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London: Gerald Duckworth Co. Ltd.. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Owner signature (N. M. Darling) and . date on front free endpaper, jacket and several pages lightly soiled.. 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Red cloth binding. Acton was a vibrant member of the Aesthetic movement and a pal of Evelyn Waugh, Nancy Mitford, Brian Howard, Lady Cunard and many others. An Indian Ass is the author's second book, and second book of poems, published while he was still a student at Oxford. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 80 pages .
Three Russian Poets: Selections from Pushkin, Lermontov, and Tyutchev by Nabokov, Vladimir - 1944
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Three Russian Poets: Selections from Pushkin, Lermontov, and Tyutchev
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NY: New Directions. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket toned, boards rubbed.. 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Translated from the Russian by Vladimir Nabokov. Gray paper-covered boards lettered in brown. Exceptionally clean and bright copy of this title. Juliar A23. Housed in protective hardcover chemise. The Poets of the Year; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 38 pages .
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An Indian Ass
by Acton, Harold
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The Chestnut Tree or a Sketch of Brattleborough [ East Village ] At the Close of the Twentieth Century: Being an Address to a Horse Chestnut
by Tyler, Royall
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[North Montpelier, VT]: The Driftwind Press. Very Good; Wraps soiled.. 1931. First Edition. Softcover. One of 250 copies. Yellow printed wraps. Introduction by Walter John Coates. Tyler was a Harvard lawyer noted for helping to suppress Shay's Rebellion, who later moved to Vermont, eventually becoming a law professor and Chief Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court. He also wrote poems and plays, including "The Contrast", in 1787, which is noted by The Oxford Companion to American Literature as being the second play and the first comedy to be written by an American author. "The Chestnut Tree" is a longish poem foretelling a more industrialized New England and America. This 1824 poem was believed lost until a handwritten copy was found among a descendant's papers. BAL 20752. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 44 pages .
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They Rise Accusing
by Robertson, Clyde; [Robertson, Margaret Clyde]
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NY: Henry Harrison. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards lightly rubbed and sunned.. 1930. First Printing. Hardcover. Blue cloth with red topstain. A scarce collection of poetry by author Margaret Clyde Robertson, using her pen name. Robertson was an opera singer and writer, who served as Colorado's Poet Laureate. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 64 pages .
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Salem, OR: Printed for Charles Seluzicki Fine Books. Very Good; Spine faintly sunned.. 1982. Softcover. 0931356059 . Printed by Christine Bertelson at the Rara Avis Press, in Riverside, CA. 1/200 copies. Signed by Merrill on the colophon page. Sewn, illustrated stiff gray wrappers. Printed in gray and red on laid paper. Measures 10 x 6.5 inches. Eight of Merrills poems adorned with images of ancient Trojan funeral masks. ; [20] pages .
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The Planets: A Cosmic Pastoral
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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 .
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The Answering Voice: One Hundred Love Lyrics by Women
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket tattered and chipped with internal . tape repairs.. 1917. Later Printing. Hardcover. Red cloth with titles stamped in gilt on front boards and spine. Publisher's logo stamped in gilt on front boards and top edges gilt. xxi, 131 pp. Index of first lines, index of authors. Includes love poetry by such women authors as Christina Rossetti, Amy Lowell, Alice Meynell, Emily Dickinson, Willa Cather, and Edna St. Vincent Millay. Scarce in jacket. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .
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The Dead Doll and Other Verses
by Vandergrift, Margaret; [Janvier, Margaret Thomson]
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Boston: Ticknor and Company. Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn, light foxing and finger soiling . throughout, light play to the hinges, half of rear free endpaper torn away.. 1889. Hardcover. Green cloth with designs stamped in black and gilt on front boards and spine. 169 pp + xiv pp illustrated publishers catalogue at rear. Many engravings by various artists. Floral patterned endpapers. Gift inscription by the author on the front flyleaf using her legal name, rather than her pseudonym, and dated Christmas, 1888. A compilation of the authors poems for children, many of which were culled from the pages of such Victorian childrens magazines as St. Nicholas, Harpers Young People, The Youths Companion, and Wide Awake. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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Selected Poems 1928-1958
by Kunitz, Stanley
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Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Boards rounded, jacket lightly soiled and edgeworn. 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Orange cloth titled in white on spine. Review copy with publisher's slip and two-page stapled letter laid in. The late US Poet Laureate's third poetry collection and winner of the 1959 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 116 pages .
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Salem, OR: Printed for Charles Seluzicki Fine Books. Very Good; Spine faintly sunned.. 1982. Softcover. 0931356059 . Printed by Christine Bertelson at the Rara Avis Press, in Riverside, CA. 1/200 copies. Signed by Merrill on the colophon page. Sewn, illustrated stiff gray wrappers. Printed in gray and red on laid paper. Measures 10 x 6.5 inches. Eight of Merrills poems adorned with images of ancient Trojan funeral masks. ; [20] pages .
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Guianese Poetry: (Covering the Hundred Years Period 1831-1931)
by Cameron, N. E. (editor)
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Georgetown, British Guiana: The Argosy Company Limited. Good with no dust jacket; Boards bubbled and chipped, edges rubbed. 1931. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0811529738 . Paper covered boards quarter-bound in brown cloth. Index. A lovely copy of this poetry collection complete with an introductory essay. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 186 pages .
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Three Russian Poets: Selections from Pushkin, Lermontov and Tyutchev in New Translations by Vladimir Nabokov
by Vladimir Nabokov
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Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1944. hardcover, first edition, variant b with dj affixed to boards without flaps., owner signature, place and date to front free endpaper. front pastedown has international bookfinders label at bottom margin. exterior shows rubbing and shallow wear. binding is intact. 40pp.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Three Russian Poets: Selections from Pushkin, Lermontov and Tyutchev
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Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1944. 37 pp. Gray boards, toned around edges of front board and more heavily toned on back board, with a rectangular segment of the original color visible on the back board, where it was blocked from the sun. Brown lettering on front board. The spine is split, as is common in this edition; there is minor wear the corners. The binding is intact. There is no dust jacket. Interior pages fare far better than the exterior: No markings, some fading and toning. Translated by Vladimir Nabokov.. First Edition. Hardcover. Good-. Octavo.
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Three Russian Poets: Selections from Pushkin, Lermontov and Tyutchev
by NABOKOV, Vladimir (translator)
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Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1944. Jacket clipped and lightly soiled, small areas of spine split as usual, but a far better example than most. 8vo. Original grey printed boards; printed dust jacket. First edition of a fragile early New Directions title.
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Three Russian Poets: Selections from Pushkin, Lermontov and Tyutchev.
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New York: New Directions Books, 1944. First edition this collection of Nabokov's translations of the major Russian poets. Octavo, original boards. In near fine condition. Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov's first writings were in Russian, but he achieved his greatest fame with the novels he wrote in the English language. As a trilinqual master, Nabokov not only translated many his own early works into English, but expertly translated the works of many Russia's most important poets and novelists including Alexander Pushkin and Fyodor Tyutchev.
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Three Russian Poets: Selections from Pushkin, Lermontov and Tyutchev.
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New York: New Directions Books, 1944. First edition this collection of Nabokov's translations of the major Russian poets. Octavo, original wrappers. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov's first writings were in Russian, but he achieved his greatest fame with the novels he wrote in the English language. As a trilinqual master, Nabokov not only translated many his own early works into English, but expertly translated the works of many Russia's most important poets and novelists including Alexander Pushkin and Fyodor Tyutchev.
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Immortal Prairie (INSCRIBED) (FIRST)
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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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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
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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
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Fan poems
by Tom Clark
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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
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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
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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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