Princeton University Press, 1919. 1st. Cloth. The 1919 1st appearance in book form by F. Scott Fitzgerald, whose 3 poems ("Marching Streets", "The Pope at Confession" and "My First Love") were --famously-- attributed to "T." Scott Fitzgerald. Solid and VG (with bright gilt-lettering at the front panel and spine) in..... More
London: The Ricardi Press Books (Philip Lee Warner, Publisher to the Medici Society Ltd.), 1919. Cloth. Handsome 1919 Ricardi Press edition, limited to 1,000 copies. VG in its buckram-backed light-blue boards. Light offsetting at the endsheets, former owner inscription to the front free endaper, armorial bookplate to the following recto..... More
London: Henry Frowde, 1906. Very attractive 3/4 vellum over boards. Bound (and signed) by Horace Commin of Bouremouth. Leather spine label and elegant, fine-tooled gilt-decoration to spine. Tightly-bound and VG+, with very light foxing at the front board. 12mo, 773 pgs., top-edge gilt, decorative marbled endpapers. The "Oxford Edition" of..... More
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1969. Cloth. A very unusual copy of the 1969 stated 1st edition, having belonged to the legendary bookseller Burt BrItton (1933-2018), co-founder of New York's much-loved "Books & Company" on Madison Avenue. THIS COPY IS INSCRIBED TO BRITTON BY 3 OF THE BOOK'S CONTRIBUTORS (JOHN..... More
New York: Clipps Publishing Co., 1897. 1st. Decorative Cloth. The 1897 1st edition of this charming collection of poems and prose from students of the Masters School, an elite all-girl (at the time) Prep school in Dobbs Ferry, NY. VG in its decorative cloth, with light bleaching along the spine..... More
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1960. Original wraps. SIGNED BY POETS RICHARD WILBUR AND STANLEY KUNITZ on the title page. A sharp copy to boot of this 1960 collection honoring the annual poetry festival held at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT. Solid and VG in its printed, off-white wrappers, with..... More
New York: Henry Z. Walck, Inc., 1969. 1st. Cloth. A handsome copy of this beautifully-illustrated children's poetry book. 1969 1st edition. Tight and VG+ in a bright, price-intact, VG dustjacket, with foxing at the panels and light foxing to the fore-edge. 64mo, Brenda Meredith Seymour's rich color illustrations thruout. More
London: Oxford University Press, 1933. Decorative Cloth. Impressive 1933 compilation by Oxford of some of the great lyrical poems and songs in the English language, selected and arranged by Francis Turner Palgrave. And in the uncommon dustjacket. Solid and VG (with light foxing at the endpapers and tender --but still..... More
New York: The Poetry Project -- St. Marks; Church, 1987. Ephemera. The uncommon announcement for the April 14th, 1987 Palais Bimbo Lounge Show at the revered St. Mark's Church in the heart of New York's East Village. Featuring in the announcement poets Kenward Elmslie and Steven Taylor, who undoubtedly supplied..... More
New York: Alfred Van Der Marck Editions, 1986. 1st. Cloth. A tribute to a passionate collector's perseverance: SIGNED BY A REMARKABLE 30 OF THE 101 POETS "EXPOSED". 9 of the 30 signatures (Czeslaw Milosz, Kenneth Koch, William Everson, James Broughton, Robert Duncan, Robert Creeley, Larence Ferlinghetti, John Logan and Harold..... More
London: Oxford University Press, 1970. Full-Leather. The1970 Oxford reprint of Milton's Poetical Works, sumptuously bound (and signed) in full leather by Riviere (Bayntun of Bath) for Aspreys of London. A rich, light-brown calf, with raised bands, finely gilt-tooled compartments and rule along the spine and panels. All edges gilt. Bright..... More
Manchester, England: The Haworth Press, 1933. Cloth. 1933 1st thus, limited to 400 copies. VG in its chocolate-brown cloth, with gilt-lettered leather spine label. Light scuffing to panels, otherwise very clean. Quarto, 239 pgs. top-edge gilt. More
