Softcover. Ann Arbor, The University of Michigan Press, Reprint, 1983, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 286 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR TO FELLOW POET JOHN ENGELS. Covers somewhat worn, especially around corners and edges. Light creasing on front cover. Some chipping on rear cover. Minor soiling on covers. A little staining on fore edge. Slight pen marks on all edges. About 10 pages previously dog-eared. Top corners of pages slightly creased. Occasional small stains on pages. 5-10 pages with pen markings. Good, tight copy.
Hardcover. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 211 pages, minor dust jacket edge wear and foxing on edges, otherwise, very clean and bright copy.
Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Reprint, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, A reprint of two brilliant verse essays by an American Master
Hardcover. New York, Grove Press, Third Printing, 1968, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 792 pages. Hardcover. Full color and black & white illustrations. Dust jacket with repaired tears along edges. Standard wear. Book is quite heavy.
Hardcover. London, Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, 1st Thus, ND, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2 Volumes. Volume 1 - 383 pages. Volume 2 - 454 pages. Previous owners name on front endpaper of both volumes dated 1873. Many black & white illustrations by Dore. Text in English verse translated from the French. 3/4 heavy brown morocco and pebbled boards with fading. Raised bands on spine. Scuffing to leather along spine. Rubbing to corners. Some sections with toning to pages. Volume 2 with foxing to preliminary pages. Clean, tight copies.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.