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A Life of Kenneth Rexroth


Hamalian, Linda

New York, Norton, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 444 pages. Black & white photographs and paintings by Kenneth Rexroth.

Record # 204399


Price: $18.00 

 

Ah, Sweet Dancer - W.B. Yeats and Margot Ruddock.


McHugh (editor), Roger

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, 1st us, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 144 pages. Price-clipped dust jacket has small abrasion on back otherwise good. Covers are a deep pink with gilt lettering on spine. Previous owner's marking on copyright page. Fore edge untrimmed.

Record # 613304


Price: $15.00 

 

Aleksandr Blok: A Life


Berberova, Nina

Hardcover. Boston, G. Braziller, 1st US, 1996, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Transl. from French by Robyn Marsack

Record # 55758


Price: $20.00 

 

Alexander Pope


Fraser, G.S.

hardcover. London , Routledge & Kegan Paul Books, 1st, 1978, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 134 pages. Hardcover. Gilt titles on spine. Slight fading to dust jacket spine. Some water damage to several pages, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 468791


Price: $10.00 

 

Allen Ginsberg in America


Kramer, Jane

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 202 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket with light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611604


Price: $23.00 

American Isis: The Life and Art of Sylvia PlathRollyson, Carl

American Isis: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath


Rollyson, Carl

Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 336 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures in center.

Record # 470167


Price: $13.00 

 

Anna Akhmatova: Poet and Prophet


Reader, Roberta

Hardcover. New York, St. Martins Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 619 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. The tragic story of one our century's greatest poets. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. With black-and-white photographs throughout. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951580


Price: $29.00 

 

ANNALS OF AN ARTISTS LIFE, THE (3vols.)


Watts, M. S., George

Hardcover. New York, Hodder & Stoughton, unknown, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Three Volumes. 329, 352, 329 uncut pages. Illustrated with 37 plates. Watts, George Frederic. 1817-1904. English painter and sculptor. Exhibited A Wounded Heron (1837); won prize (1842) for cartoon Caractacus; won British competition in oils (1847) with King Alfred; commissioned to fresco George and the Dragon in Hall of Poets of the Houses of Parliament (1848-53). Painted series of about 300 portraits of distinguished contemporaries (1864-95), including Garibaldi, Thiers, Guizot; painted symbolical pictures and moral allegories including Life' s Illusions (1849), Watchman, What of the Night (1880), Hope (1886), Love and Death (1877, 1896); as sculptor executed monuments including bronze equestrian statues of Hugo Lupus (1884) and Physical Energy (1904). Volume Three with one small spot along outer front hinge edge, this volume VG. Volumes One and Two Fine.

Record # 220695


Price: $32.00 

Anne Sexton: A BiographyMiddlebrook, Diane Wood

Anne Sexton: A Biography


Middlebrook, Diane Wood

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 488 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout.

Record # 470404


Price: $15.00 

 

Army Brat: A Memoir


Smith, William Jay

Hardcover. New York, Persea Books, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 225 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Black and white photos in center. Light wear to edges of dust jacket.

Record # 2233380


Price: $15.00 

 

At the Pines - Swinburne and Watts-Dunton in Putney


Panter-Downes, Mollie

hardcover. Boston, Gambil, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illust. 196 pages.

Record # 64592


Price: $20.00 

 

Auden - An American Friendship


Miller, Charles H.

Hardcover. NY, Scribners, 1st , 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. Dust jacket price clipped

Record # 54189


Price: $20.00 

 

Auden


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: $8.00 

 

Auden


Davenport-Hines, Richard

Hardcover. New York, Pantheon, 1st US, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 406 pages, with b&w photographs. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, spotless and tight copy.

Record # 456795


Price: $12.00 

 

Baudelaire in Chains: A Portrait of the Artist as a Drug Addict


Hilton, Frank

Hardcover. London, Peter Owen, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 269 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Black covers, gilt title on spine. Clean inside and out. In great condition. Frank Hilton discusses the effect opium addiction had on Baudelaire's career as a poet and artist.

