Poesia

Selected Poems: Gramercy Great Poets series.

Dickinson, Emily, · 1993 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Gramercy, (1993). 5th ptg. VG in VG DJ. Even today Dickinson's poetry is startlingly original. Her publisher Higginson described it as "poetry torn up by the roots. with rain and dew and earth still clinging to them, giving a freshness and a fragrance not otherwise conveye...

The Collected Poems (1931-1987).

Milosz, Czeslaw, winner of the 1980 Noebel Prize for Literature, · 1988 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

NY, Ecco Press, (1988). VG lg sz PB. Born in Lithuania in 1911. He was formed deeply within the troubled world of Poland, lived through the German occupation. and from 1945 to 1950 served in the Polish diplomatic service in Wasington and Paris. He was skeptical at first about ...

Complete Poems of Robert Frost.

Frost, Robert, · 1962 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, (1962). 14th ptg. G. Includes contents of two of his best known books plus more recent volumes A Witness Tree & Steeple Bush, several new poems. and A Masque of Mercy. Owner inscription on front endpaper.

A Poem read at the Centennial of the Congregational Church in Union May 21, 1903 (also other poems).

Norcross, Rev. F. V., · 1903 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

np, np, nd (ca 1903). Fair PB. Some tanning, edge wear, corner creases, spine edges worn.

Thanksgiving over the Water: double signed book.

Sandy, Stephen, · 1992 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

NY, Knopf, 1992. 1st ed. VG in VG DJ. Inscribed by author with best wishes on front endpaper and signed by him on the title page. "Among the stongest poems of. our time". ".forcing us to become what we think - and what we think we think.ordinary experience on a higher plane.".

Country Boy and selected poems.

Staples, Walter, · 2004 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

Portsmouth, NH, Peter Randall, 2004. VG PB. Looking over 9 decades, poet Walter Staples remembers his boyhood growing up on a farm in southern Maine, a slower pace. of life with reverence for traditional values and a full appreciation for the natural world.

Valentines.

Kooser, Ted, introduction by poet, · 2008 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Lincoln, Univ of Nebraska Press, (2008). VG in VG DJ. Traditional hearts and candy, brilliance and purity of love, quiet beauty of friendship, and the bittersweetness of longing.

Man in the Open Air: poems (signed).

Sandy, Stephen, · 1988 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Knopf, 1988. 1st ed. VG PB. Inscribed by author on publication date of 1988. Cover painting of The Coming Storm by Martin Johnson Heade, 1859.."a profound source of wisdom in a complex combining of inner and outer relationships." Richard Eberhart.

The Poetic and Dramatic Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson.

Tennyson, Alfred Lord, · 1899 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Boston, Houghton Mifflin, (1899). Household ed. VG. Olive green binding, gilt letterieng and decoration, top edge gilt. Owner insription ft endpaper, slight edge wear.

Pattern and Voice.

Stineford, Raymond, · 1968 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

S. Berwick, ME, The American Weave Press, 1968. VG in glasine Fair DJ. "Not even that summer at Effingham alone and meditating on a thousand harmless sins or pickiing pasture rose and withered. berries was quite enough. Each day came to find him still there astonished and void...

Searching for Spring: poetic reflections of Maine.

Nye, Ken, · 2005 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Freeport, ME, TJMF Publishing, 2005. VG PB. "What is it about a dog, these almost-half-human animals who choose us over their own kind? Is it the look in the eyes?. The silent pledge of loyalty and holy commitment?" Roped Bed "Way down at the end of the roof gable in the attic...

Rooms by the Sea.

Davis, Alice J., · 1986 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

np, Privately published, nd (ca 1986). VG PB. Born and educated in Portland, Maine, a 1937 graduate of Holeyoke College, social worker in Haverhill, MA, Davis was an. organizer of Widow to Widow group, lectured frequently on death and dying and led counseling sessions for the ...

Poems.

Seferis, George, translated from the Greek by Rex Warner, · 1960 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

Boston, Nonpareil Books, (1960). G. In his foreword, translator Warner thanks the author Seferis for his help. Seferis is conscious of the presence of the past. and its weight as well as having an extraordinary freshness of vision. Seferis' poems are among the glories of 20th ...

Chinese Love Poems.

Klemer, D. J., edited by, · 1959 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.33 | ¥1,757)

NY, Hanover House, (1959). VG. Chinese tradition is at least 1000 years older than our own, and centuries ago cultivated Chinese had reached a degree of. intellectual development that was quite remarkable even when interpreted by modern standards. These people were sophicates....

Echoes of the Sea.

Parker, Elinor, poems selected by, · 1977 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Scribner, (1977). 1st ptg. VG in G DJ. Ships and sea chanties, varied shoes, grandeur of Neptune. Dark brown binding, tan spine, pictorial DJ faded toward spine. Owner inscription.

I Am the Sea and Other Poems.

West, Austin, · 1964 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

S. Portland, ME, Self-published, (1964). 2nd ptg. VG PB. Inscribed by author to his teacher 1967. West, a Yankee salt, worked on the Orient Point-New London ferry. West spent three. months with the Robert D. Conrad searching for the U.S.S. Thresher. His poem Love Lives "Love l...

Poems.

Tagliabue, John, · 1959 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

NY, Harper, (1959). 1st ed. VG in G DJ. Louis Untermeyer declared, "Ecstasy rises from these pages, bursts through the seemingly improvised lines, and strikes the. reader with spontaneous joy." Born in Italy, Tagliabue came to America at four. At the time of this book he lived...

Wine from These Grapes.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent, · 1934 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

NY, Harper, 1934. 7th ed. VG in Fair DJ. A variety of lyrics plus a sonnet sequence in Petrarchian form. Sea foam binding, black spine and corners, faded at edges,. DJ clipped, tattered at edges and some tanning.

Poems by Francis Thompson.

Thompson, Francis, · 1924 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$55.00 (€49.90 | £41.63 | ¥8,783)

Portland, ME, Thomas B. Mosher, 1924. 3rd ed Limited. G. 750 copies printed on Van Gelder hand-made paper. Light blue binding, paper label on spine, edges and spine faded, small spot. to front cover, top of spine has small damage spot, small edge damagae along spine. Handwritt...

Houses of Ice.

Cahen, Alfred B., · 1966 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

S. Berwick, ME, American Weave Press, (1966). VG in VG DJ. "Ironical, intellectual and uncommon." Helga Sandburg. Tanning to DJ edges and some wear.