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Affirming Limits - Essays on Morality, Choice, and Poetic Form


Pack, Robert

Amherst MA, University of Massachusetts Press , 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 264 pages, hardcover. Light dust jacket edgewear, fade to spine.

Record # 602551


Price: $20.00 

 

African Treasury, An


Hughes (Editor), Langston

Hardcover. New York, Crown Publishers, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 207 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Stories, poems, articles, and essays on Africa, selected by Langston Hughes. Moderate edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket, mostly to spine. Fading and rubbing to dust jacket as well. Light bumping to spine and corners. Faint age toning to text block top edge. Unmarked. A tight and clean copy.

Record # 951810


Price: $19.00 

 

American Poetry - Wildness and Domesticity


Bly, Robert

NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 341 pages.

Record # 68334


Price: $15.00 

 

An Introduction to the French Poets


Brereton, Geoffrey

Hardcover. Fair Lawn, NJ, Essential Books, Inc., 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 302 pages. Dark red top edge. Edge wear, light soiling to dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 851382


Price: $12.00 

 

Argument And Song: Sources & Silences in Poetry


Plumly, Stanley

Hardcover. US, Handsel Books, 1st, 2003-12-17, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 322 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 465628


Price: $100.00 

 

Articulate Energy: An Enquiry into the Syntax of English Poetry


Davey, Donald

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, Brace, and Company, 1st US, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 173 pages. Pictorial dust jacket with slight foxing on bottom back cover. Slight browning on edges of front and back dust jacket flaps. Green boards with green writing on spine. Writing in pen on page 9. Stamping on dust jacket and front flyleaf.

Record # 850110


Price: $25.00 

 

Birth of Reason & Other Essays by George Santayana


Cory (Editor), Daniel

Hardcover. New York, Columbia University Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 184 pages. Light foxing to endpapers. Dust jacket worn, with chipping along edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610062


Price: $15.00 

Bloom's Modern Critical Views Robert Hayden Bloom, Sterling

Bloom's Modern Critical Views Robert Hayden


Bloom, Sterling

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Chelsea House Publications, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 278 pages. Hardcover with laminated boards. No dust jacket issued. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to covers.

Record # 470574


Price: $38.00 

 

Coherent Splendor - The American Poetic Renaissance - 1910-1950, A


Gelpi, Albert

Softcover. New York, Cambridge University Press, Reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 482 pages. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610065


Price: $23.00 

Columbia History of American Poetry, TheParini, Jay (editor)

Columbia History of American Poetry, The


Parini, Jay (editor)

Hardcover. New York, Columbia University Press, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 894 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 470645


Price: $25.00 

Columbia History of American Poetry, TheParini, Jay (editor)

Columbia History of American Poetry, The


Parini, Jay (editor)

Hardcover. New York, Columbia University Press, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 894 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 470598


Price: $25.00 

Curiosities: Poets on Poetry SeriesMatthews, William

Curiosities: Poets on Poetry Series


Matthews, William

Hardcover. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press , 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 172 pages, gray cloth covers. No dust jacket. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 408126


Price: $38.00 

 

Discoveries & Considerations - Essays on Early American Literature & Aesthetics Presented to Harold Jantz


Israel (Editor), Calvin

Hardcover. Albany, SUNY, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 216 pages. Black & white illustrations. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 609073


Price: $12.00 

 

Dome and the Rock - Structure in the poetry of Wallace Stevens, The


Baird, James

Hardcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 334 pages. Dust jacket with fading along edges, and spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610154


Price: $15.00 

 

Dome and the Rock, The - Structure in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens


Baird, James

Hardcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press, First Edition, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 334 pages. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards with silver titles to spine. Original dust jacket with sunfade to spine edge, light toning, price-clipped. Clean & unmarked text. Tight copy.

Record # 750811


Price: $19.00 

 

Donne's Poetry and Modern Criticism


Unger, Leonard

Chicago, Henry Regnery, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Dust jacket with major edgewear, chipping. previous owner's signature on front fly leaf.

