Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1901. First edition. Hardcover. 1/400. Octavo. viii, 53 (1)pp. original blue paper-covered boards with black lettering on paper label of spine, in original plain printed dustjacket, black lettering on spine. Publisher's device on title page. "The Pilgrims of Hope was originally written for and contributed..... More
New York: Brentano's, (1920). Harry Clarke. Hardcover. 8vo. 127pp. Decorated tan cloth. Head and tail of spine chipped. Some discoloration and minor staining to boards. Ex libris of Clarissa Howe on inside of front board. Illustrated half-title and title-page. Color frontispiece. Wonderful collection of poetry by authors such as W...... More
New York: Cape Goliard Press in association with Grossman Publishers. 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. Unpaginated. Original pictorial dust-jacket over black cloth, with white lettering on front board and spine. Fascinating work being a book of poems by Padgett along with many b&w drawings and collages by Jim Dine who..... More
Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, 1913. Hardcover. 8vo. 161pp. Half leather over decorated paper-covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Top edge gilt. Rubbing to leather. Some discoloration to boards. Loose ribbon marker. Slight browning to pages. Wonderful collection of early poems by Rilke. Text in German. Binding in good, interior in very..... More
Leipzig: Schwickert, 1769. First edition. Hardcover. This is a true first edition, indicated by the publishing year on the title page (1769) and the catch word "der" on the bottom of p. 90. (Source: Goedecke) 8vo. (16) 90pp. Contemporary paper covered boards. With copper plate illustrated title page. Publisher Information (Publishing..... More
Leipzig: Brockhaus, 1822. Neue Ausgabe. Hardcover. 4 volumes. Sm. 8vo. Three-quarter leather over marbled boards with gold decoration on spine, title plate with gold lettering. Age wear to binding. Red page edges. Ex-libris to inside of front board. Bottom page edges on Vol. II bumped and creased from free front..... More
London: Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., 1881. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (11 1/4 x 8"). xvi, 384pp (Vol. 1); xvi, 384pp (Vol. 2). Original 3/4 crushed morocco over burgundy cloth, with gold lettering and tooling to spines. Raised bands. Etched frontispiece in each volume. Splendidly illustrated throughout with numerous full-page and..... More
London: Edward Moxon, 1855. First edition. Hardcover. 8mo. 154pp. + 8 pages of publisher's ads at the front. Original green cloth boards with blind stamped design on covers with gilt lettering on the spine. Publishers ads dated "March 1856". The publication is a first edition of this acclaimed collection of..... More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965. Second edition. Hardcover. Large Octavo. xli, 297, x, 426 (1)pp. Original printed dustjackets over blue cloth with blind-stamped publisher's device on cover, and gilt lettering on spine. Frontispiece facsimile. "Particular attention has been paid to the text. The Centuries are reproduced with the original spelling, capitalization..... More
Krakow: Czytelnik, 1950. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 427pp. Original illustrated tan wraps with black and brown lettering on cover. A wide ranging collection of poetry augmented with delightful essays by one of the celebrated Polish poet of Jewish descent. Originally written before WW II, parts of the manuscript survived the..... More
Lincoln, Massachusetts: Penmaen Press, (1977). Ward, Lynd. First English language edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 34pp. Black half clothed binding over b/w illustrated boards in black cloth covered slipcase. Some wear and rubbing to slipcase. Half Title. Frontispiece. Pages uncut. "Translated into english by Anthony Hecht with six wood engravings by Lynd..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1921. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo (8 1/2 x 5 3/4"). [8], 80pp. Uncut and unopened copy. Original printed dust-jacket over decorative paper covered boards. Publisher's device to title page. In this book, Conrad Potter Aiken takes the folk play of "Punch and Judy"* as his..... More
