Burton, Richard

The Collected Poems of Richard Burton; with an Introduction by Alfred Kreymborg

Indianapolis, Bobbs Merrill, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xiv, 15-368, index; blue cloth lettered in gilt. The Author of "Dumb In June. Very good .

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Book number: 19241

Catalogue: Poetry

Damon, Fannie A.

In the Shadow of the Pines; with an Introduction by Alfred A. Furman

Clinton Mass, W. J. Coulter Press, 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo; pp; 76; Frontispiece; green cloth, gilt, top edge gilt. Very good .

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Book number: 13595

Catalogue: Poetry

Dartmouth Poetry Society

The Scrip, a Magazine of Undergraduate Poetry, Volume 1, Number 1

Hanover, Dartmouth Poetry Society, 1921. First & Only Edition. Wraps. Octavo; pp; (9); original printed brown paper wrappers lettered in white. Poems by Franklin McDuffee, T. H. Johnson; John Hurd Jr; M. J. Cassin; W. B. Wolfe; L. H. Weld; Newfie Mitchell; H. P. Haile; R. B. Kershaw; OCLC locates just two copies extant at Dartmouth and at Yale. Very good .

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Book number: 17265

Catalogue: Poetry

Gilbert, W. S.

The Bab Ballads with Which Are Included Songs of a Savoyard

London, Macmillan & Company, 1926. Reprint. Hardcover. Octavo; pp. 563, (i), index; three-hundred fifty illustrations by the author; original publishers decorated green pebbled cloth binding, decorated and lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. Great fun!. Very good .

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Book number: 17797

Catalogue: Poetry

Gill, John (editor)

New: American and Canadian Poetry: No 8; December 1968

Trumansburg N.Y. John Gill, 1968. First Edition. Wraps. Square octavo; pp; 46; original pictorial paper wrappers by Tim Hicks. Poetry from Marge Piercy, Wm. Aiken, and others. A small poetry magazine that was published thrice a year in of all places a small town in Upstate New York. Very good .

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Book number: 16897

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Ephemera

Goldsmith, Oliver

The Deserted Village Illustrated by the Etching Club

New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1857. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; 46, (ii), ads; illustrated with thirty five black and white wood engravings after the etchings of Creswick, Webster, Redgrave, Stonhouse, Cope and others; terra-cotta beveled cloth covered boards decorated and lettered in gilt, all edges gilt. A very nicely illustrated printing of Goldsmith's lament on social change and the destruction of the rural countryside. This copy has a gift inscription "given to Dear Mother", dated 1875 and another bit of holographic adornment, notably an earlier Christmas 1857 gift with "Cousin Eliza" executed in a highly decorative calligraphic style on a preliminary leaf. Moderate wear to the extremities of this very solid binding, light toning to some of the pages, yet a lovely very good copy.

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Book number: 18378

Catalogue: Poetry

Goodenough, Caroline Leonard

Natal Lilies and Other Poems

Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, P. Davis and Sons, Printers, 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp. viii, (3), 4-160; Illustrated, frontispiece plus ten black and white photographs; decorated burgundy pebbled cloth lettered in silver, coated yellow endpapers; Previous owner's name on a preliminary; Spine faded, rear board has some creases at bottom edge, otherwise very good. Uncommon. A South African Imprint. An interesting collection of poems and themes. Clearly sympathetic to the black Africans. Very good .

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Book number: 13383

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: South Africa: Poetry: Women: African Literature;

Grey, William Steele

Saludos: Poems by William Steele Grey

Brattleboro, VT, Privately Printed, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo; pp; vii, (i), 22, blue cloth with a paper title label block on the front board. Unsigned inscription on the title page, probably from the author. Very good .

