Poetry by Period
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The Younger Edda
by Rasmus B Anderson
The Prose Edda, also known as the Younger Edda, Snorri's Edda or simply Edda, is an Old Norse language Icelandic collection of four sections interspersed with excerpts from earlier skaldic and Eddic poetry containing tales from Norse mythology. The work is often assumed to be written by the Icelandic scholar and historian Snorri Sturluson around the year 1220.
Poetry by Period Books & Ephemera
The Cramoisy Queen: A Life of Caresse Crosby
by HAMALIAN, Linda
Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, [2005]. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's glossy photo-illustrated card wrappers; xiii,[3],247pp.; 14 leaves of photographs printed on rectos and versos. Fine condition.
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A$38.74
THE ANGEL OF HISTORY
by Forche, Carolyn
New York: Harper Collins, 1994. First edition. An uncorrected proof copy in white printed wrappers. Some wear, a few spots and a bit of abrasion especially to the rear top edge, so only very good, but a tight, fine copy otherwise.
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A$30.99
A Sort of Ecstasy. Poems: New and Selected
by SMITH, A.J.M. [Arthur James Marshall]
East Lansing / Toronto: Michigan State College Press / Ryerson Press, 1954. First Edition. First printing. Cloth-backed patterned boards; 55pp. Mild toning to board edges, else a tight, attractive copy in the original dustwrapper, toned at margins and spine panel with a shallow chip to upper rear panel (away from printed area), Very Good. Second regularly-published collection by the prominent Canadian modernist, a key member of the Montreal Group and winner of the 1943 Governor General's Award for his...
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A$46.48
Wings of Sunset
by Coolbrith, Ina
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very good. A posthumous collection of poems from California's first poet laureate. With a biographical essay by Charles Phillips. xxxviii, 215 pages. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket, with a few short tears repaired with Japanese tissue on the back (verso). This copy is inscribed by Coolbrith's niece, who did much to keep the memory of her aunt alive after her death in...
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A$185.93
In the Midst of Change
by SHARP, Saundra
New York: Togetherness Productions, 1972. Second Edition. Quarto (27.75cm); pale pink illustrated wrappers, stapled; 40pp; illus. Fine, unread copy. Second book of poetry by the Cleveland native, an early publication issued by Togetherness Productions, "a company formed to stage live poetry, jazz and songs by black creative artists." Illustrated throughout the text with photographs by Chester Higgins, Jr., Ronald St. Clair, and Cornell Norris, with cover designed by Kylis Pheal Winborne. OCLC finds 2...
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A$54.23
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Muchedumbres: Elegía en cinco actos sobre la tierra, la vida y otros gritos de desesperación [Inscribed & Signed]
by MAÍZ CHACÓN, Jorge
[Mallorca]: Calumnia Ediciones, 2011. First Edition. Small, slim 12mo (17cm.); publisher's glossy pictorial card wrappers, French flaps; unpaged. Fine condition. Inscribed and signed on front free endpaper in English: "Thanks [?] / You're an example." Poetry collection by the Spanish professor of Medieval studies. OCLC locates no copies in North America as of August, 2017.
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A$69.72
THE USES OF ADVERSITY
by Oppenheimer, Joel
Vandergrift, PA: The Zelot Press, [1987]. First edition. Tall, narrow, stapled printed wraps. A long poem describing in literate and sometimes humerous terms the course (the four drugs) of his treatment for cancer. He died in 1988; this book inscribed "Robert -- news from the front... Love" and signed in full and dated 2/14/87.
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A$38.74
CONCURRING BEASTS
by Dobyns, Stephen
New York: Atheneum, 1971. First Edition. First printing. The poet's (he is possibly better known for his Saratoga mystery series) first book, the Lamont Poetry Selection for 1971. An attractive copy with minor shelf wear to the green cloth and shallow chips on the spine and one short tear. The top edge dusty. With the errata slip and Lamont announcement laid in.
