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Spell of the Open Air, The


Various Writers, Illust. by: Harry Rountree

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.

Record # 614157


Price: $44.00 

 

Structure of Allegory in The Faerie Queene, The


Hamilton, A.C.

Hardcover. London, Oxford University Press, reprint, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 227 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Poetry criticism. Fading, edgewear, light spotting to dust jacket. Light foxing to top text block. Light pencil marking throughout. A tight copy.

Record # 951362


Price: $24.00 

 

Substantial Proofs of Being: Osip Mandelstam's Literary Prose


Isenberg, Charles

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.

Record # 451853


Price: $20.00 

 

Tennyson - Aspects of His Life, Character and Poetry


Nicolson, Harold

Hardcover. Boston , Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 308 pages. Light soil to covers

Record # 200370


Price: $20.00 

 

The Poetry Wreck - Selected Essays 1950-1970


Shapiro, Karl

NY, Random House, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Light edgewear to dust jacket.

Record # 201550


Price: $20.00 

 

Theodore Roethke's Far Fields - The Evolution of His Poetry


Balakian, Peter

Baton Rouge, Louisiana State Univ., 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 171 pages.

Record # 62420


Price: $15.00 

 

There Was a Lad - An Essay on Robert Burns


Brown, Hilton

London, Hamish Hamilton, 2nd, 1949, Book: Very Good , Dust Jacket: None, 260 pages. B&W illustrations.

Record # 305350


Price: $18.00 

This Wasted Land: and Its Chymical IlluminationsVincenz, Marc
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This Wasted Land: and Its Chymical Illuminations


Vincenz, Marc

Softcover. New Orleans, Lavender Ink, Reprint, 2015, Book: Very Good, 244 page. Softcover with minor edgewear. Slight curling on front fore edge. Tight copy.

Record # 470716


Price: $19.00 

 

Uncertain Certainty, The - Interviews, Essays and Notes on Poetry


Simic, Charles

Paperback. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, 1st wraps, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 175151


Price: $30.00 

 

Uncollected Prose by W.B. Yeats Vol. 1: First Reviews and Articles, 1886-1896


Frayne (Editor), John P.

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.

Record # 952299


Price: $19.00 

 

Vision in Spring


Faulkner, William

Hardcover. Austin, University of Texas, 2nd Printing, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 88 pages plus Appendix. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 608261


Price: $18.00 

 

War Poets, The


Giddings, Robert

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.

Record # 951621


Price: $29.00 

Wendell Berry: Life and WorkPeters, Jason (Editor)
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Wendell Berry: Life and Work


Peters, Jason (Editor)

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.

Record # 470707


Price: $25.00 

 

West Manhattan to Oregon


Pendleton, Conrad

Hardcover. Denver, Alan Swallow, 1st , 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 2 letters SIGNED BY WALTER KIDD (really Pendleton) laid-in.

Record # 64226


Price: $50.00 

 

Words Alone: The Poet T.S. Eliot


Donoghue, Denis

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.

Record # 952254


Price: $15.00 

Approaching Prayer: Ritual and the Shape of Myth in A. R. Ammons and James Dickey by: Kirschten, Robert
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Approaching Prayer: Ritual and the Shape of Myth in A. R. Ammons and James Dickey by: Kirschten, Robert

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
Price: $12.00 

Blake's Apocalypse: A Study in Poetic Argument by: Bloom, Harold

Blake's Apocalypse: A Study in Poetic Argument by: Bloom, Harold

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
Price: $25.00 

Compulsory Figures: Essays on Recent American Poets [INSCRIBED COPY] by: Taylor, Henry
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Compulsory Figures: Essays on Recent American Poets [INSCRIBED COPY] by: Taylor, Henry

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
Price: $18.00 

Doubt and Identity in Romantic Poetry by: Cooper, Andrew M.

Doubt and Identity in Romantic Poetry by: Cooper, Andrew M.

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
Price: $12.00 

Eras & Modes in English Poetry by: Miles, Josephine

Eras & Modes in English Poetry by: Miles, Josephine

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
Price: $12.00 

From Stress to Stress: An Autobiography of English Prosody by: Raffel, Burton

From Stress to Stress: An Autobiography of English Prosody by: Raffel, Burton

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
Price: $20.00 

In the Voice of Others: Chinese Music Bureau Poetry (Volume 63) [INSCRIBED COPY] by: Allen, Joseph R.
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In the Voice of Others: Chinese Music Bureau Poetry (Volume 63) [INSCRIBED COPY] by: Allen, Joseph R.In the Voice of Others: Chinese Music Bureau Poetry (Volume 63) [INSCRIBED COPY] by: Allen, Joseph R.

In the Voice of Others: Chinese Music Bureau Poetry (Volume 63) [INSCRIBED COPY] by: Allen, Joseph R.

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
Price: $40.00 

Long View, The: Essays on the Discipline of Hope and Poetic craft by: Pack, Robert

Long View, The: Essays on the Discipline of Hope and Poetic craft by: Pack, Robert

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
Price: $12.00 

Mulberry Tree, The by: Bowen, Elizabeth

Mulberry Tree, The by: Bowen, Elizabeth

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Janovich , 1st , 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Record # 6824
Price: $12.00 


  
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