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Rare Winter 1958 Edition of The Tamarack Review Issue Six; Signed by Leonard Cohen
COHEN, Nathan; Ringuet; F. E. Sparshott; Mary McAlpine; John Sutherland; A. J. M. Smith; Louis Dudek; Diana Goldsborough; Murdo Mackinnon; Ronald Bates; Leonard Cohen; Beatrice Corrigan; Robert McCormack; F. R. Scott; Louis de Niverville.
The Tamarack Review Issue Six: Winter 1958.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1958.
First edition of this mixed-genre Canadian literary magazine. Octavo, original blue pictorial wrappers, illustrated. Signed and dated by Leonard Cohen on the table of contents, "Leonard Cohen 2002." Scarce early Cohen appearance from 1958 when he was 24 years old. Four of his poems are included, some of which do not appear elsewhere: 'Before the Story;' 'Poem for Marc Chagall;' 'Gift;' and 'Bait.' Also present are works by teacher and poet Louis Dudek who was the first influential teacher of Cohen at McGill University in Montreal, who encouraged Cohen to be a poet. In very good condition.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 145368
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"On the road to Mandalay, Where the flyin'-fishes play, An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer; China 'crost the Bay!": Scarce unauthorized edition of Rudyard Kipling's Barack-Room Ballads
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Barrack-Room Ballads.
1892.
Scarce unauthorized edition of perhaps Kipling's most popular poetry collection. Octavo, original wrappers. In very good condition. This collection was so popular upon publication in 1892 it was pirated in a small number of unauthorized editions which were sold on the streets of London and quickly suppressed. Housed in a custom chemise case. Scarce.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 120604
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“My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me": The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; finely bound with a concealed fore-edge painting
LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth.
The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. [Fore-edge Painting].
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1877.
Finely bound example of the collected poetical works of Longfellow. Octavo, bound in full contemporary crushed levant morocco with elaborate gilt tooling to the spine and panels, morocco spine label lettered in gilt, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, decorated with a concealed fore-edge painting of a pastoral scene, illustrated. In very good condition. Housed in a custom slipcase. An attractive binding.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 138812
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"HOLD FAST TO DREAMS For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly": First Edition of Langston Hughes's The Dream Keeper
HUGHES, Langston.
The Dream Keeper.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1949.
First edition of this classic collection of poems. Octavo, original cloth, illustrations by Helen Sewell. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Helen Sewell. First editions are uncommon.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 125808
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"I ask you, how much beauty can a person bear? It is heavier than ugliness, even the burden of emptiness is nothing beside it": First Edition of Louise Gluck's The Triumph of Achilles; Inscribed by Her
GLUCK, Louise.
The Triumph of Achilles.
New York: The Ecco Press, 1985.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's classic work, her most anthologized. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author, "For Meryl with good wishes Louise Glück." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 138593
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"I ask you, how much beauty can a person bear? It is heavier than ugliness, even the burden of emptiness is nothing beside it": First Edition of Louise Gluck's The Triumph of Achilles; Signed by Her
GLUCK, Louise.
The Triumph of Achilles.
New York: The Ecco Press, 1985.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's classic work, her most anthologized. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Louise Glück on the title page. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 137436
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First Edition of A Further Range; Inscribed by Robert Frost
FROST, Robert.
A Further Range.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1936.
First edition of Frost’s Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of verse. Octavo, original maroon cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Richard Brooks to make him make some books too Robert Frost Boston 1940". Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 147533
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First Edition of Helen Adam's Turn Again To Me and Other Poems; Signed by Her
ADAM, Helen.
Turn Again To Me and Other Poems.
New York: Kulchar Foundation, 1977.
First edition of the first book by Adam. Quarto, original boards. Boldly signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "All good wishes Helen Adam." In near fine condition.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 127711
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Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying": The Poetical Works of Robert Herrick; finely bound in full dark green calf by Zaehnsdorf
HERRICK, Robert.
The Poetical Works of Robert Herrick.
London: William Pickering, 1825.
Finely bound nineteenth century printing of Herrick's collected poems. Octavo, two volumes bound in full dark green calf by Zaehnsdorf, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, triple gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 137228
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First Edition of Mary Oliver's House of Light
OLIVER, Mary .
House of Light.
Boston: Beacon Press, 1990.
First edition of this work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Cover design by Dede Cummings. Rare.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 146866
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Czeslaw Milosz's Native Realm: A Search for Self-Definition; Signed by Him
MILOSZ, Czeslaw.
Native Realm: A Search for Self-Definition.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1968.
First edition of the re-issue of the Nobel Prize-winning author's classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Czeslaw Milosz on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Lewis Friedman. Author photograph by Thomas Victor.
