JOHN CLEVELAND (1613-1658) A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HIS POEMS.
London: The Bibliographical Society, 1967. 8vo. cloth. 54 pages. First edition. READ MORE about JOHN CLEVELAND (1613-1658) A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HIS POEMS
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London: The Bibliographical Society, 1967. 8vo. cloth. 54 pages. First edition. READ MORE about JOHN CLEVELAND (1613-1658) A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HIS POEMS
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London: National Book League, 1975. 12mo. paper wrappers. 43 pages. 303 items listed with notes. READ MORE about LAURENCE HOUSMAN 1865-1959, CLEMENCE HOUSMAN 1861-1955, ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN 1859-1936
Price: $18.00 Order nr. 6537
Philadelphia: Temple University Libraries, 1973. tall 8vo. paper wrappers. 28 pages. Limited to 450 copies. READ MORE about RICHARD ALDINGTON 1892-1962. A CATALOGUE OF THE FRANK G. HARRINGTON COLLECTION OF RICHARD...
Price: $7.00 Order nr. 6836
Bloomington: Indiana University, 1969. 4to. paper wrappers. (24) pages. Preface by William Riley Parker. Near fine condition. READ MORE about AN EXHIBIT OF SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY EDITIONS OF WRITINGS BY JOHN MILTON
Price: $8.00 Order nr. 7171
Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Press, (1968). 8vo. cloth. (xii), 120 pages. Critical bibliography of this 20th century French poet. Ink ownership stamp on free endpaper. READ MORE about GERARD DE NERVAL, A CRITICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY 1900 TO 1967
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 7249
Bloomington: Indiana University, 1965. 4to. paper wrappers. viii, 30, 6 pages. Covers soiled. Else a near fine copy Illustrated with b&w images. READ MORE about THREE CENTURIES OF AMERICAN POETRY; AN EXHIBTIION
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 7358
Kent State: Kent State University Press, (1971). 8vo. cloth. xx, 293 pages. Spine faded. Boards soiled. This book is a comprehensive checklist of the writings of Theodore Roethke. It includes a brief biography of the author and a detailed listing of all of his published works. Additionally, the book includes a brief annotation for each of Roethke's poems, as well as a comprehensive bibliography of works related to Roethke. READ MORE about THEODORE ROETHKE, A MANUSCRIPT CHECKLIST
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 7480
London: Constable & Co., 1934. 8vo. parchment backed marbled boards. x, 144 pages. First edition, limited to 500 copies. Volume 7 of the 10 volume Bibliographia Series edited by Michael Sadleir. A few facsimile title pages. Minor cover rubbing. READ MORE about POINTS IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY VERSE, A BIBLIOGRAPHER'S AND COLLECTOR'S SCRAPBOOK
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 7832
Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, n.d. 12mo. paper wrappers with text loosely inserted. ii, 29, (12) pages. READ MORE about A CHECK LIST OF MASTERS' THESES IN THE UNITED STATES ON WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 7904
Bloomington: The Lilly Library, 1970. 4to. paper wrappers. 125 items. Includes a 7 page introduction concerning the collection. Illustrated. READ MORE about THE INDIANA WORDSWORTH COLLECTION
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London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, (1967). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. x, 286 pages with 5 illustrations. First edition. Biographical sketch of this English bookseller. READ MORE about HAROLD MONRO AND THE POETRY BOOKSHOP
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 8946
Revere, PA and Winchester, England: Woolmer/Brotherson Ltd and St. Paul's Bibliographies, 1988. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xxxii, 186 pages. With an introduction by Penelope Fitzgerald. This publishing venture was founded by Harold Monro in 1912 in London and continued in business until 1935. Contains a bibliography of the books, rhyme sheets, broadsides, Christmas cards, periodicals etc issued by the press. Well illustrated. Spine of jacket slightly faded. READ MORE about THE POETRY BOOKSHOP, 1912-1935, A BIBLIOGRAPHY
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 14225
2 volumes in one as issued.
