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
Tape for the Turn of the Year
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, (1965). Single volume, measuring 8.75 x 5.25 inches: [8], 205, [1]. Original tan cloth spine lettered in brown, brown paper boards, tan endpapers, original unclipped photographic dust jacket printed in shades of tan and brown. Cornell University Press review slip laid in, giving the author as.....
Price: $125.00
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
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 New Version of the Psalms of David, Fitted to the Tunes Used in Churches
London: Printed by Richard Hett, For the Company of Stationers, 1778. Octavo, measuring 8 x 5 inches: 236, [4]. Contemporary red morocco, boards elaborately bordered in gilt, raised bands, spine compartments ruled and decorated in gilt, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Inscribed on blank flyleaf: “Sophia Poulett / Hinton St.....
Price: $850.00
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
Complete run of Boni Paper Books and Bonibooks, with publisher's original wooden display shelf
New York: Charles Boni, 1929-1931. Fifty-three paperback volumes, measuring 7.25 x 5 inches each: various paginations. Original pictorial card wrappers, many with pictorial endpapers, a few volumes housed in publisher’s slipcases (not issued on most titles). Original publisher’s wooden display shelf, painted in black and silver with “50¢ BONIBOOKS” lettered.....
Price: $4,200.00
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 Muses Library; Or a Series of English Poetry, from the Saxons, to the Reign of King Charles II
London: J. Wilcox, T. Green, et al, 1737. Octavo, measuring 8 x 4.75 inches: xvi, 400. Nineteenth-century three-quarter purple calf, marbled boards, raised bands, spine lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers. Marginalia in ink and pencil throughout. Ownership inscription dated 1766(?) to head of title, partially trimmed. Bookplates of Percy L......
Price: $1,400.00
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
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
Xarque and Other Poems
Detroit: Lotus Press, 1985. Single volume, measuring 8.25 x 5.25 inches: 70, [2]. Original stiff green pictorial wrappers illustrated by James Lewis.
Price: $125.00
“Each A Heart”
[Philadelphia]: United Church Press, 1968. Color broadside, printed in yellow, orange, and grey, measuring 10 x 14 inches.
Price: $75.00
Birds, Beasts and Fishes
London: Oxford University Press, 1962. Single volume, measuring 7.75 x 5.25 inches: [8], 248. Original purple cloth lettered in silver, solid plum endpapers, original unclipped plum dust jacket printed in purple and white. Black and white illustrations throughout text. Bookseller ticket to base of front pastedown. Spine panel lightly sunned.....
Price: $75.00
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
Sammelband of poems, including Hannah More’s first published work
London, Oxford, and Bristol: various publishers, 1771-1774. Quarto, measuring 10.25 x 8 inches, containing ten separately published works: [4],44; [4], 4-38; 6, 71, [3]; [4], 24; [8], 37, [1]; [2], 24; [4], 18; [2], iv,30; [2], 31, [1]; vi, 7-41, [1]. Contemporary polished calf, rebacked and recornered, floral gilt rules.....
Price: $5,600.00
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, contemporary full brown crushed morocco gilt, gilt-ruled blindtooled boards, raised bands decorated in.....
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
The Faerie Queene. By Edmund Spenser. With an Exact Collation of the Two Original Editions, Published by Himself in Quarto
London: J. Brindley and S. Wright, 1751. Three quarto volumes, measuring 11 x 9 inches: [7], iv-lxiii, [1], ii-xxxvii, [3], 453, [1]; [2], 450; [2], 440. Contemporary full calf rebacked, gilt acorn and foliate border to boards, raised bands, spine compartments ruled and decorated in gilt, red and green morocco.....
Price: $2,800.00
English Classics Abridged; Being Select Works of Addison, Pope, and Milton, Adapted to the Perusal of Youth, of Both Sexes, at School. To Which Are Prefixed Observations on the Several Authors, Addressed to Parents and Preceptors
London: Printed for G.G.J. and J. Robinson, Pater-noster Row, 1786. Twelvemo, measuring 6.5 x 4.25 inches: xv, [1], 367, [1]. Contemporary calf rebacked with original spine laid down, raised bands, red morocco spine label tooled in gilt. Presentation inscription from editor John Walker on verso of front free endpaper. Marginal.....
Price: $1,800.00
The Beatitudes: From Slavery to Civil Rights
Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, (2010). Single volume, measuring 11.5 x 8.5 inches: [36]. Original glossy color pictorial boards, typographic endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color illustrations on every page.
Price: $35.00
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 Ballad of Biddy Early
New York: Knopf, (1989). Slim quarto, measuring 11 x 8.5 inches: [40]. Original black cloth spine lettered in red over tan paper boards, coated red endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Watercolor illustrations throughout text. Signed by Nancy Willard on title page.
Price: $35.00