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The Complete Poems Of Emily Dickinson
by Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886) was an eccentric, reclusive poet, though born to a family of good standing within their Massachusetts community. She had fewer than a dozen poems published in her lifetime, though posthumously her sister found a cache of nearly eighteen hundred, all of which have now been published. Emily's style was broke with the common forms of poetry at the time, and foreshadowed what was to come. Her work was harshly criticized when first published, but she is now considered one of the...
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The Day Of Doom or A Poetical Description Of the Great and Last Judgment With Other Poems
by Michael Wigglesworth
Poetry by Period Books & Ephemera
DISFRUTES
by Bernstein, Charles
Needham, MA: Potes & Poets, 1985. Third Edition. Stapled wrappers; thin 8vo. One of 100 copies. (Previous editions of 100 and 300 by P&P publisher Ganick in a different format, the first given away; the second issue the first "published"). Work from one of the most prominent Language poets. Extremities a bit toned, easily very good. This edition "printed" at a Kinko's is quite scarce, as is the first edition.
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CA$27.68
Lummox Journal, Volume 6, Number 8 (Six; August 2000) - The Last Bukowski Issue
by Armstrong, R. D. (ed.), Charles Bukowski, Hugh Fox, Gerald Locklin, Robert Peters, A. D. Winans, et al
San Pedro, CA: Lummox Journal, 2000. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, 36pp, stapled wrappers. Entire issue devoted to work by and about Charles Bukowski. Clean and unmarked copy, just about as new.
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CA$24.91
POEMS BY WILLIAM COWPER: WITH A BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL INTRODUCTION BY THE REV. THOMAS DALE.
by Cowper, William
London: Tilt and Bogue, 1841. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. 8vo (14 x 20cm). Complete two volume set; pp. vol. I: lxxii, 274, 2 of publisher's advertisements; vol. II: viii, 336; "seventy-five illustrations, engraved by J. Orrin Smith, from drawings by John Gilbert". Half titles present. Contemporary full burgundy morocco bindings with 5 raised bands to the spine, elaborate central gilt decoration to both boards; blind ruled fillets to edges and decorative gilt inner dentelles;...
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CA$199.79
A Pen, Some Paper, Pen & Paper - SIGNED copy
by Nations, Opal Louis (Opal L. Nations, author), Ellen Frank (illustrator)
San Lorenzo, CA: Shameless Hussy Press, 1976. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 16pp, stapled wrappers. Number 76 of 250 stated copies, recently SIGNED by the author and rubber-stamped by him on the inside front cover. Uncirculated copy with minor wear and sunning.
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CA$41.51
THE ENGLISHMAN IN THE ALPS Being a Collection of English Prose and Poetry Relating to the Alps
by Lunn, Arnold
London: Oxford University Press, 1913. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 294 pages. Original red cloth hardback binding, very good with a minimal general wear. Contents clean and tight, end-paper tonned otherwise unmarked, no inscriptions. A very good copy..
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CA$31.27
CONTINUAL DEW A Little Book of Bourgeois Verse
by Betjeman, John
London: John Murray, 1937. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Large 8vo (15 X 21cm). pp. 45, [1] + 8 central inserts. Original blue cloth binding, with gilt decoration and lettering, very good witha little general wear, spine with some fading and cloth slightly nicked at head. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions, slight spotting to end papers and first and last page othewise unmarked. A very good clean first edition copy..
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CA$83.39
Didactic Verses
by PFAFF, Henry J
Buffalo: Henry J. Pfaff, 1983. First Edition. 12mo (16.5cm.); original cream staplebound card wrappers; [2],62pp. Fine. Collection of protest poetry by a member of the IWW. Not in MILES.
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CA$48.43
ELEGY FOR ST. ANNE'S and Other Poems (signed)
by Cavaliero, Glen
Norfolk: Warren House Press, 1982. Book. Fine. Hardback. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. 8vo. Signed. 51 pages, original dust jacket, very good, slight fading on spine. Original cloth binding with gilt lettering, fine with minimal wear. Contents clean and tight, author's signature onfront free-endpaper, otherwise unmarked, no inscriptions. A fine tight copy..
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CA$52.12
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The Running Sun [Limited Edition, Signed]
by PURDY, James
[New York: James Purdy, 1971]. First Edition. Limited to 300 copies of which this is no. 3. Oblong octavo (18x21.5cm.); original tan staplebound wrappers illustrated by the author; unpaged. About Fine. Signed by the author on colophon.