New York: Peter Smith, 1930. 8vo. cloth. 239, (13) pages. 2 volumes in one as issued. Second edition, revised, limited to 500 numbered copies. Covers the period 1650 to 1820. Annotated descriptions. Rubbed at top of spine. READ MORE about EARLY AMERICAN POETRY, A COMPILATION OF THE TITLES OF VOLUMES OF VERSE AND BROADSIDES BY WRITERS...
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N.P. Privately printed, n.d. 8vo. cloth-backed boards. (xii), 176 pages. First edition. Well printed with decorations in green ink by Star Publishing Co. of Wilmington. Covers soiled. READ MORE about LOTUS LILIES
Price: $13.00 Order nr. 28771
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, n.d. (circa 1927). 8vo. cloth. 224 pages. B1-3024. Bissell was the originator of the Red Cross Christmas Seal in 1907. After the section of poetry, there is a history of the development of the Christmas Seals and illustrations of the earliest versions. Some spotting of front cover. READ MORE about HAPPINESS AND OTHER VERSES
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 29380
New Castle, Delaware and Winchester: Oak Knoll Books and St Paul's Bibliographies, 1993. 8vo. cloth. xii, 259 pages. First edition. The third volume in the Winchester Bibliographies of Twentieth Century Writers series. W.H. Davies is best remembered as the author of THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A SUPER-TRAMP first published in 1908, and still in print, but his reputation is based on his poetry which was published in over fifty books and has appeared continuously in anthologies..... READ MORE about W.H. DAVIES: A BIBLIOGRAPHY
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 36407
Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, (1950). tall 8vo. boards. xii, 259 pages, First edition. 6906 entries. Presentation from the author on free endpaper. READ MORE about THE MODERN AMERICAN MUSE, A COMPLETE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AMERICAN VERSE 1900-1925
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 37768
London: Rupert Hart-David, 1969. thick 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 454 pages. Second impression, corrected. Includes sections on Books and Pamphlets by or translated by Pound, Books and Pamphlets edited or with contributions by Pound, contributions to Periodicals, Translations etc. One of the Soho Bibliographies series. READ MORE about A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF EZRA POUND
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 38281
New York: The New York Public Library, 1967. tall 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 36 pages. Reprinted from the Proceedings. Biographical sketches of 42 authors and editors including Edmund Gosse, Hugh Walpole and D.H. Lawrence. The letters in this exhibition were all written to Sir Edward Howard Marsh. READ MORE about LETTERS TO AN EDITOR, GEORGIAN POETRY, 1912-1922. AN EXHIBITION FROM THE BERG COLLECTION
Price: $7.00 Order nr. 40278
New York: The Grolier Club, (1988). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (48) pages. Illustrated exhibition catalogue about World War I poets. Introduction by Kenneth Lohf, Terry Halladay and William Reese. A fine copy. READ MORE about SOLDIER POETS OF THE GREAT WAR, AN EXHIBITION AT THE GROLIER CLUB
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 41249
Wilmington: 22 Press, 1981. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (i),39 pages. A periodical to be published quarterly of which this was the Spring Vintage issue. 34 separate poems with illustrations including the work of Russ McKinney and Nancy Sawin. READ MORE about GOBLETS
Price: $8.50 Order nr. 41384
Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1986. 8vo. paper wrappers. 28, (2) pages. A lecture given at the Library of Congress. Set by Pickering Press and Folio Typographers and printed by Cypher Press from a format planned by John Anderson. A fine copy. READ MORE about POETS AND ANTHOLOGISTS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 49100
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Library, 1998. 8vo. cloth. xi, 338 pages. First edition. A companion volume to THE LEONARD L. MILBERG COLLECTION OF AMERICAN POETRY, this work contains the poetry in the Milberg Collection, which began with fewer than ten poets but has now grown to contain all the printed works of fifty poets from both the Irish Republic and the North. Most of the poets had their first books published after World War..... READ MORE about LEONARD L. MILBERG COLLECTION OF IRISH POETRY. COMPILED BY HOWARD WOOLMER
Price: $26.00 Order nr. 52805
(Mansfield Centre: Martino Fine Books, n.d. but 1999). 8vo. cloth. xvi, 268 pages. Reprint of limited 1916 edition privately printed by Wise. READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS IN PROSE AND VERSE OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 55016
With a foreword by James Dickey.
