Poetry

Book Description: 4 3/4 in. x 7 1/2 in., 74 pp., illustrated with black & white drawings, some material printed in Arabic. Gray paper-covered boards with titling in black on spine; design printed (unclipped) dustjacket. Dustjacket spine shows fading, light edge wear, inked underlining in introduction, writing on inner front dustjacket flap; page margins/edges show age-related tanning. Good/good. Seller Inventory # ABE-393118410

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Book Description: 4 3/4 in. x 7 1/2 in., 120 pp. Gray paper-covered boards with titling in black on spine; design printed (unclipped) dustjacket. Dustjacket spine shows fading, inked date on front panel of dustjacket (1967); pages show age-related tanning. Very good/good. Seller Inventory # ABE-393118530

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Book Description: Provensen, Alice (illustrator). 8" x 10", 44+pp., illustrated in color. Glossy, color pictorial paper covers. 4" crease to upper margin/corner of back cover, light wear to covers. Good. Seller Inventory # ABE-243965854

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Book Description: Soft cover. Condition: Good. From back cover: "Distributeurs au Canada: Editions Bernard Valiquette Case postale 26 - Station H - Montreal. Imprime au Canada". 5 x 7 1/2", 206+pp. Red & black printed paper wrappers. Front paper cover shows a half circular coffee stain, which has bled through lightly, to fep, halftitle. Printed on a newsprint type paper which shows browning to edges, general tanning, general wear to cover edges, corners, spine ends. Good. French text of "Poesies", first published in this form in 1931, this appears to be a post-1939, Canadian printing. Contains: "Album de Vers anciens"; "La Jeune Parque"; & "Charmes", with "Le Cimetiere marin". (French text). Seller Inventory # ABE-149838476

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Book Description: 5 3/4" x 8 5/8", 76 + pp. Color printed paper/card covers designed by Gina Davis, using a Will Barnet painting (Dawn) on the front cover. Light rubbing to outer covers. Near fine. Seller Inventory # H-14

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Book Description: 5 1/2" x 8 1/4", 63 pp. Glossy, color pictorial paper covers with panel from an Uccello painting (The Battle of San Romano), reproduced on the front cover. Light rubbing to surface of outer covers, small abrasion on half-titlepage. Very good. Seller Inventory # H-46

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Book Description: 5 3/4 in. x 8 1/4 in., xix, 407 pp., frontispiece is a repro. of the 1530 G. Braun map of Paris. Black cloth with titling on spine in orange, top-edge stained red. No dustjacket. Top-edge shows darkening, light edge wear, tanning to book fore-edge. Very good. Star Books edition. Seller Inventory # ABE-397764194

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Book Description: Tall 8vo., 327pp., illustrated with repros. of b + w photos. Pictorial wrappers. Slight tanning to spine, edges. NF. Seller Inventory # ABE-90020659

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Book Description: Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 5 3/3 in. x 8 3/4 in., photo-pictorial titlepage with reproductions of Rubens/J. Brueghel Eden painting, and Pieter Brueghel Land of Cockayne painting, in black & white photography; xxiii,272 pp., including references of works quoted. Yellow-orange cloth with titling, and cornucopia design gilt on spine, top-edge stained orange; pictorial (unclipped) dustjacket, designed by Mackay, using the Eden & Cockayne paintings on front panel. Spine shows fading, cocking, bumping to lower cover corners; dustjacket shows general edge wear with chipping, 2 in. tear across top margin of back panel and 1 in. split to lower edge of front panel. Good/good. Seller Inventory # ABE-216372409

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Book Description: 6" x 9", 215 pp. + Notes & Bibliography. Glossy, color pictorial design paper covers with watercolor/collage by Deirdre Scully on the front cover. Fine (as new copy). Contents: from The Marches (1967); from Avenue of The Americas (1971); from Scrap Book (1977); from Santiago Poems (1975); from Scrap Book (1977); from May Day (1980); from Apollo Helmet (1983); Afterword: Culture War. Some poems in these groups are uncollected; some are translations from Quechua & Aztec folksongs, etc. Seller Inventory # B-72

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Book Description: 5 3/4 in. x 8 1/2 in., 490 pp. + bibliography. Brown cloth with titling gilt on spine; glossy color printed (unclipped) dustjacket, reproducing a Charles Marburg painting on the front panel. Dustjacket spine shows light fading; top-edge of book is rubberstamped: "Withdrawn" in red, but no other types of markings are present. Very good/very good. Seller Inventory # H-106