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Book number: 14245

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Vermont; Poetry; Imprints; Signed Books;

Hagedorn, Hermann

Poems and Ballads

Boston, Houghton, Mifflin Company, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo; pp. x, (ii), 133, (i); gilt ruled burgundy cloth, lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. Hagedorn is most remembered as a friend and confidant of Theodore Roosevelt. He served with the Roosevelt Memorial Association after TR's death and wrote Roosevelt in the Bad Lands, the first publication of the Roosevelt Memorial Association. He wrote several books of history as well. This volume contains "The Cobbler of Glenmorgan" a haunting verse tale of a deal with death. minor edge wear; very good .

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Book number: 17661

Catalogue: Poetry

James, Grace

Green Willow and Other Japanese Fairy Tales

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1910. gilt-stamped cloth. Quarto (7" x 10"), navy gilt-stamped pictorial cloth. All edges dyed blue.280, (1)pp plus publisher's ad leaf. Forty stunning illustrations by Warwick Gobel tipped onto heavy brown stock illustrate the 38 tales. The plates are unpaginated. Slight wear at the extremities. Small dampstain on the back cover, lower left which can be seen as faint in the pictures. Endpapers toned. "These tales and legends have been collected from many sources. Some of them have been selected from the Ko-ji-ki, or Record of Ancient Matters, which contains the mythology of Japan. Many are told from memory, being relics of childish days, originally heard from the lips of a school fellow or a nurse. Certain of them, again, form favorite subjects for representation upon the Japanese stage." A lovely copy of this beautiful book. Ill.: Warwick Gobel. Very good .

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Book number: 19422

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Literature, Japanese Literature, Illustrated, Warwick Gobel, Poetry, Folklore Warwick Gobel Illustrated Japanese Literature

Johnson, Robert Underwood

Aftermath: Being for the Most Part Poems Written by the Author in His 80th and 81st Years, in Supplement to His Poems of Fifty Years

New York, Privately printed by the author, at the Vail-Ballou Press, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo, beige cloth, gilt. Top edge gilt. 117pp. Very good. Light soiling to boards A nicely inscribed copy. Underwood was an associate editor of Century Magazine. Very Good .

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Book number: 11567

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Literature; American Literature; Poetry; Signed

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

The Courtship of Miles Standish and Other Poems

Boston, Ticknor and Fields, 1859. Fourth printing. Hardcover. Octavo; pp. 215 plus a 16pp. catalogue dated November, 1858; embossed brown cloth with a gilt lettered spine; edge wear, corners bumped, some toning, overall a nice copy. BAL12122; actually printed in November of 1858; all points correspond to the BAL listing. Very good .

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Book number: 12520

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: American Literature, Poetry

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

The Hanging of the Crane

Boston, James R. Osgood and Company, 1875. Illustrated Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; 47, (vi), ads; Illustrated, with a frontispiece and twelve engravings after Mary Hallock and Thomas Moran by A. V. S. Anthony and W. J. Linton; decorated green cloth, bevelled edges, gilt lettered, top edge gilt, blue coated endpapers, printed on rectos only, rear board stamped in blind. BAL 12538; A very nice early edition. Very good .

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Book number: 14531

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Literature; American Literature; Poetry; Longfellow

Manville, Marion

Over the Divide and Other Verses

Philadelphia, Lippincott Company, 1888. First Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo, blue gilt-stamped pictorial cloth. 190pp. Someone, possibly the author has indicated in ink, the poem "If the Curtain Could be Lifted" in the list of contents. Inscribed and dated by the author. The poems are somewhat spiritual in nature. Some were written when the author was a teen. Many were published and met with acclaim. Good or better with rubbing of the covers and the fore-edge of the front endpapers worn .

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Book number: 18685

Catalogue: Poetry

Meyer, Thomas

At Dusk Iridescent; a Gathering of Poems 1972-1997

(Winston-Salem), Jargon Society, 1999. Limited Edition, 1/900 copies. Hardcover. Quarto; pp. 257, (5); Illustrated title page; burgundy wrappers in a pictorial dust jacket. Very good/very good.

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Book number: 13475

Catalogue: Poetry