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MODERN LIBRARY, 1942. HBDJ, 1942, Stated 1st edition, 352 Titles on Inverse DJ, Back Foxed DJ Lists 300 Titles & PreZipCide Coupon, small chip FOX top DJ SPINE, Blue cloth with red box on front with title, over 750 pgs, book is in GOOD condition. It shows normal wear along with normal shelf wear, Tiny Chips TEARS FOX DJ Extremities, . 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good.
The Poems of Samuel Butler [Hudibras] by Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680 / Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, ed - 1790
by Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680 / Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, ed
The Poems of Samuel Butler [Hudibras]
by Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680 / Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, ed
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London, J. Buckland and many others, 1790. Hard Cover. Two volumes: 2 p.l., 325 pages, portrait frontispiece; 2 p.l., 356 pages; 16.5 cm. These are volumes 13 & 14 of Dr. Samuel Johnson's "The Works of the English Poets, with Prefaces..." The full title is for the English Poets; Butler Poems is a half-title. The first volume and half of the second contain Hudibras. Bound in contemporary full leather, spines weakened; very good. Stock#OB524.
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- Date Published 1790
- Keywords English Narrative Poetry 17th Century
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Complete Poetry & Selected Prose by John Milton Modern Library, Stated 1ST Modern Library , Paradise Lost, Regained, Samson Agonistes, Lycidas etc & other Essays
by JOHN MILTON, Inner DJ flap .25, Grey & White Rockwell Kent Endpapers,
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LONG BEACH, California, United States
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Karmic Waterbugs - INSCRIBED copy
by Tsongas, George (author), Jack Freeman (association copy)
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Berkeley, California, United States
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San Francisco: Shirt Pocket Editions, 2006. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 32mo, 25 leaves (printed one-side on card stock), comb binding. INSCRIBED to the painter Jack Freeman by the author on the first interior page. One of an unknown but presumably microscopic number of copies of the self-published first edition of this pocket-sized poetic collection by a key figure in San Francisco's North Beach from the Beat era until his death a few years after this was issued. Just about as new (minor marks on cover appear to be printing artifact).
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Beatitude 26 (1977)
by Wainio, Ken, and Philip Suntree (eds.), Dale Pendell, Jack Hirschman, Neeli Cherkovski, Gil Ott, Laura Moriarty, Jerry Estrin, Jana Harris, Beau Beausoleil, Andrei Codrescu, Thomas Dawson, Jerry Ratch, Stephen Schwartz, John Young, Michael Weiner (insert)
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San Francisco: Beatitude Press, 1977. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 4to, 46pp (plus plates), stapled wrappers. Rare mid-seventies issue of the classic San Francisco underground Beat magazine, includes a great range of luminaries (including one poem by Dale Pendell). A curious 1976 leaflet entitled The Grant Getter's Gazette by Michael Weiner is laid in. Unmarked copy with a bit of reading wear (front cover has some printing offset, as observed with other copies).
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Prospect 5 (Winter 1961)
by Ward, Tony (ed.), J.H. Prynne (Jeremy Prynne), Charles Tomlinson, George Dekker, Michael Grant, Elaine Feinstein, S.F. Bolt
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Cambridge, England: Prospect, 1961. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 4to, 32pp, stapled wrappers. Scarce issue of this little magazine from 1961 Cambridge, with work by J.H. Prynne and others. Subscription slip bound in. Unmarked copy, outer stain to one corner, light outer soil.
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Between Worlds, Volume 1, Number 1 (Summer 1960)
by Neiman, Gilbert (ed.), Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, William Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Gary Snyder, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Edward Dorn, Philip Whalen, Harold Norse, Henry Miller, Robert Lowry, John Ciardi, James Purdy, Edward Abbey, et al
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Berkeley, California, United States
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San German, Puerto Rico: Inter American University, 1960. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near VG. 8vo, 192pp (plus plates), printed wrappers. Rare first issue of this important little magazine featuring a stellar roster of contributors, including Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray as well as Beat notables including Burroughs (Schottlaender C13), Corso, Ferlinghetti, et al. Unmarked copy with significant bumps and some general wear.
