Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1976. Arthur Szyk. Collector's Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. Unpaginated. Original gilt decorated red leather with gilt lettering and ruling on spine. Gilt top and bottom edges, raised bands. Golden ribbon marker. Frontispiece. Title page with gilt decorative frame. Bound in Japan fold. Text printed to Arches..... More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1868. Later edition. Hardcover. Quarto (10 1/4 x 6 1/2"). XXX, 578pp (Vol. 1); IX, [1], 675, [1]pp. Contemporary 3/4 brown morocco over marbled paper covered boards, with gold lettering and ruling to spines. Raised bands. Top edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Originally published in 1846, this..... More
Madrid: Imprenta de la Viuda e Hijos de Galiano, 1871. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. 352 pp. Rebound in half leather over cloth, gold lettering on spine. Memoria escrita por D. Angel Lasso de la Vega y Argüelles, premiada por voto unánime de la Real academia sevillana de buenas letras, impresa..... More
Boston: Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1849. Revised edition. Hardcover. Octavos. Vol.1: (xii) 251pp. Vol.2: (vii) 254pp. Brown cloth boards, with blind-stamped floral designs and ruling on the covers. Gilt lettering on the spines. The seminal two-volume collection of poems and sonnets by James Russell Lowell is a revision on the..... More
London: Edward Moxon, 1844. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo (6 3/4 x 4 3/8"). XXXVI, 202, [2]pp. Contemporary full calf, with gold lettering to spine, and unidentified blind-stamped coat of arms to both covers. Dentelles. Top edge gilt. First edition of Milne's "Palm Leaves," a lucidly Wordworthian reflective poetry which consacrated its..... More
London: Edward Moxon, 1844. New edition. Hardcover. 12mo (6 3/4 x 4 3/8"). XI, [1], 275pp. Contemporary full calf, with gold lettering to spine, and unidentified blind-stamped coat of arms to both covers. Dentelles. Top edge gilt. Originally published in 1838, "Poems of Many Years" is a collection of poems containing..... More
Berlin: Schuster & Loeffler, 1897. First edition. Softcover. Duodecimo. 65 (3)pp. Original illustrated yellow wraps with red and black lettering on cover. Publisher's logo on title page. Bilingual satirical rendering of Horace odes in German with original Latin text on opposite side. One leaf with publisher's advertisements at rear. Wrappers..... More
Paris: Centre Culturel Calouste Gulbenkian, 1997. First edition. Softcover. 4to. 403pp. Original illustrated wrappers. Frontispiece of "Trois especes de Clepsydre" on glossy paper. Christine Paris-Montech. A collection of Camilo Pessanha's poems. He was a Portuguese poet, scholar and symbol of the political and civic culture of Macau. He also taught..... More
Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo, 1860. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. X, 342pp. Original cloth with title label laid on spine. William Dunbar was a Scottish makar active in the late fifteenth century and the early sixteenth century. He was closely associated with the court of King James IV of Scotland and..... More
Dayton, Ohio: United Brethren Publishing House, 1912. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 139pp. Original green cloth with blind-stamped ornamentation, ruling and gilt lettering on cover; spine with gilt lettering, ruling and ornamentation. Elegant decorative endpapers. Two frontispieces. Considered a culturally important work of civilization as we know it. Illustrations by Mary..... More
Dresden: Wolfgang Jetz verlag, (1937). First edition. Softcover. 8vo. 30pp. Original wrappers. Some discoloration to wraps. Slight creasing to bottom right corner throughout. Requiem for Rainer Maria Rilke (1975-1926) who is considered one of the greatest poets of the 20th century. Text in Gothic script. Wraps in good, interior in..... More
London: J. Walker, 1807. Later printing. Hardcover. 24mo. [6], 559, [1]pp. Original gilt-stamped red morocco, with gold lettering and tooling on spine. Raised bands. Dentelles. Marbled endpapers. Engraved frontispiece and title page. A scarce, early edition of Pope's translation of Homer. Alexander Pope (1688-1744) was an 18th-century English poet, best..... More
