Poetry

Format Title Author Publisher Date Condition Price
HC AMERICAN LYRIC POETRY Aison, Gerta editor The Galleon Press 1934 Very Good
20.00
HC/DJ/signed Poems That Touch the Heart Alexander, A. L. Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing Co. 1946 Very Good/Good, some edge splits. First Edition, 15th printing. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾ tall. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR on fflap; green cloth in excellent condition.
24.00
HC/1st First Time in America ARLOTT, JOHN DUELL SLOAN AND PEARCE, NY 1948 VG/no DJ. First Edition. 1st. 199p. maroon cloth. Poems by Betjeman, Lawrence Durrell, James Stephens & Dylan Thomas.
12.00
PB/1st Silent Echo Billera, Jan Aesthetics Correlative, Ohio 1965 VG poetry
15.00
HC/DJ/1st Manual of Piety Brecht, Bertolt, Translations By Eric Bentley Grove Press , NY 1966 Fine book/VG DJ minor edge wear one tear, light scuffing. Price cut. A bilingual first printing and edition with translations by Eric Bentley.
23.00
PB Poems from the Sanskrit Brough, John (editor) Brough, John (translator) New York, NY, U.S.A.: Penguin Books 1968 VG+, pages solid and browning. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾ tall.
12.00
HC Jocoseria Browning, Robert London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1883 VG/no DJ. 143pp. Owners plate some cover soiling. Edition not stated. Original burgundy cloth with gilt lettering. Fine copy.
45.00
SC The Works of Robert Browning Volume 1 Browning, Robert Houghton Mifflin, NY 1899 VG, Spine face split away on one side, bright red leather binding.
35.00
HC/DJ Poems and Plays of Browning Browning, Robert Modern Library, NY 1934 VG/G, scuffed DJ. 8vo. Modern Library G17. DJ has list of ML books (274) back of cover. 1223 pages. Index. Edited by Bennet Cerf and Donald Klopfer.
12.00
SC Towards Democracy Carpenter, Edward. New York Mitchell Kennerley 1922 VG, Green leather drying out and wearing a bit still bright and fine paged with fore piece of the author. Complete in four parts; 478 pages. rice paper edition. Inspired by Whitman's 'Leaves of Grass' a clear vision for a livable world
17.50
HC/DJ The Poem in it's Skin Carroll, Paul Big Table, Chicago 1970 Fine/Fine 262 p. ,his first book of criticism. 8vo. Cloth. On Ashbery, Creeley, Dickey, Ginsberg, Merwin, O'Hara, et al. Marked as 3d printing, June 1970); Early Printing.
7.00
HC Chaucer's Poetical Works Chaucer (Tyrwhitt editor) Routledge and Sons, London 1877 G+, spine bumped edge worn bit soiled. Cloth reddish brown. The complete Canterbury Tales, his translation of the Romance of the Rose, Troilus and Criseyde, The Legend of Good Women, and all the rest in their original forms.
65.00
HC A Treasury of War Poetry Clarke, George Herbert, editor Houghton Mifflin, NY 1919 G+/no DJ. , light wear, soil, Good+ 12mo, 361pp red cloth bds, 2nd series British & American poems of the World War 1914-1917; notes on some of the poets; index of authors, first lines.
12.00
HC One Hundred and One Famous Poems Cooke, Roy J. (compiler) The Cable Company Chicago 1929 VG+, save a fore page cut./no DJ Illus. 8vo, 185 p. Famous poems, largely English and American, ending with a few prose pieces.
10.00
PB/6th Happy Birthday of Death Corso, Gregory New York: New Directions 1960 G+ scuffed a bit nice solid copy.price cut 8vo
3.00
PB American Indian Poetry: An Anthology of Songs and Chants Cronyn, George W. (ed.) NY Liveright 1962 VG+. 360pg A Vast & Otherwise Unobtainable Amount of material. From Eastern Woodlands, Southeast,GreatPlains,Southwest, etc.
10.00
PB The Brooklyn Poetry Circle Anthology d' Esternaux, Countess Ethelyn (editor) The Storybook Press, Dallas 1952 Fine + with letter to Herald Tribune signed by author
20.00
PB The Wasteland Eliot, T.S. harvest, ny Good copy, price cut.
