poetry
Every GIRL’S Alphabet
London: Artists’ Choice Editions, 2010. Small quarto, measuring 7.75 x 6.5 inches: [64]. Original red morocco lettered in gilt over printed color pictorial boards, color pictorial endpapers. Color illustrations throughout text. Signed by author and illustrator on colophon, penciled note: “out of series.” With: original linocut, signed by Luke Martineau.....
Price: $300.00
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
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
De Re Poetica: or, Remarks upon Poetry. With Characters and Censures of the Most Considerable Poets, whether Ancient or Modern. Extracted out of the Best and Choicest Criticks
London: Ric. Everingham, for R. Bently at the Post-house in Russel-Street, in Covent-Garden, 1694. Quarto, measuring 7.75 x 6.25 inches: [12], 129, [3], 248. Contemporary calf, sympathetically rebacked, raised bands, spine compartments decorated and lettered in gilt. Pencil note to front pastedown: “Dr. Bliss’s copy, also Kemble’s copy,” ink note.....
Price: $3,200.00
The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Compared with the Former Editions, and Many Valuable MSS. Out of which, Three Tales are added which were never before Printed
London: Bernard Lintot, between the Temple Gates, 1721. Large folio, measuring 15.5 x 10 inches: [52], 626, 81, [1]. Full contemporary speckled calf, boards ruled in gilt with crowned central initial “P” (Portland), raised bands, spine compartments elaborately tooled in gilt, black morocco spine labels (title and library pressmarks) lettered.....
Price: $3,000.00
The Poetry-Drawing Book: Poems for Children to Illustrate and Color by Themselves
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960. Spiral-bound volume, measuring 8.25 x 11 inches: [68]. Original color pictorial wrappers. “Note to Parents and Teachers” on verso of front wrapper. Text printed on yellow, white, and blue paper, with various decorations; many pages left blank for a child to complete. Front wrapper.....
Price: $50.00
Houses of Leaves
Llandogo, Wales: The Old Stile Press, (1993). Large octavo, measuring 10 x 7 inches: 59, [5]. Original blue pictorial paper boards, gold buckram spine lettered in blue, pale grey endpapers. Printed in blue-gray ink on Zerkall mould-made paper, line drawings throughout text. Number 103 of 250 copies signed by John.....
Price: $150.00
It’s A Good Thing I’m Not Macho. A Cycle of Poems
Boston: Whetstone Press, 1984. Single volume, measuring 9 x 6 inches: xiii, [1], 37, [3]. Original color pictorial wrappers. Printed in purple ink, illustrations throughout text. Inscribed by the author on the half-title.
Price: $125.00
Jeu des Poètes. Composé de 80 Cartes avec Portraits
Neuchâtel: Delachaux & Niestlé, circa 1910. Complete set of eighty playing cards, each measuring 4.5 x 2.75 inches. Each card printed in gold, red, and black, featuring a portrait of a French poet, birth and death dates, and a quoted verse; versos uniformly patterned. Housed with original instruction card in.....
Price: $500.00
In Noah’s Ark
New York: The Viking Press, 1949. Single volume, measuring 9.25 x 6.25 inches: 62. Original ivory linen spine, morocco spine label lettered in gilt, pictorial rose paper boards stamped in blind, rose endpapers, original unclipped pictorial dust jacket. Vignette of Pegasus to jacket, front board, and title page, designed by.....
Price: $75.00
Complete set of Almanacks, inscribed by Kate Greenaway
London: George Routledge & Sons; J.M. Dent, 1883-1895, 1897. Nineteen miniature volumes, variously sized, with color-printed wood engravings throughout text. Three variant bindings of 1884 almanac; two variant bindings each for years 1887, 1890, and 1892. The 1889 almanac includes presentation inscriptions from Kate Greenaway and John Drinkwater, and is.....
Price: $8,500.00
In The Fairy Ring
London: Blackie & Son, [1908]. Quarto, measuring 10.5 x 8.5 inches: 63, [1]. Original ivory cloth decorated in gilt, pictorial endpapers, all edges gilt. Twenty-four full-color plates, illustrations throughout text. Light scattered foxing (heavier to first and last pages), rear endpapers toned, corners lightly bumped.
Price: $2,000.00
Needlework sampler referencing the wrath of Achilles
[England]: October 14, 1790. Needlework sampler on unbleached linen, measuring 16 x 14 inches, in black and gilt wooden frame. Embroidered floral border in pink, blue, yellow, green, and white; text, signature, and date in black; cross-stitched lower rule in pink and green. Remnant of label to verso: “William Whiteley.....
Price: $2,800.00
The Hermit-Woman
Detroit: Lotus Press, 1983. Single volume, measuring 8.5 x 5.5 inches: 76, [2] . Original stiff orange and yellow patterned wrappers. A few tiny spots to wrappers.
Price: $125.00
“Figs From Thistles,” in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, Volume XII, No. III
Chicago: Harriet Monroe, June 1918. Octavo, measuring 8 x 5.5 inches: [2], 117-174, [4]. Original pale grey wrappers printed in purple. Four pages of ads at rear.
Price: $275.00
Comus
London: William Heinemann, [1921]. Quarto, measuring 11.5 x 9 inches: xviii, 76, [2]. Original vellum spine lettered in gilt, pictorial gilt-stamped parchment boards, pale blue and white pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, all other edges uncut, text block partially unopened. Half-title, with limitation signed by Rackham on verso; pictorial title.....
Price: $1,000.00
New Poems
New York: New Directions, 1976. Octavo, original brown cloth lettered in black, original unclipped pictorial dust jacket. Signed by Eugenio Montale on the half-title. Lightest toning to jacket edges.
Price: $450.00
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
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: $7,500.00
Amoretti and Epithalamion. Written Not Long Since by Edmunde Spenser
London: Noel Douglas, 1927. Small octavo, measuring 5 x 3 inches: [140]. Original publisher’s vellum lettered in gilt, text block uncut and partially unopened. Vignettes on both title pages, decorative headpieces and tailpieces. Bookplate of George B. Cluett to front free endpaper.
Price: $250.00
Invitation to private reception following Whitman’s lecture, “The Death of Abraham Lincoln”
New York City: April 14, 1887. Ivory card, measuring 2.75 x 3.75 inches, printed recto only: “Walt Whitman / At Home -- Thursday Evening / April 14th 1887 / Westminster Hotel, Irving Place and 16th St., New York.” Penciled bookseller note to verso: “April 14, 1887 for his most famous.....
Price: $1,800.00