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1971127513Los Angeles: Chicano Studies Center UCLA 1971. Paperback. 100p. 12x9 inches landscape format mixed Spanish/English text preface illustrations personal inscription signed by the poet wear and soiling to covers with a bump and a repaired tear to head of spine panel some thumb-soil to text edges a good-only first edition paperback in tan wraps with red and mustard cover design. Alurista's 100 poems serve as a manifesto for Chicanismo -- social protest and barrio life his Mexican origins and the interaction between the dominant Anglo culture and the social experience of Mexican Americans. Alurista co-founded MechA; Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán. His first book. Chicano Studies Center, UCLA paperback books
199531368NY: Dutton. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1995. Hardcover. 0525939229 . A collection of poems. First printing. Publisher's promotional postcard laid in. Remainder mark on bottom edge else fine in a fine dust jacket. . Dutton hardcover books
1995937NY: Dutton. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1995. Hardcover. 0525939229 . A collection of poems. First printing. INSCRIBED by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Dutton hardcover books
1984WRCLIT50584Jefferson NC 1984. I:1 and II:1. Printed and pictorial wrappers. Near fine. Edited by Peter White and Lee Bartlett. Commentary and discussion including contributions by Snyder Levertov Wakoski Enslin et al. unknown books
1950WRCLIT51432Milwaukee WI 1950. Unnumbered April & June 1929; XXV:3 & 6; XXVI:2; XXX:6; XXXV:234; XXXVI:1-4; and XXXVII:1-3. Sixteen issues. Printed wrappers. A little dusty some staple rust to a few issues most very good or better. Edited by C. C. Prince et al. Founded in May 1919 as the "Official Organ of the American Literary Association Inc." A mercifully slight but variegated sampling from the long lifetime of this haven for versifiers largely of the amateur sort excepting here Ignatow Gogarty Viereck Congdon Turco et al. HOFFMAN et al p.384. unknown books
195516558Milwaukee Wisconsin: American Literary Association 1955. 20 pages; contributions by Morton Blatt William E. Wilson Raymond Tong Wilbert Snow Vera T. Marshall more; more; light wear to paper wraps; very good condition. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. American Literary Association Paperback books
189020304Boston: Roberts Brothers 1890 1890. First edition. BAL 14664. Cloth a little soiled; one corner slightly bumped; very good copy. 8vo original decorated green cloth spine and white cloth boards gilt lettering t.e.g. 13 illustrations and vignettes. ¶ A collection of over 100 poems lyrics and sonnets by Louise Chandler Moulton 1835-1908 the prolific and influential writer who was at the center of the post-Civil War New England literary scene. See Wikipedia for an excellent brief biography. <br/><br/> Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1890 hardcover books
179327050Litchfield CT: Printed by Collier and Buel 1793 1793. First edition state A. Stoddard & Whitesell 448; Wegelin 489; Evans 25104; BAL 4976 Dunlap & 5046 Dwight. Front blank and rear free endpaper lacking; some foxing and stains; a very good copy. 8vo contemporary sheep gilt rules spine label gone but still bearing the impression of the lettering. 6-page list of subscribers and errata. The first anthology of American poetry; a second volume was planned but never published. Smith 1771-1798 a physician and author who died at 28 of yellow fever was an active member of the "Hartford Wits" literary group and a close associate of the American novelist Charles Brockden Brown who was living with Smith in Litchfield when this anthology of 70 poems was compiled. Modern scholarship has placed Brown among the contributors of anonymous poems specifically as the author of "Utrum Horum Mavis Elige" on pages 222-224. Other contributors include William Trumbull Theodore Dwight Joel Barlow David Humphreys William Dunlap Richard Alsop and Philip Freneau. <br/><br/> Litchfield, (CT): Printed by Collier and Buel, [1793] unknown books
185115036Boston: Ticknor Reed and Fields 1851 1851. First edition. BAL 20660 state A of the title-page. Edges repaired; slight stain in the lower corner of the rear board; very good copy. 8vo original blind-stamped brown cloth gilt lettering. Four page of publisher's advertisements dated March 1851 between the front endpapers. ¶ The first collection of poetry from H. T. Tuckerman 1813-1871 the prolific and popular American essayist and critic. Neat signature of "Thomas M. Brewer / Boston 1851" on the title-page. <br/><br/> Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851 unknown books
