Category: Poetry

Sebastian Van Storck

Price: $300.00

Publisher: JOHN LANE THE BODLEY HEAD LTD. , Dodd, Mead and Company, London And New York : 1927

Seller ID: k200115b

Condition: Near fine

Cream cloth stamped in gilt and brown. #464/1050. With eight full-page color illustrations by Alastair. The illustration opposite page 52 is signed in pencil, below the image. Title page printed in red and black, illustrations in red, sepia, and black. Condition: very good-near fine. A clean, tight copy that presents nearly fine. Covers: A small soil smudge about ½”x1” on both panels near center of spine; otherwise fine with no bumping or rubbing. Internally: near fine -- some light toning and spotting to front matter pages occasionally very faint foxing; this appears to be a defect in the ...
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The Steam-Engine, or The Powers of Flame.

By: Baker, Thomas.

Price: $200.00

Publisher: London:, J. S. Hodson. : 1857.

Seller ID: 00003

Binding: Cloth.

Condition: Good.

Dark green cloth, blocked and lettered in gold. Signature of previous owner in ink on front paste-down. Baker, the author of many books on civil engineering, wrote this poem as a history of and a tribute to steam power. He included some 54 pages of additional annotations to his poem, from discussion of brittle cast-iron rails to the etymology of the word 'navvies'. T(homas) Baker died 1871
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Songs of Innocence & Songs of Experience

By: Blake, William

Price: $45.00

Seller ID: 150302

London: Arthur L Humphreys, 1911. 12mo, leather binding with gilt spine design, raised bands, gilt borders and bands by Riviere and Son. 1st ed. thus, containing Songs of Innocence & Songs of Experience. 64 pages. Decorated throughout with tipped-in engravings. Internally fine, but front cover is detached, light wear on edges and corners. Contemporary inked inscription inside front cover.
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The Horkey

By: Bloomfield, Robert

Price: $57.50

Seller ID: 040301

Condition: Good

1st edition; London: Macmillan & Co., 1882. Pictorial boards with cloth spine. Illustrations by George Cruikshank – note that this is not THE George Cruikshank, but his nephew. Interior is clean and tight. The covers are rubbed at edges, more heavily so at corners.
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Cento Ethicus. Ex ducentis Poetis hinc inde contextus, per Damasum Blyerburgium Batauum. Iuuentutis maxime Institutiontioni accomodatus.

By: Blyenburg, Damasus van.

Price: $300.00

Seller ID: 150309

16 mo, grey boards, quarter leather. Blyenburg (1558-1668), a dutch poet, published this compilation of selections from modern Latin poets. A revised edition, first published the year earlier in 1599. CONDITION: Fair; Covers quite worn, but intact, with substantial staining. Title is inked onto the spine. Inked signatures on ffep; front hinge partially split. Inked number on title page; small inked library rubber stamp image on verso of title page. 1" x 2" damp stain at bottom center of inside front cover and extending into the first dozen pages or so and again at the back cover. Other damp s...
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New Numbers / A Quarterly Publication of the Poems of …… Vol. 1 No. 3. August 1914

By: BROOKE, Rupert; Lascelles Abercrombie; John Drinkwater; Wilfred Wilson Gibson

Price: $50.00

Publisher: England, Ryton, Dymock, Gloucester: Crypt House Press. : 1914

Seller ID: k210515n

Condition: Fair

8vo, blue-grey wrappers. A short-lived periodical [4 issues] "devoted exclusively to new poems" by the four contributors, this issue containing pp. 109-152 of the series. 4 poems by Brooke.
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CONDITION: Fair; Covers toned; 1/2" chip top of spine, corners bumped, several edge nicks. Interior is good; a reasonably tight copy but with occasional light foxing.
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Notes from the Underground

By: Bryan, John (ed) / Kerouac, Patchen, Bukowski, et al

Price: $95.00

Publisher: San Francisco, Underground Press : 1964

Seller ID: k180302b

Condition: Fair

1st ed., small 4to, wraps, 76 pp. Contributions by Neal Cassady, Alan Watts, Charles Bukowski, Jack Kerouac, Kenneth Patchen and others. Text block is very good; clean and tight. Front cover rubbed with chips at top and bottom of spine; large stain on back cover.
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San Francisco Review #1

