Category: Poetry

19 Million Elephants and other poems [nineteen]

Price: $11.60

Publisher: Boston, Massachusetts, Houghton Mifflin : 1950

Seller ID: 35603

Octavo, 8 1/4" tall, 115 pages, blue boards. A very good, clean, neat hard cover first edition with minor shelf wear minor light soiling to the cover edges, hinges and binding tight, paper just lightly yellowed. In a good, moderately worn dust jacket with edge chipping especially at the top edge of the front panel, and with original price.
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99 PATCHES.

By: Summers, Lucy Cooper.

Price: $15.20

Publisher: New York, New York, Carlton Press : 1969

Seller ID: 8484

Binding: Hardcover--cloth

Condition: Near Fine/Very Good

Inscribed and signed by the author on the rear endpaper. Octavo, 8 1/4" tall, 64 pages, blue cloth. Includes illustrations from originals by Muriel Cooper Clark. A near fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with light shelf wear, hinges and binding tight, paper white. In a very good dustjacket with minor edge wear.
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: Zen Monk Poet of Japan (Translations from the Oriental Classics)

By: Ryokan; Watson, Burton

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Columbia University Press : 1977-01-01

Seller ID: 55359

ISBN-13: 9780231044141

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 126 pages, brown cloth. A near fine, clean, neat hard cover edition with light shelf wear, paper cream white ; binding tight. Without dust jacket.
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A Book of Yale Review Verse. Poems from twenty-seven poets, including Katharine Lee Bates, Henry A. Beers, Madison Cawein, Robert Frost, Brian Hooker, Amy Lowell, Walter de la Mare, John Masefield, Sara Teasdale, Louis Untermeyer.

By: {The Yale Review}

Price: $7.60

Publisher: New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press : 1917

Seller ID: 12226

Binding: Quarter vellum with paper over boards.

Condition: Good

Octavo, 7 1/2" tall. ix+61 pages, ex-library, gilt title on backstrip, paper label on front panel. A good, clean, sturdy, hardcover first edition with library notations to backstrip and title page, library embossed stamps on title page and one inside page, library bookplate on front endpaper and pocket on rear endpaper, moderate shelf wear with two corners worn to board, hinges and binding tight, yellowing to page edges, pages just lightly yellowed. Interior condition of binding and pages is very good.
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A Cage of Birds

By: Helen Fountain

Price: $15.20

Publisher: Francestown, New Hampshire, The Golden Quill Press : 1970

Seller ID: 5961

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine / Very Good

Signed and inscribed by the author on the front endpaper. Octavo, 8" tall, 80 pages. leatherette spine over orange cloth. A near fine, clean, hardcover first edition with little shelf wear, but a slight split to the synthetic leatherette at the top of the front hinge, hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a very good, price-clipped dust jacket with small chips at the folds, light soiling along front margin, and soiling to the back panel.
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A Calendar of Poems.

By: John Curley

Price: $3.60

Publisher: Self published : 1979

Seller ID: 22139

Binding: Original Wraps

Condition: Very Good

Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 24 pages, wire saddle stitch, stiff wraps. A very good, clean, neat soft cover with minor shelf wear, with a crease; binding tight, interior clean and bright.
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A Chosen Few from Abraham to Gladstone; six-score vignettes in Verse.

By: Charles Barton, editor

Price: $36.00

Publisher: London, England, C. W. Daniel : 1930

Seller ID: 18986

Binding: Hardcover--cloth

Condition: Near Fine/Very Good

Octavo, 8" tall, 267pages, blue quarter-cloth over beige cloth, paper spine label. A near fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with light shelf wear and rubbing at the corners, hinges and binding tight, paper lightly yellowed. In a very good , lightly worn dust jacket. A very nice copy .
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A Joy Proposed

By: White, T. H. ; Sprague, Kurth.

