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Binyon, Laurence, editor THE GOLDEN TREASURY OF MODERN LYRICS
London Macmillan 1927 Gold Treasury Edition Full Leather Very Good
pp: xi, 369, indices. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in red morocco, paneled spine with gilt devices and leather label, dentelles, all edges gilt; tops of several leaves jammed. 6" x 3.75" Includes the work of some World War I poets.
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40.00 USD
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Browning, Robert POETICAL WORKS: With Portraits. In Two Volumes.
NY Macmillan 1896 First US Edition Pictorial Cloth Good
pp: 748+786, indices; frontispieces; front free-endpapers gone, some pencil marks in text. 7.75" x 5.25" Complete edition, including Asolando (1889), with an editor's note by Augustine Birrell. Laid into Volume I is a two-page printed reading guide to Browning, ca. 1900.
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25.00 USD
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Castro, Michael INTERPRETING THE INDIAN: Twentieth-century Poets and the Native American,
Alubquerque Univ of New Mexico Press 1983 0826306721 / 9780826306722 First Edition Original cloth Very Good Very Good Jacket
pp: xx, 221, index. Analyzes how modern poets incorporate their versions of Native American poetic themes and techniques into their own work. Has chapters on Mary Austin, Vachel Lindsay, Gary Snyder, John G. Neihardt, William Carlos Williams, Lew Sarret, and others. 9.25" x 5.5"
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Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965) Typewritten Letter, Signed (TLS) on letterhead of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, to the Archbishop of York, November 9, 1948
Original manuscript Very Good Signed
One-half page on quarto letterhead, with five emendations in Eliot's hand, signed as T.S. Eliot. In part: "...Your Grace's kind letter...has been forwarded by my secretary, as I have been at this Institute since the beginning of October....I feel greatly honored by your Grace's attention and am most happy to have received this letter....Your Grace's humble ("obedient" written in) servant, T.S. Eliot." Eliot had converted from Unitarian to Anglican in 1927, but identified himself as "Anglo-Catholic." He was appointed to the Institute for Advanced Study after winning the Nobel Prize in 1948.
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Flower, B.O. WHITTIER: PROPHET, SEER AND MAN
Boston Arena Publishing 1896 First Edition Original Cloth Good
pp: viii, 160; portrait; tops of few pages jammed. An adoring life of Whittier, who "preserved from youth to silver age the soul of a child" and led a "pure Quaker life." 8.25" x 5.25"
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Friedberg, Martha THE WATER POEM AND OTHERS
Winnetka, IL Vixen Press 1985 First Edition Pictorial Paper Covers Fine Signed
20pp, colophon; six colored wood engravings by Caryl Seidenberg. 9.5" x 6.5" This is #222 of 250 copies only, set in Centaur and Arrighi types and printed by hand on dampened Rives heavyweight. Signed under the colophon by Seidenberg and by Friedberg.
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125.00 USD
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Frost, Robert and Carl Sandburg SIX POEMS
NY New York Public Library 1961. 1961 1st Edition Soft cover
Yellow paper covers just beginning to tan: very good condition. 7" x 4.5" 18pp ".printed at the Library for members of the Women's Council. The poems selected are not perhaps so well known as those which usually appear in anthologies.". 1st edn thus. Binding is original wraps.
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Giovanni, Nikki BLACK JUDGEMENT
Detroit Broadside Press 1970 910296316 Fifth Printing Pictorial Paper Covers Fine
pp: 36, (2) publisher's ads; photo-portrait of Giovanni. Cover design by Bill Day. First published January, 1969. 8.25" x 6.75"
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Grant, Joy HAROLD MONRO AND THE POETRY BOOKSHOP
Berkeley Univ of California Press 1967 First US Edition Original Cloth Very Good Very Good Jacket
pp: x, 286; 4pp illustrations. 8.75" x 5.5" Explores Monro's contributions to the London literary scene, 1912 to 1932. Signature of anthropologist Ashley Montagu on front endpaper.
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Guiterman, Arthur BALLADS OF OLD NEW YORK
NY Harper 1920 First Edition Decorative Cloth Very Good
pp: (xii), 301; plates, text vignettes. 8" x 5" Includes: The Legend of the Bronx; How Pearl Street Was Paved; Mary Murray of Murray Hill; The Palisades; Bowling Green; etc.
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30.00 USD
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Herbert, A.P. PLAIN JANE
Garden City Doubleday, Page 1927 First Edition Original cloth Good
pp: viii, 136; illus throughout text by Anna K. Zinkeisen; shelf-wear to spine ends and corners. A Straightforward Discussion for Young People and Adults [plus six related items]. These are period poems by a British humorist, writing mostly on the subject of modern women. Titles include: I Like Them Fluffy; Susan Goes Shopping; I Will Be Bohemian, I Will.; The 5 O'clock Fairies [working girls getting off work]; Triangular Legs; etc. 7.75" x 5.25"
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