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Quebec, Canada: Fides, 1999. Uncommon 1999 hardcover first edition. Fine condition. Clean, square, tight, and unmarked. Sharp corners. No owner's name or bookplate. Not a remainder. Illustrated throughout with charming, full-color paintings. A compilation of 100 French and Quebecois nursery rhymes and poems, collected by Henriette Major. Text in French. Audio CD in a pocket at the end. Bound in the original glossy, padded, pictorial boards.. First Edition : Première édition. Hardcover. Fine condition/No jacket, probably as issued. Illus. by Beauregard, Chistiane; & Pascale Constantin; Celine Malepart; Luc Melanson; Daniel Sylvestre. 8vo. 127pp.
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100 Comptines
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19 Masks for the Naked Poet
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Santa Cruz, California:: Kayak Books, Inc., 1971. 5.75" wide by 8.5" tall. A clean, tight copy with sharp corners. No owner's name or bookplate. Bound in the original cream-color wraps with turquoise decorations, lettered in brown. Illustrated throughout with drawings by Regina Shekerjian. Limited to 1200 copies, designed by George Hitchcock and printed by Big Trees Press in Felton, California. Poetry. Early booklet by this gifted poet, short story author, and winner of an O'Henry award for THEO'S GIRL, and the 1982 Newbery Medal for A VISIT TO WILLIAM BLAKE'S INN. . First Edition. Soft Cover (stapled wraps).. Fine condition.. Illus. by Shekerjian, Regina (drawings). Unpaged (but 48 pages).
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19th Century British Minor Poets
by Auden, W. H. (editor); George R. Creeger
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New York: Delacorte Press, 1966. Near Fine condition in a Very Good dust jacket (lightly rubbed). Protected by a removable Brodart clear-plastic sleeve. NOT price clipped ($6.00). NO chips. NO tears. Sharp corners. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. First Edition with "First Printing" so stated on the copyright page. Edited, with an introduction by W. H. Auden. Notes by George R. Creeger. Among the poets included are Scott, Southey, Landor, Lamb, Moore, Hunt, Peacock, Macaulay, Browning, Lear, Bronte, Thackery, Patmore, MacDonald, Rossetti, Morris, Butler, Dobson, Stevenson, Housman, etc. Bound in the original blue cloth, stamped in shiny silver on the spine. Complete with dust jacket.. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine condition/Very Good dust jacket. 8vo. 383pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.
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Acts of Recovery : Essays on Culture and Politics
by Hart, Jeffrey
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Hanover and London : Published for Dartmouth College by University Press of New England, 1989. Bright, clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Discussion of Ernest Hemingway, Willmoore Kendall, G. K. Chesterton, Samuel Johnson, Edmund Burke, George Herbert, Lionel Trilling, Hilaire Belloc, Allan Bloom, Hobey Baker, Robert Frost, C. S. Lewis, T. S. Eliot. Original gray cloth. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Near Fine dust jacket. 8vo. xiv, 242pp.
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The Aeneids of Virgil, Done into English Verse by William Morris
by Morris, William
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Boston, Massachusetts:: Roberts Brothers, 1876. A square copy, reasonably bright, clean and tight. Spine ends a little frayed. Tips worn through. Front inner hinge cracked, but holding. Rear inner hinge starting. Original brown endpapers. Top edge gilt. Bound in the original brick-red cloth, handsomely decorated on the spine and front cover in black and gold. All gilt is still quite bright and shiny. Gift note in light pencil (easily erasable): "J. H. Gleason with regards of F. H. Forman" [or possibly Freeman? -- first part of second name is hard to decipher]. Pages are clean and free of markings. No foxing. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, from the English sheets, with "LONDON, Printed by John Strangeways, Castle St. Leicester Sq." imprinted on verso of title page. Published the same year as the first British edition. Pye 9b [A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AMERICAN EDITIONS OF WILLIAM MORRIS]. For the first London edition see: H. Buxton Forman p. 84 [THE BOOKS OF WILLIAM MORRIS…
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After the Beginning
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Dublin, New Hampshire: William L. Bauhan, Publisher, 1975. Bright, clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. Not a book club edition. Not price clipped (4.95). No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. A collection of poetry by award-winning poet. Original cloth . First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine condition/Near VG DJ (lightly rubbed). Illus. by Singer, Rachel (drawings). 8vo. 94pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.
