Poesia

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FOWLES, JOHN · 1985 · Clausen Books

$8.95 (€8.12 | £6.77 | ¥1,429)

Boston, Little, Brown, and Company. 1985, Book Club Edition. Quarter Cloth, 8vo - 7 3/4" - 9 3/4 " Tall. Hardcover, Owner's name on front free end paper; Several shallow paperclip indentations along top edge, else textblock very clean and tight; Binding lightly edge and corner...

Life and Death

Creeley, Robert; Clemente, Francesco (artist) · 1993 · Mare Booksellers

$108.00 (€97.99 | £81.75 | ¥17,246)

New York, Gagosian Gallery, 1993. First Edition. Wraps. First edition, 1 of 2000 copies. Printed black wraps. Unpaginated. Reproductions of paintings by Francesco Clemente throughout. Appears signed, with a brief dedication, by Robert Creeley on the title page (signed Rob or B...

The Monist: A Quarterly Magazine: Devoted to the Philosphy of Science Vol. XXV No. 1-4, 1915

1915 · Clausen Books

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

Chicago, The Open Court Publishing Company. 1915. Cloth, 8vo - 7 3/4" - 9 3/4 " Tall. Ex-Library Hardcover, 1915; Four issues bound into one volumes; Vol. XXV No. 1-4; Ex-library copy, minimally stamped. Else textblock is clean and tight, floral decorative end papers. Lightly ...

The Far Lands

HALL, JAMES NORMAN · 1950 · Clausen Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Boston, Little, Brown and Company. 1950, Book Club Edition. Cloth, 8vo - over 7 " - 9 " tall. Hardcover, Usual age toning to the end papers, else textblock is clean and tight; Light blue cloth, sunned head and foot of spine/top and bottom edges, bumped corners, bumping to the ...

The Golden Book Magazine: Vol. XV, No. 99

WALPOLE, HUGH; CANBY, HENRY SEIDEL; SHAW, ALBERT; WILLIAMS, BLANCHE COLTON; MIMS, EDWIN (EDITORIAL BOARD); FIELD, FREDERICA PISEK (EDITOR) · 1932 · Clausen Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, The Review of Reviews Corporation. 1932. Wraps, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Photographs/Advertisements. Magazine, Working copy only; Last two pages have large chip at the top edge/corner, penciled writing on title page, usual age soiling/wear, else textblock is mostly...

Poems, Volume I, Volume II

Churchill, Charles · 1776 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.42 | ¥9,581)

The Strand, London, Printed for J. Wilkes, 1776. . Softcover. Size: 24mo 5" - 6" tall. Perfectly serviceable reference copies, two of three volumes; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy, bound in periwinkle blue wraps, paper labels to spines, volume number hand-penned. Perf...

The Seasons, and Castle of Indolence; Together with a Life of the Author, by Samuel Johnson

Thomson, James; Samuel Johnson · 1825 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$36.00 (€32.66 | £27.25 | ¥5,749)

London, England et al., Baynes & Son et al., 1825. . Hardcover. Size: 64mo 3" - 4. A fine-looking exemplar and good opportunity to obtain a book rebound by a master. Handsomely rebound with brown marbled paper over boards, creamy calf leather-backed, both ruled sharply in gil...

A Collection of Original Poems Published by A. Donaldson / R. And J. Dodsley and J. Richardson, Edinburgh and London, 1760

Blacklock, Thomas; and other Scotch Gentlemen; Andrew Erskine, ed. · 1760 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$260.00 (€235.90 | £196.80 | ¥41,519)

Edinburgh, Scotland, Printed for A. Donaldson and sold by him at Pope's Head and sold by R. and J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall and J. Richardson in Pater-noster-row, London, 1760. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 24mo 5" - 6" tall. Scarce in the trade, there being only a single addit...

Pen Grins: Light Verse by Louise Dyer Harris

Harris, Louise Dyer · 1941 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Newtonville, Massachusetts, Printed by The Andover Press, for the author, 1941. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 24mo 5" - 6" tall. The author's first such collection of light verse, having been published in The Boston Herald, The Boston Globe, Advance and The New Hampshire Tr...

"Doodsbloei; Gedichten"

BOSKMA, PIETER · 2010 · KIEN Boeken

€7.95 ($8.76 | £6.63 | ¥1,399)

Prometheus, Amsterdam, 2010. 5de. Paperback, 283 pp.+ inhoudsopgave. In heel goede staat.

Des Kaisers Liebkosende: Legende

Hauptmann, Carl · 1919 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$52.00 (€47.18 | £39.36 | ¥8,304)

Hannover, Germany, Paul Steegemann Verlag, 1919. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Special Edition, one of a total of three available on-line currently, printed on Zander's thick-print paper in one hundred numbered copies, this exemplar being signed by the p...

Descriptive Catalogue of the Goewey Collection of Browning Pictures 1898-1917; Together with an Introductory Paper Read Before the San Francisco Browning Society

Mrs. James M. Goewey · 1917 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

San Francisco, California, John Henry Nash, 1917. Special Limited Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Mrs. Goewey's fascinating recollections of the process of amassing her own personal and her family's collection of the poet Robert Browning's images and memorabilia...

The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume I, Volume II

Pope, Alexander · 1688 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

London, William Pickering, . . Hardcover. Size: 16mo 6" - 7" tall. Two short hardcover copies, measuring 7" tall x 5 1/2" wide, bound in publisher's pebbly dark blue cloth, paper labels to spines, sunned and a bit abraded, rubbing to extremities, a bit of scuffing along one e...

The Ruins of Rome: A Poem

Anonymous [Dyer, John] · 1740 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$76.00 (€68.95 | £57.53 | ¥12,136)

Homer's Head in Fleetstreet, Lawton Gilliver, 1740. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Lightly soiled, in simple blue paper wraps, else clean, unmarked, complete. Penned by Anonymous (John Dyer, 1700-1758?) with a gorgeous title page vignette of perhaps the Col...

Over the Brazier

Graves, Robert · 1975 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

New York, The St. James Press, 1975. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine condition facsimile reprint of the 1916 First Edition. Blue cloth over boards, gilt lettering to spine. A list of other works by the original publisher. [6], 32, [2] pp.Member, I.O.B...

The Poetical Works of Andrew Lang

Lang, Andrew; Mrs. Lang, ed. · 1923 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$36.00 (€32.66 | £27.25 | ¥5,749)

London, England, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1923. . Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Easily Good condition set of four volumes bound as two, the India Paper Edition of the Poetical Works of Andrew Lang as edited by Mrs. Lang. With Sir W.B. Richmond's two fine black-and-white port...

Predilections

Moore, Marianne · 1955 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$28.80 (€26.13 | £21.80 | ¥4,599)

New York, The Viking Press, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Bound in blue cloth, author's initials blind-stamped to front board, gilt lettering to spine. Dust jacket presen...

Robert Lowell Notebook 1967-68

Lowell, Robert · 1968 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. The poet has added three poems and revisions of others to this collection of poems crafted in 1967-1968. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing ...

The Mind-Body Problem

Pollitt, Katha · 2009 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New York, Random House, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by the author at title page, "For Stan, some poems, Katha Sept. 15, 2017, Madison Wisconsin." Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked....

Bolero : A Selection from Asaph, a Work-in-Progress

Meltzer, David · 1976 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Berkeley, California, Oyez, 1976. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Extremely good provenance and added association value insofar as this Near Fine condition copy is SIGNED by the author and inscribed very warmly to "the Legmans," the fabulous Judith Evans Legman a...