Poetry from Lux Libri

NY: Harper & Brothers, [1928.] 2nd edition, with striking Art Deco illustrations not in the 1925 1st. Copyright page date code I-C (September 1928.) The first illustrated edition of Cullen's debut book of poetry, a work that established him as a leading African American poet and important figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Illustrated in b&w by Charles Cullen (no relation),… Read more about this item

NY: Macmillan, 1941. "Complete Edition with Recent Poems" by the UK poet laureate. xvii, 673 pp., frontispiece portrait. 8vo fine binding of leather and marbled paper boards. Matching endpapers. Binding is sturdy but with moderate wear and a good amount of fading, as shown. Spine is aged to a warm brown; covers are unevenly faded. Small number "57" label on… Read more about this item

Boston: David R. Godine, (2003.) 1st edition. Signed by the author on the half-title in gold ink. A verse novel that imagines new events after The Odyssey by Homer. Odysseus returns home and learns two startling things from Penelope: He fathered twin daughters before he left 20 years earlier, and his faithful wife is now ready to set off on… Read more about this item

London: Grey Walls Press, (1947.) 1st edition of this brief collection of work by Smart, an 18th century English poet whose life was "chiefly a sequence of debt, imprisonment, drink and madness." 58 pp. Slender 12mo. Pictorial paper boards with matching dust jacket. VG overall. Securely bound with moderate wear and signs of age. "British Book Centre" sticker on the… Read more about this item

St. John's: Killick Press, (2009.) 1st edition. Signed by the author on the title page. A book-length poem based on her travels around the western edges of Newfoundland. 57 pp. Paperbound 8vo. Near Fine. Clean and securely bound, as shown. Appears to be unread.

Akron, Ohio: University of Akron Press, (2018.) 1st edition. Signed by the author on the title page and also signed/inscribed on the half-title. Poems inspired by the real-life cases of missing and unidentified women. Winner of the 2016 Akron Poetry Prize. 85 pp. Paperbound 8vo. VG with light wear, one creased page and a few pages with a mark from… Read more about this item

University of Pittsburgh Press, (2018.) 1st edition. Signed and inscribed by Chard deNiord, the Poet Laureate of Vermont from 2015-2019. A series of interviews by him with a diverse group of American poets: Natasha Trethewey; Galway Kinnell; Carolyn Forché; Jane Hirshfield; Anne Wright (widow of James Wright); Ed Ochester; Martín Espada; Stephen Kuusisto; Peter Everwine; and Stephen Sandy. x, 349… Read more about this item

NY: Harcourt, Brace, (1944.) 1st edition. Signed as "Red Warren" – Red being his college nickname and generally used only with family and close acquaintances. Inscribed to his friend, Emily (Sweetser) Alford, and dated 1944. 102 pp. 8vo clothbound hardcover. VG with wear at the spine ends, moderate age toning of the text. Pages 50-51 are browned, apparently from an… Read more about this item

[San Francisco]: Sore Dove Press, 2005. Signed, limited edition. No. 45 of 65 numbered copies. B&W cover art by the publisher, Soheyl Dahi. 4-page portfolio format. 11 x 8.5 inches. The five-stanza title poem starts on the inner two pages and concludes on the back cover. An uncommon broadside by the late African American poet whose work centered on racism… Read more about this item

London: Harvill Secker (2007.) 1st edition. Signed by Durcan on the title page. A poignant tribute by the Irish poet to the memory of his mother, Sheila MacBride. The 65 poems reflect on his mother, family, contemporary life, Ireland, etc. 8vo clothbound hardcover.131 pp. Fine in dust jacket with clear archival cover. Clean and securely bound.

Leipzig: Weidmann's Erben und Reich, 1768. The scarce 1st edition of Wieland's verse romance, The Philosophy of the Graces. A narrative poem that advocates rational unity between the sensual and the spiritual. A classic of Enlightenment literature by Wieland (1733-1813), a key figure in Weimar Classicism along with Goethe, Herder, and Schiller. 96 pp. German text in fraktur. 12mo hardcover.… Read more about this item

New Orleans: Black Moon Publishing, (1997.) Signed 1st edition. Poetry and illustrations by [Thomas Howerton] Owen Knight. ix, 145 pp. Clothbound 8vo, About Near Fine in dust jacket. Straightened crease to the front jacket flap. Small clipping with two poems by other authors pasted into the rear of the book. Clean and securely bound. Signed "T.H. Owen Knight" on the… Read more about this item

South San Francisco: Man Root, (1982.) Limited 1st edition. No. 221 of 250 copies signed by both author and artist. Erotic and other poems by Clive Matson (b. 1941.) Art by Renee June. [21] pp., + colophon. String-bound paper wraps. Letterpress printing by Paul Mariah on Strathmore paper. Fine in clear archival jacket.

NY: New Directions, (2001.) 1st edition. Signed and inscribed by Ferlinghetti on the title page "for Archie Stone." Signed in full, rather than his usual practice of last name only. Poems by the late poet, publisher, and leading voice of the Beat Generation. ix, 94 pp. Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket. Fine/Fine. Jacket protected by a clear archival cover.

St. Paul, MN: New Rivers Press, 1988. Signed 1st edition. A bilingual edition of prose poems by Eugenio de Andrade (1923-2005), one of the foremost contemporary poets of Portugal. Dual text in English and Portuguese on facing pages. Signed and inscribed by both Andrade and translator Alexis Levitin to former NY librarian Richard Ward. 112 pp. Paperbound 8vo. VG with… Read more about this item

Autograph letter signed by the English physician and poet. Undated but circa 1880s. Addressed to "Dear Mr. Cotton" [editor of The Academy magazine of London.] Hake writes to submit a sonnet for publication. Signed "T.G. Hake." Good overall with mailing folds, creasing, and an old ring mark. On thick, laid paper. 4.5 x 7 inches. Hake's early prose epic Vales… Read more about this item

York, England: Terpsichore Press, (2021.) Signed 1st edition. Poems inspired by the Adirondack Mountains. 8vo hardcover in dust jacket. 54 pp. Near Fine. An uncommon book published to benefit the small public library in Keene Valley, NY, in the High Peaks region. The author is a professor in Scotland who has been visiting the Adirondacks since the 1970s.

Autograph quote signed by the English poet. No date. Tupper responds to an autograph request with a quote in praise of America: "Giant aggregate of nations, / Glorious whole of glorious Parts, / Unto endless generations / Stand United, hands + hearts." Tupper was a leading poet of the Victorian age. His 1838 book, Proverbial Philosophy, sold 1.5 million copies… Read more about this item

An uncommon manuscript poem by the prolific American author, editor, and translator. Entirely in Dole's hand and signed by him in full at the bottom. Undated, but the poem was first published in 1895 in The Hawthorn Tree and Other Poems (NY: Thomas Y. Crowell.) 9 x 6 inches on cream paper. Blank verso. VG with light mailing fold in… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Poetry Publishers, 1931. 1st edition in dust jacket with Art Deco design. Signed and inscribed on the half-title. Poetry on nature and other themes. Myers (1884-1972) was from Manheim in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Her noted early novels featured Amish and Mennonite characters, including Patchwork: A Story of the Plain People (1920) and Amanda: A Daughter of the Mennonites (1921.)… Read more about this item