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The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Edited By Mrs. Shelley ( 2 Vols of 4)
by SHELLEY Percy Bysshe
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Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
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London: Edward Moxon, 1839 only 2 volumes of 4, original blind embossed cloth with gilt titled spines, light bumping to edges, vol 4 has splitting to the upper joint, both volumes have a tidy and faint name stamp to the title pages, "Walter Mantell" in an oval, (probably Walter Baldock Durrant Mantell), vol 3 small area discoloured to front hinge, as issued with pale yellow endpapers, untrimmed top edge, head of spines are slightly chipped with minimal loss, vol3; viii 314+2pp vol4; viii 361+3pp, First Collected Edition, and the first with Mary Shelley's notes. First Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.
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Five Blind Men.
by HARRISON, Jim, Dan Gerber, George Quasha, J. D. Reed and Charles Simic
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Edmonds, Washington, United States
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Fremont, MI: The Sumac Press, 1969. Signed by Jim Harrison and Dan Gerber. First edition / First printing. (Softcover edition) Illustrated wrappers. Fine.
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Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant, Collected And Arranged By The Author
by Bryant, William Cullen
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Van Nuys, California, United States
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D. Appleton and Company, NY, 1878; First Edition; 8vo, 501 pages; green cloth; illustrated. Complete collection of Bryant’s poetical works, beautifully illustrated throughout with 100 engravings from drawings by Birket Foster, Harry Fenn, Alfred Fredericks, et. al. Steel engraved frontispiece portrait plate of the author, with guard tissue. Richly bound in beveled boards with lime green cloth illustrated with a delicate botanical theme in gold and maroon. Decorative end papers, page edges gilt. Lengthy foreword by R.H. Stoddard containing a detailed Bryant biography. Very Good Plus. Clean, crisp, bright, corners sharp, binding tight, sound, and square, edge gilding bright. A beautiful book, published the last year of Bryant’s life.
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Poems Old And New, 1918-1978 (Signed)
by Lewis, Janet
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Van Nuys, California, United States
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Ohio University Press, Chicago, 1981; First Edition; Signed; 8vo, 112 pages. A collection of sixty years of Janet Lewis’s poetry, beginning with "The Freighters," which won her admission to the Poetry Club at the University Of Chicago in 1918. Inscribed and signed in year of publication by the author to personal friends, Los Angeles millionairess and philanthropist Anna Bing Arnold and her husband Aerol. Fine, in a Fine dust jacket. A clean, bright, crisp, and attractive copy.
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A Breakfasst for Barbarians
by MacEwen, Gwendolyn ( Signed )
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Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1967. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Second Printing. Fine copy, in jacket with minor wear to extremities, and a tiny scrape on front panel. Signed on the half title page..
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Shoemakers Best Selections Number 5 For Readings and Recitations
by Shoemaker, J. W
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Rare original poetry book with cloth covered boards, copyright 1880 by J. W. Shoemaker & Co. This edition published in 1906 by the Penn Publishing company, Philadelphia. From the estate of my great-great grandfather.Includes many unique poems and recitations such as "To a skull", "Uncle Daniel's Introduction to a Mississippi Steamer", "The Leak in the Dyke", etc. More well-known poetry includes "Song of Birds", "Old Ironsides", and "Bannock Burn" by Robbie Burns. Light rubbing and bumps to outside spine edges. Back cover and interior cloth covered board has a stain at top. Original owner's name and address from 1908, but no other writing or marks. First 2 pages have a stain at top, but text of 192 pages of poetry and recitations is totally clean with light tanning of pages.
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Just God And Me
by Mary Frances Reyes
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Comet Press Books, New York, 1956, Fine Hardcover / no dustjacket, 56 pages, 5.5" x 8.25". Inscribed by author on ffep.
