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The Augustan Books of Poetry: Siegfried Sasson
Bouverie House, Fleet Street, London, Ernest Benn, Ltd., 1931. Fifth Impression. . Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Another contribution to the Ernest Benn-published Benn's Books of Poetry, which had issued introductions to the poetical works of Matthew Arnold, Maurice Baring, Hilaire Belloc, Laurence Binyon, Byron, Austin Dobson, Bret Harte, John Keats, Omar Khayyam and others. Printed brown wrappers are barely attached, but the interior is clean and unmarked. Bibliography of Siegfried Sassoon's work and then 31 pp. of his poetry. Housed in a stiff plastic sleeve.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good
Structure, Verses, Agency Books Professional sellerBook no.: 357902
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Catalogue: Poetry
Keywords: Benn's Books of Poetry
Poetry, Volume CXX, No. 6, September, 1972: Poetry Against the War
New York, Poetry, 1972. . Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. An issue of a premier poetry magazine, Poetry, founded in 1912 by Harriet Monroe, this being an anti-war issue, with contributions by, among others, Richard Hugo, Philip Levine, William Stafford, Arthur Gregor, Geoffrey Gregson, Jean Garrigue, Nancy Sullivan, Glover Davis, Denise Levertov, Jon Silken, May Swenson, Ann Stanford and Alan Dugan. Dark blue printed wrappers, blind-stamped title. 319-365 pp. plus poetry-related advertisements, subscription details, and notes on contributors.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine
Structure, Verses, Agency Books Professional sellerBook no.: 357900
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Catalogue: Poetry
Keywords: poetry anti-war Richard Hugo Philip Levine William Stafford Arthur Gregor Geoffrey Gregson Jean Garrigue Nancy Sullivan Glover Davis Denise Levertov Jon Silken May Swenson Ann Stanford Alan Dugan
Thirty Illustrations of Childe Harold: The Original Drawings Produced Expressly for the Art Union of London
London, The Art Union, 1855. Reprint. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Quite handsomely and sturdily rebound reprint edition in a crushed red Morocco leather hardcover format. Gilt-stamped lettering to cover and spine, and gilt-stamped dentelles interior and illustrations to front cover. Compartments divided by five raised bands. Scuffing to tips, edges, spine head and foot, and with considerable scuffing to and loss of gilt borders on rear panel. Tank-like of appearance, though, heavy, tall quarto size in format. Unpaginated initial text, but then 30 duotone engravings from original drawings by various artists such as J. Tenniel, H.C. Selous, F.W. Hulme, C.W. Cope, T. Faed, J. Holland and others, as then engraved by Williams, Dalziel, Thompson, Linton, Measom, and many others. A foxed tissue-guarded portrait frontis of Byron, previous owner's bookplate inside front flap, and another plate inside rear panel with a penned "1,378" (perhaps an accession number?). Library-reinforcing tape at both gutters, burgundy colored, and remains of the original linen ribbon bookmark, a section thereof laid in, as well. Gilt edges all-around. Index to the illustrations listing Canto, Stanza, artist name and engraver. Then following plates is the epic poem, proper, printed on glossy paper. A Wikipedia entry about the Byronic heroic epic poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage notes that the poem was published between 1812 and 1818 and describes "the travels and reflections of a world-weary young man, who is disillusioned with a life of pleasure and revelry and looks for distraction in foreign lands." 275 pp. and including Notes to Canto the Fourth.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good
Structure, Verses, Agency Books Professional sellerBook no.: 349527
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Catalogue: Poetry
Keywords: Childe Harold |The Art-Union of London|Childe Harold'sPilgrimage
Lute and Scimitar
New York, Payson & Clarke, Ltd., 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Introduced and with commentary by Achmed Abdullah, being a fine survey of being poems and ballads of Central Asia translatedout of the Afghan, the Persian, the Turkoman, the Tarantchi, the Bokharan, the Balochi, and the Tartar tongues together with an Introduction and Historical and Philological annotations. Bound in two-tone, light raspberry paper over boards, darker raspberry over spine, rubbed paper title label to spine. Moderate sunning along exterior edges, some mild soiling, a few dings, bruising to and scuffing of upper front tip. Inside front flap is an abraded bookplate of Henry and Sylvia Lieferant, and then the remains of pink paper thereover. "Fred Petras" is written in pen by the previous owner, the noted erotophile and bibliographer, Gerson Legman, and confirmed by his widow, Judith Evans Legman. Else with plentiful penciled check-marks in margins, but neither highlighting nor underlining. 83 pp. Dealer stamp, neatly affixed.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good
Structure, Verses, Agency Books Professional sellerBook no.: 355081
USD 44,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 38.25 | £UK 33.5 | JP¥ 6785]
Catalogue: Poetry
Keywords: Persia Central Asis music poetry scimitar Achmed Abdullah
Finland, and Other Poems
New York, Oxford University Press, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First Edition, First Printing. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, protected by a plastic coat. 71 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine/Very Good,
Structure, Verses, Agency Books Professional sellerBook no.: 356782
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Catalogue: Poetry
Keywords: Dannie Abse poems poetry
The Oxford Book of Classical Verse in Translation
Oxford, England, Oxford University Press, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear to the dark blue cloth over boards covers, bright interior, unmarked, sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spine. This is a unique anthology of English poetry from all ages translated from the classics. It bears witness to the remarkable richness of both poetic traditions, Classical and Modern, with poets as diverse as Alexander Pope and Ben Jonson to Aubrey Beardsley and Ted Hughes. Stated First Edition, First Printing, with "1" or "a" in "number" line present. xlix [[1], 3-606 pp. including notes, bibliography, index and an author index.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New
Structure, Verses, Agency Books Professional sellerBook no.: 359433
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Catalogue: Poetry
Keywords: Classical verse Adrian Poole Jeremy Maule classical poetry