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1990. 8vo. cloth. xxii, 423 pages. With a foreword by James Dickey. A very extensive and thorough bibliography. Covers Separate Publications, First-Appearance Contributions to Books and Pamphlets, First Appearances in Journals and Newspapers, and Later Collections of Dickey's Poems. The Appendices contain the compiler's notes and list major works about Dickey. Very well-illustrated and with a good index. READ MORE about JAMES DICKEY, A DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY
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(Woodbridge): D.S. Brewer, (2001). 8vo. cloth, paper cover label. 400 pages. First edition. The Middle English lyrics and short poems form a varied group that ranges over most aspects of life to include lyrics of religious and secular love, carols and songs, and mundane rhymes of everyday life. Thus there are expressions of devotion, ethereal or earthly, theological expositions, and knowledge needed for life. The poems are disparate and generally anonymous, and their survival owes..... READ MORE about THE MIDDLE ENGLISH LYRIC AND SHORT POEM
Price: $99.00 Order nr. 62602
(Amsterdam: Vereeniging ter bevordering van de belangen des Boekhandels, 1960). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 127+(1) pages. First edition. Published on the occaision of the 25th Book week in Amsterdam, 1960. Various Dutch book-related illustrations and passages of text from the 15th through 20th centuries. Examples range from 17th century poetry to selections from Anne Frank's diary. In Dutch. READ MORE about IN 26 LETTERS, HET BOEK IN UW LEVEN, UW LEVEN IN HET BOEK
Price: $8.00 Order nr. 63040
Boston: Milford House, (1972). 8vo. cloth. xxii, 320 pages. Reprint of the 1886 first edition. This collection was formed by Caleb F. Harris. Thousands of books described. READ MORE about THE ANTHONY MEMORIAL, A CATALOGUE OF THE HARRIS COLLECTION OF AMERICAN POETRY WITH BIOGRAPHICAL...
Price: $24.00 Order nr. 64141
(Wilmington: Delaware Poetry Center, 1988). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (20) pages. With a listing of all the other booklets of poems issued by Hudson on the front inside cover. Hudson was Poet Laurate of Delaware for a number of years. READ MORE about SMALANDER MAN, A WORK-IN-PROGRESS WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY THE EMINENT CAROLUS LINNAEUS ET AL
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Philadelphia: Patterson & White Co., 1919. 8vo. two-toned cloth, top edge gilt, dust jacket. 66 pages. First edition. First appearances of all of these poems. Minor rubbing of jacket. READ MORE about OBEROD AND OTHER POEMS
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 68394
San Francisco: Harvey Taylor, 1930. large 12mo. quarter cloth with wove paper-covered boards, paper cover label. (42) pages. Printed by the Calmar Press in an edition limited to 200 numbered copies, signed by the publisher and artist (McElrath D3). Tipped in frontispiece portrait by Clarice Collins. With a bibliography of Frank Norriss' first editions. Includes two poems first printed in the Overland Monthly, 1892, and the University of California Occident, 1894, as well as an..... READ MORE about FRANK NORRIS: TWO POEMS AND "KIM" REVIEWED
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 70234
Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, (1983). thick 8vo. cloth. xiv, 548 pages. Completely revised and updated edition. READ MORE about EZRA POUND, A BIBLIOGRAPHY
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(Wilmington: Delaware Poetry Center, 1983). small 8vo. self paper wrappers. (4) pages. Hudson was the Poet Laurate of Delaware for a number of years. READ MORE about YOUNG BOY, LATE SUMMER: A WILMINGTON POEM IN CELEBRATION OF THE CENTENNIAL OF WILMINGTON'S PARK...
