Search Results: Poetry from AARDWOLF Fine Books

Polonia Publishing House, Warsaw, 1955; First Edition; 8vo, 192 pages; illustrated. Centenary collection of the works of legendary Polish national poet and patriot Adam Mickiewicz (1798-1855), edited and with an introduction by Stanislaw Helsztynski. A wealth of both prose and poetry works, including a synopsis with substantial chapters from "Master Thaddeus," (Pan Tadeusz) plus a collection of informative commentaries on Mickiewicz by a number of his contemporaries. Illustrated with thirteen full-page b&w plates, among them a portrait of Mickiewicz commissioned by Goethe, a portrait of Celina Mickiewicz, the poet’s wife, the monument to the Polish legion in Rome, and the monument to Mickiewicz in Paris. Text in English. Very Good, decorative embossed gray cloth, gilt titles. Clean, crisp, sharp, no ownership signatures or any other markings of any kind.

Imprenta Salesiana, Rome, 1929; First Edition; Signed; 12mo, 159 pages; wraps. Collection of works by Colombian author and poet Luis Maria Mora, (1867-1936) member of the literary/political group known as "La Gruta Simbolica." Preface by influential Colombian author/literary critic Antonio Gomez Restrepo providing an analysis of Mora’s work. Inscribed and signed in year of publication by the author to Antonio Castellanos, early Los Angeles lawyer, political activist, and author. Very Good Plus, in printed wraps. Clean and bright.

Random House, NY, 1956; First Edition; 8vo, 175 pages. Very Good Plus, in a Very Good dust jacket that has some miniscule chipping at the uppermost extremity of the spine panel, not affecting titles or graphics. Clean, crisp, bright, and sharp.

City Lights Books, San Francisco, 1964; First Edition; 12mo, 116 pages; illustrated. Daniel Moore’s first book, with cover art and in-text illustrations by the poet. Moore at a later date came to renounce written poetry and established the "Floating Lotus Magic Opera Company" in San Francisco, which offered free live stage productions to audiences at Berkeley’s Hinkel Park. In 1970, as a result of a meeting with religious leader Abdalqadir as-Sufi, he adopted the religion of Islam, changed his name to Abdal-Hayy, and went to live in North Africa, remaining there twenty years before returning to the United States and taking up residence in Philadelphia, where he resumed the written word. His published works thereafter are considerable. First edition, in wraps, of which only 1,950 copies were printed. A small hardback edition of 50 was issued simultaneously. Near Fine, clean, crisp, and bright. Dazzling psychedelic cover illustration. A beautiful copy.

Farrar Straus Giroux, NY, 1977; First Edition; 8vo, 418 pages. Biography of poet Delmore Schwartz, based on interviews and previously unpublished papers, including Schwartz’s private satires of friends and acquaintances, autobiographical stories, and correspondence with such notables as Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and Paul Goodman. Very Good, in a Very Good price-clipped dust jacket. Small damp stain on lower margin of the front board. Dust jacket back panel blurb by Dwight Macdonald.

Farrar, Straus & Giroux, NY, 1973; First Edition; 8vo, 207 pages. Large body of poems, 370 in all, by rugged individualist Robert Lowell, who twice tried to enlist in the American Armed Forces and was both times rejected, then, when finally called up, had become a conscientious objector. Speaking of him, William Dean Howells once said, "More than any other poet, Robert Lowell is the poet of shock; his effects vary from crudity to magnificence, but they are always surprising and always his own -- his style manages to make even quotations and historical facts a personal possession." Over eighty per cent of the poems are published here for the first time. Fine, in a Very Good Plus dust jacket with minor spine tan. A bright, crisp, and attractive copy.

Frederick A. Stokes Co., NY and London, 1895; First Edition; 458 pages; illustrated; green cloth; gilt titles and decorations; all page edges gilt. Critiques and biographical sketches of the Poets Laureate of England up to and including Tennyson, with multitudinous selections from the works of each, plus nearly fifty b&w illustration plates by Frederick C. Gordon. Beautifully bound in ornately decorated green cloth boards. Fine. Clean, crisp, bright, corners sharp, binding tight and square, gilt edges brilliant. A very handsome copy.

