Search Results: Poetry from Ultramarine Books

New York: Random House, 1962. 464 pages. Portraits, Politics, Religion, Race, Art, Hollywood, High Society,Progress: they each have their several humorous critics. Red cloth with gilt decoration and titles. Clean and tight; contents fine.. First Printing. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo.

New York: The Art Digest, 1958. 150 pages; numerous illustrations, color and b&w; numerous ads. Delacroix and Baudelaire, a New Epoch in Art and Poetry; History of Painting in Italy by Stendahl; Fantastic Art from Goya to Ensor; The Changing Landscape in American Art, Painters of the American Scene 1804-1899; The Art of Impressionism. Clean throughout; tight binding; boards rubbed.*////////////. Printed Paper Boards. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 12" x 9".

New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1999. Fanciful, poetic text combined with specially commissioned drawings of Geoffrey Beene's garments. 40 color illustrations.. First Edition. Hard Cover - Pictorial Boards. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Sirichai (Drawings). 8vo.

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1998. 198 pages. Previous owner's name whited-out on the front free endpaper. Hughes' obituary in an envelope loosely inserted at the back.. quarter-cloth and paper boards. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000. 60 pages. The poet is the daughter of sharecroppers; she was raised on a farm near the Carolinas' border. Winner of the 1999 Walt Whitman Award.. First Printing. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo.

Chicago, New York: Rand McNally & Company, 1928. 96 pages. Numerous b&w illustrations, including border illustrations on many pages, endpaper illustrations, 8 full page color plates. Illustration "The Rain is raining all around" is worn along the edges, a glue line mars the hinge edge of the plate and the adjoining page; the plate is firmly sewed-in. Otherwise, pages and plates are clean and the binding is tight. A color illustration is laid on the blue cloth front board with gilt titles above.. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to.

Saint Paul, Minnesota: Graywolf Press, 1998. 74 pages. Winner of the 1997 James Laughlin Award. Previous owner's name whited-out on the front free endpaper.. First Printing. Paper covered boards. Fine/Fine. 8vo.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1981. 204 pages followed by 62 b&w plates. A scrape to the front cover near author's name; corner bumped, otherwise clean and tight.. Printed Wrapper (softcover). Very Good. 8vo.

Riverdale-on-Hudson, New York: The Sheep Meadow Press, 1999. 94 pages. Winner of the 1999 James Laughlin Award.. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo.

New York: The Library of America, 2003. 197 pages. Biographical Note; Notes on the Text; Index. Of the American Poets Project, an effort to form a compact national library of American poetry. Clean throughout; tight binding; dustjacket lightly wrinkled at the bottom edge of the back panel.. First Edition. Decorated paper boards. Fine/Very Good. 7 1/2" x 4 1/2".

Paris: Bibliothèque des Curieux, 1920. 296 pages; 2 illustrated portraits. Original softcover issue bound in colorfull stippled boards; marbled endpapers. Entire original wrappers present Paper label with gilt titles on the spine; a piece of the label is torn away. Occasional blue marks in the margin of selected poems (see image). . Otherwise, clean throughout; tight binding. Decorated paper boards. Very Good/No Jacket. 8 3/4" x 5 1/2".

Boston: David R. Godine, 1974. 32 pages. Number 4 in the First Godine Poetry Chapbook Series. First Edition. Decorated paper boards. Very Good. 8vo.

New York: King's Crown Press, 1947. 159 pages. Bibliography. The spine faded; text clean; binding is tight. Bookplate on the front pastedown.. Second Printing. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo.

London: Tate Gallery, 1990. 181 pages; 67 catalogued paintings illustrated in black-and-white with text; transcriptions of verse; 35 color plates and additional black-and-white illustrations in the text preceding the catalogue. While conceding that Turner was a poetaster the exhibition of poems with paintings as Turner would have intended may illuminate his thinking for us. Fine except for a crease in the corner of the back wrap panel.. First Edition. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Very Good. 4to. Exhibition Catalogue.

Roslyn, NY: The Stone House Press, 1991. 33 pages; wood engravings by John De Pol. Printed by hand from type and wood blocks; 130 cloth-bound copies and 130 copies in paper wrappers. This is a cloth-bound copy signed on the colophon by James Thomas Flexner, John De Pol and M.A. Gelfand, the Designer.. Signed by Author, Artist, Designer. Limited Edition. Cloth. Fine. Illus. by John De Pol. 8vo.

New York: The Library of America, 2003. 262 pages. 120 poems by 62 American poets, most of whom served in the armed forces.Of the American Poets Project, an effort to form a compact national library of American poetry. Clean throughout; tight binding; dustjacket with small tears at the bottom edge of the back panel.. First Edition. Decorated paper boards. Fine/Very Good. 7 1/2" x 4 1/2".

Martin: Tennessee Poetry Press, 1970. 24 portraits of as many poets in charcoal, pencil or black ink. Foreword by poet, Stephen Mooney. Biographical sketch of Graubart.. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Very Good. Square 8vo.

South Brunswick and New York: A.S. Barnes and Co., 1965. 36 pages; 7 illustrations. "This edition of The Rubaiyat follows the original Golden Cockerel Press edition, designed by Christopher Sandford, and set in Caslon's Old Face type. The illustrations are copied from the collotypes in that edition. The presswork, on Curtis' Tweedweave Text, is by the Murray Printing Company, and the binding is by the Kingsport Press. The jacket was designed by Lauretta Sellitti, and the book was published in this edition in December, 1965." (Copyright page) Except for a name, "Enjoy!" and a date on the front free endpaper the books is clean and bright throughout. The cloth covering the boards is foxed; the dustjacket is price-clipped and a bit darkened at the extremes.. Silk covered boards. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by J. Yunge Bateman (Drawings). 10.25" x 6.25".

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2011. 1168 pages. Idomeneo; The Abduction from the Seraglio; The Marriage of Figaro; Don Giovanni; Cosi Fan Tutte; La Clemenza di Tito; The Magic Flute. McClatchy is the author of six collections of poems; is himself a limbrettist; his singing translations have been performed at the top opera houses around the world. Clean, bright and tight throughout.. First Edition. Red cloth. Fine/Fine. thick 8vo.

New York: W.W. Norton, 2000. 108 pages. Hacker's ninth collection of poems. "A deeply thoughtful travelogue through this awful century, through cancer, through two great cities, and through love and loss.". First Edition. quarter-cloth and paper boards. Fine/Fine. 8vo.