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Boston: The Christopher Publishing House, (1939). 8vo. two-toned cloth, dust jacket. 111 pages. First edition. A book of poetry by this Delaware author. Some foxing along gutters. Slight warping. READ MORE about THE SCENE SHIFTER
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Edinburgh: National Library of Scotland, 1983. square 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 104 pages. A general view of Scotland throughout the ages via an exhibition. Expanded detail on early printing, binding, and plate books. READ MORE about THE EYE OF THE MIND, THE SCOT AND HIS BOOKS
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Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1983. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), pp. 265-361. Reprinted from the Proceedings. A fascinating look at the business of publishing in early America using examined copies as the basis of the study. Stoddard examined over 5000 copies of 1299 editions of books and pamphlets of verse issued in America before 1821. He then draws conclusions about bindings, subscription books, dedications, best sellers, etc. With lists of books and pamphlets for..... READ MORE about POET AND PRINTER IN COLONIAL AND FEDERAL AMERICA: SOME BIBLIOGRAPHICAL PERSPECTIVES
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A Poem Delivered Before the New-England Society In the City of New York at their Semi-Centennial Anniversary, December 22, 1855
Boston: Crosby, Nichols, and Company, 1856. 8vo. original stiff paper wrappers. (iii), 30 pages. A Poem Delivered Before the New-England Society In the City of New York at their Semi-Centennial Anniversary, December 22, 1855. Poet and Unitarian minister John Pierpont (1785-1866,), grandfather of John Pierpont Morgan, was the author of this epic poem. Pierpont's anti-slavery sentiments are clear in the poem, especially in the final stanzas. Unfortunately, his prejudices regarding Native Americans are also revealed..... READ MORE about THE PILGRIMS OF PLYMOUTH
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Wilmington: The Wilmington Poetry Society and Delaware WRiters, (1947). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 58, (2) pages. B1-4694. Part of an annual. Front cover illustration by Harry Clark Boden. Printed at the Mercantile Press in Wilmington. READ MORE about DELAWARE POETS 1947
Price: $17.50 Order nr. 89225
(Bad Goisern: Neugebauer Press, 1975). narrow 4to. loose sheets in three-fold stiff-paper wrapper. 8 not paginated leaves separated by tissues. Nine poems by Austrian poet and writer Richard Billinger written in various styles of calligraphy (all in white on a black background except for the one on the wrapper), published to mark the 10th anniversary of Billinger's death. The exterior of this copy shows minor shelf wear and soiling; the interior shows no signs of..... READ MORE about DER GARTEN HAUCHT: GEDICHTE VON RICHARD BILLINGER ZUM 10. TODESTAG
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With "Foreword to my own Bibliography" by John Updike and a CD Supplement
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2007. 8.5 x 11 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 624 pages (plus 359 pages on CD-ROM). With "Foreword to my own Bibliography" by John Updike and a CD Supplement. First Edition. John Updike is internationally renowned for his novels, short stories, poems, essays and criticism. He has won two Pulitzers, the National Book Award, the American Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and many other prizes. Updike has..... READ MORE about JOHN UPDIKE, A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PRIMARY AND SECONDARY MATERIALS, 1948-2007
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London and New Castle: The British Library and Oak Knoll Press, 2006. 6.75 x 9.5 inches. hardcover. xviii, 452 pages. Documenting thousands of British poetry magazines from the last century, British Poetry Magazines 1914-2000 records the remarkable world of the 'little magazine': a world where now famous authors are first found as unknowns. Many go on to use the little magazine as a testing ground for their writing for the rest of their lives. Here..... READ MORE about BRITISH POETRY MAGAZINES, 1914-2000: A HISTORY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY OF "LITTLE MAGAZINES"
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New Castle and London: Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, 2007. 6.25 x 9.25 inches. cloth, dust jacket. 308 pages. First edition. The brothers John Cowper Powys, Theodore Francis Powys and Llewelyn Powys were members of a prolific and influential circle of writers and poets of the early twentieth century. In this, the first comprehensive bibliography of the writings of Llewelyn Powys (1884-1939), Peter Foss not only provides a complete description of every first..... READ MORE about A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF LLEWELYN POWYS
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(Wilmington: Delaware Poetry Center, 1985). small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (8) pages. First edition. Typography by The Composing Room, Inc. and production by Wilmington Blue Print Service, Inc. Poems. READ MORE about TWO RHAPSODIES
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 94130
N.P. n.p., 1978. small 8vo. self paper wrappers. (16) pages. Program for this event with a listing of all the poets. READ MORE about A SALUTE TO DELAWARE POETRY, GRAND OPERA HOUSE, 2PM DECEMBER 10, 1978
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Wilmington: The Wilmington Poetry Society and Delaware Writers, (1952). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 27 pages. B1-4694. Part of an annual. Tanned at the edges. READ MORE about DELAWARE POETS 1951-52
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 94199
With a Foreword by Akram Elias, Grand Master of Free and Accepted Masons, Washington, D.C., Editor-in-Chief
New Castle, Delaware and Washington, D.C. Oak Knoll Press & Library of the Supreme Council, 33°, S.J., 2008. 8.5 x 11 inches. hardcover. 240 pages. With a Foreword by Akram Elias, Grand Master of Free and Accepted Masons, Washington, D.C., Editor-in-Chief. First edition. Published shortly before the 250th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns in 2009, this bibliography presents the unparalleled Burnsiana collection held by the Library of the Supreme Council of the Ancient..... READ MORE about BURNSIANA: A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WILLIAM R. SMITH COLLECTION IN THE LIBRARY OF THE SUPREME...
