New York: Henry Harrison, Poetry Publisher, 1941. First Edition. Octavo. 238pp. Prose and poetry, with a biographical statement by each author. In gold lettered blue cloth, and blue printed pink dust jacket (sun bleached spine, with closed tears and chipping at corners). Scarce in dust jacket. More
London and New York: John Lane the Bodley Head Limited, 1899. Octavo. 144 pages, with an Introduction by Richard Garnett. Jessie E. Nash Cadell who learned Persian while her husband was a British officer in India, devoted herself to the study of Omar Khayyam, the Persian astronomer and poet. Not..... More
France: Stars and Stripes, 1918. First Edition. Small Octavo. . 92 unnumbered pages. Includes Joyce Kilmer's most notable poem, "Rouge Bouquet" (1918) which commemorated the deaths of two dozen members of his regiment in a German artillery barrage on American trench positions in the Rouge Bouquet forest north-east of the..... More
New York: Macmillan, 1934. First Edition. Octavo. 82 pages. Many of his poems relate to ancient Celtic myths and were published in the last year of his life. One of his other poems ,he interprets a dream in which the "Dark Lady" of Shakespeare's Sonnets gives her story of the..... More
Sawmill Press, 1997. Limited Edition. Folded, chapbook: oblong, 3 X 10", 4 leaves, plus covers. #25 of 100 copies, signed by James Abtaham and Allison Abraham. Six poems. Enclosed in original un-printed, oblong white envelope. More
New York; (1947): Duell Sloan and Pearce. First Edition. Octavo. 32pp. Narrative poetry inspired by a young man who was in possession of Boston Commons when the first settlers arrived in 1630. The Kid of this narrative poem is, in Mr. Aiken's words, " a tantalizing figure, ancestor alike of..... More
Bruxelles (Brussels): Lacrosse Booksellers and Publishers, 1839. 12mo. Title translation: (New The Language of Fowers; The symbol and language of flowers, their history and mythological origin, as well as the most beautiful verses composed on the subject). 298 pp., half-title, vignette title page, hand colored floral bouquet frontispiece, along with..... More
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1881. Octavo. 311pp., inscribed by the author to J. Rogers Kees dated 1882, also containing a tipped in manuscript letter from author J.Westby-Gibson to J. Rogers Kees discussing the poet Aldrich. Rees authored several books such as; The pleasures of a book-worm; The brotherhood of..... More
Oxford: Geo. Bryan & Co. 1898. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good Plus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 40 pp. Light wear to corners, moderate soiling on boards. Inscribed by the author. More
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1988. Cloth. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 680p. Index of titles and first lines. Remarkably rich lines that are elevated in tone with the search for truth, beauty and self-awareness. Stephen Spender considered this Auden's most productvie and important period... More
New York: Cheshire House, 1931. Limited Edition. Quarto. 31 pp. Limited to 895 copies. Latin text with facing English translation. Includes Walter Pater's essay "Concerning the Pervigilum Veneris," from Marius the Epicurean. A near fine copy bound in 1/4 vellum over light brown paper covered boards, spine lettering gilt, just..... More
London: Oxford University Press, 1922. Octavo. 131 pages. Illustrated. Each writer gives a fresh interpretation of Andrew Marvell's poetry. Of particular interest is T.S. Eliot who analyzes To a Coy Mistress as a masterpiece of both wit and great imaginative power. While the youthful college student appreciates the sexual images..... More
Greensboro, Nc: Unicorn Press, Inc., 1982. Arthur Secunda. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 8vo., 88pp. Asociation copy: Warmly inscibed and signed by author to Arthur Secunda, illustrator for this book. Bound in white cloth boards, with illustration ("Sierra, Sierra") on front cover... More
Bloomsbury: The Nonesuch Press, 1928. Limited Edition. Small Octavo. 52, [vi] pp. #365 of 1250 copies on Van Gelder paper, Introduction. Poems. Notes. Bound in white parchment stamped in gilt, spine lettering gilt. A very nice copy. More
Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1953. First Edition. Octavo. 80p. An important contribution by a Mississippi author to serious American poetry. [See Contemporary Authors] Inscribed: "For Dick and Doris Fredericks, after a good week on Star Island--Hoping to see you again. Charles G. Bell, 1957." In addition, the author has..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1941. Octavo. 2nd printing. 559pp. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1941. This volume is unique and important, not only inscribed but also in that it contains a long tribute of his former wife poet Elenor Wylie. The poem refers to his deceased wife..... More
New York: (Greenberg Publishing Co.), 1950. Limited Edition. Small Octavo. Limited to 500 copies, 47 pages, signed by Patricia Penton, in addition, the ten woodcuts of Fritz Kredel have been beautifully hand colored by Ann Tinder. There was another smaller limited edition printed on Papier de Rives and additionally signed..... More
New York; (1933): Henry M. Snyder. Small Octavo. 47 unnumbered pages of the woman who vowed to remain a virgin until a woman friend placed a book in her hand called 'Vermillion Sin' (a bibliographic ghost, by the way). The book aroused what had been dormant and she at age..... More
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1897. A good copy of the first edition with with front hinge cracked. FFEP has upper right corner clipped Protected in mylar. More
London: Elkin Matthews, 1907. Stapled Wraps. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 16mo., 40pp. Poems. In black-lettered tan wrappers (lightly soiled). More
Northridge, California: Lord John Press, 1987. Limited Edition. Small Quarto. Limited letter "N" of 26 copies signed by Ray Bradbury. Introduction by Helen Bevington. Among his poems are "My Cat has swallowed a bumble bee" which she notes purrs and the poem to his father "For Leonard Bradbury" which is..... More
Amherst, NY: The New Establishment Press, 1985. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 75pp. Stunning poetry from a sure hand, by an author of 4 decades. In silver lettered black cloth, and illustrated dust jacket. More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1929. Limited Edition. Quarto. Limited to 250 copies. The present copy is #96. 183 pp. printed at the printing house of William Edwin Rudge from linotype Estienne on Vidalon paper, the verso of the title page the author has written in Latin: "I am the..... More
New York: Appleton, 1855. First Edition. Small Octavo. Besides Thanatopsis, it includes June (which Poe considered one of the finest of early American poems). It was almost issued simultaneously with a one volume illustrated edition which Bryant tolerated but in a letter to R.H. Dana he writes that it is..... More
[Tempe, AZ, May, 1995): Synaesthesia Press. Limited Edition. Octavo. Limited to 243 copies. The present copy is #59. Bukowski's 1964 essay: "A Depressive State of Affairs for Kings, Writers, and Elevator Boys"--basically his ideas on being an honest writer versus pandering to the academic community--which he uses as an example..... More