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
Seattle: Friends of the Market, 1966. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 4to (25 x 14 cm). 496/500 Green cloth covers with gilt titles to spine. Text block tight and unmarked with many pages unopened. More about A Poets' Dozen: Fourteen Poems By Northwest Poets
Sedro Wolley, WA: Grey Spider Press, 1998. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 4to (24 x 16 cm). Signed by author on title page. 1/26 (B) on Zerkall paper. Green cloth covers with paper titles to upper and spine. Text block tight and unmarked. OCLC 40704600. More about Desperate for a Clearing
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
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
Boston: Impressions Workshop, Cricket Press, 1965. George Lockwood. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 4to (26 x 24 cm). 76/150 Signed by author and illustrator on colophon and inscribed by author (1966) on verso of free endpaper. Side-stitched brown paper covers, white label with black/red titles to upper. Tan paper label to spine..... More about Sixteen Poems; In Verse & Wood
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1926. First Edition. 4to (21 x 15cm). 574, 571. Stamped blue cloth covers with gilt tiles to spines. T.e.g. Text blocks tight and unmarked. Glassine dust jackets with 2cm missing from tails of spines, chips to edges, volume one 10 cm tear to spine at..... More about The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1845-1846 (two volumes with DJs
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...
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 (14 x 9cm). 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...
New York: New Directions, 1958. Later printing. Soft cover. 8vo (20 x 14 cm). [8], 93, [3].16th printing. Original B/W printed wrappers. Signed by the author on half title, rest of text block tight and unmarked. Light wear to edges. More about A Coney Island Of The Mind
London: David Nutt, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (19 x 15cm). 143 [1]pp. Binding F with green cloth covers, gilt titles to upper cover and spine. Fading to spine, edges of covers and corners. Offsetting to endpapers, text block tight and unmarked. One of 200 copies of binding F, bound..... 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
New York: Lyceum, 1976. Judith Oren. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (23 x 16cm). 47 pp. Inscribed by author on verso of free endpaper, rest of text block tight and unmarked. Tan cloth covers with dark brown lettering to spine. 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 (20 x 13cm). 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
Miami, Florida: Pandanus Press, 1951. First Edition. Pamphlet. 8vo (21 x 15cm). [6], 10, [4]. Blue cloth covers with fading to spine and wear to fore edge. One of 240 copies, hand-set and printed by Preston H. Dettman. The first book by one of America's premier poets. More about The Old Bachelor
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
London: J. Power and Longman, Rees, Brown and Green, 1834. Twelfth edition. Hardcover. 16mo (6-1/2" x 4"). [7], xiv, 300pp. Brown leather covers, A.e.g., gilt titles and decorations to spine with date (1835), gilt decorations to covers, corners bumped, wear to joints. P.O. names (2) to free endpaper, gift inscription..... More about Irish Melodies; with an appendix, containing the original advertisements, and prefatory letter on...
Philadelphia, Dublin, Dublin: Robert Campbell, W. Smith, Thomas Walker, 1795, 1741, 1775. Hardcover. 16mo (6-1/2" x 4"). The Gentle Shepherd, 72pp; The Rover, 96pp; The Tempest, 72pp. Quarter-bound with brown leather spine and brown marbled paper covers. Upper cover detached, corners bumped, wear to spine and edges. Label of the..... More about The Gentle Shepherd, The Rover, The Tempest (three titles bound together
Toledo, Ohio: H J Chittenden Co., 1927. First Edition. Full leather. 8vo (22 x 15 cm). 166, [4] pp. Brown flexible leather covers with faded gilt titles and decorations. Light wear to edges. Text block tight and unmarked. More about Poetical Thoughts of James Monroe Ritchie "S. E. E."