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BLENCOWE (MRS.) EDITED BY,.
The Casket, a Miscellany, Consisting of Unpublished Poems.
London, John Murray, 1829.
First edition. Octavo, original boards with leather spine. In good condition. An anthology of original work by Praed, Montgomery, Rogers, Hodgson, Moore, and Wordsworth. Also contains a Lord Byron unpublished poem.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 1610
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William Hayley's The Triumphs of Temper
HAYLEY, William.
The Triumphs of Temper; A Poem: In Six Cantos.
London: Printed For T. Cadell, 1788.
Finely bound sixth edition of Hayley's popular work. 16mo, bound in full contemporary calf, elaborate gilt tooling to the spine, morocco spine label lettered in gilt, double gilt ruling to the front and rear panel, gilt-ruled turn ins, marbled endpapers, illustrated with fine engraved plates by Stothard. Elegant period ownership inscriptions.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 138374
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"Kabir says: Listen, my friend there is one thing in the world that satisfies, and that is a meeting with the guest": First edition of Robert Bly's The Kabir Book; inscribed by him
BLY, Robert.
The Kabir Book: Forty-Four of the Ecstatic Poems of Kabir.
Boston: The Seventies Press, 1977.
First edition, review copy with the publisher's review slips laid in. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Regan, Robert Bly." Bly has added a drawing. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 123768
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First Edition of Sonnets: 1889-1927; Signed by Edwin Arlington Robinson
ROBINSON, Edwin Arlington.
Sonnets: 1889-1927
New York: Crosby Gaige, 1928.
First edition of this collection of sonnets from 1889 to 1927. Octavo, original half cloth with decorated boards. Boldly signed by Edwin Arlington Robinson on the half-title page. In near fine condition with some rubbing to the extremities and front panel.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 145427
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"Lone heart, learning by one light burning, slow discerning of worldhood's worth": First edition of Siegfried Sassoon's Vigils
SASSOON, Siegfried.
Vigils.
London: William Heinemann, Ltd, 1935.
First trade edition of Sassoon's classic collection of poems. Octavo, original boards. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 123749
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First edition of Rudyard Kipling's Letters to the Family (Notes on a trip to Canada)
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Letters to the Family (Notes on a trip to Canada).
Toronto: The Macmillan Company of Canada, Limited, 1908.
First edition in book form of this collection of Kipling's letters which first appeared in Newspapers during the spring of 1908 after a trip to Canada undertaken in the autumn of 1907. 12 mo, original wrappers. In very good condition. Rare.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 122384
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First Edition of Ceremony And Other Poems; Inscribed by Richard Wilbur and also laid in a sonnet broadside from Charlee and Richard Wilbur.
WILBUR, Richard.
Ceremony And Other Poems.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1950.
First edition of this collection of poems by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Jane and motherhood Aff'y inscribed Dick Wilbur Cambridge May 51." Also laid in is a sonnet broadside from Charlee and Richard Wilbur. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 146260
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First edition of D. J. Enright's Selected Poems; inscribed by him to legendary photojournalist Sally Soames
ENRIGHT, D. J.
Selected Poems 1990.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990.
First edition of this collection containing many of Enright's finest poems. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the poet on the title page, "For Sally Soames (& cameras) - Dennis Enright." The recipient, British photojournalist Sally Soames, worked for The Sunday Times from 1968 until 2000 and was highly regarded for her exclusively black and white portraits of many of the most prominent figures of the 20th century including Menachem Begin, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Thatcher, Sean Connery, Rudolf Nureyev, Alec Guinness and Andy Warhol. Soames, who was known to be a warm and personal journalist, performed extensive research…
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 124389
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RARE FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM OF THE SCHOOL BUDGET; CONTAINING A LETTER FROM RUDYARD KIPLING AND CARICATURE OF HIM
KIPLING, Rudyard and Max Beerbohm.
The Budget: A Reprint of the Issues of May 14th and May 28th, 1898, Containing Contributions.
New York: M. F. Mansfield & A. Wessels, 1899.
First edition in book form of this small publication “published fortnightly by boys for boys” at the Horsmonden School Kent containing a letter from Rudyard Kipling with six “Hints on Schoolboy Etiquette” and a caricature of him by Max Beerbohm. 16mo, original half cloth. In near fine condition.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 123533
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First edition of Kipling on the Japanese: An Unpublished Letter Written at the Time of the Russo-Japanese War to William Joshua Harding
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Kipling on the Japanese: An Unpublished Letter Written at the Time of the Russo-Japanese War to William Joshua Harding R. N. 2 September 1903.
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Houghton Library, 1943.
First edition in book form of this previously unpublished letter, written by Kipling to William Joshua Harding seeking an army commission for his son, John. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. One of only seventy-five numbered copies, this is number 32. In fine condition. Rare.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 122437
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"Robed with dark pines I saw beneath me spread Escorial's cloistered palace of the dead": First edition of John Addington Symonds' first published work The Escorial: A Prize Poem
SYMONDS, John Addington.
The Escorial. A Prize Poem. Recited in the Theatre, Oxford, June 20, 1860.
Oxford: T. and G. Shrimpton, 1860.
First edition of Symonds' first book, published when he was 20 years old. Octavo, original wrappers. In very good condition.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 125596
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First edition of Pablo Neruda's Let the Rail Splitter Awake; from the library of Erica Jong
NERUDA, Pablo.
Let The Rail Splitter Awake and Other Poems.
New York: Masses & Mainstream, Inc, 1950.
