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Earth Gods, The


Gibran, Kahlil

NY, Knopf, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 12 illust. in color, B&w by Gibran. previous owner's bookplate Dust jacket with light wear, soil, spotting

Record # 300300


Price: $30.00 

 

East of Bridgewater and Other Poems


Batchelder, Ann

New York, E. P. Dutton, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good , Introduction by Bruce Gould.

Record # 301786


Price: $18.00 

Effluences from the Sacred Caves: More Selected Essays and ReviewsCarruth, Hayden
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Effluences from the Sacred Caves: More Selected Essays and Reviews


Carruth, Hayden

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.

Record # 856283


Price: $31.00 

 

Elizabethan and Seventeenth-Century Lyrics


Black (Ed.), Matthew W.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Lippincott , 1st , 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 624 pages. Spine lettering faded, otherwise very good.

Record # 302838


Price: $15.00 

 

Emerson as Poet


Waggoner, Hyatt H.

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.

Record # 854975


Price: $15.00 

 

Entropy Tango, The


Moorcock, Micael

hard back. London, New English Library, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illustrations by Romain Slocombe.

Record # 202370


Price: $25.00 

 

Erasable Walls - Poems


Larsen, Lance

Kalamazoo, MI, Western Michigan University, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Forward by Richard Howard

Record # 300012


Price: $15.00 

 

Essay on Rime With Trial of a Poet


Shapiro, Karl

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

Record # 304631


Price: $20.00 

 

Evergreen Review Reader - 1957-1967 - A Ten Year Anthology of America"s Leading Literary Magazine


Rosset (Editor), Barney/Evergreen Review

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.

Record # 613904


Price: $44.00 

Fables of La Fontaine, TheDe La Fontaine, Jean
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Fables of La Fontaine, The


De La Fontaine, Jean

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.

Record # 611535


Price: $500.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 


  
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