Price: $800.00 Item Number: 142086
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"And say simply Very simply With hope Good morning": First Edition of The Inaugural Poem; Inscribed by Maya Angelou
ANGELOU, Maya [Bill Clinton].
On the Pulse of Morning: The Inaugural Poem.
New York: Random House, 1993.
First edition of the poem that Maya Angelou read at the Inauguration of William Jefferson Clinton on January 20, 1993. Small octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "____ ____ Joy Maya Angelou." Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 3972
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"Art is History's nostalgia, it prefers a thatched roof to a concrete factory, and the huge church above a bleached village": First Edition of Omeros; Warmly Inscribed by the Nobel Prize-winning poet
WALCOTT, Derek.
Omeros.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Dagmar thanks for a wonderbar evening in der kneipe Derek." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket painting by Derek Walcott. Jacket design by Cynthia Krupat. Author photograph by Sigrid Nama. Uncommon signed and inscribed.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 133145
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Limited First Edition of The Lure and the Land; Inscribed by J.P. Widney to Eleanor Roosevelt
WIDNEY, J.P. [Eleanor Roosevelt].
The Lure and The Land: An Idyl of the Pacific.
Los Angeles, CA: Pacific Publishing Company, 1932.
Limited first edition, one of one thousand copies of this collection of poems about the Pacific Coast. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, frontispiece, illustrated with black and white photographs. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front pastedown, "To Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt from the author, J.P. Widney." The recipient, Eleanor Roosevelt was a political figure, diplomat, and activist. She was the longest-serving first lady of the United States, during her husband Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms as president from 1933 to 1945. Through her travels, public engagement, and advocacy, she largely redefined the role.…
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 147697
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"This faint resemblance of thy charms, though strong as mortal art could give": Finely bound collection of the Poems of Lord Byron, each accompanied by an elaborately engraved plate
LORD BYRON. DRAWINGS BY CHALON, Leslie.
Heath’s Illustrations to the Works of Lord Byron, From Drawings by The First Artists.
London: A. Fullarton, And Co, c.1830.
Finely bound example of the poems of Lord Byron, each accompanied by a period engraving. Quarto, bound in three quarters morocco over decorative boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised gilt bands, inner dentelles, all edges gilt, frontispiece engraved portrait of Lord Byron. Illustrated with 36 full page engraved plates. In very good condition with the plates bright and crisp.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 95864
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"I dream of you and long for you as the sun slowly sinks in the west": Madame Sybil Terry's Poems
TERRY, Madame Sybil.
Poems.
Tampa: Florida Grower Press, 1947.
First edition of this collection of sacred, romantic, and household poems. Octavo, original red cloth. In very good condition with light rubbing to the extremities. Rare.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 145569
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"In History There are dogs and dogs. I was among the chosen. I had good papers and wolf's blood in my veins": First Edition of Monologue of A Dog; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning Poet Wislawa Szymborska
SZYMBORSKA, Wislawa; Foreword by Billy Collins.
Monologue of a Dog: New Poems.
Orlando: Harcourt, Inc., 2006.
First edition of this collection of poetry from the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original boards. Signed by Wislawa Szymborska on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jennifer Jackman. Translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh and Stanislaw Baranczak.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 142558
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First illustrated edition of The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde
WILDE, Oscar. With Woodcuts by Frans Masereel.
The Ballad of Reading Gaol.
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1925.
First illustrated edition of this rare Wilde title. Royal octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with woodcuts by Frans Masereel. One of 450 numbered copies, this is number 16. Fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 139325
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First Edition of Louisa Henrietta Sheridan's The Comic Offering; With a Fore-edge Painting
SHERIDAN, Louisa Henrietta.
The Comic Offering: Or Ladies’ Melange of Literary Mirth. [Fore-Edge Painting].
London: Smith, Elder, & Co, 1834.
First edition of the fourth volume in this satirical annual series filled with humorous poetry and prose. Octodecimo, bound in full calf with decorative gnomes and elves stamped in blind with gilt titles to the spine, all edges gilt, illustrated throughout by the author. Decorated with a fore-edge painting to the side. In near fine condition with light rubbing and toning.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 147995
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"I was born to a vocation to bear witness to the great mysteries": First edition of Ararat; inscribed by Nobel Prize-winning poet Louise Glück
GLUCK, Louise.
Ararat.
New York: The Ecco Press, 1990.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's collection of poetry, prompted by the death of her father. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author opposite the half-title page, "For ____ ____ with best wishes Louise Gluck." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Michaela Sullivan. Jacket illustration by Christa Näher.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 138219