Poetry

Item #100181 Poetical Works. Matthew Arnold

Arnold, Matthew

Item 100181Poetical Works

A beautiful edition of Matthew Arnold's poetry, with frontispiece portrait, featuring "Shakespeare," "Dover Beach," "The Scholar-Gipsy," and "Rugby Chapel": "And there are some, whom a thirst / Ardent, unquenchable, fires, / Not with the crowd to be spent, / Not without aim to go round / In an eddy of.....

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Item #100147 About The & House. W. H Auden

Auden, W.H.

Item 100147About The & House

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Item #100178 The Complete Poetical and Dramatic Works. Samuel Coleridge

Coleridge, Samuel

Item 100178The Complete Poetical and Dramatic Works

A beautiful edition of the Romantic poet's works, with frontispiece portrait, edited by James Dykes Campbell. The collection includes "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," "Christabel," and "Kubla Khan": "I would build that dome in air, / That sunny dome! those caves of ice! / And all who heard should.....

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Item #10007 Color. Countee Cullen

Cullen, Countee

Item 10007Color

First edition, first printing, with correct publisher's code H-Z and the date in Roman numerals on the title page. The first collection of lyrics by a leading poet of the Harlem Renaissance, including "Yet Do I Marvel," "Incident," and "Heritage": "What is last year's snow to me? / Last year's.....

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Item #10082 Poetical Works. John Dryden

Dryden, John

Item 10082Poetical Works

A beautiful copy of the works of the most influential Restoration poet, presented as a prize for high examination marks, Christmas 1902, by the Sarum Choristers' School. This edition contains selections from Dryden's plays and translations, and all his English poems, including "Absalom and Achitophel," "Religio Laici," "Under Milton's Picture,".....

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Item #100140 The Waste Land. T. S. Eliot, Walker Evans

Eliot, T.S.; [Evans, Walker]

Item 100140The Waste Land

First edition, second impression, one of 1000 numbered copies of Eliot's most influential work, an echo chamber of ancient and modern voices overheard in London between the wars: "I will show you something different from either / Your shadow at morning striding behind you / Or your shadow at evening.....

Price: $7,000.00

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Item #10095 Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres. Thomas Hardy

Hardy, Thomas

Item 10095Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres

First edition of Thomas Hardy's last book, a collection of lyrics, published after his death: "They know the wilings of the world, / The latest flippancy; / They know each jest at hazard hurled, / But know not me." Uncut and unopened, with original Macmillan promotional postcard laid in. A......

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Item #10083 Poetical Works. Ben Jonson

Jonson, Ben

Item 10083Poetical Works

A lovely nineteenth-century edition of some of the greatest Renaissance lyrics, edited by Robert Bell. Drawing on the 1616 and 1640 folios of Jonson's work, this collection includes "To John Donne," "On My First Son," "To Penshurst," "To Celia," and "A Celebration of Charis": "If you then will read the.....

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Item #10029 Birds, Beasts and The Third Thing. D. H Lawrence

Lawrence, D.H.

Item 10029Birds, Beasts and The Third Thing

First edition of this children's collection of D.H. Lawrence's poems, illustrated by Caldecott medalists Alice and Martin Provensen, with an introduction by poet Donald Hall. The paintings depict scenes from Lawrence's childhood in an English mining town and the surrounding countryside: "A man should never earn his living, / if.....

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Item #10090 Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology. J. W Mackail

Mackail, J.W. (editor)

Item 10090Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology

"Often I sang this, and even out of the grave will I cry it: Drink, before you put on this raiment of dust." This anthology of classical epigrams is printed in Greek and English, and grouped by theme: "Love," "Prayers and Dedications," "Epitaphs," "Literature and Art," "Religion," "Nature," "The Family,".....

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Item #10089 Tell Me, Tell Me: Granite, Steel, and Other Topics. Marianne Moore

Moore, Marianne

Item 10089Tell Me, Tell Me: Granite, Steel, and Other Topics

First edition of this collection of eighteen poems and four short essays, with a whimsical inscription in Moore's hand, signed and dated "April 1967": "One of my happiest meals was with / Brendan and Anne Gill encircled by zebras, / at Gino's / 'between 60 and 61st Street' / Brentano.....

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Item #100103 The Tale of Beowulf. William Morris, A. J Wyatt

Morris, William; Wyatt, A.J.

Item 100103The Tale of Beowulf

A unique presentation copy of the Kelmscott Beowulf, one of only 300 copies printed on Perch paper, inscribed by translator A.J. Wyatt to his wife Catherine. Type, woodcut borders, and decorative initials designed by Kelmscott founder William Morris; chapter headings and marginal notes printed in red. The only Anglo-Saxon epic.....

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Item #10096 The Bad Parent's Garden of Verse. Ogden Nash

Nash, Ogden

Item 10096The Bad Parent's Garden of Verse

First edition of Ogden Nash's satiric take on parenthood, illustrated by Reginald Birch. "Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore / And that's what parents were created for." Original promotional postcard from the publisher laid in. A lovely copy.

Price: $75.00

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Item #10420 Locus Solus I - Winter 1961. Frank O'Hara, James Schuyler

[O'Hara, Frank]; Schuyler, James (editor).