Record # 201049


Price: $12.00 

 

Doubt and Identity in Romantic Poetry


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: $10.00 

 

Early Biographies of Samuel Johnson, The


Brack, Jr. (Editors), O. M./Robert E. Kelley

Hardcover. Iowa City, University of Iowa Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 367 pages. Black cloth covers show standard wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610096


Price: $13.00 

 

Edwin Arlington Robinson - A Critical Introduction


Anderson, Wallace L.

Hardcover. Cambridge, Harvard University, reprint, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 175 pages. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 606753


Price: $12.00 

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

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 

 

Emotive Image, The


Raspa, Anthony

Hardcover. Fort Worth, TX, Texas Christian University Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 183 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Small stain to bottom edge of dust jacket front. Otherwise tight copy.

Record # 471141


Price: $19.00 

 

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 

 

Essential Articles for the Study of John Donne's Poetry (The Essential Articles Series)


Roberts, John R. (Editor)

Hardcover. Hamden, CT, Archon Books, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 558 pages. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Cover boards bound in blue cloth, gilt title on spine (excellent). Some pencil marking inside, but light. Binding still quite tight and clean inside. A touch of foxing to endpapers. In great shape for its age.

Record # 31405


Price: $31.00 

 

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 

 

Improved Binoculars, The


Layton, Irving

Paperback. Ashville, NC, Jonathan Williams, 1st thus wraps, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Intro. by William Carlos Williams. The second printing (1,000 copies) with 30 additional poems by the Canadian poet. .

Record # 64229


Price: $23.00 

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

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 

 

Interviews with Robert Frost


Lathem (Ed.), Edward Connery

Hardcover. New York , Holt Rinehart Winston , 2nd pr., 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 295 pages, interviews from 70 sources. Bright, clean copy in an unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 408144


Price: $25.00 

 

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 

 

John Donne and the Theology of Language


Stanwood (Editors), P.G. and Heather Ross Asals

Hardcover. Columbia MO, University of Missouri Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 376 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. A framework for understanding the theological and rhetorical underpinnings of early seventeenth-century poetry and prose. Mild rubbing to dust jacket. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 952558


Price: $31.00 

Lives of the PoetsSchmidt, Michael

Lives of the Poets


Schmidt, Michael

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 975 pages. Light edgewear to pictorial dust jacket, upper edge of spine slightly bumped. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 453213


Price: $30.00 

 

Living Mirror, The: Five Poets From Leningrad


Massie (Ed.), Suzanne

London, Gollancz, 1st, 1972, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 344 pages in a lightly worn dust jacket. Previous owner's stamp on title page, otherwise clean, very good.

Record # 405578


Price: $25.00 

 

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


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: $11.00 

 

Louise Bogan - A Woman's Words


Smith, William Jay

Paperback. Washington, DC, Library of Congress, 1st wraps, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A lecture delivered in 1970 at the Library of Congress together with a detailed bibliography of Bogan's work. 81 pages. Paperback edition.

Record # 62511


Price: $25.00 

 

Madman of Ch'u - The Chinese Myth of Loyalty and Dissent, A


Schneider, Laurence A.

Hardcover. Berkeley, University of California, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 270 pages. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 604321


Price: $32.00 

 

Mortgaged Heart, The


McCullers, Carson

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1971, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping, tearing to spine, faded.

Record # 107009


Price: $35.00 

 

October 34 Magazine - Fall 1985


Krauss (Ed.), Rosalind and Annette Michelson

Softcover. Cambridge MA , MIT Press, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 119 pages plus ads, softcover, b&w illustrations. A quarterly journal of art criticism. Essays include Viktor Shklovsky on poetry and trans-sense language, Hal Foster on the primitive in modern art, Christian Metz on photography and fetish, an interview with video artist Bill Viola, other articles. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 406989


Price: $25.00 

 

On Frost - The Best From American Literature


Cady, Edwin & Louis J. Budd

Durham, NC, Duke University, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 255 pages. A collection of critical essays on the poet.

