The Album of Love.
New York: Leavitt & Co., 1850. 128 pp., 16mo. Hardcover. A.e.g. "Poetry of love" Light edgewear & soiling to boards & spine; light sunning to spine. Binding tight. Foxing throughout textblock interior.
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Antiphonies:; Essays on Women's Experimental Poetries in Canada
Toronto: The Gig, 2008. 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 top edge. Pgs clean & crisp.
The Atlantic Souvenir for 1859.
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.....
The Dublin Mail: or, Intercepted Correspondence:; To Which is Added, A Packet of Poems
London: J. Johnston, Cheapside, 1822. Second edition enlarged. Hardcover. 144 pp., 12mo. Hardcover. Collection of poems in the form of letters. Mild discoloration, edgewear, & soiling to boards & spine; spine cover missing, boards detached but present. Binding exposed & mostly holding; several pgs loose and/or detached, some pgs attached.....
Robert Browning (12 vols).
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co, 1926. 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.
Shakespeare's Sonnets.
1938. 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 otherwise.....
The Works of Lord Byron:; Embracing His Suppressed Poems, and A Sketch of His Life
Boston: Phillips, Lampoon and Co., 1852. 1071 pp., 8vo. Brown leather hardcover. Slight discoloration, edgwear/scuffing, & soiling to boards & spine. Splits to front joint ends. Binding sturdy. A.e.g. Scuffing to textblock edges. Discoloration & foxing throughout interior; pencil scribbling to feps, po pen signature to fep. Gild decoration of.....
The Adventures of a Post Captain; 3 volumes.
London: Methuen, 1904. 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 to.....
The Sand Castle and Other Poems.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1946. 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.
Keyring.
New York: Random House, 1996. 4to. Broadside. With poem "Keyring" from collection "Ants on the Melon. 1 of 1,000 copies"
Dialect Ballads.
New York, NY: Harper and Brothers, 1888. 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.
Dialect Ballads.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1888. 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.
Dialect Ballads.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1888. 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.
Zones of Pain: Las Zonas del Dolor.
Fredonia, NY: White Pine Press, 1988. 8vo. 72 pp. Signed and inscribed to title page. Bilingual edition. Translation from Spanish by Cola Franzen.
Greed :; Poems
New York and London: Norton, 1993. First edition. 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, mild.....
Earth Triumphant and Other Tales in Verse.
New York: Macmillan, 1914. 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.
John Deth, A Metaphysical Legend, and Other Poems.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. First edition. 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 poem.....
Thee.
New York, NY: George Braziller, 1967. First edition. 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.
Echoes from the Green Hills.
Rutland, VT: Tuttle Company, 1922. First edition. 4 1/2 x 7 1/2". 110 pp. Foxing to pages, previous owner's inscription to ffep. Jacket is soiled and discolored with some tears at the edges. Poetry with some b&w illustrations.
Bulgarian Poets of Our Day.
Sofia: Sofia Press. 8vo. 167 pp, b&w photos. Cover somewhat bent at edges and corners, sunned. Bulgarian poetry.
A. R. Ammons:; The Selected Poems 1951-1977
New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1977. First paperback edition. 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 scattered.....
Bosh and Flapdoodle:; Poems
New York and London: W. W. Norton & Co., 2005. First edition. 159 pp., 8vo. Hardcover in dj. First edition. "No other contemporary poet, in America, is likelier to become a classic than A. R. Ammons." - Harold Bloom. Binding tight. Textblock clean & crisp. Some very light shelfwear to.....
A Slice of Snow.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970. First edition. 63 pp. 12mo. Cloth in dj. First edition. Light wear to dj edges, sm. tear to sp. foot corner, sm. tear to upper rear edge. Damp spotting to cloth, lt soiling to top edge. Illustrations by author.
Toys in Blood.
Prairie City, IL: Decker Press, 1948. 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 poet.....
4 Courtly Love Poems.
Canaan, New Hampshire: Apple-Wood Press, 1976. 8vo. Unpaginated. Spine ends and corners are lightly bumped and rubbed, otherwise book is in excellent condition. This book was 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.....