Search Results: Poetry from Twin City Antiquarian Books

New York: Random House, 1947 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Green cloth, gilt on maroon titles on spine, [v], 138 pp. Slight shelf wear. Shipping weight 1 lb.. First Printing. . Near Fine/No dj. 19 X 12½ cm.

St. Paul: Graywolf Press, 1987 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Quarter black cloth, pale blue paper-covered boards, red foil titles on spine & decoration on front board, [xi], 199, [3] pp. Edges of boards slightly faded, gift inscription dated in 1987 on preliminary page with publisher's device. Price-clipped DJ is rubbed at corners & spine ends, else fine; in Brodart archival cover. Contains selected poems from Instructions to the Double, Under Stars, and Willingly, as well as 26 new poems. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. . Near Fine/Near Fine. 23½ X 14½ cm.

New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1992 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full grey cloth, black titles on spine, lvii, 245 pp, bibliography, index. Edges of boards slightly sunned, else fine. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Over 300 poems by 66 poets, written since 1910, with an introduction and critical analysis by the editor/translator. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Near Fine/Fine. 24 X 15½ cm.

New York: Random House, 1996 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Black boards, red foil titles on spine & monogram on front board, x, 158, [3] pp. DJ fore-edges lightly rubbed; in Brodart archival cover. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. 2nd ptg. . Fine/Near Fine. 21½ X 14½ cm.

Chicago & New York: Rand, McNally & Company WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. No date, from binding design we would guess within a few years of 1900. Sage green cloth with gilt titles and gilt & red decoration on front board and spine, top edge gilt, 278 pp, 4 ff b & w plates, glossary. Boards moderately rubbed, soiled & spotted, first few leaves tide-marked, shaken hinge reglued. Attractively bound and printed on cream-colored laid paper with only the faintest browning to edges; the title page is printed on much thinner stock and tipped in, possibly a cancel (used when a publisher buys sheets of a book from another publisher to issue under its own name). Contains 84 poems. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. . VG/No dj. 19 X 13 cm.

Chicago: The Henneberry Company WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. No date, but a shoddily stereotyped reprint. Maroon cloth with gilt titles on spine and blind decoration on front board, top edge gilt, 211 pp. Boards somewhat rubbed, soiled & spotted, spine ends & corners frayed, shaken hinges reglued. Contains 58 poems. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. . G-/No dj. 19 X 13 cm.

New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1926 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Translated by Arthur Symons. Black cloth, foil titles on spine, top edge dyed grey, gold & yellow dec. endpapers, printed on a watermarked (Aventuros) laid paper, xv, 280 pp. Extremities rubbed, partially unopened. This is the first American edition of Symons's translations of Petits Poèmes en Prose, Les Fleurs du Mal, and Les Paradis Artificiels (previously published in a limited edition in London). Shipping weight 3 lbs.. First US Edition. . Very Good/No dj. 23½ X 16 cm.

New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2000 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Black boards, black cloth spine with foil titles, xxxi, 220 pp. DJ in Brodart archival cover. The Anglo-Saxon (Old English) text and Heany's translation are on facing pages. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. 7th ptg. . Fine/Fine. 23½ X 16 cm.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1936 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Brown cloth, gilt titles on front board & spine, top edge dyed brown, 102 pp. Nicely printed on machine-made laid paper. Titles rather dull, boards & bottom edge faintly damp-stained, otherwise clean and still solidly bound. Crane A21.1 describes the trade & BOMC versions of this book, and Fredson Bowers uses it as an example in his Principles of Bibliographical Description. The BOMC edition was the third printing from the trade edition plates, and even it had a relatively small (for BOMC) printing of about 59,000 copies. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. BOMC. . G-/No dj. 22½ X 15 cm.

London & New York: Everyman's Library (Dent, Dutton), 1966 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full burgundy cloth, gilt titles on spine, decorative endpapers, xviii, 612, 8 pp,. Mostly pencil marginal notes & underlining on a few dozen pages, else near fine. DJ rubbed, corners & spine ends tattered, notes on front flap; in Brodart archival cover. Contains an introduction and extensive explanatory notes to Chaucer's main text. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. . G+/G+. 18½ X 12 cm.

Spokane: University Press, 1983 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Inscribed by author on title page. Perfect bound in orange card covers, line drawing & hand-drawn titles on front cover & spine, author photo & typeset blurb on back cover, 62 pp. Shipping weight 1 lb.. Trade Paperback. Fine/No dj. 21½ X 14 cm.

