Search Results: Poetry from Mainly Books

Philadelphia: Julia L. Walker. Near Fine. 1899. Hardcover. Hardcover, no dustjacket, beautiful copy of the original edtion, dark blue cloth binding with ornate bright gold titles, two corner-creased pages, and mild page-tanning are the only remarkable flaws, 1898 date on copyright page, 1899 date in Roman Numerals on title page, 134 pages, an anthology of poetry related to the American Revolution .

London: George Routledge & Sons. Very Good+. 1934. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover first printing, no dustjacket, red cloth with gold spine-title, 197 pages, a few minor flaws to this clean, attractive copy: pages 11-20 have a short edge-crease at the top, small bumps to the bottom corners, top edge of spine a bit soft .

Belknap Press of Havard University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1971. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0674008782 . Hardcover with dustjacket, has several pages of pencil underlining, no other remarkable book flaws, jacket is price-clipped and has a few short edge-tears, the jacket is clean and a professional (removable) mylar cover is included; 538 pages .

United States Book Company. Near Fine. 1892. 1st US Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover, no dustjacket, full cloth binding, top edge gilt, illustrated throughout, first American printing, looks nearly new, has slight tanning to the outer page-edge and the former owner's name on the front end-paper, very clean inside and out, gilt title nice and bright .

Portland: Sanborn & Carter. Very Good. 1852. 4th Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover, no dustjacket, red cloth binding with bright gold illustration of a house on the front cover, gold decoration and title on spine, illustration in blind on rear cover, 251 pages, "A series of poems illustrative of American scenery, and of the associations, feelings, and employments of the American cottager and farmer," includes four illustrations with protective tissue-guards, has a small area of wear to the cloth on the back cover, foxing to the frontis illustration and the beautiful illustration on the title page, this flaw is pretty much confined to the margins, except for some foxing to the tissue guards the remaining contents are in nice shape .

New York: MacMillan. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1941. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover with dustjacket, first printing as stated on copyright page, signed by the author at the bottom of the first blank end-paper, the green cloth spine is slightly faded, mild edge-wear to the corners, tanning along the hinges of the blank front and rear end-papers, the book is clean and presentable, the jacket is also clean and attractive, one shallow edge-chip at the top of the front panel and moderate edge-wear to the corner-tips are the only remarkablle flaws, and a professional (removable) mylar cover is included, Pleasing to the eye! ; Signed by Author .

New York: Kilkenny Press. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket. 1986. Hardcover. 0517625393 . Hardcover with dustjacket, book and jacket are clean and presentable with no significant flaws and a professional (removable) mylar cover is included, edited by poet and folklorist Padraic Colum, 429 pages .

Princeton University Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1975. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0691062854 . Hardcover with dustjacket, the only flaw to this fine copy is some mild rubbing to the glossy jacket and a professional (removable) mylar cover is included, includes parallel bil-lingual English/Danish text ; 142 pages .

Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2000. Hardcover. 0374111197 . Hardcover with dustjacket, first bilingual printing as stated on copyright page, book and jacket are in excellent condition, some very mild rubbing to the jacket is the only flaw, the original price is present and a professional (removable) mylar cover is included, "Winner of the Whitbread Award" sticker is present on the front panel, copies of reviews of the book are included with this copy; ; 256 pages .

New York: Columbia University Press. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1953. 4th Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover with the original wax paper dustjacket, book looks new, no remarkable flaws, jacket has moderate tanning on the spine and edges and a few tiny edge-tears, a clean, attractive copy which includes the texts of both poems, notes on both poems, an introduction and a bibliograohy ; 289 pages .

New York: Penguin Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2014. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 1594204799 . Hardcover with dustjacket, first printing as indicated by the publisher's "1" in the number line on copyright page, book is in excellent condition, no remarkable flaws, jacket has some mild rubbing and a small area of tiny white spots at the top of the front panel, the jacket is clean and presentable, the original price is present and a professional (removable) mylar cover is included; ; 79 pages .