Price: $12.50

Publisher: University of Georgia Press : 1980

Seller ID: 62464

ISBN-13: 9780820306377

Binding: hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Octavo, 8 3/4? tall, xiii + 73 pages, blue cloth. A very good, clean, neat hard cover with minor shelf wear and slight color loss at the bottom cover ed, gently read, binding tight, paper cream white. In a near fine, lightly worn dust jacket with the original price present.
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A Letter to Lucian and Other Poems

By: Alfred Noyes

Price: $7.60

Publisher: London, England, John Murray : 1956

Seller ID: 5775

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good/Very Good

Duodecimo, 7 1/2" tall, 102 pages, red boards. A very good+, clean, little used hardcover with light shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper lightly yellowed, But with a long birthday gift inscription on the front endpaper. In a very good+, clean dust jacket light edge wear and with original price.
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A LONELY FLUTE.

By: Shepard, Odell.

Price: $28.00

Publisher: Boston, Massachusetts, Houghton Mifflin Co. : 1917

Seller ID: 8475

Binding: Decorative Cloth

Condition: Very Good

12mo, 7 1/4" tall, 82 pages, maroon cloth with gilt titles and top edge. A very good, clean, sturdy hard cover first edition with minor shelf wear rubbing, one corner lightly bumped, hinges and binding tight, paper lightly yellowed. Without dust jacket.
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A Nip In The Air

By: John Betjeman

Price: $9.50

Publisher: W. W. Norton : 1974-01-01

Seller ID: 59345

ISBN-13: 9780393044157

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Octavo, 8 2/3? tall, 62 pages, gilt spine titles on dark blue cloth. A near fine, clean, neat hard cover with light shelf wear, binding tight, paper cream white. In a very good, moderately worn dust jacket with the original price clipped
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A Romance in Smoke

By: Daniel C. Reynolds; illustrated by Walter Fr. Brown

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Providence, Rhode Island, Privately Printed : 1876

Seller ID: 26523

Binding: Decorative Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Quarto, 10 3/4" tall, 26 pages + 10 black and white plates, gilt titles, blind stamped black and red cloth. A very good, clean, hardcover overall, BUT cover cloth faded at the fore-margins and worn through to boards at the fore-corner tips; hinges and binding solid, text paper moderately yellowed, plate paper lightly yellowed.
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A Small Book Of Poems.

By: Laughlin. James

Price: $28.00

Publisher: Milan, New Directions : 1948

Seller ID: 15846

Binding: Original Wraps

Condition: Good

Edition limited to 500, this copy #29. 64mo, 4" tall, unpaginated (approx. 32 pages), stiff blue paper covered wraps. A good, clean, edge worn copy with chipping started at the back strip edges; binding solid, paper moderately yellowed.
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A Vagrant and other poems

By: David Gascoyne

Price: $9.50

Publisher: John Lehmann: London : 1950

Seller ID: 60912

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Sold as a reading copy only. Octavo, 8 3/4" tall, 62 pages, yellow cloth. A good hard cover over all, generally clean clean, BUT with foxing to the cover cloth, fore-edges and endpapers, spine cloth worn; hinges and binding solid, paper moderately yellowed. Without dust jacket.
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A Vision of Doom: Poems

By: Ambrose Bierce: Donald Sidney-Fryer (editor); Frank Villano (illustrator)

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Donald M Grant Publishing : 1980

Seller ID: 61900

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Sold as a nice reading copy only. Missing the dust jacket. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 110 pages, blue cloth. A very good, generally clean, neat hard cover edition with minor shelf wear, BUT color fading to the rear cover cloth (sunning) due to the missing dust jacket as well as light foxing to the front cover cloth and fore-edges; binding tight, paper clean and cream white. Without dust jacket.
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A Year and A Day [signed]

By: Carlos Baker

Price: $11.60

Publisher: Nashville, TN, Vanderbilt University press : 1963

Seller ID: 28737

Binding: Hardcover--cloth

Condition: Near Fine/Very Good

Inscribed to the previous owner on the front endpaper and signed "Carlos and Dorothy, 1963". Octavo, 8 3/4" tall, 65 pages, orange cloth. A near fine, clean, neat hard cover with light shelf wear; hinges and binding solid, paper cream white. In a very good moderately worn dust jacket with the original price.
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Abelard & Heloise : the Love Letters, a poetical rendering

