Poesia

Collected Poems 1909-1935.

Eliot, T. S., · 1936 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Harcourt Brace, (1936). G. Navy blue binding, owner name & bookplate, slight edge wear.

A Log of Deadwood: a postmodern epic of the South Dakota gold rush.

David, Gary, · 1993 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Berkeley, CA, North Atlantic Books, (1993). 1st ptg. VG PB (signed). Gold seekers invaded the sacred heart of the Sioux reservation in the Black Hills of South Dakota on Deadwood Creek. Owner bookplate.

Eve: poems.

Finch, Annie, · 1997 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Ashland, OR, Story Line Press, (1997). 2nd Amer ptg. VG. "Like her predecessors, Eve brought both death and life to humanity." Top corners slight bent.

The North Sea (in German and English) facing pages.

Heine, Heinrich, translated by Vernon Watkins, · 1951 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

NY, New Directions, (1951). G. Binding tanned at edges, first two pages cut on the diagonal at the top.

The Buck in the Snow & Other Poems.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent, · 1928 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Harper, 1928. 13th ptg. G. "Let us abandon then our gardens and go home and sit in the sitting-room.we shall die in darkness, and be buried in the. rain." Slight wear, nice copy.

The Trouble with Poetry and other poems.

Collins, Billy, · 2005 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.33 | ¥1,757)

NY, Random, (2005). 1st ptg. VG PB. Collins has opened the door to poetry for thos to whom it might otherwise have remained closed. Former Poet Laureate.

The Oldest Map with the Name America.

Perillo, Lucia, · 1999 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Random, (1999). Stated 1st ed. VG in VG DJ. An important new way of looking at the world, a vision that in its coherence provides us with a deep and original understanding. of what we're all about, as individuals and as a culture. Jacket art by Anton Ginsburg adapted from ...

Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats.

Eliot, T. S., · 1982 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Harcourt Brace, (1982). VG PB. Supposedly the inspiration for Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, "Cats", multiple illustrations by the whimsical Edward Gorey. "The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter, It isn't just one of your holiday games." Owner's inscription front endpape...

Where Divinity Begins: poems (signed by author).

DeNicola, Deborah, · 1994 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

Cambridge, MA, Alice James Books, (1994). VG PB. Inscribed by author, "In respect for your growth and in memory of days in the Old Port - All best wishes, Deborah!". When Divinity Begins is stunning - sexy, jazzy, somber and steeply Gregorian by turns.The voice blooms deep wit...

Subject Matter.

Wormser, Baron, · 2003 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Louisville, KY, Sarabande, (2003). 1st ed. VG PB. Cover art by Janet Wormser, 2001.

Cuba Night: poems.

Smith, Dave, · 1990 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

NY, Quill/William Morrow, (1990). 1st Quill ed. VG PB. Cover painting: The Bedroom by Fernando Botero. "These poems are nothing short of visionary." - Anthony Hecht.

A Bracelet of Lies signed by Nordhaus as well as with signed note by Nordhaus.

Nordhaus, Jean, · 1987 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

Washington, D.C., Washington Writers Pub House, (1987). VG PB. Nordhaus writes in her note to an admirer that "I have seldom been read with such care and deep attention - even by people who. hhold themselves up as 'experts' in this 'field' of poetry - and I feel gratified to b...

Sun under Wood: poems.

Hass, Robert, · 1998 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Ecco, (1998). 1st PB ed. VG PB. Hass's fourth collection - artfully assembled from prose, epigram, conversation, and free verse -proves both meditative. and emotional. Plangent and ecstatic. - The New Yorker Owner jottings on few poems, own poem on back endpaper.

Ice, Mouth, Song: a collection of poems.

Flynn, Rachel Contreni, · 2005 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Dorset, VT, Tupelo Press, (2005). 1st PB ed. VG PB. ".a haunting beauty to it, and an economy of phrasing consonant with its spare landscapes and mindscapes. Flynn will. not pretty up her world, nor will she be defeated by its harshness." Stephen Dunn Owner has written own poe...

Easy: poems.

Flint, Roland, · 1999 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Baton Rouge, Louisiana State Univ Press, 1999. VG PB. "It's a brave man who risks sentimentality and dares to write abaout ease and blessedness and comfort, and that bravery is. what makes 'Easy' such an admirable and pleasing work." - Garrison Keillor.

Looking for Luck: poems.

Kumin, Maxine, · 1992 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Norton, (1992). 3rd ptg. VG PB. Remarkable Women - "Beatrix Porter.and you, Louisa May,. and you Helen Nearing, almost ninety, kneeling to dig potatoes. for a guest's lunch, confessing 'I was twenty-six before I planted so much as a radish. Oh, I was lily-handed." Few smud...

Snowflake.

Nichols, J., · 1989 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Kansas City, MO, Snowflake Press, (1989). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG PB.

Collected Lyrics.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent, · 1943 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Harper, 1943. Stated 1st ed. G. Blue binding, gilt lettering, fading toward spine & damp spot toward spine bottom. "I knew her for a little ghost that in my garden walked;.she paused - then opened and passed through a gate that once was there." "I am not resigned to the sh...

Coffee Shop Cadence: a collection of poems (signed by author).

Hittle, Jodie, · 1990 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

np, Broken Arrow Press, (1990). VG PB. Includes poems "I'm Not Superman"; Sleepwalking at Christmastime"; Skinny; Wake me for Dinner; Why I Don't Do. Crossword Puzzles" and many others.

A Diamond Is Hard But Not Tough (signed by author).

Jonas, Ann Rae, · 1998 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

Washington, D.C., Word Works, (1998). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG PB. "There are fresh ideas and intelligence in every of of Ms. Jonas's poems, and more importantly, there is a centered and. moving human voice directing each." - Christopher Buckley.