Thee
New York, George Braziller, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Thee, by Conrad Aiken, a stated First Printing by George Braziller, 1967, and illustrated provocatively by Leonard Baskin in black-and-white line drawings. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities. Dust jacket toned and stained a bit, but little worn, protected by a plastic coat, not price-clipped. Unpaginated. Author's photograph appears on just jacket rear panel, below a portrait that his aunt painted of him in 1915.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good/Good,
Structure, Verses, Agency Books Professional sellerBook no.: 360227
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Catalogue: Poetry
Keywords: Conrad Aiken Leonard Baskin poetry
Planetes, Tome Un
Paris, France, Edition-Imprimerie des Poetes, 1954. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Scarce in the field, there being no additional copies available on-line currently, and Worldcat dot org shows no current availability in any library, either. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Perfectly readable, usable copy, covered in original glassine wrappers. Edited by Alain Bosquet and Bruno Durocher, published in Paris in 1954, and essays and poems in French language by Paul Valery, Pierre Jean Jouve, Jules Supervielle, Pierre Emmanuel, Robert Sabatier, Robert Mallet, Joyce Mansour, Pierre Albert-Birot, Vicente Aleixandre, Juan Liscano, Ezra Pound and Pablo Neruda. Colophon states that 300 copies only were printed, but this is unnumbered, thus out of series.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine
Structure, Verses, Agency Books Professional sellerBook no.: 353604
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Catalogue: Poetry
Keywords: Paul Valery|Pierre Jean Jouve|Jules Supervielle|Pierre Emmanuel|Robert Sabatier|Robert Mallet|Joyce Mansour|Pierre Albert-Birot|Vicente Aleixandre|Juan Liscano|Ezra Pound|Pablo Neruda
Breakthrough: Poems by Daisy Aldan
Dornach, Switzerland, Walter Keller Press, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Oblong 16mo 6" - 7" tall. SIGNED by the author at first free endpaper, being warmly inscribed to the previous owner, and at some length, "In creativity," Daisy Aldan 1972." Oblong hardcover format, burgundy cloth over boards, stiff Mylar plastic coat thereafter. One of only 300 copies that were bound in cloth. Fifty copies were signed and numbered. Unpaginated, but roughly 60 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . Signed by Author. . Fine
Structure, Verses, Agency Books Professional sellerBook no.: 361494
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Catalogue: Poetry
Keywords: Daisy Aldan poetry poems signed
Breakthrough: Poems by Daisy Aldan
Dornach, Switzerland, Walter Keller Press, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Oblong 16mo 6" - 7" tall. SIGNED by the author at first free endpaper, being warmly inscribed to the previous owner, and at some length, "In creativity," Daisy Aldan 1972." Oblong hardcover format, burgundy cloth over boards, stiff Mylar plastic coat thereafter. One of only 300 copies that were bound in cloth. Fifty copies were signed and numbered. Unpaginated, but roughly 60 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . Signed by Author. . Fine
Structure, Verses, Agency Books Professional sellerBook no.: 361494
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Catalogue: Poetry
Keywords: Daisy Aldan poetry poems signed
The Crystal World
Garden City, New York, Doubleday and Company, . . Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Previous owner's inscription at first free endpaper else, a sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Printed, illustrated paper label to front cover. 34 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good
Structure, Verses, Agency Books Professional sellerBook no.: 356780
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Catalogue: Poetry
Keywords: poetry poems Richard Aldington
The New Life (la Vita Nuova)
San Francisco, California, A.M. Robertson, . Reprint Edition. Softcover. Size: 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Dampstaining at gutter of spine bottom, unobtrusive, dissipating. No date of publication, but appears to be circa 1915. Translated from the original Italian of Dante Alighieri by Dante Gabriel Rosseti. Previous owner's sticker at title page, that of Florence Schloss, and with some of her scattered penciled underlining. This well known collection of sonnets by Dante, La Vita Nuova, The New Life, or Vita Nova (Latin title) was first published in 1294, a masterful exemplar of courtly love written in what is dubbed "a prosimetrum style, a combination of both prose and verse" (Wikipedia). 80 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fair
Structure, Verses, Agency Books Professional sellerBook no.: 357864
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Catalogue: Poetry
Keywords: Dante Alighieri courtly love poetry prosimetrum prose poeems
A Case of Samples: Poems 1946-1956
London, Victor Gollancz LTD, 1957. Second Printing. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, brilliant gilt-stamped cloth covers, minimal rubbing to extremities. Stated Second Printing. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn beyond being price-clipped, protected by a plastic coat. 71 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine/Very Good,
Structure, Verses, Agency Books Professional sellerBook no.: 356777
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Catalogue: Poetry
Keywords: Kingsley Amis poetry poems
Collected Poems, 1944-1979
New York, Viking Press, 1979. First American Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Chip missing to the printed paper dust-wrappers, else complete and not price-clipped. Bound simply in two-tone, pumpkin cloth over boards, brown cloth-backed. Clean, bright and unmarked of interior. 154 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine/Fair,
Structure, Verses, Agency Books Professional sellerBook no.: 359426
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Catalogue: Poetry
Keywords: Kingslay Amis poetry poems
A Look Around the Estate Poems 1957-1967
New York, Harcourt, Brace, 1968. First American Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, brilliant gilt-stamped cloth covers, minimal rubbing to extremities. Stated First American Edition. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, protected by a plastic coat. 49 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine/Very Good,
Structure, Verses, Agency Books Professional sellerBook no.: 356778
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Catalogue: Poetry
Keywords: Kingsley Amis poetry poems
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