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 96673
(1967). small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), 147, (3) pages. The entire issue of the LIBRARY QUARTERLY, Volume 37, Number 1. A collection of interesting papers read at the conference. Acquisition note on front cover. READ MORE about A CRITICAL APPROACH TO CHILDREN'S LITERATURE, THE THIRTY-FIRST ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE GRADUATE...
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 97114
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2009. 8.5 x 11 inches. hardcover. 436 pages. Pulitzer Prize winning poet James Merrill was one of America's most important writers for over forty years until his death in 1995. This comprehensive bibliography, covering his entire life, was prepared with the cooperation of the poet himself. All books, periodicals, recordings, translations, critical and biographical appearances are listed here. Entries are grouped in chapters according to type of work, and..... READ MORE about JAMES INGRAM MERRILL: A DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY
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New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2011. 8.5 x 11 inches. Hardcover, dust jacket. 380 pages. With the publication of her first book, Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862), Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) became the first of the Pre-Raphaelite poets to achieve critical success. Although Rossetti was (and still is) chiefly hailed as one of the century's leading poets, her accomplishments ranged beyond poetry to include essays, short fiction, and seven volumes of devotional poetry and..... READ MORE about CHRISTINA ROSSETTI: A DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY
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New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2012. 8.5 x 11 inches. hardcover. 384 pages. This book serves as a short-title catalogue of all the early printed editions of the Roman poet Virgil, from the first edition in 1469 up to and including books published in 1850. Virgil's three major poems, the Eclogues, the Georgics, and the Aeneid, have stood at the center of western civilization throughout the early modern and modern periods. As such they..... READ MORE about A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE EARLY PRINTED EDITIONS OF VIRGIL, 1469-1850
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 106177
New York: The Grolier Club, 2000. 6 x 8.5 inches. hardcover. 82 pages. This catalogue is drawn from the collection of the late Professor Marion W. Witt of Hunter College, a poetry student of William Butler Yeats. The collection was eventually given to Milton McC. Gatch, who was directed to find the collection a home or continue to enlarge the collection himself. Wanting to further build the collection, Gatch began widening its original scope to..... READ MORE about THE YEATS FAMILY AND THE BOOK, CA. 1900
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Austin: The University of Texas, 1960. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (x), 132, (4) pages. A collection of essays based on lectures presented at a symposium commerating the 200th anniversary of Schiller's birth. Editor was Professor of German at the University of Texas. Essayists include Harold Jantz, Helmut Rehder, Stephen Spender, Oskar Seidlin and Hermann J. Weigand. Foreword by W.P. Lehmann. Table of contents and introduction. Notes on contributors. Dust jacket lightly worn at edges. READ MORE about A SCHILLER SYMPOSIUM: IN OBSERVANCE OF THE BICENTENARY OF SCHLLER'S BIRTH
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 109387
New Castle, Delaware and Portland, Oregon: Oak Knoll Press and Lewis & Clark College, 2013. 6 x 9 inches. hardcover with dust jacket. 544 pages. William Stafford (1914-1993) was one of the most prolific and important American poets of the last half of the twentieth century. Among his many awards, Stafford served as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, and received the National Book Award in 1963 for his poetry collection Traveling through..... READ MORE about WILLIAM STAFFORD: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
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[St.Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 1990. tall 8vo. paper covered boards, dust jacket. (x), 72, (2) pages. First edition. Winner of the 1998 James Laughlin Award of The Academy of American Poets. Fine in fine dust jacket. READ MORE about EXCEPT BY NATURE
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 112288
