THE SAND CASTLE AND OTHER POEMS
London: Jonathan Cape, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. One of the forgotten poet's of the First World War, Abbott (1889-1971) is perhaps best known for his scholarly work as an editor of the papers of James... More
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INTERLUDES AND POEMS
London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Review copy, with the publisher's embossed stamp to the title page. The author's first book. A British poet and literary critic, Abercrombie (1881-1938) was one... More
NEW LEGENDS
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. The fourth collection of verse by Allen (1889-1949), the American author best known for his novel Anthony Adverse (1936). Presentation copy, inscribed by Allen to the... More
ORNAMENT OF HONOUR
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Cambridge: at the University Press, 1937. First edition. Altounyan (1890-1962 was a close friend of T.E. Lawrence, whom he met before the war when Lawrence was an... More
ANIMULA VAGULA
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. A poetic record of a series of profound emotional experiences, this collection takes its name from Hadrian's famous address to his fleeting soul. Bacon (1887-1954) was... More
ABC OF INFLUENCE: Ezra Pound and the Remaking of American Poetic Tradition
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Original black cloth binding, with silver titles. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. More
NOAH'S DOVE: A Book of Poems
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. The author's second book, a collection of 33 short poems. Benet was the sister of writer William Rose Benet and the poet... More
NOTHING IN THE WORD: Versions of Aztec Poetry, with watercolor collages
New York: Grossman Publishers, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. "...a collection of 50 Aztec poems rendered into English by Stephen Berg from the well-known Spanish versions of the 16th century Nahuatl by Angel Maria Garibay." Quarto... More
NO ONE WALKS WATERS
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. The fourth collection of verse by Father Berrigan (1921-2016), a Jesuit priest and poet whose defiant protests helped shape the tactics of opposition to the Vietnam... More
AN IRISH PRECURSOR OF DANTE: A Study on the Vision of Heaven and Hell ascribed to the Eighth-century Irish Saint Adamnan, with Translation of the Irish Text
New York: AMS Press, 1972. Hardcover. Reprint of the 1908 first edition. Small octavo. Original blue cloth binding, with gilt titles. Issued without a dust jacket. A very good copy. More
HISTORIE DE MARIE
Paris: Les Editions Pont de Jour, 1949. First Edition. Wraps. Limited to 2,600 copies, this is copy No. 407. A collection of poetry by the Hungarian-French photographer, sculptor, and writer, with an introduction by Henry... More
WHO IS SHE THAT LOOKETH FORTH AS THE MORNING
Santa Barbara, California: Capricorn Press, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Title page blocks cut by Graham Mackintosh. First edition, #39 of 250 copies designed by Noel Young and signed by the poet. Printed on Curtis Rag... More
GRAFFITI: For the Johns of Heaven
Mill Valley, California: Syzygy Press, 1982. First Edition. Trade paperback. Octavo. Original pictorial paper wrappers. A fine copy. More
STRAFFORD: An Historical Tragedy
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1837. First Edition. Hardcover. Browning's first play, written at the behest of English actor William Macready, who declared "Write a play, Browning, and keep me from going... More
DANGLING IN THE TOURNEFORTIA
Santa Barbara, California: Black Sparrow Press, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Bukowski (1920-94) writes of women, gambling, and booze in this collection of verse. Inscribed by Bukowski on the title page. Octavo. Original printed paper-covered boards... More
PLAY THE PIANO DRUNK LIKE A PERCUSSION INSTRUMENT UNTIL THE FINGERS BEGIN TO BLEED A BIT
Santa Barbara, California: Black Sparrow Press, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Quintessential Bukoswki, a collection of poems full of lechery and romance. Inscribed by Charles Bukowski on the title page. Octavo. Original printed paper-covered boards over... More
THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Trade paperback. Tall octavo. Original paper wrappers. A fine, unread copy. More
SELECTED POEMS
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1936. First edition. Hardcover. 259 p. Edited by Robert Hunt, with a Critical Preface by Paul Horgan. Bynner (1881-1968) was an American poet, writer and scholar, known for his long... More
DON JUAN, Cantos I - XVI
London: Thomas Davison [and] John Hunt, 1822-24. First Edition. Hardcover. The full octavo edition of Lord Byron's exuberant masterpiece, bound in six volumes. The first volume (Cantos I - II) is an early printing; the... More
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MARINO FALIERO, DOGE OF VENICE. An Historical Tragedy, in Five Acts. [and] THE PROPHECY OF DANTE, A Poem
London: John Murray, 1821. First Edition. Hardcover. The first issue with the Doge's speech on page 151 consisting of only five and a half lines and only 21 lines on page 154. The first of... More
ROMANTIC REBELS: Essays on Shelley and His Circle
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Original burgundy cloth binding, with silver titles. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. More
AND PASTURES NEW
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. 244 p. A collection of verso by the American poet and lawyer who is perhaps best known for his influential book Making a Poem: An... More
69 CHANSONS: 72 lithographies inedites de Paul Claude
1947. First Edition. Hardcover. This is #522 of 875 copies. A collection of bawdy ballads illustrated with erotic color lithographs. Text in French. Octavo. Textured paper-covered boards over a blue cloth spine, with gilt-stamped titles... More
HESIOD'S COSMOS
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. "...offers a comprehensive interpretation of both the Theogony and the Works and Days and demonstrates how the two Hesiodic poems must be read together as two halves... More
MIDDLE EARTH: Poems
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Winner of the 2004 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Signed by Cole on the title page and additionally inscribed by him on the front flyleaf to... More