By: Ella Costillo Bennett ; Will Jenkins (frontispiece)

Price: $13.20

Publisher: San Francisco, California, Paul Elder and Company : 1907

Seller ID: 35602

Binding: Decorative Boards

Condition: Good

Octavo, 8" tall, frontispiece + 36 + [1] pages, gray quarter-cloth with gilt tiles on brown boards. A good, clean, neat hard cover with moderate shelf wear, corners rubbed with back strip cloth starting to fray at top hinges and fore-corner tips just through to boards; binding solid, paper moderately yellowed. Without dust jacket.
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About the Hour-Glass and the Scythe

By: Misha Persall, [Mishael Navonad]

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Woodstock, New York, Maverick Press : 1939

Seller ID: 1606

Binding: Flexible cloth

Condition: Good

Small Press, Limited Edition. Octavo, 7 3/4" tall, 94 pages, brown faux suede cover. "This book was set entirely by hand and hand printed and hand bound." A good, clean copy with the cover cloth chipped along edges and the back hinge separated along with the endpaper; front hinge intact, sewn signatures solid, interior paper clean and moderately yellowed.
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Acquainted with a chance of bobcats

By: Sebenthall, R. E

Price: $10.12

Publisher: New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers University Press : 1969

Seller ID: 10652

ISBN-13: 9780813506081

Binding: Hardcover--quarter cloth, paper over boards

Condition: Very Good/Good

Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 78 pages. A very good, clean, neat, hard cover first edition with slight shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a good dust jacket with surface rubbing and light edge wear.
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After Eden: poems

By: Emma Gray Trigg

Price: $7.50

Publisher: New York, New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons : 1937

Seller ID: 42287

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good -

Octavo, 8 " tall, 127 pages, gilt titles on green cloth. A very good minue, clean, neat hard cover first edition over all with moderateshelf wear, color fading to the spine cloth and fraying at the top and bottom of the spine; hinges and binding tight, paper lightly yellowed but foxing started at the endpaper gutters. Without dust jacket,
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After Experience: Poems and Translations

By: W. D. Snodgrass

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Harper & Row: New York : 1968

Seller ID: 58490

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Octavo, 8 1/3" tall, 92 pages, gilt spine titles on green cloth. A very good, clean, neat original hard cover first edition with minor shelf wear, and slight foxing to the fore-edges; binding tight, paper lightly yellowed. In a very good, moderately worn dust jacket with the original price present.
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After the Splendid Display (Wesleyan New Poets Series)

By: Don Bogen

Price: $11.60

Publisher: Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University Press : 1986

Seller ID: 5654

ISBN-13: 9780819521279

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine/Fine

Octavo, 8 1/4" tall, 58 pages, red cloth. A near fine, clean, hardcover first edition with minor shelf wear and light rubbing at the corners; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a fine, lightly rubbed dust jacket, with original price.
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Album der Boudoirs. 1838; Album der Boudoirs. Europa 1839 (two volumes bound as one).

By: August Lewald, editor, Friedrich von Shiller, et al

Price: $76.00

Publisher: Stuttgart, Germany, Literatur Comptoir : 1838, 1839

Seller ID: 20492

Binding: Hardcover--cloth

Condition: Good

Text in German. (2 volumes in 1). Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, [6] + 192 pages + 36 black and white plates; 192 + 80 pages + 51 black and white plates; decorative brown cloth. A good, sound hard cover copy over all; interior very good, clean, binding solid, paper cream white with scattered foxing; exterior cloth generally worn at all edges, fore-corner tips worn through to boards, spine cloth frayed at top and bottom edges. An anthology of poetry and illustrations drawn from various works. This copy could be very nicely rebound.
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All Here Are On Vacation : poems from Martha's Vineyard

