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(UPDIKE, JOHN).  75 Aromatic Years of Leavitt & Peirce in the Recollection of 31 Harvard Men 1883-1958.
Cambridge,MA:, Leavitt & Peirce,, 1958.. Paperback. First edition. Published on the 75th anniversary of the tobacco stores existence in the same location in Harvard Square, with remembrances from 31 graduates, including John Updike (who contributes a poem), Brooks Atkinson, David McCord, Walter D. Edmonds, Robert Hillyer, Samuel Eliot Morison, and Jonathan Kozol. Published in the same year as Updike's first book. Printed at The Stinehour Press. Front cover creased at the tips, otherwise about fine in stapled wrappers. .
USD 110.00 [Appr.: EURO 74 | £UK 66 | JP¥ 9781] Book number: 2691
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[FROST, ROBERT].  Brigham Bulletin: "Frost's Last Poem... To A Brigham Nurse"
Peter Bent Brigham Hospital,, September 1973., Vol. XVIII No. 7 0. Paperback. 10pp. Includes small reproduction of a "poem" by Frost dated Jan. 9, 1963, the manuscript is reported to have been sold for $2000. The poem reads in its entirety: Peter Bent Hos./Jan. 9, 1963/ Miss Forbes I met you on a cloudy dark day and when you smiled and spoke my room was filled with sunshine "The way you smiled at me has given my heart a change of mood and saved some part of a day I had rued". The quote is from his own poem "Dust of Snow". Also, an article on Fiberoptic Endoscopy - a new and deeper look into the human body. Fine..
USD 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 50.5 | £UK 45 | JP¥ 6669] Book number: 4963
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[HESSE, HERMANN] .  Dank Des Herzens: Gedichte an Hermann Hesse
Koln:, Westdeutsches Herman Hess-Archiv,, 1949., First edition. Paperback. 23 pp. Tall string-bound wrappers. Poems in German by numerous poets. Attractively printed, numbered pamphlet with three illustrations. Very good..
USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.75 | £UK 21 | JP¥ 3112] Book number: 7095
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[FROST, ROBERT].  Fellowship Anthology of the New England Poetry Club.
Natick, MA:, The Suburban Press,, 1922., First edition. Hardcover. 57 leaves; string bound in a black binder (one assumes the binder was intended to be added to), title stamped in gold. Includes Frost's "Putting in the Seed", with his publications on the verso. Also, Amy Lowell and E.A. Robinson. Frost's appearance at the club at Lowell's invitation is noted most recently in Parini's biography of the poet. Very good. .
USD 95.00 [Appr.: EURO 64 | £UK 57 | JP¥ 8447] Book number: 4959
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[STEVENS, WALLACE].  The First Annual Wallace Stevens Program.
[Storrs]:, Univ. of Connecticut,, May 4th, 1964., First edition. Paperback. 8 pp., stapled pamphlet in card covers. Reproduces Rollie McKenna photo of Stevens, short prose piece by Stevens and his poem "The Poems of Our Climate", as well as Marianne Moore's "Poetry" ("I, too, dislike it") in a five stanza version. Moore was a presenter of the Stevens Award for poetry to a UCONN student. Near fine piece of uncommon ephemera connecting two of the most important modernist poets. .
USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 | £UK 9 | JP¥ 1334] Book number: 4991
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H. D. (HILDA DOOLITTLE).  Hermetic Definitions.
[Buffalo]:, [Frontier Press],, [1971].. Paperback. The pirated edition (1600 copies printed) of these poems published a year later by New Directions and Carcanet in hardcover in somewhat different form. An attractive production, stiff blue paper covers with a paper label, and heavy stock paper with red and green decoration (roses and thorns - echoing the title of the opening sequence) on the title page. Very fine..
USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.75 | £UK 21 | JP¥ 3112] Book number: 3536
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H. D. (HILDA DOOLITTLE).  Hermetic Definitions.
