Poesia

Tell Me, Tell Me

Moore, Marianne · 1967 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, The Viking Press, 1967. Third Printing. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, interior lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities. Previous owner's inscription, neatly rendered. Bright ...

The Lay of Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke

Rilke, Rainer Maria · 1948 · Mare Booksellers

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

London, Lindsay Drummond, 1948. Cloth. Gray cloth in price clipped jacket. 81 pp. Text in German and English. Bilingual edition of this prose poem by German poet, one of his earlier works, and most popular. GOOD condition. Moderate toning and uneven offsetting to the jacket, w...

Mary Laird Hamady. Selected Poems. 1973-1980

Hamady, Mary Laird · 1982 · Mare Booksellers

$59.00 (€53.53 | £44.66 | ¥9,422)

Springfield, MO, Iguana Press, 1982. First Edition. Wraps. First edition, one of 150 copies printed on handmade paper. Wraps. Unpaginated. A few illustrations by Mary M. Escalante present. A collection of poetry by Mary Laird Hamady, a poet, artist and printer, who along with ...

The Giver and His Gifts: Hymns and Poems

Sadler, Mrs C. · 0 · The Glass Key

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,532)

Halifax, Wilfrid Senior, ND. No edition stated. Paperback. Pp 54. A clean, unmarked copy in continental-style printed wrappers (with flaps). Very good .

Ambushed by Angels & Other Poems

Davidson, Gustav · 1965 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

London, Outposts Publications, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Dude was seriously into angels. Gustav Davidson (December 25, 1895 – February 6, 1971) "was an American poet, writer, and publisher. He was a one-time secretary of the Poetry Society of A...

Vale, and Other Poems

A.E. · 1931 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, The Macmillan Company, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A.E." and "AE" were the pen-name pseudonyms of George William Russell (10 April 1867 – 17 July 1935), who was "an Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, painter and Irish nationalist" and ...

Selected Poems

Eberhart, Richard · 1951 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

London, Chatto & Windus , 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Richard Ghormley Eberhart (April 5, 1904 – June 9, 2005) was an American poet who published "more than a dozen books of poetry and approximately twenty works in total . . . He won the Pulitzer...

East Coker

Eliot, T.S. · 1941 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

London, Faber and Faber, 1941. Fourth Impression. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor wear of stiff card wraps, with simple printed wraps thereover, with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copy. St...

Tyrannus Nix?

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence · 1969 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

New York, New Directions, 1969. Second Printing. Softcover. Size: Oblong 32mo 4" - 5" tall. Lawrence Monsanto Ferlinghetti (March 24, 1919 – February 22, 2021) was a justifiable powerhouse in American poetry but also a painter, a social activist, and more importantly, the c...

Sunbelly

Fields, Kenneth · 1973 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

Boston, David R. Godine, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine exemplar of the second volume of the Godine Poetry Chapbook Series, Jan Schreiber, General Editor. Decorative white and yellow paper over boards, sharp and distinct paper title label over ...

Red Cats

Hollo, Anselm · 1960 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

San Francisco, California, City Lights Books, 1960. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 24mo 5" - 6" tall. Another fine contribution to the Pocket Poets Series, Number Sixteen, this being Anselm Hollo's turn, published by City Lights Books, 1968. Printed wraps, waffling to text b...

Collected Poems, Originally Published in Paris (Pirated Edition)

Hemingway, Ernest · 1960 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

San Francisco, California, Pirate Edition, published by City Lights, 1960. Pirate Edition. Softcover. Size: 24mo 5" - 6" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete. Printed softpaper wraps, light soiling to inside flap, clean and unmarked of int...

Gabriel: A Poem

Hirsch, Edward · 2014 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket, with oatmeal cloth over boards, printed dust wrapper. 78 pp. plus a note about the type...

Some Poems of Friedrich Holderlin

Holderlin, Friedrich; Prokosch, Frederic translator · 1943 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

London, New Directions, 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Today, Friedrich Holderlin (1770-1843 is often called "the German Shelley," but didn't become a German poet of the first-rank until well after his death. He is said to have gone mad for a period; ...

Excursions: New & Selected Poems

Hoskins, Katherine · 1967 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Atheneum, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First Edition, First Printing, Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities. Big, tall, Imperial octavo format,...

A Private Signal: Poems New & Selected

Howes, Barbara · 1977 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University Press, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn. Two-tone blue pape...

A Private Signal: Poems New & Selected

Howes, Barbara · 1977 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University Press, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn. Two-tone blue pape...

What Is the Truth?: A Farmyard Fable for the Young

Hughes, Ted · 1984 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

London, Faber and Faber , 1984. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy in oblong softcover format, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Augmented greatly wit...

Moon-Whales and Other Moon Poems

Hughes, Ted · 1976 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

New York, The Viking Press, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine collection of poetry in First Edition state by Ted Hughes and that is augmented greatly by the illustrations of Leonard Baskin. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, ge...

Asbestos Phoenix

Guthrie Ramon · 1968 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

New York, Funk & Wagnalls, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. The American poet Ramon Guthrie (1896-1973) was influenced by Laforgue, Pound, Eliot, and Proust among other poets and writers. "Asbestos Phoenix contains about a quarter of the poems that I ha...