Record # 302033


Price: $20.00 

 

On Prose and Verse


Stephens, James

Hardcover. New York , The Bowling Green Press, limited ed, 1928, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 41 pages. limited to 1000 copies. Some wear and age-tanning to boards and spine with faded label. Light fraying to uopper edge of spine with 1/4" strip missing from lower edge. Previous owner's bookplate and yellow tape residue to end papers.

Record # 856856


Price: $19.00 

 

On the Poet and His Craft: Selected Prose of Theodore Roethke


Mills Jr. (Ed.), Ralph J.

Hardcover. Seattle WA, University of Washington Press , 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 154 pages, black cloth covers, lightly worn dust jacket with some mild soiling.

Record # 405946


Price: $25.00 

On William Stafford: The Worth of Local Things (Under Discussion)Andrews, Tom

On William Stafford: The Worth of Local Things (Under Discussion)


Andrews, Tom

Softcover. US, University of Michigan Press, 1st pb, 1995-05-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 281 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 464964


Price: $19.00 

 

Piers the Plowman


Langland, William/Margaret Williams (Translator)

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1971, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 366 pages. Previous owners name at top right corner of front endpaper. Green cloth cover with fading along edges. Dust jacket with wear along edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610681


Price: $15.00 

 

Poems of Doctor Zhivago, The


Davie, Donald

Hardcover. Manchester UK, Manchester University Press , 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 204 pages, beige cloth covers. Clean, no dust jacket.

Record # 406250


Price: $19.00 

 

Poems of Richard Barnfield, The


Barnfield, Richard

Hardcover. London, Fortune Press, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 135 pages. Limited edition of 500 - this being hand numbered #202. Purple paper over boards. Dust jacket age darkened with chipping and tears along edges. Front flap price clipped. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 608950


Price: $40.00 

 

Poet As Zimmer, Zimmer As Poet: On the Poetry of Paul Zimmer


Susina, Jan (Editor)

Softcover. Houston, Tex., Ford-Brown & Co_pub, 1st, 1985, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 119 pages. Inscribed post-it laid in. Light shelf-wear an tanning to wrappers with slight stain to front cover. Nice, tight copy.

Record # 459532


Price: $19.00 

 

Poet Auden, The - A Personal Memoir


Rowse, A.L.

Hardcover. London, Methuen, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 138 pages. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 604303


Price: $11.00 

 

Poetry & Repression: Revisionism from Blake to Stevens


Bloom, Harold

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 293 pages. Dark blue cloth, gilt title on spine. Dark blue dust jacket w/ minor edgewear and marking/rubbing. Former owner's name/date in upper righthand corner of front flyleaf. Newspaper article (review of the book) tucked into front end papers, caused some browning on the endpapers. Pages in great shape.

Record # 803799


Price: $19.00 

 

Poetry and Repression- Revisionism from Blake to Stevens


Bloom, Harold

New Haven, CT., Yale University Press, 1st , 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 293 pages. Light spotting to end papers, some pages with very light crease, otherwise very good.

Record # 302890


Price: $18.00 

 

Poetry and the Age


Jarrell, Randall

Hardcover. London, Faber, Reprint, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 240 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Mild soiling to dust jacket front cover. Light foxing on top edge and on dust jacket front flap. Unmarked. A bright and tight copy.

Record # 951115


Price: $31.00 

Poetry and the WorldPinsky, Robert

Poetry and the World


Pinsky, Robert

Hardcover. New York, ECCO Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 193 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Inside dust jacket shows water damage with ink transfer staining. Light edgewear on dust jacket and covers. Water stain on front spine edge of cloth covers. Gilt lettering on spine.

