Imago Press

Dante's Paradiso, The Temple Classics

Alighieri, Dante; P.H. Wicksteed, translator · 1899

CA$20.00 (€12.72 | $14.02 | £10.61 | ¥2,239)

London, J. M. Dent & Sons, 1899. Sewn cloth, 419 pp. 3.75"-6". As New. With a frontis "after Botticelli", canto summaries, translation into English and notes including maps and tables. Edition of 1899, last reprinted in 1965. Matte jacket printed a deeper red and still fine.

Werke, Band I / Gedichte

Holderlin, Friedrich · 1944

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Zurich, Atlantis, 1944. Sewn boards, 456 pp. 4.5"-7.5". Fair. All the major poems, with variorum. Foxed faces and soot stains to top of blue board covers. Intro by E. Staiger.

Proust and the Sense of Time

Kristeva, Julia, Stephen Bann, translator · 1993

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New York, Columbia University Press, 1993. Sewn cloth, 103 pp. 5.5"-8.75". Fine. First edition in English. Green & blue dustjacket creased but unblemished. Text and binding as new.

Selected Poems

Pascoli, Giovanni · 1983

CA$13.00 (€8.27 | $9.11 | £6.90 | ¥1,455)

Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1983. Perfect binding, 216 pp. 4.75"-7.5". fine. Poetic texts in Italian, notes, intro, bibliography and vocab in English by the editor, P.R.Horne. Black & green on white cover.

Land of Silent Sundays

Hnatiw, Chrytia, Gloria Frolick & Lydia Palij · 1988

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Stratford ON, Williams-Wallace, 1988. Perfect binding, 77 pp. 5.25"-8.25". fine. Poetry selected from the English writing of 3 Ukrainian women poets then living in Canada. Corner bends.

Misgivings

Howard, Richard · 1979

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New York, Atheneum, 1979. Perfect binding, 77 pp. 5.25"-8.25". fine. Features his 'Homage to Nadar' series of 13 portraits in verse of fin-de-siecle artists, full page half-tone photos incl. Cover fade.

Variation and Natural Selection as Factors in Linguistic and Cultural Change

Stross, Brian · 1975

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Lisse, Peter de Ridder Press, 1975. Perfect binding, 30 pp. 6.25"-9.25". Fair. Yellow matte card cover fairly beat up but text is fine. Fair condition overall.

The Aesthetics of Chaosmos

Eco, Umberto, Ellen Esrock, translator · 1982

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Tulsa, University of Tulsa, 1982. Perfect binding, 96 pp. 6"-9". Good. Explores Joyce as a Mediaeval mind who opens out to postmodernism. First English edition. Smoke stains on all edges of white cover and all faces. Monograph Series #18.

Hippolytus Temporizes & Ion

H D · 2003

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New York, New Directions, 2003. Perfect binding, 277 pp. 5.25"-8". As New. Two dramas of Euripides taken from their Classic Greek and translated into H.D.'s inimitable Imagist English. First published in 1927 and 1937 respectively. Sturdy with bold type.

Jean Cocteau et la Grece

Musee Benaki · 2007

CA$55.00 (€34.99 | $38.56 | £29.19 | ¥6,156)

Athens, Benaki Museum, 2007. Perfect binding, 216 pp. 9"-8.75". Fine. Catalogue of the Cocteau Exhibition of 2007. Cover has his portrait of Orphee from 1950. Some discolouration to the fold-in plush-matte cards however.

Baroque Poetry

Hill, J. P. and E. Carracciolo-Treio, editors · 1975

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London, J. M. Dent & Sons, 1975. Sewn boards, 276 pp. 5"-8". fine. Anthology of Baroque poems in their original 5 languages with English prose cribs printed underneath. No jacket.

Passions and Ancient Days

Cavafy, C.P., E. Keeley & G. Savidis, tr. · 1971

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New York, Dial, 1971. Perfect binding, 88 pp. 5"-7.5". fine. Bilingual text of 21 new poems, their first printing in paperback.

Zones of Pain

Agosin, Marjorie, C. Franzen, tr. · 1988

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Fredonia NY, White Pine Press, 1988. Perfect binding, 72 pp. 5.5"-8.5". fine. First edition bilingual book of poems from noted Argentine writer.

Sous la langue / Under Tongue

Brossard, Nicole, S. de Lotbiniere-Harwood, tr. · 1987

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Montreal-Charlottetown, L'Essentielle - Gynergy, 1987. Hand-glued, 20 pp. 6.25"-7.5". Mint. Limpid prose poems, bilingual and covered in matte cards printed on pastelle deckle-edge paper.

Accessories

Equi, Elaine · 1988

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Berkeley, The Figures, 1988. Staplebound, 34 pp. 5"-7". fine. Lyric phonemes ecstatic and pure. Picabia's Les Seins reproduced on grey, card-wrap cover. Pen stains.

Notebook of Stone

Darroch-Lozowski, Vivian · 1987

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Kapuskasing ON, Penumbra Press, 1987. Perfect binding, 71 pp. 5.75"-8.75". Fine. Records of times spent in the Western Himalayas and in Berlin by the poet as she sought the limits of word and language, body and culture. Matte pages, gloss covers, 6 photos.

The Mystery of the Charity of Charles Peguy

Hill, Geoffrey · 1983

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London, Agenda Editions / Andre' Deutsch, 1983. Perfect binding, 31 pp. 5.5"-8.5". Fine. One great moralistic poet in English, in this century paying homage to one who wrote in the French language and perished at the beginning of WW I. Tear to the cellophane wrap over the card...

The Viridical Book of the Silent Planet

Henderson, Brian · 1978

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Toronto, Aya, 1978. Perfect binding, 100 pp. 5.75"-8.75". fine. Left-justified poems on the propensity to be extra-terrestial. Copy #509 out of edition.of 600. Titleless cover wraps.

The Sonnets

Mallarme, Stéphane; Marshall Hryciuk, translator · 2011

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Toronto, Imago Press, 2011. Perfect binding, 108 pp. 5.5"-7". Mint. Bilingual text Mallarmé's 39 sonnets on facing pages, English in matching rhyme-schemes, translator's intro, notes to each poem and bibliography. Manet's portrait of Mallarme on cover.

Boss Cupid

Gunn, Thom · 0

CA$12.00 (€7.63 | $8.41 | £6.37 | ¥1,343)

New York, Farrar, Strauss, Giroux, 36982. Perfect binding, 113 pp. 5.5"-8.25". As New. The compelling predilections of desire as drawn out by this inspired craftsman. First paperback edition.