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A$54.23
The White Bird
by STANFORD, Ann
Denver: Alan Swallow, 1949. First Edition. First printing; edition of 350 copies. Octavo. Paper-covered boards (hardcover); 58pp. Inscribed on front endpaper: "To Mrs. Rosalind Davies with highest regards," signed and dated in 1952. Bruise to crown of spine, with shallow chip, else a clean, tight copy, Very Good. The California poet's second published collection, rather uncommon signed.
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A$92.96
POEMS; North & South - A Cold Spring
by Bishop, Elizabeth
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1955. First edition. Blue cloth with white lettering in dust jacket; 8vo. John Frederick Nims' copy, his name in ink. Nims has noted in ink under the two subtitles the dates of publication "'46, '55". Laid in is a small sheet corresponding to brief notes (in light pencil) at the poems. Top edge a bit spotted, several pages with creased tips, but easily very good in a very good dust jacket: colors bright, small loss at extremities, one closed tear, and a small spot on the rear...
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A$1,162.05
First Fire: Poems 1957-1960
by THOMPSON, James W
London: Paul Breman, 1970. First Edition. First Printing. Slim octavo (21.5cm); photo-illustrated wraps, stapled; 20pp. Fine. Collection of early poems by the native Detroit author, issued here as volume 12 in the Heritage Series. Thompson was deeply involved in the Black Arts Movement, serving as editor of Umbra in the late 1960's; he would later change his name to Abba Elethea, continuing his work as a columnist, dance critic, and poet-in-residence at Antioch University (cf.Whitt. Short Stories of the...
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The Dispossessed
by BERRYMAN, John
New York: William Sloane Associates, Inc, 1948. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22cm); navy blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; xii,103,[3]pp. Trivial wear to spine ends, else a fresh, Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50), gently spine-sunned and lightly edgeworn, with a few tiny nicks at base of spine and two closed tears; Very Good+. The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet's first regularly published collection. STEFANIK A4.
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A$387.35
THE POETICAL WORKS OF GOLDSMITH, BEATTIE AND CAMPBELL (1853/LEATHER)
by Multiple Contributors
London: T. Nelson & Sons. Very Good+. 1853. Hardcover. A handsome copy in clean red blind stamped leather. Spine with bands & gilt lettering. All edges gilt with embossed designs. Inner gilt dentell decorations. Marbled endpapers. Pictorial title page. Drawing illustrations. Collectible Poetry ; B&W Illustrations; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 384 pages .
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A$69.72
The Solitaries. Poems 1964-5
by WALKER, Ted
New York: George Braziller, 1967. First American Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 57pp. Fine in very Near Fine dustwrapper, a shade darkened on spine panel, unclipped (priced $3.95 on front flap). The poet's second published collection, winner of the Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize (Poetry Society of London) for 1967.
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A$54.23
THE WAKING OF THE EYE
by Enslin, Theodore
Weymouth, Dorset, UK: Stingy Artist/Last Straw Press, 1986. First Edition. Sewn wrappers with printed paper label; 8vo. One of 151 copies. Spine area sunned, else fine. Bertholf A89.
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A$54.23
Dear Ez: Letters from William Carlos Williams to Ezra Pound
by WILLIAMS, William Carlos; Mary Ellen Solt, ed
Bloomington: Friends of the Lily Library, 1985. First, Limited Edition. No. 118 of 203 numbered copies, printed by Fedric Brewer. Octavo. Cloth-backed, marbled boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 51pp. Fine, apparently unread copy. In the original dustwrapper, Fine but for one tiny closed nick at crown of spine. Seven letters written by Williams to Pound between 1946 and 1951, with introduction, notes and commentary by Mary Ellen Solt. Includes both transcriptions and facsimiles of the original letters.