Record # 31422


Price: $19.00 

Baudelaire's "Argot Plastique": Poetic Caricature and ModernismMcLees, Ainslie Armstrong

Baudelaire's "Argot Plastique": Poetic Caricature and Modernism


McLees, Ainslie Armstrong

Hardcover. Athens, GA, University of Georgia Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Some soiling to dust jacket. An otherwise clean copy with minor wear to dust jacket edges. Black and white illustrations throughout. A tight copy.

Record # 471592


Price: $19.00 

 

Baudelaire


Starkie, Enid

Hardcover. New York, New Directions Book, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 623 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket shows heavy wear and fraying/chipping. Light soil to pages. Tight copy.

Record # 2233419


Price: $15.00 

BaudelaireTroyat, Henri

Baudelaire


Troyat, Henri

Softcover. Paris, Flammarion, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 399 pages. Softcover. Previous owners inscription to front edge. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Black and white photographs throughout.

Record # 471591


Price: $15.00 

Betjeman: A LifeWilson, A. N.

Betjeman: A Life


Wilson, A. N.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1st US, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 375 pages. B&W photographs and illustrations. Pictorial dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt title to spine. Erratum laid-in. Overall, a clean, tight copy.

Record # 850814


Price: $18.00 

 

Bird of Utica, The - Life, Thought and Art of Sylvia H. Bliss (1870-1963)


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: $8.00 

 

Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath


Stevenson, Anne

Hardcover. Boston MA, Houghton Miflin, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 413 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Perceptive work on Sylvia Plath's life and death and writing. Moderate rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Light fading to dust jacket. Mild age toning to text block edges. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 952585


Price: $13.00 

 

Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath


Stevenson, Anne

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 413 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Cover boards bound in red cloth, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent, has just a touch of tanning to flaps.

Record # 31998


Price: $19.00 

 

Bondage of Love, The - A Life of Mrs. Samuel Taylor Coleridge


Lefebure, Molly

Paperback. NY , Paragon House, reprint wraps, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, B&w illustrations. 290 pages. Paperback.

Record # 203717


Price: $15.00 

Broken Hallelujah, A: Rock and Roll, Redemption, and the Life of Leonard CohenLeibovitz, Liel

Broken Hallelujah, A: Rock and Roll, Redemption, and the Life of Leonard Cohen


Leibovitz, Liel

Hardcover. New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 288 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout.

Record # 470519


Price: $15.00 

 

Byron - The Flawed Angel


Grosskurth, Phyllia

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illust.

Record # 55746


Price: $30.00 

 

Charles Bukowski - Locked in the Arms of Crazy Life


Sounes, Howard

Hardcover. NY, Grove Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Black & white photos.

Record # 101420


Price: $15.00 

Conversations With Joseph Brodsky: A Poets Journey Through The Twentieth CenturyVolkov, Solomon

Conversations With Joseph Brodsky: A Poets Journey Through The Twentieth Century


Volkov, Solomon

Hardcover. New York, Free Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 306 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 459526


Price: $19.00 

 

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 

 

Dylan Thomas - No Man More Magical


Sinclair, Andrew

Hardcover. New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1st, 1975, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 240 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Top of spine chewed with similar damage at top of dust Jacket - Text and strength of spine not effected by damage. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 609358


Price: $15.00 

Federico Garcia Lorca: A LifeGibson, Ian

Federico Garcia Lorca: A Life


Gibson, Ian

hardcover. New York, Pantheon Books, 1st US , 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 551 pages. Hardcover. 16 pages of b&w photographs. Some shelf wear to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 469133


Price: $15.00 

 

Gabriele d'Annunzio: Poet, Seducer, and Preacher of War


Hughes-Hallett, Lucy

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 589 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Remainder mark on bottom text block. Tight copy. Light rubbing to dust jacket.

Record # 2233458


Price: $23.00 

 

Gabriele d'Annunzio: Poet, Seducer, and Preacher of War


Hughes-Hallett, Lucy

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 589 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Remainder mark on bottom text block. Tight copy. Light rubbing to dust jacket.

