London: Virgin Books, 2005. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo, black cloth with silver lettering on spine, archival mylar-protected pictorial & lettered orange-patterned dust jacket (unclipped), xviii + 359 pages. Barry Miles (born 1943) is an English author well known for his involvement and writing on the 1960s London underground and counterculture..... More
New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1937. First Edition. Cloth and boards. 8vo, black quater cloth over blue boards with printed paper label, mylar-protected lettered dust jacket (unclipped), 126 pages. Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 – 1950) was a brilliant American poet and playwright. She received the Pulitzer..... More
New York: Horace Liveright, 1929. Second Printing. Cloth. 8vo (5 1/8" x 7 3/4"), black cloth with silver label and stylized silver bird on front cover, ix, [x] ,11-129 pages. Kathleen Millay (1897 - 1943), sister of the brilliant poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, was an American poet, novelist, essayist..... More
New York: Dutton Children's Books, 1998. E.H. Shepard. First Omnibus Edition, First Printing. Decorated and gilt stamped cloth. 4to, cloth with gilt lettering, profusely illustrated in color and B&W by E. H. Shepard, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with illustration by Shepard, 211 pages. "This deluxe volume brings together all..... More
London: Edward Moxon, 1844. First Edition. Cloth. 12mo (7" x 4 1/2"), brown original publisher's cloth with paper label on spine, 8pp. of Ads for Moxon + 202 pages + [2] Advert for other books by the Author. Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton, FRS (19 June 1809 – 11..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1961. First Edition. Cloth. Tall 8vo, red cloth with gold lettering on spine, archival polyester-protected photographic reddish dust jacket (unclipped; price $6.95) with B&W photo of Marianne Moore wearing a tricorn & black cape,notes, index, xviii + 301 pages. Marianne Moore (1887 – 1972) was..... More
New York: Pantheon Books / Bollingen Series LXXII a, 1964. First Wrappered Edition. Pamphlet. 12mo, ivory and ochre-colored wrappers, numerous illustrations in the text of prosody & metrics, [viii} + 104 pages. Near Fine Condition! Light age-toning to upper ivory-colored wrappers and minute wears to the otherwise tight, internally clean..... More
San Antonio, Texas: The Naylor Company / Book Publishers of the Southwest, 1967. First Edition. Boards. PRESENTATION COPY by the POET, small 8vo, green textured boards with "Auschwitz" in black on spine and cover, 22 pages. Paul, now living in Edmonton, was born in Vegreville, Alberta. "One of Canad's most..... More
Not identified: Author, c.1940. Original. SIGNED twice by the Author-Poet in black ink: once in block letters & once in script; 8vo (8" x 10"), single sheet neatly folded twice leaving six compartments; contents: a thank you letter with original poem about Nash as a book "browser," undated [ca. May..... More
New York: Random House, 1948. Early Modern Library Edition. Cloth. 12mo, gray cloth, Mylar-protected decorative dust jacket, 246 pages. For lovers of humorous and easy-to-understand verse, no versifier is better than Ogden Nash. Frederic Ogden Nash (1902–1971) was a prolific and highly popular American poet best known for his light verse..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1949. Maurice Sendak. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo, red cloth, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket by MAURICE SENDAK (unclipped) of a red bird holding a flower pot, 169 pages. EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION internally & externally! Frederic Ogden Nash (1902–1971) was a prolific and highly popular American poet best known..... More
New York Evanston San Francisco London: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1972. First Edition. Cloth and boards. 8vo, gray quarter cloth with bladk lettering over beige boards, archival mylar-protected bleak photographic dust jacket (unclipped) depicting barren trees in snow, mauve pictorial endpapers repeating trees on cover, 64 pages. Winter Trees are..... More