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Book Description: 6 x 9", 50pp., 196 items offered + references cited. Printed pictorial white textured paper card covers with repro. of engraving of Milton on front cover, stapled, a page corner or two creased. NF. Excellent recent catalogue devoted to Milton. Seller Inventory # ABE-79394612

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Book Description: 6 x 9", 104pp., 446 items. Gray glossy paper card covers with title, design printed on front cover. NF. Excellent recent catalogue on this subject; good notes. Byron: #1-132; Keats: 204-257; Lamb: 258-293; P.B. Shelley: 318-394; Wordsworth: 409-430. Seller Inventory # ABE-91183002

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Book Description: 8vo., 211pp. Blue cloth spine, title in silver, black boards. Pictorial dj. (shows a very small nick near spine of dj.); small black remainder marker to lower edge at spine. NF/VG+. Seller Inventory # ABE-95444640

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Book Description: Tall 8vo., 73pp. Pictorial printed paper card covers. NF. Seller Inventory # ABE-95541932

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Book Description: 5 1/4" x 8", xii, 137 pp., Coburn frontispiece and illustrations. Louis Frechette's introduction is in French. Dark blue cloth with title gilt on spine and on front cover with gold-stamped design of the Habitant. No dustjacket. Label of The Old Corner Book Store, Boston on front endpaper, former owner's name in pencil at top of the endpaper, bookplate removed from front paste-down, front cover surface shows some nicks to cloth. Very good. Seller Inventory # B-204

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Book Description: 6" x 8 1/2", 515 pp. Glossy, color paper covers, designed by Cynthia Krupat, with a reproduction of a (c) Derek Walcott painting on front cover. Fine. Seller Inventory # H-2

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Book Description: 6 1/2" x 9 1/2", 102 + pp. Blacl cloth with titles gilt on spine and front cover, top-edge stained yellow, black endpapers; glossy color printed (price-clipped) dustjacket, designed by Muriel Nasser. Book edges show light fading, non-authorial, gift inscription in ink on half-title & library stamp on half-title (but not other library markings present on book or dustjacket); dustjacket is price-clipped, with small split to upper spine end, and some edge wear. Very good/good. Seller Inventory # ABE-353371188

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Book Description: 5 1/2 x 8 1/2", 103+pp., 1376+22 items. Pictorial glossy white paper covers; cover edges & corners show minor age, creasing. VG+. Innovative & scarce catalogue featuring books from nearly every 20th century English language poet, especially American, & some translations. Seller Inventory # ABE-66833610

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Book Description: 8vo., 95pp., many fine color repros. of paintings from the Victorian period. Blue cloth spine with gilt title; pictorial boards, in a sturdy pictorial slipcase. Ribbon marker. Finely produced anthology of poetry. Edges of book have been perfumed. Fine. Seller Inventory # ABE-89153727

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Book Description: Tall 8vo., ix, 308pp. Blue cloth with titles gilt on spine & front cover. No dj. Spine faded, back cover shows areas of damp stains to corner areas. G/. Presentation copy to a fellow professor at the University of Texas, signed on the fep: Inscribed for Dr. . and presented with the esteem of the author Floyd Stovall. Seller Inventory # ABE-147916110

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Book Description: 5 x 7", xx, 205pp. Maroon, ribbed cloth with title & tree design gilt on spine & blindstamped HM design on front cover. A few page corners were turned down near end. Age tanning to endpapers. No dj. VG+/. Contains: Wytter Bynner, Bliss Carman, P. L. Dunbar, Robert Frost, W. W. Gibson, Joyce Kilmer, Amy Lowell, E. L. Masters, Harriet Monroe, E. A. Robinson, Sara Teasdale, Louis Untermeyer & W. B. Yeats, among many others. Seller Inventory # ABE-149154864

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Book Description: 8vo., 92pp. Gray cloth with title on spine & front cover in brown; printed yellow dj. with woodcut design on front panel, author's photo on back panel. Dj. edges show slight age tanning, rubbing. Review copy with publisher's printed review slip laid in. NF/VG. Seller Inventory # ABE-149511450

