Search Results: Poetry from OLD WORKING BOOKS & Bindery (Est. 1994)

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1919. First separate (SD) edition. Paper covered green boards, quarter creme cloth, uncut. 12mo. pp. xvii, [3], 185, [1] blank. Good/No jacket. Ink owner and period gift inscription, sunned and worn cover, internally VG..

PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1970. Illustrated by Gary Gore jacket. First Separate edition. Cloth. Inscribed by "Warm wishes to Sallie Saunders from Abbie Huston Evans, July 1971". 8vo. pp. 216, [1] Pitt Poetry Series, [1] blank, [1] colophon, [5] blank. As New/VG/Unclipped price in mylar. Outcrop (1928), The Bright North (1938), Fact of Crystal (1961) and 5 new poems..

Orono, ME: Northern Lights, 1992. Edited by Michael Fournier. First separate edition. Black cloth. Inscribed by Honey and Leo Ginsberg (brother) on ffep to Rina and Sam. 8vo. pp. 439, [1] colophon. Fine/Near Fine/Unclipped price in mylar. Traces of wear to jacket. Includes stickie note from Honey Ginsberg "One more poem, apparently not published anywhere, is one of our favorites, Honey" on photocopy of "My Mother in the Kitchen" laid in. ISBN: 1880811409..

New York: Anchor Books, [August 10] 2004. First thus separate (N1) edition. c.1971, 1973. Pictorial wraps. 8vo. pp. 84. Notes. As New. Publisher and Publishers Weekly review slips laid-in; author preface. Includes previously published and seven new. ISBN: 1400076587..

New York: Simon & Schuster (Cheval Books), (1973). stated first edition. Cream cloth. 8vo. pp. 120. VG/In like jacket/Clipped price in mylar. "A Fist Full of Snow" handwritten on ffep..

Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, The Riverside Press, Cambridge, (1895). Edited by "The Cambridge Edition of the Poets edited by Horace E. Scudder, Holmes by the Editor" on half title. Illustrated by inserted engraved port frontis and title vignette separated by tissue. "first printings" Cambridge edition. Navy blind-stamped cloth, black end papers, gilt print spine, topboard ruled gilt with emblem, t.e.g. 8vo. pp. [ii] blank, xxi, [1] blank, 352, [2] blank. Appendix, Notes and Addenda, Indices. Near Fine/No jacket, as issued. Traces of rub to binding; one foxed dot through frontis' and tissue; faint quill owner ffep (Helen M. Graves). BAL 9059, with all six poems "here first collected"..

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1919. First edition. Maroon cloth. 12mo. pp. 346. VG/No jacket. Edgewear, bumped caps, moisture stain front cover, slightly darkened spine..

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. Illustrated by b/w frontis and several plates each volume. second thus edition. c.1926. 3 volumes. Red blind-stamped cloth decorated and printed gilt. 8vo. VG. One page chip (vol.3 pp. 131), prev. owner bookplate, some cap and corner wear. Anthology of poets and authors..

Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, n.d. Illustrated by F.A. Chapman, engraved by J. Filmer. (ca.1890). Powder blue beveled gilt-rimmed boards, dec & pr and embossed silver, red, and gilt, white cloth spine, rounded corners, aeg, thick paper issue. Small 4to. pp. [30]. VG/No jacket, as issued. (ink owner), one page tear, rubbedboards..

New York: Rudd & Carleton, 1860. Illustrated by woodcut vignettes. Reprint thus edition. c.1835 George Dearborn...c.1859. Original brown blind-stamped cloth and brown endpapers. Small 8vo. pp. 62, [4], 6 ads. Good/No jacket, as issued. Cap, corner and board wear, chip and repaired edge to endpapers, overall toning, ink squiggle to ad page bottom. Composed in 2-3 days in the summer 1819 while strolling with friends in the moonlight. (see BAL 4834)..

