Structure, Verses, Agency Books

Collected Poems, Originally Published in Paris (Pirated Edition)

Hemingway, Ernest · 1960

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

San Francisco, California, Pirate Edition, published by City Lights, 1960. Pirate Edition. Softcover. Size: 24mo 5" - 6" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete. Printed softpaper wraps, light soiling to inside flap, clean and unmarked of int...

Gabriel: A Poem

Hirsch, Edward · 2014

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket, with oatmeal cloth over boards, printed dust wrapper. 78 pp. plus a note about the type...

Some Poems of Friedrich Holderlin

Holderlin, Friedrich; Prokosch, Frederic translator · 1943

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

London, New Directions, 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Today, Friedrich Holderlin (1770-1843 is often called "the German Shelley," but didn't become a German poet of the first-rank until well after his death. He is said to have gone mad for a period; ...

Excursions: New & Selected Poems

Hoskins, Katherine · 1967

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Atheneum, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First Edition, First Printing, Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities. Big, tall, Imperial octavo format,...

A Private Signal: Poems New & Selected

Howes, Barbara · 1977

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Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University Press, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn. Two-tone blue pape...

A Private Signal: Poems New & Selected

Howes, Barbara · 1977

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University Press, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn. Two-tone blue pape...

What Is the Truth?: A Farmyard Fable for the Young

Hughes, Ted · 1984

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

London, Faber and Faber , 1984. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy in oblong softcover format, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Augmented greatly wit...

Moon-Whales and Other Moon Poems

Hughes, Ted · 1976

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

New York, The Viking Press, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine collection of poetry in First Edition state by Ted Hughes and that is augmented greatly by the illustrations of Leonard Baskin. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, ge...

Asbestos Phoenix

Guthrie Ramon · 1968

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New York, Funk & Wagnalls, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. The American poet Ramon Guthrie (1896-1973) was influenced by Laforgue, Pound, Eliot, and Proust among other poets and writers. "Asbestos Phoenix contains about a quarter of the poems that I ha...

Dark Houses

Hall, Donald · 1958

$18.40 (€16.69 | £13.93 | ¥2,938)

New York, The Viking Press, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, lightly sunned exterior, minimal rubbing to extremities, two tips scuffed. Sparkly white paper over boards, black cloth-backed. 63 pp. .Member, I.O...

These Islands Also

Ingalls, Jeremy · 1959

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Rutland, Vermont / Tokyo, Japan, Charles E. Tuttle , 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by the author at the first free endpaper, being warmly inscribed Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst,...

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Jr.

Khayyam, Omar, Jr.; Wallace Irwin, trans. · 1902

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

San Francisco, California, Elder & Shepard, 1902. . . . Translated from the Original Bornese into English verse by Wallace Irwin. Published in First Edition Thus state in San Francisco, California by Elder & Shepard. Bound in green, yellow and gray decorated softpaper wraps. 5...

Robinson Jeffers Poetry and Response: A Centennial Tribute

Brophy, · 1987

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Los Angeles, California, Occidental College, 1987. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine and due homage to the Centenary of the birth of the beloved poet Robinson Jeffers and with a bibliography of his works of poetry and contributions by Robert Brophy, Bry...

Prix Annonces, Proposes & Distribues Dans Sa Seance Publique, Tenue January 27, 1778, Oct. 20, 1778, August 31, 1779, Feb. 15, 1780, Aug. 29, 1780, Mar. 6, 1781, Aug. 28, 1781, Nov. 1781, Feb, 19, 1782, Aug. 27, 1782, Mar. 11, 1783, Aug, 26, 1783, Mar. 2, 1784, Feb. 15, 1785, Aug. 30, 1785, Feb. 27, 1787, Aug. 28, 1787, Feb. 12, 1788 and Mar. 3, 1789.

Societe Royale de Medecine · 1778

$460.00 (€417.35 | £348.18 | ¥73,456)

Paris, at the Societe Royale de Medecine, De l'Imprimerie de Ph.-D. Pierres, Premier Imprimeur Ordinaire du Roi, de la Societe Royale de Medecine, & c. rue Saint-Jacques, . First Edition. Softcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Perhaps a unique item, by any definition exceedingl...

The Ascent & Other Poems

Crothers, Elizabeth Mills · 1921

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San Francisco, California, The Sunset Press, 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities, scuffing to spine bottom. Protected in stiff plastic sleeve. Foreword by David St...

Rosemary and Pansies

Bertram Dobell · 1904

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London, Bertram Dobell, 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Lovely exemplar in First Edition state, with 131 pp. + 6 pp. catalogue of books written or edited by the author, who here self-publishes. Bound in very light green cloth with gilt lettering on fro...

Poems 1929-1936

Fitts, Dudley · 1937

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Norfolk, Connecticut, New Directions, 1937. 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. Very slight sunning to edges of the heavy, near sailcl...

A Song of the Guns

Frankau, Gilbert · 1916

$30.40 (€27.58 | £23.01 | ¥4,854)

Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Front board and rear jacket flap were detached, but all pages present and item is now tape-repaired. Clean and unmarked of interior. From the Note from the Publisher, "A Son...

Assays of Bias

Freeman, Arthur · 1970

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Boston, David R. Godine, 1970. 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. First Edition. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little wo...

Winds of the World

Foster, Caroline H.W. · 1932

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

Boston, Bruce Humphries, Inc., 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Scarce in the trade, there being currently no additional copies available on-line. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Bright and shiny dust jack...