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A Comprehensive Anthology of American Poetry (Modern Library #101.3)

By: AIKEN, Conrad (compliler & editor)

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library / Random House: [c.1955]

Seller ID: 81471

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Fair dust jacket

Conrad Aiken, an acclaimed American poet and novelist, has selected dozens of American poems from the 17th through 20th Centuries for this Modern Library edition. With an introduction by Mr. Aiken. Indices of authors and first lines at rear of volume. --- In Toledano spine 8 / rust cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i / verso advertises 374 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1955 (though 1944 date appears in book). ML #101.3. --- An unmarked copy but with slightly loosened front cover and loss of gilding to cover and...
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Sohrab and Rustum and Other Poems (No. 132, The Riverside Literature Series)

By: ARNOLD, Matthew

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1911

Seller ID: 81634

Binding: Stapled wraps

Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket

A collection of 23 poems by the noted English poet, literary critic, and translator of Homer. Poems selected and edited by Charles Swain Thomas, and with a biographical sketch of Matthew Arnold by Louise Imogen Guiney. Entry #132 in publisher's "Riverside Literature Series". --- In stiff pale green stapled wraps. --- With prior owner's pencilings to perhaps as many as 10 leaves, otherwise a firmly bound copy.; 16mo (6 to 7 in. tall); viii, 124 pages
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Collected Shorter Poems 1927 1957

By: Auden, W H

Price: $23.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1966

Seller ID: 72930

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Fair dust jacket

Stated first printing of author's collection of poems. In green and yellow full cloth covers w/lightly bumped corners and brownish spotting on front cover. Lettering on spine in metallic green. Interior of volume clean and unmarked; with table of contents and index of first lines. Dust jacket heavily chipped and with triangular chunk missing at head of spine; with orig $7.50 flap price and in removable mylar protector. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 351 pages
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Selected Poetry of W. H. Auden (Modern Library #160.2)

By: AUDEN, W. H.

Price: $21.00

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library / Random House: [c.1959]

Seller ID: 84315

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

A Modern Library edition of selected poetry of W. H. Auden, the prolific English-born poet, playwright and essayist. The poems were chosen for this ML edition by Mr. Auden in this first version of Auden poetry selections issued by Modern Library. Indices of titles and first lines at rear of book. --- In Toledano spine 8 / blue cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i, verso advertises 388 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1959 (though 1958 date appears in book). ML #160.2. --- An excellent copy: clean, tightly bound and b...
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The San Francisco Girl and Other Rhymes (Including Some Gloom Chasers)

By: BEAUCE, Eugene A.

Price: $22.00

Publisher: San Francisco, Dulfer Press: 1919

Seller ID: 82009

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good+

A group of poems, some written as the looming World War I was casting its shadow over the world. Signed by the author on front free endpaper. --- In tan wraps with W. R. Cameron illustration to cover (repeated on title page). --- A sound, clean copy though with minor soiling; binding remains tight. A very scarce copy of this charmer.; 16mo (6 to 7 in. tall); 75 pages; Signed by Author
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The Dust Which is God: A Novel in Verse

By: BENÉT, William Rose

Price: $23.50

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1945

Seller ID: 81992

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

Stated fifth printing of the author's long-form poem, awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1942. Due to war-time paper shortages, the entire book is printed on bright yellow stock. --- In beige cloth-covered boards with illustrations and titling in brown to cover and spine; brown topstain. Jacket in tones of dark brown and tan, with author photographic portrait to back panel. --- With some darkening & discoloration to cloth, otherwise a clean, firmly-bound copy. Unclipped jacket with chipping and small tears but mostly intact and in removable archival mylar protector.; Octavo (8 to 9 in. ...
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John Berryman: Selected Poems (American Poets Project #11)

By: BERRYMAN, John

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Library of America: 2004

Seller ID: 81982

ISBN: 1931082693

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

A selection of poems by John Berryman, one in the publisher's American Poets Project series. Edited by Kevin Young. --- In green paper-covered boards; dust jacket in lavender and green. --- A clean, sound, firmly-bound copy but with inked notation to front free endpaper. Bright, unclipped jacket with slight rubbing, else nice.; 12mo (7 to 7-1/2 in. tall) ; 198 pages
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One Step Forward: The Correct Comedy of Not Being God

By: BINDER, James K.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Athens, Greece, James K. Binder: 1952

