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THE WORKS OF THE ENGLISH POETS With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical Observations (Complete in...

THE WORKS OF THE ENGLISH POETS With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical Observations (Complete in 75 volumes) Johnson

by Johnson, Samuel

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London: J. Buckland et al, 1790. Book. Near Fine. Full Leather. Second Edition. 12mo (10 x 16cm). A highly attractive and complete set, in excellent condition of the second edition, which includes an additional fourteen poets, (including Johnson himself), added to the original selection of 1779-81. Numerous engraved copper plates to accompany Johnson's "Lives", half-titles/contents summary page to all volumes. Bound in contemporary full polished calf with matching marbled end papers and all edges. Spine decorated and lettered in gilt, with six compartments, the second and fifth with contrasting red and sepia title labels respectively, the third with oval black volume number label, all other compartmens with various gilt motifs and decoration. Gilt Greek key pattern to periphery of boards, gilt dentelles to edges. The condition is excellent with all title labels and number pieces present (a few replaced in facsimile), a little general wear and rubbing, the only fault to mention, the… Read More
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Harmonium

by STEVENS, Wallace

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923. Octavo. Pastel-striped paper over blue cloth with paper spine label; 140 pp.; dust jacket. First edition, second state binding limited to 215 copies. This was the smallest print run of the 1500 first edition copies spread across three binding states. With the exceedingly scarce, unsophisticated dust jacket. A Near Fine copy with scant rubbing to board edges and one small stain to top of spine label; page edges a trifle browning along the top and small bookseller's ticket to rear endpaper, else Fine internally. The unclipped ($2.00) dust jacket is Very Good with some surface soiling and a small chunk missing to crown (not affecting title); 1" hairline crack along joint fold. We find zero copies of either the first or state binding with the dust jacket currently in the trade (June, 2015).
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HIVE.
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HIVE.

by [Broadfoot, Linda] Carol Ann Duffy.

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Atlantic Beach, Florida:: Linda Broadfoot,, 2014.. Edition of 30. Box 6.5 x 7 x 9.5" containing ten 5 x 7.5 x .5" double-sided panels. Poems letterpress printed on Hahnemühle Ingres paper using Perpetua type cast by Michael & Winifred Bixler. Text overprinted with a transparent honeycomb pattern. Archival pigment print images on Hahnemühle Photo Silk Baryta paper. Images and poems mounted on Russian birch plywood, foreedges coated with beeswax, and encased within a fabricated one-half scale maple Langstroth beehive box structure. Title and bee image engraved on the cover. Title page mounted on the interior side of the lid. Signed and numbered. Hive was produced over the course of two years and contains nine poems from The Bees by Carol Ann Duffy with images and design by Linda Broadfoot. Linda Broadfoot: "Hive was created to reveal the wonder of sunlit bees in the air and the mystery of the hive. The images and the physical structure of the book came from my… Read More
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Gems for the Drawing Room - Fruit and Flowers - Books 1 and 2
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Gems for the Drawing Room - Fruit and Flowers - Books 1 and 2

by JERRARD, Paul & BAYLEY, J.W.N.

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London: Paul Jerrard, 1852. First Edition. Mid-nineteenth century opulence: two elaborate Victorian plate books with plates of fruit and flowers complimenting verse, fully printed in gilt. Two folios in original cloth with large colour card onlay on front board and gilt floral motif on rear, 24 full-page chromolithographic plates each facing a matching gilt printed poem; cloth mildly browned in book 1, binding rubbed and mild preliminary foxing in book 2, a very good set with beautiful clean plates.
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Poemes de Charles d'Orleans
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Poemes de Charles d'Orleans

by Matisse, Henri

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Paris: Teriade Editeur, 1950. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Folio. Limited Edition. In original lithographed glassine wrappers.Three green fleur de lis illustrated on front cover, with poets name, and a larger fleur de lis on rear cover. This is copy number 1172 of 1200 signed by Matisse in pencil on colophon.100 colourful crayon and pencil lithographs on loose pages, printed on thick Velin d'Arches paper at the Mourlot workshop in Paris. Illustrated frontis of medieval poet Charles, Duke of Orleans [1394-1465], who, taken prisoner after the Battle of Agincourt in 1415. Many of his poems were written during his long captivity over a 25 year period. He wrote courtly and romantic poems set in ballad and rondeau forms. The poems are lithographed in Matisse own hand, with decorative borders with multiple colours. Wrappers yellowed, and stained along spine and joints of front cover. Rubbing to spine edges. Stain to inner hinge of rear pastedown endpaper and sporadic stains throughout interior, but… Read More
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[Autograph Letter, Signed]

