London & Boston: The Medici Society, 1928. 12mo, marbled paper boards with green titles, 30pp. Boards heavily worn, spine backstop appears to have disintegrated, corners bumped. Endpapers toned and rubbed. Contents clean, binding firm. A fine press gift edition in the beaux arts style, printing the text of the Song.....
Pantheon, 1944. Small 8vo, blue cloth, gilt titles, blind stamp, 107pp. First issue. Price clipped dust jacket, toned to outer edges, mild foxing to flaps, endpapers toned. A dual English-Flemish edition of the medieval Flemish legend (circa 1300) in verse, a tale of Marian intercession and devotion. With an introduction.....
University of Notre Dame Press, 1982. 8vo, orange cloth, gilt titles, 103pp. First edition. Inscribed by the poet and translator to the front endpaper. Unpriced dust jacket with toning to outer edges of panels, minimal wear to corners. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. Translations from the Greek fables of.....
Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1965. 8vo, blue cloth, gilt titles, 224pp. Third printing, [C.9.65], from the original 1960 edition. Unclipped dust jacket (4.50). Signed by Allen Tate to the title page. Dust jacket mildly toned to panels, fading to edges of boards. Contents clean, binding firm. Gathers all of the poems.....
Victor Gollancz, 1933. 8vo, black full cloth, red and black titles, 114pp. First British Edition. Unpriced dust jacket moderately rubbed to panels, small chips, closed tears at spine crown and heel. Ownership signature to front endpaper. Contents clean, binding firm. Narrative poem about the conquest of Mexico and winner of.....
Harcourt, Brace and World, 1961. 8vo, beige buckram cloth, gilt titles, 234pp. Stated First edition. Unclipped dust jacket (6.75) with mild rubbing and sunning to panels. Ownership signature to front endpaper, light toning to pages. Contents clean, binding sharp and firm. The complete verse of the contemporary Greek poet of.....
Pantheon, 1967. 8vo, red cloth over quarter black paper boards, gilt titles, 83pp. Seventh printing. Price clipped dust jacket toned to panels, slight loss to spine crown. Ownership marking to front endpaper, a few brief instances of underlying to text. Binding sharp and square. Ten poems of the Catholic religious.....
Pantheon, 1950. 8vo, green cloth over quarter black paper boards, gilt titles, 83pp. Second printing. Unclipped dust jacket (2.00) wholly toned to panels, slight loss to spine crown. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. Ten poems of the Catholic religious poet and soldier, including extracts from the trilogy of Mystery.....
Kegan Paul, 1947. 8vo, dark blue cloth, gilt titles, 299p. First British edition. Unclipped dust jacket (10s. 6d. net) with discreet tape repairs to reverse of jacket, creasing and rubbing to panels, small loss and chips to edges. Boards with minimal spotting and slight bowing. Contents clean, binding firm and.....
Oxford University Press, 1972. Hardcover. Small 8vo, blue cloth with gilt titles, 91pp. Unclipped dust jacket (1.50 net). Reprint of the 1969 reissue of the original 1938 text. Dust wrapper shows some pilling and rubbing to front panel. Internally clean, sharp and tight. A longer poem cycle by Williams based.....
Oxford University Press, 1960. 8vo, red cloth, gilt titles, 61pp. Third impression, 1954 (Taliessin), third reprinting, 1960 (Region). Unclipped dust jacket (12s. 6d.) age toned, a few sun freckles to panels. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. Omnibus edition, gathering two poem cycles based on the Arthurian grail legends by.....
The University of North Carolina Press, 1939. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo, beige buckram cloth with stamped orange titles, 253pp. Unclipped dust jacket (3.00) shows closed tear to lower edge of spine, separated at rear panel, light chipping to edges and creasing to front panel. Interior clean, binding sharp.....