Lausanne: Mermod, 1950. Limited edition. Paperback. 1/1200. 12mo. 182, [4]pp. Uncut. Original glassine over illustrated wrappers. Frontispiece. Originally published in 1913, "Alcools" is a collection of poems by French author Guillaume Apollinaire. In addition to its technical innovations, this work contains what many critics regard as his most successful individual..... More
Amsterdam: Castrum Peregrini Presse, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xvi,759pp. Brown cloth with title-plate in original dust wrapper. Minor chipping to dust wrapper on head of spine. Slight creasing and staining to dw. Word-concordance to Stefan Georges' poetry. Text in German. Very good condition. More
S.-Peterburg (St. Petersburg): Izd. "Knigoprodavcheskoi skladchiny" 1896. Second edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes in 1. Ex library. 8vo. lvii,261pp. 330pp. Black cloth with title in gold on spine. Library inventory plate near tail of spine. Tail of spine slightly bumped. Minor scuffing and staining to boards. Hinges starting. Small numbers "2/6308"..... More
London: Self Published, 1821. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xxii,240 pp. Brown paper-covered boards protected by modern plastic, which is attached to endpapers. Age wear to boards. Heavy chipping to spine, most of backstrip missing. Hinges starting. Page edges uncut, as issued. Minor age toning to outer edges of interior pages..... More
London: Chapman & Hall, 1850. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. [2], 142, [2]pp. Contemporary 3/4 olive cloth over marbled paper covered boards, with gold lettering to spine. Raised bands. Marbled endpapers and paper edges. First edition of these paired poems which are meditations on the nature of religious faith in an..... More
Göttingen: Heinrich Dieterich, 1803. Later printing. Hardcover. Sextodecimo. xxi, 312, xii, 332pp. Original full calf with gilt tooling on red frame of cover and gilt lettering and tooling on spine. Turquoise endpapers. Frontispiece engraving. Edited by Karl Reinhard this 2 volume luxury edition of Bürger's Sämmtliche Schriften contain Bürger's complete..... More
Berlin: Officina Serpentis, 1920. First edition. Hardcover. Signed Ernst Hohenemser on front free endpaper. Quarto. (2) 84 (1)pp. Original plain stiff wraps. Possibly a proof copy of the 1920 publication of Catull's poetry published by the famed Berlin handpress Officina Serpentis, founded 1911 by Eduard Wilhelm Tieffenbach. The dedication poem..... More
London: Cape Goliard Press, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. Unpaginated. Original pictorial wrappers with black lettering on cover and spine. Rose endpapers. Collaboration of Dine (artist) and Padgett (text) juxtaposing oddities of the American psychological sphere in text and mostly pencil drawings and collages on glossy egg shell colored paper..... More
London: J. Tonson, 1717. Hardcover. 8vo. (18) 536pp. Contemporary tooled and stamped leather with red label at spine. Raised bands. Dentelles. Ex-libris Lord Lilford. Printers devices. Illustrated initials. Great collection of works on poetry and some poems. Age wear to binding. Binding starting to split alongside spine, but still firmly..... More
London: David Bogue, 1855. Hardcover. Sm. 4to. Gold-and blind stamped brown cloth and spine. Beveled edges. All gilt edges. Head and tail of spine bumped. Corners bumped and worn. Bumping and rubbing to parts of edges. Some staining, spotting and rubbing to boards and spine. Hinges starting. Two small closed..... More
Stuttgart: J. W. Cotta'scher Verlag, 1849. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. x, 185pp. Original half cloth with gold lettering on spine over marbled boards. Marbled edges. Collection of poems by German poet, translator and liberal agitator, Ferdinand Freiligrath. Includes translations by Freiligrath of poems by Alphonse de Lamartine, Henry W. Longfellow..... More
London: Printed for G. and W. Nicol; Cadell and Davies; and R. H. Evans, 1817. Third edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes. 8vo. lxxxii,384pp. 163pp. Three-quarter calf over marbled boards with gold decorated spine, green title-label with gold lettering. Decimus Junius Juvenalis aka Juvenal, was a Roman poet active in the late..... More
San Francisco: City Lights Bookstore, (1977). First edition thus. Hardcover. 12mo. [4],123,[4]1pp. Red cloth, black lettering on front and spine, in original dust jacket. A City Lights Bookstore postcard with the words "Review Copy" stamped on rear laid-in. Not price clipped. Number 35 of the Pocket Poets Series. Overall very..... More