[Autograph Letter, Signed]

by Whitman, Walt

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[Camden, NJ(?)], [nd].. One page, in ink, hastily scrawled on recto of 10 x 18cm slightly irregularly trimmed oblong slip of orange-yellow paper. Three old vertical folds, strip of residue from former mat tape along extreme top edge verso, otherwise very good. Whitman writes "Dear M.P.," forwarding manuscripts of poems [not present] for consideration for publication: "...This is the best I can do for yr request -- The pieces have not hitherto been publish'd [insertion: 'at all'] but are to be [insertion: 'finally'] included in the [insertion: 'vol. to come'] little & out (such 'out' as it may be probably small one) in ab't three weeks or longer -- If Mr R can publish them before it will do & the proprieties conformed to - the price is $10." Below the body of the letter, the following appears in underlined bold in Whitman's hand: "New Poetry by Walt Whitman." Attempts to call up this letter in the database of the online Whitman Archive using several search criteria have been unproductive. Accompanied… Read More
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A major letter accompanied with 3 autograph poems. Eluard supplies the plan of his next poem...
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ELUARD, Paul (1895-1952)
Autograph letter signed "Votre Eluard" to Joe Bousquet
[Arosa 4th November 1928], 4 pages in-4to, with autograph envelope
Some tiny spots, one word crossed off in red ink (by Bousquet's hand?)
Magnificent letter, accompanied with 3 autograph poems. Eluard supplies the plan of his next poem collection L'Amour la Poésie, dedicated to Gala
"And we are everywhere where the sky of others rises. Wherever the refusal to live is useless"


"Mon bien cher ami, voici les poèmes promis. De la 2e partie (la manière noire)
Ce livre aurait 5 parties :
Premièrement
Seconde Nature
Comme une image
Défense de savoir (1)
Défense de savoir (2)
Le tout : L'AMOUR LA POÉSIE
Et dédié à Gala
Aucun poème n'a de titre. Environ 100 poèmes. Mais de jour en jour, mon corps mange ma tête. J'ai hâte de partir d'ici. Trop de nerfs, trop de cauchemars.
Peut-être, puisque vous ne m'avez pas dit si vous avez un gramophone, détestez-vous la musique. Mais soyez certain que ce que je vous aurai… Read More
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THE DEATH OF VERLAINE. Very moving, first-hand and unpublished testimony on the last moments of...

THE DEATH OF VERLAINE. Very moving, first-hand and unpublished testimony on the last moments of Verlaine by his mistress Eugenie Krantz.: "Paul Verlaine, your devoted friend, is living his last moments..."

by [VERLAINE] KRANTZ, Eugénie

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[VERLAINE] KRANTZ, Eugénie (18–/1897)
Autograph letter signed twice "Eugénie Krantz" to Edmond Lepelletier
Paris, 39 rue Descartes, 8th January 1896, 2 pp. in-12 oblong
THE DEATH OF VERLAINE
Very moving, first-hand testimony on the last moments of Verlaine by his mistress Eugenie Krantz. Close to misery, constantly running after money, she sheltered the dying poet in her apartment at 39 Rue Descartes. He died on the evening of January 8, 1896, just moments after this letter was written.


"Paul Verlaine, your devoted friend, is living his last moments..."

In a phonetic french, she writes:
"Monsieur Paul Verlaine vautre dévoué ami est à la dernière extremite. Veuliez je vous emprie venire le voire desuite car peutetre demain il serai trop [tard]… Venez le plus vite posibl si vous vouloi voir votre ami. Monsieur mes amitiés empresse sons amie Eugénie Krantz. Priaire monsieur de venire desuite pour monsieur Paul Verlaine. […] Mlle Krantz 39 rue Descartes"


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Paradise Lost
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Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books, 15th Edition published in 1738

by Milton, John

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Fifteenth Edition
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Paradise Lost was originally published in the year 1667. Early editions such as the one being offered here are very scarce and valuable. This fifteenth edition from 1738 is completely original inside and out. The leather covers show some scuffing, and the gold decor on both front and back covers is still good. There is a former owner's name on the front endsheet, and a few pages have some edge spots. The binding is tight, and the book is mostly as it was when it was published almost three centuries ago.This will make a fine and unique addition to your library of classic literature.
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New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes, inscribed by Frost with the final stanza of his...
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New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes, inscribed by Frost with the final stanza of his poem "Our Singing Strength"

by Robert Frost, with four woodcut illustrations by J. J. Lankes

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New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1923. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. J. J. Lankes. This is a jacketed and inscribed first trade edition, first printing of the book that won Robert Frost his first Pulitzer Prize. Frost inked this copy in eight lines on the front free endpaper recto with the final five-line stanza of the poem Our Singing Strength (printed at p.110): Well, something for a snowstorm to have shown | The countrys singing strength thus brought together, | That through repressed and moody with the weather, | Was none the less there ready to be freed | And sing the wild flowers up from root and seed. | Robert Frost | For | John Stuart Groves. The sole previous ownership mark we find in the book is the small, illustrated Morocco bookplate of JOHN STUART GROVES affixed to the front pastedown. Groves (1881-1958) was an accomplished Delaware bibliophile. On 1 January 1933 Frost wrote Dear Mr. Groves: I shall be glad to write my name in your copies of my books. I have a warm place in… Read More
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Revolutionary Petunias & Other Poems
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Revolutionary Petunias & Other Poems

by Walker, Alice; Jack Greenberg [Association]

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New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973 First printing of the stated first edition. Presentation copy (signed and dated in year of publication on the half-title page) to famed civil rights lawyer and activist, Jack Greenberg (1924–2016): "For Jack Greenberg / long in the / Storm. / Sincerely, / Alice Walker / 2-26-73." Provenance: the personal copy of Jack Greenberg, consigned by his adopted son William Cole.
Light rubbing to edge of boards, else book in fine condition; dust jacket with light toning to cover margins, light wear to spine ends, and light shelf wear.

