poetry
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
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
Very Young Poets
(Chicago): Brooks Press, (1983). Side-stapled pamphlet, measuring 8.5 x 5.5 inches: 32. Original stiff green wrappers printed in black, priced at $5.00. Ink inscription to title page: “Sincerely / Gwendolyn Brooks.”.
Price: $70.00
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
Pictures of the Gone World
San Francisco: City Lights Books, (1968). Single volume, measuring 6.25 x 5 inches: [44]. Original yellow and black printed wrappers. Ink inscription to front free endpaper: “Best wishes, / Gwen Brooks.”.
Price: $100.00
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
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
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
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
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
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
Original watercolor depicting Walt Whitman’s Brooklyn home during the first printing of Leaves of Grass
West Cornwall, Connecticut: no date. Single sheet, measuring 12.5 x 10 inches. Ink and watercolor illustration, signed vertically along the lower left edge. Light smudge to top lefthand corner, ink note “New Yorker” to verso.
Price: $850.00
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