[Leeds: Northern House, 1965). 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. 15+(1) pages. First edition. American poet. Hand-set at the School of English, Leeds University. Lightly rubbed on the very thin spine, otherwise fine in printed wrappers. READ MORE about A VIEW OF WATER
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 112360
Princeton: Princeton University Press, (1977). square 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. x, 71, (3) pages. First edition. Blurb by Harold Bloom. Fine in dust jacket. READ MORE about THE DOUBLE WITNESS: POEMS: 1970-1976
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 112378
Manchester, England: Carcanet, 1977. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 56 pages. First edition. Author's first book. Fine in lightly soiled pale green dust jacket with faded spine and a short closed tear. READ MORE about AFFINITIES
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 112447
New York: The Ark 15, 1981. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 111, (3) pages. First edition. Grey printed wrappers unevenly faded, otherwise near fine. READ MORE about FROM DOWN TO THE VILLAGE. DRAWINGS BY LOIS EBY. INTRODUCTION BY JOHN HAINES
Price: $7.00 Order nr. 112487
[New York]: Viking, 1998. 8vo. cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. xi, 99 pages. First edition. Blurbs by Jim Carroll, James Merrill, Anthony Hecht, Madison Smartt Bell, Howard Moss. Mark on the fore-edge, otherwise fine in dust jacket. READ MORE about DESPERATE CHARACTERS, A NOVELLA IN VERSE & OTHER POEMS
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 112540
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (x), 92 pages. First edition, uncorrected proof. Author's first book. Fine in printed wrappers. READ MORE about ON TOUR WITH RITA, POEMS
Price: $22.50 Order nr. 112542
Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1997. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (xiv), 68 pages. First edition. Fine in dust jacket. Blurbs by Jorie Graham, Michael Palmer, John Ashbery, Jane Miller. Winner of the 1996 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets. READ MORE about MADONNA ANNO DOMINI, POEMS
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 112571
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xvii, 93 pages. First edition, uncorrected page proof. The author's name is misspelled "Roseanne" on the front wrapper and the title-page. The "e" in both places has been lined through in ink, presumably by the publisher. Title written in ink on the bottom edge. Fine in lightly soiled printed wrappers. READ MORE about TRAFFIC, WITH GHOSTS. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY WILLIAM STAFFORD
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 112576
London: Oxford University Press, 1968. 8vo. decorated paper covered boards, dust jacket. vii, 46 pages. First edition. Signed by the author o n the title-page. Ink inscription (not by the author) on the front free endpaper, lightly bumped at the foot of the spine, lightly soiled and chipped dust jacket. READ MORE about KON IN SPRINGTIME, POEMS
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 112600
Washington: Counterpoint, (1997). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (viii), 100, (2) pages. First edition, uncorrected bound galleys. Fine. READ MORE about PRESENT
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 112619
[New York]: Viking, 1988. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. x, (ii), 73 pages. First edition, unrevised and unpublished proofs. Publisher's date of publication and price in ink on the front wrapper. Southern author. Fine. READ MORE about THE WEST DOOR, POEMS
Price: $12.50 Order nr. 112621
(Oxford, England): Carcanet Press, (1970). 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. 31 pages. First edition. One of 600 copies. Fine. READ MORE about POEMS FOR QUENA AND TABLA
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 112647
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, (1991). small 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 94 pages. First edition. Blurbs by C. K. Williams, Gerald Stern. Fine. READ MORE about LANDSCAPE AT THE END OF THE CENTURY, POEMS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 112735
New York: The Eakins Press, (1970). 12mo. stiff paper wrappers, dust jacket. 59, (3) pages. First edition. Fine. READ MORE about CHARTRES & PROSE POEMS. WITH PHOTOGRAPHS BY HENRI LE SECQ
Price: $8.00 Order nr. 112828
New York: The Viking Press, 1977. 8vo. paper covered boards, dust jacket. (x), 70 pages. First edition. Author's first commercially published book. Lightly rubbed black dust jacket. READ MORE about QUEEN OF DARKNESS
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 112850