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Age, A Work of Art : Short Stories, Poems, Essays on the Experience of Aging
by Verbillion, June M.; & Ely M. Liebow (compliled by)
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Minneapolis, Minnesota: Burgess Publishing Company, 1980. 8.5" wide by 11" tall. Bright, clean, tight, square, unmarked copy. No creases. No remainder mark. No store stamp, owner's name or bookplate. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. An anthology on the experience of aging. Introduction. Has appendix with Selections for Further Reading. Title and Author Index. Original tan, pictorial wraps . First Printing of the First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine condition. x, 220pp .
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Alive All Day
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Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 1992. Fine condition in a Fine Dust Jacket. NOT price clipped ($15.00). A bright, shiny, clean, square, tight copy. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. Pages are fresh and crisp. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Volume XXXVI in the C S U Poetry Series. Dust jacket praise from Tomaz Salamun, William Matthews, and Gerald Stern. Bound in the original blue cloth, lettered in shiny gold on the spine.. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Fine dust jacket. Illus. by Krasovec, Metka (jacket art). 8vo. 91pp.
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American Editions of the Poems of [Robert] Burns before 1800 (in) The Library, Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, New Series. Vol. XII (12), No. 4. March 1932
by Pollard, A.W. (editor); Anna Painter
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London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1932. Very Good condition. NO owner's name or bookplate. Minor foxing. Pages are otherwise clean and unmarked - obviously never read - pages are still unopened/uncut at the edges. Illustrated with plates. Among several articles in this issue is: AMERICAN EDITIONS OF THE POEMS OF [ROBERT] BURNS BEFORE 1800 by Anna Painter. Bound in the original brown pictorial wraps, stamped in black. The Library, Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, New Series. Vol. XII (12), No. 4. March 1932. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good condition. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 10pp. pp. 365 - 487 + vi. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.
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Amy Lowell, A Mosaic
by Sargent, George H. [Bruce Rogers]
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Mount Vernon, New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1926. Very Good condition. No owner's name or bookplate. Clean, square, tight, and unmarked. Gilt lettering on the spine is still bright and shiny. Original black-cloth spine, and red patterned-paper covered boards. Limited to 450 copies. Essay on Lowell as a poet and critic. Includes a brief Checklist of Amy Lowell's works. Typography and design by Bruce Rogers. Work of BR 356. [THE WORK OF BRUCE ROGERS, JACK OF ALL TRADES, MASTER OF ONE]. Haas 132 [BRUCE ROGERS: A BIBLIOGRAPHY]. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's binding/No dust jacket. 8vo. (v), 30pp.
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Analecta, Volume III (Vol. 3)
by Jones, Barry; & Sherri Sneckner; Dana Loy; Richard Banks; Shelly Davidson; Kim Gunnerson; Robert McGlasson; Susan Murphy; Glenora Spring (editors)
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Austin, Texas: University of Texas / College Council for the Humanities, 1977. Very Good condition. A bright, clean, tight copy. The spine is square and flat with NO creases. 5.5" wide by 8.5" tall. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are clean and crisp. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. First Edition. Softcover. Among the contributors to this issue (Volume 3) are Lynn M. Moran; R. D. Taylor; Hilda Adelson; Randt Conner; L. Marie Hitt; Dale Weisman; Torrance Banks; etc. Illustrated with 8 full-page b/w photos. Bound in the original white wrappers, lettered/stamped in black.. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good condition. 8vo. 80pp.
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The Ancient Mariner and the Authentic Narrative
by Martin, Bernard [Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Newton]
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London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1949. Clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. Not a book club edition. Not price clipped (7s 6d net). No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Illustrated. Includes a facsimile of the frontispiece and title page from the 1744 first edition of John Newton's AUTHENTIC NARRATIVE. From the Dust Jacket: "This is a most interesting and convincing piece of research into the origins of THE ANCIENT MARINER. Mr Martin has found a remarkable parallel between the story itself and an autobiography.... John Newton's AUTHENTIC NARRATIVE... The volume contains the text of THE ANCIENT MARINER and the AUTHENTIC NARRATIVE in addition to Mr. Martin's intriguing argument." Index. Original green cloth, stamped in silver. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Good+ jacket (edge chips). 8vo. 82pp.
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The Ancient Beautiful Things
by Davis, Fannie Stearne [aka Mrs Augustus McKinstry Gifford]
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New York: The Macmillan Company, 1923. A beautiful copy. Very Fine condition. Clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. The author was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1884. This was her third book of poetry. See Burke/Howe (1943) p. 275. Irish #5984 (in THE MODERN AMERICAN MUSE, a poetry bibliography by Wynot R. Irish). Original two-tone cloth (dark brown cloth spine and light brown sides). Gilt lettering is still bright and shiny. . First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Very Fine condition/No jacket. 8vo. 82pp.
