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Random House, 1965. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. 85 pages. First printing. Two sections: Thanksgiving for a Habitat; In and Out. 8vo, brown cloth with black cloth quarter, gilt lettering on spine, faded teal topstain, foxing to edges and end papers, tan stains to the latter, light foxing spots on many pages, bookstore sticker attached to ffep, in worn, unclipped DJ with chip to top of front panel, spine age-browned, rubbed along spine, light soil and faint foxing inside and out. Pages unmarked. Clipping of review of this book by G.S. Fraser in the NYT Book Review is laid in, along with clipping of Auden's "The Ballad of Barnaby".
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About the House
by W.H. Auden
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The Aeneid of Virgil
by Virgil, tr. Allen Mandelbaum
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University of California Press, 1982. Soft cover. Very Good. 413 pages, with bibliography, glossary. First paperback edition of verse translation done in 1971 by Allen Mandelbaum. With thirteen drawings by Barry Moser. Trade paperback, curl and light soil to front cover, very faint foxing to edges and along top of ffep. Pages bright and unmarked.
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American Literature, Vol. One and Two
by Richard Poirier, William L. Vance (eds.)
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Little, Brown and Company, 1970. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Vol. 1 1058 pages (1-1/4" thick), Vol. 2 1250 pages (1-1/2" thick), with index of authors and titles in each, and with biographical and literary chronology for each author. First printing stated. Trade paperbacks, white parts of wraps lightly soiled. Vol. 1 selections range from John Smith to Walt Whitman. Text is clean, no markings observed. Vol. 2 ranges from Whitman to poets and critics of the 1960s. Vol. 2 has creases to corners; text mostly clean, with small amount of underscoring and marginal notes by former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff (observed on seven pages in the included story by Eudora Welty and one in the essay by Poirier). Two-volume set will incur shipping surcharge because of its weight.
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Americana and Other Poems
by John Updike
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Knopf, 2001. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 95 pages. Sixty-two poems from after Updike's Collected Poems 1953-1993 came out. 8vo, blue cloth with gilt lettering, no visible wear save light sunning to bottom and top edges of boards, in clean and crisp unclipped DJ. Pages bright and unmarked.
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The Art Of Drowning
by Billy Collins
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University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 95 pages. Fifth collection of poems by the future Poet Laureate. Trade paperback, very slight wear to bottom corner at back, hint of foxing to top edge, binding tight. Small pencil marks next to the titles of ten poems in the ToC; other pages bright and unmarked.
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As If It Matters
by Eamon Grennan
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Graywolf Press, 1992. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. 93 pages. Poems by the Irish writer, who lived and taught in the United States. Grouped in two sections: Compass Readings, and Things in the Flesh. One page of explanatory notes on some of the poems. Trade paperback, almost no visible shelf wear, pages bright and unmarked.
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As We Know: Poems
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Penguin Books, 1979. Soft cover. Very Good. 118 pages. 1980 reprint of collection first published 1979 simultaneously in hardcover (Viking) and soft cover (Penguin). In Penguin Poets series. Contains the long two-column poem "Litany" (two voices) and 47 short poems. Trade paperback in landscape layout, glossy pictorial wraps with sticker-remnant smudge and vertical crease to front wrap, wraps curled, a few marks on back, inside front cover and ffep stained brown from previously laid-in newspaper clippings, lighter tan stain on pp. 98-99 where a clipping of three other poems by Ashbery is still laid in, small chips to fore-edge of p. 33-34. Check mark in the ToC next to name of the title poem; other pages unmarked.
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The Bedbug and Selected Poetry / Klop - Stikhi - Poemy
by Vladimir Mayakovsky, tr. Max Hayward, George Reavey
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Meridian Books, Inc., 1960. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. PARTLY BILINGUAL EDITION RUSSIAN-ENGLISH. Edited and Introduced by Patricia Blake. Ten pages of explanatory notes. Original Meridian Book, first printing (April 1960). Blake's introduction is a 40-page essay on Mayakovsky's life, death, work, and the politics surrounding him in the Soviet Union. The dozen poems are printed with the Russian originals and Reavey's translations facing; the satirical drama The Bedbug was translated by Hayward. Mass-market paperback, spine faded, light soil to wraps, foxing to edges and end papers, binding tight. Pages bright and unmarked.
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Bells in Winter
by Czeslaw Milosz
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Ecco Press, 1981. Soft cover. Very Good. Third printing. 72 pages. Poems translated by the author and Lillian Vallee. Trade paperback, wraps curled, faint foxing to edges, pages bright and unmarked. Laid-in clipping from the TLS, a review by Michael Irwin of this and two other books, is protected by tissue paper to prevent staining.
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Ben Jonson (The Laurel Poetry Series)
by Ben Jonson
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Dell, 1961. Soft cover. Good. 160 pages, with introduction, bibliography, chronology. Published in the Laurel Poetry Series. Selected, with an introduction and notes, by John Hollander (Yale). Includes epigrams, "The Forrest", and additional poems (odes and songs). Mass market paperback, minimal shelf wear save tiny tear at crown, crease to back cover, edges stained (faded) green, foxing to end papers and inside of wraps, pages age-tanned and unmarked.