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966. Illustrated by Edward Gorey in b/w throughout. Stated first (printing "w") separate edition. c.1961-66 previously appearing text in various magazine. Grey cloth decorated black, orange eps. Demy 8vo. pp. [vi], 136. Near Fine/VG/Unclipped price in mylar. Light cap crushing, ink owner in edge and spine sunned (uncoated paper) jacket with straightened rear crease ending in a tear and small chip, several additional short closed tears to topedge..

London: John Walker & Co, n.d. (ca.1880s). Illustrated by sepia author drawings throughout. unspecified edition. c.1867. Brown pebble leather, brown eps, rounded corners, aeg. Square 8vo. pp. [28]. Very Good/In mylar protector. Front hinge starting. The poem written by a Michigan sixteen year old which inspired a play, three silent films, a TV show episode, sheet music, songs, a book about the poem and other poems. Author's first name is misspelled Rosa throughout various editions..

Pittsburgh, PA: Dorrance Publishing, (1996). Illustrated by Daniel Fagan jacket. Stated first printing edition. Black cloth, gilt stamped spine. Signed by author in black pen on ffep. Demy 8vo. pp. vi, 412, [6] blank. Near Fine/In like jacket/Unclipped price in mylar. Minuscule traces of wear. 1950 post Korean War. Previously published Dimension of Life (1954), Dimensions of Life and Essays (1974)..

New York: W.W.Norton, (1973). Illustrated by John Benedict cover photo. Later edition. Stiff-wraps. 8vo. pp. [viii], 62. Very Good. Traces of edgewear to cover with sunned line to rear along binding and slightly over rear..

New York: W.W.Norton, (1973). Illustrated by John Benedict cover photo. Stated first (Separate) edition. Stiff-wraps. 8vo. pp. [viii], 62. VG. Traces of edgewear to cover with sunned line to rear along binding and slightly over rear..

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1891. Illustrated by Frontis and five M. M. Taylor tissue guarded etchings. later thus edition. c.1887 thus. Topboard illustration recessed in new acid free laminated cover binding by Karen Thompson Bullock Binder using Dodin marbled paper boards over split gutters Japanese threaded with waxed cotton, a.e.g. Cr.4to. pp. 24. Near Fine. Two tissues omitted. "Sweet Auburn, the loveliest village of the plain..."..

New York: Random House, 1949. Edited by author. First edition. Grey quarter gilt print and decorated black boards. 8vo. pp. 148. Near Fine/Good/Unclipped price in mylar. Though bright for paper jacket, one large closed tear, spine chips, minor edgewear and soil. (First state, Speaking to The Dead in the Language of the Dead, Harvard Alumni Bulletin 6/26/48 to T.S. Eliot), and the nine sketches of Returning to Vienna, 1947, 300 copies published by Banyan Press in 1947..

New York: Random House, (October 1994). Advance uncorrected proof edition. Pictorial wraps. 8vo. pp. xxiv, 305, [1] blank, [1] about author. Near Fine. Tiny heel nick. Roethke, Bishop, Lowell, Berryman, Sexton, Plath, Ginsberg, Merrill, no illustrations..

Boston: Ticknor and Fields (University Press...Welch, Bigelow & Co), 1865. Illustrated by Engraved frontis & 19 inserted plates (LaFarge-9, Hennessy-4, Darley-2, Vedder-4), head and tail vignette (collated). First American illustrated edition. c.1864. Original blind-stamped brown cloth, gilt spine title and top emblem brown print, beveled boards, peach eps, aeg. 8vo. pp. Recto numbering [4], v, [1], 3-57, [3]. Very Good/No jacket, as issued. Cap and corner wear, one plate loose, 3 original tissues missing, sporadic stains and tiny ink spots within..

Boston: Charles E. Brown, n.d. Illustrated by H. Hirschauer, C.S. White and Louis Meynelle. Reprint edition. Burgundy cloth, gilt print top and spine, gilt stamped top frame. 24mo. pp. 106. Good. Slightly dulled spine, page edge foxing, small red stain to pp. 13. Charming reading copy on cheaper paper..