POEMS 1953.
London: Cassell & Company Ltd., (1953). First edition. Fine with only light bumping to lower corner tips. In dust jacket that is complete and has only light soiling and small bit of softening on top spine edge. Item #35918 More
POETRY
![Item #54267 DANCING DAVID; [Association copy inscribed to Anthony Hecht]. Thom Gunn,...](https://qbbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/54267.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1547845764)
DANCING DAVID; [Association copy inscribed to Anthony Hecht].
Kripplebush, New York: Nadja, (1995). First edition, limited issue. Illustrated with a wispy stream of red squiggled lines by Dorothea Tanning (1910-2012), a painter, printmaker, sculptor, writer, and poet herself, whose work after 1960 was almost completely abstract (Wikipedia). NUMBER XVII (17) of 25 ROMAN-NUMERALED COPIES "reserved for the poet..... Item #54267 More
SUNLIGHT.
New York: Albondocani Press, 1969. First edition. Limited to 176 copies SIGNED BY GUNN, this one being numbered "out-of-series 3/4." 8vo plain black paperwraps handsewn into marbled covers with flaps; off-white titling label printed in black on front extending slightly to back cover; 15 pages. Near fine with tiny tear..... Item #72020 More
HEROES OF THE TETON MYTHOS.
(Denver: Copper Canyon Press, 1973). First edition. One of 500 copies. Near fine in paperwraps with faint soil mark near spine and light sticker shadow to front cover. (Only 10 hardback copies.). Item #24117 More
BOOK FOR SENSEI.
Pacifica: Big Bridge Press, 1990. First edition. One of 74 numbered copies. There were also 26 signed lettered copies. Poems by Harrison, Rothenberg, McClure, Whalen, Kyger, and Codrescu, with illustratations by Nancy Davis. Accordian-folded sheet attached to boards in back and front. In slipcase. Nice production and scarce. SIGNED BY..... Item #45454 More
THE POWER OF LESS: Poetry and Public Speech.
(Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, 2007). First edition. SIGNED BY HAZO on title page. Hazo's February 1, 2007, lecture for the university's American Experience Lecture Series. Stapled paperwraps, 16 pages. Fine. Dr. Samuel John Hazo, a National Book Award finalist, founded the International Poetry Forum and served as Pennsylvania's first State..... Item #55571 More
THE SONG OF THE HORSE | THE MARRIAGE DIALOGUES (with ALS) | THE POWER OF LESS (2 volumes) | THANK A BORED ANGEL | THE AUTOBIOGRAPHERS OF EVERYBODY | THIS PART OF THE WORLD: [Seven volumes, all but one signed or inscribed, one with autograph letter signed laid in].
Various places, Various publishers, 1983-2009. First edition of each of the 7 volumes. Dr. Samuel John Hazo, a National Book Award finalist, founded the International Poetry Forum and served as Pennsylvania’s first State Poet from 1993 to 2003. He is the author of over 50 books, including poetry, fiction and..... Item #55538 More
THE DOOR STANDS OPEN: Czeslaw Milosz 1911-2004.
Dublin: Irish Writers Center, 2005. First edition. Two poems and an essay by Heaney written in memory of Milosz. Number 8 of 250 numbered copies SIGNED BY HEANEY. (There were an additional 50 "special deluxe" copies.) 8vo stainless steel covers printed in black; wrapped in attached cloth illustrated with a...... Item #50591 More
SELECTED POEMS 1966 - 1987.
New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1990. First U.S. edition. INSCRIBED on front endpaper, "Inscribed with all good wishes for Harold J. Herman/ Seamus Heaney/ April 1991." At the time, Herman (1929 - 2016) was a professor at University of Maryland, where he lectured on the Arthurian Legend. With AUTOGRAPH..... Item #71551 More
AUBADE.
[Colorado Springs]: The Press at Colorado College, 2004. First edition. Hecht's final published poem, an "aubade" -- a morning love song, traditionally "from a door or window to a sleeping woman," according to Wikipedia -- printed for Hecht's reading at Colorado College on October 14, 2004, just one week before..... Item #54272 More
MY FATHER'S ASHES; Broadside poem.
