Poesia

The Poet's Year. Original and Selected Poems Embodying the Spirit of the Seasons

Various Authors · 1890 · Mare Booksellers

$27.00 (€24.50 | £20.44 | ¥4,312)

Boston, Lothrop and Company, 1890. Cloth. Folio. Orange cloth decorated in black and gilt. Oblong folio. Unpaginated. Several hundred pages. Black and white illustrations throughout. Poets only named within the text, no contents pages or index present. Illustrators not named. ...

Idyls and Pastorals

Thaxter, Celia · 1886 · Mare Booksellers

$49.00 (€44.46 | £37.09 | ¥7,825)

Boston, D. Lothrop and Company, 1886. Leather. Soft brown decorative leather (with cotton backing), over cardboard covers. 59 pp. 13 full page illustrations plus 2 vignettes, all present as called for in the contents. Title page mentions 24 illustrations, but that may have bee...

Texas Haiku 1978

Barber, Hazel; Eikel, Harriette · 1978 · Mare Booksellers

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Harlingen, TX, United Printers and Publishers. Wraps. no date, circa 1978. Light blue wraps. Pagination varies throughout. A collection of haiku poetry reflecting on life and landscape in Texas, and how this landscape affects those immersed in it. Arranged into various section...

The Cultivation of Christmas Trees

Eliot, T.S. · 1987 · Mare Booksellers

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Lewisburg, PA, The Press of Appletree Alley, 1987. Pamphlet. Pamphlet, single sheet folded in half. Small illustrations by Carl Darrow. A reprint of this poem reflecting on Christmas, by T.S. Eliot. Issued by the small, fine press, The Press of Appletree Alley as a stated "Chr...

Tall Texans. Durham Chapbook Number VIII

Miller, J. Keith · 1952 · Mare Booksellers

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Cleveland, American Weave Press, 1952. Wraps. Stiff gray wraps. 27 pp. A collection of poetry selected from a 1952 writer's conference at the University of New Hampshire, focusing on Texas and its landscape, the desert and the people of Texas. VERY GOOD+ condition. Minor fadin...

The Pied Piper of Hamelin

Browning, Robert · 1970 · Mare Booksellers

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

Boston, David R. Godine, Publisher, 1970. Wraps. #250 of 300 copies printed on Zerkall Butten paper. Color, floral patterned wraps. Unpaginated. Small press printing of this classic tale, billed in the subtitle as "A child's story. A tragic tale of misguided fiscal policy for ...

Landed Natures

Economou, George · 1969 · Mare Booksellers

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Los Angeles, Black Sparrow Press, 1969. First Edition. Wraps. First edition, one of 600 copies, in wrappers. Also issued in a limited hardbound edition. SIGNED, with an inscription, on the title page, date 1976. 53 pp. A collection of poetry by this American poet, founder of t...

American Weave. A Quarterly Magazine of Poetry and Light Verse. Winter 1947

Williams, Loring et al. · 1947 · Mare Booksellers

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.33 | ¥1,757)

Cleveland, Loring Eugene Williams and Alice Crane Williams, Publishers, 1947. Wraps. Printed wraps. 32 pp. A single issue of this little magazine devoted to poetry, featuring work by Loring Williams, Faye Chilcote Walker, J.S. Moody and many others. GOOD+ condition. Moderate b...

Turning Leaves. String of Words

Ward, Jonathan; Bodwell, Joshua · 2004 · Mare Booksellers

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Cape Porpoise, ME, Clamp Down Press, 2004. First Edition. Wraps. First edition. One of 160 copies. Pale orange printed wraps. Two works, bound dos a dos. 35, 34 pp. Signed and inscribed by Joshua Bodwell. A collection of poetry by Jonathan Ward, with a collection of short stor...

Rave

Davies, Alan · 1994 · Mare Booksellers

$13.00 (€11.79 | £9.84 | ¥2,076)

New York, Roof Books, 1994. Trade Paperback. Trade paperback. 64 pp. A collection of four pieces, !Orders, Split Thighs, Vitals and Isherwood Novel, being experimental erotic works of poetry and prose. Split Thighs was originally issued as a xerox edition in 1975. By Alan Davi...

