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Faerie Queene, The: Disposed Into Twelve Bookes Fashioning XII Morall Vertues (2 Volumes)


Spencer, Edmund, Illust. by: Agnes Miller Parker

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Limited Editions Club, 1st Ltd. Ed., 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Two large quarto volumes (7-3/4" x 11-3/4") bound in gilt-decorated green cloth and illustrated with pen decorations by John Austen and wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker. 992 pages. Copy #563 of 1500 SIGNED by Parker on the colophon page. A nicely printed set retaining Spenser's original English and beautifully illustrated. The uncommon dustwrappers are present with some sunning to the spines, light foxing. There is a chunk gone from the bottom of rear on Volume 1. The slipcase is also present with edgewear to the label. Volume 1 has a previous owner's bookplate inside the front cover. Otherwise a clean, handsome set.

Record # 411335


Price: $200.00 

 

Farm Festivals


Carleton, Will, Illust. by: A.B.Frost, Nast, Abbey, others

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Bros., Rep., 1881, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated by many of the Harper artists: A.B.Frost, Nast, Abbey, others. previous owner's signature. Gilt & black decorated brown covers with bevelled edges

Record # 300333


Price: $25.00 

First Poets, The: Lives of the Ancient Greek PoetsSchmidt, Michael
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First Poets, The: Lives of the Ancient Greek Poets


Schmidt, Michael

Hardcover. New York, 1st US, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 410 pages. Light edge-/shelf-wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 453044


Price: $15.00 

 

From Historicity to Fictionality: The Chinese Poetics of Narrative


Lu, Sheldon Hsiao-Peng

Hardcover. Stanford CA, Stanford University Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 213 pages, in a bright dust jacket.

Record # 403116


Price: $20.00 

 

Garment of Praise, The: The Necessity for Poetry


Chilton, Eleanor Carroll & Herbert Agar

Hardcover. Garden City, Ny, Doubleday Doran & Company, 1st, 1929, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 401 pages. Black cloth, top edge gilt. Slight fading to spine, no dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 856022


Price: $19.00 

 

Georgia Review, The - Spring 1983


Mary Oliver, Stanley Plumly, Barry Hannah, Joyce Carol Oates, James B. Twitchell

Paperback. Athens GA, University of Georgia, 1st wraps, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback. Poetry by Mary Oliver, Stanley Plumly. Other contributions by Barry Hannah, Joyce Carol Oates, James B. Twitchell.

Record # 600469


Price: $12.00 

 

Georgia Review, The - Summer 1982


Robert Penn Warren, Leonard Nathan, Hayden Carruth, Pam Durban, Robert Stepto

Paperback. Athens GA, University of Georgia, 1st wraps, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback. Poetry by Robert Penn Warren, Leonard Nathan, Hayden Carruth. An interview with Robert Penn Warren. Other contributions by Pam Durban, Robert Stepto.

Record # 600466


Price: $12.00 

 

Georgia Review, The - Winter 1982


William Stafford, David Wagoner, Nicholas Delbanco, John Fowles, Robert Pope

Paperback. Athens GA, University of Georgia, 1st wraps, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback. Poetry by William Stafford, David Wagoner. Other contributions by Nicholas Delbanco, John Fowles, Robert Pope.

Record # 600467


Price: $12.00 

 

Georgie and Elsa: Jorge Luis Borges and His Wife, The Untold Story


Di Giovanni, Norman Thomas

Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins, 1st edition, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 259 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Cover boards bound in dark green cloth, gilt title on spine. Binding tight. Spine straight. Pages clean and bright. Like new, looks barely read. Based on an extensive collection of original material in the form of diaries, notebooks, letters, manuscripts, and photographs, most of which have never before been seen, Georgie & Elsa provides a unique insight into one of the few true geniuses of literature.

Record # 32318


Price: $23.00 

 

Gift Imprisoned, A - The Poetic Life of Matthew Arnold


Hamilton, Ian

Hardcover. NY, Basic Books, 1st US, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 101197


Price: $20.00 

 

Gitanjali - (Song Offerings)


Tagore, Rabindranath

Hardcover. Madras, Macmillan and Company Limited, Reprint, 1966, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 99 pages. Previous owners name and date on front endpaper. Some light pencil marking in margins. Dust jacket shows standard wear with chipping along edges.

