‎Poetry‎

‎TIBULLUS Albius; MIRABEAU Honore Gabriel Riquetti comte De‎

‎Elegies de Tibulle avec des notes et recherches de Mythologie d'Histoire et de Philosophie suivies des baisers de Jean Second. Three Volumes‎

‎Tours and Paris : chez Letourmy and Berry 1795. "traduction nouvelle adresse´e du Donjeon de Vincennes par Mirabeau l'aine´ a` Sophie Ruffey." No dates published 1795-96. A portrait of Mirabeau engraved by Voysard after Borel frontispiece to volume I; portrait of Sophie engraved by Elluin after Borel frontispiece of volume II; engraving by Dupreel after Marillier frontispiece of volume III 12 figures out of text engraved by Elluin after Borel. Finely bound in contemporary green straight-grain morocco all edges gilt gilt inner dentelles with added ruling and decorative gilt acorn motifs at corners on paste downs & flyleaves armorial book plate. Very Good corners and spine ends rubbed spines darkened light soiling to boards modest scattered toning. Laid into Vol. I an engraved portrait of Mirabeau engraved by Mariage after F. Bonneville that appears to have been taken from another publication. A handsome set in period binding. . First Translated Edition. Straight - Grain Morocco. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. chez Letourmy and Berry Hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 009014

‎AFRICAN AMERICANS POETRY RANDALL Dudley‎

‎After the Killing‎

‎Chicago: Third World Press 1973. First Edition. First Printing. Slim octavo 21.5cm; illustrated card wrappers stapled; 16pp. Fine unread copy. The Broadside Press founder's fifth collection of poetry dealing primarily with themes of race violence and death. Several of these poems first appeared in the pages of American Negro Poetry Black World Black Michigan Poets Broadside Series and Essence. Third World Press unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 53877

‎CONCRETE POETRY O'GALLAGHER Liam‎

‎The Blue Planet Notebooks‎

‎San Francisco: X-Communications 1972. First Edition. First printing. Oblong quarto; unpaginated 144pp; illus. Minuscule bumps to wrapper edges at upper and lower corners else a tight Near Fine copy. Uncommon collection of concrete visual and computer-generated poetry by the celebrated San Francisco multimedia artist. About as pretty a copy of this unwieldy and damage-prone title as we have seen. X-Communications unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 49113

‎AFRICAN AMERICANS POETRY JONES Jymi‎

‎The Fruit Theory‎

‎Philadelphia: Dorrance & Company 1973. First Edition. Octavo 21.5cm; red cloth with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; 86 4pp. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket unclipped priced $3.95 with scattered foxing to flap folds and edges. The Philadelphia activist and author's second book of poetry following his debut volume Guerilla Warfare in Philly. Jones strongly influenced by the upsurge in black militancy during the early sixties speaks through his poetry about the experience of being a black man in America. Dorrance & Company unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 48676

‎POETRY WHITE Carolyn‎

‎Learning to be Unafraid of Light Signed‎

‎East Lansing MI: Hudson-Browning Printery 1979. First Edition. One of 150 copies. Bifolium 28cm; single letterpress-printed sheet folded once to create a 4pp booklet; signed by White on rear cover. Light wear and handling to extremities with a few faint creases along right margin; Very Good. Fine press production printed three poems part of the Michigan Signature Poetry Series. OCLC notes 2 holdings Library of Michigan SUNY Buffalo. Hudson-Browning Printery unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 47411

‎AFRICAN AMERICANS POETRY BATEMAN Constance‎

‎Love.for Adults Only‎

‎New York: Vantage Press 1976. First Edition. Octavo 21cm.; original simulated cloth in pink pictorial dust jacket; 1034pp. Jacket spine a bit faded some light foxing to extremities else Near Fine. Love poetry by California-based African American author and registered nurse. OCLC locates 5 copies only NYU Illinois Southern Mississippi Radford and Farleigh Dickinson. Vantage Press unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 25411