5.00
HC BOXED A CONEY ISLAND OF THE MIND Ferlinghetti, Lawrence New Directions, NY 1958 1st edition First English edition and first hardcover edition. Contemporary ownership signature on the front fly else fine in near fine dust wrapper that is a little browned at the spine and the extremities. An attractive copy of an uncommon book.
135.00
PB/1st The Mexican Night:TRAVEL JOURNAL Ferlinghetti, Lowrence New Directions 1970 Fine copy, some minor sunning. 1st edition.
25.00
HC Poems Fischer, Benjamin David D. Nickerson, Boston 1926 G+/no DJ, some spine bumps, clean and solid, 2nd edition. Gifted to salutation from authors wife. ask or best offer
PB/1st Selected Poems: George Flynn Flynn, George Villiers, UK 1965 VG, one fold mark on cover and general soiling. Authors first book.
15.00
HC/DJ/1st Hobbled Pegasus: A Descriptive Bibliography of Minor English Poetry 1641-1660 Frank, Joseph University of New Mexico Press 1968 Fine/VG+, sunned spine.482pp. 8vo, cloth.
15.00
HC/DJ In the Clearing Frost, Robert HOLT, REINHART AND WINSTON, NY 1962 Fine book save fore page cut away/ Good DJ some edge wear sticker damage, pencil transfer. Follows his reading at Kennedy Inauguration
7.50
PB/1st North of the Temperate Zone Gauthier, Guy Midnight Sun, NY 1977 Nfine
12.00
HC/DJ/1st Allen Ginsberg Journals: Early Fifties-Early Sixties Ginsberg, Allen edited by Gordon Ball Grove Press, NY 1977 Fine copy/ VG DJ minor edge wear and darkening at top edge. Assume remaindered copy with Random House little red stamp on page edge by spine. 312 pp. Collection of poetry, notes and writings from the beat generation poet. B/w drawings, photos, index.
18.00
HC/DJ/1st Cancer in My Left Ball Giorno, John Something Else, VT 1973 VG, one corner faded front and back/G+ DJ fading and some splits. 8vo. Cloth. scarce edition.
30.00
HC/1st The Singing Sword Groom, G. Laurence Leeds, The Swan Press, 1927 VG, spine darkening/ no DJ
15.00
HC The Mabinogion Guest, Lady Charlotte (Trans. With Notes By) J.M. Dent, London 1902 Near Fine/no DJ.
85.00
HC Bret Harte's Poetical Works Harte, Brett Hought and Mifflin 1881 Great western poet a collected of his best poetic work. Guilt edged fine copy. He lived and extraordinary life till 1902.
35.00
PB The Poetic Edda Hollander, Lee (trans.) U of Texas, Austin 1987 G+
15.00
HC Wessex and Old English Poetry, With Special Consideration of the Ruin Hotchner, Cecilia Audrey. Lancaster Press, Lancaster, Pa 1939 Near Fine/no DJ. 146pp.
35.00
pb If A Poet Is Irving Stettner Twin Angel, NY 1974 Very Good. West Village beat poet.
18.00
PB Selected Works of Alfred Jarry Jarry, Alfred Evergreen, NY 1980 VG+ reprint, large format
5.00
HC An Essay on Metaphor in Poetry, With an Appendix on the Use of Metaphor in Tennyson's in Memoriam. Jennings, J.G., M.A. London: Blackie And Son 1915 VG, minor wear and minor annotations.
12.00
PB Danger at Bravo Key Johnson, Ronald Signet, NY 1967 Fair, yellowing
5.00
HC/DJ Early English Christian Poetry KENNEDY, Charles W. (trans). Hollis & Carter, London 1952 Fine/G, some wear
24.00
HC Kiplings Poems Kipling, Rudyar Hill. Chicago 1899 G- chip on spine, edge wear
35.00
SC Seven Seas Kipling, Rudyard Page, & Company 1908 G+ Leather drying, bright red gilt lettering, 1 spine chip and leather chipped at one corner.
