North of Boston by FROST, Robert - 1915

Hartford: Brown and Gross, 1859. Hardcover. 8vo. Original blind-embossed red cloth, gilt. x, 402pp. Very good. Mild edgewear and bit of rubbing/light soiling to binding; light even age toning throughout. Overall a tight, clean, nice third edition of this verse collection (with front board and spine gilt bright) in which Sigourney takes a Biblical line and uses it as the inspiration for a poem -- one for every day of the year, January 1st through December 31st. This particular copy was likely a prize for a school contest, for an inner flyleaf has been inscribed and signed large and bold in brown ink by the author (though recipient's name has been filled in by another hand): "Presented to / Andrew Sherratt / for excellence in Reading / with the good wishes of his friend, / L.H. Sigourney." Sigourney (1791-1865) -- known as "The Sweet Singer of Hartford," "The Mrs. Hemans of America" and "The Female Milton" -- was an incredibly popular, influential and prolific New England poet starting with her first… Read More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1924. Hardcover. Small 4to. Grey cloth spine with black calf label and green paper over boards. xv, 487pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Very good. Mild edgewear. Tight and nice first edition of this scarce and influential volume of Blake criticism, which did for interest in Blake what Raymond Weaver's 1921 biography of Herman Melville did a few years earlier for interest in that neglected writer. This exceptional copy bears a choice presentation inscription from the author in blue fountain pen on the front flyleaf: "To Mark Turbyfill / who is one of the very few / who should know what I / was trying to get at. / S. Foster Damon." Turbyfill (1896-1990) was a Chicago poet, dancer and artist who often appeared in Margaret Anderson's "The Little Review" and Harriet Monroe's "Poetry" magazine (which devoted the entire May 1926 issue to his poem "A Marriage with Space"). Damon clearly found Turbyfill's avant-garde metaphysical verse akin to Blake's verse, as this… Read More

Milano: Edizioni Primi Piani, 1938. First Edition. Printed wrappers. 198pp. Original bright yellow wraps printed in black. Short tear to the spine heel, name on the flyleaf, two small bookstore stickers to first and last page. Text block is clean with mild toning along the edges. A bright, near fine copy. In the Italian language.; Octavo.

Macmillan & Co. Limited. London. 1906. Reprint of the 1904 Golden Treasury edition. 8vo. (6.4 x 4.2 inches). Engraved frontis illustration of Guinevere, from the marble by Thomas Woolmer, R.A. Finely bound in a contemporary full dark green morocco binding by Ramage of London. Spine with five raised bands, ruled in gilt. The compartments with gilt ruled lines, flower and star designs and lettering. Decorative flower and leaf designs to both boards, within a wavy line border which is surrounded by multiple stars, within a ruled line border, all in gilt. Elaborate gilt tooled stars, flowers and decorative roll borders to the inner boards with off-white moire silk endpapers. All edges gilt. Previous owners neat inscription, dated 1914, to the front blank free endpaper. Spine faded to an attractive tan colour and the front board to a lighter green but still a beautiful fine binding from the library of W. A. Foyle at Beeleigh Abbey, and with his burgundy morocco leather and gilt book plate to the front… Read More

Macmillan and Co. London. 1900. Seventh edition. 8vo. (7.4 x 4.7 inches). Foxing to the blank endpapers and the first and last couple of leaves, otherwise a clean copy in a beautiful fine leather binding, by Bumpus, of full dark blue crushed morocco. Spine with five raised bands, each with three gilt dots. The compartments ruled, lettered and fully decorated with small flower emblems, all in gilt. Both boards with four ruled lines and flower and leaf designs in the middle panel, all in gilt. Board edges double ruled in gilt Turn-ins with double ruled lines and flower and leaf designs, all in gilt. plain white endpapers. All edges gilt. Blue silk bookmarker sewn in. A fine and beautiful binding. --- An early edition of this popular collection of KIpling's poetry. First published in 1896.