‎MODERN POETRY BLACK ARTS BARLOW George‎

‎Gabriel‎

‎Detroit: Broadside Press 1974. First Edition. First Printing wrappered issue. Octavo 21.5cm.; original yellow pictorial card wrappers; 63pp. Fine. First book by the native Berkeley poet. "The poems that make-up my first volume.are the articulation of my vision the illumination of my experiences they are that part of my survival kit I'm willing to reveal and share. I try to write poems that are magical black and beautiful since I am black and since magic and beauty are basic to love life and living - things I'm committed to." BAILEY Broaside Authors and Artists p.26. Broadside Press unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 25370

‎RADICAL & PROLETARIAN LITERATURE PROLETARIAN POETRY SCHNEIDER Isidor‎

‎The Temptation of Anthony and Other Poems‎

‎New York: Boni & Liveright 1928. First Edition. Cloth boards; paper spine label; dustjacket; 141pp. Fine tight copy in bright Near Fine dustwrapper. Uncommon thus. Volume of radical poems. Boni & Liveright unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 8574

‎BULGARIAN POETRY SLAVEIKOV Pentcho‎

‎La Poesie Populaire Bulgare. Avant-propos de Nicolai Dontchev‎

‎Sofia: Imprimerie La Bulgarie 1933. First Edition. 16mo. Printed wrappers; 75p. Faint soil and creasing; text clean and unmarked. Text entirely in French. Scarce work. Not found via OCLC. Imprimerie La Bulgarie unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 11043

‎Americana 20th Century Literature Poetry Andrea Wyatt Fine Press Oyez‎

‎The Same Words are Not the Same Poetry Broadside Signed and Inscribed By Andrea Wyatt‎

‎California US: Oyez Press 1969. Broadside with this poetic effort printed in black on heavy white paper with the initial letter and publisher name in red. Affectionately inscribed signed dated and numbered on the lower margin "4/25 Andrea Wyatt For Mickey - With my Love Candy 27 July 1969". Title taken from the first printed line. Approx. 13" x 20" size; accomplished on heavy paper deckle right edge. Slight edge-wear; faint old paper crease-line at left margin in very good condition. Inscribed By Author. Broadside. Not Bound. Very Good. Oyez Press paperback books‎

Bookseller reference : 25656

‎LEVINE Philip‎

‎On The Edge Signed Limited Edition‎

‎Iowa City IA: The Stone Wall Press 1963. First edition. Hardcover. Levine's important first book. Number 99 of 220 copies. Laid in is a hand addressed postcard from the publisher with a printed announcement about the publication of the book. A very good plus copy in boards that have some bumping to the bottom corners some minor wear at the spine ends and a small abrasion to the front panel. Although not called for this copy has been signed by Levine on the title page. Despite the minor flaws this is still a nice copy of a rather uncommon book. The Stone Wall Press unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 105352

‎Mesens ELT. E. L.‎

‎INSCRIBED Alphabet Book Alphabet sourd aveugle‎

‎Brussels: Éditions Nicolas Flamel 1933. First Edition First Printing. <br /><br />Small Quarto 10 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches; 265 x 215 mm 36 pages in original orange wrappers titles to upper wrapper in black and housed in a black slipcase. <br /><br /><b>INSCRIBED</b> by Belgian Surrealist artist and writer E.L.T. Mesens on the half title to French Surrealist artist and poet Georges Hugnet: "À Georges Hugnet / très cordialement / Mesens / décembre 1933." A wonderful association between two Surrealists. <br /><br />This alphabet book written entirely in French features short poems or phrases following each letter of the alphabet. Paul Éluard has written a preface while the frontispiece collage is by Mesens himself. One of 500 numbered copies printed on Featherweight vélin following 3 copies on Japon nacré and 13 on Hollande van Gelder. Mesens founded the publisher Éditions Nicolas Flamel and named it after the medieval scribe and manuscript seller. <br /><br />"There can be no doubt that <i>Alphabet sourd aveugle</i> is the key work in Mesens's literary oeuvre" writes Erich Weiss. "It took Mesens only two days to compose the twenty-six poems of his alphabet during a story stay at the Edith Cavell Hospital in Ukkel in August 1930." He goes on to say: "With regard to typography and layout the work is truly pioneering." Erich Weiss in "<i>The Star Alphabet by E.L.T. Mesens: Dada and Surrealism in Brussels Paris and London</i>" Mu.ZEE 2013 page 222. <br /><br />An alphabet book notable for its typography and association between two famous Surrealists. <b>SCARCE INSCRIBED. </b><br /><br />CONDITION: Some edge wear and creasing to wrappers sunning along spine scattered foxing to pages a<b>lmost all of which are unopened at the top edge.</b> Very Good or better in a Fine slipcase. Éditions Nicolas Flamel books‎

