Search Results: Poetry from Great Expectations Rare Books

New York: Grove Weidenfeld Book. Fine. Soft cover. Later Printing. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Slim trade paperback. 121 pages. Index to First Lines. Evergreen edition, first published 1959, this copy later printing published post 1970 with ISBN. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy. Fine..

New York: Hawthorne Books, 1973. Trade paperback. 50 of Mr. Cunning's most representative poems. Second printing. No previous ownership marks. A very clean, square, unmarked copy, no spine crease. Very good+. . Second Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Providence, RI: Burning Deck, 1977. Softbound, stapled blue wrappers, with wrap-a-round full dust-jacket of the same heavy card stock. Unpaginated. Translations complete with musical scores. One of 500 copies printed on Warren Antique stock. No previous ownership marks. Dust-jacket faded to light brown at spine and along top edge of front cover. Pamphlet in pristine condition. Fine in a near very good dust-jacket. . Limited Edition. Softcover. Fine/Near Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Holt Rinehart & Winston, 1972. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 2nd Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Trade paperback. 514 pages. Introduction by William K. Wimsatt. Second Edition. No previous ownership marks. Light marking to rear cover else a square, clean and unmarked copy. Very good..

Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1869. Original green cloth. Brown coated endpapers. Frontispiece and engraved title. Cloth puckered on boards and spine ends lightly frayed, else a very good copy of the first edition, first issue of this collection of poems. BAL 21874. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

University park, PA: Penn State University Press, 1988. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, wine colored cloth in publisher's burnt orange dust-jacket. 206 pages. Bibliographical References, Index. First edition. Significant underlining in pen, several pages show black marker and marginalia. Else a tight, sound, copy. Good in a fine dust-jacket. .

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1892. First Edition. Original white cloth, illustrated with frontispiece and 8 plates. Cloth quite age soiled, with several stains on rear board. Cloth splitting along outer rear hinge. One plate badly torn. Else a solid, internally clean and sound copy of the first trade edition of the title.. Hardcover. Fair. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Book. Near Very Good. Hardcover. Reprint. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Small hardcover, peach color cloth stamped with colored flower designs on front board, gilt decorated spine, and red and green faux spine labels. 192 pages. Illustrated with frontispiece and several drawings. Reprint, circa 1900. No previous ownership marks. Cloth darkened ar spine and dulled from age. Mild stain to upper fore-edge corner of front cover. A tight, sound copy with strong hinges, clean and unmarked text and age soiled but still attractive binding. Near very good. .

New York: Brentano's, 1906. Small volume bound in gray paper covered boards, with printed paper spine and cover labels. 39pp. printed on rectos only. No namem no book-plate, etc. Front free endpaper excised and slight wear to tips, else a clean, very good+ copy.. Very Good+. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2001. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Large trade paperback in black covers with French Flaps [Gatefold], decorated in silver and gold. i - xxxi, 213 pages. Introduction by translator and a brief "Note on the Names" by Alfred David. Bilingual edition with the original Anglo-Saxon printed on versos and the corresponding English translation on facing rectos. First Norton paperback edition, first printing with full number line. Previous owner's name inside front cover and again on top of first leaf. Winner of the Whitebread Prize. A highly regarded new verse translation of this epic Old English poem, written in England but set in Scandinavia. A like new copy, but for owner's name, clean, square, and unmarked. Near fine. .

Toronto: Thomas Allen, Limited, 1949. Later printing of the slim book of verse by Saskatchewan poet Edna Jaques. Green cloth in original dustjacket. Dustjacket age soiled and moderately worn. Very good in good dustjacket.. Reprint. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Mariner Books, 1973. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Inscribed by Author(s). Third Printing. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Trade paperback red pictorial covers. 75 pages. Inscribed by author on front free end- paper to Lilli [Lillian Lonngren Anders, artist and Professor at Wagner College, Staten Island, NY], signed simple Galway. Illustrated with 10 vignette wood-cuts. Third printing. No previous ownership marks. A lightly read used copy with no marking or writing internally, tight sound covers and no spine crease. Very good. .

Great Britain: Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1995. Trade paperback. 455pp., Index of Poem Titles, Index of First lines. Edited, with an introduction, by Tim Cook. A new copy, mildly warped from storge. Book shows slight wave and is no longer perfectly flat. Unread. A tightly bound, clean copy with all pages firmly attached. Excellent reading copy. Near very good... First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Chicago: BookFellows, 1930. Marbled cloth in pink and rose, sans dust-jacket. Limited edition of six hundred copies. Introduction by George Steele Seymour. Done by the Bookfellows at teh Torch Press, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Containing works in verse by nearly one hundred contributors. Front free endpaper excised. No name, no book-plate, etc. Very good+ copy.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boston: The Bibliophile Society, 1912. Vellum Spine Over Boards. No Jacket. Limited edition of 477 copies, published posthumously by the Bibliophile Society. White vellum spine over tan boards. Endpapers heavily foxed and light sporadic foxoing throughtout as per usual. Illustrated with holographic facsimiles of original manuscript pages. Text untrimmed. Inner slipcase very good, outer sleeve lacking top section and crudely tape repaired. Covers very clean. A good+ copy in poor slipcase.. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: New Directions, 1982. Burgundy cloth in non price-clipped dust=jacket. Jacket shows very mild shelf wear and toning. Fine copy in near very good dust-jacket.. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Glenview, Illinois: Scott Foresman & Company, 1975. Hardcover, blue cloth lettered in gold, no dust-jacket. 1167 pages. Glossary, Bibliography. Second edition, fifth printing. Brief marginalia on a few pages, otherwise text clean and unmarked. Minor scuffing to cloth. A solid and tight copy. Near very good.. Second Edition. Hardcover. Near Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York : Children's Classics, 1985. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Later Printing. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Large format hardcover, quarto size volume bound in white boards, lettered in red on spine, in publisher's dust-jacket. 119 pages. Illustrated with 8 full page color plates and numerous vignette black and white drawings by Jessie Willcox Smith. With a new foreword by Patricia Barrett Perkins. Reprint edition, published by Children's Classics and distributed by Outlet Book Company, Inc., a Random House Company. No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh, and unmarked copy. Very good+ in a very good+ dust-jacket. .

New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1991. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 659 pages. Inscribed by author on front free end- paper to Lilli [Lillian Lonngren Anders, artist and Professor at Wagner College, Staten Island, NY], signed simply Yevgeny. Contains bibliographic data. Edited by Albert C. Todd with the author and James Regan. First edition, first printing with full number line. No previous ownership marks [but for author inscription]. A clean, tight, square and unmarked copy. Very good+ in a very good+ dust-jacket. .

Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1984. Book. As New. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, full genuine forest green leather binding, heavily gilt stamped with elaborate decorations and multiple rules. 199 pages. Index of first lines. All edges gilt. Sewn in silk book-mark, marbled paper end-sheets and smyth sewn book block complete this work as a quality Franklin Library production, "privately printed and bound exclusively for subscribers to The Franklin Library of Pulitzer Prize Classics." Illustrated with drawings by Kevin King. First edition thus. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poety in 1952. No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh, unmarked and as new copy. As new..