First American edition of this collection of early English translations of Neruda's poetry, including The Heights of Macchu Picchu. Octavo, original wrappers. From the library of Erica Jong, although not marked. Erica Jong remains best known for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying which became famously controversial for its portrayal of female sexuality and figured prominently in the development of second-wave feminism. Written in the first person and narrated by its protagonist, 29-year-old American poet Isadora Wing, Fear of Flying was written in the throes of the Sexual Revolution of the 1970s and encapsulated the movement’s redefinition of female sexuality.…
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 142345
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"When Wanda packed her bag and left, I stood in my garden and knew my chances were ruined": First edition of Paul Zimmer's fifth book of poems; inscribed by him to fellow poet Annie Dillard
ZIMMER, Paul [Annie Dillard].
With Wanda: Town and Country Poems.
Washington, D.C. & San Francisco: Dryad Press, 1980.
First edition of American poet Paul Zimmer's fifth book of poems. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Association copy, inscribed to poet Annie Dillard on the title page, "August 1980 For Annie and Gary, With admiration and affection. Paul." With Annie Dillard's bookplate to the half-title page. In near fine condition. Cover design by Susan Foster. Book design by Merrill Leffler. A nice association.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 88097
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Johann Gottfried Herder's Ausgewahlte Dichtungen
HERDER, Johann Gottfried .
Herder’s Ausgewahlte Dichtungen.
Stuttgart: J. G. Gotta'sche Buchhandlung, 1874.
Rare 19th century printing of Herder's selected poems. Small octavo, original cloth. Text in German. In good condition.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 128406
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"The night surrounds me in a dark, grey fog. I feel its chill even under my futon": First Wesleyan University Press edition of Garrett Kaoru Hongo's Yellow Light; Inscribed by him to fellow poet Annie Dilllard
HONGO, Garrett Kaoru.
Yellow Light.
Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1982.
First Wesleyan University Press edition of Japanese American poet Garrett Hongo's first collection of poems. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Association copy, inscribed to fellow American poet Annie Dillard on the half-title page, "for Annie Dillard, my admiration from Garrett 29 May '84." From the library of Annie Dillard with her bookplate below the inscription. Cover illustration by Wakako Yamauchi.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 88098
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First Edition of Christmas in Plains; Signed by Jimmy Carter
CARTER, Jimmy.
Christmas In Plains.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001.
First edition of this Christmas story by the 39th President of the United States. Small octavo, original boards, illustrated by Amy Carter. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Bill Fenton J Carter." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket painting by Amy Carter.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 147913
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First edition of Tom Stoppard's Every Good Boy Deserves Favor and Professional Foul; signed by him
STOPPARD, Tom.
Every Good Boy Deserves Favor and Professional Foul.
New York: Grove Press Inc., 1978.
First edition of this collection of two dark comedies. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Signed by the playwright on the title page. In near fine condition.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 129083
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First Edition of Another Beauty; Inscribed by Adam Zagajewski
ZAGAJEWSKI, Adam.
Another Beauty.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.
First edition of the author's memoirs. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Matthew Adam Zagajewski Boston, October 2004." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Marc J. Cohen. Translated by Clare Cavanagh.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 147467
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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
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. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 146423
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One Hundred & One Ballades; Inscribed by H.S. Mackintosh
MACKINTOSH, H.S.; Winifred Agar; Sidney Allnut; Maurice Baring; Hilaire Belloc; E.C. Bentley; Cecil Chesterton; Geoffrey Howard; Diggory King; Theodore Maynard; J.B. Morton; J.S. Phillimore; T. Michael Pope; C.K. Scott-Moncrieff; J.C. Squire; R. Weatherhead; Louis Wharton.
One Hundred & One Ballades.
London: Cobden-Sanderson, 1931.
First edition, second printing of this collection of narrative poetry, some of which appear for the first time here. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with engravings by John Nash. Presentation copy, inscribed by H.S. Mackintosh, "To Miss S. Fraser-Luckis from H.S. Mackintosh. September 1937." In very good condition with some toning to the spine and light rubbing to the extremities.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 147098
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First edition of Ralph Durand's A Handbook of the Poetry of Rudyard Kipling
DURAND, Ralph. [Rudyard Kipling].
A Handbook of the Poetry of Rudyard Kipling.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1914.
First edition of Durand's definitive handbook to Kipling's poetry. Royal octavo, original quarter buckram over paper-covered boards, paper spine label, top edge gilt. In very good condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 126349
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First Edition of Donald Hall's Seasons at Eagle Pond; Inscribed by Him
HALL, Donald.
Seasons At Eagle Pond.
New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1987.
First edition of Hall's classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by the author on the title page in the year of publication, "For Betsy seasonally! with pleasure Donald Hall 18 September 1987." Fine in a near fine slipcase. Illustrations by Thomas W. Nason.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 587
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First English Edition of Rudyard Kipling's From Sea to Sea and Other Sketches. Letters of Travel
KIPLING, Rudyard.
From Sea to Sea and Other Sketches. Letters of Travel.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1900.
First English edition of this collection of Kipling’s essays about his 1889 travels from India to Burma, China, Japan, and the United States en route to England. Octavo, original red cloth with gilt titles to the spine and gilt elephant emblem to the front panel, top edge gilt. In very good condition with rubbing to the crown and foot of the spine. Ownership name.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 122350
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First American edition of Ron Padgett's Great Balls of Fire; Inscribed by him
PADGETT, Ron.
Great Balls of Fire.
Chicago: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969.
First American edition of the poet's 1969 collection. Octavo, original wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Shelly a [Great] idea... Gary Cooper Oscar Homosexual" and signed on the title page, "Ron Padgett." In near fine condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 129719