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Bertolt Brecht Poems 1913-1956
by Bertolt Brecht
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Eyre Methuen Ltd., 1976. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Good. 628 pages, with introduction "Disclosure of a Poet", editorial notes, index of titles in German, chronological list of poems. Edited by John Willett and Ralph Manheim with the co-operation of Erich Fried. Nearly 500 poems, translated from German by 35 translators. Trade paperback, 1-3/4" thick, crease to spine, wraps curled and worn with 1/2" tear to front cover along fore-edge; faint foxing, smudges and small dents to top edge. From the library of Prof. Warner Berthoff, his underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately 125 pages and inside back cover. laid-in sheaf of clipped essays and reviews on Brecht published 1960-62, from the TLS, the New York Times, the Listener, and by Prof. Victor Lange in the Bryn Mawr Alumnae Bulletin, conveys with the book.
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Beyond the Limit: Poems (Vne limita)
by Irina Ratushinskaya, tr. Frances Padorr Brent, Carol J. Avins
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Northwestern University Press, 1987. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. POEMS IN RUSSIAN WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATION. 121 pages, with notes on poems and chronology of Ratushkinskaya's life before emigration (both in English). Foreword by Brent, Translator's Introduction by Avins. Poems printed in Russian verso, facing English poetical translations recto. Trade paperback, foxing to wraps, edges and end papers. Little shelf wear, binding tight, pages unmarked.
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The Book of Images
by Rainer Maria Rilke
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North Point Press (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), 1994. Soft cover. Very Good. BILINGUAL EDITION GERMAN-ENGLISH. 258 pages, including four pages of Notes at the end, plus 16 pages front matter/introduction. Translated by Edward Snow. German originals and English translations on facing pages. Fourth printing (1996) of Revised Edition; translation of Das Buch der Bilder first published 1991. Trade paperback, minimal wear, faint foxing/dust soil to top edge, pages bright. Pencil underscoring and/or marginalia by former owner Prof. Ann E. Berthoff on five pages in the introduction, no marks observed in the poems.
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Catullus: The Complete Poems for American Readers
by Gaius Valerius Catullus, tr. Reney Myers, Robert J. Ormsby
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E.P. Dutton & Co., 1970. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. BILINGUAL EDITION LATIN-ENGLISH. 190 pages plus 18 pages front matter and introduction (by Quincy Howe, Jr.), with Glossary of names and place names, index of first lines for each language. Collaborative translation by a Latin scholar and a poet into fairly modern American English verse. 8vo, raspberry cloth with white lettering on spine, boards practically unworn, dust soil to top edge, page-turning soil at bottom right corner, back board very slightly bowed, faint foxing to edges, binding tight, pages bright and unmarked, in DJ clipped at bottom of flaps (but original price not clipped), soiled especially along folds.
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Città senza mura e altre poesie
by W.H. Auden
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Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1981. Soft cover. Very Good. THIS BOOK IS IN ITALIAN. 267 pagine, a cura di Aurora Ciliberti, Introduzione di Marisa Bulgheroni. Italian translation of Auden's collection City without Walls and Other Poems. Trade paperback, light wear at crown, faint foxing-type marks to wraps, binding tight, pages unmarked.
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Collected Poems
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Chatto and Windus, 1955. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 119 pages, with the author's notes and corrigenda. 8vo, red cloth with faded gilt lettering on the sunned spine, wear to crown and heel, faint foxing to edges, a bit more to end papers. Names of former owners written on ffep, pages unmarked.
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Collected Poems: Enlarged Edition
by John Betjeman
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Houghton Mifflin, 1971. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 366 pages. First printing. Compiled by the Earl of Birkenhead. Introduction to this edition by Philip Larkin. 16mo (4-3/4" x 7-1/2"), dusky yellow cloth with gilt lettering in olive insets, pale olive topstain, very faint foxing to fore-edge and pastedowns, binding tight, pages bright and unmarked.
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Collected Poems
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Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1961. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First American edition. 358 pages, with index of first lines. 8vo, gray cloth with silver gilt lettering in brown insets, cloth rumpled at crown and heel, edges and end papers age-toned with faint foxing to the latter, in unclipped DJ with a few small tears and rubbing. Former owner's name written on front pastedown, pages unmarked.
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The Collected Poetry of W.H. Auden
by W.H. Auden
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Random House, 1945. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 466 pages. Fourth printing. (Main image shows title page, second image - exterior.) The collection has sections "Poems" and "Songs and Other Musical Pieces", between them the prose poem "Letter to a Wound". 8vo, blue cloth much rubbed and worn at extremities including 1" tear along backstrip at crown, lettering entirely gone from black inset on spine, rough-cut fore-edge, hinges cracked, foxing to end papers, smudges on a few pages. Date November 1945 and name of former owner (later Prof.) Warner Berthoff on ffep, his underscoring and notes on ffep and approximately 80 pages.
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The Complete Poetry of Ben Jonson
by Ben Jonson, ed. William B. Hunter, Jr.
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Anchor Books, 1963. Soft cover. Very Good. 494 pages, with bibliography, index of first lines, index of short titles and names in titles. Edited with an introduction, notes, and variants by William B. Hunter, Jr. Also includes a chronology of Jonson's life and musical settings for some works. Large mass-market paperback (4-1/4" x 7"), creases to spine and front bottom corner, spine sunned, light shelf wear, faint foxing to top edge. Former owner's name written on ffep, pages bright and unmarked.
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