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New York City: New Amsterdam Book Company. Very Good+. 1901. Limited/Numbered Edition. Hardcover. Handsome limited Edition #21/60. Clean brown cloth, Brown leather corners & spine decorated with gilt. Text tight, clean, intact & printed on deckle-edge paper. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. 10 illustrations on plate paper colored by hand. Poetry ; Hand-painted; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 134 pages .
PARADISE REGAINED A POEM IN FOUR BOOKS TO WHICH IS ADDED SAMSON AGONISTES & POEMS UPON SEVERAL OCCASIONS WITH A TRACTATE OF EDUCATION by Milton, John (1608-1764) - 1727
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PARADISE REGAINED A POEM IN FOUR BOOKS TO WHICH IS ADDED SAMSON AGONISTES & POEMS UPON SEVERAL OCCASIONS WITH A TRACTATE OF EDUCATION
by Milton, John (1608-1764)
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London: Jacob Tonson. Good+. 1727. 7th Edition, Corrected. Hardcover. Bound in 3/4 brown calf over marbled boards with matching marbled endpapers. 4 spine bands with gilt lines & lettering. Inner hinges & text tight & intact. Illustrated with engraved frontipiece & several vignettes. Edges & corners lightly rubbed. Tiny piece missing from edge of spine heel & 1/2" split at front upper hinge. First 20 & last 2 leaves foxed: the rest of text has light age toning but little foxing . Poetry, Religion. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 504 pages .
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- Place of Publication London
- Date Published 1727
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THE ODES OF ANACREON (1901, LIMITED & NUMBERED EDITION) Translated by Thomas Stanley
by Anacreon
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POETRY OF THE YEAR PASSAGES FROM THE POETS
by Various Contributors
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London: George Bell & Sons. Very Good+. 1854. Hardcover. Handsomely bound. Red leather spine has raised bands, gilt decorations & title with leather protected front corners over marbled boards & matching marbled endpapers. All edges bright gilt. (viii) , 102pp. Contributors: Milton, Cowper, Coleridge, Shakespeare, Keats, Wordsworth, Longfellow, Tennyson. Twenty-two coloured illustrations from drawings by Barker, Weigall, Foster, Davidson, Weir, Cox, Duncan, Wolf, Muller & Hemsley, et al. Text tight, clean & intact. Poetry; Color Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 102 pages .
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OEUVRES DE GRESSET (3 VOLUMES)
by De Gresset
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Paris: Bleuet Jeune. Very Good. 1805. Nouvelle Edition. Hardcover. Nouvelle edition. Introduction by Franz Joseph Marie de Fayolle.3 volumes in original paper covered binding. Texts tight, clean & intact. A few lightly foxed pages. Uncut pages. All spine labels intact. Vol. #1 (xlv, 242pp, 2) decorated with a portrait of the author engraved intaglio by Augustin de Saint-Aubin after Nattier and 5 full page plates by Moreau the Younger engraved on copper by Simonet, Dupréel and Duhamel. There is a double set of engravings: the first leaf in black & white followed by a duplicate leaf that has been hand colored for a total of 12 engravings. Vol. #2 (4, 243-599). Vol. #3 (4, 269, 1). Poetry, Drama; Hand colored Plates; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 778 pages .
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THE CALIFORNIA POETRY FOLIOS PART ONE THROUGH TWELVE
by Gelett Burgess Et. Al.
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San Francisco: Book Club of California. Near Fine. 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 750 copies. First edition of poems by Burgess, Coblentz, Irwin, Taggard, Welch, Miles, Lewis, Winters, Rukeyser, Flanner, Weeks and Jeffers. Printed by various California printers. Twelve folded leaves housed in a near fine folder and slipcase. Clean blue cloth, with raised bands on leather spine. Poetry; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall .
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THE COURTSHIP OF MILES STANDISH AND OTHER POEMS
by Longfellow, H. W.
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London: W. Kent & Co.. Very Good+. 1858. First Edition. Hardcover. True first edition, preface and advertisements are dated 1858. Bound in clean purple embossed cloth with bright gilt title on spine. (xii) 227pp + 40pp of W. Kent & Co's Annual Catalogue. Pictorial frontispiece. Very nice copy, Historical Poetry, Poetry ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 227 pages .
