poetry
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
Strenna Italiana per l’Anno 1860; with: Le Belle Strenna per l’Anno 1869
Milan: Presso il Tip. Editore P. Ripamonti Carpano; Presso Virginio Bontà, 1859 and 1868. Two cartonnage volumes. Strenna Italiana (1859) measuring 9.5 x 6.5 inches: [8], 182, [2]. Original ivory paper-covered boards with hand-colored pictorial lithographic inlay, boards and spine elaborately stamped in gilt with hand-colored decorations, pale pink endpapers.....
Price: $700.00
Flora’s Feast: A Masque of Flowers Penned & Pictured by Walter Crane
London: Cassell & Company, 1889. Single volume, measuring 9.75 x 7.25 inches: 40. Original pale blue cloth spine, color pictorial paper boards, floral patterned endpapers. Color illustrations on every page. Full-page advertisement for Walter Crane’s Legends for Lionel and eight-page publisher’s catalog bound at rear. Pages double-folded and uncut, as.....
Price: $425.00
The History of The/My Wor(l)d
New York: Druckwork & Granary Books, 1995. Single volume, measuring 11.25 x 8.5 inches: [48]. Original drab paper boards, black cloth spine, original unclipped pictorial dust jacket “printed letterpress by the author." Printed in red and black ink, in various typefaces, illustrated with drawings and photographs throughout text. Jacket lightly.....
Price: $100.00
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
National Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs Set to Original Music by J.W. Elliott
London: Novello and Company, [1870]. Single volume, measuring 10.25 x 7.25 inches: [8], 111, [1]. Original green pictorial cloth stamped in gilt and black, black coated endpapers, all edges gilt. Tissue-guarded frontispiece and three full-page wood engravings, wood-engraved vignettes throughout text. Light occasional foxing and smudging, small tidemark to lower.....
Price: $200.00
The Tragic Mary
London: George Bell and Sons, 1890. Octavo, measuring 7.5 x 5 inches: x, 261, [3]. Original brown pictorial paper boards with floral design by Selwyn Image, spine lettered in black, text block uncut and unopened. Light pencil note to front free endpaper: “From a remainder of at least a dozen.....
Price: $950.00
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
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
Endymion: A Poetic Romance
London: Taylor and Hessey, 1818. Octavo, measuring 8.5 x 5.5 inches: ix, [3], 207, [1]. Late nineteenth-century full polished chestnut morocco, boards elaborately bordered and decorated in gilt with interlacing strapwork against a stippled ground, gilt-ruled raised bands, spine compartments lettered and decorated in gilt, full chestnut and green morocco.....
Price: $15,000.00
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 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
Goblin Market
London: Macmillan & Co., 1893. Tall twelvemo, measuring 7.25 x 4.25 inches: [4], 63, [1]. Original green cloth elaborately decorated in gilt, designed and initialed by Laurence Housman; all edges gilt. Original dust jacket printed in green, reproducing cover design. Pictorial title page with tissue guard, twelve full-page wood-engraved illustrations.....
Price: $2,750.00
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
The Wound Dresser. A Series of Letters Written from the Hospitals of Washington During the War of the Rebellion
Boston: Small, Maynard, & Company, 1898. Octavo, measuring 7.75 x 5 inches: [8], viii, [2], 201, [5]. Original red buckram, printed paper spine label, all edges untrimmed. Frontispiece portrait of Walt Whitman opposite title, portrait of Louisa Whitman and facsimile of a July 1863 letter inserted in text. Replacement spine.....
Price: $2,800.00
Poems by Oscar Wilde
London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane at the Sign of the Bodley Head, 1892. Single volume, measuring 7.5 x 5 inches: ix, [1], 234. Original pale mauve cloth decorated in gilt with stylized botanical design by Charles Ricketts, pale green and mauve patterned endpapers, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed.....
Price: $18,000.00
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