Gotha, Germany: Friedrich Andreas Perthes, 1877. Speckter, Otto. Paperback. [52], 31, [1] p.: illustrations; 21 cm. Brown stiffened paper covers printed in black. At head of front cover: Schul-Ausgabe I. Cover title is printed within an elaborate wood-engraved border. Without free endpapers, as issued. Green and black bookseller's label on..... More
Boston: Otis, Broaders & Co., 1839. Hardcover. 160 p.; 24 cm. Black (dark green?) cloth with gilt-stamped spine title "Hill's Poems" and gilt-stamped center-medallion harp on both boards; blind-stamped decoration on both boards. Pale yellow endpapers. Includes Errata slip tipped in following Contents. Former owner's name on front fixed endpaper..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. Hardcover. xiii, [1], 269, [3] p.: portraits; 24 cm. Black and light grey cover with silver spine title and blind-stamped title on front cover. Illustrated dust jacket. The "dramatic and tragic story of four of the greatest Russian poets of the twentieth century": Anna..... More
Old Greenwich, Conn. Devin-Adair Co., 1975. Hardcover. Fourth printing. liv, 830 p.; 23 cm. Dark green cover with gilt spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. 1000 Years of Irish Poetry "presents for the first time a panorama of Irish poetry as a literature, showing the many facets of the Irish poetic..... More
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1911. Hardcover. 307 p.: illustrations; 14 cm. Red cloth with gilt spine title. Series title on front cover and at head of title page: Modern Classics. "30" -- at tail of spine. In Near Fine Condition: spine slightly faded; clean and tight... More
Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Co., 1879. Hardcover. "Household Edition." Printed at the Riverside Press, Cambridge. x, [2], 324 p.; 20 cm. Dark brown cloth with embossed spine and cover titles "Holmes's Poems" with ornate gilt-stamped decoration. Blind-stamped decoration on back cover. Boards have bevelled edges. Dark brown endpapers. Publisher's catalog..... More
Philadelphia, Pa. Toyme Press, 1900. Paperback. [16] p.; 21 cm. Stiff grey wrappers with green-stamped title and gilt decoration. Issued in grey envelope with gilt decoration. Title page printed red and black within ornamental border. Titles of poems printed in red. No date of publication. The Toyme Press issued a...... More
Philadelphia: Sol Mednick and Arthur Williams, 1946. [104] p.: 19 full-page and 5 half-page illustrations; 36 cm. Loose signatures housed in card portfolio with black cover title. This is an unnumbered copy out of a limited edition of 100 copies, set in Airport Black Type by Typographic Service; the plates..... More
New York: Harper & Brother, 1860. Hardcover. "A New Edition, Corrected and Enlarged, with Excursions Relative to the Wines and Vineyards of the Ancients; and a Life of Horace by Milman." lxxv, [1], 731, [9] p., engraved frontispiece portrait; 19 cm. Contemporary calf boards with late 19th-century calf spine replacement..... More
London: Unicorn Press, 1899. Paperback. 90, viii p.: full-page illustrations, music; 22 cm. Grey wrappers printed in dark blue with yapp edges; advertisement for Calvert's carbolic ointment on back wrapper. Pages are unopened. Contents: Martini Luigi Implora Pace: A Poem by Stephen Phillips; The Defence of Farvingdon: A Story by..... More
London: Nonesuch Press, 1938. Hardcover. [12] p.; 27 cm. Original maroon cloth with gilt-tooled cover title. Brown endpapers. Lacking dust jacket. This is one of a limited edition of 250 copies printed for Helen, George, and Linda Macy to give as a present for New Year 1939. "The type is..... More
Atlanta: U.P. Byrd, 1896. Hardcover. vii, [17]-207 p., 2 leaves of plates; 20 cm. Grey cloth with black spine title, gilt-stamped cover title, black-stamped decorative border on front cover and illustration on back cover. Preface signed: Charles W. Hubner. Without music. No publication information, which has been taken from WorldCat..... More