183419118Providence: Marshall Brown and Company 1834. First edition. Some soiling and sunning to the cloth; a few closed large tears across leaves from the gutter perhaps in production; in good condition. 8vo original rose diaper grain cloth gilt lettering 48 pages. A Phi Beta Kappa poem delivered in Rhode Island. Neat contemporary gift inscription to the lovely lilac endpapers "E. C. Sigourney from the attached & devoted Self. Marshall, Brown and Company, unknown 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
186019458New York: The Bradford Club 1860. First edition thus one of 100 of 250 copies. A little foxing; some sunning to the spine small flaw to lower board and some trifling rubbing; a very good copy. Large 8vo contemporary green half morocco perhaps the Club binding marbled sides gilt spine viii 191 1 pages. Double frontispiece portraits. With a specimen sheet folded to make four leaves laid in. The limited edition apotheosis of Knickerbocker verse. BAL 6991: "250 copies as follows: Club Edition 100 copies and Subscriber's Edition 150 copies." Adds 11 eleven poems here first collected. (The Bradford Club), unknown books
183619445New-York: George Dearborn Publisher 1836. Second edition. Spine a few portions of the boards a little sunned; a few small spots of foxing; a very good copy. Large 8vo original ribbon embossed blue cloth stamped in blind and gilt 98 1 pages. With an autograph ink gift inscription dated January 1836 on the front paste-down "B. M. Mumford Esqr. from his son J. Jones Mumford Jan'y 1836." An early reader presumably Mumford pËre has here exposed himself as a Halleck aficionado marking striking passages on nearly every page. An attractive early American publisher's cloth case binding. American Imprints 37878; BAL 6971: "Reprint of the 1827 first edition save for the following three poems which are here first collected. . . . George Dearborn, Publisher, unknown books
186919697New York: D. Appleton and Company 1869. First edition trade issue. Some light rubbing and slight sunning; a fine copy. 8vo contemporary blue half morocco spine elaborately gilt blue cloth sides 607 1 4 pages t.e.g. Frontis portrait engraved title page as published. This copy from the library of Halleck's biographer James Grant Wilson himself with a small ink autograph note mounted to a preliminary binder's blank "Purchased at the sale of the Sedgwick Library New York March 27 1877. Jas. Grant Wilson." New York lawyer William Ellery Sedgwick had died in 1873; his library was sold at the Clinton Hall sale rooms on March 27 and March 28 in 1877 with a 68-page catalog published by Leavitt. Wilson has somewhat grangerized his own copy here with six related supplementary autograph pieces tipped in including a manuscript agreement between publisher J. S. Redfield and Fitz Greene Halleck to "Stereotype print and publish and endeavor to sell your Poems in one volume 12mo the proceeds of sales after paying . . . $325.21 recently paid by me to Harper & Brothers and all other expenses to be equally divided between you and me as fast as realized" dated New York April 12 1852 signed and endorsed by Halleck on the verso. Redfield published three editions of Halleck's poems between 1852 and 1854. Additional inserted material includes 1887 letters from Horatio Gates Jones and from William Leete Stone to Wilson on articles submitted for Appletons' Cyclopedia of American Biography of which Wilson was an editor; an 1851 note from Edward Robinson to William Alfred Jones early in the latter's career as librarian of Columbia college; and two notes from William Alfred Jones to Wilson on literary matters thanking Wilson for a book on Knickerbocker literature asking for return of a photograph used as source of an engraving including thanks to Wilson for his kind words about "poor Hoffman"--presumably the Knickerbocker author Charles Fenno Hoffman who was institutionalized for insanity for the last thirty years of his life. BAL 7001. D. Appleton and Company, unknown books
183619119Philadelphia: Desilver Thomas & Co. 1836. First edition. Cloth somewhat sunned and a bit spotted; some light foxing; light but moderately large and persistent damp-stain to the last third or so of the leaves; in good condition. 12mo original green cloth gilt lettered leather spine label 153 1 pages. Many of these examples of youthful verses written while the author was a student at West Point including an anecdote of a classmate with a dislocated jaw where he graduated in 1831. Desilver, Thomas & Co., 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
196925655California US: Oyez Press - White Rabbit 1969. Broadside with this poetic effort which is printed in three gradually fainter blue inks on heavy blue paper and finishing with a final column printed in blind. Affectionately inscribed signed and numbered on the lower margin "For Mickey - much Love Candy 4/25 Andrea Wyatt" No date however our research indicates circa 1969; publisher name at lower edge. Title taken from the first printed line. Approx. 11 1/2" x 18 3/4" size; accomplished on heavy paper deckle bottom edge. Slight edge-wear; in very good condition. Inscribed By Author. Broadside. Not Bound. Very Good. Oyez Press - White Rabbit paperback books
