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Old Greenwich, Conn: Devin-Adair Co, 1975. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good -. Fourth printing. liv, 830 p.; 23 cm. Dark green cover with gilt spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. 1000 Years of Irish Poetry "presents for the first time a panorama of Irish poetry as a literature, showing the many facets of the Irish poetic genius; lyrics, elegies, songs, street ballads, satires, patriotic hymns, dramatic epics, nature and contemplative poetry, odes and sonnets, and older forms from the Gaelic not so common to English verse, which influenced the bardic poets of ancient and medieval Europe from the authors of the Icelandic sagas to Dants." -- dust jacket. Book is in Very Good+ Condition: top page edges slightly soiled; pages edges browning; back endpapers lightly soiled; otherwise, clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Very Good- Condition: edges rubbed; edges of back flap lightly soiled; illustration is bright.
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1000 Years of Irish Poetry: The Gaelic and Anglo-Irish Poets fro Pagan Times to the Present; Edited with an introduction by Kathleen Hoagland
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About Love: Poems
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Riverdale-on-Hudson, N.Y.: Sheep Meadow Press, 1993. Paperback. Fine. [10], 159, [7] p.; 23 cm. Paperback; red cover printed in black with portrait of the author on the back. ISBN: 1878818236. Three pages of publisher's advertisements follow text. Inscribed by the author to the former owner on the title page. In Fine Condition.
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Afterward
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New York: Harold Vinal, 1927. Hardcover. Very Good. [16], 75 p.; 21 cm. Light green cover with printed paper spine and cover labels. Introduction by Blanche Shoemaker Wagstaff. With 2 typed letters (one laid in on the front endpapers and both signed by the author) and one telegram from the author, Ruth Little Mason Rice (1884-1927), to poet Caroline Giltinan Harlow (1884- ). Also with a handwritten letter from Mary A. Taylor, sister of Rice, to Harlow referring to the publication of this book and stating "Ruth's death has absolutely broken me." The author had committed suicide in September 1927. Very scarce. In Very Good Condition: spine is sunned; upper joints are weak; pp. 6 and 7 have shadows from holding the telegram; otherwise, clean and tight.
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Agriculture Reader No. 4; edited by Jeremy Schmall & Justin Taylor; drawings by Scott Teplin; art direction & design by Amy Mees
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New York: X-iing Books, 2010. Paperback. Near Fine -. 128 p.: illustrations; 23 cm. Paperback with orange cover; illustration runs continuously across the covers. Title in silver on front cover and in silver printed in a mirror image on the back cover. Agriculture Reader is an arts annual founded in 2006. This volume contains works by Mary Jo Bang, Mark Bibbins, Evan Commander, Joshua Cohen, Douglas Crase, Jordan Davis, Benjamin De Casseres, Dan Elkind, Dan Hoy, Elaine Kahn, Noelle Kocot, Ben Lerner, Gary Lutz, Peter Markus, Chris Martin, Anthony McCann, Amy McDaniel, Mike McDonough, Ben Mirov, Gene Morgan, Jesse Nathan, Alec Niedenthal, Greg Purcell, Zachary Schomburg, Andrei Sen-Senkov, Peter Jay Shippy, Bianca Stone, and Eva Talmadge. Scarce. In Near Fine- Condition: small scrape in lower right-hand corner of front cover;cover is very lightly soiled; otherwise, clean and bright.
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Alle Najadi Inno alla Greca dall'Inglese di Marco Akenside M.D. recato in Verso Italiano da T.J. Mathias
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Napoli: Presso R. Marotta e Vaspandoch dalla Tipografia Francese, 1821. Hardcover. Very Good +. 35, [5] p.; 21 cm. Contemporary full polished leather (pigskin?); red morocco spine label with gilt-tooled title: Inno Alle Najadi. Gilt-tooled decoration on upper and lower parts of spine and decorative border on each board. All page edges gilt. Blue-and-pink marbled endpapers. Blue ribbon bookmark. Former owner's name at head of title page: Elizabeth Law. Inscribed at head of title page in a different hand: Dall' autore [presumably the translator, Thomas James Mathias]. One page following text contains a list of other works translated from Italian to English by T.J. Mathias and available from G. Porter in London. This work is a translation of Akenside's Hymn to the Naiads. An attractive binding. In Very Good+ Condition: boards a little tight, not quite flat; browning and light soiling along page edges; otherwise clean and tight.
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American Sonnets: Poems
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New York: W. W. Norton & Co, 2002. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 69 p.; 22 cm. Cover in two shades of blue with gilt spine title and author's initials on front cover. Illustrated dust jacket. Stated First Edition. The 13th collection of poems by American poet Gerald Stern (b. 1925). Book and dust jacket are in Fine Condition.