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Book Description: 6 1/2 x 9 1/2", 16pp. with list of Agenda issues on inner back cover. Paper card covers with a typical design of a face & star & title lettering in English by Jean Cocteau in white on a black background; stapled. Outer covers how a little wear. VG. The Cocteau poem "Leoun" was written: 1942-44 & translated by Alan Neame in 1947-57. "There are too many little magazines. Few justify their existence. The use of a publication of this size is: first, to print creative work; secondly, to form a group or nucleus with the object of establishing criteria and thirdly, to serve as means of communication between those actively interested in the furtherance of civilization in general and the writing of poetry in particular." (from the front inner cover). Seller Inventory # ABE-150099758

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Book Description: 6 1/4" x 10", (4)pp., including titlepage, printed on specially watermarked RH (Random House) paper, with front & back flyleaves of the same paper. Gray, textured paper covers with title & design of a musical instrument on front cover, sewn. Very good; tiny ink spot to lower right corner of front cover, back cover lower corner/edge shows a light crease. Scan shows the front cover (which appears in a lighter shade of gray). "[-]Instruct her strictly to preserve Thy gift / And alter not its grain in atom sort; / Angels may wed her to their ultimate hurt / And men embrace a spectre in a shift / So that no drop of the pure spirit fall / Into the dust; defend Thy prodigal.". Seller Inventory # ABE-253883962

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Book Description: 7 in. x 10 1/4 in., x, 122 pp. Lavender cloth spine and sides with dark blue, marbled paper-covered boards, titling on spine in silver on dark blue, with art-deco influenced design of circles and stars in silver (a similar printed design appears on the titlepage), top-edge stained red (faded). Spine has faded, small hole to the cloth on front cover side near spine, cover edges are worn, cover surfaces show some rubbing, age-related tanning to endpapers, page margins. No dustjacket present; many pages are unopened. Good. Over 80 poems by this now nearly forgotten poet, and woman author, who also wrote cookbooks, and numerous how-to-do-books, marriage advice books, as well as collaborating with poet and anthologist Clement Wood; the dedication poem in this volume: "Acknowledgment", and another poem is for Wood, and another is dedicated to Elinor Wylie. Seller Inventory # ABE-395885528

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Book Description: 5 x 7 1/2", 21pp. Printed blue paper covers. Minor wear to yapp edges, otherwise a fine copy of this scarce reprint of then President of the Rowfant Club's Candlemas address. Regards English poet John Shirley: [.] "I wish to take you back to a Candlemas night in the fifteenth century to describe for you a different but no less interesting observance of our important evening. I am enabled to do this through the good offices of a London gentleman, John Shirley, of whom I would that we knew more. London born and bred he lived from 1366 to 1456, a remarkable ninety years [.]". Seller Inventory # ABE-121064480

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Book Description: Tall 8vo., 258pp. Glossy, white paper covers with photos on covers including June Bowers with Maine coon cat (Stormy Nimbus of Juno-Kats) by (editor) Mark Zaloudek on back cover. NF. Presentation copy, signed on half title: For. Marilyn's friend With best wishes June Bowers. Seller Inventory # ABE-135826834

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Book Description: 8vo., xxiv, 221pp. Dark blue cloth with title gilt on spine. No dj. Spine slightly faded; a few penciled lines in text margins. NF/. Seller Inventory # ABE-149155038

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Book Description: Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 4 1/2 in. x 6 1/2 in., xxiv, 451 (includes short notices of the poets, pp. 435-451). Dark brown cloth with gilt title & designs on spine and embossed titling, borders on the front cover, beveled edges. All edges gilt. All cover corners show wear, brown spotting to some pages. Bookbinder's label: J. F. Bosenberg, Leipzig. Faded gift inscription in German script in ink on (discolored) coated paper front endpaper: [-] Oct. 1875 Albert Dianiska (with a quotation from Ruckert). Former owner has added some silk ribbon bookmarks. Anthology of German religious poetry; poets include: F. Ahlfeld, H. C. Andersen, Arnim, Brentano, Chamisso, Droste-Hulshoff, Fontane, Fouque, Freilgrath, Heine, B. Hoch, Kerner, Lenau, Morike, Novalis, Platen, Ruckert, Storm, Uhland. Worn copy. German text. Seller Inventory # ABE-384023070

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