Poesia

Treasured Volume: an anthology of poems.

Scott, John, collected by, · 1967 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Norwalk, CT, Oak Tree Press/Gibson, (1967). VG in VG slipcase. Owner inscription ft endpaper. ".read from the treasured volume the poem of your choice.and the night shall be filled. with music and the cares, that infest the day, shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, and as s...

The Half-Seen Face.

Richardson, Dorothy Lee, · 1979 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Dublin, NH, William I. Bauhan, 1979. VG in VG DJ. Gathering of Richardson's work and a summation of her life as a poet. She has an ability to illuminate experience. DJ edge wear. & rubbed. Red cloth binding, gilt lettering.

Poems and Songs for Dreamers Who Dare.

Segal, Edith, introduction by Ruby Dee, · 1975 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Lawrence Hill & Co, (1975). VG in VG DJ. Dedicated to Paul Robeson. Segal is also a professional dancer and teacher who taught children to dance. Kamen is her husband. Nick to DJ top back.

Poems of Tennyson including The Princess, In Memoriam, Maud, Four "Idylls of the King", Enoch Arden, etc..

Magdalen College, Oxford, · 1913 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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London, Humphrey Milford/Oxford, 1913. Oxford Ed. VG. Maroon embossed binding, gilt lettering & decoration. "Crossing the Bar" handwritten on back endpaper, edge wear, owner name ft. endpaper, back hinge cracked.

The Complete Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser.

Spenser, Edmund, · 1908 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Boston, Houghton Mifflin, (1908). Cambridge Ed. VG. 12 page biographic sketch included. Laid in elegy written in a country churchyard & epitaph. Some owner names & notations. fading to spine & top edge, edge wear. Burgundy binding, gilt wreath and lettering, top edge gilt.

The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, · 1901 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Boston, Houghton Mifflin, (1901). Cambridge Ed. VG. 28 page biographic sketch included. Laid in leaflet on S. Mary the Virgin Iffley Oxford Church. Some owner names & notations,. back hinge cracked, edge wear. Burgundy binding, gilt wreath and lettering, top edge gilt.

This Time Called Life.

Rinder, Walter, · 1971 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Millbrae, CA, Celestial Arts, (1971). 1st ptg. VG PB. Love and beauty through the medium of poetry, art, photography. Photo cover.

In Wonder and Unknowing: verses of the inner life.

Poulin, Clarence, · 1966 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Penacook, NH, Self-published, (1966). Signed limited. G PB signed limited. First book-length selection of mostly unpublished work dealing with the experience of living and attempting to summarize the. approach to existence. Tanning around binding edges.

Songs of Two Peoples.

Riley, James, · 1898 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Boston, Estes & Lauriat, 1898. 1st ed. G. Lime green binding, gilt lettering and decoration. Binding edges tanning, nick to bottom beginning pages, foxing, corners. bumped.

Collected Poems.

Maynard, Theodore, introduction by Alfred Noyes, · 1946 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Macmillan, 1946. 1st ptg. VG. Many of Maynard's poems express something of that nostalgia which must touch every exile at times, even in this land of. liberty. In some cases, perhaps, only an Englishman could understand the apparent paradox. From the introduction by Noyes.

Flying Bats.

Powers, Mary Helen, · 1945 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Henry Harrison, (1945). VG. Blue binding, silver lettering. Fading toward binding edges and spine.

Rhymes of Robert Rexdale.

Rexdale, Robert, · 1904 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Revell, (1904). VG. Burgundy-colored binding, gilt lettering & decoration. Edge wear, binding color uneven.

Poems.

Phillips, Stephen, · 1922 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Dodd, Mead, 1922. 1st ed. VG. Owner name ft endpaper. Green binding, gilt lettering and decoration. Spine slightly darkened.

Selected Poems.

Rowley, Richard, · 1931 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Macmillan, 1931. 1st ptg. VG. Black binding, gilt lettering. Owner bookplate (very nice picture of castle-like estate) on ft endpaper, edge wear.

The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier.

Whittier, John Greenleaf, · 1894 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Boston, Houghton Mifflin, (1894). VG. Navy blue binding, gilt wreath and lettering, all edges gilt. Very nice copy. Owner inscription ft endpaper, tanning endpapers.

Strings of Memory.

Deboer, James, · 1977 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Erin, Ontario, Canada, Porcupine Quill, (1977). G PB. Photo of author with guitar frontis. "I sit in this crazy place, Am I too old for this? I appreciate madness, but all I. want is a woman. Soil and blindstamp on binding.

The Essential Wordsworth.

Wordsworth, William, selected and with introduction by Seamus Heaney, · 1988 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Ecco Press, (1988). 1st ed. VG PB. Wordsworth's poetry over us stems from the manifest strength of his efforts to integrate several strenuous and essentially. contradictory efforts. Emotional susceptibility, intellectual force, psychological acuteness, political awareness,...

Listen! I Hear a Soft Wind.

Goldate, Alis, · 1976 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Philadelphia, Dorrance, (1976). G in G DJ. Sensitive, poignant verse that wraps around the spirit and takes the soul on introspective journeys. Small burn mark on. DJ spine and corresponding mark on binding spine, publisher bleed through on endpapers. First an opera singer, Go...

Harvest Poems.

Sandburg, Carl, introduction by Mark Van Doren, · 1960 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1960). G PB. Sandburg brought something back to American poetry that had been sadly missing in the early years of 20th century. Humor,. the final sign and seal of seriousness, proof that reality is held in honor and love. From the introduction b...

An Outstretched Hand: poems, prayers and meditations.

McKuen, Rod, · 1980 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Los Angeles, Cheval Books, (1980). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Contains the Rod McKuen Marriage Ceremony, "We desire to be togehter as long as we can bring each other love, friendship,. companionship and help." Couple says in unison, "We have come together to stay together." ...