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THE ODES OF ANACREON (1901, LIMITED & NUMBERED EDITION) Translated by Thomas Stanley
by Anacreon
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New York City: New Amsterdam Book Company. Very Good+. 1901. Limited/Numbered Edition. Hardcover. Handsome limited Edition #21/60. Clean brown cloth, Brown leather corners & spine decorated with gilt. Text tight, clean, intact & printed on deckle-edge paper. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. 10 illustrations on plate paper colored by hand. Poetry ; Hand-painted; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 134 pages .
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POETRY OF THE YEAR PASSAGES FROM THE POETS
by Various Contributors
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London: George Bell & Sons. Very Good+. 1854. Hardcover. Handsomely bound. Red leather spine has raised bands, gilt decorations & title with leather protected front corners over marbled boards & matching marbled endpapers. All edges bright gilt. (viii) , 102pp. Contributors: Milton, Cowper, Coleridge, Shakespeare, Keats, Wordsworth, Longfellow, Tennyson. Twenty-two coloured illustrations from drawings by Barker, Weigall, Foster, Davidson, Weir, Cox, Duncan, Wolf, Muller & Hemsley, et al. Text tight, clean & intact. Poetry; Color Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 102 pages .
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OEUVRES DE GRESSET (3 VOLUMES)
by De Gresset
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Paris: Bleuet Jeune. Very Good. 1805. Nouvelle Edition. Hardcover. Nouvelle edition. Introduction by Franz Joseph Marie de Fayolle.3 volumes in original paper covered binding. Texts tight, clean & intact. A few lightly foxed pages. Uncut pages. All spine labels intact. Vol. #1 (xlv, 242pp, 2) decorated with a portrait of the author engraved intaglio by Augustin de Saint-Aubin after Nattier and 5 full page plates by Moreau the Younger engraved on copper by Simonet, Dupréel and Duhamel. There is a double set of engravings: the first leaf in black & white followed by a duplicate leaf that has been hand colored for a total of 12 engravings. Vol. #2 (4, 243-599). Vol. #3 (4, 269, 1). Poetry, Drama; Hand colored Plates; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 778 pages .
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THE CALIFORNIA POETRY FOLIOS PART ONE THROUGH TWELVE
by Gelett Burgess Et. Al.
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San Francisco: Book Club of California. Near Fine. 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 750 copies. First edition of poems by Burgess, Coblentz, Irwin, Taggard, Welch, Miles, Lewis, Winters, Rukeyser, Flanner, Weeks and Jeffers. Printed by various California printers. Twelve folded leaves housed in a near fine folder and slipcase. Clean blue cloth, with raised bands on leather spine. Poetry; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall .
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THE COURTSHIP OF MILES STANDISH AND OTHER POEMS
by Longfellow, H. W.
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London: W. Kent & Co.. Very Good+. 1858. First Edition. Hardcover. True first edition, preface and advertisements are dated 1858. Bound in clean purple embossed cloth with bright gilt title on spine. (xii) 227pp + 40pp of W. Kent & Co's Annual Catalogue. Pictorial frontispiece. Very nice copy, Historical Poetry, Poetry ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 227 pages .
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Immortal Prairie (INSCRIBED) (FIRST)
by Ransom, James H
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2015 - Stated First Edition - Limited Edition - INSCRIBED by author on the title-page "Fran Marie, Friend for many years," - "Unlike the tradition of most books of poetry, Ransom includes photos and paintings." - book: near fine - tight, sound, and square - pages are clean and unmarked - dj: near fine
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Shoemakers Best Selections Number 5 For Readings and Recitations
by Shoemaker, J. W
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- 1906
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Rare original poetry book with cloth covered boards, copyright 1880 by J. W. Shoemaker & Co. This edition published in 1906 by the Penn Publishing company, Philadelphia. From the estate of my great-great grandfather.Includes many unique poems and recitations such as "To a skull", "Uncle Daniel's Introduction to a Mississippi Steamer", "The Leak in the Dyke", etc. More well-known poetry includes "Song of Birds", "Old Ironsides", and "Bannock Burn" by Robbie Burns. Light rubbing and bumps to outside spine edges. Back cover and interior cloth covered board has a stain at top. Original owner's name and address from 1908, but no other writing or marks. First 2 pages have a stain at top, but text of 192 pages of poetry and recitations is totally clean with light tanning of pages.