Seller ID: 82005

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good

A self-published long-form religious-themed poem by James K. Binder. With a section of shorter verse at rear of volume, along with a tipped-on black & white image of a man. With a lengthy gift inscription to his former teacher Leo Spitzer, signed with the initials of the author. --- In plain untitled, unmarked stiff tan paper wraps. --- The leaves are a little yellowed and with crease and light chafing to covers.; Tall Octavo (9 to 10 in. tall); 204 pages; Signed by Author
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Half-Way to the Moon: New Writings from Russia

By: BLAKE, Patricia; HAYWARD, Max (editors)

Price: $19.00

Publisher: New York, Holt, Rinehart & Winston: 1964

Seller ID: 84201

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket

A first American edition of this collection of writings from Russia which appeared in Russia in the 1960s. Includes stories such as Alexander Solzhenitsyn's "Matryona's Home" and the title story by Vasili Aksyonov; as well as many other stories and poems. Edited by Patricia Blake and Max Hayward, with an introduction by Ms. Blake. Rendered into English by various translators. --- In terra cotta cloth-covered boards with cover titling in white, spine titling in black. Book wrapped in black dust jacket. --- With creases to the fore-edges of the first few leaves, a couple of spots of soi...
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A Commentary on Tennyson's In Memoriam (Second Edition, Revised)

By: BRADLEY, A. C.

Price: $26.50

Publisher: London, Macmillan and Co., Limited: 1907

Seller ID: 84726

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

A 1907 reprint of the 1902 second edition. A detailed analysis of Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem, originally titled "In Memoriam A. H. H. Obiit MDCCCXXXIII." The poem was written to commemorate the passing of the author's close friend Arthur Henry Hallam who suffered a cerebral hemorrhage at age 22. The poem is considered to be one of the greatest poems of the 19th century. It includes the famous lines, " 'Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all. " --- In olive cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped spine titling. Volume has no dust jacket. --- With prior owners' sign...
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Adventures Further

By: BREWER, Wilmon

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Francestown, New Hampshire, Marshall Jones Company: 1958

Seller ID: 78889

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good- dust jacket

Number 15 of a limited edition of 500 copies in this stated first edition. Inscribed and signed by the author, with warm greeting to Governor Du Brot. A collection of poems and poetical works by the author and by other poets. Includes 3 color illustrations from paintings by Frank Vining Smith. --- In full dark green cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped titling on black blocks on cover and spine. Jacket features Frank Vining Smith color illustration on cover; bears orig. $2 flap price. --- With discreet bookseller label to front free endpaper, else a clean, firm, bright copy. Jacket with a li...
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Still More Adventures

By: BREWER, Wilmon

Price: $18.50

Publisher: Francestown, New Hampshire, Marshall Jones Company: 1966

Seller ID: 78890

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

Inscribed and signed by the author, with warm greeting to Governor Du Brot. A collection of poems and poetical works by the author and by other poets. Includes color frontis portrait of the author by Polly Thayer, as well as another Thayer color painting and a painting of the author's wife, Katherine More Brewer. --- In full dark green cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped titling on cover and spine. Jacket features Thayer color illustration on cover; bears orig. $3 flap price. --- With discreet bookseller label to front free endpaper, else a clean, firm, bright copy. Jacket with a little spo...
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American Poems

By: Bronson, Walter C.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: University of Chicago: 1918

Seller ID: 71774

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

Big compendium of American poetry in a decent copy. Orig pub date 1912, this printing issued 1918. In full red cloth covers w/light edgewear, scuffing at tail of spine. No DJ. Paper at frt & rear pastedowns has disintegrated at hinge points, exposing inner webbing. Lightly pencilled remarks & underlinings here & there inside vol. Prev owner's inked name & addr ffep. ; 1625-1892; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
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The Poems and Plays of Robert Browning (Modern Library Giant #G17.1)

By: BROWNING, Robert

Price: $14.00

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library:

Seller ID: 76428

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ in Fair dust jacket

From the dust jacket: "...everything of importance that Browning ever wrote..." and "Including all of Browning's lyric and dramatic poetry...". A Modern Library Giant edition with introduction and biograhical information by Saxe Commins; index of first lines of poems at the rear. Though 1934 date appears on copyright page, this edition likely published c.1940. --- In Toledano spine G4 with full beige cloth covers, gilt & green titling & decorations on on cover & spine; publisher's faded green topstain, plain endpapers. Jacket style Gc, verso advertises 274 titles in ML catalog...
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The Poems of Robert Browning

By: BROWNING, Robert

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Roslyn, New York, Black's Readers Service Company: 1952