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American Poetry Since 1900
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New York: Henry Holt and Co, 1930. Hardcover. Very Good. Copyright 1923; printed March 1930. xiii, [3], 405 p., frontispiece portrait of Robert Frost and 16 leaves of plates; 22 cm. Red cloth with black spine title; blind-stamped publisher's emblem on front cover. Top page edges red. Former owner's name on front fixed endpaper: Mary McKenzie. In Very Good Condition: a few pencil marks in the Introduction; otherwise, clean and tight.
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American Poets 1630-1930; Edited by Mark van Doren
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Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1932. Hardcover. Very Good. xxxiii, [1], 698 p.; 21 cm. Blue cloth with gilt spine title; light blue and gilt decoration on spine and front cover. Top page edges blue. Red ribbon book mark. Former owner's name on front fixed endpaper: Mary McKenzie. In Very Good Condition: slightly shaken; cover is lightly soiled and rubbed; pages are clean and solid.
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An American Takes a Walk and Other Poems
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Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1956. Hardcover. Very Good/good. [6], 82 p.; 22 cm. Red cover with white spine and cover titles and decoration on front cover. Black and white dust jacket. The second book of poetry by American poet Reed Whittemore (1919-2012), containing 58 poems. Book is in Very Good Condition: ends of spine are rubbed; slight discoloration on fixed endpapers; otherwise, clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Good Condition: rubbed; loss at ends of spine; closed 3-cm. tear from upper edge of front section; creasing at upper edge; closed 1-cm. tear from upper edge of back section; minor loss at upper edge of back section; foxing on flaps and back section.
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Angry Candy [provenance: Sidney Sulkin]
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Youngstown, Ohio: Pigiron Press, 1976. Paperback. Very Good. [2], 34, [8] p.: illustrations; 22 cm. Paperback with green and white illustrated covers; cover art by Joe Zabel. Introduction by Jim Villani. Reprinted from Pigiron Magazine, Sept. 1975. Cover title: Angry Candy: The American as Consumer. Inscribed by the author on the first blank page to Naomi and Sidney Sulkin. The author, John "Gunboat" Pauker (1920-1991), was a poet, an editor of the literary quarterly Furioso, and a representative of the United States Information Agency. Angry Candy has been described as a "diatribe against American consumerism and bureaucracy," first delivered to an unsuspecting audience at the Folger Shakespeare Library in 1970. Sidney Sulkin was a poet, short-story writer, novelist, playwright, and editor. In Very Good Condition: cover is rubbed; closed tear of less than 1 cm. at head of spine; upper corner of back cover creased; small chip in upper edge of back cover; clean and bright.
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An Approach to Poetry
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New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co, 1930. Hardcover. Very Good. 168 p.; 21 cm. Dark blue cloth with printed paper spine label. No dust jacket. Includes index. Former owner's name on front fixed endpaper: Mary McKenzie. "The object of this little volume is to help as many young people as possible to an appreciation of what they already respond to, confusedly, in verse." -- Preface. The author, English author and playwright Arthur Phosphor Mallam (1872-1948), intended this book to help teachers of poetry. In Very Good Condition: lacking part of spine label; cover is slightly rubbed and soiled; pages are clean and tight.
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The Ariel: A Semimonthly Literary and Miscellaneous Gazette [bound volume containing vol. 5, no. 1-25 -- April 30, 1831-March 31 1832]
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Philadelphia: Edmund Morris, 1831. Hardcover. Good -. 400 p., 12 leaves of engraved plates: illustrations; 26 cm. Modern spine of bonded leather, with gilt-tooled spine label. Contemporary marbled paper over boards. Older repair of hinges. Error in pagination: adjacent but different pages are numbered 306 and 307. Contains poetry, fiction, and nonfiction (generally travel accounts), some reprinted from other sources and some original, as well as social news, most often from Philadelphia. In Good- Condition: lacking frontispiece engraving of Nazareth, Pa., and upper third of pp. 17-18 and 31-32; old repair of pp. 397-98; final leaf (p. 399-400) is detached but present; 2 closed tears from fore-edge; scattered foxing and soiling, each heavy on occasion. Very scarce.
