SONGS FROM LONDON
London: Elkins Mathews, 1910. First Edition. Original Wraps. Octavo. A very good copy in original green printed wrappers with mild cover edge wear, light staining front cover. Publisher's prosepectus laid-in. More
Poetry
THE BOOK OF THE SONNET
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1867. First Edition. Hard Cover. Thick Octavo. One of 1000 copies [BAL 1218] two books in one, two title pages, 340pp, vi, 343pp. Bound in original burgundy cloth, spine lettering and top edge gilt; light wear to spine ends with small edge tear, wear corners; some marginal..... More
SELECTED POEMS (Author John Bowles Copy)
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1925. First Edition. Hard Cover. Octavo. Author John Bowles copy, with his name and date on front free endpaper. 63pp Bound in decorative paper covered boards, paper spine label, couple of chips to spine; light foxing on some leaves. In all, a very good copy. More
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES. Poems.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971. First Edition. Hard Cover. Octavo. SIGNED, INSCRIBED AND DATED IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION BY ERICA JONG ON TITLE PAGE. viii, 86 pp. Author's First Book. Price of $5.95 on front flap; first edition stated. A Fine copy in a Fine Dust Jacket..... More
Sea and Sussex, from Rudyard Kipling's Verse
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926. Donald Maxwell. First American Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Quarto. 94 pages, 24 mounted color plates. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering in dust jacket with light wear at spine ends and age toning at spine. More
TWENTY POEMS
London: Methuen & Co., 1918. First Edition. Original Wraps. Small Octavo. vi, 38pp. Bound in original pale blue wrappers printed in dark blue, with light wear. Though they appeared separately, three poems are here first collected, "The Sons of Martha", "For All We Have and Are", and "The Holy War"..... More
THE POETICAL WORKS OF HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW. ILLUSTRATED. Two Volumes, with Signed Card and Photograph of The author Laid in.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1879. Hard Cover. Folio. TWO VOLUMES. Complete Set. Volume I dated 1879. Volume II dated 1882. Together with a SIGNED card and a 4" x 6" photo of the author laid in. Two very good volumes bound in full pebbled brown leather with raised bands spine..... More
THE SONG OF HIAWATHA
Boston: Ticknor and Felds, 1859. Hard Cover. 12mo. From the library of Owen Wister with his bookplate (Butler, Place) front paste-down. Owen Wister (July 14, 1860 - July 21, 1938) was author of "The Virginian," considered to be the first cowboy novel. Wister was fascinated with the culture and lore..... More
The Cathedral
Boston: Fields, Osgood & Co., 1870. First Edition. Hard Cover. 12mo. 53 pages. Original rust colored cloth, beveled boards, decorated in gilt; coated brown end papers. Owner inscription on FEP and owner name on half title. A near fine copy, in an excellent early 20th century slipcase, with chemise. More
POEMS OF JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
New York: A.L. Burt, 1900. Three-Quarter Leather. Octavo. Portrait frontispiece. xvii, 447pp., Contains Lowell's Poems plus his work titled The Biglow Papers written under Pseudonym Homer Wilber along with; A Fable For Critics and The Vision of Sir Launfal, with a biographical sketch by Henry Ketcham. Bound in 3/4 green..... More
WITH THE LIVING VOICE An Address Given at the First General Meeting of the Scottish Association for the Speaking of Verse 24 October 1924
[William Heinemann, Cambridge]: 1925. First Edition. Original Wraps. Octavo. Preceding the limited and hard bound copy. This copy bound in original tan wrappers printed in black, a fine copy in fine glassine wrapper housed in blue cloth slipcase with chemise. More
LINES ON THE TERCENTENARY OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1937. LIMITED EDITION. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Quarto. SIGNED BY JOHN MASEFIELD ON COLOPHON without personalization. LIMITED EDITION OF 250 SIGNED COPIES. THIS IS No. 25. With a 2 page letter written by a young boy of 16 in 1918 asking Mr. Masefield for..... More