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Anecdotes of a Time and People
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Haikey Publishing, 1981. 5.25" wide by 8.25" tall. A clean, tight copy. No owner's name or bookplate. Pages are fresh and crisp. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Contains 25 short poems. Printed at the Hadassah Press, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Bound in the original beige wraps, printed in black. The author taught writing and literature at Johns Hopkins, Williams College, University of Michigan, and at the University of Tulsa. Among his other publications (before and since) are VIRGINIA WOOLF, A CRITICAL INTRODUCTION (1973, Frederick Ungar) and PRESENT OR ACCOUNTED FOR: POEMS (1993, Council Oak Books).. First Edition (No Additional Printings). Soft cover pamphlet. . Near Fine condition.. 11pp..
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Anne Sexton: The Last Summer
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New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. Near Fine condition in a Near Fine dust jacket (only lightly rubbed). NO chips or tears. NOT price clipped ($22.95). Clean, square, and tight. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Pages are creamy white and unmarked. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs by Arthur Furst of Anne Sexton -- mostly full page. Bound in the original silver-stamped black boards. 8.25" wide by 10.25" tall. From the dust jacket: "Striking photos of the alluring, defiant, and mesmerizing poet Anne Sexton - most published for the first time in this exclusive collection - taken during the last summer of her life, before her suicide on October 4, 1974. According to those who knew her best, Anne Sexton was always preparing for her death, almost like an Egyptian queen constructing her pyramid. She wanted to create the most version of her life story that would most poignantly serve as…
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The Anthony Memorial, A Catalogue of the Harris Collection of American Poetry with Biographical and Bibliographical Notes
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Boston: Milford House, 1972. Appears unread. Fine condition. Sharp corners. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are fresh, crisp, clean and unmarked - apparently never read. 1972. Unabridged reprint of the 1886 edition. This useful reference is based on the celebrated C. Fiske Harris poetry collection, now at Brown University. Bound in the original maroon cloth, stamped in bright gold on the spine. Tanselle basic collection 379. . Reprint of the 1886 edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/No dust jacket, as issued. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. 342pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.
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Art and Architecture in the Poetry of Robert Browning : An Illustrated Compendium of Sources
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Troy, New York: The Whitston Publishing Company, 1991. Fine condition in a Very Good dust jacket. The jacket is only lightly rubbed. NOT price clipped ($65.00). NO tears. NO fading. Bright, shiny, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. Hinges are perfect. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Pages are fresh, crisp and unmarked - apparently never read. Illustrated throughout with fine art reproductions and photographs, many in beautiful full color. Bound in the original gilt-stamped brown cloth. Complete with dust jacket.. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Very Good dust jacket. 8vo. xii, 521pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.
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Art and Architecture in the Poetry of Robert Browning, Appendix A : An Illustrated Compendium of Sources
by Thomas, Charles Flint
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Troy, New York: The Whitston Publishing Company, 1996. Fine condition in a Near Fine dust jacket. The jacket is only lightly rubbed. NOT price clipped ($65.00). NO tears. NO fading. Bright, shiny, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. Hinges are perfect. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Pages are fresh, crisp and unmarked - apparently never read. Illustrated with about 40 pages of fine art reproductions and photographs, many in beautiful full color. Bound in the original gilt-stamped brown cloth. Complete with dust jacket.. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Near Fine dust jacket. 8vo. xii, 211pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.
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The Arthur of the English Poets
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Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1907. Good EX-LIBRARY, with short tears in the margins of a few pages. Still perfectly suitable for reading/reference. Stamped "WITHDRAWN" on rear endpaper. Rebound in sturdy, lavender cloth. Has chapters on Arthur in history, Arthurian legends, Lancelot, the Holy Grail, Merlin, Sir Thomas Mallory, Caxton and the Transition, Spenser, Tennyson, etc. . First Edition. Hardcover. Good EX-LIBRARY/No jacket. 454pp.
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An Artist View of Nevada : Take Nevada Home with You, Paintings, Poems & Facts
by Prater-Johnson, Nancy; & Valerie Robinson-Rice
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anartistviewof.com, 2013. HARDCOVER. INSCRIBED with a smiley face & SIGNED in full by Valerie Robinson-Rice. Brand new, in perfect condition. NO rubbing. NO fading. Sharp corners. Obviously never read. Beautiful full color paintings by Nancy Prater-Johnson. Poems by Valerie Robinson-Rice. Oversize Hardcover. 8.75" wide by 11.25" tall.. INSCRIBED & SIGNED by Valerie Robinson-Rice. 1st ed? (No additional printings listed). Oversize Hardcover. New/No jacket, as issued. Illus. by Prater-Johnson, Nancy; & Valerie Robinson-Rice. 33pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.
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