Search Results: POETRY from Monroe Bridge Books

NJ: Self Published, 1974 AS NEW CONDITION. 26pp in original stapled stiff wraps. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR inside the cover "To Phil Sosis (poet), from Mal Stein". BERGEN POETS. POETRY.

Somerville, MA: Zephyr Press, 1984 Limited to 1000 Copies. 43pp, [5], bound in stiff paper covers that are slightly age darkend, binding and hinges tight. NO LABELS, INSCRIPTIONS, NOR MARKINGS. From the personal collection of Author and Anthropologist Elizabeth Marshall Thomas. POETRY

New York: Children's Press / A Division of Scholastic Inc., 2001 Oblong format, 48pp, printed on fine glossy paper, binding and hinges tight, color illustrations throughout. NO LABELS, INSCRIPTIONS, NOR MARKINGS. CHILDREN'S & JUVENILE POETRY.

Santa Fe, New Mexico: Sherman Asher Publishing, 1998 174pp, bound in stiff paper covers, with binding and hinges tight. NO LABELS, INSCRIPTIONS, NOR MARKINGS. From the personal collection of Author and Anthropologist Elizabeth Marshall Thomas. POETRY.

Oxford: Horace Hart, Printer to the University, 1908 15pp, printed on laid paper, bound in half cloth and paper over boards, gilt on front cover still bright. On the front free endpaper "To Dr. [so and so] / with the sincere regards of the writer / Feb. 6, 1909" can't make out the Dr's name as the above was crossed out. Written below it is " To Libbie / from / Prudy". Small insect hole on upper edge of pages, not affecting the text.

Jamaica, Vermont: Bull Thistle Press, 1990 circa 1990. Includes *Borderlands by Cathy Young Czapla, from Samisdat No. 117, 1990 [a poem] *Image From the Back by Yun Wang *Lincoln Reconsidered by David Donald *New Champion Press [2] *Along with others. The envelope flap is folded and glued, with darkening. Three of the cards show edge darkening. In a protective mylar sleeve.

New York: Printed for Belle Skinner By the Scribner Press, 1921 Printed December 1921, and limited to 225 copies, with a penciled number 31 on the front free endpaper. [8], 83pp, printed on laid paper, bound in half cloth with gilt decorated paper over boards [gilt still bright], with binding and hinges tight. The top edges are gilt, with deckled page edges, slight darkening to endpapers. The slipcase is covered in marbled paper, showing light edge wear. Written by the musicologist and father of Pete Seeger. The Chateau de Hattonchatel is a medieval castle in France, that was destroyed in WWI. It was entirely reconstructed in 1923-1928 by Henri Jacquelin, being financed by the American benefactor Belle Skinner.

New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1962 This FIRST THUS softcover is in NEAR FINE CONDITION, with slight age darkening to covers. 180pp bound in original stiff wraps with contents covering the Poetry of the Ballads, Music of the Ballads, History, Folklore, Ballads & Literature, and more. TIGHT, CLEAN COPY.

London: Charles Tilt, 1838 This MINIATURE hard cover, is in GOOD ++ CONDITION. 112pp with 8pp of publisher ads, bound in brown decorative cloth with gilt lettering & design on spine, with all edges gilt, and engraved frontis. Corners bumped, top/bottom of spine covering missing with cracked gutters, front hinge cracked, inscription of ffp, with BINDING STRONG AND TIGHT. Tilt's Miniature Classical Library - Scott's Minor Poems.

Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo, 1867 Circa 1867. Extra Chromo-Lithograph title, viii, 472pp, 16pp of advertising, illustrated, bound in a decorative green cloth binding, decorative spine, beveled edges, all edges gilt, brown endpapers, binding tight. Embossed mark on endpaper reads "W. H. Smith & Son, Strand / London" [established in 1792], Signature of Betty B. Hoskins (1936-2015) Author and Bioethicist. In the margin of the last page of advertising reads "Victor Neuberg Library, Mrs. R.E.S. Macleod, 8.62". Victor Neuberg (1883-1940) was a poet, editor and initiate of Aleister Crowley. Upper edge of spine split, pages age darkened. No musical notation. Decorative title reads "Nimmo's Popular Poets".

Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1900 IN NEAR FINE CONDITION. Bound in gray, laid paper, with single silk thread. In a protective mylar sleeve. Includes "In the Shadows" a poem in sonnets by David Gray - a Scottish poet.

Self Published This soft cover, stapled booklet, is in NEAR FINE CONDITION. The staples show rust, with inscription inside front cover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR. Poetry with illustrations throughout.

Honolulu: Self Published, 1915 No date, Circa 1915. [2], 126pp, [4], with original advertising pamphlet mounted in back, bound in half silk and tapa cloth. Foxing to covers, front hinge cracked, occasional pencil notation/mark.

NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1920 IN GOOD ++ CONDITION. x, [2] 99pp, in original rose cloth, with binding and hinges tight. Corners bumped, spine sunned, foxing on prelims, with ownership name in pencil on ffp. WAR POETRY.

Edinburgh: H. & J. Pillans & Wilson, Printers, 1925 Circa 1925. Frontis-piece, viii, 127pp, printed on laid paper, bound in decorative blue cloth, with binding and hinges tight. The frontis-piece shows the author in full Scottish regalia. Poems / verse about bagpipes, golf, historical events, military men, locations and women. The front cover shows lightly bumped corners, pencil inscription inside front cover, THE AUTHOR SIGNED THE FRONTIS-PIECE IN PEN, foxing on rear endpaper.

Ideal Printing, 1976 In Good ++ Condirition. INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Stapled booklet of poetry, unpaginated, containing 20 poems. Slight age darkening to covers.

New York: Self Published, 2005 Unpaginated, printed on heavy stock, with colorful collages and poetry throughout, black plastic comb binding. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR "To Hazel / All the / best, / Ann McGovern / November 26, / 2007". A unique book indeed.

Possibly - New Haven, Connecticut: No Publisher Mentioned, 1890 First and only Edition. Circa 1890-1910. Unpaginated, with 16 leaves, printed on what appears to be handmade paper, bound by F. J. B. & Co. Bindery, May 1918 in blue cloth with the gilt on the spine still bright. This was originally printed as a soft cover book, and this copy was encased within hardcovers for added protection, retaining the original front and back covers. Satirical Rhymes and Humorous Verse about life at Yale University, with illustrations. Gouverneur Morris (1752-1816) played an important role in the American Revolution, wrote the Preamble to the Constitution, and was the American Minister to France during the height of the French Revolution. He graduated from Yale University, where he wrote for the campus humor magazine The Yale Record. NO LABELS, INSCRIPTIONS, NOR MARKINGS,

Hamilton, Ontario, Canada: Wolsak & Wynn, 2017 Inscribed by the Author on the title page "For Liz Thomas & Family, / with the greatest gratitude / for all your / inspiring work! / Jonarno". From the personal collection of Author and Anthropologist Elizabeth Marshall Thomas. 319pp, bound in stiff glossy paper covers, with binding and hibges tight. Includes an Errata, and the author's return address stapled to the front cover. POETRY, GAMES, FINGER RHYMES, PLAY FROM AROUND THE WORLD.

Des Moines [Iowa]: Self Published, 1930 Author's first book of poetry. SCARCE, only one copy listed in OCLC. 57pp, printed on watermarked laid paper, bound in half cloth and marbled paper, with binding and hinges tight. Inscribed on the front free endpaper. "Mr. Braun: / The feather in your / cap can be that most / of this was done on your / time ! Merry Christmas ! / Mary Caspe". "Miss Caspe is the private secretary of Mr. Braun, who is Iowa manager of the Marshall Hughes Company. Between dictation and typing of letters, she tapped out her verse without saying much about it to Mr. Braun" as the news article laid-in states. Offsetting in two locations from the news articles laid-in.