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CA$172.98
BITS 10
by Abbott, Lee et al. (ed.); Albert Goldbarth, Joseph Bruchac, Reg Saner, William Jay Smith and others
Cleveland: Case Western, 1979. First Edition. Sewn illustrated wrappers. Poetry anthology with short poems Sheila Nickerson, Doyle Wesley Walls, Peter Wild, William Jay Smith, John Druska, Jared Carter, Leonard Nathan, Jim Handlin, Robley Wilson, Jr., Red Saner, Merry Speece, Albert Goldbarth, Scott Simmer, John Fandel, Dennis Trudell, Jean Balderson, Frank Short, William Hoagland, Sonia Gernes, and Joseph Bruchac. Near fine.
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CA$27.68
Creation of a Nation, Death of a Mind / Catalog for Eddie Warings Hydrostatic Douche Primer - SIGNED copy
by Nations, Opal Louis (Opal L. Nations) and Paul Brown
London: The Strange Faeces Press, 1972. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 4to, 10 leaves (printed one side, dos a dos), stapled wrappers. SIGNED by each author, and additionally rubber-stamped by Opal Nations. Comprises two short experimental visual works, bound dos a dos. Uncirculated copy, minor wear.
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CA$83.03
The Gospel According to Night (The Book of Ben, Part One) - SIGNED copy
by Nations, Opal Louis (Opal L. Nations)
London: TNT Press, 1972. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 4to, 19 leaves (printed one side), stapled wrappers. Recently SIGNED and rubber-stamped by the author on the first interior page. Uncirculated copy, moderate staple rust.
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CA$83.03
The Nations of Rock n' Roll (Gegenschein 21, 1981) - SIGNED copy
by Nations, Opal Louis (Opal L. Nations, author), Phil Demise (ed.)
New York: Gegenschein, 1981. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 4to, 56 leaves (printed one-side), printed wrappers. Recently SIGNED by the author and rubber-stamped by him on the inside front cover. This issue of Gegenschein is entirely devoted to work by Opal Louis Nations. Uncirculated copy, just about as new with minor storage wear.
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CA$103.78
LONDON GARLAND (with Long ALS from author)
by REEDY, W. Curran
London: The Fortune Press, 1942. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. 8vo. Loosely inserted is a long, 4-page hand-written letter from the author to Captain Edgecumbe dated Feb 23 1943. The book is also signed and insecribed by the author. Original dust jacket very good with a little generaly wear and slight rubbing to edges, a little foxing to fore-edge folds, not price-clipped, now attractively presented in a loose-fitting clear archival sleeve. Hard-back binding, very...
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CA$34.75
LAST POEMS
by Lawrence, D. H
New York: Viking Press, 1933. First American edition. Blue-green cloth with gilt lettering and design in dust jacket; large 8vo. 316 pp., w/ index of first lines. Edited by Richard Aldington and Giuseppe Orioli; intro. by RA. A very good copy with light fraying to edges, with bright interior; in a soiled dust jacket with edgewear, spine-toned else bright and very good (price-clipped) (in removable protective archival cover). A much nicer than usual copy.
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CA$138.38
THE POETICAL WORKS OF ROBERT BROWNING. (Complete in 6 volumes)¬
by Browning, Robert
London: Smith Elder & Co., 1879. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 12mo (12 x 18cm). Six volumes complete. Original brown cloth binding with gilt lettering to the spines, blacked ruled border to the bevel-edged boards; bindings generally very good with a little wear and rubbing, a few very short nicks to the cloth at head/tail of the spines, cloth slightly marked. Contents clean and tight, original brown coated end papers, bookplates to the front paste-downs, previous owner's neat signatures, slight...
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CA$66.02
C. Day-Lewis, the Poet Laureate: A Bibliography
by HANDLEY-TAYLOR, Geoffrey and Timothy d'Arch Smith; W.H. Auden, intro
Chicago: St. James Press, 1968. First American Edition. Slim octavo (23.5cm.); original boards in dark blue gilt-lettered dust jacket; xii,40pp.; color portrait frontispiece, 6 leaves of plates, including photographs and facsimiles. Sunning to upper jacket panel and spine with jacket spine gilt rather dulled, light edge wear, minor bump to upper board, small sticker to front pastedown, else Near Fine in Near Very Good jacket.