Privately Published, NY, 1847; First Edition; 8vo. (4 3/4" x 7 5/8", 132 pgs.; embossed maroon cloth; gilt titles and decorations; frontispiece engraved portrait plate of the poet, with guard tissue. Biography of American poet Sumner Lincoln Fairfield (1803-1844) who in spite of seemingly endless personal trials went on to publish a large body of prose and poetical works. Authored by the poet’s wife Jane Fairfield (née Frazee). Includes the poet’s last poem, written to his wife days before his death, plus the entire texts of "The Sisters Of Saint Clara, A Tale Of Portugal," "The Hour At Will," and "The Death Scene." Very Good Plus, clean, bright, gilding brilliant, binding tight, sound, and square, brief inscription contemporary with the book on front paste down, foxing of paste downs and blank end papers. An uncommonly nice copy. Sabin 23693.

Viking Press, NY, 1961; First Edition; 8vo, 301 pages; Prussian blue boards, gray cloth spine. Extensive prose and poetry collection of Marianne Moore, once described by T. S. Eliot as "one of the few (writers) who have done the language some service in my lifetime," and who in 1951 had the unique distinction of winning the Pulitzer Prize, The National Book Award, and the Bollingen Prize. Includes, in addition to individual poems, the entirety of the two published collections "Like A Bulwark," and "O To Be A Dragon," numerous selections from "The Fables Of La Fontaine," the complete "Ford Correspondence Letters," several hitherto uncollected poems and essays, and a twenty-three page 1961 personal interview with Donald Hall from the Paris Review. Very Good, clean, crisp, bright, corners sharp, in a VG- dust jacket that has some chipping along the shoulders of the spine panel. Not price-clipped, no previous owner signatures.

Valentine & Sons, Ltd, Edinburgh, circa 1905; 16mo, (2 1/2" x 3 1/8"),186 pages; illustrated; plaid cloth; all page edges gilt; gilt morocco title label. The complete six cantos of Sir Walter Scott’s great narrative poem Marmion, including the closing "L’Envoy to the reader." No printed publication date. Brief inscription on front paste down dated August, 1905, Melrose, Scotland, just a few miles East of Scott’s Abbotsford home. Frontispiece portrait of the author, plus 11 additional illustration plates of Scottish scenes. Beautifully bound in padded Campbell tartan. Fine and handsome. Clean, crisp, bright, all gilt brilliant. A charming miniature.

Hiram Powers Dilworth, Chicago, 1926; First Edition; small 8vo, 58 pages. Moving series of elegiac sonnets dedicated to his parents, by turn of the century Chicago poet Hiram Powers Dilworth. Very Good, in printed wraps.

Alfred A. Knopf / Barclay’s, New York, 1936; First Edition; tall 8vo, 73 pages; blue cloth boards; gilt titles and decorations; frontispiece portrait plate of the author. Selection of forty-eight previously unpublished poems by eminent classicist and poet Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936), released in the year of his death by his brother Laurence in accordance with Alfred’s last instructions to destroy all prose manuscripts, but to select and publish anything he deemed worthy from the verse writing. Thus Laurence Housman begins a ten page preface: "This final selection of A.E. Housman’s poems is published with his permission, not by his wish." Notable among the works chosen for rescue are Poem XLII - "A.J.J." a haunting remembrance of Adalbert A. Jackson, brother of Houseman’s great friend Moses Jackson, and poem XLV, which contains the line appropriated by Arthur C. Clarke for the title of his first novel, "Against The Fall Of Night." Housman’s poems have… Read More

The Macmillan Company, NY, 1915; First Edition; 8vo, 186 pages plus a 4-page Macmillan catalogue at the back; black cloth; gilt spine titles. Collection of 29 poems by Robert Browning and 6 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, uncovered for the first time at the Sotheby’s 1913 sale of the Browning estate and heretofore unpublished but for a very small limited edition for the use of wealthy bibliophiles. Edited by Sir Frederic G. Kenyon, whose 18-page introduction begins with the "melancholy sight" of the Sotheby’s sales room on the day of the auction. Also includes E.B.B.’s criticisms of some of her future husband’s poems, and Robert B.’s answers to questions about some of his own work. Illustrated with two steel engraved portrait plates, one of each poet. Very Good, clean, crisp, corners sharp, binding tight, sound and square. There is a 2 1/4" transparent stain at the upper right corner of the blank rear end paper and paste down. No dust jacket.