Bookseller reference : 2245

‎Kryss TL. Editor; da. levy; Charles Bukowski; Dr. Wagner; Kent Taylor; Don Foster; et al. T. L. d. a. D. r.‎

‎Panama Gold‎

‎San Francisco/Cleveland: Zero Publications 1969. First Edition. <br /><br />Quarto 11 x 8 3/4 inches; 280 x 220 mm 45 yellow and white mimeographed leaves printed rectos only in illustrated black and gold stapled wrappers ragged edged along fore and bottom edges of the upper wrapper. <br /><br />An anthology of poems pulled together by Cleveland author and artist T.L. Tom Kryss a friend of the legendary poet and publisher d.a. levy. According to the title page "Panama Gold" was published "in extremely limited editions of under 200." <br /><br />The anthology appeared in July 1969 seven months following levy's suicide and includes a poem by levy "Tomb Stone as a Lonely Charm." Both levy and Kryss were key members of the Cleveland Mimeo Revolution of the 1960s along with Kent Taylor whose "Western Poem" appears here. There's also Don Foster's long poem "Rifle" dedicated to levy. <br /><br />In addition the anthology includes works by Charles Bukowski Douglas Blazek D.r. Wagner Dennis Saleh Pete LaRouche Larry Eigner Neeli Cherry James Sorcic John Haines Thomas McGrath William Matthews Kell D. Robertson Jr. Gene Bloom Roger Sauls and Duane Locke. <br /><br />The striking wrappers titled "the sand children" are by Barbara O'Connelly while Tom Kryss has contributed a screen print that depicts among other things a rabbit -- an image that appears in other Kryss-levy collaborations. <br /><br />OCLC shows 22 institutional holdings of "Panama Gold." Scarce in the antiquarian book trade. <br /><br />CONDITION: Minor scuffing and light edge wear to wrappers which don't fully enclose the text block light creasing to some pages final page detached from staples but holding firm due to vertical edge being glued to the lower wrapper. A beautiful Near Fine copy. Zero Publications paperback books‎

