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