Structure, Verses, Agency Books

Hello, Darkness

Sissman, L.E.; Peter Davison, ed. · 1978

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

New York, Atlantic Monthly Press, for Little Brown, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Edited and with a Preface by Peter Davison. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremiti...

Omar's Rubaiyat Re-Written

Singha, Rhama and Esther O'Neill · 1954

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

New York , Vantage Press, Inc., 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. An imaginative reworking of the Omar Khayyam classic by the Portland, Oregon-based occultist and self-acclaimed medium and healer. The author claims to oppose a reading of the Rubaiyat as ...

Stresses in the Peaceable Kingdom

Sandy, Stephen · 1967

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, pr...

The Marches: A Book of Poems

Scully, James · 1967

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Holt, Rinehart, 1967. Second Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated Second Edition. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket, protected. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little wor...

Theory of Flight

Muriel Rukeyser · 1936

$44.00 (€39.92 | £33.30 | ¥7,026)

New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 1936. Second Printing. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if lightly toned interior, minimal rubbing to extremities. Stated Second Printing. Lightly sunned brown cloth, lightly ...

White-Haired Lover

Shapiro, Karl · 1968

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, Random House, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. From the publisher's blurb, "A celebratory cycle of twenty-nine love poems. In these new poems, highly personal and frankly erotic, Karl Shapiro returns to the traditional verse form that he tempo...

Begging the Dialect: Poems & Ballad

Skelton, Robin · 1960

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

London, Oxford University Press, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, half-toning to endpapers, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright lime cloth over boards, gi...

Essay on Rime

Shapiro, Karl · 1945

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1945. Third Printing. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine collection of three essays about poetry written by Pulitzer Prize-winner Karl Shapiro, author also of Person, Place and Thing: "The Confusion in Prosody, "The Confusion in Language,"...

A Necessary Simplicity

Rhydderch, William · 1999

$20.80 (€18.87 | £15.74 | ¥3,321)

Llandysul, Gomer Press, . First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. One of only three such copies available on-line, one of only two works of poetry the author, the other being 1999's The Guest, and other poems. This is the only SIGNED copy, however, by the author, in...

A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far, Poems 1978-1981

Rich, Adrienne · 1981

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, W.W. Norton & Company, 1981. Third Printing. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated Third Printing of the First Edition, sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to th...

The Glory of the Nightingales

Robinson, Edwin Arlington · 1930

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Macmillan, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if moderately toned endpapers and lightly toned interior, minimal rubbing to extremities but at spine head, with slight cloth split. Bound in mildl...

Matthias at the Door

Robinson, Edwin Arlington · 1931

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Macmillan, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if moderately toned interior, minimal rubbing to extremities, bound in mildly rubbed burgundy cloth over boards, still sharp and distinct gilt lett...

Matthias at the Door

Robinson, Edwin Arlington · 1931

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Macmillan and Company, 1931. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if lightly toned interior, more heavily toned endpapers, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bound in dark burgundy cloth over boards...

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Van Doren, Mark · 1927

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, The Literary Guild of America, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bound handsomely in blue paper over boards, black cloth over tips and spine, still sh...

Poems 1928-1948

Roditi, Edouard · 1949

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, New Directions, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated Limited Edition of 1,000 copies. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bound in green paper over boards, white cloth over tips and ...

The Far Field

Roethke, Theodore · 1964

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

New York, Doubleday, 1964. . Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Edition not stated, but printed, illustrated dust jacket has affixed the National Book Award Prize notification to front panel bottom. Bound handsomely in two-tone, black cloth over boards, brick-red cloth-backed...

Wake Island: A Poem

Rukeyser, Muriel · 1942

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

Garden City, New York, Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1942. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor wear of burgundy softpaper wraps, less to text-block, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable ...

Songs of the Glens of Antrim

O'Neill, Moira [Agnes Shakespear Higginson] · 1911

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

Portland, Maine, Thomas B. Mosher, 1911. . Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Moira O'Neill" was the pseudonym of Agnes Shakespear Higginson (1864–1955), an Irish-Canadian poet who wrote ballads and other verse inspired by County Antrim, Ireland where she lived at Cushendun. Her...

Songs of the Glens of Antrim

O'Neill, Moira [Agnes Shakespear Higginson] · 1912

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1912. . Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Moira O'Neill" was the pseudonym of Agnes Shakespear Higginson (1864–1955), an Irish-Canadian poet who wrote ballads and other verse inspired by County Antrim, Ireland where she lived at...

A Lot of Fourteen (14) Tom Clancy Titles: Threat Vector (with Mark Greaney); the Bear and the Dragon; Locked on; Executive Orders; Dead or Alive; the Sum of All Fears; Command Authority; the Teeth of the Tiger; Red Rabbit; Battle Ready; True Faith and Allegiance; Debt of Honor; Dead or Alive; Rainbow Six

Clancy, Tom; Mark Greaney · 2012

$128.00 (€116.13 | £96.89 | ¥20,440)

New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, . First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. A fine-looking set of fourteen (14) Tom Clancy-penned espionage thrillers (one being penned with Mark Greaney). Superior copies, gift-quality conditions, inside and out, no discernible wear to ...