Bookseller reference : 2302

‎Montgomery George and Erik Kiviat Editors‎

‎Little Magazine BlueBeat : A Collection of Recent Sounds‎

‎New York: BlueBeat Publications 1964. First Edition. <br /><br />Quarto 11 x 8 1/2 inches; 280 x 216 mm 3 41 2 mimeographed leaves rectos only except for final page in stapled illustrated wrappers. <br /><br />The first -- and apparently only -- issue of BlueBeat a mimeographed poetry magazine from New York's Lower East Side. The editors George Montgomery and Erik Kiviat were also involved in Yowl another New York poetry magazine. According to the title page only 207 copies were printed. <br /><br />In the introduction poet Kirby Congdon makes the case for a mimeographed poetry magazine that's not issued by established publishers: "It can be produced by any poet or group of poets; it avoids large monetary entanglements and its distribution is impersonal and objective. And best of all a mimeo can experiment with new ideas and expose new poets because it can afford to fail." <br /><br />Some of the contributors were already known in 1964 and were active in the New York poetry scene but many others were newcomers or relatively unknown. <br /><br />The contributors by order of appearance: Margo Love Ray Bremser Jim Brody Jerry Greenberg Jonas Kover Judson Crews Jay Socin Paul Blackburn Barbara Moraff Alex Wiener who drew the cover and also has a poem here Jack Micheline Bob Blossom John Keys Carol Bergé Barbara Jarvik Ted Berrigan Gerard Malanga Harold Carrington Stanley Fisher Jerry Greenberg a second poem Tuli Kupferberg Charles Guenther Bob Blossom a second poem Lynn Fisher Aram Saroyan Stephen Tropp Kirby Congdon also author of the introduction Ed Sanders Walter Lowenfels Gloria Tropp Bonnie Bremser Allen W. De Loach Lenore Kandel Al Katzman R.C. Wilson Szabo Penrod Erik Kiviat and George Montgomery. <br /><br />Following the poems there's a page called "Notes" featuring short sometimes irreverent bios of the contributors: Lenore Kandel: "belly dancer-poet." Margo Love: "recluse." The table of contents appears as the final page the only page printed on the verso. <br /><br />OCLC shows 21 institutional holdings of this mimeo publication. OCLC 2103934. Scarce in commerce. <br /><br />CONDITION: Mild toning to extremities of some pages a couple of spots of foxing a few nicks to upper wrapper and final page. Overall Very Good or better. BlueBeat Publications paperback books‎

Bookseller reference : 2298

‎WWII Poetry. Meagher James Editor‎

‎AMERICAN POET For JULY 1943. Volume III. Number 4.; The First All-Servicemen's Issue‎

‎Brooklyn: Brooklyn Press 335 Adams St 1943. 1st Printing. Red white & blue paper covers stapled printed in black. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Age-toning soiling signs of use Very Good. 24 pp. 8vo. <br/><br/> Brooklyn Press, 335 Adams St unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 48970

‎Little magazines poetry; Waters Alice; Therese Shere cover design; JM. Campbell illustrator J. M.‎

‎Eight Berkeley Poets. Cover by Therese Shere. Calligraphy by Alice Waters. Drawings by J.M. Campbell‎

‎Berkeley: Free University of Berkeley 1965. Saddle-stapled booklet 21 x 13.5 cm. 48 pages. Illustrated. Corrections list to inner panel of rear wrapper. FIRST EDITION. A small collection of works by poets of Berkeley California published by the Free University of Berkeley. The calligraphy by Alice Walters is likely her first non-periodical appearance in print. Therese Shere the cover artist was the young daughter of Lydia Shere later pastry chef at Chez Panisse. Drawings by J.M. Campbell. Some light stains and soiling throughout. In lightly stained but still colorful decorated wrappers. Free University of Berkeley unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 7102

‎Congreve William‎

‎The Mourning Bride a Tragedy. as it is acted at the theatre in Lincoln's Inn-Fields by His Majesty's Servants‎

‎London: J. Tonson 1697. Second Edition. Three quarter cloth. Very good. Scarce. A very good second edition of Mr. Congreve's famous work. WING C5858 Blue three quarter cloth over maroon and blue marbled boards. Appears to be missing the first free endpaper otherwise complete and collated. Loss to page 1 not affecting text. Pencilled marginalia and previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Soft cotton paper. Toning to pages and pastedowns. Contents: 11'"1: half-title verso blank. 11'"2: title verso blank. Al: dedicatory epistle om. initial4. A3V: prologue cap2. A4V; dramatis personae with cast. Bl: HT with text cap4. K2: epilogue cap2. 6 /2 x 8 3/4 inches tall octavo. The Mourning Bride is a tragedy written by British playwright William Congreve. It premiered in 1697 at Betterton's Co. Lincoln's Inn Fields. The play centres on Zara a queen held captive by Manuel King of Granada and a web of love and deception which results in the mistaken murder of Manuel who is in disguise and Zara's also mistaken suicide in response. There are two very widely known quotations in the play; from the opening to the play: Music has charms to soothe a savage breast The word "breast" is often misquoted as "beast" and "has" sometimes appears as "hath". Also often repeated is a quotation of Zara in Act III Scene VIII: Heav'n has no rage like love to hatred turn'd Nor hell a fury like a woman scorn'd. This is usually paraphrased as "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned." --- Wikipedia J. Tonson hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 867