London: Unicorn Press, 1899. Paperback. viii, [1], 180-264 p.: full-page illustrations, music; 22 cm. Grey wrappers printed in dark blue with yapp edges; emblem of the Unicorn Press on back wrapper. Pages are unopened. Publisher's advertisements on first 8 pages. Contents: Allonby: A Story by A.H. Holmes; The Carpenter's Shop..... More
Elizabethville, Pa. Hawthorne Press, 1939. Hardcover. Copyright by Harvey M. Miller. 384 p., frontispiece portrait: illustrations; 22 cm. Blue cloth with gilt-stamped spine title: G'Shbos und Arnsht: Penn'a-German Poetry. No dust jacket, as issued. In Fine Condition: pages are clean and tight. More
Jamaica, NY: Marion Press, 1899. Hardcover. 60 p.; 20 cm. Light green cloth with gilt spine and cover titles. William Reed Huntington (1838-1909) was an American Episcopal minister and author. In Good+ Condition: cover is lightly soiled; ends of spine rubbed; minor loss over lower front joint; foxing throughout; otherwise..... More
New York: Coward-McCann, 1950. Hardcover. xxxi, [1], 287 p.: illustrations; 22 cm. White cloth spine with blue spine title; blue and grey silhouettes of trees on white paper over boards. No dust jacket. Title page printed in blue and black. Includes index of first lines. In Very Good- Condition: cover..... More
Philadelphia: Elliott Publishing Co., 1902. Hardcover. "Adapted for use in the school, church and home, with special instructions to parents and teachers how to give an entertainment, with a department of child culture, vocal and physical, for the proper training and development of children. Embellished with beautiful color plates, half-tone..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Co., 1896. Hardcover. 860 p.; 24 cm. Half black morocco with gilt-stamped spine title and embellishments; black morocco-grain cloth over boards. Contents include: articles by Agnes Repplier: The Fete de Gayant, and Old Wine and New -- The Children of the Road by Josiah Flynt --..... More
London: John Murray, 1854. "With notes corrective and explanatory" by Peter Cunningham. 3 volumes; 22 cm. Contemporary half polished calf with marbled paper over boards. Six spine compartments between raised bands. Morocco spine labels in second and fourth compartments bearing title "Lives of the English Poets," author, and volume number..... More
Edinburgh: James Sawers, 1818. Hardcover. Vol. 4 only. [4], 314 p.; 17 cm. Contemporary half polished black calf with five spine compartments between raised bands. Red leather label in second and fourth compartments with gilt-tooled title and volume number; gilt-tooled decoration on remainder of spine. Marbled paper over boards with..... More
New York: Viking Press, 1966. Paperback. 7th printing May 1966. 63 p.; 20 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Compass Books C25. Contents: Chamber Music -- Pomes Penyeach -- Ecce Puer. In Very Good- Condition: edges rubbed; upper corner of front cover creased; clean and tight... More
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1966. Paperback. [20] p.; 18 cm. White wrappers, stapled. "Pirated edition, San Francisco, 50 cents" -- on back wrapper. City Lights Books: A Descriptive Bibliography, no. 56. Reproduces the original 1927 edition published by Shakespeare and Co., Paris. Contents: Tilly -- Watching the Needleboats at..... More
London: Paul Breman, 1975. Paperback. Second edition. 20, [2] p.; 22 cm. Stiffened wrappers; wrapper photograph (of the author?). Heritage series, v. 24. The author, Dolores Kendrick was named Poet Laureate of the District of Columbia in 1999. Her book The Women of Plums: Poems in the Voices of Slave..... More
New York: George H. Doran Co., 1917. Hardcover. 78 p.; 20 cm. Light brown paper over board; printed paper label and blind-stamped decoration on front board. Lacking dust jacket. Gift inscription on half title: "Mrs. Hillman Dec. 25, 1919 Your old friend Mary G. Peters." Title page within ruled borders..... More
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003. Paperback. x, 74 p.; 23 cm. Paperback. Suji Kwock Kim's first published book of poetry, this won the 2002 Walt Whitman Award. The Korean-American poet and playwright is working on an opera with composer Mark Grey. In Fine Condition: clean and bright... More