Poesia

A Parody Anthology.

Wells, Carolyn, collected by, · 1904 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Scribner, 1904. 1st ed. VG. Red binding,gilt lettering and decoration, top edge gilt, owner name front endpaper. Nice copy.

Outside Light (inscribed).

Woodman, Katherine, · 1990 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Portland, ME, self-published, 1990. VG in VG DJ. Woodman was born in NH but has lived most of her life on the coast of Maine since 1940. She was actively involved in the. development of the Portland Museum of Art, served as co-chairman of the Museum's Portland Summer Arts Fest...

Roger Morland a Quaker Idyll (a sequel to "Molly Price").

Hayes, John Russell, · 1915 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Philadelphia, Biddle Press, 1915. VG. Inscribed by author "Mary Hayes Lawthrop a true Quaker from R. with love". Tan binding, white spine, brown lettering cover. "I know not why I love them so, The Quaker days of long ago J.R.H." "Tough another age is ours, Let us cherish stil...

Molly Pryce a Quaker Idyll.

Hayes, John Russell, · 1914 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Philadelphia, Biddle Press, 1914. VG. Inscribed "To Molly H. Lawthrop from Russell the Rimer". Tan binding, white spine, brown lettering on front cover.

The Old-Fashioned Garden and other verses.

Hayes, John Russell, · 1895 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Philadelphia, Winston, 1895. VG. Green linen binding, gilt lettering on spine. "Among the meadows of the countryside.there is a spot which lovingly I. prize, for there a fair and sweet old-fashioned country garden lies. The Gray old mansion down beside the lane stands knee-dee...

Nature and Other Callings.

Dow, John H., · 2004 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Baltimore, Publish America, (2004). 1st ptg. VG PB. Born in Lewiston, Maine, Dow graduated from Skowhegan HS in 1988 & is an avid fisherman. Color photo of deer on front cover. Marks on last two pages' fore-edge.

Come Climb My Hill.

Abbott, Winston O., · 1978 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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S. Windsor, CT, Inspiration House, (1978). 7th ptg. VG in VG DJ. Signed by author & illustrator. Sensitive tapestry of life from the beauty & mystery of common things. Laid in card for. gifting, owner name.

Letters from Chickadee Hill.

Abbott, Winston O., · 1978 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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S. Windsor, CT, Inspiration House, (1978). VG in VG DJ. Owner name. For 6 years, Abbott & Bossen wrote a monthly Letter from Chickadee Hill and sent it to subscribers. Signed by author and artist. Laid in book mark for gifting.

Noche, Tu Poema, dibujo de Ismael d'Alsina (in Spanish).

Archilla, Raul Grau, · 1952 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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San Juan de Puerto Rico, Prinpledad del autor, 1952. Edic. Principe. G PB. Rough edges, some pages uncut.

Links of Memory.

Unknown, · 0 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Cupples & Leon Co, nd. Fair. Each page has a short poem by E. Nesbit, Caskoden, Heine, Percival. Beautiful illustrations. white cover with blue flower. Gold-colored cross with lillies cross enclosed with John 14:19 "Because I live, ye shall live also". Edge wear to spine, ...

View with a Grain of Sand: selected poems.

and Clare Cavanagh, · 1995 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Harcourt Brace/Harveset, (1995). 1st ed. VG PB. Winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize for Literature. In these 100 poems Szymborska portrays a world of astonishing diversity and. richness in whcih nature is wise and prodigal and fate unpredictable, if not mischievous. With acute ...

Distant Blue.

Carper, Thomas (recipient of the 2003 Richard Wilbur Award), · 2003 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Evansville, IN, Univ of Evansville Press, (2003). VG in VG DJ. Carefully crafted poems and beautifully rendered translations from authors such as Ronsard, Du Bellay, and Akhmatova. A powerful testimony to an author whose mind ranges from sublimed metaphysical observatins to un...

The Rural Wreath; or Life Among the Flowers (meanings of flowers).

Greenwood, Laura, edited by, · 1856 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Boston, Wentworth & Co., 1856. Fair. Royal blue embossed binding, gilt flowers on front cover and spine, gilt lettering on spine, two poems glued to front. endpaper, tissue guard on frontis, embossed flower design on back cover. Meanings of many flowers, such as Clematis (Ment...

World of Light: a portrait of May Sarton with additional poems and comments.

Sarton, May (signed), · 1982 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NYC, Ishtar Enterprises, 1982. G PB. Signed by Sarton on front cover. Published to honor Sarton on the occasion ofher 70th birthday. Contains transcript from the. shooting of the film "World of Light: a portrait of May Sarton" where for a four-day session in June 1979 Sarton a...

E. E. Cummings: complete poems 1904-1962.

E. E. Cummings, Firmage, George J., edited by, · 1991 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Liveright, (1991). Centennial ed. VG in VG DJ. Revised, corrected, and expanded edition containing all the publshed poetry. This centennial edition of E. E. Cummings'. Complete Poems published in celebration of h is birth on October 14, 1894, contains all the poems publish...

The Gold Cell.

Olds, Sharon, · 1989 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Knopf, 1989. 6th ptg. VG PB. "Her best work exhibits a lyrical acuity which is both purifying and redemptive. She sees description as a means to. catharsis, and the result is impossible to forget.Sharon Olds is enormously self-aware, her poetry is remarkable for its candor...

People on a Bridge.

Szymborska, Wislawa, · 1996 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Boston, MA, Forest Books, (1996). 2nd ptg. G PB. One of the most distinguished poets in Poland, alongside Rozewicz, Milosz, and Herbert, Wislawa's poems have been in many. anthologies. The range and originality of themes, an ironic wit, and the directness and vividness of expr...

Mauled Illusionist.

Monahan, Jean, · 2006 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Washington, Orchises Press, 2006. G PB. ".tension between glittering surface and depth. Monahan's eye is fearless, wildly playful and inventive, but the questions. that prompt her are bedrock: how do we survive each other, how do we survive ourselves?" D. Nurkse First poem is ...

The Fugitive Poets: modern southern poetry in perspective: an anthology of the finest Southern poetry.

Pratt, William, edited and with introduction by William Pratt, · 1965 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Dutton, (1965). G PB. The first issue of The Fugitive magaine appeared in Nashville, TN, in 1922, and with it the major period of modern Southern. narrative began. A modest beginning for a school of poets and critics that has since led the way in many of the important deve...

Early Vows: a collection of Poems.

Reash, Janice M., · 1985 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Westlake, OH, Piedmont Press, 1985. VG spiral bound PB. Drawing of frightened deer on front cover.