Indianapolis: The Bowen-Merrill Company Publishers, 1901. First Edition. Decorated & gilt-stamped cloth. 12mo, pictorial green original publisher's cloth with gilt lettering and decorative vignette of a farmer set against a golden sun on the front cover, 187 pages, [1] Pictorial Vignette as Colophon. James Whitcomb Riley (1849 – 1916) was..... More
New York: The Century Co., 1907. C. M. Relyea. Decorated & gilt-stamped cloth. Small 8vo (7 3/4" x 5 3/8"), decorative light green cloth with gilt lettered spine & an inset panel of a doctor, horse & buggy in silhouette along the top of the gilt-rule bordered front cover, frontispiece..... More
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company Publishers, 1922. Reprint of 1908 Vawter-Illustrated Edition. Decorated & gilt-stamped cloth. 8vo, original publisher's textured maroon cloth with gilt lettering on spine & front cover with ttitle/author/illustrator in gilt and elaborate rectilinear floral border, illustrated by Will Vawter with B&W glossy fontispiece, full-page plates, smaller chapter..... More
Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, (1926). Later German Edition: 1st was in 1899. Decorative cloth. 12mo (7 1/4" x 4 7/8"), original publisher's floral-patterned boards with paper labels on spine and front cover, typography is dark Fraktur with enlarged capitals, 31 pages + [1] Advert. Laid in is a page-marker advertising Insel-Verlag publications..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, September 1934. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo, dark green cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover, lettered dust jacket (price-clipped) with belly-band, dj protected by an archival clear plastic cover, 105 pages. Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869 – 1935) was an American poet who won..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1934. First Limited Signed Edition: No. 153 of 226 copies. Cloth. Signed Limited Edition by the Author, tall 8vo (6 1/2" x 9 1/2"), slender black cloth spine with gold lettering over red cloth with gold facsimile signature of poet on front cover, protected by..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1921. First Edition. Cloth & Folding slipcase. 8vo, brown leather spine over maroon cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover, lettered dust jacket (un-clipped) with decorative device and title on cover, slipcase with natural calf spine & gold lettering plus folding panels, [vi]..... More
Printed by St. Anthony Guild press, Franciscan monastery Paterson, New Jersey, 1941. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. PRESENTATION COPY SIGNED by the Poet, small 8vo (8" x 5 1/2"), tan cloth with black lettering and profile of dog's head embossed on front cover, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting Rex's..... More
[Freshwater, Isle of Wight]: by the author, Jan. 23, 1866. matted engraving of the poet. original. Matted. Original Autograph Letter Signed as "A. Tennyson" (1809-1892) on personal stationery with embossed lettering (upper right), penned in brown ink, in which the Poet Laureat replies to Mr. Hackett that he has mislaid..... More
London: Reeves and Turner, 1881. First Edition. Cloth. 12mo, dark green cloth with gold letternig and bands on spine, brown-coated endpapers, vviii + 184 pages + 8pp. of Ads. James Thomson (1834 – 1882), who wrote under the pseudonym "Bysshe Vanolis" (from poets Percy Bysshe Shelley and Novalis), was a...... More
Glasgow: Maclehose, Jackson and Company, 1923. First Edition. Cloth. SIGNED Presentation Copy to George Macdonald (slip laid in), 4to, black cloth, numerous diagrams & notations of speech-rhythms & prosodic scansions, 559 pages. SIGNED Presentation Copy to George Macdonald [presumably the author]. Fascinating (& successful?) effort to conduct a scientific study of..... More
London: Henry King & Co., 1876. First Edition. Decorated & gilt-stamped cloth. Small 8vo, decorative dark green publisher's cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front cover with embossed floral motif, brown endpapers, 275 pages + 29pp. of Ads. John Todhunter (1839 – 1916) was an Irish poet and playwright..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1952. New Edition. Cloth. 8vo, dark blue with gold lettering on spine, lettered dust jacket (mylar-protected with bevelled corners & $2.00 price present), [x], 11-127 pages. Frederic Ridgely Torrence (1874 - 1950) was an American poet, and poetry editor of The New Republic. Poems was his..... More