‎Frost Robert‎

‎The Augustan Books of Poetry: Robert Frost‎

‎London: Ernest Benn Ltd. 1932. First Edition. <br /><br />Octavo 8 1/4 x 5 3/8 inches; 210 x 135 mm 32 pages including the wrappers in stitched self-wrappers. <br /><br />A collection of 24 poems including some of his most famous works such as The Road Not Taken Mending Wall Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening and others. <br /><br />The binding is rather odd to say the least. The publishers took simulated linen paper and pasted it over the original self-wrappers. They cut a panel in the front cover exposing only "Robert Frost" in the title. Indeed you can see the original lettering if you hold both wrappers up to the light. This is "Binding B" according to the standard Frost bibliography Robert Frost: A Descriptive Catalogue of Books and Manuscripts in the Clifton Waller Barrett Library University of Virginia. Compiled by Joan St. C. Crane. Crane A16. <br /><br />Copies of this fragile volume are scarce to the market. <b>SCARCE</b>. <br /><br /> CONDITION: Some paper loss to spine closed tears to lower wrapper creasing to both wrappers general handling wear. A Good or better copy in the "B" binding. Ernest Benn Ltd. books‎

Bookseller reference : 1509

‎Waldman Anne‎

‎INSCRIBED Ceremonies in the Gong World‎

‎Woodstock New York: Shivastan Publishing 2007. First Edition First Printing. <br /><br />Octavo 8 1/2 x 6 inches; 215 x 153 mm 43-255 pages in stapled illustrated wrappers. <br /><br /><b>INSCRIBED</b> by Anne Waldman on the title page to poet Clayton Eshleman and his wife Caryl: "For Clayton Caryl / with love / Anne April 07 / Neuva York." A nice association. <br /><br />One of 250 copies printed on handmade Nepalese paper; this is No. 82. Numerous illustrations from "Island of Bali" by Miguel Covarrubias Knopf 1937 with photographs from Bali by Anne Waldman Suzi Box and Ambrose Bye. A beautiful production. <b>SCARCE</b>. <br /><br />CONDITION: A Fine copy. Shivastan Publishing paperback books‎

Bookseller reference : 1366

‎INSCRIBED Coffey Brian‎

‎Three Poems‎

‎<p> Small Octavo 7 5/8 x 5 3/4 inches; 195 x 145 mm 15 1 pages in the publisher's original sewn wrappers.</p><p><b> INSCRIBED</b> on the front free end paper: "Paris 10.4.33 / For Miss Sonya Schulberg / Sympathiquement / Brian Coffey." One of only 250 copies of the Irish poet's debut solo book of poems printed for him and placed on sale at the Librairie Jeannette Monnier in Paris. <br /></p><p> The recipient the late Sonya Schulberg O'Sullivan was an author "They Cried a Little" and the younger sister of the late novelist and screenwriter Budd Schulberg. <br /></p><p> Brian Coffey 1905-1995 lived in Paris in the 1930s and was part of a circle of Irish Modernist authors that included Samuel Beckett and Denis Devlin. Coffey's "Three Poems" followed a book of poems that he published in Dublin in 1930 with Denis Devlin. <br /></p><p> Aside from a few limited editions signed copies of Coffey's works are scarce. <br /></p><p> CONDITION: Age toning to the wrappers a split along the spine although the wrappers are still attached a partial ring stain to the rear wrapper and some very light pencil underlinings and erasures. About Very Good. <br /></p><i><br /></i> Librairie Jeannette Monnier books‎