17.50
HC/1st The Years Between Kipling, Rudyard Methuen, London 1919 Fine/no DJ
5.00
HC RUDYARD KIPLING'S VERSE - INCLUSIVE EDITION - 1885-1918 Kipling, Rudyard Doubleday, Page & Co. ,NY 1926 First Edition: Blue cloth, gilt lettering and decor. ted. 8vo., xiii., 787pages. Index to First Lines. New poems, published here for the first time, make this volume of 800 pages a truly complete edition of Kipling's poetry. All the old favorites are her
85.00
HC The Courting of Dinah Shadd Kipling, Rudyard Standard, NY 1930 Fine
45.00
HC Rudyard Kipling's Verse Definitive Edition Kipling, Rudyard Doubleday, Garden City 1952 Water stain on cover. No DJ. Otherwise very good
35.00
HC/DJ/1st Poets for Life: Twenty-six poets respond to AIDS Klein. Michael editor Crown, NY 1989 Fine copy.
10.00
PB/1st Night Fishing Kushner, William Midnight Sun, NY 1977 Nfine
12.00
PB Pictures of the Gone world Lawrence Ferlinghetti San Francisco: City Lights Pocket 1955 Fine save for price cut.16mo. 27pp. 1st title in the Pocket Poets Series. Ferlinghetti's first book.
20.00
PB/18th Coney Island of the Mind Lawrence Ferlinghetti New York: New Directions 1958 VG save price cut. 8vo 93pp
3.00
PB Starting from San Francisco Lawrence Ferlinghetti New York: New Directions 1967 G+ but price cut. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾ tall. 64 pages The third collection of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's poetry.
3.00
PB NAIL POLISH Layton, Irving McCelland&Stewart, Canada 1971 G+, some cover wear
5.00
HC/1st Courtship of Miles Standish Longfellow Thompson & Thomas, Chicago 1905 VG+ spine end bumped./no DJ. Gilt pictorial covers.
7.50
HC Aftermath Longfellow, Henry Wadworth James R. Osgood & Co.,Boston 1875 Good copy with bumped spine but tight and strong. Decorative Cloth. No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾ tall. frontispiece illustration, attractive green cloth book with gold gilt bouquet illustration on cover and gold gilt decoration and lettering on spine
15.00
PB French Symbolist Poetry MacIntaire, C.F. U of Acl, Berkeley 1964 G. Originals and translations
5.00
HC/1st German Lyric Poetry Macleod, Norman Hogarth Press, London 1930 Very nice copy, slight skew. G+/no DJ.4to-over 9¾-12 tall, 158 pages.
20.00
HC/DJ/1st The Wild Party/ The Set Up/A Certain Wildness March, Joseph Moncure, Illustrated by Paul Busch Bond Wheelwright, Maine 1958 Near Fine/Good but chipped, scuffed and slightly frayed DJ. Reprints March's classic jazz-age book-length poems The Wild Party and The Set-Up, and includes previously unpublished autobiographical fragment, A Certain Wildness, which appears only in this edition. Foreword by Louis Untermeyer.
20.00
HC/1st Reynard The Fox or The Ghost of Heath Run Masefield, John Macmillan, NY 1920 VG/no DJ. Spine ends bumped, corner bumps, minor wear. Scarce 1st
7.50
HC/5th Spoon River Anthology Masters, Edgar Lee, Illustrated by John Ross and Clare Romano Ross NY: Macmillan 1970 Fine copy in glassine wraps. 5th printing.
20.00
PB Rare Angel: Writ with Raven's Blood McClure, Michael Black Sparrow 1974 VG save some corner foxing and apparent sunning on front and back cover upper edges and spine some splaying at corners. Black Sparrow Press, 1974. First edition, wraps issue. 8vo, illustrated wrappers, 126 pages.
20.00
PB A Pocketful of Wry McGinley, Phyllis Universal Library, NY 1959 G+
4.00
PB Voices of Man:The Eyes of Love Medeiros, Vincent L. and Diana B. Boettcher Addison Wesley, CA 1969 VG+, exlibris. Illus. English Learning.