Boston: Beacon Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2004. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0807068829 . Hardcover with dustjacket, first printing as indicated by the publisher's "1" in the number line on copyright page, book is in excellent condition with one minor flaw: a mild scuff-mark on the back cover, jacket is clean and attractive with a light touch of rubbing on the front panel and no other flaws, the original price is present and a professional (removable) mylar cover is included, these poems capture the "mysterious spell of flowers and plants of all sorts and their magnetic hold on us" .

England: Collins / Fontana Books. Very Good. 1971. Paperback. Pocket-size paperback, British edition of this "anthology of the illuminations in prose and verse that have prevented the world from going wholly dark over the centuries," moderate tanning to the pages, tight binding, fine contents .

New York, NY: Collectors Reprints, Inc.. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1992. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Issued as a 2-volume set, hardcovers with dustjackets, these are high quality facsimiles of the original publications which were issued in 1915 and 1916. Limited edition of two thousand five hundred copies printed on acid-free paper at the Stinehour Press in Lunenberg, Vermont. The letterpress plates have been made directly from a copy of the first issue of the first edition of these works, these are fine gift copies, the books are flawless and the jackets are in excellent condition with no remarkable flaws .

Philadelphia: Biddle Press. Very Good. 1910. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover, no dustjacket, illustrated, the green cloth has several small tan stains on the front cover, the binding is tight, the contents are fine, and there are no other remarkable flaws; 229 pages .

New York: Simon & Schuster. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1948. Hardcover. Hardcover with dustjacket, the Inner Sanctum Edition, "A new modern English prose translation by R. M. Lumiansky, published together with the original Middle English text of the General Prologue and the Nun's Priest's Tale. Preface by Mark Van Doren. Colorfully illustrated by H. Lawrence Hoffman." Beige cloth spine and aqua illustrated covers, color-illustrated end-papers and full-page color illustrations in the text along with black and white vignettes, the bottom edge of the book is rubbed and moderate edge-wear is present at the corners, the binding is clean and tight and the contents are fine, the jacket has a few edge-chips and tears but is clean and presentable, the original price (2.95) is present and a professional (removable) mylar cover is included .

University of Missouri Press. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1984. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0826204473 . Hardcover first printing with dustjacket, inscribed and signed by the author: "For the Captain, from the Colonel. With fond regard, Robert T. Fallon." Book is in excellent condition, no remarkable flaws, jacket is sunned to a slightly lighter shade on the spine, else excellent condition and a professional (removable) mylar cover is included, "Fallon argues, Milton was a skilled master of martial narrative who used military figures for a serious artistic purpose: as an extended metaphor to examine and define the complex nature of evil" ; ; 272 pages; Signed by Author .

Florence, Kentucky: Robert L. Barth. Fine. 1988. Limited Edition. Paperback. 094115064X . Poetry collection, 18 pages, stapled wraps, as new condition, "Two hundred signed and numbered copies of this edition have been published. Twenty-five are lettered A to AA by the author and are not for sale. One hundred seventy five are signed and numbered by the author for sale." This copy is signed and lettered "W" by the author; Signed by Author .

Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library. Near Fine. 1977. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Genuine dark blue leather binding with bright gold decoration, all edges gilt, four raised spine-bands, ribbon bookmark and a nice color self-portrait frontis of the author, publisher's "100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature Limited Edtion," this fine gift copy has one minor flaw: the purple silk moire end-papers are sunned to a pinkish shade at the edges .

New York: The MacMillan Company. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1937. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover with dustjacket, first printing of this scarce publication as stated on copyright page and features a frontis photograph of the poet, book has mild tanning to the spine and edge of the green cloth, tanning to the blank end-papers, outer page-edge, and a portion of page 93, an ownership inscription is present on the front end-paper and there is a very mild lean to the spine, all of these flaws are minor, the book remains clean and presentable, the binding is tight and the contents are in nice shape, the jacket has a 1-inch chunk missing from the top of the rear panel and a few smaller edge-chips, moderate tanning to the spine and folds, the jacket is clean, the original price (2.50) is present and a professional (removable) mylar cover is included, "Now, for the first time, her poems, previously scattered through eight books, are brought together in one volume" .