The Dancers Inherit The Party: Selected Poems. by Finlay, Ian Hamilton, with two woodcuts by Zeljko Kujundzic:

New York, New York / Bombay, India: Longmans, Green, And Co.. Very Good with No Dust Jacket as issued. 1902. First Edition: First Printing. Hard Cover. 106 pages: 5 x 7.5 in.: 1.2: KB#010210: No Jacket As Issued. Book binding is spine and quarter cream paper with blue cloth boards (with gilt ship embossed on front cover) plus decorated gilt lettered spine. Top edge of page block is gilt. Book is protected in a custom brown cloth gilt-lettered clamshell book box. Copy has prior owner's bookplate (Oliver Brett) neatly affixed to front endpaper and a stamp on front flyleaf, p. 103, and rear endpaper of "College For Working Women", along with a "Bought Davis 1921 and K195" notation at the front. Otherwise, clamshell box, boards and pages are clean, unmarked (except as indicated), bright, tightly bound and sharp cornered. Has a tissue-protected frontispiece illustration about twenty dancing fairies by Richard Doyle, entitled "Under the Dock Leaves." This… Read More

Venetia: Nella Stamperia Del Ciotti. Good+. 1620. Hardcover. Two works by Marino Giambattista in one volume bound in contemporary full vellum. Hinges & text are tight & Intact. Illustrated with vignettes and decorative letters. #1: (14) 74pp. A panegyric consisting of 297 sestines. Small lateral worm hole near front margin [[&]] #2: (1) 90pp. A pangyric of 238 sestines. Previous owner's inscription on rear endpaper. Light cover wear. Italian text. The Cambridge History of Italian Literature characterized the author as "one of the greatest Italian poets of all time". Poetry. ; 24mo 5" - 6" tall; 164 pages .

NY: William Morrow. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Boards sunned, corners rounded, smudge on front free endpaper, jacket rubbed. 1976. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 9780688030889 . Cloth-backed boards. The acclaimed naturalist author's first book, a collection of poems about the planets and solar system. Many photos and illustrations. Author photo on rear jacket panel. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 159 pages .

Boston: Beacon Press, 2007. SIGNED by Mary Oliver on title page in the presence of this bookseller. Oliver's poetry has won numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and a Lannan Literary Award for lifetime achievement. New and Selected Poems, Volume Two, an anthology of forty-two new poems-an entire volume in itself-and sixty-nine poems hand-picked by Oliver from six of her last eight books, is a major addition to a career in poetry that has spanned nearly six decades. Now recognized as an unparalleled poet of the natural world, Oliver writes with unmatched dexterity and a profound appreciation for the divergence and convergence of all living things. She is always searching for the soul of things. And all the while, during her quest, she is constantly surprised and fortified by joy. 9 x 6". 178 pp. 9780807068878. First printing per number line. Pictorial paper covers. Tiny bump to top of spine, tea stains to bottom edge at spine and corner, an inch or less at corner, not… Read More

Published 1936 by Henry Holt. Jacketed hardback, jacket is rubbed, bumped, stained, chipped and torn. Cloth cover, as shown with this listing is gilt stamped on front board and spine and is slightly faded. Signed by the author on the half title page. Endpapers are tanned and aged with a pencil annotation on front free endpaper. Binding is firm, colored top, head and tail bands. Rough cut fore-edge, text appears unmarked. Despite it's flaws a charming volume. Your purchase helps our small public library. pi (B2)

Toronto: The Ryerson Press, 1923. NEWFOUNDLAND VERSE- E. J. Pratt- Decorations & Endpapers by Frederick H. Varley- The Ryerson Press- Toronto- 1923- 1st edition-1st Printing- Hardcover:-12mo- VG++/ no dj as issued- The Ryerson Press, (1923). Pp (8),5-140,(2). 8vo, brown paper-covered boards with black spine; gold and black design on front board with a wheeling gulls device. Laakso A2, O'Dea 1776, Watters p.161, Rhodenizer p.918, Laugher p.456. This variant has a text bulk of 5/8 inch and top edge unstained. pages are clean, no tears or writing- A Superior copy of this SCARCE work!- Non-fiction-poetry-verse-Newfoundland (927). 1st Edition-1st Printing. Hard Cover. VG++/No Jacket as Issued. Illus. by Frederick H. Varley. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

NY: Atheneum, 1965. First edition, first prnt. Perfect-bound illustrated wraps. Inscribed by Hollander to Allen Ginsberg on the title page. "for Allen with all my love and gratitude for everything John April 1966." Spine ends touched, begining extremity toning on wraps and short notation mark next to one stanza of "Waiting." Tight copy in Very Good condition. Hollander and Ginsberg were students at Columbia and since those days Hollander has acknowledged Ginsberg as his "poetic mentor." The autobiographical poems in this collection include the well-known "Helicon" in which Gisnberg tells Hollander (several times) that he is "searching for 'the true cadence' " as well as where his can get "five dollars a pint,/ No kickback to the interne, either" for blood for walking around money. . Inscribed & Dated by Author. First Edition. Glossy Pictoral Wraps. Very Good/Not Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Association Copy. Read More

Winchester School of Art Press, [1984?]. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Illustrator(s). 1st Edition. First edition, limited to fifty numbered copies (this being #19). A suite of ten loose folding sheets of 250gsm BFK Rives paper, with a poem to each verso and an etching to the adjacent recto, each signed by the artist, and housed in the original folding cloth-covered and blind-lettered portfolio with linen ties. A hint of browning and spotting to the extreme edges of several sheets, else a fine copy of a scarce and very elegant production, which includes signed etchings by noted Irish-Scots artist and Aosdána member William Crozier, and print maker Elaine Shemilt, plus Frances Caynes, Lorraine Dabin, Camilla Edwards, Richard Harvey, James Heward, Sarah James, Ruth O Dell and Andrew Smith. The poets contributing are Fleur Adcock, Alan Brownjohn, Keven Crossley-Holland, Vicki Feaver, Jeremy Hooker, Glyn Hughes, John Mole, Andrew Motion, Judith Nutter and Ted Walker..

The Poetry Bookshop, London, 1920. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. A new revised edition of the author's first book, and the first hardback issue (originally issued in wrappers four years earlier). Slim 8vo. 32pp. Cloth-backed decorated boards featuring a Menin Gate design by Claud Lovat Fraser. Top edge dusty. Endpapers browned. Head and tail of spine and corner tips bumped and a little rubbed. Covers very slightly marked and one binding string to the first gathering snapped. A very good copy in nicked, rubbed and marked, slightly creased, chipped and dusty dust wrapper which repeats the Lovat Fraser design, browned at the spine and at some edges and with the publisher's price sticker to the front panel. Twenty-four poems, divided into two parts: 'Poems Mostly Written at Charterhouse 1910-1914' and 'Poems Written Before La Bassée - 1915'. 1,000 copies were printed. Higginson A1b / Reilly pp 146-7. "When these poems, written between the ages of fourteen and… Read More

NY: William Morrow. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Boards sunned, corners rounded, smudge on front free endpaper, jacket rubbed. 1976. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 9780688030889 . Cloth-backed boards. The acclaimed naturalist author's first book, a collection of poems about the planets and solar system. Many photos and illustrations. Author photo on rear jacket panel. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 159 pages .