8.00
HC John Milton's Poetical Works Milton, John Cromwell, NY 1892 Fine. Gilt top edge
35.00
HC Moore's Poetical Works Moore. Thomas Oxford University Press, NY 1910 VG+, light wear. Nice edition matches all oxford larger format editions.
35.00
PB/1st Chirico eyes Nelson, Stanley Midnight Sun, NY 1976 NFine
12.00
HC Ardors and Endurances Nichols, Robert Stokes, NY ND Fair spine bumped pg 23-26 damaged (scuffed through. Scarce.
75.00
HC/DJ/1st Thoughts...the Poetry of Bert Padell. Padell, Bert Sparks Publ., NY 1990 Fine/Fine, inscribed by author.
25.00
HC/DJ Crisis in English Poetry 1880-1949 Pinto, Vivian De Sola Hutchinson, London 1965 F/VG+ DJ. Very Nice. Second Edition.
18.00
Collected Poems Pope, Alexander J.M. Dent, London 1946 G+
10.00
PB Beat Jokes, Bop Humor & Cool Cartoons Reisner, Bob Citidel Press, NY ND Fine copy
10.00
PB Rilke Selected Poems Rilke, Rainer Maria University of California, Berkely 1971 VG+ little wear. Dual language edition.
5.00
HC/DJ A Season in Hell Rimbaud, Arthur ( Louis Valese, trans.) New Directions, Norfolk 1945 DJ missing most of spine, cover and back intact and little chipping at lower edge, Beautiful graphic by Lustig. Book G+, a solid copy. A beautiful edition.
35.00
HC A Childs Garden of Verse Robert Louis Stevenson Standard, NY 1930 G but faded nicely illustrated copy
25.00
DJ/1st Amaranth Robinson, Edwin Arlington Macmillan, NY 1934 VG+/no DJ some spine bumping.
10.00
PB 100 American Poems Rodman, Selden (editor) Mentor, NY ND soiled copy
5.00
HC/DJ/1st Isaac Rosenberg: Collected Poems Rosenberg, Isaac. Schocken Books, NY 1949 VG+-NF/G+, some tape over edge tears. Forward by Siegfied Sassoon. Scarce.
65.00
PB/1st Beer and Angels Rubenstein, Richard. The Cypress Press, Point Reyes Station 1958 Fine copy. First edition. 12mo.
45.00
HC REMEMBRANCE ROCK Sandburg, Carl Harcourt Brace & Co., NY 1948 G. cover soiled
15.00
HC/1st Vaudeville for a Princess Schwartz, Delmore. New Directions 1950 G, a bit soiled/no DJ. 8vo - over7¾ - 9¾ tall. One of only 1600 copies, creatively designed and printed. Unique for New Directions. Important collection of stories an d poems, dedicated to his wife Elizabeth Pollet.
65.00
HC/1st Rhymes Of A Red Cross Man Service, Robert. Barse and Hopkins, NY 1916 G+/no DJ. Owners name and date written 1916.
5.00
HC/1st Rhymes Of A Red Cross Man Service, Robert. Dodd, Mead & Co., NY 1916 VG+/ no DJ spine fading. Green covers with gilt lettering, some bumps
12.00
HC Rhymes of a Rolling Stone Service, Robert. Dodd, Mead & Co., NY 1933 VG+ sine bump very mild and a scuff.
5.00
HC Essay on Rime Shapiro, Karl Reynal & Hitchcock, NY 1945 VG+/ no DJ. Essay in poetry.
5.00
PB Shelley Shelley, Percy Dell, NY 1966 Marked at contents. PC. reading copy.
5.00
HC The Reading of Poetry Smith, James Harry Boston: Houghton Mifflin & Company 1939 VG ex libris/no DJ
35.00
PB Earth House Hold Snyder, Gary New Directions, NY 1969 G+. Well read, spine sunned.
3.00
HC Poetical Favorites: Yours and Mine Snyder, Warren Bobbs-Merrill,, Indianapolis & NY 1911 VG+. Very nice rice paper edition. Blue boards, gilt lettering and edges. Minor penciled quote in back cover. Really a fine collection.
