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Starting Out in the Thirties


Kazin, Alfred

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Little, Brown, and Company, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 166 pages. Hardcover. An Atlantic Monthly Press Book. Dust jacket unclipped, has a little agewear, very good. Cover boards bound in green cloth, gilt title on spine. Some slight tanning from age/shelfwear to edges and pages. Binding tight, spine straight. In great shape. Tells of Kazin's coming of age in the decade that began with the depression and ended with the outbreak of WWII.

Record # 31774


Price: $15.00 

 

Sylvia Plath: A Biography


Wagner-Martin, Linda W.

Hardcover. New York, NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 282 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Gray cover boards, pink quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket price-clipped, very good. Pages and edges clean and unmarked. Binding tight, spine straight. In this biography, only the second ever published, and the first to draw on unpublished journals and letters recently made available, the author examines the ironies and contradictions of Sylvia Platt's life, as well as her achievements.

Record # 32191


Price: $25.00 

 

Tasso


Hasell, E. J.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, reprint, 1882, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 211 pages, green cloth covers with black design, Foreign Classics for English Readers. A biography of Torquato Tasso, 16th Century Italian romantic poet. Ex-library with light marking, residue.

Record # 402634


Price: $12.00 

 

Wadsworth-Longfellow House, The


Goold, Nathan

Softcover. Portland, Maine Historical Society, Reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, The Wadsworth-Longfellow House was the childhood home of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. In 1963, it was designated as a National Historic Landmark. 44 pages, black and white photographs of the home. Originally published in 1908. Included are 6 color postcards. Very good condition.

Record # 806130


Price: $25.00 

 

Wilfred Owen: A Biography


Stallworthy, Jon

Hardcover. London, Oxford University Press/Chatto and Windus, Reprint, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 335 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Pages clean, binding tight. Spine straight. Decorated endpapers. Brown cover boards, gilt title on spine. Remainder line on bottom edge. In great shape.

Record # 31779


Price: $23.00 

 

William Morris: His Life, Work and Friends


Henderson, Philip, Allan Temko (Forward)

Hardcover. New York, NY, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 388 pages. Hardcover. Decorated endpapers. With 82 b/w illustrations and 8 color plates. Dust jacket unclipped, has some agewear (see image). Decorated cover boards. Pages slightly tanned, edges have light foxing. No rips. Binding tight. Spine straight. In very good condition. Very attractive old book. Henderson is the editor of the Morris family letters and has written the first full-length portrait of Morris since Mackail's heavily censored 'official biography' of 1899.

Record # 32192


Price: $23.00 

 

William Wordsworth and the Age of English Romanticism


Wordsworth, Jonathan

Softcover. US, Rutgers University Press, 1st, 1987-10-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 261 pages, illustrations in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462893


Price: $15.00 

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Yeats at Work


Bradford, Curtis

Hardcover. Carbondale, Southern Illinois University, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 407 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket, normal light wear on jacket edges, fading along spine. Price clipped. Clean and tight copy.

Record # 2230689


Price: $19.00 

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Yeats


Tuohy, Frank

Hardcover. New York , Macmillan, 1st US, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 232 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Bright, unclipped dust jacket. Clean.

Record # 411425


Price: $19.00 

Auden by: Davenport-Hines, Richard
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Auden by: Davenport-Hines, Richard

New York, Pantheon Books, 1st US, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 406 pages. Some fading marks, edgewear, price clipped dust jacket. Record # 508146
Price: $12.00 

Bird of Utica, The - Life, Thought and Art of Sylvia H. Bliss (1870-1963) by: Davis, Forest K.
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Bird of Utica, The - Life, Thought and Art of Sylvia H. Bliss (1870-1963) by: Davis, Forest K.

Hardcover. Adamant, VA, Adamant Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 158 pages. Minor sunfading to spine. No dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Record # 57658
Price: $12.00 

Kindness of Sisters, The: Annabella Milbanke and the Destruction of the Byrons by: Crane, David
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Kindness of Sisters, The: Annabella Milbanke and the Destruction of the Byrons by: Crane, David

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st US, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 290 pages. Color-illustrated dust jacket, dozens of b&w illustrations. Book in great condition; overall a clean, tight copy. Record # 804536
Price: $12.00 

Lives of the Modern Poets by: Pritchard, William H.
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Lives of the Modern Poets by: Pritchard, William H.

Softcover. Hanover, NH, UPNE, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 316 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Record # 454657
Price: $12.00 

The Early Poems of William Cullen Bryant With Bibliographical Sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole by: Bryant, William Cullen Dole, Nathan Haskell
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The Early Poems of William Cullen Bryant With Bibliographical Sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole by: Bryant, William Cullen Dole, Nathan Haskell

Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell & Company, 1st, 1893, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 242 pages, hardcover. Covers have light edge wear and rubbing. Cream colored leather stamped with elaborate botanical gilt design has been half-bound to the spine over decorated paper cover boards. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. This small-format book presents several of William Cullen Bryant's earlier poems, and also contains a brief biographical sketch. Previous owner's signature is present in black pen on a front end page, otherwise clean copy. Record # 34334
Price: $24.00 


  
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