New York: Thomas Y. Cttowell Company. Decorative Cloth. Gilt-decorated cloth edition of The Rubaiyat, inscribed by the redoubtable Willy Pogany on the half-title. "The First and Fourth Renderings in English Verse by Edward FitzGerald", c. 1940. Solidly-bound and VG-, with light staining at the front panel and light fading to..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1928. Decorative Cloth. 1928 1st thus--with the magnificent Harry Clarke illustrations. Solid and VG, in its gilt-decorated front panel and spine. Light foxing to the preliminaries, former owner name at the half-title, very light soiling to the panels and at the spine crown. And..... More
Munich: Orchis-Verlag, 1922. Wassilij Masjutin. Cloth. Very handsome 1922 German translation (by Johannes von Guenther) of Pushkin's 1820 epic poem "Ruslan and Ludmila". Wonderfully illustrated in rich color by Wassilij Masjutin. Tight and VG+ in its off-white printed boards, with light, forgivable soiling to the panels. Folio, 67 pgs., lovely..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1920. 1st. Cloth. 1920 1st edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR (in pencil) on the title page. VG in its dark-green cloth, with one closed tear to the half-title and very light spotting at the panels. Octavo, 125 pgs. Signed by Author. More
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1951. Boards. The 1951 1st edition of poet Adrienne Rich's first published book of verse. #48 in the Yale Series of Younger Poets, which was edited at the time by W.H. Auden. Solid and VG+ to Near Fine in its salmon boards. And in..... More
London: Chatto and Windus/The Hogarth Press, 1967. Cloth. Not only the 1967 1st British edition but also the first work of Adrienne Rich's published in the UK. A very sharp copy to boot. Clean and Fine in a crisp, price-intact, Near Fine dustjacket. Truly a collector's copy, all-but-pristine. More
Mannheim: Gengenbach & Hahan, 1926. Joachim Lutz. Cloth. A handsome copy of the 1926 signed/limited. #8 OF 200 COPIES SIGNED AT THE LIMITATION BY BOTH THE POET ALEXANDER VON BERNUS AND THE ARTIST JOACHIM LUTZ, WHOSE 10 SUPERB WOODCUTS ADORN THE TEXT. ALSO, ADDITIONALLY INSCRIBED BY ALEXANDER VON BERNUS IN..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1892. 1st. Cloth. The 1892 1st edition. VG in its dark green cloth, with bright gilt-lettering along the spine. Light soiling to the panels, light foxing to the endsheets. 12mo, 111 pgs. Housed in a custom-made quarter-morocco box. More
London: C. Kegan Paul and Co., 1879. 1st. Cloth. The 1879 1st edition, following the small "pirated" edition of 1870. Solid and VG in its green cloth, with bright gilt-lettering at the spine. Mild soiling to the front panel, photograph of Tennyson at the rear pastedown. 16mo, 95 pgs. plus..... More
Toronto: 1862. Original Wraps. This scarce volume was compiled and edited by J. Dykes Campbell. It consists of poems which Tennyson did not reprint in his first collected edition of 1842 but which had appeared in the "Poems Chiefly Lyrical" in 1830 and "Poems", 1833. This is a pirated edition..... More
Cumbria, England: Simon King Press, 1990. Original Wraps. The 1990 1st thus, #19 of 150 copies issued. Signed on the limitation page by the illustrator/publisher Simon King. An immaculate copy: bright and Fine in its beige wrappers. Handsome wood-engravings complement Swinburne's text. Signed by Illustrator. More
Lenox, MA: United Artists, 1979. Original wraps. A very sharp copy of this 1979 1st printing, limited to 750 copies. Clean and Near Fine in its pictorial wrappers, which were illustrated by George Schneeman. The book's publisher, United Artists, was edited by Bernadette Mayer and Lewis Warsh. More
