Search Results: Poetry from William Chrisant & Sons' Florida Book Shop, ABAA, ILAB, FABA

Pictorial paper wraps. Scratch to paper on front cover (see image). A clean copy with no previous owners' names or other defacements. Scarce.
5.5 x 8.5 in

Very light teal wraps with text to front. Spanish text throughout. No previous owners' names or other markings. Pages bright and clean. Shipped through USPS Priority insured mail. Light sunning to wraps and small closed tears with a crease to exterior edge of back wrap (see image). 6 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches.

Nicely inscribed by the author to the front fly dated 2017. Spanish text. Green leatherette with gilt particulars. All edges gilt. A silk ribbon and butterfly endpapers. A clean copy with no previous owners' names or other defacements. Scarce.
8.75 x 10.75 in

Professionally rebound in half calf over marbled boards with debossed dentelles to calf edges of front and back boards. Five raised bands with debossed decoration, gilt particulars, and red calf label to spine. Original flyleaves present. Full page sur blanc etchings and black and white etchings throughout text. No previous owners' names or other markings. Foxing with occasional spotting to pages throughout; small hole from previous worming to first few pages. 8.25 x 10 inches. Shipped through boxed USPS Priority insured mail.

A single poem written by the Guitermans for Valentine's Day with an original illustrative border hand painted and colored by Vida Guiterman. No previous owners' names or other markings. Previously matted and has paper and adhesive remnants to back of paper; light toning to bottom edge of page (see images). 7.75 x 9.75 inches. Shipped through boxed USPS Priority insured mail.

Inscribed by author and signed to first free page with "Punta Alta, Argentina 31 de 1961." White paper wraps with blue text. As stated on front wrap: "Incluye tambien las poesias completas y coregidas, siguiendo un orden de mayor a menor por su tonalidad, de: Breviario esperanzado; Amor, Miseria y Blasfemia; Ella en todas; Mal de Astros; La ternura del hombre." Spanish text throughout. No previous owners' names or other markings. Pages bright and clean. Indentation from hand writing on back wrap, creases at corners, and foxing to wraps (see image). 5 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches.

Limited to 250 copies signed by the author to the limitation page. Quarter blue cloth with gilt title to spine. Includes scarce glassine dustjacket wrapped in mylar. A nice clean copy with no previous owners' names or other defacements.
6.5 x 10.75 in

Signed by Carter to front fly. Quarter cloth with silver text to front board and spine. Black and white illustrations throughout. 5 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches.

Profusely inscribed by Rafael Perez Estrada to front and rear, including to the title page with a few original sketches dated 1990. Dark blue cloth with a dustjacket that has sustained some overall wear (see image). Otherwise a clean copy with no defacements.
6.25 x 8.5 in

Marbled paper boards with gilt particulars and orange leather label to spine. Frontispiece engraving. Previous library stamp to first free page, title page, and back of title page from "Gesamt-Lehrerbücherei Nordhausen" and "Biblioth Gymnasii Nordhus."Latin text throughout. Wear to exterior boards with loss of marbled paper at hinges of spine (see images). 5 x 7.25 inches. Shipped through boxed USPS Priority insured mail.

Autographed letter, signed. Letter reads:"Dear Madam,It gives me great pleasure to send you an autograph of my dear friend Charles Sumner.I wish I had something more to send; but I have nothing. I'm afraid that you may have been misled by a paragraph in the papers, stating that I was one of his executors. This is not the case. I am only one of the trustees to whose charge his papers have been left. Thank you for your words of sympathy and for your true estimate of Sumner's character, I am, Dear Madame, Yours truly, Henry W. Longfellow."Includes clipped signature of Sumner and autographed envelope addressed by Longfellow to Mrs. E. Sumner, 107 East 26 Street, New York. Slight darkening to areas from supposed newspaper clipping. Sumner's autograph has some pinholes (see image).Cambridge, March 18, 1874.Letter is 4.5 x 7 inches; unfolds to 9 x 7 inches.

Strathmore Drawing Pad with 50 poems by Hotchkiss. Author's autograph to the front. Featuring poems like: "So this is how you felt when you held me,/ Small bundle on the bed, arms everywhere,/ Mouth searching for the sweet warm harmony/ Of love, a blot of brush-black hair./ Please teach me now those secret-mother-things/ That I should know: the language of the cries,/ The soft-strong hands, the midnight voice that brings a blaze of daylight to the nightmare's eyes./ Give me that world I left behind your door/ Where paper dolls had hearts and tops could spin,/ Where Alice played with Dianah on the floor,/ And every looking glass would let her in./ Now I am mother, I am child. The old/ Eyes see you new again, majestic, warm./ Then, mother, daughter, take my hands, behold/ The blessed chain of women that we form." and "After a Time": "after a time, all losses are the same./ one more thing lost is one thing less to lose;/ and we go stripped at last the way we came./ though we shall probe,… Read More

Limited to 50 copies of which this is out of sequence. Yellow paper wraps and no previous owner's names or other markings. Small crease to top of front cover (see image). Will ship by USPS Priority mail. 6 x 8.75 in

Pink glossy paper wraps. Staining to foredge affecting edge of front cover (see image). No previous owners' names or defacements. Scarce.

Signed by author to first free page with small inscription: "Para Jose Utero, Con respeto. Maria D'Abate." Pink paper wraps with text and image. Spanish text throughout. No previous owners' names or other markings. Pages bright and clean. Wear to paper wraps and light sunning to spine. 5 1/4 x 7 3/4 inches. Shipped through boxed USPS Priority insured mail.

Stapled paper wraps. Inscribed by the author to the rear of the front flap dated 1995, along with a publisher's stamp. Staple rust to bottom staple, otheriwse no previous owners' names or other defacements. Scarce.
5.5 x 8.5 in

Signed by author to first free page and dated 6-2-80; original addressee, Leigh, whited-out but ink is still visible (see image). Black cloth with gilt text to spine; pictorial dust jacket with text. No previous owners' names or other markings. Dust jacket not price clipped. 29 pp. 5 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches.

Signed by Herman to ffp in black ink. Only 1000 copies printed. Color illustrations printed with Agfa digital plates. Light green cloth with debossed text to front board. Very small loss to bottom right corner of front dust jacket. 83 pp. 10 x 11 1/4 inches.

Half morocco with cloth boards. Three 3-ring binders containing the self-published poetry of Troth and one loose sheet. Vol. 1 contains unpublished poetry, and the next two volumes contain all of Troth's poetry. All poetry is alphabetized by title with alphabetical tabs. Liquid stain to top right corner of vol. 1, not effecting text. Some rubbing to edges. Unpaginated. 7 1/4 x 10 inches

Black cloth boards with copper particulars to front board and spine. Cream paper dust jacket with text and design. All 7 dust jackets protected in mylar. Volumes contents are as follows: Vol. 1: Romaunt of the Rose and Minor Poems; 2: Boethius, Troilus; 3: House of Fame, Legend of Good Women, Astrolabe, and Sources of Canterbury Tales; 4: The Canterbury Tales (Text); 5: The Canterbury Tales (Notes); 6: Introduction, Glossary, and Indexes; 7: Chaucerian and Other Pieces. Small liquid stain to bottom of the front of volume 1 dj; abrasion with mark to bottom of back of volume 3 dj; very light stain to front of volume 4 dj. Light wear to dust jackets with light bumping to head and tail of spines (see images). 5 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches. Please expect extra postage as this is a large set.