By: Bukowski, Charles

Price: $20.00

Publisher: San Francisco, San Francisco Review : 1958

Seller ID: 3467

1st ed. Includes poetry by Charles Bukowski, e.e. cummings, William Saroyan. Signed on copyright page by publisher R.H. Miller. Chip at top of spine; title page beginning to separate from text block.
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The art of painting of Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy. Translated into English verse by William Mason, M. A. With annotations by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Knt. president of the Royal Academy

By: Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy / William Mason

Price: $225.00

Publisher: York, Printed by A. Ward, and sold by J. Dodsley, T. Cadell, [et al.] : 1783

Seller ID: s200901b

Binding: Vintage rebinding

Condition: Good

1st edition of this translation; 4to, pp. [iii]-xix, [3], 213 [1 Errata sheet]; rebound in modern ¼ leather marbled boards to match contemporary bindings. ##### Du Fresnoy ( 1611-1665) had a modestly successful career as a painter but is best remembered for his Latin poem De arte graphica, first published in Paris in 1684 and containing his observations on the art of painting, including a critical treatise with general advice to students. William Mason (d.1797) spent several years on this new version translated into English couplets. Includes a Preface and a verse Epistle to Sir Joshua Re...
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The Poet in the Desert / A New Version (The [Emma] Goldman Edition)

By: Charles Erskine Scott Wood [Emma Goldman, Basil Rathbone, Sara B. Field]

Price: $275.00

Publisher: Self-published : 1918

Seller ID: k210408c

Condition: Fair; somewhat shaken, with substantial chipping on the spine, moderate edgewear.

Charles Erskine Scott Wood [Emma Goldman, Basil Rathbone, Sara B. Field]Self-published, 1918/ 112 pp. Original Printed Wrappers. 16mo.#####Presentation copy to actor Basil Rathbone, with lengthy inscription dated 1934. Possibly with Rathbone's signature on the cover. #####A very unusual item loosely associating actor Basil Rathbone with anarchist Goldman.#####Although little known today, Charles Erskine Scott Wood [C.E.S. Wood (1852 –1944)] was a successful author, civil liberties advocate, artist, soldier, and attorney. He served as a lieutenant with the 21st Infantry Regiment, fought in t...
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Birch Bark Poems, Vol. 1.

By: Charles F. Lummis

Price: $450.00

Publisher: Chillicothe, OH, Charles Lummis : 1884

Seller ID: k200613a

Condition: Very good

2d edition. 8 pp. 2.5”x3”, stitched, illustrated wrappers. (12) pp. A collection of small poems written in the transcendental style, Birch Bark Poems is printed entirely on thin and delicate birch bark, with engravings of birch trees on front and back. Lummis cut the bark from the trees, set the type, and did the printing. This is a later printing [ninth thousand] of the second edition. First published while Lummis was working for a small publishing firm in New Hampshire, the first printing (1878) was only a dozen or so copies. This allowed Lummis to work out the medium's eccentricities. Th...
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Old Pastures

By: Colum, Padraic

Price: $50.00

Publisher: NY, The Macmillan Company : 1930

Seller ID: k190218c

Condition: Fine

1st ed., 8vo, Cloth-backed batiqued boards. No. 19 of 200 copies signed and numbered by the author. 42 pp. Fine except for bookplate inside front cover; in poor slipcase lacking top/bottom edges and ½ of spine.
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HOUR OF MAGIC AND OTHER POEMS, The

By: Davies, William B.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Harper & Brothers : 1922

Seller ID: 1706198

1st trade edition, with designs by William Nicholson. 12mo, beige bonds with gold label on front and spine. Decorated end papers. 36 pp. A very good-near fine copy overall but with a bookplate inside front cover and lacking the dust jacket, a clipping of which is laid in.
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From the German

By: Drinkwater, John

Price: $100.00

Publisher: London, Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd. : 1924

Seller ID: 1048

8vo, batiked-paper boards with 1/4 vellum-spine. Printed by the Pelican Press and limited to 250 copies. English translation of seventeen verses by Goethe, Schiller, Moerike, Uhland, Hebbel, Theodor Storm, Keller, Guenther, Gleim, Boie, Hofmannsthal, Liliencron and Buerger. The Pelican Press was founded in 1916 by Sir Francis Meynell, with the active involvement of Stanley Morison - a British typographer, designer and historian of printing. He was one of the most influential type-designers of the 20th century, having designed the Times New Roman typeface (1931) and several historical revivals ...
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Our Darling's Surprise Pictures (movable children's book)

