South Brunswick, N.J. A.S. Barnes, 1977. Hardcover. 59 p.; 21 cm. Black cloth with silver-stamped spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. Inscribed by the author on the half title page: "To Margaret M. Reilly, loyal colleague and friend, Affectionately, Rose Basile Green, April 12, 1978." The author's fifth volume of poetry... More about Woman: The Second Coming
London: Walter Haddon, 1893. Raven-Hill, Leonard. Paperback. [5], 70-126 p.: illustrations; 24 cm. Printed wrappers. Front wrapper illustration and head and tail pieces by Edgar Wilson. Paginated continuously with the first issue. Verso of front wrapper and of title page contain advertisements. Contents: Fiorenzo of Maggiolo by John Gray --... More about The Butterfly: A Humorous and Artistic Monthly No. 2 June 1893 Edited by L. Raven-Hill and Arnold...
London: T. Tickler & Co., 1837. Paperback. 52 p.; 14 cm. Brown wrapper with wrapper title in black. American poet Fitz-Greene Halleck first published "Fanny," his satirical look at social mobility and New York society, in 1819. Its popularity led him to publish a version with 50 additional sections in... More about Fanny: A Poem
Boston: James R. Osgood and Co., 1871. Hardcover. 171, [1] p.; 18 cm. Dark green cloth with gilt-stamped spine title; facsimile author's signature gilt-stamped on front board and blind-stamped on back board. Board edges are bevelled. Dark brown endpapers. First Edition. BAL 7256. Small armorial bookplate of W. B. Lawrence... More about East and West Poems
Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1871. Hardcover. 152 p.; 18 cm. Red-brown cloth with gilt-stamped spine title; facsimile author's signature gilt-stamped on front board and blind-stamped on back board. Board edges are bevelled. Dark brown endpapers. First Edition. BAL 7253 (printing no. 2) with "S.T.K." on p. 136, later corrected... More about Poems by Bret Harte
Roslyn, NY: Stone House Press, 1991. DePol, John. Paperback. 31, [1] p.: 2 wood engravings printed in green; 24 cm. Grey wrappers printed in red and black. Red endpapers. This is number 61 of a limited edition of 75 copies in paper wrappers of a total of 150 copies hand-printed... More about The Curious Act of Poetry; With wood engravings by John DePol
New York: Z.P. Hatch, 1853. Hardcover. iv, [1], 12-212, [1], 6-202 p., 14 leaves of engraved plates (including 1 frontispiece and 1 engraved title page in each part); 24 cm. Original calf with gilt-stamped spine title and year with ornate gilt-stamped decoration; each board has gilt-stamped center illustration within gilt... More about The Christian Diadem, and Family Keepsake: A Gift Book for All Seasons; in Two Parts; edited by...
London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, 1883. Paperback. [8] p.: in-text drawings; 13 cm. Sewn wrappers, which are included in page count. Wrapper title. No date of publication. The author, poet Cecilia Havergal, was born in 1849 and married Frederick Bickerton Grant in 1883. After her marriage, she is generally identified... More about Easter Songs of Love and Praise by Cecilia Havercal
Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Library, 1963. Hardcover. [2], 115, [3] p., [8] p. of illustrations; 24 cm. Black cloth spine with gilt-stamped spine title; decorated paper over boards. Original glassine dust jacket. In Fine Condition: clean and bright. Glassine dust jacket is in Good Condition: some chipping to edges; loss at ends of spine. More about Seven Princeton Poets: Louis Coxe, George Garrett, Theodore Holmes, Galway Kinnell, William...
Old Castle, County Meath, Ireland: Gallery Books, 2000. Paperback. 42 p. ; 22 cm. Paperback; cover illustration is the wood collage 'Winter' by Tony O'Malley. Photograph of the author and translator on the back cover by Karen O'Brien. Small label on back cover: U.S. distributor, Dufour Editions, Chester Springs, Pa... More about The Midnight Verdict
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. Hardcover. [16], 231, [5] p.: 18 woodcuts by Leonard Baskin; 24 cm. Black paper over boards with gilt-stamped spine title. Dust jacket designed by Carol Devine Carson. Signed by the author on the half title. The poems in this collection were originally published by... More about Collected Later Poems
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 about Fünfgzig Fabeln für Kinder In Bildern, Gezeichnet; Nebst einem ernsthaften Anhange
Düsseldorf, Ger. Fischer & Franke, 1904. Stassen, Franz. Hardcover. [6], 176, [8] p.: illustrations, music; 18 cm. Publisher's green cloth with black and white spine title and cover title; black, white, and brown cover illustration signed Franz Hein. All page edges red. Purple endpapers. Eight unpaginated pages following text contain... More about Deutscher Balladenborn für Jung und Alt
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 about The Ruins of Athens; Titania's Banquet, a Mask; and Other Poems by G. Hill
Washington, D.C. N. Peters, Photo-Lithographer, 1874. Hardcover. [2], 17, [1] p., 8 leaves of illustrations; 30 cm. Original maroon cloth with gilt-stamped cover title; back cover has matching blind-stamped title; blind-stamped decorative border on both boards. Boards have bevelled edges. Dark brown endpapers. Each leaf of illustration includes one verse... More about Prince Greenwood and Pearl-of-Price; With their good Donkey kind and wise! Translated from the...
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 about Favorite Poems, and My Hunt After "The Captain"
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Philadelphia: Henry Altemus, 1895. Hardcover. 186 p.: frontispiece and 1 additional leaf of illustration; 16 cm. Green cloth gilt-stamped spine title. Gilt- and red-stamped floral decoration on spine and front board. Two title pages, each printed in red and blue. Frontispiece portrait of the author and one leaf of illustration... More about Poems [provenance: Mary Somerville
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 about The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes
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 about Selections from Oliver Wendell Holmes
London: Charles Rivington, 1779. Hardcover. Volume 1 only. [8], 510, [2] p., 1 leaf of a map (folded); 22 cm. Signatures: [pi]4 B-2K8 (8vo). Original calf binding was covered, probably in the 19th century, with another layer of plain calf, which was stitched around each board. Writing in an old... More about Homeri Ilias Graece et Latine, Annotationes in usum serenissimi principis Gulielmi Augusti, Ducis...
Baltimore: Philip H. Nicklin, Fielding Lucas, Jun., and Samuel Jefferis, 1812. Hardcover. 2 volumes: 314, 302, [4] p.; 14 cm. Contemporary tree calf with six spine compartments between double gilt rules; black leather labels in second compartments with gilt-tooled title: "Homer's Iliad." Imprint includes: New York: M. and W. Ward;... More about The Iliad of Homer; translated from the Greek by Alexander Pope
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 about The Works of Horace, with English Notes, Critical and Explanatory by Charles Anthon
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 about The Dome: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine and Review of Literature, Music, Architecture, and the...
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1905. Hardcover. xiv, 320 p., frontispiece portrait; 17 cm. Original limp calf (orignally green) with gilt-stamped cover title: "Best American Poems." Illustration of lilies stamped in green on front cover. Yapp edges. Brown ribbon bookmark. Top page edges gilt. Includes indices of authors and... More about One Hundred Best American Poems; selected by John R. Howard
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 about The Spider and the Fly