Seller ID: 79332

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

A selection of poems by the great 19th Century English Victorian poet, in a hardcover book club edition. Includes his notable "Pied Piper of Hamelin" and "Paracelsus", and many others. Arranged by Songs, Ballads, Monlogues, Lyrics, Romances, Drama and with a section dedicated to his wife Elizabeth Barrett Browning. With a brief introduction by Ben Ray Redman. --- In full red cloth-covered boards with titling and decorations gilt-stamped on cover and spine. Lacks a dust jacket. --- With slightly rounded cover corners, otherwise a clean, firm, bright copy.; Small Octavo (7-1/2 to...
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The Ring and the Book, Volume 3 Only (Everyman's Library #502)

By: BROWNING, Robert

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London/New York, Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd./E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.: 1962

Seller ID: 80279

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good dust jacket

Volume 3 only of the 4-volume "verse novel" by Browning, which tells the story of Count Guido Franceschini's trial for murder. Includes an introduction by John Bryson and with extensive end notes. Everyman's Library #502. --- In binding style 4, full black cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped spine titling, pale orange topstain. Purple jacket with Peter Rutland drawing of the murder on the cover. --- A clean, sturdy, unmarked copy but with a little dusty soiling to cloth. Jacket with retailer's sticker, plenty of rubbing and with some chafing to edges, otherwise bright and in removab...
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The Poems & Plays of Robert Browning, 1844-1864: Volume II (Everyman's Library Flex Leatherette style, EL #42)

By: BROWNING, Robert

Price: $10.00

Publisher: London / New York, Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.: 1911

Seller ID: 82676

Binding: Flexible Leatherette

Condition: Fair with no dust jacket

Volume II only from Everyman's Library five-volume compilation of the poems and plays of the prolific Robert Browning (1812-1889). Includes his "Cavalier Tunes", "The Pied Piper of Hamelin", "The Italian in England", "The Englishman in Italy", 22 poems under the heading "Dramatis Personae" and much more. The introduction by John Bryson appears in Vol. I, not in this volume. Number 42 in Everyman's Library Poetry and the Drama series, edited by Ernest Rhys. --- In Everyman's style 1 maroon flexible leatherette variant binding with elaborate Reginald Knowl...
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The Poems and Plays of Robert Browning, 1833-1844: Volume I (Everyman's Library Flex Leatherette binding, EL #41)

By: BROWNING, Robert

Price: $14.00

Publisher: London / New York, Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.: 1911

Seller ID: 82899

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

Volume I only in the Everyman's Library presentation of the poems and plays of Robert Browning. This volume mostly consists of his dramatic monologues and dialogues, such as "Pauline" and "The Return of the Druses". Includes an introduction by Arthur Waugh. Entry 41 in Everyman's Library Poetry and the Drama series, edited by Ernest Rhys. --- In Everyman's style 1 maroon flexible leatherette variant binding with elaborate Reginald Knowles-designed gilt titling & floral decorations to cover and spine, ornate Knowles woodcut illustrations to title and frontis pages and to endpape...
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The Poems of Robert Browning

By: BROWNING, Robert (author); LEWIS, C. Day (editor)

Price: $20.50

Publisher: New York, The Heritage Press: 1971

Seller ID: 80580

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

A selection of poems by the great 19th Century English Victorian poet, in a handsome reprint edition in slipcase. Selected, edited, and introduced by C. Day Lewis and with woodcut illustrations by Peter Reddick. Indices of first lines and titles at rear of volume. --- In paper-covered boards illustrated with ancient columns and structures, and backed in brown cloth. With gilt-stamped spine titling & decorations. Slipcase covered in maroon paper. Publisher's Sandglass flyer is not present. --- Both book and slipcase with minor bump near top of opening; otherwise a firm, clean, bright copy. Sli...
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Selections from Browning

By: BROWNING, Robert (author); LOVETT, Robert Morss (editor)

Price: $11.00

Publisher: Boston, Ginn and Company: 1906

Seller ID: 84546

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good-

A selection of poems by the great 19th Century English Victorian poet, in a hardcover edition. Poems divided into 4 categories: Poems of Action, Poems of Description, Love Poems and Poems of Character. With lengthy preface, including biographical summary of Browning's life, by editor Robert Morss Levett. --- In green cloth-covered boards with titling and decodrations in black to cover and spine. --- With slightly darkened spine and prior owner's signature in pencil to front free endpaper, else a clean, tightly-bound copy.; 16mo - 6 to 7 in. tall; xxix, 208 pages
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Thanatopsis [A Consideration of Death]

