Search Results: Poetry from OLD WORKING BOOKS & Bindery (Est. 1994)

Philadelphia: Quicksilver Associates (Magee Press), 1935. Illustrated by 9 linoleum cuts. Stated first edition. This number 222 of 300 copies. Gray boards, topboard print, gray press paper, uncut. Demy 8vo. pp. 55, [1] colophon. Index and Members. VG/No jacket. Spine darkened, cap & corner wear, ink owner. First title of 32 poems from small press of George W. Magee Jr. Copy of publisher slip laid in..

Philadelphia: Quicksilver Associates (Magee Press), 1935. Illustrated by 9 linoleum cuts. Stated first edition. This number 267 of 300 copies. Gray boards, topboard print, uncut. Demy 8vo. pp. 55, [1] colophon. Index and Members. VG/No jacket. Light toning to cover, ink owner. gift letter (to ink owner) and publisher slip laid in. First title of 32 poems from small press of George W. Magee Jr..

New York: Viking Press, 1973. 2nd edition. Black cloth. Small 8vo. pp. 215. Near Fine/VG+/Unclipped price in mylar. Light edgewear, light soil..

Auburn, ME: Merrill & Webber, 1929. First edition. Marbled paper boards with printed title paste-on, quarter burgundy cloth. 12mo. pp. [ii], 83, [3] blank. VG/No jacket, as issued. Worn corners. Introduction by Edwin M. Wright. Scarce..

Boston: Tara West, 1992. First thus edition. Some previously appearing in magazines. Limited 500 copies. stapled card wraps. 8vo. pp. 42, [1] blank, [1] colophon. Fine/In like jacket/No price in mylar..

Uppsala: Almqvist & Wiksells Boktryckeri AB, 1965. Edited by Dag Stromback. First edition. Stapled wraps, printed green cover. Inscribed by "Ch. E. White, vinsamlegast, EOS July 15. 1970". 8vo. pp. 52. Near Fine. Traces of cover wear, internally fine. Address in defense of the doctural thesis of Bo Almqvist on February 20, 1965 at the University of Uppsala. Text in English. Bo Almqvist: Norron niddiktning, traditionshistoriska studier i versmagi I. Nid not furstar. Uppsala 1965. [Nordiska texter och undersokningar, 21.]..

Paris: E. De Boccard, 2e Trin.estre 1947. Poemes et Recits de la Vielle France XVIII. Stitched-wraps, two color illustrated cover, uncut. 16mo. pp. 157, [1], [1] colophon. VG. Caps chipped and cover toned, pencil marginalia, page edge toning. Reading copy in French..

New York: Barse & Hopkins, (1909). Illustrated by Port frontis. [NAP], after first Canadian and American edition. original green ribbed cloth, gilt print spine, gilt framed, printed and dec top. Cr.8vo. pp. 137, [3] blank. Near Fine/No jacket. Slightly dulled spine, traces of corner wear. light toning to endpapers. Though a designation first for Barse & Hopkins, reprinted after first Canadian and American in same year..

New York: Barse & Hopkins, (1909). [NAP], after first Canadian and American edition. (c.1909 Toronto: William Briggs, Philadelpia: Edward & Stern). original green ribbed cloth, gilt print spine, gilt framed, printed and dec top. Cr.8vo. pp. 137, [3] blank. VG-/No jacket. Edgewear, dulled spine, several bumps, (short gift inscription ffep). Though a designation first for Barse & Hopkins, reprinted after first Canadian and American in same year..

New York: MacMillan, (November) 1897. 4th printing of New edition. c.1892, 1893. Blue cloth, decorated and printed gilt. 12mo (19.5cm). pp. 217, [3] Ads. About Very Good/No jacket. Both hinges repaired, worn binding but solid reading copy with no tears, short gift inscription..

San Francisco, CA: William Doxey, n.d. Lark Classics edition. Light blue cloth, dec & pr black, uncut. 24mo. pp. [iv], 149, [1], [2] blank, [8] Ads. VG-. Covers show rubbing, last endpaper has stain..

Boston: Desmond Publishing Co, 1900. Illustrated by Frontis and b/w plates (Frank Merrill). Reprint edition. Red cloth, deorated and printed gilt, uncut. 12mo. pp. [ii], v, 413. VG. Sunned spine..

Boston: Lee & Shepard (John Wilson & Son, University Press), 1880. Illustrated by designs by Miss L.B. Humphrey, Engraved by Andrew. c.1879. Gold cloth on beveled boards, decorated and stamped gilt, black and green, thick paper issue, a.e.g. 12mo. pp. [4] blank, [2] frontis, [ii], [32], [4] blank. VG. Wear to caps and corners, internally. Text and plates printed recto..

New York: Philomel (Div. of Putnam & Grosset Group), (1990). Edited by Karen Ackerman, Introduction and poetry collected by. Illustrated by color jacket, illustrations throughout. First thus (& stated 1st impression) edition. Cloth backed green paper boards and marking ribbon. Square 4to. pp. 63, [1] blank. Near Fine/In like jacket/Clipped price in mylar. Trace wear, ribbon a bit worn at fold. Organized by season beginning with Summer and Index of First Line Poetry..

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1919. Illustrated by Frank E. Schoonover. First (H-T) edition. Blue cloth, gilt print & decoration, thick paper issue, uncut. Globe 8vo. pp. 69, [1], [2] blank. Very Good+/No jacket. Traces of cap and corner wear to brilliant binding, light foxing to pastedowns and first pages..

New York: John Lane Company, 1917. First edition. Brown cloth. Small 8vo. pp. 120. VG/No jacket. Gilt print on spine faded, ink owner, bookseller ticket fep, light edgewear caps and corners, some browning to front edge..

Santa Ana, CA: Fine Arts Press, 1935. Illustrated by Frontis and five plates. Limited first edition. 1/300 copies. Quarter leather and copper foil beveled boards with topboard decoration. 4to. pp. 60, [4] colophon. Very Good/No jacket, as issued. Trace cover wear, foxing starting about some stitch lines. Period Marah Adams article laid-in (in plastic) picturing May and cat, Tom Bones entitled "Orage County lost Vivid Personality with departure of Miss Beulah May" to L.A..

Boston: James R. Osgood, 1874. Illustrated by Red linear page borders and b/w vignettes. Second edition. (c.1873). Clay cloth, gilt printed (spine) and decorated top with black, a.e.g. 16mo. pp. 128. VG/No jacket. Internally very good, some cover spotting, cap wear..

New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1925. Illustrated by recto vignette blocks designed by Bruce Rogers. Limited edition. (c.1923). 325 copies. Red paper covered boards, topboard paper title. 8vo (20.5cm). pp. [22]. Very Good/Ex-Lib/No jacket. Bookplate and stamps front pastedown, stamps and numbers on title and spine, edgewear. Protective plastic cover..

New York: Covici Friede (1930, S. A. Jacobs at the Stratford Press), 1929. Illustrated by several head and tail vignettes. First Separate Limited Signed edition. 497/1050 (1000 for subscribers, 50 not for sale). Blue paper boards, Charing white spine printed gilt, uncut. Signed by Editor. 8vo. pp. xiii, [1], 236, [1], [5] blank. Very Good/In like jacket/No price in mylar. Toned paper cover with cap chips, edge toning internally. Bookplate of Davis Lawler James, Jr. Flapology: "unique anthology...William Dunbar to E. E. Cummings". Begun November 1928, finished December 1929..