196925656California US: Oyez Press 1969. Broadside with this poetic effort printed in black on heavy white paper with the initial letter and publisher name in red. Affectionately inscribed signed dated and numbered on the lower margin "4/25 Andrea Wyatt For Mickey - With my Love Candy 27 July 1969". Title taken from the first printed line. Approx. 13" x 20" size; accomplished on heavy paper deckle right edge. Slight edge-wear; faint old paper crease-line at left margin in very good condition. Inscribed By Author. Broadside. Not Bound. Very Good. Oyez Press paperback books
1973256570Berkeley: Oyez 1973. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. Signed by Wyatt on title page. Light rubbing and small closed tear to dust jacket; dust jacket protected in a new mylar cover; pen mark to page forty two otherwise no markings in text. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket. Oyez unknown books
197110101322NY: Random House 1971. First edition first prnt. Quarter-cloth and paper-covered boards with embossed title on front board. Signed by Angelou on the front free endpage with her customary exclamation "Joy!" above her name. Additionally an illustrated notepad sheet with Angelou's holograph note is laid-in. "I would have personalized this book but I couldn't translate your spelling. Joy! M. Angelou." Owner's neat ink name on front free endpage. Board topedge with faint beginiing toning not immediately apparent. Otherwise a tight copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Angelou's first collection of poems many of which were song lyrics written and performed by her before the publication of her first book. Signed By Author with Note. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Random House Hardcover books
20021984Salt Lake City: Elik Press 2002. First Edition Thus. 8vo 8 1/2 x 5 3/8 inches; 210 x 135 mm 222 pages in stapled wrappers. SIGNED by Anne Waldman on the title page. An interview with the poet on a variety of topics: the writing life Buddhism activism the role of the artist in society. This interview first appeared in Tricycle Magazine in spring 2002. SCARCE. <br/><br/>CONDITION: Light soiling to wrappers some general edge wear. Internally clean bright and unmarked. A Very Good or better copy. Elik Press unknown books
1824008239London: James Carpenter and Son 1824. SCARCE "Engraved from the best authorities and illustrated by notes biographical critical and poetical." Text describes 138 portraits which are interleaved. "Printed by D.S. Maurice Fenchurch Street"--Vol. 1 page 144." Two folio volumes bound in contemporary pebbled blue morocco over blue moire silk boards backs with gilt lettering and gilt decorations tops gilt. Very Good Plus light to moderate spotting associated with portrait pages light rubbing at tips. A handsome and well-bound set and quite uncommon. . First Edition. Half Morocco. Very Good Plus/No Jacket As Issued. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. James Carpenter and Son Hardcover books
19802074San Francisco: City Lights Books 1980. First Edition First Printing. 16mo 4 7/8 x 6 1/4 inches / 124 x 159 mm 67 5 pages in green and white wrappers. SIGNED by Lawrence Ferlinghetti on the title page as "Ferlinghetti editor." A long poem about the awfulness of factories. Antler born Brad Burdick in 1946 was given that nickname when he was 18. Number 38 in City Lights' Pocket Poets Series. Laudatory tribute from Allen Ginsberg to the lower wrapper. SCARCE. <br /><br /> CONDITION: Wrappers rubbed and soiled pa edges toned owner's blind stamp to title page. About Very Good. City Lights Books books
1899007638London: The Lutetian Society 1899. One of an edition of 500 numbered copies this copy unnumbered. A new and complete translation into English verse revised corrected and augmented from the earlier English translation of W.H. Ireland and the one attributed to Lady Charleville with the variants now for the first time translated by Ernest Dowson. Near Fine in quarter blue buckram over white buckram gilt lettering and rules Near Fine slight soiling to the white buckram. A handsome copy of this rather uncommon edition. . Limited and Numbered First Edition. Buckram. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition. The Lutetian Society Hardcover books
20071547New York: Ecco 2007. First Edition First Printing. Small 4to 9 1/4 x 6 3/8 inches; 235 x 160 mm 76 pages in burgundy cloth gilt title to spine. Fine in a Fine unclipped dust jacket.A collection of poems from one of the greatest American poets of the 20th century. A gorgeous copy with the dust jacket depicting a detail from Jane Freilicher's painting "Afternoon in the City." Ashbery and Freilicher were longtime friends. <br /><br /> Ecco hardcover books
