Poetry 20 & 21st Century
London: Faber & Faber, October 1931. Printed wrappers. x,182,[2] pp. Some light soiling to lower wrapper, short nicks and smudges at overlap edges; some leaves unopened, internally very fresh, very good or better. Auden's "Speech" appears on pages 60-64; Three Poems by Stephen Spender, pages 47-49; and contributions of note.....
London: Faber and Faber Ltd., 1990. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Black textured cloth over boards, white titles. First UK edition. Occasional very light pencil annotations in the poetry section, yet a very good copy in a glossy black illustrated dust jacket with minimum edgewear.
Greenwich & New York: The Dial, April 1923. Octavo. Bound in publisher's original salmon wraps printed in black. xvi,[2],329-432,xxviii pp. Plates, one tipped in. Usual oversized wrappers, else a fine copy. Barney's poem, which appears on pages 379-80, queries the usefulness of change for change's sake. NCB, as she was.....
[London: Riccardi Press for the Medici Society, Ltd., 1914]. Limited edition. Slim octavo. Publisher's linen-backed paper boards, lettered in gilt. T.e.g. First edition, thus. Edition limited to 1000 copies printed on handmade Riccardi paper; the copies were numbered yet this copy is unnumbered (writer's fatigue?). Initial page of the sonnets.....
[London:]: Wishart, 1932. Small octavo. Tan cloth, spine lettering. xvi,190 pp. First edition. Foreword by Sherard Vines. A very good copy, in a good typographic dust jacket with a triangular loss at the top edge and some chips to edges top and bottom. This anthology has more than the usual.....
London: John Murray, 1954. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Deep blue cloth, paper label. First edition. Near fine in lightly soiled dust jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.
London: John Murray, 1948. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Red cloth, printed paper spine label. First edition. Chosen, and with a preface by John Sparrow. Neat contemporary ink inscription on front free flyleaf, else fine in dust jacket with chipping along top edge. Contains old favorites newly revised and several new poems.....
London: John Murray, 1960. Tree, Michael:. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. Gilt green cloth, bell motif stamped in blind. First edition, trade issue. Decorated endpapers. Chapter head drawings by Michael Tree. Top edge has small dust spot, else bright and glorious in a near fine dust jacket with a small.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1962. First edition. Red cloth. Typography, binding, and dust jacket designed by Vincent Torre. Fine, in near fine dust jacket. First edition. This volume includes seventeen new poems, a selection of poems written in the 1920s and 30s, and an excerpt from her long wartime.....
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Norfolk: New Directions:, [1938]. First edition. Gilt red cloth. Minor darkening at edges of cloth, tiny rub to lower edge, otherwise fine in good, moderately chipped dust jacket with mends on verso. First edition, limited to 500 copies printed at the Rydal Press. Accompanied by a 6pp. clean typescript of.....
Paris: Editions Narcisse, 1927. . Folio. Thick paper wrappers, printed in black and red, fold over flaps, leaves sewn. 29.8 x 21.9 cm. [xx],[36] pp. Printed on watermarked paper. Illustrated with three limited edition watercolors by François Quelvée, two with original glassine sheets placed in front of illustration, one more.....
Tavistock Square, London: Printed and published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1925. Octavo. Original illustrated boards. 24pp. Illustrations by Eugene McCown. First edition, one of 420 copies hand-printed and published by the Woolfs at their home publishing firm in Tavistock Square, London. Owner's signature on front.....
Durham, NC: A Printing Company, 1975. First edition. Broadside flyer, stiff tan card printed in black in three boarded panels on recto only. 19 1/2 x 6 5/8 in. Never folded as is usually seen. Pin holes at each corner, slight rumple on right edge from use, else very good. .....
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1994. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Gilt purple cloth. Frontispiece. Inscribed by the author. Fine in a fine pictorial dust jacket with H. D. on a film set. First edition. An intellectual and historical approach to H. D.'s late poetry that challenges feminist approaches that have tended.....
London: Constable & Co., Ltd, [1948]. First edition. Octavo. Teal cloth, silver spine. Collogravure frontispiece portrait. Title page in red and black. 269,[1] pp. Very good; in a good unclipped typographic and decorated dust jacket with some chips and closed tears, mostly confined to the top edge.First edition, first impression.....
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1983. First American edition. Large octavo. Red cloth, image stamped in gilt on front panel. Text and full color illustrations by Gerrard in a style he describes as "small, highly detailed watercolors, remorselessly whimsical, and often Victorian/Edwardian in subject." Winner of the Fiera di Bologna Graphic.....
London: Hutchinson, 1982. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. Cloth textured boards. First edition. Photographs. Edited, with a commentary, by Paul O'Prey. Fine, in a near fine dust jacket with some sunning along the top edges.
London: Cassell & Company, Ltd., 1965. Laraçuen, Aemilia:. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Small quarto. Black cloth and charcoal grey cloth over boards. Very good, in good dust jacket with tanning at edges and damp stains at lower corners that have not transferred to book. One of the 30 unsigned out-of-print series.....
London: Cassell & Company, Ltd., 1964. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Gilt cloth. First edition, trade issue. Fine in near fine dust jacket with a short, closed tear. HIGGINSON & WILLIAMS A107a.
London: Cassell & Company, Ltd., 1962. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Gilt cloth. First edition. Publisher's editorial copy stamp on front free endsheet. Near fine in good, bright dust jacket. HIGGINSON & WILLIAMS A101a.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., [1960]. ARDIZZONE, Edward:. First American edition. Small quarto. Green cloth boards, white lettering. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone. First American edition, trade binding. Twenty-three of Graves’ best poems for and about children. A very nice copy in price-clipped, faintly edgeworn, beautifully decorated dust jacket.....
London: Cassell & Company, Ltd., [1960]. ARDIZZONE, Edward:. Green cloth boards, lettered in gilt. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone. First edition. Upper fore-corners lightly bumped, otherwise a very good copy in pictorial dust jacket with a few marks on the back panel and a trace of darkening near a few edges.....
London: Cassell & Company, Ltd., [1953]. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth, gilt spine. 30,[2] pp. Literary ownership signature, place and date on front pastedown, along with an Oxford booksellers' tiny label. Fine in a very good, lightly dust soiled jacket with one tiny nip at the lower spine edge. First.....
[N.p. (Buffalo)]: [Frontier Press], 1971. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Stiff grey-blue paper wrappers with a printed and decorated spine label. Roses and thorns vignette on title page. Fine, as new. First (unauthorized/pirated) edition, based on a preliminary draft, and differing from the poems published a year later by New Directions.....
Tempe: Edwin B. Hill, 1948. Single sheet folded once, 7x5" First edition. 4 pp. Printed on a small hand press, not in BAL, about fine. First edition. Wilde's prose poem here presents four individuals whose lives were profoundly changed by Christ’s miracles. These include a leper who was healed, a......