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CA$69.19
Lines printed in the Streets of Bristol, during the Procession in Honour of the Coronation of His Majesty King George IV. July 19, 1821,
by William Henry Somerton
Bristol: Entered at Stationers' Hall, 1821. Book. Very Good. Paper. First Edition. 8vo. Trimmed extract from Bristol broadsheet After the title the text begins "Who, that has lived beneath the Brunswick sway............ the poem continues. Clean sheet, embossed stamp belonging to "Bristol Collection", a few areas of thinning otherwise strong, no markings or inscriptions. A near fine example of this rare collectable..
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CA$43.43
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The Floating Bear: A Newsletter. Issue # 30 [Gary Snyder's Copy]
by DI PRIMA, Diane, ed
New York: The Floating Bear, 1964. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); stapled mimeographed pictorial self-wrappers illustrated by Jeanne Marlowe; [20]pp. Previous mail folds, wrappers a shade toned along extremities, rear cover starting to separate, else Very Good overall. Postally addressed in manuscript to Gary Snyder with return address of the American Theatre for Poets in New York. Contents includes a lengthy contribution by Gilbert Sorrentino describing various contemporary poets: Kerouac, "Enormously...
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CA$207.57
ANCHISES
by Sisson C. H
Manchester: Carcanet New Press, 1976. Book. Very Good. Hardback. First Edition. 8vo. 55 pages. Original cloth binding with gilt lettering, very good with a little general wear. Contents clean and tight, previous owner's neat signature, otherwise unmarked, no annotation. A very good copy..
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CA$10.42
IN MILAN
by Bruchac, Joseph
Binghampton: Bellevue Press, 1978. First edition. Crisp, elegant miniature broadside/postcard. With striking poem by Bruchac on orange stock, printed letterpress by Stuart McCarty. 3.5" x 5.5"; signed by the author beneath the poem. Fine.
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CA$27.68
THE POETICAL WORK OF WILLIAM COWPER, ESQ., Of The Inner Temple...with a biographical and Critical Introduction.
by Thomas, Dale The Rev.[Canon of St. Paul's]
Edinburgh: T. Nelson and Sons, 1872. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. A scarce papier mache binding. pp xlviii; 576. A very good copy, quarter bound in brown morocco with thick papier mache bevelled boards, with a high gloss polished wood effect finish, fern image possibly using photogenic process on the front and rear boards. All edges gilt. Engraved half title page with vignette, other engraved plates within text. Blue silk bands to front and rear hinges, small inscription dated 1875...
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CA$338.77
EIGHT MORE HARVARD POETS
by Cowley, Malcolm, Norman Cabot, Grant Code, Jack Merten, Joel T. Rogers, R. Cameron Rogers, Royall Snow, and John Brooks Wheelwright (contr.)
New York: Brentano's, 1923. First edition. Brown paper-covered boards; small 8vo. 130pp. With an introduction by Dorian Abbott. Eleven poems by Malcolm Cowley, published in the same year as his first book, six years before his first regularly published book Blue Juniata. Contributions from Norman Cabot, Grant Code, Jack Merten, Joel T. Rogers, R. Cameron Rogers, Royall Snow, and John Brooks Wheelwright. There had been a previous anthology published in 1917, with poems by Cummings and Dos Passos, hence...
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CA$34.60
GERTRUDE OF WYOMING AND OTHER POEMS
by Campbell, Thomas
London: Longman, hurst, rees, Orme and Brown, 1821. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Eighth Edition. 12mo. A superb copy in a fine full leather binding. Pp. [12], 160; engraved title page (dated 1819), letterpress title page (dated 1821), 2 engraved plates. Full polished tan calf binding with black title label to spine with 4 raised band and gilt decoration to the compartments, the boards stamped with wide floral gilt borders; binding fine with minimal rubbing. Marbled end papers with all edges marbled to match;...
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CA$66.02
Strange Faeces 9 (Blue Suede Shoes Presents, No Nine, 1972)
by Nations, Opal L. (ed.), Glen Baxter, Pierre Joris, Carl Wissner (letter to Sinclair Beiles), Antonio Claudio Carvalho, Aram Saroyan, David and Maria Gitin, Robin Crozier, Paul Mathews, et al
Monterey, CA: Blue Suede Shoes Press, 1972. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 4to, 40pp (mimeographed), stapled wrappers. 1 of 200 stated copies. Scarce crossover issue (printed and publlshed by Keith Abbott of Blue Suede Shoes) of this important early seventies experimental poetry magazine edited by Opal L. Nations. Include writing by Glen Baxter, Pierre Joris, et al. Uncirculated copy with inevitable toning and some staple rust.
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CA$110.70