By: BRYANT, William Cullen

Price: $43.00

Publisher: New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons: 1877

Seller ID: 84663

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Probably the best-known poem by the American poet William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878), "Thanatopsis" borrows its name from the Greek and can be translated as "a consideration of death." With attractive black & white engraved illustrations on nearly every page by David Scott, William Blake and Isaac Taylor, engraved by W. J. Linton. Unpaginated, perhaps about 40 pp. --- In blue bevel-edge cloth-covered boards with gilt medallion image of Bryant stamped on front cover (and repeated in blind on back cover), titling and author facsimile signature to cover and spine in gilt, blue endpapers, all edges...
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North Coast, and Other Poems

By: BUCHANAN, Robert Williams

Price: $39.00

Publisher: London, G. Routledge and Sons: 1868

Seller ID: 73780

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

Mr. Buchanan's works displayed a respect for those living a simpler life. Author's 'North Coast Poems' comprise roughly 2/3 of this volume. --- Elaborately bound in blue beveled edge cloth-covered boards with gilt and red lettering and decorations, front, rear and spine. With 53 illustrations by T.(homas) and E.(dward) Dalziel and 5 others; all of which were engraved by the Brothers Dalziel. Printed on heavy papers, with all three edges in gilt. --- Volume has noticeable tears to cloth at spine ends, many leaves with foxing. Sticker removal damage to front pastedown. Overall, a tight copy with...
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Poetical Works of Robert Burns with Memoir, Notes

By: BURNS, Robert

Price: $18.00

Publisher: New York, American News Co.:

Seller ID: 72412

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair with no dust jacket

Undated [c 1880] compilation of the great Scottish poet's work in an appealing edition. In decorative gilt and black blue cloth covers w/gilt edges all around. With unattributed b&w illustrations. Volume is fragile, with a detached leaf and the beginnings of a separation toward the front of the volume. Covers are worn; edges chafed; spine toned. Interior mostly clean, with prev owner's inked signature, dated 1882, on front free endpaper; more modern presentation remarks same page. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
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Childe Harold (Canto IV), Prisoner of Chillon and Other Selections

By: BYRON, Lord; VENABLE, W. H. (editor)

Price: $11.00

Publisher: New York, American Book Company: 1911

Seller ID: 80762

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

A pair of notable long-form poems by the noted English romantic poet Lord Byron (1788-1824). Includes cantos I through IV of "Childe Harold" and "Prisoner of Chillon". Also included are a handful of Byron's shorter poems and songs. An entry in publisher's "Eclectic English Classics" series. Edited and with an introduction by W. H. Venable. --- In brown cloth-covered boards with dark brown titling and decorations in maroon on cover and spine. Lacks a dust jacket. --- With pencilings to a few leaves including notes, prior owner's signature and a short poem; else an intact...
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A Walk Through Mountain, Meadow, Marsh, and Woodland: A Collection of Photography and Prose

By: CARLSON, William A.

Price: $19.00

Publisher: Lakewood, Colorado, Mountain to Sea Publishing Company: 2001

Seller ID: 80965

ISBN: 097113670X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

A collection of striking black & white photos, each of which is accompanied by the author's "prose", which reads a lot like poetry. Signed "William A. Carlson" on copyright page, presumably by the author. --- In stiff wraps with representative photos on front and back covers. Unpaginated (about 60 pp.). --- A bright, newish copy.; Oblong 16mo (6 to 7 in. tall); [c.60] pages; Signed by Author
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The Canterbury Tales: The Famous Skeat Edition (Modern Library #161.2)

By: CHAUCER, Geoffrey

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, The Modern library: [c.1964]

Seller ID: 83666

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket

The Canterbury Tales are a collection of 14th century tales, written in Middle English, which take the form of verse and are set against the backdrop of a pilgrimage to Canterbury. In a complete and unabridged Modern Library edition which has been edited by the Rev. Walter W. Skeat, and an introduction by Louis Untermeyer. --- In Toledano spine 11 / green cloth / ML hex torchbearer logo blindstamped to front cover / gilt-stamped spine titling / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i, verso lists titles in ML catalog, but without a total number. Likely published c.1964. ML #161.2. --- A tightly-b...
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The Canterbury Tales: The Famous Skeat Edition (in Modern Library spine 6, ML #161.1)

By: CHAUCER, Geoffrey

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library: [c.1930]