Doubleday, 1968. 1st Edition. 8vo, black cloth with gilt titles, 300pp. Stated 1st edition. Unclipped dust jacket (5.95), showing minor loss and wear to edges, toning and rubbing to panels. Minor rubbing and discoloration to cloth. Firmly bound with clean text. The Polish poet and Nobel Laureate's autobiography, written in.....
Privately printed, 1929. 8vo, rose pink softcover wrappers, yapped edges, 125pp. Privately printed, undated but Introduction is signed “Bandol. January, 1929.” Wrappers are considerably sunned to spine and outer edges, crinkles and creases to edges, mild foxing to endpapers and toning to body of text. Contents clean, binding firm and.....
Cape Goliard/Grossman, 1970. Tall, slim 8vo (5x10), black cloth, 90pp. Brown typographic dust jacket (3.00 price to rear panel) with a few short closed tears, price stamp to front endpaper, moderately rubbed and toned. Contents clean, binding firm. Mixed anthology of various international poets, includes five Russian modernists, Damil Kharms.....
The Modern Library, 1944. 8vo, quarter black cloth over monogram beige paper boards, gilt titles, black topstain, 625pp. First thus. Ownership marking, rubbing to endpapers. Slipcase worn with small chips, impressions from tape markings, toned to covers. Contents clean, binding firm. The Illustrated Modern Library edition of the complete Commedia.....
Chillmark Press, 1961. 8vo, wheat buckram cloth, gilt and grey titles, 224pp. First American edition. Unclipped dust jacket (5.95) with spotting to panels, small chip to top edge of front panel, toning to flaps. Ownership signature to front endpaper. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. The complete text of the.....
The Fortune Press, 1942. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, black textured cloth with upside down gilt titles, 32pp. Orange dust wrapper with red titles, price of 6s to front flap, publisher's list to rear panel. The first state of the second bootleg edition of the author's first book, published by The.....
New Directions, 1953. 8vo, blue cloth, black and white titles, 199pp. First edition, with copyright date of 1953 to title page. Unclipped dust jacket (3.75) with moderate toning and rubbing to panels, chips to edges, short closed tear to spine foot. Ownership signature to front endpaper, toning to a few.....
New Directions, 1943. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 8vo, beige staple bound pamphlet in a violet dust wrapper, unpaginated. New Directions Poet of the Month series, first and only trade pamphlet edition. Dust jacket unclipped (50c mark to front fold), showing mild chipping, creasing toning to edges, pamphlet wrappers age toned.....
J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1955. 8vo, brown cloth, gilt titles, 101pp. Seventh impression. Unclipped dust jacket (8s 6d net) with toning and offsetting to front flap, mild wear to edges. Ownership signature, toning to front endpaper. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. Posthumous issue of a verse play for.....
Larkspur Press, 2002. 8vo, grey cloth, green titles, 62pp. First edition, limited to 700 copies and signed by McClanahan to to the title page. Review copy with tipped-in letter from the publisher soliciting a review. Unpriced dust jacket moderately toned and rubbed to panels. Contents clean, binding sharp and square.....
Macmillan & Co, 1944. 8vo, blue cloth, gilt titles, 35pp. First Edition. Unclipped dust jacket (5s. net) mildly toned to panels, light creasing to edges. Ownership signature to front endpaper. Contents clean, binding firm. Small book of verse by the English formalist poet. A nearly fine copy.
Methuen & Co; Burns and Oates, 1910. 8vo, green cloth, gilt titles, decorative gilt laurel, bevelled edges, gilt topstain, 142pp. ‘The Eighth thousand’ of the first edition by Methuen in collaboration with Burns Oates. Boards lightly rubbed, sunning to spine, faint markings to front endpapers. Contents clean, binding firm. Poems.....
Faber and Faber, 1929. 12mo, yellow pictorial wrappers with French folds, 3pp. First trade edition, following a signed and limited edition. Wrappers worn and rubbed, discreet tape mending to spine edge, ownership signature to reverse of fly leaf. A two page religious poem by Chesterton with a cover drawing and.....