Record # 2233457


Price: $23.00 

 

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 

 

Her Husband: Hughes and Plath - A Marriage


Middlebrook, Diane

Hardcover. NY, Viking, reprint, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 361 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. The story of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath's marriage. Edgewear to dust jacket top edge. Light rubbing to dust jacket. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951268


Price: $16.00 

 

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 

 

Indigo Bunting, The - A Memoir of Edna St. Vincent Millay


Sheean, Vincent

Hardcover. New York, Schocken Books, First Thus, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 131 pages. Hardcover. Blue boards with gilt titles to ivory cloth spine. Original dust jacket with light toning, small tears edges & price-clipped. Blue top edge. Previous owner's signature to front flyleaf. Tight binding, sharp corners, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 751185


Price: $23.00 

 

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 

 

Interviews with Robert Frost


Lathem, Edward Connery

Hardcover. NY, Holt Rinehart Winston, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 54418


Price: $25.00 

James Merrill: Life and ArtHammer, Langdon

James Merrill: Life and Art


Hammer, Langdon

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 944 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 470172


Price: $31.00 

Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 - 2 VolumesRichards, Laura E./Maud Howe Elliott/Florence Howe Hall

Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 - 2 Volumes


Richards, Laura E./Maud Howe Elliott/Florence Howe Hall

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1916, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2 hardcover volumes. Ex-library set with bookplates and stamps on front endpapers, and labels at bottom at bottom of spines. Top edges gilt. Slight fade to spines. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 614004


Price: $63.00 

 

Kahlil Gibran - His Life and World


Gibran, Jean/Kahlil Gibran

Hardcover. Boston, New York Graphic Society, 1st, 1974, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 442 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners inscription on front endpaper. Black & white illustrations. Dust jacket with wear along edges. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 613176


Price: $25.00 

 

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


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: $11.00 

 

Life of Dylan Thomas, The


Fitzgibbon, Constatntine

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st US, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, b&w photos

Record # 11913


Price: $10.00 

 

Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley, The


Dowden, Edward

Hardcover. London, Kegan Paul, Reprint, 1920, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 602 pages. Top edges of pages uncut. front hinge weak. Small closed tears at top of spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 607771


Price: $12.00 

 

Life of the Sufi Poet of Love, The


Gooch, Brad

Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 377 pages. Hardcover. Decked foreedge. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Buff cover boards, blue quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Spine slightly cocked. Binding tight. Pages clean. In great shape. The life of Rumi, a Persian poet and Sufi mystic born more than 8 centuries ago.

Record # 32124


Price: $15.00 

 

Like One That Dreamed: A Portrait of A. M. Klein


Caplan, Usher

Toronto, McGraw-Hill Ryerson Companies, 1982, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 220 pages. Black and white photographs throughout. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Photographs edited by David Kaufman. Forward by Leon Edel.

Record # 604812


Price: $19.00 

 

Lives Like Loaded Guns - Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds


Gordon, Lyndall

Hardcover. New York, Penguin Group, First US, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 491 pages. Hardcover. Grey boards with gilt titles to red cloth spine. Black & white illustrations throughout. Dust jacket with light marginal wear to edges. Tight binding, sharp corners, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 750981


Price: $19.00 

 

Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds


Gordon , Lyndall

Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st US, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 491 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. The story behind the enigma of Emily Dickinson and her family's feuds for control of her unpublished manuscripts. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Black-and-white photographs throughout. Unmarked. Bright and clean, a tight copy

Record # 951575


Price: $24.00 

Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's FeudsGordon, Lyndall

Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds


Gordon, Lyndall

Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st US, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 512 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Price clipped dust jacket. Black and white illustrations throughout. A tight copy.

Record # 471731


Price: $19.00 

 

Lorca: A Dream of Life


Stainton, Leslie

Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 579 pages, with black & white photographs. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and bright copy.

Record # 457959


Price: $13.00 

 

Mad Girl's Love Song


Wilson, Andrew

Hardcover. New York, Scribner, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 368 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Sylvia Plath and life before her relationship with poet Ted Hughes. With black-and-white photographs. Mild edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket, light bumping to corners as well. Unmarked. A bright and tight copy.