Berlin: Ernst Rowohlt, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. 156pp. Original blue cloth illustrated with a reproduction of a drawing by Olaf Gulbransson. Collection of 76 poems by German author and painter, Joachim Ringelnatz (aka Hans Böttcher). Some staining and foxing on binding. Head and tail of spine slightly bumped, corners..... More
San Francisco: The Book Press, 1928. Howard Simon. Limited edition. Hardcover. 4to. 56 pp. Half vellum over boards. With pastel color illustrations by Howard Simon. Pages untrimmed. Printed on Italian handmade paper. 1/250 numbered copies. Front board bowing slightly. Corners lightly bumped. Overall, in good/very good condition. More
Leipzig: Otto Schulze, 1876. First edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo. 439 (1)pp. Original three quarter vellum over marbled boards. Publishers logo on title page. decorative headpieces. Schiller's poetry from the so-called three periods. Text in German. Binding rubbed with abrasions at top of spine, most like from removal of sticker. Pages uncut..... More
Walldorf-Hessen: Verlag für Orientkunde Dr. Hans Vorndran, 1949. Limited Edition. Softcover. 1/600. Octavo. 62pp. Original orange wrappers with black lettering on cover. Two half-title pages. Contributions to the history of language and culture of the Orient, edited by Prof. phil. Dr. jur. O. Spies. Inquiry into metaphorical language of the..... More
Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, 1907. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (10 3/4 x 7 1/2"). vii, [1], 136pp, [2] leaves (Plates) (Vol. 1); [4], ii, 160pp. (Vol. 2). Modern olive cloth, with gold lettering to spine. A collection of ancient Greek manuscripts dealing with poetry. The first volume is complete with its two..... More
Philadelphia: Parry & McMillan, 1854. New edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 408pp. Gilt illustrated brown cloth and spine. Spine has been crudely glued by previous owner. Glue residue on spine. Tail of spine slightly chipped. Spine sunned. Rubbing, scuffing and some staining to boards and spine. Wear to corners and edges. All..... More
Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 210pp. Blue navy cloth with gold lettering on leather title-label. Decorative endpapers. Original wrappers bound in. Uncut. Half title-page inscribed and signed by the author. One of the CCCL Press copies, this being No. CCCIX. Interesting poetry book in which the author..... More
Glendale, CA: Morgan, (ca. 1954). First edition. Softcover. Octavo. 51pp. Blue printed wrappers, with black lettering on the front cover. Signed and dated by the author at the front free endpaper. The publication is a collection of 16 poems by modern dance pioneer Ruth St. Denis. The work was taken..... More
Berlin: In der Nicolai'schen Buchhandlung, 1834. Hardcover. Sm. 4to. xxii,384pp. Original gold-decorated calf. All gilt edges. Dentelles. Ribbon marker. Silk moire on inside of front and rear board. Bookplate of Baroness Rothschild, whose birth name was Veronika Henckel von Donnersmarck *, on free front endpaper. Bookplate is a white and..... More
London: Macmillan & Co., 1885. Limited edition. Hardcover. 1/500. Large octavo. 214pp. Original dark blue cloth boards, with gilt ruling. Spine with Gilt lettering and ruling. Pages uncut. The book is one of 500 copies of a limited "large paper edition" of the acclaimed work by Tennyson. The poem serves..... More
London: Edward Moxon, 1855. Sixth edition. Hardcover. Octavo. (vii) (1) 211pp.+ 8 pages of publisher's ads at the front. Original purple cloth boards with blind stamped designs on the covers and gilt lettering on the spine. The publication is the sixth edition of the acclaimed poem by Tennyson. The poem..... More
London: Edward Moxon & Co., 1865. Thirteenth Edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 183pp. Red calf boards, with gilt ruling and tooling along edges of covers, along book edges and on spine. Spine with gilt lettering over green label. Marbled edges and endpapers. The book is an edition of Tennyson's "serio-comic blank verse..... More
London: Edward Morton & Co., 1851. Fifth edition. Hardcover. 8vo. vii. 211 pp. Original, blind-stamped brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. List of publications by Edward Morton & Co. at beginning. "In Memoriam" is a long poem by the English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson, published anonymously. Originally written (over..... More