Record # 470619


Price: $15.00 

 

Poetry of Yevgeny Yevtushenko - Revised and Enlarged Edition, The


Reavey, George

Softcover. New York, October House Inc., Revised, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 274 pages. Softcover. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY EDITOR GEORGE REAVEY ON HALF TITLE PAGE AND ON TITLE PAGE. Covers with darkening to edges. Slight slant to spine. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 612394


Price: $31.00 

Poetry Reviews of Allen Tate 1924-1944 (Southern Literary Studies)Tate, Allen

Poetry Reviews of Allen Tate 1924-1944 (Southern Literary Studies)


Tate, Allen

Hardcover. US, Louisiana State Univ Pr, 1st thus, 1983-02-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 214 pages. Dust jacket spine is severely sun-faded, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 461480


Price: $11.00 

Poetry, Narrative, HistoryKermode, Frank

Poetry, Narrative, History


Kermode, Frank

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Blackwell Pub, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 144 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Some wear to dust jacket. Large scratch to dust jacket rear. Previous owner's inscription within. Otherwise a clean copy.

Record # 471457


Price: $10.00 

Poets Laureate Anthology, The Collins, Billy

Poets Laureate Anthology, The


Collins, Billy

Hardcover. US, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2010-10-04, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 762 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 465116


Price: $25.00 

Prose and Verse, OnStephens, James

Prose and Verse, On


Stephens, James

Hardcover. New York, The Bowling Green Press, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 41 pages. Hardcover. Limited to 1,000 copies. Book measures: 4.75" X 7.75". Clear plastic wrapper over covers. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 614151


Price: $31.00 

 

Prose of William Carlos Williams, The


Wagner, Linda Welshimer

Hardcover. Middletown, CT, Wesleyan University Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 234 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped. Previous owner signature on front flyleaf. Covered in green fabric, boards clean. Gilt title on spine. In very good shape considering age. Just a little foxing on edges and endpapers, and a touch of age wear to dust jacket. Clean inside.

Record # 30633


Price: $13.00 

 

Redress of Poetry, The


Heaney, Seamus

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st US, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 211 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Nobel Prize sticker on front cover of dust jacket. Clean and unmarked inside.

Record # 2230389


Price: $25.00 

 

Robert Creeley


Ford, Arthur

Hardcover. Boston, Twayne, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 159 pages, gilt titles on blue board, black & white frontispiece portrait of Creeley. Bright and clean copy.

Record # 62390


Price: $10.00 

Robert Hayden: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF HIS POETRYWilliams, Pontheolla T.

Robert Hayden: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF HIS POETRY


Williams, Pontheolla T.

Hardcover. Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 264 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 470575


Price: $38.00 

 

Romance of the Rose, The


de Lorris, Guillaume; de Meun, Jean

Softcover. Hanover, University Press of New England, reprint, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 450 pages. Softcover with light edge wear to paper wrappers. Charles Dahlberg is translator. Previous owner's signature on inside front wrapper. Clean, tight copy. Black and white illustration in rear.

Record # 30033


Price: $15.00 

 

Romantic Quest, The


Fairchild, Hoxie Neale

Hardcover. New York, Russell & Russell, Inc., Reprint, 1965, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 444 pages. Red cloth covers with fading to spine, and areas of spotting. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610068


Price: $19.00 

 

Saint John Perse: A Study of His Poetry


Knodel , Arthur

Hardcover. U.K., Edinburgh University Press, 1st, 1966, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 214 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Previous owner's bookplate on front endpapers. Price-clipped. Heavy rubbing and fading to dust jacket. Light pencil marking to front panel of dust jacket as well. Heavy edgewear to dust jacket top edge. Age toning to top text block edge as well. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 952168


Price: $15.00 

 

Seamus Heaney


Vendler, Helen

Hardcover. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 188 pages. Hardcover. Degree of fading to front of dust jacket. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 613080


Price: $15.00 

 

Selected Works of Stephen Vincent Benet (2 Vols.)


Benet, Stephen Vincent

Hardcover. NY, Farrar & Rinehart, 1st, 1942, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Vol I: Poetry 487 pages. Vol II: Prose 483 pages. Spine lettering faded.

Record # 60137


Price: $18.00 

 

Selected Writings - Poetry and Criticism


Read, Herbert

London, Faber & Faber, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 406 pages.

Record # 305249


Price: $15.00 

 

Self-Interviews


Dickey, James

New York, Doubleday, 1st , 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY DICKEY on title-page.