[No-place]: Peniel Press, 1992. First edition. Number 38 of 100 copies SIGNED BY HILL. 14 x 7" light gray heavy card stock with titling in darker gray and rest printed in black. Fine. Item #56203 More
THE SUBURB BY THE SEA New Poems.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952. First edition. Warmly INSCRIBED by author on front endpaper. Fine in dust jacket with one small chip on the lower back panel. Item #45266 More
MANHATTAN PASTURES.
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1963. First edition. Fine in price-clipped dustwapper which has a few foxed spots. Item #43118 More
VOYAGE HOME.
(Paris): Two Cities Editions, (1960). First edition of AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. White paperwraps printed in blue and black. Very good or better with few small stains to covers. Item #55146 More
DOROTHY Q: Together with a Ballad of the Boston Tea Party & Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle.
Howard Pyle. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1893. First edition. With Illustrations by Howard Pyle. Second issue with "clashed" (versus "flashed"), p.50:8 [BAL 9042]. Ornate, silver-stamped lettering and design on dark, slate-green cloth; page top edges silver. Small crimp to top rear corner, otherwise fine. A lovely copy. Item #48241 More
THE ONE-HOSS SHAY.
Pyle, Howard. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1905. First edition thus; publisher notes "For this new edition [Howard] Pyle has practically redrawn in color his own original illustrations, with results that give the volume an additional charm." Name on endpaper, light rubbing to spine ends and tips..... Item #49864 More
FIVE (5) SIGNED BROADSIDE POEMS: Includes "Clear Text" (#9/100) and "My Father's Ashes" (#8/100) by Hill; "The Death of Shadows" (#12/20) by Brady-Mobley; and "from Blue Flowers" (#5/100) and "from On Religious Conversion and Eternal Friendship" (#9/100) by Nuara.
[No-place]: Eric Holter / Peniel Press, 1992. First edition of each of these five limited-edition broadsides all of which are SIGNED BY THE POETS. Printed by Eric Holter at his Peniel Press. All are within 15 x 9" and printed on various colors and weights of fine deckled-edge papers. Fine..... Item #56202 More
POEMS BY THOMAS HOOD: Illustrated Edition.
New York: G. P. Putnam & Son, 1872. First edition thus: illustrated with new designs by American artists Felix Octavius Carr "F. O. C." Darley and Solomom "Sol" Eytinge, Jr. (also includes reproductions of the designs by Dore, Birket Foster, et al); and with an introduction, "A Critical Memoir," by..... Item #52520 More
HUMOROUS POEMS.
Charles E. Brock. London: Macmillan and Co., 1893. First trade edition, following a limited, large paper issue. Preface by Alfred Ainger and 130 illustrations by Charles E. Brock. Green cloth boards decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt on front and spine, all edges gilt. Boards visible at corners and few..... Item #52646 More
IN THE COLD COUNTRY: Poems.
New York: Bonacio & Saul / Grove Press, 1954. First edition. Author's second book. Fine in near fine dust jacket with light crease to bottom corner front panel. Item #43115 More
BIRDS AND FLOWERS: And Other Country Things.
Boston: William D. Ticknor, 1843. Second U.S. edition. Bookplate of Major James Edwards Poore. Pictorial title page hand colored. Also a number of appropriate pencil illustrations added at beginnings of a few poems. Cover shows wear but the copy is still tight and good or better. EXTRA ILLUSTRATIONS. Item #39182 More
TYPED LETTER SIGNED BY LANGSTON HUGHES TO EUGENE WEINTRAUB, WEINTRAUB MUSIC COMPANY: About publication of Swanson's musical compositions of Hughes' poems, "Pierrot" and "In Time of Silver Rain."
(New York: 1951). First edition. One page on Hughes' personal, printed letterhead watermarked "Old Edgeland Bond." Dated May 8, 1951, it reads in part, "Carl Van Vechten showed me copies of Swanson's 'IN TIME OF SILVER RAIN' and 'PIERROT' the other day, which I had not seen before. I'd love..... Item #56044 More
WODWO.
London: Faber & Faber, (1967). First edition. Prize-winning poet Anthony Hecht's copy with his ownership signature on the front endpaper. A PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED by Hughes, "To Tony/ in Memoriam/ from Ted/ 13 July 1967." This was Hughes first book of poems after wife Sylvia Plath's death from suicide in..... Item #53612 More