New York: Hurst & Company WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. No date. Black cloth, ornate foil titles & decorations on front board & spine, [i], 270 pp. Corners & spine ends worn throught & bumped, ffep has small tear & gift inscription dated Xmas 1898. Except for the cover decorations this is a no-frills edition containing only the poem and Byron's notes and prefaces dated 1812 & 1813. Shipping weight 1 lb.. Reprint. . Good/No dj. 15 X 11 cm.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1954 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full blue cloth, xviii, 735 pp, index to first lines. Light soil, spine sunned, top corners bumped. Contains poems previously published in The Spell of the Yukon; Ballads of a Cheechako; Rhymes of a Rolling Stone; Rhymes of a Red Cross Man; Ballads of a Bohemian; and Bar-Room Ballads. This collection was also issued during the author's lifetime as "The Complete Poems of Robert Service." Shipping weight 3 lbs.. Reprint. . VG/No dj. 21½ X 14½ cm.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1944 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Navy blue cloth, 220 pp. Titles rubbed off spine, cormers bumped, extremities rubbed, former owner's name on ffep. Contains Prufrock (1917), Poems (1920), The Waste Land (1922), The Hollow Men (1925), Ash Wednesday (1930), Ariel Poems, Unfinished Poems, Minor Poems, Choruses from "The Rock", Burnt Norton. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. 8th ptg. . VG/No dj. 22 X 15 cm.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1937 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue cloth, gilt titles on spine & front board, [v], 578 pp, index of first lines. Small tear to tail of spine, else VG, owner's name on ffep, one leaf dog-eared, and a few browned by clippings formerly laid in. DJ spine browned, about a 1-inch chip at head of front joint, smaller chips to spine ends but otherwise VG; in Brodart archival cover. Rabindranath Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913; his poems and plays were first collected in the present title, of which early printings in DJ are somewhat scarce. Shipping weight 2 lbs. Location:Poetry.. 2nd ptg. . G+/G+. 20½ X 14½ cm.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1974 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue cloth, gilt titles & decorations on spine, 416 pp, index of first lines. Small scar to rear pastedown where excess binding glue oozed between it & rear free endpaper (a manufacturing defect). DJ front flap creased; in Brodart archival cover. From the DJ: "May Sarton has chosen here what she wishes to preserve from thirty-five years' work and ten books of poems. ... This work as a whole explores major themes: passionate love, the natural world, the responsibility of art to probe the sources in us of war and revolution, the search for an inward order, above all self-knowledge. The poet has done this from the beginning both in traditional forms and in free verse, slowly fashioning the style, musical, rich in metaphor, highly structured...." Shipping weight 2 lbs.. 4th ptg. . Near Fine/Near Fine. 22 X 15 cm.

Eden Prairie, MN: Privately Printed, 1982 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Signed by Author. Two volumes, both stapled through fold, dec. covers, front covers double as title page, owner's name on first page after cover. Coloring: beige, 21 X 13½ cm, [v], 72, [1] pp, copyright 1982, signed by author on inside front cover, one corner bumped. Still Coloring: Pink, 21½ X 14 cm, 65 pp, copyright 1988, covers fading slightly near spine. Shipping weight 1 lb.. Wraps. Near Fine/No dj.

New York: The Modern Library, 1939 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Dated by list of books in end matter. Maroon cloth, gilt & black titles & device, decorative endpapers, top edge dyed black,765, [6] pp. A previous owner's name is written on recto of ffep. DJ has 1 cm chip to top of front panel, slight edge wear; in Brodart archival cover. Just Milton, re-set from early editions, without any critical aids or distractions. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. . Near Fine/VG. 18½ X 13 cm.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1936 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Putty colored cloth, orange & black titles & rules on spine, top edge dyed orange, xxiii, 852 pp, notes, glossary, index of first lines, index of titles. Spine faded, edges of a few leaves bumped with tiny marginal tears, colored pencil underlining. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. . Good/No dj. 21½ X 14½ cm.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1952 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full peacock blue cloth, foil titles, top edge dyed blue, vii, 392 pp, index of titles, index of first lines. Spine & top edges of boards lightly sunned, a few tiny spots. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. . VG/No dj. 24 X 16 cm.