Poesia

Cultural Amnesia : Notes in the Margin of My Time

JAMES, CLIVE · 2008 · Godley Books

£9.25 (€11.09 | $12.22 | ¥1,951)

London, Picador. 2008. (ISBN: 0330418866) Soft Cover, 9.25 x 6 inches. No marks or inscriptions. Very minor creasing to covers, creases to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 876pp. Clive James's intellectual autobiography...

Introducing Chaucer

O'MALLEY, RAYMOND · 1967 · Godley Books

£6.25 (€7.49 | $8.26 | ¥1,319)

London, Heinemann Educational. 1967, First Edition. (ISBN: 0435146602) Hard Cover, 7.5 x 5 inches. Ex library book with usual marks and stamps. No creasing to covers or to spine. A clean very tight copy with traces of tape at spine foot, otherwise bright unmarked boards and no...

The Snow Goose: A Story of Dunkirk

GALLICO, PAUL · 1952 · Clausen Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

London, Michael Joseph. 1952, Twenty-Seventh Impression. Blue Cloth, 12mo - over 6 3/4" - 7 3/4" Tall. Hardcover, Textblock and binding very clean and tight; Unclipped dust jacket is lightly edge-worn and rubbed; 31p. Near Fine/Very Good+ (in mylar).

Bracebridge Hall; Tales of a Traveller; the Alhambra

IRVING, WASHINGTON; NOTES BY ANDREW B. MYERS · 1991 · Clausen Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

NY, Library of America. 1991, First Printing (stated). (ISBN: 0940450593). Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover, Immaculate, gift-quality copy; As New, in vanilla-paper board slip-case; No jacket (as issued); Cranberry-Red "brillianta" woven rayon cloth binding, with m...

William Dean Howells Novels 1875-1886: A Foregone Conclusion, a Modern Instance, Indian Summer, the Rise of Silas Lapham

HOWELLS, WILLIAM DEAN; SELECTED AND WITH NOTES AND CHRONOLOGY BY EDWIN H. CADY · 1982 · Clausen Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

NY, Library of America. 1982, Second Printing (Stated). (ISBN: 0940450046). Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover, Immaculate, gift-quality copy, in a worn and rubbed vanilla-paper board slip-case, soiled across the bottom edge; no jacket (as issued); Cranberry-Red "bri...

Loflied op een Griekse vaas

KEATS, JOHN, & JAN PRINS · 1945 · Antiquariaat De Hanze

€7.00 ($7.72 | £5.84 | ¥1,232)

Rotterdam, Donker. 1945, 1e dr. Hardcover, Gekart. + st.omsl. Gr.8vo. 13p. Tekst in Engels en Nederlands. Oplage 125 exx. nr. 94. Twee-kleurendruk. Wat lichte roestvlekjes. Verder keurig.

Aforesaid

FROST, ROBERT · 1954 · Clausen Books

$350.00 (€317.55 | £264.92 | ¥55,890)

NY, Henry Holt and Company. 1954, Limited Edition, # 554 of 650. Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Frontispiece. Hardcover, Signed by Robert Frost on limitation page. Former owner's ink inscriptions on ffep. Foxed on the frontispiece page, else textblock is clean and tig...

Obscenities: A Bummer

Casey, Michael · 1972 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New Haven, Connecticut , Yale University Press, 1972. Third Printing. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated Third Printing of this addition to the Yale Younger Poets series, a sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, ...

Kinfolks

Cobb, Ann · 1922 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Boston, Massachusetts, Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Printed for Houghton Mifflin by the Riverside Press in New York. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Decorative clo...

Poems

Calkins, Clinch · 1928 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Presumed First Edition but not so stated. 69 pp.. No dust jacket as issued, but pictorial paper covered boards, rubbed and worn a bit, chipping to spine head but still attractive, and with pape...

Darwin and the Naked Lady

Comfort, Alex · 1962 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, George Braziller, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. First American Printing of this valued collection of essays about poetry and biology, life and evolution. Contents include "On Hard and Soft Centres"; "Darwin and Freud"; "Phoebus and Pan"; "T...

Modern Ballads and Story Poems

Charles Causley (Editor) · 1965 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

New York, Franklin Watts, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine collection of the work of poets such as Edith Sitwell, Thomas Blackburn, David Wright, Robert Graves, Edwin Muir and many others. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, gene...

Person to Person

Ciardi, John · 1964 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.06 | ¥1,277)

New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers University Press, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. John Ciardi (1916-1986) provides here a collection of poems from his later work, having fallen out of favor as a poet in the 1970s and '80s. Sturdy, attractive, tightl...

Madame Bovary

FLAUBERT, GUSTAVE; TRANSLATED BY LOWELL BAIR; EDITED, WITH INTRODUCTION BY LEO BERSANI · 2005 · Clausen Books

$7.99 (€7.25 | £6.05 | ¥1,276)

NY, Bantam Books. 2005, 35th Printing. (ISBN: 0553213415). Wraps, 8vo - 7 3/4" - 9 3/4 " Tall. Paperback, Aged textblock very clean and tight; Covers lightly edge and corner rubbed and scuffed; 478p. Very Good.

Resurrection: Poems by Nicole Cooley

Cooley, Nicole · 1996 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Louisiana State University Press, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Winner of the 1995 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets. Stated First Edition, First Printing. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, ...

Arias from a Love Opera

Conquest, Robert · 1969 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, The Macmillan Company, 1969. First American Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First American Edition. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, moderately...

Between Mars and Venus

Conquest, Robert · 1962 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

London, Hutchinson, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First Edition, though, oddly, with "St. Martin's Press" label at spine bottom. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dus...

All Roads at Once

Corn, Alfred · 1976 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Viking Press, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. An apparent First Edition, though not so stated. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny d...

Sure Signs: New and Selected Poems

KOOSER, TED · 1980 · Clausen Books

$8.95 (€8.12 | £6.77 | ¥1,429)

Pittsburgh, PA, University of Pittsburgh Press. 1980, 4th Printing. (ISBN: 0822953137). Wraps, 8vo - 7 3/4" - 9 3/4 " Tall. Paperback, Textblock pages 2-23 creased at the lower outside corner, else very clean and tight; Covers slightly edge and corner rubbed; 93p. Very Good+.

The Namesake

LAHIRI, JHUMPA · 2004 · Clausen Books

$7.95 (€7.21 | £6.02 | ¥1,270)

Boston, Mariner Book/Houghton Mifflin Co. 2004. (ISBN: 9780618485222). Wraps, 8vo - 7 3/4" - 9 3/4 " Tall. Paperback, Appears unread, immaculate and tight; Minimally rubbed edges; 290p. Near Fine.