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London : Hodder & Stoughton, 1914.
First edition of Durand’s definitive handbook to Kipling’s poetry. Royal octavo, original quarter buckram over paper-covered boards, paper spine label, top edge gilt. In very good condition.
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New York : Doubleday, 1995.
First edition of this compelling exploration of poetry’s power. 8vo, original publisher’s half cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. The recipient, Madeleine K. Albright was the first woman to serve as the U.S. Secretary of State. She acted under President Bill Clinton from 1997 to 2001, leading the United States through foreign policy inContinue reading "The Language of Life: A Festival of Poets."
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New York : Macmillan Company, 1945.
First edition. Inscribed by the author, “For Frangeon Jones Fellow poet and friend Robert P. Tristam Coffin”. Coffin has also added a drawing a seaside home with a pine tree. Octavo. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
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London : Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1900.
First English edition of this collection of Kipling’s essays about his 1889 travels from India to Burma, China, Japan, and the United States en route to England. Octavo, original red cloth with gilt titles to the spine and gilt elephant emblem to the front panel, top edge gilt. In very good condition with rubbing toContinue reading "From Sea to Sea and Other Sketches. Letters of Travel."
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New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.
First edition of the collected lyrics of Stephen Sondheim. Quarto, original boards with the author’s name stamped in blind to the front panel, with 195 photographs and illustrated throughout. Near fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson.
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New York : B. W. Dodge & Company, 1909.
First edition, first issue of of Kipling’s 1909 short story collection with gold lettering to the spine and front panel. Octavo, original blue cloth with gold titles to the spine and front panel. In fine condition.
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New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1985.
First edition of the poet’s first book to be published in English. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To Adrienne- with best wishes, Adam Zagajewski Houseton, May 2004.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Cathy Saksa. Laid in is a black and whiteContinue reading "Tremor: Selected Poems."
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New York : Ticknor & Fields, 1987.
First edition of Hall’s classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by the author on the title page in the year of publication, “For Betsy seasonally! with pleasure Donald Hall 18 September 1987.” Fine in a near fine slipcase. Illustrations by Thomas W. Nason.
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New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.
First edition of the author’s memoirs. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To Matthew Adam Zagajewski Boston, October 2004.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Marc J. Cohen. Translated by Clare Cavanagh.
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London : Chapman and Hall, 1846.
First edition of this collection of 19th-century prose retellings and analyses of epic tales from famous Italian poets. Octavo, two volumes, original publisher’s blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine, triple ruling and floral designs stamped in blind to the front and rear panels. In very good condition, bookplate to the front pastedown.
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Oxford : T. and G. Shrimpton, 1860.
First edition of Symonds’ first book, published when he was 20 years old. Octavo, original wrappers. In very good condition.
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New York : M. F. Mansfield & A. Wessels, 1899.
First edition in book form of this small publication “published fortnightly by boys for boys” at the Horsmonden School Kent containing a letter from Rudyard Kipling with six “Hints on Schoolboy Etiquette” and a caricature of him by Max Beerbohm. 16mo, original half cloth. In near fine condition.
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Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, 1982.
First Wesleyan University Press edition of Japanese American poet Garrett Hongo’s first collection of poems. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Association copy, inscribed to fellow American poet Annie Dillard on the half-title page, “for Annie Dillard, my admiration from Garrett 29 May ’84.” From the library of Annie Dillard with her bookplate below the inscription. CoverContinue reading "Yellow Light."
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : Houghton Library, 1943.
First edition in book form of this previously unpublished letter, written by Kipling to William Joshua Harding seeking an army commission for his son, John. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. One of only seventy-five numbered copies, this is number 32. In fine condition. Rare.
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Stuttgart : J. G. Gotta'sche Buchhandlung, 1874.
Rare 19th century printing of Herder’s selected poems. Small octavo, original cloth. Text in German. In good condition.
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Washington, D.C. & San Francisco : Dryad Press, 1980.
First edition of American poet Paul Zimmer’s fifth book of poems. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Association copy, inscribed to poet Annie Dillard on the title page, “August 1980 For Annie and Gary, With admiration and affection. Paul.” With Annie Dillard’s bookplate to the half-title page. In near fine condition. Cover design by Susan Foster.Continue reading "With Wanda: Town and Country Poems."
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: London, John Murray, 1829.
First edition. Octavo, original boards with leather spine. In good condition. An anthology of original work by Praed, Montgomery, Rogers, Hodgson, Moore, and Wordsworth. Also contains a Lord Byron unpublished poem.
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Toronto : The Macmillan Company of Canada, Limited, 1908.
First edition in book form of this collection of Kipling’s letters which first appeared in Newspapers during the spring of 1908 after a trip to Canada undertaken in the autumn of 1907. 12 mo, original wrappers. In very good condition. Rare.
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London : John Wilson, 1868.
Rare privately printed edition of Locker’s first book. Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page in the year of publication, “John S. Smith from the author July 28 1868.” In very good condition.
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New York : The Lyons Press, 1999.
First edition of this American West literary collection of essays. Octavo, original publisher’s half cloth, illustrated with black and white sketches. Boldly signed in the year of publication on the half-title page “Thomas McGuane Montana 1999.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by John Gray. Author photograph by Kurt Markus.
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New York : Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1950.
First edition of this collection of poems by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Jane and motherhood Aff’y inscribed Dick Wilbur Cambridge May 51.” Also laid in is a sonnet broadside from Charlee and Richard Wilbur. Near fine in a nearContinue reading "Ceremony And Other Poems."
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New York : Crosby Gaige, 1928.
First edition of this collection of sonnets from 1889 to 1927. Octavo, original half cloth with decorated boards. Boldly signed by Edwin Arlington Robinson on the half-title page. In near fine condition with some rubbing to the extremities and front panel.
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New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1908.
First edition of this poetical guide to a fulfilling life; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Duodecimo, original navy blue cloth. P.T. Sherman’s bookplate to the front free endpaper. In very good condition with some rubbing to the spine, front and rear panels.
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New York : Ecco Press, 1990.
First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author to writer Robert Richardson, “Very good wishes and admiration to Bob Richardson Robert Pinsky.” With writer Annie Dillard’s bookplate. The recipient is the husband of Annie Dillard. In near fine condition.
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