By: Ernest Nister

Price: $550.00

Publisher: London / New York, Ernest Nister / E.P. Dutton : 1895

Seller ID: k210121f

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good-

1st edition, 4to. Red cloth spine; light green paper over boards with chromolithographed title and illustrations on front board. Floral endpapers. A Victorian “dissolving window” picture book from the golden age of the moveable book. A tab is pulled at the lower edge, which animates and completely changes the illustration above. Artwork by Nister, who also served as publisher. The facing pages have accompanying poems by English poet and songwriter Frederic Weatherly. A charming, and scarce, item with 8 chromolithographic color transformations, all in Very Good working order. CONDIT...
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Spider Kin [Inscribed copy]

By: Forman Brown; Marian Brand (illus.)

Price: $275.00

Publisher: Chicago, Robert Packard & Co : 1929

Seller ID: k210130h

Condition: Near Fine

First Edition. 8vo. Green spider-web patterned boards, cloth back, titles to spine and front cover gilt. Forman Brown was one of the world's leaders in puppet theatre in his day, as well as an important early gay novelist. He was a member of the Yale Puppeteers and the driving force behind the famous Turnabout Puppet Theater in Los Angeles. This is his first book, a poetry collection. #####Frontispiece and 3 full-page woodcuts by Packard, all with spider-web patterned glassine guards. This issue with the illustrated jacket precedes the more common edition issued in wrappers, also with a jacket...
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Image for TRAGEDIA DI GABRIELE DÁNNUNZIO RAPPRESENTATA IN ROMA NELL'ANNO MCMII AD XX DEL MESE DI DECEMBRE IMPRESSA IN MILANO per I. Fratelli Treves nel l 'anno MCMII A DI XX DEL MESE DI MARZO

[The Tragedy of Gabriele D'Annunzio presented in Rome [...]
IN THE YEAR MCMII [1902] TO XX OF THE MONTH OF MARCH, FOR THE TREVES BROTHERS, IMPRESSA IN MILAN]

TRAGEDIA DI GABRIELE DÁNNUNZIO RAPPRESENTATA IN ROMA NELL'ANNO MCMII AD XX DEL MESE DI DECEMBRE IMPRESSA IN MILANO per I. Fratelli Treves nel l 'anno MCMII A DI XX DEL MESE DI MARZO [The Tragedy of Gabriele D'Annunzio presented in Rome [...] IN THE YEAR MCMII [1902] TO XX OF THE MONTH OF MARCH, FOR THE TREVES BROTHERS, IMPRESSA IN MILAN]

By: GABRIELE DÁNNUNZIO

Price: $400.00

Publisher: Milano: Fratelli Treves : 1902

Seller ID: k190212e

Milano: Fratelli Treves, 1902. 1st ed., small 4to, handmade paper; pp. (16), 289, (7) illustrated in red and black with several full-page drawings and numerous ornaments throughout. Gilt ornament on front cover, gilt titles on spine; ribbon ties. Original full vellum binding [it was also published in cloth]. Text in Italian. A tragic play in verses, presented for the first time at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on December 9th 1901. The text centers on the story of how Francesca da Rimini falls in love with her husband's brother in the 13th century. The play is based on an episode from Dante Al...
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Unmuzzled Ox (Magazine), Vol III. No. 2

By: Ginsberg, Allen

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Book People : 1975

Seller ID: 5352

A trade paperback magazine featuring work by Allen Ginsberg, Andy Warhol, Gregory Corso, Kenneth Rexroth and others. Good; clean and tight but with A few small chips along edge of spine and shelf-wear at edges.
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Cave Birds: An Alchemical Cave Drama

By: Hughes, Ted

Price: $85.00

Publisher: NY, Viking Press : 1978

Seller ID: 1706196

1st ed., signed by illustrator Leonard Baskin on the front end paper. 4to, black cloth. 64 pp. A fine as-new copy in dust jacket -- however there are several white spots on the back cover due to a binding defect.
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Dipsy Chanty, The and Other Selected Poems

By: Kipling, Rudyard

Price: $125.00

Publisher: NY/East Aurora, The Roycroft Shop : 1899

Seller ID: 17092207

12mo, handmade paper, gray-green limp suede covers with gilt titles, red satin paste-downs and tie. #557/950 copies, signed by Elbert Hubbard. Fine; backstrip lightly faded and light fade line across top of upper cover. [Livingston suppl. p. 137]
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Category: Poetry