Record # 62319


Price: $28.00 

 

Senecan Amble, The: A Study i Prose Form From Bacon to Collier


Williamson, George

Hardcover. London, Faber and Faber Limited, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 377 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. Previous owners inscription on front flyleaf. Red fabric covered boards are in great shape. Pages and edges are lightly yellow from age. dust jacket shows some age wear, yellowing, fraying at top and bottom of spine, otherwise intact and in good shape and covered with protected plastic book cover. From the front flap: "This study is concerned with the vicissitudes of Senecan imitation and Senecan prose theory between the Renaissance and the age of Pope. It defines the course of English prose style in the period by an analysis of two rival schools of imitations, the Ciceronian and the Senecan."

Record # 30487


Price: $23.00 

Shakespeare: The Tragedies (Analysing Texts)Marsh, Nicholas

Shakespeare: The Tragedies (Analysing Texts)


Marsh, Nicholas

Softcover. New York, St. Martins Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 230 pages. Softcover with light edgewear to wrappers.

Record # 470422


Price: $23.00 

Sinful Self, Saintly Self: The Puritan Experience of PoetryHammonds, JeffreyA.

Sinful Self, Saintly Self: The Puritan Experience of Poetry


Hammonds, JeffreyA.

Hardcover. Athens GA, University of Georgia Press , 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 305 pages, dust jacket with small scar to front panel otherwise very good. "[A] comprehensive study of early New England verse in light of Puritan notions regarding the nature and uses of poetry. Through a new historical reading of three major Puritan poets--Michael Wigglesworth, Anne Bradstreet, and Edward Taylor--Hammond reconstructs this aesthetic framework using Puritan theology and assumptions about the psychology of the saved soul."

Record # 411441


Price: $19.00 

 

Six Tennyson Essays


Tennyson, Sir Charles

Hardcover. London, Cassell & Co. Ltd. , 1st, 1954, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 197 pages Hardcover. AUTHOR'S SIGNATURE PASTED BENEATH TITLE ON TITLE PAGE. Moderate rubbing to green cloth covers. Dust jacket with a degree of darkening along edges. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 612217


Price: $31.00 

So Long as Men Can Breathe: The Untold Story of Shakespeare's SonnetsHeylin, Clinton

So Long as Men Can Breathe: The Untold Story of Shakespeare's Sonnets


Heylin, Clinton

Hardcover. Philadelphia, PA, Da Capo Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. A tight copy.

Record # 471486


Price: $15.00 

 

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 

 

Style and Theme in Reverdy's Les Ardoises du toit


Rizzuto, Anthony

Hardcover. University, AL, University of Alabama Press, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 204 pages. Reviewer copy with laid-in note from publisher. Some edgewear, rubbing to dust jacket. Else a nice copy.

Record # 851711


Price: $10.00 

 

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 

Sumac Reader, The Bednarik, Joesph (editor)

Sumac Reader, The


Bednarik, Joesph (editor)

Softcover. East Lansing, Michigan State University Press, reprint, 1997, East Lansing, Michigan State University Press, reprint, 1997, 238 pages. Softcover. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. . Record # 467453

Record # 467453


Price: $10.00 

Telling the Barn Swallow: Poets on the Poetry of Maxine KuminGrosholz, ed., Emily

Telling the Barn Swallow: Poets on the Poetry of Maxine Kumin


Grosholz, ed., Emily

Hardcover. Hanover, N. H., University Press of New England, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 198 pages, review slips laid in, very clean, tight copy.

Record # 800744


Price: $6.00 

 

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

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 

 

Tradition in the Making of Modern Poetry - Volume I


Sergeant, Howard

London, Britannicvs Liber Limited, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 122 pages.

Record # 65727


Price: $8.00 

 

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)

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 

WHY SPEAK? POEMSBellows, Nathaniel

WHY SPEAK? POEMS


Bellows, Nathaniel

hardcover. New York, W.W. Norton, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, New York, W.W. Norton, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust jacket: Very Good, HARDCOVER. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.. 85 pages. Record # 467309

Record # 467309


Price: $10.00 

 

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 

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