Jack Greenberg was an American attorney and legal scholar. He was the Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund from 1961 to 1984, succeeding Thurgood Marshall.

Greenberg represented Martin Luther King Jr., but was best known for his role in litigating Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark 1954 civil rights case in which the high court rejected “separate but equal” public schools for blacks and… Read More
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[Tasso, Guarini and the Sixteenth Century Italian Madrigal] Rime de gli Academici Eterei dedicate...

[Tasso, Guarini and the Sixteenth Century Italian Madrigal] Rime de gli Academici Eterei dedicate alla Serenissima Madama Margherita di Vallois Duchessa di Savoia

by [Tasso Torquato (Sorrento, 1544 Roma, 1595) - Guarini Giovanni Battista (Ferrara, 1538 Venezia, 1612)]

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4º (mm 220x158); cc. (4), 76, (8). Frontespizio allegorico inciso; testatine, capilettera e fregî silografici. Caratteri corsivo e romano. Legatura coeva in cartonato rustico. Le prime otto carte sono interessate al margine da leggere gore d'umidità, per il resto l'esemplare è fresco e pulito, con ampli margini.
Provenienza: all'angolo inferiore sinistro della seconda carta, coeva nota manoscritta di possesso; la stessa mano (?) corregge il testo di alcuni componimenti.
First edition of a poetry book essential for the history of Renaissance music, as it constitutes the first organic collection of Torquato Tasso and Battista Guarini's poems.
According to scholars, Tasso and Guarini were the poets whose verses were most frequently set by Italian madrigalists and monodists in the late 16th and 17th centuries. From the 1570s through the 1630s, virtually all composers of secular vocal music in Italy and Europe, including notable ones like Luca Marenzio and Claudio Monteverdi, set one or more of their… Read More
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The Jacques Maritain and Maurice de Gandillac Collection
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The Jacques Maritain and Maurice de Gandillac Collection

by Maritain, Jacques [Raїssa Maritain and Maurice de Gandillac]

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Five rare books and associated ephemera (all published in French) from the private library of Maurice de Gandillac, 1930-1966. Maritain, Jacques: Éléments de Philosophie (I): Introduction Générale a la Philosophie, Paris: Pierre Téqui, Libraire-Éditeur, 1930. Reprint of the original 1920 edition. Original wrappers. Minor smudging and toning to wrappers and slight creasing to corners and faint staining to spine; minor toning to leaves. Portions uncut. Very good. Signed and inscribed by Jacques Maritain to Maurice de Gandillac on half-title page: "To Maurice de Gandillac / With affection / Jacques Maritain." Volume 1. Maritain, Jacques: De la Philosophie Chrétienne, Paris: Desclée de Brouwer, 1933. First edition. Original wrappers. Small red ink spot to foot of front wrapper; minor toning to leaves. Very good. Signed and inscribed by Jacques Maritain to Maurice de Gandillac on the front free endpaper: "To Maurice de Gandillac / Very affectionately / Jacques Maritain." Maritain, Jacques: Science… Read More
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A Winter Ship
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A Winter Ship

by Plath, Sylvia

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Edinburgh: The Tragara Press, 1960. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. A very fine, almost mint copy. First edition of Plath's first separately printed poem, one of only 60 copies. Stitched in original stiff card with marbled wrappers. Printed title label in a ruled border pasted to front cover. Finely printed on laid-paper with deckle edge, 4pp. (title page, 2 page poem, 1 blanc page). Alan Anderson, owner of the Tragara Press, was impressed with a short story by Ted Hughes and asked if he had anything else that he could print. Hughes suggested to print a poem by his wife, Sylvia Plath. Anderson printed around 60 copies of 'A Winter Ship'. Plath requested the removal of her name from the title, writing in June of 1960: "We thought we'd like the date, place and press in upright letters, as on the other proof, and my name deleted - as I'll write that on the inside myself, with Christmas greeting too. Plath was extremely pleased with the result, writing to Anderson on 23… Read More
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(Fine Binding by Kelliegram)  The Hunting of the Snark an Agony in Eight Fits
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(Fine Binding by Kelliegram) The Hunting of the Snark an Agony in Eight Fits

by Carroll, Lewis; with Nine Illustrations by Henry Holiday

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London: Macmillan & Co., 1876. First Edition, First Issue, with "Baker" not "Butcher" at p. 83. Marvelouly bound by Kelliegram (stamp-signed on rear turn-ins) in hunter green crushed morocco featuring The Baker at ship's railing in the center of the front cover, with gilt floral decorations at corners of covers, spine, and turn-ins, red silk end papers, ribbon marker, all edges gilt. Bound with the original First Edition cloth covers and spine at rear. Fine in all regards in a gorgeous and whimsical Kelliegram Fine binding. . First Edition. Crushed Morocco. Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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