By: Aron Krich ; drawing by Samuel Milstein

Price: $7.60

Publisher: New York, New York, Citadel Press : 1958

Seller ID: 33364

Binding: Hardcover--cloth

Condition: Near Fine/Very Good

Signed by the author on the front endpaper. Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, 80 pages, brown cloth. A near fine, clean, neat, hard cover edition with light shelf wear; hinges and binding solid, paper cream white. In a very good, moderately edge worn dust jacket with the original price.
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All Is Salutation [signed]

By: Elizabeth Randall-Mills

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Francestown, New Hampshire, The Golden Quill Press : 1970

Seller ID: 41490

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good / Very Good

Signed and inscribed by the author on the front endpaper. Octavo, 8" tall, 80 pages. green cloth. A very good, clean, hardcover first edition with little shelf wear, but foxing to the the endpapers, hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a very good, price-clipped dust jacket with small chips at the folds, light soiling along front margin, and soiling to the back panel.
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American and (&) British Verse from The Yale Review.

By: John Gould Fletcher, editor ; Robert Frost, Siegfried Sassoon, Sara Teasdale, Edith Wharton, Louis Untermeyer, John Masefield, Maxwell Bodenheim, Henry Adams, Henry A Beers, Stephen Vincent Benet, John Drinkwater, W.M. Letts, Scudder Middleton, Robert Ni

Price: $13.20

Publisher: New York, New York, Yale / Oxford University Press : 1920

Seller ID: 36239

Binding: Decorative Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Octavo, 7 3/4" tall, lv52 pages, black titles an beige boards. A very good, clean, sturdy hard cover first edition over all with minor shelf wear and rubbing at the corners but light exterior soiling; hinges and binding tight, paper lightly yellowed. Without dust jacket.
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American Nights.

By: William Kimberly Palmer and Ernest Fanos

Price: $76.00

Publisher: Springfield, Massachusetts, New Era Publishing : 1919

Seller ID: 20376

Binding: Hardcover--cloth

Condition: Very Good

inscribed and signed by Palmer on the title page. Octavo, 7 3/4" tall, 98 pages, plain green cloth covered boards with gilt spine titles over original stiff wraps. A very good, clean, neat first edition with some private library markings the front endpaper and the original front cover. This as an added library binding which had greatly protected the original soft cover edition which is near find excpting the marking, binding tight, paper judst lightly yellowed.
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AMERICAN POEMS AND OTHERS.

By: Squire, J. C.

Price: $7.60

Publisher: New York, New York, George H. Doran : 1923

Seller ID: 7669

Binding: Hardcover--cloth

Condition: Very Good/Good

Octavo, 8 1/4" tall, 55 pages, blue cloth. A very good, sturdy hard cover first edition with minor shelf wear and soiling, light rubbing to corners and top & bottom of spine, faint moisture discoloration to top edge of boards, fore-edges lightly foxed; hinges and binding solid, paper moderately yellowed. In a good dustjacket, darkened at the extremities, and chipped at the folds, top edges and top and bottom of the backstrip. Poetry by an English man of letters after visiitng America.
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American Religious Poems ; Library of America ; [Delux collector's edition]

By: Harold Bloom and Jesse Zuba, editor; et al

Price: $19.00

Publisher: New York, New York, Library of America : 2006

Seller ID: 39429

ISBN-13: 9781931082747

Binding: Hardcover--cloth

Condition: Fine / Near Fine

Single volume. Octavo, 8 1/4" tall, lvii + 685 pages, sewn binding, ribbon page marker, gilt titles on biege leatherette. A fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with little shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper white. In a near fine, lightly worn slip case with the original price
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An Uncensored Anthology: Written by divers hands

By: Anonymous;

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Mount Vernon, New York, Peter Pauper Press : 1939

Seller ID: 42579

Binding: Hardcover--cloth

Condition: Very Good / Good

Duodecimo, 7 3/4" tall, 60 pages, blue cloth with paper title labels. A very good, clean, neat hardcover with minor shelf wear and rubbing at the corners, some light soiling to the cloth, spine cloth color lightly faded; but front hinge cracked, binding tight, paper dark cream white. Lacking dust jacket, but with slipcase in fair condition, worn and chipped at all corners and with old cellophane taping to the seams.
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Category: Poetry