Seller ID: 84659

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

The Canterbury Tales are a collection of 14th century tales, written in Middle English, which take the form of verse and are set against the backdrop of a pilgrimage to Canterbury. In a complete and unabridged Modern Library edition which has been edited by the Rev. Walter W. Skeat, and an introduction by Louis Untermeyer. --- In Toledano spine 6 / green cloth-covered limp boards / gilt titling on spine / gilt torchbearer logo to front cover / olive topstain / orange Kent endpapers. Lacks the dust jacket. Volume bears 1929 date but likely published c.1930. ML #161.1. --- With shallow creasing...
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Chaucer According to William Caxton: Minor Poems and Boece, 1478

By: CHAUCER, Geoffrey (author); BOYD, Beverly (editor)

Price: $31.50

Publisher: Lawrence, Kansas, Allen Press, Inc.: 1978

Seller ID: 82007

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

Three volumes of works by Geoffrey Chaucer were first published at William Caxton's press in 1478, and are offered here in this single volume. Per the jacket flap, Mr. Caxton was the English world's first printer. Selections edited by Beverly Boyd, who also has inscribed and signed this book on the front free endpaper thus; "July 19, 1979/For Noelle with warm regards/Beverly Boyd". With a frontis image of a leaf from Boece. Back matter includes several pages of notes and reference material. --- In pale blue cloth covered boards with spine titling in black. Jacket titling superimposed o...
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Lincoln and Others

By: CLARK, Thomas Curtis

Price: $16.00

Publisher: New York, George H. Doran Company: 1923

Seller ID: 73121

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Attractive volume of author's poems; in full maroon cloth on board covers; paste-on title block on cover & spine. Publisher's red topstain. Spine lightly toned; corners ever so slightly bumped. Interior on quality buff papers; clean and tight with one small tear at front gutter area. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 90 pages
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The Major Poets: English and American

By: COFFIN, Charles M. (editor)

Price: $11.00

Publisher: New York, Harcourt Brace & World, Inc.: 1954

Seller ID: 71757

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Per editor Charles M. Coffin's introduction, this is an anthology of poets, rather than poems. A presentation of poems ". . .in English from Chaucer to the present [c.1950] with a generous selection from a limited number of our best poets." Poets such as Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, Jonson, Blake, Pope, Shelley, Browning, Tennyson, Whitman, Yeats, Dickinson, Housman, Hardy, and many others are all represented. With definitions of archaic terms and explanatory notes as footnotes, and with index of authors, titles and first lines combined together at rear of volume. --- Edition not state...
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The Dimensions of Robert Frost

By: Cook, Reginald L.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Rinehart & Company: 1959

Seller ID: 71508

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair in Good dust jacket

Close longtime Frost friend profiles the famous poet in this work. Interspersed with many of the poems, or fragments of poems. In full green cloth covers, very thoroughly stained on exterior with whiteish stain (possible mildew) ; beginnings of spine crack at frt of book. Interior intact, inked presentation remarks. DJ minor chips & tears and in removable mylar protector. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 241 pages
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Blue Juniata: Collected Poems

By: COWLEY, Malcolm

Price: $40.50

Publisher: New York, The Viking Press: 1968

Seller ID: 84004

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

0670175072 A first edition in this issuance. Malcolm Cowley's first book of poetry, under the same title, stayed out of print after it made its appearance in 1929. This reissue includes the 50 poems in that edition, plus additional poems; 17 from his "The Dry Season" and 19 more. Also with author's prose "Notes" in places, setting the tone for what follows. --- In blue paper-covered boards backed in grey cloth, with spine titling in black and silver; blue topstain. Volume wrapped in jacket with Sandy Noyes photographic portrait of the author to back flap. --- A clean, tightly-b...
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Modern Greek Poetry

By: DALVEN, Rae (translator and editor)

Price: $11.50

Publisher: New York, Gaer Associates Inc.: 1949

Seller ID: 83640

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket

A first edition of this English-language anthology of modern poetry by Greek poets, as collected, translated and edited by Rae Dalven. The original poems were written both in traditional Greek ("katharevousaa") and the more modern "demotic" Greek. With introductory statements by William Rose Benét and Mark Van Doren, as well as introductory essays by Davlven, in which she discusses the poems which follow. --- In dark red and grey cloth-covered boards with titling in silver to cover and spine. Volume has no dust jacket. --- With discreet Boston-area bookseller label to front fr...
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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Carlyle-Wicksteed Translation (Modern Library #208.1)