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1969. small 8vo. decorated paper covered boards, dust jacket. (x), 70 pages. First edition. Blurbs by William Alfred, Robert Lowell. Author's first book. Minor chipping along edge. READ MORE about SPEECH, FOR INSTANCE, POEMS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 112876
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1958. small 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. vii, 42 pages. First edition. Author's first collection of verse. Rear corners bumped, dust jacket with a few small chips and a short closed tear. READ MORE about CERTAIN POEMS
Price: $22.50 Order nr. 112953
London: Chatto & Windus / The Hogarth Press, 1984. 12mo. decorated stiff paper wrappers. 48 pages. First edition, advance proof copy. Author's first book. Fine. READ MORE about SAYING HELLO AT THE STATION
Price: $12.50 Order nr. 113004
New York: Atheneum, 1978. small 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (viii), 51+(1) pages. First edition. Fine. READ MORE about DAYLIGHT SAVING, POEMS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 113007
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (x), 48, (4) pages. First edition, uncorrected proof. Canadian-born author living in the United States. Fine. READ MORE about POSTSCRIPTS, POEMS
Price: $8.00 Order nr. 113014
Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1967. 8vo. cloth-backed patterned paper covered boards, dust jacket. (x), 97+(1) pages. First edition. The poets are John Alexander Allen, R. H. W. Dillard, Jean Farley, Julia Randall, and William Jay Smith. Corners very lightly bumped. READ MORE about THE HOLLINS POETS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 113040
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, (1967). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 79+(1) pages. First edition, hardcover. Fine in price-clipped dust jacket. READ MORE about THE DAMAGES, POEMS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 113055
[New York]: Charles Scribner, 1956. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xiv, (ii), 72 pages. First edition. $2.75 price stamped on the price-clipped dust jacket front flap. Upper corners bumped, lightly rubbed, lightly chipped dust jacket. READ MORE about GREEN ARMOR ON GREEN GROUND, POEMS IN THE TWENTY-FOUR OFFICIAL WELSH METERS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 113074
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (xiv), 175 pages. First edition, uncorrected proof. Fine. READ MORE about THE IDIOT PRINCESS OF THE LAST DYNASTY, POEMS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 113154
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1980. small 8vo. cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. 119 pages. First edition. Part of the National Poetry Series. Dust jacket with a short closed tear on the back panel and spine faded. READ MORE about ANY BODY'S SONG
Price: $7.00 Order nr. 113193
New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., (1983). small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (xii), 122 pages. First edition, uncorrected proof. Fine. READ MORE about EROS AT THE WORLD KITE PAGEANT, POEMS 1979-1982
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 113239
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, (1979). square 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 74 pages. First edition, hardcover. Author's first book. Minor rubbing along edges. READ MORE about MASKS OF THE DREAMER, POEMS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 113277
Ithaca, NY: Ithaca House, (1975). 12mo. tan stiff paper wrappers. (viii), 70 pages. First edition. African-American author's first book. Fine in tan printed wrappers (also seen in gray wrappers). READ MORE about OUT BEYOND THE BAY
Price: $12.50 Order nr. 113338
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1976. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (viii), 79 pages. First edition. Author's first collection. Fine in dust jacket. READ MORE about KEEPING TIME
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 113405
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, (1986). small 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (vi), 52, (2) pages. First edition. English author who emigrated to the United States in 1964. Author's first book. Blurb by Marvin Bell. Jacket spine faded. READ MORE about PARALLAX
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 113466
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, (1959). 8vo. cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. 156 pages. First edition. Precedes the first book of the three poets. Covers faded at the bottom edge of the front cover, otherwise fine in dust jacket with a few small chips along the top edge. READ MORE about NEW POETS 1959: IAIN CRICHTON SMITH, KAREN GERSHON, CHRISTOPHER LEVENSON. EDITED BY EDWIN MUIR
