poetry
Broom: An International Magazine of the Arts. Volume 5, Number 2
New York: Broom Publishing Company, September, 1923. Single volume, measuring 11 x 8 inches: 65-125, [3]. Original pictorial wrappers printed in blue and black, table of contents printed on inside front wrapper, subscription form printed on inside rear wrapper. Illustrated with photographs and black-and-white vignettes throughout text. Lightly creased.
Price: $650.00
A Book of Narrative Verse
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981. Single volume, measuring 5.75 x 3.5: xix, [1], 412. Original blindstamped blue cloth boards lettered in gilt, original unclipped dust jacket. Bookplate of Jack and Frances Donaldson to front free endpaper, lightest edgewear to jacket.
Price: $35.00
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. Without scarce glassine wrapper. Shallow bump to tail of spine, light offsetting to endpapers.
Price: $950.00
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
A Song of the English
London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1909]. Large quarto, measuring 12 x 9.5 inches: [124]. Original brown pigskin, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, upper board double-ruled in gilt with central device of rosebush rooted in book, helmet, sword, and musket, with English crown supported in branches. Top edge gilt, other edges.....
Price: $5,000.00
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
Here and Now Story Book. Two- to Seven-Year-Olds
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., (1939). Single volume, measuring 7.5 x 5 inches: xii, [2], 360. Original red pictorial cloth stamped in black, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color pictorial frontispiece, black and white illustrations throughout text. Owner signature, dated 1943, to front pastedown; occasional pencil underlining in.....
Price: $75.00
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
Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Latin and English, Translated by the Most Eminent Hands. With Historical Explications of the Fables by the Abbot Banier
Amsterdam: Printed for the Wetsteins and Smith, 1732. Two folio volumes, measuring 17.5 x 12 inches, continuously paginated: [24], 1-247, [1]; [2], 249-524, [4]. Contemporary full mottled calf rebacked, raised bands, spine compartments ruled in gilt, crimson and green morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, boards gilt-ruled with central gilt.....
Price: $7,000.00
Panels for the Walls of Heaven
[Berkeley]: Bern Porter, 1946. Square volume, measuring 8 x 8 inches: [2], 67, [1]. Hand-painted color pictorial boards, wrapped in original acetate, with colophon and Patchen’s signature painted on lower board; printed spine label; top edge stained turquoise; original stamped price of $8.50 beneath acetate on inside front board. Text.....
Price: $2,200.00
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
Freedom School Poetry
Atlanta: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, 1965. Side-stapled volume, measuring 8.25 x 5.5 inches: 47, [1]. Original pictorial wrappers printed in green, red, and black. Ink ownership inscription (“Larry Martin / 11 years old”) to front wrapper. Light toning and edgewear to wrappers.
Price: $75.00
Hiawatha
London: George G. Harrap & Company, [1914]. Color-printed pictorial panorama in sixteen panels, folded concertina-style, measuring 5.75 x 80 inches unfolded, text printed on verso. Original color-printed pictorial paper boards, measuring 6 x 5.25 inches, identically printed. Light shelfwear and spotting to boards.
Price: $200.00
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, contemporary full brown crushed morocco gilt, gilt-ruled blindtooled boards, raised bands decorated in.....
Price: $7,500.00
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
The Voyage of the Ludgate Hill: Travels with Robert Louis Stevenson
San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1987. Slim quarto, measuring 10 x 8.5 inches: [32]. Original beige cloth over blue paper boards stamped in silver, original unclipped pictorial dust jacket. Color illustrations throughout text.
Price: $35.00