By: DANTE

Price: $18.00

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library: [c.1947]

Seller ID: 84114

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

The famed lengthy narrative poem in a complete and unabridged Modern Library reprint edition. In this work, Dante brilliantly lays out his vision of the afterlife in his "Inferno", "Purgatorio", and "Paradiso". From translations by John Carlyle, Thomas Okey and Philip Wicksteed. With an introduction by C. H. Grandgent. Includes scattered black & white maps and illustrations. --- In Toledano spine 8 / green cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style h / verso advertises 322 titles in ML catalog. Likely publish...
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Poems

By: DICKINSON, Emily

Price: $14.50

Publisher: Ann Arbor, Michigan, U. S. A., Lowe & B. Hould Publishers: 1998

Seller ID: 71365

ISBN: 0681224789

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Appealing collection of author's poems, in full white cloth covers and gold colored endpapers. Clean and bright, with no interior markings. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 122 pages
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Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson (Modern Library #25.4)

By: DICKINSON, Emily

Price: $16.00

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library / Random House: [c.1959]

Seller ID: 84781

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

A selection of the eminent American poet's works in a Modern Library edition. With an introduction by Conrad Aiken. --- In Toledano spine 8 / pale green cloth / gilt titling on green spine & cover blocks / green topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i, verso lists 385 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1959 (though 1924 date appears in book). ML #25.4. --- A sound copy: clean, tightly-bound and unmarked but with some general age-toning. Good-only unclipped dust jacket is mostly intact but with tears, chips and chafing to edges and prior owner's signature to both flaps; wrapped in...
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Acts of Light: Poems by Emily Dickinson

By: DICKINSON, Emily (poems); BURKERT, Nancy Ekholm (paintings)

Price: $15.50

Publisher: Boston, New York Graphic Society: 1980

Seller ID: 83334

ISBN: 082121098X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket

Stated first edition (first trade edition). A selection of 80 poems by Emily Dickinson, selected to display the wide range of her work, and published in celebration of the 150th anniversary of her birth in Massachusetts. The poems are accompanied by the color paintings of Nancy Ekholm Burkert, and with 'an appreciation' by Jane Langton. --- In beige cloth-covered boards with Burkert illustration in blind to cover, spine titling in copper foil. Dust jacket with rather elaborate Burkert painting of a flower to cover. --- With remainder marks to textblock edges, prior owner's attractive sticker d...
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The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne -and- The Complete Poetry of William Blake (in one volume) (Modern Library Giant #G70.1)

By: DONNE, John; BLAKE, William

Price: $26.00

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library / Random House: [c.1962-63]

Seller ID: 83595

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket

A hefty work containing the entire body of poetical works, and some prose, by the two legendary English poets. With a lengthy introduction by Robert Silliman Hillyer. The texts are from the Nonesuch Press editions. --- In Toledano spine G5 / green cloth / gilt titling on black cover & spine blocks / black topstain / blank GA style endpapers / jacket style Ge, verso advertises 415 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1962-63 (though 1941 date appears in book). ML #G70.1. --- With inked gift inscription to front free endpaper, a tear to cloth at head of spine and bump to top edge, otherwise ...
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Twentieth-Century Poetry

By: DRINKWATER, John; CANBY, Henry Seidel; BENET, William Rose (editors)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company: 1929

Seller ID: 75235

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

With poems by many major poets, including Edna St. Vincent Millay, Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg and dozens of others. In full blue cloth-covered boards with titling block pasted to spine. Lacks a dust jacket. --- Interior with inked ownership info., front free endpaper; and an underling on one of the first pages. Covers are sunned, especially at spine; otherwise a good copy. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 636 pages
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Of Dramatic Poesy and Other Critical Essays: In Two Volumes; Volume I only (Everyman's Library #568)

By: DRYDEN, John

Price: $16.50

Publisher: London/ New York, Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd./E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.: 1964

Seller ID: 79982

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

Volume 1 only of the two-volume edition of critical essays by the first Poet Laureat of England, John Dryden (1631-1700). This Everyman's Library edition edited, with an introduction by George Watson. This complete edition was first published in 1962, following the abridged edition of 1912. --- Full EL style 4 purple cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped spine titling. Lavender jacket with image of Dryden on cover. Everyman's Library #568. --- With inked price on front free endpaper, else a firm, sound, bright copy. Jacket with minor edgewear, else very nice and in removable archival mylar pr...
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