Price: $12.00 Order nr. 113496
New York: Harcourt Brace & World, (1967). small 8vo. cloth-backed decorated paper covered boards, dust jacket. (x), 70 pages. First edition. Author's second collection. Fine in dust jacket. READ MORE about THE FEAST
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 113511
Columbia & London: A Breakthrough Book, University of Missouri Press, (1976). 8vo. cloth, paper cover label, dust jacket. 63 pages. First edition. The book was the winner of the 1976 Devins Award for Poetry. Dust jacket has lightly faded spine. READ MORE about SUMMONED, POEMS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 113533
[Buffalo: White Pine Press, 1981]. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (x) pages. First edition. Pine cone 6. Fine. READ MORE about HOUSES
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 113545
London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1967. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. vii, 55 pages. First edition, uncorrected proof copy. Near fine in printed wrappers. READ MORE about SPILL OUT, POEMS AND BALLADS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 113667
New York: Harcourt Brace and World, (1964). small 8vo. cloth-backed paper covered boards, dust jacket. vi, 58 pages. First edition. Author's first commercially published book. The author was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Dust jacket with light wear at the head and foot of the spine. READ MORE about RYOANJI, POEMS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 113705
Saint Paul: Graywolf Press, (1996). 8vo. paper covered boards, dust jacket. (xii), 69, (3) pages. First Graywolf printing. Blurbs by Thomas Lux, Lynn Emanuel. Winner of the 1996 James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets. Fine. READ MORE about WISE POISON, POEMS
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 113722
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1985. 8vo. cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. (viii), 83, (3) pages. First edition. Author's second book. Fine. READ MORE about THE LAMPLIT ANSWER
Price: $12.50 Order nr. 113785
London: Hutchinson, (1986). small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (vi), 83, (3) pages. First English edition. Blurb by Nadine Gordimer. Fine. READ MORE about THE LAMPLIT ANSWER
Price: $13.00 Order nr. 113786
[New York]: Viking, 1984. 8vo. cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. viii, 65, (3) pages. First edition. Compliments card laid in. Blurbs by Louis Simpson, Yehuda Amichai, David Ignatow. The Lamont Poetry Selection for 1984. Fine. READ MORE about DEEP WITHIN THE RAVINE, POEMS
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 113789
[New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990]. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. viii, (ii), 64, (4) pages. First edition, uncorrected proof of the first American edition. Fine. READ MORE about ALL YOU WHO SLEEP TONIGHT, POEMS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 113809
[Oxford]: Carcanet Press, 1970. 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. 18 pages. American author's first book, limited to 600 copies. Fine. READ MORE about CURIOUS QUESTIONS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 113828
Amherst: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1987. square 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (x), 60 pages. First edition. Blurbs by W. S. Merwin, David St. John, Stuart Dybek. The Lamont Poetry Selection for 1986. Fine in dust jacket with a short closed tear on the rear panel. READ MORE about THE MINUTE HAND
Price: $8.00 Order nr. 113835
[Leeds: Northern House, 1964]. 12mo. self paper wrappers, cord-tied. (ii), 13 pages. First edition. Author included in Contemporary poets, 6th edition (first book in that source). Hand-set at the School of English, University of Leeds. Fine. READ MORE about ELEVEN POEMS
Price: $8.00 Order nr. 113885
New York: The Viking Press, 1980. 8vo. cloth backed boards, dust jacket. (xii), 79 pages. First edition. Blurbs by May Sarton, Maxine Kumin, May Swenson. Walt Whitman Award winner. Author's first book of verse. Fine. READ MORE about WONDERS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 113895
[Cleveland: Bits Press, (1980). small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. Not paginated. First edition. One of 1250 copies. Author's first book. Corners lightly bumped. READ MORE about BOARDWALK
Price: $9.00 Order nr. 113916