Flemington, NJ: St. Teresa's Press, 1966. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (10" x 8"). [8],14, [4] pp. # 28 of 150 copies. Taken from a 9th century Anglo-Saxon poem with hand colored title page and initial letters after the Book of Kells. Front and back endpapers show 3/8" x 3/8" brown..... More about The Dream of the Rood
Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1868. Twentieth Edition. Hardcover. 16mo (6-1/2 "x 4-1/2"). [7]-viii, [3]-359pp. Fore-edge painting of harbor and fields. Red leather with gilt decoration/title to covers and spine, upper cover repaired, corners bumped, all edges gilt. Marbled endpapers, booksellers label to paste-down endpaper, name/date to half-title, writing to..... More about Lays Of The Scottish Cavaliers
1955. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 12mo (7-1/4" x 5-3/4"). [92] pp. Copy # 27. Inscribed by author on free endpaper "St. Patrick's Day 1955....", rest of text block tight and unmarked. Green covers with silver (platinum ?) title and decoration, corners bumped, head/tail of spine worn, probable hand made laid paper..... More about To a Few
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (9" x 5-1/2"). [12]-188pp.; [10]-180 [8] pp. Brown cloth, both volumes spines faded. Text blocks tight and unmarked. More about The Collected Poems of Earle Birney Two Volumes
New York: A. Neuman Lockwood, 1884. Taylor, C.J.; Meeker, E.J. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (20cm x 16cm)). Four identical first editions with red, olive, brown and dark green cloth covers. Gilt decoration to upper covers, gilt titles to spine and gilt edges. Possibly a binders display or sales aid. Text..... More about The Morning Breath of June (Set of Four
Montagnola: Officina Bodoni, 1925. First Edition. Vellum. 4to (10" x 7"). 54pp. One of 225 copies printed on handmade, watermarked Fabriano paper using Bodoni type. Pages tight and unmarked with no foxing. P.O. bookplate on FEP. Gilt head edge, deckled fore & tail edges. Decorative, but functional red headband. Aging..... More about Sonnets From The Portuguese
London: Oxford University Press, 1926. Hardcover. 8vo (7-1/2" x 5"). [i-v] vi-viii. 696pp. Bound by Riviere & Son in red/magenta leather with matching gilt decorations to covers, wear to joints. A.e.g. Marbled endpapers with gilt inner dentelles. Bookplate of Sally Lewis Dickinson on second free endpaper with foxing to other..... More about The Poems of Robert Browning
New Orleans: Loujon Press, 1963. First Edition. Stiff wraps. 8vo (26cm). Made of and bound in multicolored thick paper stock. 97pp, [errata]. Signed by author (12/17/63) in silver ink on free endpaper. Designed, edited and printed by Jon Edgar Webb and Louise Webb. 1/777 (unnumbered) copies. 3-1/2" x 2" water..... More about It Catches My Heart In Its Hands: New and Selected Poems 1955-1963
London: John Murray, 1833/1848. Hardcover. 16mo (6-1/2" x 4-1/2") Seventeen volumes with the engraved frontis and title pages by Finden from the 1832-1833 edition and the title page to New Edition of 1848 following in each volume. Various paginations. Bound in contemporary tan leather. Leather labels to spines. End pages..... More about The Works of Lord Byron: With His Letters and Journals and His Life By Thomas Moore, Esq. (17...
London: William Pickering, 1844. First Edition. Hardcover. 16mo (6-1/2" x 4"). Vol. I cxii, 256pp., Vol. II 352pp., Vol. III 355 [1 errata] pp. Aldine Edition. All volumes brown leather, five bands with gilt author and volume, wear to spines, all edges gilt. Volume I frontispiece bleed through to title-page..... More about The Poetical Works Of Charles Churchill; With Copious Noes And A Life Of The Author By W. Tooke...
