Poetry Anthologies
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The Gashlycrumb Tinies
by Edward Gorey
Gorey does his part to help educate the youth with this macabre alphabet:
"F is for Fanny sucked dry by a leech" "X is for Xerxes devoured by mice" "Z is for Zillah who drank too much gin"
"F is for Fanny sucked dry by a leech" "X is for Xerxes devoured by mice" "Z is for Zillah who drank too much gin"
Poetry Anthologies Books & Ephemera
Homespun : A Book of Verse by Members of the Creative Group of the Springfield Poetry Society
by Blair, Anne and Martin, Mabel F. (Edited by)
Springfield, MA: Mohawk Press Corporation, 1931. Book. Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). Probable First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Inscribed by Editor on ffep : "To my cousins in Pennslvania, Mabel F. Martin" . Nice collection of original poetry by the members of the Springfield, Massachusetts Poetry Society, dated 1931. Navy blue cloth, no dustjacket. 84 pages. Book Condition : Good; pages are very light aged, clean, no tears. Two pages have outline of a...
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NZ$25.53
Ca Da Vietnam: A Bilingual Anthology of Vietnamese Folk Poetry
by Balaban, John (edited by)
Unicorn Press, 1980. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" 85pp. Illustrated with nine black & white photo reproductions at rear. Stiff printed paper wrappers. Near Fine with light creasing to edges. Translated and introduction by John Balaban. Text in Vietnamese and English. Inscribed by Balaban to Denise Levertov on the half title page: For Denise Levertov belatedly (signed) John Balaban.
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NZ$59.58
American Poetry Journal (April, 1934)
by Frost, Frances
New York: Leonard Twinem, 1934. Book. Good. Soft cover. N/A. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. April, 1934 issue. Contributors in this issue: S. Foster Damon, Elizabeth Jane Astley, Mary Sinton Leitch, Ethelyn M. Parkinson, Catherine Parameter, Hazel Barrington Selby, H. Theodric Westbrook. 40-page stapled softcover. Book Condition : Good; pages are lightly aged, clean, unmarked, no crease s or tears. Cover is lightly soiled with heavy edge wear and chipping, a couple edge tears, tearing at...
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Poems Volume 1 The Wanderer and The Tannhauser
by Owen Meredith
347 Pages.This is an absolutely wonderful pocketbook sized book of Meredith's poetry with its great rhyming verses and deep emotions. Its exterior has worn areas on all four corners and around and at the top and bottom of the spine as well as along the left and right vertical sides of the spine, however, the guilt gold lettering and design on the spine is fully there as is the gold edging to the closed book's top, side and bottom page edges. The interior book has some light lettering of long ago former...
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NZ$144.69
Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
by Kennedy, Caroline (selected and introduced by)
unused book from closed bookstore inventory with a little bit of wear; blue boards, clean, tight and square, text is clean and unmarked, edges are very lightly rubbed; DJ has no tears, creases, or chips, covers are very lightly yellowed and rubbed; First Edition, 7th Printing
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NZ$10.20
Seven Stray Cats Reading Their Poems.
by [POETRY ANTHOLOGY]
[Pittsburg: Caliban Bookshop,, 1995].. Second edition.. 4to. [40 pp]. Very good plus in side-stapled wrappers with a few small spots to front cover. Cover art by Jack Gilbert and Joan Hartmann-McLean. Colophon slip laid in. One of 26 numbered copies. A reproduction of this collection, originally produced in 1957. Poems by Michael Grieg, Laura Uronovitz, Robert Stock, Jack Gilbert, Gerd Stern, Carol Christopher Drake, and Jean McLean.
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NZ$212.78
River Styx 60
by Richard Newman (editor) Karekin Goekjian, Karen BAuer, Wislawa Szymborska, Linda Wendling, Eric Shade, Margaret Kingery, Edward O'Connell, Forrest Hamer, Valerie L. Egar, Elton Glaser, Barbara Lau, Alison Pelegrin, Greg Williamson, et a
Saint Louis: Big River Association. Near Fine. 2001. First Edition. Softcover. First edition. Magazine. Pictorial wrappers [about 6" x 9"], 93+ pages, illustrated. Near Fine copy with very light edgewear. bx175
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NZ$17.02
Art and Love: An Illustrated Anthology of Love Poetry
by Kate Farrell
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Very Good. 19 x 20 cm. Hardcover. 1990. 176 pages. <br>Scores of evocative love poems, drawn from the ent ire range of world literature, are matched with wonderfully vibra nt works of art--paintings, sculpture, prints, collages, and stai ned glass to create an elegant anthology of love peoms and master pieces from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 140 color illustratio ns. .