Item 10420Locus Solus I - Winter 1961

Frank O'Hara's own copy, with his ownership signature in ink on the first page and his dating, in pencil, of each of his ten included poems: "Poem," "Overlooking the River," "East River," "Ducal Days," "Locarno," "The Opera," "House," "Failures of Spring," "Adieu to Norman, Bonjour to Joan and Jean-Paul," and.....

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Item #100175 Ovid's Metamorphoses, in Fifteen Books. Ovid, Samuel Garth

Ovid; Garth, Samuel (editor)

Item 100175Ovid's Metamorphoses, in Fifteen Books

Illustrated English translation of the classic Roman epic of transformation, later printings, with eight plates in the first volume and seven plates in the second. "Rough is his Skin, with sudden Hairs o'er-grown, / His Bosom pants with Fears before unknown: / Transformed at length, he flies away in haste.....

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Item #100105 The Works of Alexander Pope. Alexander Pope

Pope, Alexander

Item 100105The Works of Alexander Pope

Very handsome eighteenth-century collection of Pope's works, "printed verbatim from the Octavo Edition of Mr. Warburton," illustrated with copper engravings throughout. This collection contains Pope's letters and poems, including "Essay on Criticism," "The Rape of the Lock," "The Dunciad," and "Essay on Man:" "When the proud Steed shall know why.....

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Item #100183 The Poetical Works. Walter Scott

Scott, Walter

Item 100183The Poetical Works

The Albion Edition of Scott's collected poetry, with frontispiece portrait, including "Marmion," "The Lady of the Lake," and "The Lay of the Last Minstrel": "In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed; / In war, he mounts the warrior's steed; / In halls, in gay attire is seen, / In hamlets.....

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Item #10057 As You Like It. William Shakespeare

Shakespeare, William

Item 10057As You Like It

A beautiful copy of As You Like It, excerpted from the first octavo edition of Shakespeare's works, edited by Nicholas Rowe and printed by Jacob Tonson in 1709. The play was likely written in 1599 or 1600, but did not appear in print until the First Folio of 1623: this.....

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Item #100117 The Poems. William Shakespeare

Shakespeare, William

Item 100117The Poems

Edited with an introduction by J.C. Maxwell. This critical collection brings together Shakespeare's two major narrative poems, Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece, and three shorter works: The Passionate Pilgrim, The Phoenix and the Turtle, and A Lover's Complaint. "The crow may bathe his coal-black wings in mire.....

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Item #10056 Twelfth-Night; or, What You Will. William Shakespeare

Shakespeare, William

Item 10056Twelfth-Night; or, What You Will

A beautiful copy of Twelfth-Night, excerpted from the first octavo edition of Shakespeare's works, edited by Nicholas Rowe and printed by Jacob Tonson in 1709. Although Twelfth-Night was performed as early as 1602, the play was not published until the First Folio of 1623: this is the first octavo appearance.....

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Item #100180 The Poetical Works. Percy Bysshe Shelley

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Item 100180The Poetical Works

The Albion Edition of the Romantic poet's works, "reprinted from the early editions," with tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait. This collection brings together all of the poems published during Shelley's short life, as well as those published posthumously by Mary Shelley. Highlights include "Prometheus Unbound," "Adonais," "Ozymandias," "To a Skylark," and "Ode.....

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Item #100148 The Shepheard's Calender, Newly Adorned with Twelve Pictures and Other Devices...

Spenser, Edmund

Item 100148The Shepheard's Calender, Newly Adorned with Twelve Pictures and Other Devices by Walter Crane

Lovely illustrated edition of Edmund Spenser's 1579 Shepheard's Calender, a series of twelve eclogues devoted to the twelve months, filled with keen natural and human observation: "I was wont to seek the honey bee, / Working her formal rooms in waxen frame." This edition features woodcut borders and twelve full-page.....

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Item #100149 The Shadow of the Glen and Riders to the Sea. J. M. Synge, W. B. Yeats, John Masefield

Synge, J.M.; [Yeats, W.B.]; [Masefield, John]

Item 100149The Shadow of the Glen and Riders to the Sea

Second edition, "third thousand," of J.M. Synge's lyrical dialect plays. Inspired by the insular folklife of the Aran Islands, Synge wrote both of these one-act plays in 1902, and saw them performed at Dublin's Molesworth Hall in 1903 and 1904. The Shadow of the Glen was on the bill when.....

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Item #100203 Poetical Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson. Alfred Lord Tennyson

Tennyson, Alfred Lord

Item 100203Poetical Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson

Handsome collection of the Victorian poet laureate's works. A label on the front pastedown identifies this volume as a Fourth Form English Prize for 1904. Highlights include "The Lady of Shallot," "Ulysses," "The Charge of the Light Brigade," "In Memoriam," "Idylls of the King," and "Maud": "Ah Maud, you milkwhite.....

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Item #100182 The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate. Alfred Lord Tennyson

Tennyson, Alfred Lord

Item 100182The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate

Beautifully bound collection of the Victorian poet laureate's works, with engraved portrait frontispiece, in a binding by MacLehose of Glasgow. Highlights include "The Lady of Shallot," "The Charge of the Light Brigade," "In Memoriam," "Idylls of the King," and "Ulysses": "Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho' / We.....

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