Poetry from Grimalkin Books

New York: Faber and Faber, 2009. One of England's most talent young poets, Keith Douglas was killed in Normandy in June, 1944. His poems bear testimony to the carnage around him he witnessed every day. This First American Edition Thus is printed on non-acidic paper that won't yellow. It is bound on violet-covered boards with white spine titles. The book… Read more about this item

New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Henry Holt and Company, 1987. This handsome First Edition, with a Number Line ending in a "1" to indicate First Printing is in Fine condition with a Fine, price-clipped dust jacket. The book is a complilation of Christmas music complemented by full-color artwork from the Metropolitan Museum's vast collection. There are approximately… Read more about this item

London: J.M. Dent & Sons, Ltd./Faber and Faber Ltd., 1957. This First Edition is in Fine condition with a Very Good+ dust jacket. In these letters from one poet, Dylan Thomas (October 27, 1914 - November 9, 1953) to another, Vernon Watkins (June 27, 1906 - October 8, 1967), not only does the story of a close friendship spanning many… Read more about this item

New York: The Free Press, 1969. This Third Printing oversized soft cover from June, 1969, is in Near Fine condition and does not appear to have been read. This is very minimal edge wear and corner curl (as shown in photo). The book features writing from Frederick Douglass, Charles Waddell Chesnutt, Paul Laurence Dunbar, W.E.B.Dubois, James Weldon Johnson, Claude McKay,… Read more about this item

Little, Brown, and Company, 1972. This collection of Ogden Nash's poems, published posthumously, includes many poems that first appeared in various magazines of the period. The book is an oversized paperback in its original wraps (click on photo). The covers show some light rubbing at the spine tips and light foxing. The binding is secure, and the pages are clean,… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1898. This odd volume is Number 13 from a 13-volume set of Thackeray's Works, known as the Biographical Edition. It includes more than 50 illustrations by the author, as well as famous illustrators George Cruikshank (of Dickens fame) and John Leech. Also included is a frontis plate portrait of the author, with tissue guard. This… Read more about this item

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1976. This handsome full-leather volume is in Fine condition and appears unread. It is a Limited First Edition for The First Edition Society of Franklin Library. The book is bound in brown leather with ornate gilt designs and borders on both panels and spine. The spine also has four raised bands and die-stamped gilt… Read more about this item

New York: Horace Liveright, 1930. This First Edition is in Fine condition with a close to Fine unclipped dust jacket. It is a delightful collectible for anyone who enjoys Hoffenstein's highly amusing poetry (and back in 1930, the country desperately needed to be amused. As Carl Van Vechten's final novel noted that same year, the party was over). The dust… Read more about this item

Roslyn, New York: Black's Readers Service Company, 1932. This uniformly bound volume from Black's literary classics is in close to Fine condition, with only minimal shelf wear and usage. (Click on photo.) The book is bound in red cloth with gilt author's name on the front panel and gilt titles against a black background on the spine, with gilt decorative… Read more about this item

New York: Quality Paperback Book Club, 1996. This volume containing Oscar Wilde's complete artistic output was published specifically for Quality Paperback Book Club members. This oversized paperback is in New, unread condition. (Click on photo). In addition to Wilde's writings, the book contains numerous black-and-white illustrations to complement the text. These include both photographs and drawings. The wraps are… Read more about this item

New York: The Universal Libray/Grosset & Dunlap, 1962. This is the enlarged and revised Second Edition (for a book originally published in 1957). For anyone interested in writing or understanding poetry's form and craft, this is the definitive work on the subject. This oversized paperback is in Very Good+ condition, with some edge rubbing. The binding is tight… Read more about this item

New York: Picador USA, 2000. This stated First Edition (and unless it's stated, it's not) is a First Printing, with required "number line" ending in a "1". This definitive biography of the Georgia country boy turned National Book Award-winning poet and bestselling novelist of Deliverance, among other titles, is in New, unread condition, with a New, unclipped dust jacket (click… Read more about this item

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1928. This 1928 volume is in Very Good+ condition (click on photo), without dust jacket. Benet's epic poem of the American Civil War, those who fought in it and those who were left behind, was so popular that a subsequent stage version toured the country for many years. Benet's ability to humanize… Read more about this item

Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Ideals Publishing, 1959. This handsome edition is in close to Fine condition, with minimal edge wear. (Click on photo.) It is filled with poetry and some prose on the issue's topic, scenic wonders, by such authors as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Robert Louis Stevenson, Walt Whitman, Phoebe Cary, Margaret Sangster, etc., as well as illustrations, drawings, and photographs… Read more about this item

Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Ideals Publishing, 1958. This handsome edition is in Very Good condition, with light cover wear. (Click on photo.) It is filled with poetry and some prose on the issue's topic, adventure, by such authors as Frank L. Stanton, Edgar A. Guest, Charles Kinnison, and Joyce Kilmer, as well as illustrations, drawings, and photographs to complement the text.… Read more about this item

Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Ideals Publishing, 1956. This handsome edition is in close to Fine condition, with minimal edge wear. (Click on photo.) It is filled with poetry and some prose on the issue's topic, harvest time and autumn, by such authors as Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Greenleaf Whittier, Charles Kingsley, Alphonse de Lamartine, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Edgar A. Guest,… Read more about this item

Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Ideals Publishing, 1957. This handsome edition is in close to Fine condition, with minimal edge wear. (Click on photo.) It is filled with poetry and some prose on the issue's topic, the meaning and aspects of friendship, by such authors as Edgar A Guest, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, John Burroughs, Margaret Sangster, Oscar Wilde, as well as illustrations,… Read more about this item

Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1873. This handsome edition of the complete poems of Scott is in Very Good condition (click on photo). The book is bound in a forest green cloth with a decorative gilt shield on the front panel and die-stamped gilt spine titles. The book features all-edge gilt and beveled edges. The spine tips show rubbing… Read more about this item

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1913. This handsome edition of The Wine-Press is a sixth printing and is in Very Good+ condition (click on photo). The book is bound in a green ribbed cloth with a gilt border, lettering, and a Pegasus vignette on the front panel, as well as gilt spine lettering. With only minimal shelfwear, this clean,… Read more about this item

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1922. The First Printing of Watchers of the Sky, although complete in itself, is also the first part of a trilogy of books known as The Torch-Bearers. The subject matter deals with scientists in history, such as Copenicus, Galileo, and Newton, whose great discoveries revolutionized the world of thought and changed the lives of… Read more about this item