Record # 951572


Price: $24.00 

 

Marina Tsvetaeva: The Double Beat of Heaven and Hell


Feiler, Lily

Hardcover. Durham, NC, Duke University Press, reprint, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 299 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Biography of noted Russian poet. Light fading to dust jacket spine. Edgewear to dust jacket top edge. Foxing to all copy edges; mild foxing to first four pages, to top edges.

Record # 951271


Price: $31.00 

My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet's Life in the Palestinian CenturyHoffman, Adina

My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet's Life in the Palestinian Century


Hoffman, Adina

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 454 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED by Translator on title page. B&w photographs throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 468086


Price: $15.00 

 

My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson


Emily..., The Life of

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st Ed, 2nd Printing, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 764 pages, with illustrations. Minor dust jacket edge wear, light spotting on top edge, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 456798


Price: $20.00 

 

Nancy Cunard: Brave Poet, Indomitable Rebel 1896-1965


Ford (Editor), Hugh

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Chilton Book Company, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 383 pages. Hardcover. 8 pages of black & white photographs. Foxing to top edge. Light wear to dust jacket edges. Clean, unmarked pages.

Record # 613692


Price: $25.00 

 

Nightingale Fever - Russian Poets in Revolution


Hingley, Ronald

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, black & white frontis.

Record # 101185


Price: $16.00 

Pablo Neruda: A Passion for LifeFeinstein, Adam

Pablo Neruda: A Passion for Life


Feinstein, Adam

Hardcover. New York, Bloomsbury USA, 1st US, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 510 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy. Black and white photographs throughout.

Record # 471817


Price: $23.00 

 

Paradise, Piece by Piece


Peacock, Molly

Hardcover. NY, Riverhead, 1st , 1998, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine,

Record # 53123


Price: $20.00 

 

Paul Eluard - Collection Saint-Denis, Musee d'art et d'histoire


Collection de Saint-Denis

Softcover. Bournemouth, Parkstone Musees, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 202 pages. Softcover. Text in French. Many black & white illustrations. Light rubbing to covers. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611294


Price: $188.00 

 

Paul Vel

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 196 pages, hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front flyleaf. FRENCH TEXT. Burgundy cloth boards with gilt titling to spine. Light fading to spine. Minor rubbing and edgewear to boards. Light bumping to corners. Mild age toning to text block edges. Light penciling throughout. A tight copy.

Record # 952054


Price: $31.00 

 

Personality of Jonathan Swift, The


Ehrenpreis, Irvin

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 158 pages. Hardcover. Cover boards bound in red cloth, gilt title on spine. Cover boards have a touch of fading at edges, otherwise very good. Pages and edges slightly tanned from age. In beautiful condition. Book not only looks at the Irish satirist's life, but his strong points of view.

Record # 32037


Price: $15.00 

 

Pier Paolo Pasolini: Cinema as Heresy


Greene, Naomi

Hardcover. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, Reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 249 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Light (erasable) pencil notes/underlining in a few places. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. Dust jacket unclipped, has some chipping on front cover, very good. Cover boards bound in green cloth, gilt title on spine. Front cover board has a bump/dent and some fading (see image). Binding tight, spine straight. Greene reveals to English-speaking readers the diverse talents that made Pasolini one of the most controversial European intellectuals of the postwar era, at the center of political and cultural debates still vital to our time.

Record # 32369


Price: $23.00 

 

Restless Spirit, A: The Story of Robert Frost


Bober, Natalie S.

Hardcover. US, Henry Holt & Co, 2nd, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 197 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with minor edgewear on dust jacket and

Record # 2230253


Price: $19.00 

 

Revolutionary Poet in the United States, The


McGrath, Thomas; Stern, Frederick C. (EDITOR)

Hardcover. Columbia, University of Missouri Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 199 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean. tight copy with little to no wear to covers. Dust jacket lightly faded.

Record # 2233453


Price: $25.00 

 

Richard Crashaw: A Study in Baroque Sensibility


Warren, Austin

Hardcover. University, Louisiana State University Press, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 260 pages. Seven b&w illustrations. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Light foxing to edges. Decorative stain to top edge. LIght chipping and wear to dust jacket. Else a nice, tight copy.