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The Atlantic Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics Volume 77 [January - June 1896]
by James, Henry
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Co, 1896. Hardcover. Near Fine -. 860 p.; 24 cm. Half black morocco with gilt-stamped spine title and embellishments; black morocco-grain cloth over boards. Contents include: articles by Agnes Repplier: The Fete de Gayant, and Old Wine and New -- The Children of the Road by Josiah Flynt -- Pirate Gold (in 3 parts) by F. J. Stimson -- the first appearance of two works by Henry James: Glasses, and The Old Things (the latter appeared in book form in 1897 as The Spoils of Poynton) -- The Bibliotaph by Leon H. Vincent -- An Elegy by Louise Imogen Guiniey -- Two New Social Departures by John M. Ludlow [about the foundation of the Industrial Union of Employers and Employed, and the holding of the first International Cooperative Congress] -- articles by G. Stanley Hall and F. W. Atkinson about the responses from 1189 teachers and superintendents to a questionnaire about public school teaching -- articles by Lafcadio Hearn: China and the Western World, and A Trip to Kyoto -- A…
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Aus einem Tagebuche: Gedichte
by Egloffstein, Auguste von und zu
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Weimar: Hermann Böhlau, 1864. Hardcover. Very Good +. xvi, 244 p.; 19 cm. Contemporary dark blue leather with five spine compartments between raised bands. Gilt-tooled spine title and decoration. Center medallion on each board in relief with gilt-tooled decoration surrounding them; blind-rolled border on each board. Gilt rule on each board edge. All page edges gilt. White moire endpapers. First edition. The poems of the author, Auguste von und zu Egloffstein (1796-1862), were collected and published two years after her death. Very scarce. In Very Good+ Condition: spine is faded; head of spine slightly rubbed; half title lightly foxed; title page slightly soiled; otherwise clean and bright.
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Ausgewählte Gedichte von Detlev von Liliencron [provenance: Titia Gorter]
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Berlin: Schuster & Loeffler, 1907. Paperback. Very Good +. Volksausgabe 21. bis 30. Tausend." 271, [1] p.; 16 cm. Brown stiffened card with gilt-stamped spine title; white-stamped cover title within a gilt-stamped oval illustration. Top page edges brown. Brown endpapers. The poems are taken from the author's Kampf und Spiele, Kämpfe und Ziele, Nebel und Sonne, and Bunte Beute. Small Art Moderne bookplate of Titia Gorter on front fixed endpaper. This was possibly the Dutch biographer Titia Gorter (1854-1949). In Very Good+ Condition: ends of spine rubbed; clean and bright.
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Autres Chansons: Deuxième Cahier de Habitude de la Poésie
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Paris: G.L.M., 1937. Paperback. Fine. [16] p.; 14 cm. 14 cm. Pale green wrapper with black wrapper title; publication information on back wrapper. Caption title. Wrapper included in page count; all on light green paper. In a glassine cover. Contains 17 numbered poems. French poet Fernand Marc (1900-1979) founded the review Sagesse in 1927. In Fine Condition.
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Ballad: Young Parson Richards; now first published from the manuscript in Harvard University Library by Walter Edwin Peck
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Iowa City, Iowa: Walter Edwin Peck, 1926. Paperback. Fair. 7, [1] p.; 23 cm. Grey wrappers printed in black; stapled. This is no. 48 of a limited edition of 100 copies. "Text from the first publication in the Philological Quarterly, April, 1926." Walter Edwin Peck was the author of Shelley, His Life and Work, published the year after this poem was published. In Fair Condition: 5-cm. tear from spine through wrapper and all 4 leaves, without loss; chipping along edges; wrapper and p. [4] lightly soiled; corners creased.
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The Ballad of Reading Gaol
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New York: Barse & Hopkins, 1910. Very Good -. [2], 30 p., frontispiece portrait of the author; 17 cm. Brown suede binding with embossed cover title over gilt background. Oval cut-out in front cover reveals a rustic scene. Dark brown endpapers. Dark brown ribbon bookmark. No date of publication. Small stamp with 1910 date on back free endpaper. Barse & Hopkins issued this poem in several bindings. This is the scarcest. In Very Good- Condition: corners rubbed with minor loss; front fixed endpaper partially separated from cover, with some loss along edges of endpaper; closed 1-cm. tear from fore-edge of one leaf; clean and tight.
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The Ballad of Biddy Early by Nancy Willard; Illustrated by Barry Moser
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. Hardcover. Fine/very good. [40] p.: color illustrations; 29 cm. Black cloth spine with red spine title; light yellow paper over boards. Red endpapers. Illustrated dust jacket. Poems celebrating Biddy Early, the Wise Woman of Clare. Book is in Fine Condition: clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Very Good Condition: rubbed; tail of spine slightly chipped; clean and bright.
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The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. Hardcover. Near Fine/fine. Second printing, Feb. 2001. [6], 147, [5] pages; 23 cm. Maroon and red cover with gilt spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. Book is in Near Fine Condition: red remainder dot on upper page edges; otherwise, clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Fine Condition: clean and bright.
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