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A Ballet of Lepers: A Novel and Stories
by Cohen, Leonard
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New York, Grove Press, 2022, trade paperback, 272 pp, Advance Uncorrected Proof (ARC), New. Straight, tight and clean with no wear or markings in bright, pictorial card covers, no dustjacket as issued. The pieces in this collection, written between 1956 and 1961 and including short fiction, a radio play, and a stunning early novel, offer startling insights into Cohens imagination and creative process. Cohen explores themes that would permeate his later work, from shame and unworthiness to sexual desire in all its sacred and profane dimensions to longing, whether for love, family, freedom, or transcendence. ISBN 9780802160478
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Immortal Prairie (INSCRIBED) (FIRST)
by Ransom, James H
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2015 - Stated First Edition - Limited Edition - INSCRIBED by author on the title-page "Fran Marie, Friend for many years," - "Unlike the tradition of most books of poetry, Ransom includes photos and paintings." - book: near fine - tight, sound, and square - pages are clean and unmarked - dj: near fine
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Quartering
by Reza, Seema
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Trumansburg, NY: Out of Step Press. Fine with no dust jacket. 2016. Numbered Edition; First Printing. Pamphlet. The author's non-linear poem about the billeting of soldiers in civilian homes in wartime. Copy 89 of a limited edition of 250. Folded into the form of a letter, the work was letterpress printed in wraps of handmade "combat paper" made from military uniforms. The author says: "Some time ago-maybe a year, maybe two? I had a conversation with some of my Combat Paper brothers (well, the kids call them their combat paper uncles, so it follows
) that led to me writing the poem "Quartering." Which was informed by them, of course, and by all the rooms I'm in, and by imagining what is really required of all the caregivers I love. It's a thought experiment: if we tore down the barracks at military hospitals and offered incentives for Americans in the surrounding neighborhoods to quarter injured service members, what would the honest instructions…
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Fan poems
by Tom Clark
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Plainfield: North Atlantic Books, 1976. First Edition, 8vo. [60pp], no pagination. Softcover, pictorial wraps. Very good condition, faint creasing, slight rubbing, top corner bumped and back cover small stain. This project was partially supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington, D.C., a federal agency. Please see photos for specifics. A portion of all book sales from Babcock & 68th are donated to charity.
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Pantone 125
by Lee, Madeleine
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Singapore: Math Paper Press. Very Good. 2012. First Edition. Softcover. 9810728492 . Printed white wrappers, show moderate soil; light vertical crease front cover. Two Poem anthology, arising from the accidental advocacy of one poet, coming off the back of her love for walking about in the less beaten paths in Singapore. In a series of chapbooks borne of the Babette's Feast public gathering of writers.; 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall .
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Melodie d'Infinito; Rime e Canti dei Chiarori Stellari.
by Sparito, Giosue [Enrico Fagone]
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Palermo Edizioni Arte e Pensiero, 1947, paperback. Poetry, text in ITALIAN. SIGNED, inscribed by Giosue Sparito (pseudonym of Enrico Fagone). 123 pages. Softcover. Good used condition: binding unglued from spine, covers edgeworn, page margins tanned.
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THE WATER POEM AND OTHERS
by Friedberg, Martha
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Winnetka, IL: Vixen Press, 1985. First Edition. Pictorial Paper Covers. Fine. 20pp, colophon; six colored wood engravings by Caryl Seidenberg. 9.5" x 6.5" This is #222 of 250 copies only, set in Centaur and Arrighi types and printed by hand on dampened Rives heavyweight. Signed under the colophon by Seidenberg and by Friedberg.
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Dreamer's Den
by Alsup, Byron K
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NY: Exposition Press, 1976. Burgundy leatherette boards, bright gilt lettering. Pages [63] clean, unmarked, binding tight and square. Semi-transparent waxpaper dust jacket, appears to be original; in new archival mylar, age discoloration at edges and spine, some edge wear, small bit missing. The author graduated Kennett (Missouri) High School in 1973. Copy of newspaper [DDD] article about the KHS reunion on Jan 18, 2004 laid in. Now also available is a signed copy, same condition but without the transparent dust jacket. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every book listed is located in my smoke free and climate controlled shop. All are inspected by me and will have qualities and/or flaws described. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Good+.
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