poetry
A Apple Pie
London: George Routledge & Sons, [1886]. Oblong quarto, measuring 8.5 x 10 inches: [22]. Original red cloth spine, pale green color-printed pictorial boards, all edges stained red, deep blue coated endpapers. Half-title and title page printed in brown ink. Color-printed wood engravings by Edmund Evans after watercolors by Greenaway on.....
Price: $7,200.00
Orlando Furioso di Lodovico Ariosto
Birmingham: Baskerville, 1773. Four octavo volumes: [34], lviii, 362, [2]; [2], 450, [2]; [2], 446, [2]; [2], 446 [2]. Contemporary full tree calf, Greek key border and floral cornerpieces in gilt to boards, raised bands, spine compartments ruled and patterned in gilt, red and black morocco spine labels lettered in.....
Price: $2,200.00
Locus Solus III-IV. New Poetry. Winter 1962
Lans-en-Vercors, France: Locus Solus, (1961). Small octavo, measuring 7.25 x 4.75 inches: 294, [2]. Original blue printed wrappers. Signed by John Ashbery, Kenward Elmslie, LeRoi Jones (as Amiri Baraka, dated 1978), Kenneth Koch, Daniel Krakauer (inscribed “To Richard”), and Larry Rivers at their contributions. Wrappers sunned, lightest edgewear, a few.....
Price: $650.00
“Swift, Swift the Great Twin Brethren Came Spurring from the East”
England: 1911. Watercolor and graphite on board, image measuring 12 x 9 inches, board 13.75 x 9.75 inches. Tipped to mat, 16 x 12 inches.
Price: $1,250.00
Tales
(Johannesburg): Gryphon Poets, (1972). Single volume, measuring 10.75 x 8.5 inches: 46. Original color pictorial card wrappers with unclipped French flaps, upper wrapper lettered in black with brown and black woodcut design, spine lettered in black, photographic portrait of Beiles on lower wrapper. Six full-page color woodcuts. Errata slip laid.....
Price: $275.00
C: A Journal of Poetry. Volume 1: No. 9 (signed by William S. Burroughs)
New York: Lorenz and Ellen Gude, “SUMMER ETC” 1964. Side-stapled volume, measuring 14 x 8.5 inches: cover and 67 mimeographed leaves, printed recto only. Cover design by Joe Brainard; hand-pasted collage element on leaf 29. Leaves 38-43 and 55-58 stapled out of order, leaf 39 stapled upside down, all present.....
Price: $1,800.00
A Version of Solomon’s Song of Songs; Together with the XLV. Psalm
London: Printed for Dan. Brown at the Black Swan and Bible without Temple-bar, and Andr. Bell at the Cross-keys and Bible in Cornhil, 1700. Small octavo, measuring 6.5 x 4 inches: xxiv, 40. Contemporary full red paneled morocco gilt, raised bands, spine compartments decorated in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges.....
Price: $3,000.00
Don Leon; A Poem by the Late Lord Byron . . . and Forming Part of the Private Journal of His Lordship, Supposed to Have Been Entirely Destroyed by Thos. Moore . . . To Which Is Added Leon to Annabella; An Epistle from Lord Byron to Lady Byron
London: Printed for the Booksellers, 1866 [Alençon: Charles Carrington, circa 1890]. Octavo, measuring 7.5 x 5 inches: [4], 52, 63, [3], 17, [1]. Original plain wrappers, printed dust jacket, untrimmed. Separate title page, dated 1865, for “Leon to Annabella.” Rubbing to spine ends, light edgewear to jacket.
Price: $3,200.00
A Poetical Dictionary; or, the Beauties of the English Poets, Alphabetically Displayed
London: Printed for J. Newbery, J. Richardson, S. Crowder, et al. 1761. Four twelvemo volumes bound in two, measuring 7.5 x 4.25 inches: xii, 288; [2], 244; [2], 276; [2], 252. Modern quarter-calf ruled in blind and lettered in gilt, marbled boards, uncut. Decorative typographic headpieces and tailpieces. Early library.....
Price: $850.00
Achilles’ Song
New York: The Phoenix Book Shop, 1969. Oblong volume, measuring 5 x 7 inches: [16]. Side-stitched olive green wrappers in integral pictorial dust jacket printed in green and black. Original color frontispiece drawing by Duncan executed in pen and crayon. Hand-lettered “B” and signed by Duncan at colophon.
Price: $350.00
Hanging Loose 2
Brooklyn: Hanging Loose, winter/spring 1967. Forty-four mimeographed typed pages, measuring 9 x 6 inches. Loose as issued in original pictorial mailing envelope, with address label; index card inscribed “compliments of the editors,” initialed by Dick Lourie, laid in. Light shelfwear.
Price: $150.00
The Spider and the Fly (illustration)
No place: circa 1905. Watercolor and ink on illustration board, measuring 11.5 x 8 inches, sight size, on sheet measuring 14 x 8.5 inches. Signed “T. Hampe” in lower right image and titled in pencil on verso. Tipped to mat measuring 18.5 x 14 inches. A few measurement indications in.....
Price: $4,800.00
The Nightingale Warbling Forth Her Owne Disaster: or, The Rape of Philomela
London: Printed by G.P. for William Cooke [but privately printed by J. Moyes for Amos Strettell], [circa 1820]. Octavo, measuring 7.75 x 4.75 inches: [18], 25, [1]. Nineteenth-century black morocco spine lettered in gilt, red paper boards, text block uncut. Engraved device to title, eight engraved headpieces throughout text. Ink.....
Price: $1,250.00
The Raven and Other Poems
New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1845. Octavo, measuring 7.25 x 5 inches: [6], 91, [1]. Early twentieth-century full russet calf, boards single-ruled in gilt, raised bands, black morocco spine labels, spine single-ruled and lettered in gilt, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers. Handwritten slip tipped onto second fly leaf noting “inner gilt.....
Price: $12,500.00
The Beauties of Ancient Poetry. Intended as a Companion to the Beauties of English Poetry
London: E. Newbery, 1794. Twelvemo, measuring 5 x 3 inches: [2], xii, 204. Contemporary tree calf, spine ruled and decorated in gilt, red morocco spine label, boards decoratively ruled in gilt, blue-green marbled endpapers. Engraved pictorial title page. Early owner signature “H. Cotton” to preliminary blank; ink note to table.....
Price: $375.00
Mirror for Magistrates (three volumes); WITH: The Palace of Pleasure (three volumes)
London: Printed for Lackington, Allen, and Co. Finsbury Square; and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster Row; Reprinted for Robert Triphook, St. James's Street, by Harding and Wright, St. John's Square, 1815, 1813. Six quarto volumes, measuring 9.5 x 7 inches. Contemporary full brown crushed morocco gilt, gilt-ruled blindtooled.....
Price: $5,500.00
Epithalamion by Edmund Spenser. With Certain Imaginative Drawings by George Wharton Edwards
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1895. Single volume, measuring 8.75 x 5.25: [60]. Original full pictorial vellum stamped in gilt and green; green and blue marbled endpapers. Title page printed in red and black; decorative borders and illustrations on every page. Bookseller label of Thos. V. Paul, Philadelphia, to.....
Price: $400.00
I Wanted to Write a Poem. The Autobiography of the Works of a Poet
Boston: Beacon Press, (1958). Single volume, measuring 9 x 6 inches: xii, 99, [1]. Original tan cloth, spine lettered in white, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Text printed in red and black. Lightest edgewear, spotting to rear endpapers and rear panel of dust jacket, tape repair to verso of.....
Price: $100.00