Toronto: The Gig, 2008. Paperback. 256 pp., 8vo. Paperback. A primer on Canadian women's experimental poetry from the 1980s to the present; including brief selections of poems & poetic statements. Very light scuffing & shelfwear to covers & spine. Very light soiling to textblock edges; light dampstain to top fore.....
New York: Derby & Jackson, 1859. Cloth. 288 pp., 8vo. Cloth hardcover. Compiliation from the Knickerbocker Gallery including selections from Longfellow, Irving, Stoddard, Street, Eastman. Slight edgewear, light discoloration & soiling to boards & spine; corners bumped & worn. Lovely gilt decorations to blue boards. Wear to spine ends, top.....
Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1879. 1/2 Leather. 4to. 928 pp in 2 volumes. Lacking Volume III: Biographical Sketch. Half leather, with 5 raised bands and gilt to spine, gilt titling and decoration to front boards. All edges gilt. Leather is rubbed and scuffed at joints, spine ends, heaviest at.....
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co, 1926. Hardcover. 4204 pp., 12mo. Hardcovers. 12 vols. Dramatic works & poetry by Robert Browning. Slight rubbing, shelfwear & soiling to boards & spines. Bindings holding. Light foxing/soiling & po pencil marginalia & underlining scattered to mostly clean textblocks.
1938. Hardcover. Unpaginated, 8vo. Hardcover. 1938 facsimile reproduction of the the quarto published in 1609. Sunning discoloration. some dampstaining, soiling & wear to boards. Sunned spine cover re-lued; "facsimile" printed in Sharpie. Binding tight. Deckled textblock edges. Slight paste action to pds. Some light pencil marginalia & underlining scattered to.....
London: Methuen, 1904. Cloth. 3 volumes, approx 250 pp each. 12mo. Cloth. Three separate titles from "The Illustrated Pocket Library of Plain and Coloured Books"; the other 2 books are "The Adventures of Johnny Newcome in the Navy" and "The Military Adventures of Johnny Newcome". Wear and scuffing with soiling.....
London: Jonathan Cape, 1946. Cloth. 8vo. 54 pp + Greetings for Christmas 1950 at end. Corners lightly bumped. Dj has light soiling, spine browned, light wear to spine ends, price sticker. Signed and inscribed to ffep. Letter from Abbot laid in.
New York: Random House, 1996. Broadside. 4to. Broadside. Letterpress poem. Red ink on Dieu Donne paper, from a limited edition of 1000, this is number 941. Housed in original publisher's cardboard mailer with sticker label from Random House. Single poem from the author's first published collection "Ants on a Melon.".....
New York, NY: Harper and Brothers, 1888. Cloth. 12mo. 136 pp. Covers show some light rubbing, slightly bumped corners, former owner's ink signature to ffep. Collection of humorous poems in various dialects. With b&w illustrations.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1888. Decorative Cloth. 12mo. 136 pp. Signed by author on front endpage. Black and white illustrations. Covers edgeworn with bumped corners, light fraying at corners and spine ends. Foxing to edges of page block. Tissue cover to frontispiece completely detached but present.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1888. Cloth. 136 pp. Light shelfwear to boards, light bumping to spine ends and corners. Very lightly shaken at back hinge. Previous owner's name in ink to ffep.
Fredonia, NY: White Pine Press, 1988. Paperback. 8vo. 72 pp. Signed and inscribed to title page. Bilingual edition. Translation from Spanish by Cola Franzen.
New York and London: Norton, 1993. First edition. Cloth. 96 pp, 8vo. Cloth in dj. First edition. Light bumping to spine ends, light rubbing to spine ends & corners. Pages clean, crisp, and bright. binging very tight. Light allover soiling to dj w/ three small droplet marks to front panel.....
New York: Macmillan, 1914. Hardcover. 219 pp., 8vo. Hardcover. Bibliolife Reproduction Series. Modern reprint of 1914 edition. Slight soiling to boards. Mild bumping to edges. Binding tight; pgs clean & crisp.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. First edition. Cloth. 8vo. 140 pp. Spine gently bumped. Cloth faded at spine, edges. Endpapers sl. foxed, tiny bookseller's label ffep, pencil numbers rpd. Pp. 93-94 top corner creased. Dj faded at spine. Several 1" closed tears at edges, top front sl. chipped. Title.....
New York, NY: George Braziller, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Unpaginated. Rippling to foot edge from old moisture. Dj shows similar rippling, some soil and sunning/discoloration, small chip to foot of spine. Long poem by Aiken, with b&w illustrations.
Sofia: Sofia Press. Paperback. 8vo. 167 pp, b&w photos. Cover somewhat bent at edges and corners, sunned. Bulgarian poetry.
New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1977. First paperback edition. Paperback. 109 pp., 8vo. Paperback. First paperback edition. Winner of the 1973 National Book Award for Poetry & the 1975 Bollingen Prize in Poetry. Some scuffing, soiling & edgewear to covers & spine. Foxing to textblock edges. Slight foxing.....
Prairie City, IL: Decker Press, 1948. Cloth. 8vo. 77 pp. Some shelfwear to bottom edge, some light rubbing to cover. Dj shows heavy rubbing and scuffing, spotty soil, long closed tear running down most of (sunned) spine, large chip to foot of spine, nicks and chips to edges. Signed by.....
Cambridge, MA: Apple-Wood Press, 1976. Cloth Hardcover. 8vo. Unpaginated. LIght shelfwear and speckled discoloration to cloth.The first book printed, bound, and published by Apple-Wood Press, Cambridge, MA. The text is set in 14 point Weiss Italic and printed on Nideggen paper in an edition of 100 numbered copies. Of which.....
New York: Tibor de Nagy Gallery, 1953. Wraps. 8vo. Unpaginated, approx. 25 pgs. A rare signed copy of Ashbery's first chapbook, in very good condition overall. Spine professionally rebacked, light chipping along cover edges and spine, very light browning to cover edges. Minor rippling to front cover from rebacking. Text.....
Bloomington: Indiana Univ Pr, 1953. Cloth. 80 pp. 8vo. Cloth in dj. Inscribed by author. Dj worn, several tears/chips to edges, bumping to sp. ends, corners and upper edges, sunning to spine and front panel, scuffed soiling to rear panel, 1" piece missing from upper front edge, sm. piece of.....
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1928. First edition. Cloth. 76 pp. 12mo. Cloth in dustjacket. Shelfwear to jacket, browning to spine and joints, bumping w/ chipping to spine foot. Light shelfwear to book, bumping to corners and spine ends. Ex-libris w/ usual markings such as stamps and rough.....
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1930. First edition. Cloth. 129 pp. 12mo (large). Cloth in dustjacket. Shelfwear to jacket, sunning to spine, soiling to edges, 1" tear to spine head/joint. Edge wear to book. Ex-libris, no markings to dj, stamps to ep's and rough spots to frep and.....
Amherst, MA: Amherst Writers and Artists Press, 1998. Trade Paperback. 8vo. 60 pp. Collection of poetry signed by the poet.
