poetry
Ballads, by William Hayley, Esq., Founded on Anecdotes Relating to Animals, with Prints, Designed and Engraved by William Blake
Chichester: J. Seagrave, 1805. Octavo, measuring 6 x 4.25 inches: [4], 212, [2]. Late nineteenth-century full blue crushed morocco gilt, boards triple-ruled in gilt, raised bands, spine compartments richly decorated in gilt, all edges gilt, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers. Five plates designed and engraved by William Blake, including frontispiece; index...
Price: $5,500.00
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
Specimens of American Poetry, with Critical and Biographical Notices. In Three Volumes
Boston: S.G. Goodrich and Co., 1829. Three twelvemo volumes, early twentieth-century brown pigskin over textured tan cloth boards, raised bands, spines tooled in gilt, marbled endpapers, text blocks uncut and partially unopened. Catalogue of American Poetry at rear of volume III. Bookplate of collector Perry Beaver Strassburger (1888-1954) to front...
Price: $850.00
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
The Poetical Works of John Milton. With a Memoir, and Critical Remarks on His Genius and Writings by James Montgomery
London: Tilt and Bogue, Fleet Street, 1843. Two volumes, measuring 8 x 5.25 inches: [4], lii, 378, [2]; viii, 341, [3]. Original dark blue pictorial cloth stamped in blind and gilt, pale yellow coated endpapers, publisher's ads at rear of both volumes. One hundred and twenty wood engravings throughout text...
Price: $450.00
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, 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 dentelles by Zaehnsdorf.”...
Price: $12,500.00
Qiu yu qiu feng [“Autumn rain, autumn wind”: memorial for the executed revolutionary Qiu Jin]
[Shanghai]: Jung cun shu ju; Hong wen shu ju, 1907. Single volume, measuring 7.25 x 5 inches: [4], 75, [1]. Original printed wrappers, stitched as issued, ornamental border stamped in purple on upper wrapper. Half-title printed on green paper. Portrait of Qiu Jin in Japanese dress, wielding a sword, following...
Price: $20,000.00
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 Defense of Poesy
Glasgow: R. Urie, 1752. Twelvemo, full eighteenth-century calf, spine ruled in gilt, pp. [1-2] 3-106. Ink ownership signature dated 1838 to front free endpaper. Two tiny wormholes; text block resewn at an early date; light occasional foxing; expert repair to binding joints and corners.
Price: $1,500.00
Gold Coast Customs and Other Poems
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1929. Small octavo, 64 pp. Original textured gilt paper boards, black cloth spine with pastedown label, top edge stained black, original unclipped salmon-pink dust jacket printed in black, text block uncut and partially unopened. Frontispiece portrait by Pavel Tchelitchew, three pages of endnotes...
Price: $55.00
The Canticle of the Rose: Poems 1917-1949
New York: Vanguard Press, 1949. Octavo, original black cloth boards stamped in gilt and pink, bright unclipped original dustjacket with two barely perceptible scratches to front panel.
Price: $175.00
A Child's Garden of Verses
[New York]: The Heritage Press, 1944. Quarto, original red cloth, spine lettered in yellow, pictorial pastedown bordered in red and blue to front board, color pictorial endpapers, all edges stained yellow, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Black-and-white and color illustrations throughout text. Jacket spine sunned, no slipcase.
Price: $75.00
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 Poetical Works of William Wordsworth
London: Edward Moxon, 1846. Seven octavo volumes, full polished calf gilt, raised bands, red and green spine labels, marbled edges and endpapers. Portrait frontispiece to Volume I; Volumes I, II and V expertly rebacked with the original spines laid down. Lightest rubbing and toning to bindings.
Price: $13,500.00