Hartford: Brown and Gross, 1859. Hardcover. 8vo. Original blind-embossed red cloth, gilt. x, 402pp. Very good. Mild edgewear and bit of rubbing/light soiling to binding; light even age toning throughout. Overall a tight, clean, nice third edition of this verse collection (with front board and spine gilt bright) in which Sigourney takes a Biblical line and uses it as the inspiration for a poem -- one for every day of the year, January 1st through December 31st. This particular copy was likely a prize for a school contest, for an inner flyleaf has been inscribed and signed large and bold in brown ink by the author (though recipient's name has been filled in by another hand): "Presented to / Andrew Sherratt / for excellence in Reading / with the good wishes of his friend, / L.H. Sigourney." Sigourney (1791-1865) -- known as "The Sweet Singer of Hartford," "The Mrs. Hemans of America" and "The Female Milton" -- was an incredibly popular, influential and prolific New England poet starting with her first… Read More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1924. Hardcover. Small 4to. Grey cloth spine with black calf label and green paper over boards. xv, 487pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Very good. Mild edgewear. Tight and nice first edition of this scarce and influential volume of Blake criticism, which did for interest in Blake what Raymond Weaver's 1921 biography of Herman Melville did a few years earlier for interest in that neglected writer. This exceptional copy bears a choice presentation inscription from the author in blue fountain pen on the front flyleaf: "To Mark Turbyfill / who is one of the very few / who should know what I / was trying to get at. / S. Foster Damon." Turbyfill (1896-1990) was a Chicago poet, dancer and artist who often appeared in Margaret Anderson's "The Little Review" and Harriet Monroe's "Poetry" magazine (which devoted the entire May 1926 issue to his poem "A Marriage with Space"). Damon clearly found Turbyfill's avant-garde metaphysical verse akin to Blake's verse, as this… Read More

Milano: Edizioni Primi Piani, 1938. First Edition. Printed wrappers. 198pp. Original bright yellow wraps printed in black. Short tear to the spine heel, name on the flyleaf, two small bookstore stickers to first and last page. Text block is clean with mild toning along the edges. A bright, near fine copy. In the Italian language.; Octavo.

Macmillan & Co. Limited. London. 1906. Reprint of the 1904 Golden Treasury edition. 8vo. (6.4 x 4.2 inches). Engraved frontis illustration of Guinevere, from the marble by Thomas Woolmer, R.A. Finely bound in a contemporary full dark green morocco binding by Ramage of London. Spine with five raised bands, ruled in gilt. The compartments with gilt ruled lines, flower and star designs and lettering. Decorative flower and leaf designs to both boards, within a wavy line border which is surrounded by multiple stars, within a ruled line border, all in gilt. Elaborate gilt tooled stars, flowers and decorative roll borders to the inner boards with off-white moire silk endpapers. All edges gilt. Previous owners neat inscription, dated 1914, to the front blank free endpaper. Spine faded to an attractive tan colour and the front board to a lighter green but still a beautiful fine binding from the library of W. A. Foyle at Beeleigh Abbey, and with his burgundy morocco leather and gilt book plate to the front… Read More

Macmillan and Co. London. 1900. Seventh edition. 8vo. (7.4 x 4.7 inches). Foxing to the blank endpapers and the first and last couple of leaves, otherwise a clean copy in a beautiful fine leather binding, by Bumpus, of full dark blue crushed morocco. Spine with five raised bands, each with three gilt dots. The compartments ruled, lettered and fully decorated with small flower emblems, all in gilt. Both boards with four ruled lines and flower and leaf designs in the middle panel, all in gilt. Board edges double ruled in gilt Turn-ins with double ruled lines and flower and leaf designs, all in gilt. plain white endpapers. All edges gilt. Blue silk bookmarker sewn in. A fine and beautiful binding. --- An early edition of this popular collection of KIpling's poetry. First published in 1896.