Raik

Di Palma, Ray · 1989 · Mare Booksellers

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.33 | ¥1,757)

New York, Roof Books, 1989. First Edition. Trade Paperback. First edition, trade paperback, also issued in a limited signed edition. 100 pp. A collection of 100 poems that explores language and obedience, as well as conflict, through rigid form and experimentation. Ray Di Palm...

The Little Brown House. A Garland for Robert Mcglynn

Heaney, Seamus; Creeley, Robert; Kennelly, Brendan; Wilbur, Richard; McPhee, John et al. · 1984 · Mare Booksellers

$54.00 (€48.99 | £40.87 | ¥8,623)

Old Deerfield, MA, Deerfield Publications, 1984. Wraps. First edition, one of 600 copies published. Stiff wraps. Unpaginated. With a few illustrations. A collection of poetry and writing written for Robert McGlynn, a teacher at Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts. This includes...

Patriotic Suite

Montague, John · 1966 · Mare Booksellers

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Dublin, Dolmen Press, 1966. First Edition. Wraps. First edition, one of 1000 copies. Cream card stock covers in a dull bluish-green illustrated, price clipped, wrapper. 16 pp. With reproductions of woodcut illustrations by John Derrick. A Collection of poetry by John Montague,...

Songs for Solitude

Haring, Cynthia · 1979 · Mare Booksellers

$32.00 (€29.03 | £24.22 | ¥5,110)

Moline, IL, Hibiscus Press, 1979. First Edition. Wraps. First edition. #309 of 750 pp. Signed by the author, with a brief inscription, on the colophon. Wraps. Unpaginated. Illustrations by Les Bell and Marcia Huyette throughout. A collection of poems by Cynthia Haring, perhaps...

The Jacob's Ladder

Levertov, Denise · 1961 · Mare Booksellers

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New York, New Directions, 1961. Wraps. First paperback edition, with no additional printings given. Trade paperback. 87 pages. A collection of poetry by this noted American poet. GOOD+ condition. Minor toning, soiling and fading to the covers, with a few wrinkling. Some scuffi...

This Is What You Wanted, Isn't It? Poems

Blazek, Douglas · 1970 · Mare Booksellers

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Watertown, MA, Augtwofive, 1970. Wraps. Printed wraps, with a collage by Blazek on the rear cover. Publisher's address with a brown strikethrough, with a stamp from Abyss next to it. One of one thousand copies. A collection of poetry by Douglas Blazek, with a few clip art coll...

Robert Frost Speaks Departmentally. The Robert Frost Library. Dedication October 24, 1965

Frost, Robert · 1965 · Mare Booksellers

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New York, The Spiral Press, 1965. Wraps. Printed wraps. 12 pp. A reproduction of a handwritten poem, 'Departmental,' by Robert Frost, accompanied by short explanatory text on the work and its genesis. VERY GOOD condition. Minor toning to the wraps. A hint of soiling. Very Good .

La Nuit

De La Taille, Anne · 1963 · Mare Booksellers

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

Reims, Editions Matot-Braine, 1963. First Edition. Wraps. First edition. #48 of 50 numbered copies. Wraps. Signed, with a short inscription, by the author on the first endpaper. Unpaginated. Black and white illustrations by Jean-Michel Desmarquest. All text in French. A chapbo...

The Birth-Day; a Poem in Three Parts. To Which Are Added, Occasional Verses. Bound with: Solitary Hours. Part of Wiley and Putnam's Library of Choice Reading

Bowles, Caroline; Southey, Caroline · 1846 · Mare Booksellers

$43.00 (€39.01 | £32.55 | ¥6,867)

New York, Wiley and Putnam, 1846. Quarter Leather. Quarter green leather with marbled boards. 179, 159 pp. A collection of poetry written by Caroline Bowles Southey, including her blank verse autobiographical poem, The Birthday, among others. Southey was a British poet of the ...

Manassas Review. Essays on Contemporary American Poetry. Charles Simic. Vol 1. No. 2. Winter 1978

Simic, Charles et al. · 1978 · Mare Booksellers

$13.00 (€11.79 | £9.84 | ¥2,076)

Manassas, VA, Manassas Review, Publisher, 1978. Wraps. Wraps. 69 pp. Second issue of this literary magazine, with this being primarily devoted to the work of Charles Simic. This includes two poems by him, as well as an interview with Simic. With many essays on his work, as wel...