Philadelphia: J. M. Stoddart, 1874. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to (11-1/2" x 9-1/2"). 488 pp. Half-bound brown leather spines and corners with pebbled covers, gilt titles to covers and spines, all edges gilt, corners bumped with shelf wear to edges. Endpapers white silk. Multiple color half-title page. PO inscription: Mary, A...... More about A Gallery of Famous English and American Poets
Paris: Librairie Houssiaux, 1902. Edition Charpentier. Hardcover. 8vo (9-1/2" x 6"). Eleven Volumes in French. Half bound in red leather with marbled covers, top edges gilt, gilt titles and five raised bands to spines, light edge wear to all volumes, several corners bumped. PO bookplate (Casimir I. Stralem) to all..... More about BIOGRAPHIE DE ALFRED DE MUSSET. SA VIE ET SES OEUVRES PAR PAUL DE MUSSET
London: William Blackwood, 1878-1880. Cabinet Edition. Hardcover. 16mo (6-1/2" x 4-1/2"). Cabinet Edition twenty-four volume (including final 4) set. Half bound in green leather with green/red marbled covers and edges with matching endpapers. Gilt tooling to spine, vol II of Life upper cover detached and wear to spine, vol III..... More about The Works of George Eliot
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1811. Fourth edition. Hardcover. 8vo (8" x 4-1/"). xxviii, 424, 452, 458pp. Three volumes in tree calf bindings with five gilt bands, maroon and brown labels with gilt date (1811), tooling to spines and gilt border of covers. Headbands and corners worn, upper..... More about Specimens of the Early English Poets
London: John Bell, 1791. Hardcover. 24mo (5-3/4" x 3-1/2"). Various paginations: [3], iv-v, [4], 110pp., [3], iv-x, [5], 136pp., [3], iv-xi, [2], 80pp., with double frontis and title page for each play. Brown leather, upper cover loose but holding, loss to head/tail of spine, corners bumped. P.O. name to verso..... More about The Beaux Stratagem, The Spanish Fryar , The Distrest Mother (translated by Ambrose Philips, from...
London: David Nutt, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (19 x 15cm). 143pp. "The first edition, first issue of North of Boston appears in five binding variants" (Crane, 14). This copy is binding F, in olive cloth with fore and tail edges uncut. One of 200 copies in this binding. Original..... More about North of Boston
London: John Van Voorst, 1837. Mrs. John Talbot. Hardcover. 8vo (8" x 5" x 3/8"). 12 engravings and text. Brown leather covers, a.e.g., gilt dentelles, gilt decorations to covers, gilt decorations and titles to spine. PO signature to free endpaper, stamp (front paste-down endpaper) and rules label (rear paste-down endpaper)..... More about The Bard
Boston: Mosher Press, 1946. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (8" x 6"). xiv. [2] 124 [1] pp. # 44/300 signed by author, rest of text block tight and unmarked. Unclipped DJ in Mylar. More about Mirrors of the Fire
New York: Lyceum, 1976. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (9" x 6"). 47pp. Inscribed by author on verso of free endpaper, rest of text block tight and unmarked. Unclipped Dj in Mylar. More about Words in the Night
Lubbock, Texas: Texas Tech University, 1987. Paperback. 8vo (9" x 6"). 81pp. Signed by author on title-page, "damaged" stamp to upper edge (spine faded), rest of text block tight and unmarked. 1986 AWP winner. More about The Ride Home
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1894. Howard Pyle. Holiday Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (8" x 5"). Vol. I: xvi, [1] - 219, [220]. Vol. II: [i-v], vi. [221] - 474. Half-bound by J. Macdonald (NY) in red leather with red/blue marbled papers, gilt titles and decorations to spines,1/8" tear to head..... More about The Autocrat Of the Breakfast-Table Two Volumes
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1904. Household Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (20 x 14cm) xxi, [4], 656pp. 129 B/W drawings by various artists. Blue cloth covers with gilt lines, four wreaths and title to upper cover and gilt titles with two wreaths to spine. Light wear to edges and head/tail of..... More about The Complete Poetical Works Of John Greenleaf Whittier
San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1961. Limited Edition. Soft cover. 8mo (9" x 6-1/2"). Unpaginated. Brown printed wrappers. 1/750. Inscribed (If the lion could speak....) by author on half-title to poet David Dahl on the occasion of the 1985 Santa Barbara Arts Festival, rest of text block tight and unmarked. Laid..... More about Dark Brown
London: Luyster Brothers, 1874. New Edition. Hardcover. 12mo (7-1/4" x 4-1/2"). Vol. I 339pp. Vol. II 530pp. Half bound red leather, marbled boards, t.e.g., uncut, shelf wear to edges, corners and heads/tails of spines. Bookplate of Ormond G.Smith, president of Street and Smith (publisher of many popular magazines late 19th..... More about Musarum Deliciae in Two Volumes; The Muses Recreation
New York: Harper and Brothers. Later printing. Hardcover. 8vo (21cm). Various paginations. Five with black cloth covers, 1 blue paper, 1 brown paper. All spines with white paper title labels. Various editions/dates. All text blocks tight and unmarked except Fatal Interview (upper hinge loose, inscribed by PO). Huntsman, What Quarry;..... More about Various Titles (set of seven