Bookseller reference : 892

‎19 cent Women Education History and Poetry‎

‎Young Lady Writes on American History and Poetry 1880-1883‎

‎19th century Handwritten Composition book filled with handwritten poems and verses from a young lady in Lancaster County Pennsylvania 1880-1883. Original cloth boards. 8 1/4 x 7 in. "Compositions" embossed on front cover. 100 pages. Each page filled with handwritten poems and reflections including writing about attending school and nostalgia for being a student. "Mary A. Dunlap Willow Grove School 1880" written on first page. Original poems such as "Away to School" and "The School House on the Hill" "Fond memory paints the scenes of other years Green be their memory still And bright amid those joyous scenes appear the school house on the hill. // Cho. Oh I never can forget no I never can forget The old school house on the hill. // There hands the swing upon the maple-tree Where you and I once swung; There flows the spring forever flowing free As when we both were young. // There climb the vines and there the berries grow which once we prised so high; And there the ripe nuts glisten in the glow Of rich October sky."<br/><br/>Includes original history reports on American Literature and The Colonial Period 1640-1760. "The Colonial Age was mainly one of fighting and manual industry.The drama then the most popular form of literature in England was not tolerated by the Puritans and did not flourish therefore in America. Libraries were few and the means of communication but scant; hence the age was not favorable to literary development and the growth of American literature was slow indeed." Includes list of prominent American writers including: Thomas Jefferson John Greenleaf Whittier and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Excerpts from several of Shakespeare's most famous works including Twelfth Night "Music/ That strain again; it had a dying fall; Oh it came o'er my ear like the sweet south That breathes upon a bank of violets Stealing and giving odor" and As You Like It. "Sweet are the uses of adversity; Which like the toad ugly and venomous Wears yet a precious jewel in its head". Seven drafted letters at end of book regarding dinner invitations letters of condolence and a subscription to The Atlantic Monthly. Last several pages are ledger book of loans and debts. Brown stain in upper inside corner of book affecting last 40 pages. Very good condition. unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 16660

‎Hiroshige Ando; introduction by Cynthea J. Bogel; commentaries on the plates by Israel Goldman; poetry translated by Alfred H.‎

‎Hiroshige : Birds And Flowers‎

‎New York: George Braziller 1988. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. With 91 color plates. <br/><br/> George Braziller hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 9013809 ISBN : 0807611999 9780807611999

‎Dorat Claude Joseph‎

‎Les Baisers précédés du mois de Mai. with Oeuvres Melees En Vers et En Prose with Lettres En Vers et Oeuvres Melees. Three Volumes‎

‎A La Haye The Hague and Paris : Delalain / Sebastien Jorry 1770. Uncommon as a three volume set bound uniformly in later half morocco over marbled boards marbled end papers all edges red. A Near Fine set the marbled boards lacquered with lacquer peeling on 2 of the volumes scattered faint toning tiny prior seller's notations at front end paper. Lettres en Vers publ. 1867 En Vers et en Prose. 1870 and Les Baisers Precedes du Mois de Mal 1870. Baisers with title page printed in black and with all the wonderful illustrations present. . First Editions. Half Morocco. Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Delalain / Sebastien Jorry hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 009011

‎Swift Jonathan‎

‎The Poetical Works of Jonathan Swift. In Three Volumes‎

‎London: William Pickering 1853. Three volumes in contemporary signed Edmonston & Douglas binding. Crushed dark brown morocco all edges gilt the period bookplates of Thos. A Mathieson. Very Good wear at joints and edges frontispiece portrait in Vol. I stained. small chips at bottom edge Vol. III . First Edition. Crushed Morocco. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. William Pickering Hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 008306

‎Snyder Gary‎

‎Mountains and Rivers Without End‎

‎Washington D.C.: Counterpoint 1996. Limited Edition. <br /><br />Octavo 8 1/4 x 5 inches; 211 x 130 mm in beige cloth titles to spine in a pictorial slipcase hard cover. <br /><br /><b>SIGNED AND NUMBERED</b> by Gary Snyder on the half title one of only 150 copies of the limited edition that was published with a slipcase. Snyder began writing his epic poem in 1956 and finally published it 40 years later in 1996. <br /><br />CONDITION: Both the book and slipcase are Fine. Counterpoint hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 2393 ISBN : 188717852X 9781887178525