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A$77.47
Le Jeune Homme De Bouaké
by KONÉ, Maurice
Paris: Jean Grassin, 1963. First, Limited Edition. 12mo. Pictorial card wrappers; 60, [4]pp. One of 500 numbered copies on Alfa (the entire edition). Fine copy, free of markings or wear; apparently unread. The Ivorian poet's third book, a memoir of childhood under colonial rule. Notably uncommon in the trade.
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A$193.68
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Two Poems of the Air [Limited Edition, Signed]
by DICKEY, James (poems); PINCUS, Monica Moseley (calligraphy)
Portland, OR: Centicore Press, 1964. First, Limited Edition. One of 300 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author and calligrapher, this being copy no.133. Oblong quarto (30.5cm x 15.25cm); offset printed sheets bound stiff decorative paper-covered boards; [viii],84,[6]pp. Hint of sunning to spine, else Fine. Handsome fine press edition of these two poems - "Firebombing" and "Reincarnation" - dedicated to the students of Reed College. BRUCCOLI & BAUGHMAN A4.1.
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A$193.68
COLLECTING THE ANIMALS
by Everwine, Peter
New York: Atheneum, 1973. First Edition. Blue cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 63 pp. The Lamont Poetry Selection for 1972, given then for best first book. Lamont Poetry Selection card enclosed. Near fine in a spine-toned lightly worn very good or better dust jacket (In removable mylar protective cover).
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A$23.24
Sentry of the Four Golden Pillars
by REDMOND, Eugene
[East St. Louis, IL: Black River Writers, 1970]. Third (1972) printing. Octavo (21.5cm.); original yellow staplebound pictorial wrappers; 32pp. Fine. Second collection by the Black Arts Movement poet Eugene B. Redmond.
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A$30.99
THE MINUTES NO ONE OWNS
by Galvin, Brendan
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1977. First Edition. 74 pp. One of 500 hard bound copies of 2050 total. The dust jacket has residue from a removed sticker; the back panel heavily rubbed/black along the gutter area, else fine. The book and contents clean and fine.
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A$38.74
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Buckwheat Cakes and Cornmeal Mush (Growing Up in the Thirites) [Signed]
by ENSRUD, Shirley
[Blue Earth, MN: smeBooks, 1998]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's cream pictorial staplebound card wrappers; iv,59pp. Fine. Signed by the author on title page. Poetry inspired by the author's childhood in Depression-era Minnesota farm country.
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A$54.23
ONE LITTLE-PRESS YEAR. The Sermon; Establishment Songs; Five Quiet Shouters; Scapegoats and Rabies
by Hughes, Ted; Christopher Logue, Peter Redgrove, Angela Carter et al
London: Poet & Printer, 1967. First Edition. Printed jacket over stapled card portfolio with sleeves for four chapbooks; 8vo:.: Redgrove's "The Sermon"; Logue's "Establishment Songs"; "Five Quiet Shouters" by Carter and four others; and Hughes' "Scapegoats And Rabies". The Hughes chapbook has the scarce printed notice "represents the fourth and last edition..." laid in, and Redgrove with complimentary slip. Portfolio splitting and creased, chapbooks very good, staples on three rusty, the Hughes which is...
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A$271.15
The Vampire
by KIPLING, [Joseph] Rudyard
Boston: Privately Printed, 1898. First Thus. Sextodecimo (15cm); sewn; issued in stiff paper wrappers, lettered from the types of the title page; 4 leaves- title and text; frontispiece; vignette designed by E.J Clark, printed in red, is repeated throughout, occupying half of each page; light rubbing; upper rear corner of back cover has tiny nick; Very Good+, lacking the envelope. Inspiration for the 1909 Broadway production A Fool There Was by Porter Emerson Browne and subsequently the 1915 silent...
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A$193.68
Tongue Stones
by Campion, John
Berkeley: Eco-Tropic Books, 1999. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 290 pages. Poems; Texas poet. Winner of the 1990 Austin Book Award. Second printing. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
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A$27.89