MINNIE MAYLOW'S STORY and Other Tales and Scenes
New York: The Macmillan Co., 1931. LIMITED EDITION. Hard Cover. Tall Octavo. LIMITED EDITION OF 350 COPIES. THIS IS No. 268. SIGNED BY JOHN MASEFIELD ON COLOPHON without personalization. 194pp., bound in 1/4 black cloth over beige cloth with gilt lettering spine. Fine in very good publisher's slipcase. More
SONGS OF THE SUN LANDS
Boston: Robert Brothers, 1873. First Edition. Hard Cover. Small Octavo. 212 pp., 4 pp. ads at rear. In original green cloth binding with gilt lettering spine, gilt palm tree design front cover, top edge gilt. A lovely copy of Miller's poetry. More
The Building of the City Beautiful
Trenton: Albert Brandt, 1905. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Revised edition. SIGNED, INSCRIBED AND DATED BY JOAQUIN MILLER ON FEP. 12mo; publisher's red cloth, decorated in gilt; a fine copy in a very good dust jacket, with a couple of short closed tears. More
PARADISE REGAINED, SAMSON AGONISTES, COMUS, AND ARCADES
London: For John Sharpe, 1817. Hard Cover. 12mo. Paradise Regained in four books, no pagination, to which is added SAMSON AGONISTES 64pp., COMUS 39pp, and ARCADES 7pp., with Milton's minor poems 188pp., uncut. Includes 9 full page engravings each dated 1816. Bound in original boards, paper spine label, lacking two..... More
THE ARCTIC OX
London: Faber and Faber Ltd., 1964. First British Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Octavo. 52pp., bound in blue cloth, spine lettering gilt, a fine copy in near fine unclipped dust jacket. More
THE ARCTIC OX
London: Faber and Faber Ltd., 1964. First British Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Octavo. Review Copy with publisher's slip laid in. 52pp., bound in blue cloth, spine lettering gilt, a fine copy in near fine unclipped dust jacket. More
LIKE A BULWARK
New York: The Viking Press, 1956. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Octavo. SIGNED, INSCRIBED AND DATED BY MARIANNE MOORE ON FFEP. 32pp., bound in paper covered boards, spine lettering black; a fine copy in unclipped dust jacket with a small dark spot to front panel. More
A Marianne Moore Reader
New York: The Viking Press, 1961. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Large Octavo. SIGNED, INSCRIBED AND DATED BY THE AUTHOR ON FEP BY MARIANNE MOORE. With author's ink correction on page 199, as she was known to do, in other copies. A fine, brilliant copy in a handsome..... More
A Book of Princeton Verse 1916
London: Princeton University Press, 1916. First Edition. Hard Cover. Octavo, original green cloth, printed in gilt; a fine copy, with no markings of any kind. Edmund Wilson's first book appearance. More
CLOTH OF THE TEMPEST
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1943. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Tall Octavo. First Edition limited to 2000 copies. A very good+ copy bound in black cloth with red printed title label spine and front cover, minimal cover edge wear, neat owner inscription half title page. In a...... More
The Teeth of the Lion
Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, 1942. First Edition. octavo, unpaginated; oatmeal dust jacket, printed in orange and green, $1.00 price on front flap. A lovely copy, internally clean and bright, with no markings of any kind; light off-setting from dust jacket flap to end papers. More
The Teeth of the Lion
Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, 1942. First Edition. octavo, unpaginated; oatmeal dust jacket, printed in orange and green, $1.00 price on front flap. A lovely copy, internally clean and bright, with no markings of any kind; light off-setting from dust jacket flap to end papers. Dust jacket with just a hint..... More
ARIEL
New York: Harper & Row, 1966. First American Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Octavo. With publisher's code "D-Q" on copyright page. 85 pp. Introduction by Robert Lowell. Bound in black cloth stamped in blue, spine lettering blue, neat owner's name on front free endpaper, in unclipped dust jacket priced..... More