25.00
HC/1st Oedipus King of Thebes Sophocles (Trans. Murray, Gilbert) Oxford University Press, NY 1911 G+, some soiling. Slim 8vo, pp. xi, 92. Translated into English rhyming verse with explanatory notes by Gilbert Murray.
15.00
HC Amoretti and Epithalamion. Written Not Long Since By Edmunde Spenser (A Scolar Press Facsimile) Spencer, Edmund London: Scolar Press. 1973 Near Fine. Reprinted Facsimile of 1595 William Ponsonby edition; small octavo; white, approximately 125 pp;
18.00
SC Love Songs Teasdale, Sarah Macmillan, NY 1928 G, leather drying out, cracked at spine edges and corners worn.
15.00
HC The Seasons Thomson, James William S. Orr & Co., London 1853 Fair, binding in pieces all present due to early scotch tape now coming away leaving cover unmarked. The last page of this poem is missing, shame. A much printed piece in a very small 9.5 cm x 5.5 cm bound with novel 'The Castle of Otranto. The price represents buying both books as they are bound together. scarce edition.
85.00
HC/DJ/1st A Mantelpiece of Shells Todd, Ruthven Bonacio & Saul with Grove Press 1954 NM book/Fine DJ some edge yellowing.
35.00
HC/3rd Modern American Poetry Untermeyer, Louis (Editor) Harcourt, Brace & Co. ,NY 1925 G+, spine end chip, name plate/no DJ. Great collection.
18.00
HB Japanese Haiku various The Peter Pauper Press 1956 VG/no DJ. Minor wear sunning. Owners initials and date inside cover.
7.50
HC/DJ Poems for a Prose Age Varney, James Unicorn Press, London 1960 DJ spine top one inch split, some soiling otherwise good. Book is Very Good
15.00
PB On Out Welsh, Lew Oyez, Berkeley 1965 G+, some war and soiling. Softbound. First edition of the author's second book. Limited to 500 copies printed by Graham Mackintosh. ask or best offer
HC Selected Poems of Walt Whitman Whitman, Walt, Illustrated by David Frampton Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library nd Fine copy of this limited edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾ tall. Full leather, green boards with gold titles and decorations, gilt page ends, luminous silk endpapers and pastedowns.
35.00
HC Poems of Passion Wilcox, Ella Wheeler Mirill Higgins, Chicago 1892 No Dust Jacket. Good solid copy.
35.00
PB The Poems:Tauchnitz Edition Vol. 4290 Wilde, Oscar Tauchnitz, Leipsig 1934 Very Good copy with some soiling. Nice and tight.Cream colored paper edition. Collected by British Authors, Very scarce in this printing Nazi's loved burning these. ask or best offer
PB Desent of the Dove Williams, Charles Meridian, NY 1958 Fair. Reading copy
15.00
PB Major British Poets Williams, Oscar ed. Mentor, NY 1963 very good
5.00
PB Selected Poems Williams, William Carlos New Directions, NY 1969 G+, a bit worn still good solid copy.
4.00
HC The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats Yeats, W. B. The Macmillan Co.New York 1967 VG, some wear, little.
10.00
HC/DJ Yevtushenko Selected Poems Yevetushenko Dutton, NY 1962 Fine DJ/Fine book
20.00
HC/DJ Stolen Apples Yevtushenko, Yevgeny Doubleday, NY 1971 VG/Fair, bit tattered and extremities.
10.00
HC/DJ Multun in Parvo: An Essay in Poetic Imagination Zigrosser, Carl George Braziller 1965 The Latin phrase of the title, translated much into little, is illustrated by 15detailed reproductions of tiny engravings, and numerous poetical references. 54 pages.
10.00
unbound Oxford Book of English Verse Oxford University Press 1900 Unbound but solid. Pages flaking at edges. No date but contains three of Yeats earliest poems so must date from 1895-1900. Well worth binding
10.00
HC The World's Best Poetry Vol 9 University Society, NY 1904 G
10.00
per Limbo Vol 1 #5 VG+ to Fine copy
5.00