Record # 851687


Price: $25.00 

 

Robert Burns - The Man and the Poet


Fitzhugh, Robert T.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white illust. color frontis. light wear, soil to dj

Record # 52997


Price: $20.00 

 

Robert Frost - The Early Years 1874-1915


Thompson, Lawrence

Hardcover. New York , Holt Rinehart Winston , 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, illustrated. 642 pages. light wear, soil to dj

Record # 175281


Price: $20.00 

 

Robert Frost and the Lawrence, Massachusetts High School Bulletin


Lathem, Edward Cnnery and Lawrence Thompson

Hardcover. NY, Grolier Club, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Ltd to 1200. Printed by the Stinehour Press

Record # 109065


Price: $51.00 

 

Robert Frost and the Lawrence, Massachusetts, High School Bulletin: The Beginning of a Literary Career


Connery Lathem, Edward

Hardcover. New York, Grolier Club, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 94 pages. Hardcover with plastic protective cover. Ivory pages with illustrations in black and white. Clean, tight copy. Gilt top edge.

Record # 2233170


Price: $38.00 

 

Robert Frost: A Pictorial Chronicle


Morrison, Kathleen

Hardcover. New York, Holt, Rinehart, Winston, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 133 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. Tan boards, brown cloth spine, gilt. Pictorial dust jacket is good with tanning and stain on front cover.

Record # 803938


Price: $26.00 

 

Robert Lowell: A Biography


Hamilton, Ian

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st Edition, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 527 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Deckled foreedge. Cover boards bound in burgundy cloth, gilt title on spine and front cover board. Dust jacket unclipped, very good, wrapped in protective clear plastic brodart. Pages clean. Binding tight. Spine straight. This definitive biography is the first extended study of the life and works of the poet Robert Lowell.

Record # 32455


Price: $23.00 

 

Rough Magic - A Biography of Sylvia Plath


Alexander, Paul

Hardcover. New York, Viking Penguin, 1st Edition, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 402 pages. Hardcover. Black & white photographs throughout. Dust jacket with only minor wear. Clean, unmarked & tight copy.

Record # 750130


Price: $15.00 

 

Savage Beauty


Milford, Nancy

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 550 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Compelling biography of famed poet. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Light scuffing and marking to rear dust jacket upper edge. Slight bumping to spine. Rough-cut fore edge. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 952396


Price: $23.00 

Screaming with joy: the life of Allen GinsbergCaveney, Graham

Screaming with joy: the life of Allen Ginsberg


Caveney, Graham

Hardcover. New York, Broadway Books, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 216 pages. Hardcover. Extensive b&w photography throughout. Some edge wear to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 468990


Price: $15.00 

Seamus Heaney In Conversation with Karl MillerMiller, Karl

Seamus Heaney In Conversation with Karl Miller


Miller, Karl

Softcover. London, Between the Lines, Reprint, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 112 Pages. Softcover with light edgewear. Tight copy.

Record # 470626


Price: $23.00 

Selected Letters of Charles Reznikoff 1917-1976Hindus (Ed.), Milton

Selected Letters of Charles Reznikoff 1917-1976


Hindus (Ed.), Milton

Softcover. Santa Rosa, Black Sparrow Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 343 pages. Softcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Clean inside and out.

Record # 30289


Price: $19.00 

 

Selected Poems Francis Thompson


Thompson, Francis/Wilfrid Meynell

Hardcover. New York, John Lane Company, First Edition, 1909, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 141 pages. Hardcover. Green cloth covered boards with gilt decoration & gilt titles to cover & spine. Gilt top edge. Deckled bottom & side edges. Previous owner's signature in pencil to prelim page. Frontis illustration, Francis Thompson, in black & white, protected with tissue guard. Light toning throughout. Otherwise very clean & unmarked.

Record # 751186


Price: $25.00 

 

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 

 

Tsvetaeva


Schweitzer, Viktoria

Softcover. New York, Noonday Press, reprint, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 413 pages, bright, clean paperback edition.

Record # 405016


Price: $10.00 

 

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 

Yeats at WorkBradford, Curtis

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 

YeatsTuohy, Frank

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