[Buffalo]:, [Frontier Press],, [1971].. Paperback. The pirated edition (1600 copies printed) of these poems published a year later by New Directions and Carcanet in hardcover in somewhat different form. An attractive production, stiff blue paper covers with a paper label, and heavy stock paper with red and green decoration (roses and thorns - echoing the title of the opening sequence) on the title page. The spine lightly faded, tips bumped, still at least very good..
USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 | £UK 9 | JP¥ 1334] Book number: 3537
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  The Poet's Dante: Twentieth-Century Responses
New York:, Farrar, Straus, & Giroux,, 2001., First edition. Hardcover. 0374235368. A Review copy with printed material laid in. Essays on Dante by Yeats, Eliot and Pound; Heaney, Merrill and Hill; Hirsch, Wright and Doty and many other poets.. Fine in Fine DJ.
USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 20.25 | £UK 18 | JP¥ 2668] Book number: 4524
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  Poets on Photography.
Hulls Cove:, Dog Ear Press,, 1981., First edition. Paperback. 108 pp. 9 x 8; illustrated throughout in black & white. Poets include: Charles Reznikoff, Adrienne Rich, Ted Kooser, W. D. Snodgrass, Yoko Ono, Dave Smith, William Stafford, James Wright, Charles Simic, Douglas Blazek, Gerard Malanga, Lyn Lifshin, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jonathan Williams, and many others. Printed on heavy paper, and well-produced. This copy signed in 1986 by editor and designer Mark Melnicove. Uncommon book, especially signed. Very good', lacking the dust jacket..
USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 20.25 | £UK 18 | JP¥ 2668] Book number: 5090
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[FROST, ROBERT].  Robert Frost: Lectures on the Centennial of his Birth
Washington DC:, Library of Congress,, 1975., First edition. Paperback. 74 pp. Four lectures on Frost: Helen Bacon; Robert Pack; Peter Davison and Allen Tate. Very good in stapled pictorial wrappers. .
USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 | £UK 9 | JP¥ 1334] Book number: 4962
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  Robert Frost and Bread Loaf.
Paperback. The Middlebury College Press, Vermont, 1964. [36 pp.] Stapled pamphlet. Limited edition (number unstated) Printed for "A Memorial Evening in the honor of Robert Frost July 11,1963 in the Bread Loaf Little Theatre". Essays by Professor Reginald Cook, Donald Davidson and Cleanth Brooks among others. Illustrated throughout, with original cover art by Jack Wendell, and a reproduced photo of Frost by Paul Child. Spine-faded, else near fine. Quite uncommon..
USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 17 | £UK 15 | JP¥ 2223] Book number: 5333
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(LEVERTOV, DENISE).  The Russian Review Vol. 23, No. 2: An American Quarterly Devoted to Russia Past and Present
New York:, 1964.. Paperback. Contains five poems by Marina Tsvetaeva translated by Levertov and Andrew Field (Nabokov's early bibliographer and biographer). Also, an interesting article on "Dostoevsky in Florence". Lightly browned and spotted, but near fine..
USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 | £UK 9 | JP¥ 1334] Book number: 2679
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[FROST, ROBERT] .  Town of Ripton: Annual Report
Ripton, VT:, Town of Ripton,, 1974., First edition. Paperback. 30 pp. Annual report with cover photo of Robert Frost and art work by Ann Parker Demong to accompany "The Road Not Taken". Spine toned, addressed for mailing with canceled stamp and remains of tape closure, else very good. .
USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 | £UK 9 | JP¥ 1334] Book number: 6307
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ABERCROMBIE, LASCELLES.  A Personal Note.
Toronto:, Basilike,, 1974., First edition. Paperback. [6 pp.] Prints a five-line poem by the mostly forgotten Gloucestershire poet Abercrombie as an introduction to his essay in which he looks back on his writerly career. 125 copies printed Very good or better in marbled wrappers..
USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 | £UK 12 | JP¥ 1778] Book number: 4155
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ABSE, DANNIE (ED.).  Poetry Dimension Annual 3: The Best of the Poetry Year
New York:, St Martin's Press,, 1976., First American edition. Hardcover. Review copy with slip laid in of this annual of British poetry. A fine selection with poems from books and magazines by Adcock, Betjeman, Davie, Grigson, Larkin, Sillitoe, Sisson, Skelton, Enright, Ewart, Fuller, Hughes, Mahon, Scannell, Thwaite, et al. And basil Bunting on Yeats, Carlos Baker on Pound and Irving Howe on Plath. Near fine in a near fine (spine-faded) dust jacket. Uncommon..
USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.75 | £UK 21 | JP¥ 3112] Book number: 3223
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ABSE, DANNIE.  Welsh Retrospective.
Bridgend, Wales:, Seren,, 1998., First edition. Hardcover. 1854112015. A Review copy, a slip from US distributor Dufour laid in. A volume of poems, includes a selected bibliography for this popular Welsh poet..
USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 | £UK 9 | JP¥ 1334] Book number: 4118
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ACKERMAN, DIANE.  Deep Play.
New York:, Random House,, 1999., First edition. . An uncorrected proof copy in blue and white glossy wrappers. Prose on wide-rangeing subjects, but as always with this poet never veering far from science or literature. . Fine in Wraps.
USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 17 | £UK 15 | JP¥ 2223] Book number: 965
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ACKERMAN, DIANE.  Jaguar of Sweet Laughter: New and Selected Poems
New York:, Random House,, 1991., First edition. . An uncorrected proof in glossy blue, pink and black wrappers.. Fine in Wraps.
USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 20.25 | £UK 18 | JP¥ 2668] Book number: 186
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ACKERMAN, DIANE.  Origami Bridges: Poems of Psychoanalysis and Fore
New York:, Harper Collins,, 2002., First edition. 0060199881. Uncorrected proof copy in yellow wrappers. Pub materials laid in. Fine..
USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 | £UK 9 | JP¥ 1334] Book number: 4132
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ACKERMAN, DIANE W/NANCY STEELE AND JODY BOLZ.  Poems.
Ithaca:, Stone-Marrow Press,, 1973., 1/500 wraps. Paperback. Precedes her first regularly published book by three years. Published by poet James Bertolino in an edition of 500; all three poets were Cornell graduates. Inscribed to Burt (Britten), with two spelling corrections to one poem. Burt Britten was a well-known NYC bookseller.. Near Fine in Wraps.
USD 175.00 [Appr.: EURO 117.75 | £UK 105 | JP¥ 15561] Book number: 144
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ACKERMAN, DIANE .  I Praise My Destroyer.
New York:, Random House,, 1998., First edition. . An uncorrected proof in blue and white wrappers.. Fine in Wraps.
USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 17 | £UK 15 | JP¥ 2223] Book number: 447
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ACKERMAN, DIANE .  I Praise My Destroyer.
New York:, RH,, 1998., First edition. 0679448780. An Advanced Uncorrected Proof in blue and white wraps.. Fine .
USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 | £UK 12 | JP¥ 1778] Book number: 2246
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ACKERMAN, DIANE .  I Praise My Destroyer.
New York:, Random House,, 1998.. Hardcover. First edition. Fine in Fine DJ..
USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 | £UK 12 | JP¥ 1778] Book number: 2260
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ACKERMAN, DIANE .  I Praise My Destroyer.
New York:, RH,, 1998., First edition. 0679448780. An Advanced Uncorrected Proof in plain blue and white wraps. Very near fine.. Fine .
USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 | £UK 7.25 | JP¥ 1067] Book number: 4123
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ACKERMAN, DIANE .  I Praise My Destroyer.
New York:, Random House,, 1998., First edition. Hardcover. 0679448780. Fine in Fine DJ.
USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 | £UK 7.25 | JP¥ 1067] Book number: 4124
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