Random House, NY, 2002; First Edition; 8vo, 120 pages. Poems by American Poet Laureate Billy Collins. Very Fine, in a Very Fine dust jacket.

Houghton Mifflin, Boston and New York, ca. 1911; 8vo, 409 pages; half leather. The poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson, edited by Edward Emerson, the poet’s brother, with his preface describing the history behind this edition. Includes the entirety of the Riverside Press edition plus additional poems and fragments. ‘The House,’ which appeared in the first volume of "Poems," and ‘Nemesis,’ ‘Una,’ ‘Love and Thought,’ and ‘Merlin’s Songs, from the "May-Day" volume, have been restored, and some of the essays to the "Elements," plus a few poems by Ellen Tucker, the poet’s first wife, have likewise been added. A few poems from the verse books, ‘Insight,’ ‘September,’ ‘October,’ ‘Hymn,’ and ‘Riches’ are printed here for the first time, as well as some twenty early unpublished pieces "not so much for their poetic merit as for the light they shed on the growth of Emerson’s thought and character." Very Good, original leather,… Read More

John Daniel, Santa Barbara, 1988; First Edition; 8vo, 111 pages. Selected poems of notable California poet Hildegarde Flanner (1899-1987), once described by Jeffrey Paine of the San Francisco Chronicle as, "the best unknown writer in America." Flanner first visited California in 1915 as a girl of fifteen, where, inspired by a meeting with Olive Percival, she determined to become a poet. After graduation from U.C. Berkeley and the subsequent Berkeley fire of 1923, she moved to Los Angeles, increasing contact with Percival and becoming a figure in the local art scene. The poems here were assembled personally by Flanner from her entire body of work, with numerous selections from the now scarce "If There Is Time," and "In Native Light," as well as a few from an obscure publication by the Ikura Press in Kobe, Japan entitled "Anthology 81." In Flanner’s preface she holds that, "A serious poet, together with his concern for language, has two notable ambitions:… Read More

Ohio University Press, Chicago, 1981; First Edition; Signed; 8vo, 112 pages. A collection of sixty years of Janet Lewis’s poetry, beginning with "The Freighters," which won her admission to the Poetry Club at the University Of Chicago in 1918. Inscribed and signed in year of publication by the author to personal friends, Los Angeles millionairess and philanthropist Anna Bing Arnold and her husband Aerol. Fine, in a Fine dust jacket. A clean, bright, crisp, and attractive copy.

D. Appleton and Company, NY, 1878; First Edition; 8vo, 501 pages; green cloth; illustrated. Complete collection of Bryant’s poetical works, beautifully illustrated throughout with 100 engravings from drawings by Birket Foster, Harry Fenn, Alfred Fredericks, et. al. Steel engraved frontispiece portrait plate of the author, with guard tissue. Richly bound in beveled boards with lime green cloth illustrated with a delicate botanical theme in gold and maroon. Decorative end papers, page edges gilt. Lengthy foreword by R.H. Stoddard containing a detailed Bryant biography. Very Good Plus. Clean, crisp, bright, corners sharp, binding tight, sound, and square, edge gilding bright. A beautiful book, published the last year of Bryant’s life.

Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York, 1931; First Edition; 8vo, 200 pages; frontispiece portrait sketch, with guard tissue. Selected poems of William Vaughn Moody, with extensive ninety-two page biography at the front. (BAL 14332). Very Good Plus, pages unopened. Clean, crisp, and exceptionally bright, in a Very Good dust jacket with slight spine tan.

Harcourt, Brace and Co., New York, 1960; First Edition; 8vo, 127 pages; illustrated. Carl Sandburg’s personal selection of poems from amongst his many published works which he believed were particularly suited to children, plus sixteen entirely new poems. Illustrations by William A. Smith. Charming rear panel photograph of Sandburg posed with Smith’s young daughter. Very Good Plus, in a Very Good price clipped dust jacket. Clean, bright, and sharp. Previous owner neat name on f.f.e.p.