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L'Oeuvre Libertine Poètes Du XIX Siècle

Paris, Bibliothèque des Curieux. 1920. Decorated paper boards, 8 3/4" x 5 1/2". 296 pages; 2 illustrated portraits. Original softcover issue bound in colorfull stippled boards; marbled endpapers. Entire original wrappers present Paper label with gilt titles on the spine; a piece of the label is torn away. Occasional blue marks in the margin of selected poems (see image). Otherwise, clean throughout; tight binding. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 005019

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: French Poetry Poets 19th Century

BALAKIAN, ANNA

Literary Origins of Surreailism: A New Mysticism in French Poetry

New York, King's Crown Press. 1947, Second Printing. Cloth, 8vo. 159 pages. Bibliography. The spine faded; text clean; binding is tight. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 003506

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Balakian Surrealism French Poetry

BARON, MARY

Letters for the New England Dead

Boston, David R. Godine. 1974, First Edition. (ISBN: 0-87923-083-5). Decorated paper boards, 8vo. 32 pages. Number 4 in the First Godine Poetry Chapbook Series. Very Good.

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Book number: 002895

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Mary Baron Poetry Poem New England Dead 0879230835

CARLISLE, HENRY C., JR. (EDITED BY)

American Satire in Prose and Verse

New York, Random House. 1962, First Printing. Cloth, 8vo. 464 pages. Portraits, Politics, Religion, Race, Art, Hollywood, High Society,Progress: they each have their several humorous critics. Red cloth with gilt decoration and titles. Clean and tight; contents fine. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 000865

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Satire Satiric Humor Benjamin Franklin Mark Twain Will Rogers Lowell James Thurber Literature & Literary

CHISHOLM, HUGH

Atlantic City Cantata

New York, Farrar, Strauss and Young. 1951, First Edition. Cloth, 4to. 126 pages. A delightful choral composition in verse - not musical - with a colorful cast of characters. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 001388

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Hugh Chisholm Poet Poetry Atlantic City

DENT, TORY

Hiv, Mon Amour - Poems

Riverdale-on-Hudson, New York, The Sheep Meadow Press. 1999, First Edition. (ISBN: 1-878818-81-3). Cloth, 8vo. 94 pages. Winner of the 1999 James Laughlin Award. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 002883

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Tory Dent Poetry Poems 1878818813

FLEXNER, JAMES THOMAS; WILLIAM JAY SMITH (INTRODUCTION) [THE STONE HOUSE PRESS]

Poems of the Twenties

Roslyn, NY, The Stone House Press. 1991, Limited Edition. (ISBN: 0-937035-19-x). Cloth, 8vo. Ill.: John De Pol. 33 pages; wood engravings by John De Pol. Printed by hand from type and wood blocks; 130 cloth-bound copies and 130 copies in paper wrappers. This is a cloth-bound copy signed on the colophon by James Thomas Flexner, John De Pol and M.A. Gelfand, the Designer. Fine. Signed by Author, Artist, Designer.

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Book number: 003195

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: James Flexner Poems John de Pol 093703519x John de Pol

HACKER, MARILYN

Squares and Courtyards

New York, W.W. Norton. 2000, First Edition. (ISBN: 0-393-04830-6). quarter-cloth and paper boards, 8vo. 108 pages. Hacker's ninth collection of poems. "A deeply thoughtful travelogue through this awful century, through cancer, through two great cities, and through love and loss.". Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 002884

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Marilyn Hacker Poetry Poems 0393048306

HOAGLAND, TONY

Donkey Gospel - Poems

Saint Paul, Minnesota, Graywolf Press. 1998, First Printing. (ISBN: 1-55597-276-4). Paper covered boards, 8vo. 74 pages. Winner of the 1997 James Laughlin Award. Previous owner's name whited-out on the front free endpaper. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 002882

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Tony Hoagland Poems 1555972764

HUGHES, TED

Birthday Letters

New York, Farrar Straus Giroux. 1998. (ISBN: 0-374-11296-7). quarter-cloth and paper boards, 8vo. 198 pages. Previous owner's name whited-out on the front free endpaper. Hughes' obituary in an envelope loosely inserted at the back. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 002896

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Ted Hughes Birthday Letters Poems Poetry 0374112967

JORDAN, JUDY

Carolina Ghost Woods - Poems

Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press. 2000, First Printing. (ISBN: 0-8071-2555-5). Cloth, 8vo. 60 pages. The poet is the daughter of sharecroppers; she was raised on a farm near the Carolinas' border. Winner of the 1999 Walt Whitman Award. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 002881

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Judy Jordan Poems 0807125555

KANTOR, MACKINLAY

Turkey in the Straw: A Book of American Ballads and Primitive Verse

New York, Coward-McCann. 1935, First Trade Edition. Cloth, 8vo. 90 pages with decorations by Will Crawford. Inscribed by Kantor with a verse and a sketch on the front free endpaper. Spine slightly darkened; clean and tight within; a nice copy. Very Good/No Jacket. Inscribed by the author.

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Book number: 002283

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Mackinlay Kantor Ballads CIVIL War Literature & Literary

MCCLATCHY, J.D. (VERSE TRANSLATION)

Seven Mozart Librettos

New York, W. W. Norton & Company. 2011, First Edition. (ISBN: 9780393066098). Red cloth, thick 8vo. 1168 pages. Idomeneo; The Abduction from the Seraglio; The Marriage of Figaro; Don Giovanni; Cosi Fan Tutte; La Clemenza di Tito; The Magic Flute. McClatchy is the author of six collections of poems; is himself a limbrettist; his singing translations have been performed at the top opera houses around the world. Clean, bright and tight throughout. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 005182

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Moart Opera Libretto Librettos Operas Music Idomeneo Seraglio Figaro Don Giovanni Cosi Fan Tutte la Clemenza Di Tito the Magic Flute Text Theatre & Plays Music 9780393066098

SCHWEITZER, VIKTORIA; TRANSLATED BY ROBERT CHANDLER AND H.T. WILLETTS; POETRY TRANSLATED BY PETER NORMAN; EDITED AND ANNOTATED BY ANGELA LIVINGSTONE

Tsvetaeva

New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1993, 1st American Edition. (ISBN: 0-374-27945-4). Cloth, 8vo. 413 pages; illustrated with photographs. The biography of "one of the four great Russian poets of the twentieth-century." 1892-1941. Clean throughout; tight binding. Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 000856

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Tsvetaeva Russian Poet Revolution Biography & Autobiography 0374279454

SHAPIRO, HARVEY

Poets of World War II

New York, The Library of America. 2003, First Edition. (ISBN: 1931082332). Decorated paper boards, 7 1/2" x 4 1/2". 262 pages. 120 poems by 62 American poets, most of whom served in the armed forces.Of the American Poets Project, an effort to form a compact national library of American poetry. Clean throughout; tight binding; dustjacket with small tears at the bottom edge of the back panel. Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 005035

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Poetry Poets World War 2 World War II 1931082332