Hardcover. London, T. N. Foulis, 1st, ND, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 43 pages plus 2 pages of publishers ads. Covers are decorative blue silk cloth over stiff wraps. Title in gilt on front cover. Features 4 full color illustrations by Harry Rountree. Spine with some fading, light chipping. Clean, unmarked text.
Softcover. Columbus, Ohio, 1st, September 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 179 pages. Light foxing to top and fore-edge. Light soiling to wrappers. Else a clean, tight copy.
Softcover. New Orleans, Lavender Ink, Reprint, 2015, Book: Very Good, 244 page. Softcover with minor edgewear. Slight curling on front fore edge. Tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Columbia University Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 437 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Volume 1, a collection of first reviews and articles pertaining to W.B. Yeats. Heavy fading and age toning to price-clipped dust jacket. Moderate age toning to text block edges. Unmarked. A tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Orion Books, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. The lives and writings of Rupert Brooke, Robert Graves, Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Edmund Blunden, and the other great poets of The First World War. Moderate bumping to board corners, slight fraying to dust jacket on bumped corners. Mild edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket as well. Price-clipped. Many color and black-and-white illustrations throughout. Previous owner's name on half title page. Otherwise, unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.
Hardcover. Lexington, University Press of Kentucky, Reprint, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 368 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Tight copy.
Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 326 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Countless insights regarding the poet T.S. Eliot. Minor rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Previous owner's initials to front flyleaf. Bright and clean; a tight copy.
Hardcover. Baton Rouge, LA, Louisiana State University Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 177 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket is in good condition, with folds to the front and rear flaps. Yellow cloth covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. This book is a critical study in a mythopoeic mode of two of the most distinguished southern poets of the second half of the 20th century. Previous owner's light underlining and notes are present throughout in black pen. Record # 34248
Softcover. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 1st thus., 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 454 pages, soft cover. Paper covers have some minor edge wear, but are still in very good condition overall. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. This book is a simple, straightforward, chronologically organized examination. It may be particularly helpful to students, as an introduction to the study of Blake's poetry and ideas. Clean copy. Record # 34343
Hardcover. Baton Rouge, LA, Louisiana State University Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 318 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket has some light bumping to the top edge, but is still in very good condition overall. Blue cloth covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. In this collection of previously published essays, poet and critic Taylor praises the vitality and diversity of contemporary American poetry by examining the development and techniques of 17 recent American poets. Each essay locates the style of a particular poet in his or her earliest works and traces the evolution of that style to later, more definitive poems. Author's signature is present on the title page. Clean copy. Record # 34255
Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 233 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A clean, unmarked copy with some wear to dust jacket. Otherwise a tight copy. Record # 471405
Softcover. Berkeley, CA, University of California Press, 2nd, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 292 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains B&W tables, as well as some illustrations at chapter headers. This book presents a linguistic analysis of poetry through a series of literary essays which demonstrate the artistic progression of poetry through the decades. Previous owner's name is signed on the front end page, otherwise clean copy. Record # 34543
Hardcover. Hamden, CT, Archon Books, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 185 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, blue cloth covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. This book is a single-minded theoretical history of English scansion. It may prompt interesting debate among linguists and metrecists. Clean copy. Record # 34295
Hardcover. Ann Arbor, MI, The University of Michigan Press, 2nd Pr., 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 293 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, blue cloth covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. This book applies new critical methods to medieval works in the genre known as Music Bureau poetry (or yuefu shi), stripping away layers of ossified conventional reading to expose the genre's vital core. Author's inscription to the previous owner was written on a post-it note on the title page. Inscription reads: "The acknowledgments are perhaps worth a look--the rest is downhill. Yours, Joseph R. Allen. Clean copy. Record # 34238
Hardcover. Amherst, MA, University of Massachusetts Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 279 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped. Slight fading to dust jacket and a touch of foxing to top edge. Otherwise, clean inside and out. In very good condition. Record # 30788