Record # 610666


Price: $15.00 

 

Golden Book of English Sonnets, The


Robertson, William

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company, Reprint, 1913, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 260 pages. Blue cloth, gilt lettering, top edge gilt. Previous owner's bookplate, front fly leaf torn, slight bumps to corners. Clean, nice copy.

Record # 809725


Price: $20.00 

 

Goldsmith's Poems - Poems, Plays and Essays


Goldsmith, Oliver

hardcover. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1st, 1884, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated frontispiece with tissue guard. All edges gilt. Gilt decorated covers. Edgewear and corners chipped on cover.

Record # 201988


Price: $12.00 

 

Harriet Monroe and the Poetry Renaissance: The First Ten Years of Poetry, 1912-22


Williams, Ellen

Hardcover. Urbana, IL, University of Illinois Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 8vo, brown cloth. (xiv), 312 pp. ISBN 0252004787. Story of the legendary Chicago editor and poet. Her little magazine, Poetry, was very influential in modernist literature. Some fade to dust jacket spine.

Record # 804506


Price: $10.00 

 

Heinrich Heine and the Occident - Multiple Identities, Multiple Receptions


Hohendahl, Peter Uwe & Sander L. Gilman (Ed.)

Lincoln, University of Nebraska, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good , 235 pages, B&W illustrations.

Record # 305345


Price: $18.00 

 

Heinrich Heine


Hofrichter, Laura

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 174 pages, hardcover. Blue boards with gilt titling to spine. Critical assessment of German writer. Translated by Barker Fairley. Mild rubbing and edgewear to boards. Slight age toning to text block edges. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 952081


Price: $19.00 

 

Hidden Life of Emily Dickinson, The


Walsh, John Evangelist

Hardcover. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 286 pages. Illustrated with 4 pages of black & white photographs. Dust jacket with darkening along edges, and spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610145


Price: $15.00 

 

Hieroglyphs of Another World


Kutik, Ilya

Hardcover. Evanston, Ill., Northwestern Publishing House, 1st, October 2000, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Still in shrinkwrap.

Record # 454849


Price: $18.00 

 

Histories, The


SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM, Illust. by: JOHN FARLEIGH

hardcover. Norwalk, CT, The Easton Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 1016 pages. Collector's edition. Full leather stamped in gold, all edges gilt, marbled endpages & silk ribbon marker. Previous owner's bookplate on end paper otherwise, clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition.

Record # 469045


Price: $31.00 

 

Hobbled Pegasus: A Descriptive Bibliography of Minor English Poetry, 1641-1660


Frank, Joseph

Albuquerque, NM, University of New Mexico Pres, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 482 pages. Review slip laid in. Writing in pen on front fly leaf. Flap of dust jacket with creases. Soiling to dust jacket. Closed tear and small chunk missing from front cover. Edgewear and chipping.

Record # 503031


Price: $20.00 

 

Ideas of Good and Evil


Yeats, W. B.

Hardcover. London, A. H. Bullin, 1st, 1903, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 341 pages. Hardcover. Narrow water stains to corners, and along foredges of front and back covers. Foxing to endpapers. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 612613


Price: $63.00 

In the Chair: Interviews with Poets from the North of IrelandBrown, John
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In the Chair: Interviews with Poets from the North of Ireland


Brown, John

Softcover. US, Salmon Poetry, 1st, 2002-09-26, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 333 pages. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 465202


Price: $25.00 

 

Irish Protestant Letters. Etc., Etc; Also, an Address on Ireland the Cradle of European Literature; To Which Is Added a Choice of Collection of Original and Selected Poetry


Dublin, R. R. B., J. B. Finlay

Hardcover. New York, De Witt & Davenport, 1st, 1855, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 166 pages. Light-brown, embossed cloth covers. Covers fairly worn, particularly along spine and edges. Covers somewhat soiled. Previous owner's signature, sticker, and notes on front end paper and flyleaf. Foxing throughout and on all edges. A few pages with minor pen markings. About 20 pages with creases or tears on bottom edge. Page 166 has small chunk out of it. Nice, tight copy.

Record # 856389


Price: $50.00 

 

John Betjeman - A Study


Stanford, Derek

London, Neville Spearman, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 159 pages, b&w photos. Nice dust jacket. Printed In Great Britain stamp on front fly leaf.

Record # 600538


Price: $18.00 


  
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