Structure, Verses, Agency Books

The Tree That Walked

Fuller, John · 1967

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

London, The Hogarth Press / Chatto and Windus, 1967. Second Printing . Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine addition to the Phoenix Living Poets Series. Stated Second Printing of this popular title. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally c...

Poems

Romney Green, A. · 1901

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.69 | ¥15,969)

Guildford, England, The Astolat Press, 1901. Special Limited Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A magnificent exemplar of an exceedingly scarce item in the trade, there being no additional copies available on-line of this near unique item, bound in Japanese vellum an...

Ballads and Carols

Gales, R.L. · 1916

$22.40 (€20.32 | £16.96 | ¥3,577)

London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd., 1916. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by the author at first free endpaper, "To Doris Tindall on the occasion of her wedding with every good wish, fr.: R.L. Gales April 27, 1921." A perfectly serv...

Come As You Are

Gibson, Walker · 1958

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

New York, Hastings House, 1958. 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, protected by Brodart, machine-clipped but no...

In/Direction

Greenberg, Alvin · 1978

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

Boston, David R. Godine, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. The third installment of the David R. Godine Chapbook series. The verse and verses tell the story of a group of aimless, disaffected high school students who are trying to figure out what they wa...

Jack Straw's Castle, and Other Poems

Gunn, Thom · 1976

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976. First American Printing. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First American Edition, the sixth such collection of Thom Gunn, most poems being set in England. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clea...

The Moor's Last Sigh

Rushdie, Salman · 1995

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, Pantheon Books, 1995. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another dense and captivating novel from the recently stabbed author under long-term fatwa in Iran, the author of The Satanic Verses and the Booker Prize-winning Midnight's Children. This n...

Thunder over Jerusalem: Poems of Justice

Cross, Allen E. · 1936

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

New York, Association Press, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine collection of prescient poetry devote to justice and social justice over religion and race from Allen Eastman Cross, with an Introduction from Edwin Prince Booth. Sturdy, attractive, t...

Copper Sun

Cullen, Countee · 1927

$36.00 (€32.66 | £27.25 | ¥5,749)

New York, Harper & Brothers, 1927. . . Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Decorated paper over boards, black cloth-backed, with yellow and black paper title labels to front cover and spine. Tightly bound har...

Selected Poems of Sir William Davenant

Davenant, William · 1943

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Cambridge, Massachusetts, The Willow Press, 1943. 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. Decorated paper over boards, black cloth-backed,...

New & Selected Poems

Davie, Donald · 1961

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University Press, 1961. 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. Gray linen weave cloth over boards. Brig...

Collected Poems 1917-1939

Davison, Edward · 1940

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, Harper & Brothers, 1940. . Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Likely First Edition, First Printing, though not so stated. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, moderately toned at pastedowns, dissipating, minimally tone throughout, ...

The City and the Island: Poems by Peter Davison

Davison, Peter · 1966

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Atheneum, 1966. 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. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illu...

Six Mile Corner: Poems by Robert Dawson

Dawson, Robert · 1966

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

Boston, Massachusetts, Houghton Mifflin Publishing, 1966. 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. Two-tone, black cloth over boards, white...

Poems 1908-1919

Drinkwater, John · 1919

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1919. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Previous owner's inscription, neatly rendered. Bound in brick-red cloth, a bit sunned to spine, abraded br...

Esprit de Corps: Sketches from Diplomatic Life

Durrell, Lawrence · 1959

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

London, England, Faber and Faber, 1959. Fourth Impression. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Copyright page dated 1959 ("mcmlix", stated fourth impression), dates first edition to 1957. Features black-and-white illustrations throughout, a fine and accessible account of Durre...

Slick But Not Streamlined: Poems and Short Pieces by John Betjeman

Betjeman, John · 1947

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

Garden City, New York, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. I love suburbs and gas-lights and Point Street and Gothic Revival churches and mineral railways, provincial towns and Garden cities," says the author about his poetry on ...

Slick But Not Streamlined: Poems and Short Pieces by John Betjeman

Betjeman, John · 1947

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities, half of bottom tips a bit damp-stained, dissipating, half-dime sized. Bright and...

New Bats in Old Belfries Poems

Betjeman, John · 1945

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

London, England, John Murray, 1945. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Stated Second Printing, later in the same month (December 25, 1945) as the First Printing. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Toning at gutters of f...

The Sacrifice

Bidart, Frank · 1983

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Random House, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket, protected. Bound in black cloth over boards, sharp and distinct copper lettering to spine....