Jacket spine a bit faded some light foxing to extremities else Near Fine. Love poetry by California-based African American author and registered nurse. OCLC locates 5 copies only NYU Illinois Southern Mississippi Radford and Farleigh Dickinson. Vantage Press unknown books
197325410New York: Vantage Press 1973. First Edition. Octavo 21cm.; original cloth in red pictorial dust jacket; x11-44pp. Light foxing to jacket spine else Fine. Poetry collection "about black people" by the Panamanian choreographer and dancer formerly the manager of Thelonious Monk's saxophonist Charlie Rouse. OCLC notes 17 holdings. Vantage Press unknown books
197048677Detroit: Broadside Press 1970. First Edition. First Printing. Slim octavo 21.5cm; photo-illustrated card wrappers stapled; 27pp. Publication information rubber-stamped on verso of front wrapper trivial wear to extremities else very Near Fine. Arkansas-born African American poet's first book at the time a PhD candidate at the University of Detroit. Includes several Detroit-themed poems. BAILEY p.26. Broadside Press unknown books
197248675Detroit: Broadside Press 1972. First Edition. First printing. Slim octavo 21.5cm; printed card wrappers stapled; 22pp. Trivial dustiness to wrappers else Fine. First book by the Washington D.C. author a graduate of George Washington University whose poems largely focus on the Black urban experience. Broadside Press unknown books
197348676Philadelphia: Dorrance & Company 1973. First Edition. Octavo 21.5cm; red cloth with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; 86 4pp. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket unclipped priced $3.95 with scattered foxing to flap folds and edges. The Philadelphia activist and author's second book of poetry following his debut volume Guerilla Warfare in Philly. Jones strongly influenced by the upsurge in black militancy during the early sixties speaks through his poetry about the experience of being a black man in America. Dorrance & Company unknown books
196953879Detroit: Broadside Press 1969. Third Printing. Octavo 21.5cm; photo-illustrated wrappers stapled; 64pp. Light wear to extremities else Near Fine. The Black Arts poet's third book featuring 25 poems a preface by the author and an introduction by Gwendolyn Brooks. Broadside Press unknown books
197353877Chicago: Third World Press 1973. First Edition. First Printing. Slim octavo 21.5cm; illustrated card wrappers stapled; 16pp. Fine unread copy. The Broadside Press founder's fifth collection of poetry dealing primarily with themes of race violence and death. Several of these poems first appeared in the pages of American Negro Poetry Black World Black Michigan Poets Broadside Series and Essence. Third World Press unknown books
1962WRCLIT79720Prague: Mladá Fronta 1962. 24pp. Narrow quarto. Folded signatures laid into decorated stiff textured card wallet folder. Illustrations in color. Fine. First edition thus. One of 2000 copies. A collection of African poems and songs translated from English and French into Czech by Jiri Valja and Petr Kopta accompanied by color illustrations by Václav Sivko and engravings by Josef HercÃk. Designed by Antonin Dvorák. OCLC locates a single copy in the Library of the Czech Republic. OCLC: 85201798. Mladá Fronta unknown books
197127713Blantyre Malawi: Hetherwick Press Ltd 1971. Third 1972 Printing. Slim octavo 20.75cm; printed sheets hand-sewn into yellow card wrappers with titles printed in black; 36pp. Fine copy. Anthology published by the Writers Group in the University of Malawi collecting 39 poems by 19 contributors including Josephine Kaphwiyo Nellie C. Chirwa Scopas Gorinwa Innocent Banda and John A. Mapanje et al. Hetherwick Press Ltd unknown books
1967121024NY: George Braziller 1967. First edition limited to 200 copies. Illustrations by Leonard Baskin. 100 copies were numbered and signed by Aiken on the half-title page and Baskin on the limitation page. This copy one of the signed issue but not numbered out-of-series copy. Issued without dustjacket. Illustrated slipcase. Fine condition in a Fine slipcase. . Signed By Author & Artist. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Not Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Limited Edition. George Braziller Hardcover books
1994206064New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1994. Hardcover. x 310p. foreword journals poems publisher's glossary index illustrations very good first edition in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped dj. Farrar , Straus and Giroux hardcover books
1958007834Wichita KS: Student Board of Publications / University of Wichita 1958. A small collection of issues containing issue #1 Spring 1958; #2 Spring 1959; #3 January 1960; #7 Spring 1962; and the 1983 Twenty-Five Year Anniversary issue five issues in all. Near Fine #1 with toning front end page from newspaper clipping "Spring of 1959" in pencil top edge with photograph showing staff members Mary Joan Dawson and George and Barbara Van Arsdale preparing Mikrokosmos for its first publication. This important literary journal begun at the University of Wichita later Wichita State University published some of the earliest works of students Charles Plymell and Alan Russo who would later move to California and become important members of the Beats.along with the earlier generation of Kansan Beats that included Bob Branaman Roxie Powell Michael McClure and Dave Haselwood publisher of Auerhahn Press. . First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Student Board of Publications / University of Wichita Paperback books
199227378Brooklyn: Hanging Loose Press. Near Fine. 1992. Paperback. 0914610007 . Seventh paperback printing. INSCRIBED by the author. Faint crease to lower corner of front cover else near fine in pictorial wraps. . Hanging Loose Press paperback books
1882008755Boston: Estes and Lauriat 1882. SCARCE in collectible condition. Near Fine light soiling to boards. Decorative paper covered boards with illustrations front and back covers all edges gilt dark brown end papers. 20 leaves including front. illustrations written in verse. Elizabeth Akers Allen who also used the pen name Florence Percy 1832 - 1911 was an American poet and journalist best known for this poem which was popular during the Civil War. After it was published as a song she was forced to fight a series of court battles over her authorship which she was finally able to establish. . Illustrated Edition. Decorative Paper Covered Board. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Estes and Lauriat Hardcover books
1982003405Ypsilanti MI: Bilingual Review Press 1982. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end page a lenghty inscription in Spanish to Russell Salmon whose bookplate is attached to the verso of the front wrapper. Salmon was a Professor Emeritus in English at Indiana University who specialized in Latin American studies. Near Fine light rubbing to the wrappers. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First American Edition. Pictorial Printed Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. Bilingual Review Press Paperback books