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NZ$12.00
Poet Lore spring 1999
by Connolly, Geraldine and Elizabeth Poliner (executive editors) Daniel M. Nester, Nonoree FAnonne Jeffers, James R. Keegan, Sean Mac Falls, Laura Lee Washburn, et al
Bethesda: The Writer's Center. 1999. First Edition. Softcover. Magazine. Pictorial wrappers [about 6" x 9"], 80 pages. Fine copy. See photos
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NZ$17.02
Poetry Volume CLXXXIX Number 6 March 2007
by Wiman, Christian (editor) Geoffrey Hill, Andrew Hudgins, Eliza Griswold, Wendy Videlock, Mary Rose O'Reilley, Sopohocles, R. Nemo Hill, Afaa Michael Weaver, Richard Kenney, Kay Ryan, D. H. Tracy, Anne Stevenson, et
Chicago: The Poetry Foundation. Softcover. First edition. Magazine. Pictorial wrappers [about 5.5" x 9"], Pages 439-510 Fine condition See photo 176
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NZ$17.02
Other Engagements
by Maclay, John
[Madison]: Dream House 1987. First Edition. Hardcover This copy has been signed by the author. This version is one of 1000 copies. Collects stories and poems, 124+ pages. Fine copy, not issued in jacket. box7
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NZ$25.53
Rising: An Anthology of Poems by the South Mountain-Watchung Poets
by Gertrude Halstead, Edwin Bokert, Sondra Gash, Joan Jahoda, Mary Anne Cohen, Nancy Goldberg, Jack Belkin, Nancy MacDonald Ornstein, Marilyn Mohr, Diane Delaney, et al
Introduction by Toi Derricotte Berkeley Heights, NJ]: South Mountain-Watchung Poets Inc 1987. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 0961826509.Poetry anthology collecting the work of 17 poets. Pictorial wrappers, 96 pages. Fine copy. bx176
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NZ$25.53
The Peninsula Review Spring Summer 1997 Short Stories and Poetry
by The Peninsula Writing Group
Winter Harbor, Maine: The Peninsula Review. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 1996. Single Issue magazine. Short Stories and Poetry by C. Barbard Ciciotte, Meg Gilver, Robert Chute, Patricia Ranzoni, William D. Alexander IV, Rod Farmer, Bettina Dudley, Paul Marion, David c. Fickett, Ronald F. Kay, Patrick Bagley, Cynthia Thayer, Joyce Varney, Joan D. Clemons, Peggy Bryant, and Mick Mickelson. Light wear to covers 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Pamphlet. .whbx 1 / E
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Pompeii of the West and Other Poems
by Ingham, John Hall
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1903. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A collection of poems by Ingham, many of which originally appeared in various periodicals. Published by J. B. Lippincott Co., 1903. First edition. Hardback - blue cloth with gilt decoration an d lettering,no dustjacket. 173 pages. Book Condition : Good; except for a few tiny spots and a bit of aging pages are crisp and clean, no tears, no writing. Endpapers have a little...
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NZ$34.04
Six American Poets
by Conarroe, Joel
New York: Random House, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped (no price), faintly bumped and rubbed, faded a shade at the spine. Quarter blue cloth with brown paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of 247 poems from Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Robert Frost, and Langston Hughes.
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NZ$42.56
![Poetry of the Pacific ; Selections and Original Poems from the Poets of the Pacific States 1867 [Hardcover]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/278/842/405842278.0.b.jpg)
Poetry of the Pacific ; Selections and Original Poems from the Poets of the Pacific States 1867 [Hardcover]
by Wentworth, May (editor)
Pacific Publishing Company, 1867. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. A very good copy in original brick-brown cloth. Slight rubbing and fraying to spine (chiefly at foot); slight stains and rubbing to covers; slight rubbing and bumping to corners; previous owner's pencil signature and inscription on first preliminary leaf; previous owner's rubberstamp on title page; slight internal browning and/or foxing (chiefly to preliminaries and edges). 415 pages. Dated 1866 on title page verso. Contains...
