Master Vergil
New York: D.C. Heath & Co., 1930. FIRST. VG. Poems written on Virgil and Virgilian themes. Contains poems of Shakespear, Marlowe, Tennyson, Chaucer, Pope, Wordsworth and Browning. Previous owner inscription on the ffep.
Poetry
A Collection of Poetry - Changing Moods
No Place: American Friends Print Shop, 1979. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Wrappers. A clean and solid copy with two letters laid in from the author's husband, in which he explains the circumstances of the book. Scarce.
Anabase
New York: Brentanos, 1945. Limited ed. Limited Edition Number 311/1200. VG. Original wrappers. Includes the introduction by T. S. Eliot. Some dusting along the edges. Corners somewhat rounded. A very good copy. From a limited edition of 1200 copies, this one being number 311. Text in French. Gallup A16b.
The Paths We Walk
Liberty: 1973. FIRST. F. A fine copy. Signed by the author.
Sea Poems
London: Frederick Muller, 1946. NF / VG. A very nice copy of the second impression. Lithographs by Mona Moore.
The Colossus And Other Poems
London: Heinemann, (1960). First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. Original deep green cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine. The first complete volume of poetry to be published by Plath and the only volume published in her lifetime. An extremely clean, bright and solid copy. Now housed in a drop-back box.
Samphire
New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1922. FIRST. NF / NF. A collection of twenty poems. Lovely cover art by Frank Spicker. An extremely clean, bright and pleasing copy.
The Poetical Works of Adelaide A. Procter
Boston: Hoghton Mifflin and Company, 1880. NF. No date, circa 1880. Bound in custom full pebble-grain green morocco, bordered in gilt. a.e.g. Spine lettered in gilt. The front board has the initial letters of West Point Military Academy. Elaborate gilt decoration displayed with inner dentelles. Marbled endpapers. A very impressive volume and quite an interesting connection to West Point...
Proctor's Poems
Washington, D.C. Self, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. 4to. Original blue cloth. Warmly inscribed to Judge Edward S. Delaplaine, noted Frederick County, Maryland jurist and author.
Maryland My Maryland and other Poems
Baltimore: John Murphy Company, 1908. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. A lovely copy of the true first edition. Original blue cloth lettered and decorated in gilt. A very faint and narrow damp-stain of the bottom edge of the first few pages. Very minor impact. The first book appearance of the Maryland State Song.
Grimoire. New Scottish Folktales
London: Picador, (2020). First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. As new. Unopened and unread. Signed by the author to the half-title. Illustrated by the poet's brother, Tim Robertson. With an introduction by Val McDermid.
Cavender's House
New York: The Macmillan Co., 1929. FIRST. NF / NF. A very nice copy of this title. Blue just jacket with black and silver, art deco look.
Washington and the Poet
Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. A very clean, bright and pleasing copy. A collection of poems from famous poets and their reactions and impressions of Washington, D. C.
Poems Of The Midwest
Cleveland: World Publishing, 1946. FIRST. NF / G. A very clean and solid copy of the book. The jacket has two chips along the top edge - one small one on the front panel and a larger one on the back. Neither chip impacts text in any way.
The Fight with the Dragon
London: Septimus Prowett, 1825. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Thin 4to. Illustrated by Henry Moses with 16 line-engraved plates at the rear. First separate edition in English. In full brown morocco with abstract dragons in combat motive painted on. The front cover primarily in green and blue and the rear cover in red and blue. a.e.g. Gilt border on covers.....
The Book Of Folly
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Near Fine. Bound in red and black, with lettering in gilt on the spine. All edges gilt. From a limited edition of 500 copies and signed by the author on the limitation page. A lovely copy in all respects of this scarce volume from a Pulitzer Prize winning author. Housed in.....
The Revolt of Islam; A Poem, In Twelve Cantos.
London: C. and J. Olier, 1818. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. First Edition, second issue. The true First Edition was published with the incorrect date of 1817 on the title page and has an errata page. xxxii, [2], 270, [1] errata page. Octavo. Contemporary half calf with marbled boards, gilt decorated spine, morocco spine label. This volume represents a......
Autolycus in Limbo
New York: E. P. Dutton, 1943. FIRST LIMITED ED. Limited Edition Number one of 1500. VG / G. One of 1500 copies. The jacket has two chips, at the bottom of the front panel and one at the bottom of the spine.
Kings and the Moon
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1938. FIRST. NF / VG. Some closed tears and some minor chipping to the top of the spine. A very nice copy.
A Child's Garden Of Verses: English and Latin
New York: D. Appleton & Compan, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Original blue cloth, lettered in gilt. The gilt on the spine is not as bright as that of the front board. English and Latin versions of the poems on opposite pages. The parenthetical (1) does appear on the last page. An extremely clean and solid copy...
A Preface to Eighteenth Century Poetry
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1948. FIRST. Very Good / Very Good. A clean, bright and pleasing copy. The jacket is clipped, else fine. Some underlining in pencil throughout.
Poems
London: Edward Moxon and Co., 1862. Early Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Thick quarto volume - [xvi], 376 pages. Medallion frontispiece illustration with protective tissue guard. Numerous in-text illustrations. The original publisher's front panel and spine are bound in at the rear. Exquisitely bound by Kelliegram, with their original gilt stamp on the rear lower dentelle. The crushed red morocco binding.....
Poems, Chiefly Lyrical
London: Effingham Wilson, 1830. First edition,later printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. A lovely copy of the first edition but a later and corrected copy. 12mo - [iv], 154 pages with two page publisher's catalogue at the rear. Also, bound in at the rear are the original yellow wrappers. Now beautifully bound by Riviere & Son with their stamped name to the.....
The Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Cambridge: The Limited Editions Club, 1974. LIMITED ED. Limited Edition Number 1237/2000. F / F. A exceptionally clean, bright and beautiful copy. Number 1237 of 2000 copies. Illustrated with wood-cuts by Reynolds Stone. In the original box and glassine wrapper. 1/4 leather spine, lettered in gilt.
Tennyson Day by Day
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1907. FIRST. VG. Full soft brown suede with lettering and ornament in gilt. t.e.g. A few words from Tennyson for each day of the year. Very nice.