Structure, Verses, Agency Books

Shakespeare: The Poet in His World

Bradbrook, M.C. · 1978

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,789)

New York, Columbia University Press, 1978. Second Edition Thus. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean of interior, lightly discolored along bottom edge, minimal rubbing to extremities. Illustrated dust jacket...

Poetry and Prose of William Blake

Blake, William; Geoffrey Keynes, ed. · 1961

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

London, England, The Nonesuch Library, 1961. Revised Impression of the Fourth. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. A bit dull of the blue cloth over boards bindings, rubbed gilt lettering to spine, but a remarkably tightly bound, clean, unmarked, bright interior. A revised exemplar...

A Nip in the Air

Betjeman, John · 1974

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,789)

New York, W.W. Norton & Company, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Blue cloth over boards, gilt lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated,...

At the Prime Meridian of the World

Bardsley, Beverly · 1993

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,811)

Austin, Texas, Pulldown Press, 1993. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. uber-scarce in the trade, and this copy is SIGNED by Beverley Bardsley to the previous owner at first free endpaper, the classicist Peter Morris Green, "For Peter, with much love, from Beve...

Poems and Songs

E.N. Da C. Andrade · 1949

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,300)

London, Macmillan & Co., Ltd, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Moderately sunned edges to the brick-red cloth over boards, gilt-lettered title to spine. Heavily toned endpap...

New Poems 1955

Dickinson, Patric, J.C. Hall, Erica Marx, eds. · 1955

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,300)

London, Michael Joseph, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Decorated paper over boards, brick-red cloth-backed, moderate rubbing to spine, some toning to text-block, else clean and...

Juvenilia: Poems 1922-1928

Auden, W.H.; Katherine Bucknell, ed. · 1994

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,811)

Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, but sunned at spi...

Matthew Arnold: Poetry and Prose

Arnold, Matthew; John Bryson, ed. · 1954

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,789)

London, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Bound in blue cloth over boards, gilt stamped publisher logo to front board, rubbed gilt lettering to spine, bump...

Limericks: Too Gross

Asimov, Isaac and John Ciardi · 1978

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,789)

New York, W.W. Norton & Company, 1978. Second Printing. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Two Dozen Dirty Dozen Stanzas, a duel between Isaac Asimov & John Ciardi. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Two-tone, bric...

Poems and Plays, Volume One, 1833-1844, Volume Two, 1844-1864, Volume Four, 1871-1890

Browning, Robert · 1833

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

London, England / New York, New York, J.M. Dent & Sons, Ltd. / E.P. Dutton & Col., . Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: 16mo 6" - 7" tall. Everyman, I will go with the, and be thy guide, In thy most need to go by thy side." A perfectly serviceable set of three of the four volu...

Murder in the Cathedral

Eliot, T.S. · 1940

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,300)

London, England, Faber and Faber, 1940. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. From the personal library of one who was, briefly, T.S. Eliot's literary agent, Peter Morris Green, and with his inked inscription at first free endpaper. A perfectly serviceable refer...

The Family Reunion: A Play

Eliot, T.S. · 1949

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,300)

London, Faber and Faber, 1949. Fifth Impression. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. From the personal library of one who was, briefly, T.S. Eliot's literary agent, Peter Morris Green, and with his inked inscription at first free endpaper. Inside front flap is a Trinity Colleg...

The Cocktail Party: A Comedy

Eliot, T.S. · 1950

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,300)

London, England, Faber and Faber, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. From the personal library of one who was, briefly, T.S. Eliot's literary agent. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Green cloth over boards, g...

Sir Philip Sidney: Courtier Poet

Duncan-Jones, Katherine · 1991

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn. Augmented with a List...

The Cambridge Medieval History, Volume IV, the Byzantine Empire, Part II, Government, Church and Civilisation

Hussey, J.M., ed. · 1967

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,472)

Cambridge, England, Cambridge University Press, 1967. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. First Edition Thus exemplar of the original First Edition, published in 1928, and with J.B. Bury's Introduction after this edition's editor's Preface. Sturdy, attracti...

Collected Poems, 1920-1954 Revised Bilingual Edition

Montale, Eugenio; Jonathan Galassi, ed. · 2000

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, a big, fat trade paperback exemplar, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the il...

The Furtive Wall: Poems by Daniel Haberman

Haberman, Daniel · 1982

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New York, Art Direction Book Company, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. An uncommonly important poet, Daniel Haberman, who fought alongside other American members of the Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War, eventually a member of the American Commu...

The Oxford Book of Classical Verse in Translation

Poole, Adrian and Jeremy Maule, eds. · 1995

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,811)

Oxford, England, Oxford University Press, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear to the dark blue cloth over boards covers, bright interior, unmarked, sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spi...

New Essays in Hellenistic Poetry

White, Heather · 1985

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,300)

Amsterdam, the Netherlands, J.C. Gieben, Publisher, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny interior. Distributor's gilt bookplate opposite title page, leading to shad...

Beings and Things on Their Own

Anghelaki-Rooke, Katerina; Jackie Willcox, translator · 1986

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,300)

Brockport, New York, BOA Editions, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Handsomely bound in oatmeal cloth over boards, sharp and distinct gilt lettering to front...