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An American Anthology: 1787-1900
by Edmund Clarence Stedman
This antiquarian book is in fair condition. The front, back and spine of the cover boards are extremely worn as well as the edges on all sides of the cover boards and the bumping is so bad on the corner of the front cover board the corner is missing. The pages are yellowed and tanned, and there are no marking on the pages.The binding is cracked on the inside of the cover boards. "The reader will comprehend at once this book was not desiqned as a Treasury of imperishable American poems. To make a rigidly...
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NZ$177.69NZ$88.85
![The Poems of Winthrop Mackworth Praed [Selected]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/523/450/1494450523.0.b.jpg)
The Poems of Winthrop Mackworth Praed [Selected]
by Praed, Winthrop Mackworth; Cooper, Frederick (IntroductoryNotice)
London: Walter Scott. 1886. 16mo. [approx 10cm x 17cm]. Very Good condition. Light rubbing to spine edges and corners. Ttitle page lightly age-toned. Gift inscription to the reverse of front free endpaper. vi, 304 pages + Advertisements. The Canterbury Poets Series. Praed (1802-1839) was a British politician and poet. He was famous for his verse charades which were full of allusions to the people and events of his day. Eton College has a poetry society 'Praed Society' named in his honour....
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A Letter From Pontus And Other Verse
by John Masefield
This book is in good condition. There is wear on the front, back and spine of the cover boards.The edges of the cover boards are worn and the corners are bumped. The previous owners name is written on the front end page and the date is written on the in side of the front cover board. The pages are yellowed and tanned but clear from all markings. The end page is stamped with the previous owner's name and address."In the first of the Divine Tiberius, I went as junior on a Legate's staff To view the Danule...
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NZ$55.32NZ$27.66
Legumes 3
by James Crockett (conceived by) J. D. Bruhl (compiled and edited by)
Accelerator Press, 1986. First Edition. Saddle-stapled wraps. Near Fine. [32]pp., in tan printed wraps. Light wear, else in Near Fine condition. Features: Philip Barry, William Breiding, J.D. Buhl, James Crockett, Dorianne Laux, Rik McMonagle, Sarah Menefee, Marc Olmsted, Lynette Onak, Judy Tar, Kathleen Wood, Nina Ziv Ancevic, Denyse Du Roi, Tom Gardon, and K.L. Guillaume.
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NZ$25.53
Alabama Poetry
by The Poetry Society of Alabama
This book is in good condition. There is some wear and som e staining on the front, back, spine and edges of the cover boards. The corners of the cover boards are bumped, there is writing on the front end page of the previous owner. The pages are tanned, but clear of any markings. "The Poetry Society of Alabama was founded at the Birmingham Public Library, February 7th, 1929, by Elizabeth Russell Beddoe, Bessie Webb Jaynes and Alma Rittenberry, deceased; Miriam Woodward Bethea, Louise Crenshaw Ray, Anne...
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NZ$255.33NZ$127.66
Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson
by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Volume II of the Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson, edited by Eugene Parsons. Red leather limp bound with gilt on front and spine. Floral decorative endpapers. B&W frontispiece with intact tipped-in protective tissue. Title page in black, white & red.FON on front pages, dated 1903.Cover is worn, especially on spine, with fraying on edges and hinges. Upper corner of front cover and front pages are bend. Front endpapers are cracked. Pages are age tanned.
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NZ$17.02
The Literary Review An International Journal of Contemporary Writing Winter 2006 Vol. 49 No. 2
by Steinke, Rene (editor-in-chief) Barry Ballard, Catherine Barnett, Joshua Beckman, Madeleine Beckman, Patrick Lapeyre, Suzanne Bottelli, Louis Daniel Brodsky, Kevin Carey, Joseph Michael DeGross, Timothy Donnelly, Chris Edgar, et al
[Madison, NJ]: [Fairleigh Dickinson University] . 2006. First edition. Magazine. Pictorial wrappers [about 6" x 9"], 212 pages, contributors, translators. Near Fine copy.with a trace of wear. bx248
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NZ$27.24