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Just God And Me
by Mary Frances Reyes
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Comet Press Books, New York, 1956, Fine Hardcover / no dustjacket, 56 pages, 5.5" x 8.25". Inscribed by author on ffep.
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A Ballet of Lepers: A Novel and Stories
by Cohen, Leonard
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New York, Grove Press, 2022, trade paperback, 272 pp, Advance Uncorrected Proof (ARC), New. Straight, tight and clean with no wear or markings in bright, pictorial card covers, no dustjacket as issued. The pieces in this collection, written between 1956 and 1961 and including short fiction, a radio play, and a stunning early novel, offer startling insights into Cohens imagination and creative process. Cohen explores themes that would permeate his later work, from shame and unworthiness to sexual desire in all its sacred and profane dimensions to longing, whether for love, family, freedom, or transcendence. ISBN 9780802160478
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Quartering
by Reza, Seema
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Trumansburg, NY: Out of Step Press. Fine with no dust jacket. 2016. Numbered Edition; First Printing. Pamphlet. The author's non-linear poem about the billeting of soldiers in civilian homes in wartime. Copy 89 of a limited edition of 250. Folded into the form of a letter, the work was letterpress printed in wraps of handmade "combat paper" made from military uniforms. The author says: "Some time ago-maybe a year, maybe two? I had a conversation with some of my Combat Paper brothers (well, the kids call them their combat paper uncles, so it follows
) that led to me writing the poem "Quartering." Which was informed by them, of course, and by all the rooms I'm in, and by imagining what is really required of all the caregivers I love. It's a thought experiment: if we tore down the barracks at military hospitals and offered incentives for Americans in the surrounding neighborhoods to quarter injured service members, what would the honest instructions…
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Fan poems
by Tom Clark
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- 9780913028452
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- 0913028452
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Plainfield: North Atlantic Books, 1976. First Edition, 8vo. [60pp], no pagination. Softcover, pictorial wraps. Very good condition, faint creasing, slight rubbing, top corner bumped and back cover small stain. This project was partially supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington, D.C., a federal agency. Please see photos for specifics. A portion of all book sales from Babcock & 68th are donated to charity.
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Pantone 125
by Lee, Madeleine
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- 9789810728496
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- 9810728492
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Singapore: Math Paper Press. Very Good. 2012. First Edition. Softcover. 9810728492 . Printed white wrappers, show moderate soil; light vertical crease front cover. Two Poem anthology, arising from the accidental advocacy of one poet, coming off the back of her love for walking about in the less beaten paths in Singapore. In a series of chapbooks borne of the Babette's Feast public gathering of writers.; 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall .
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Melodie d'Infinito; Rime e Canti dei Chiarori Stellari.
by Sparito, Giosue [Enrico Fagone]
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Palermo Edizioni Arte e Pensiero, 1947, paperback. Poetry, text in ITALIAN. SIGNED, inscribed by Giosue Sparito (pseudonym of Enrico Fagone). 123 pages. Softcover. Good used condition: binding unglued from spine, covers edgeworn, page margins tanned.
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THE WATER POEM AND OTHERS
by Friedberg, Martha
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Winnetka, IL: Vixen Press, 1985. First Edition. Pictorial Paper Covers. Fine. 20pp, colophon; six colored wood engravings by Caryl Seidenberg. 9.5" x 6.5" This is #222 of 250 copies only, set in Centaur and Arrighi types and printed by hand on dampened Rives heavyweight. Signed under the colophon by Seidenberg and by Friedberg.
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Dreamer's Den
by Alsup, Byron K
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- 9780682486231
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NY: Exposition Press, 1976. Burgundy leatherette boards, bright gilt lettering. Pages [63] clean, unmarked, binding tight and square. Semi-transparent waxpaper dust jacket, appears to be original; in new archival mylar, age discoloration at edges and spine, some edge wear, small bit missing. The author graduated Kennett (Missouri) High School in 1973. Copy of newspaper [DDD] article about the KHS reunion on Jan 18, 2004 laid in. Now also available is a signed copy, same condition but without the transparent dust jacket. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every book listed is located in my smoke free and climate controlled shop. All are inspected by me and will have qualities and/or flaws described. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Good+.
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