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N.p: 1 March 1725/6. To Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, regarding Richard Savage. Edward Young (1683-1765) writes to Lady... Read More about Autograph letter, signed ("E. Young"), to [Lady Mary Wortley Montagu], regarding her patronage of...
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New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1916. First edition. A nice copy of this volume of verse which represents one of the more well-known literary hoaxes from the beginning of the twentieth century. Having published three books of verse to some success, Witter Bynner (who had helped to publish Pound's first book..... Read More about Spectra. A Book of Poetic Experiments. By Emanuel Morgan and Anne Knish
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Venice: Printed at the Armenian Monastery of S. Lazarus, 1872. First thus. Byron in Armenian. Printed at the Armenian monastery at San Lazzaro. While living in Venice, Byron studied Armenian on the island several days a week with Father Paschal and assisted his tutor in the writing of an Armenian..... Read More about Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Italy
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London: Printed for John Hunt, 1823. First edition, Large Paper. Read More about Don Juan. Cantos IX.—X. — AND XI
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London, England: The Harvill Pres Ltd, [1959]. Schmid, Elsa. One of 110 copies were printed on Fabriano, a mould made paper, made in Italy. The type 12 point Palatino, set at Huxley House, New York. The book printed at the Olsen Press, Newark...with the kind permission of the Haverill Press..... Read More about The Poems of St. John the Cross. Spanish Text with a Translation by Roy Campbell. Preface by M.C....
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London: Jonathan Cape Ltd., 11 Glower Street, [1924]. First edition of the author's first book. Read More about The Flaming Terrapin
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London: Printed for J. Wright, Piccadilly; by W. Bulmer and Co. Cleveland-Row, St. James's, 1800. Second edition. From the Tory Journal the Anti-Jacobin poems satirising the Radical's poetry and philosophy Poems by George Canning, John Hookham Frere, George Ellis, William Gifford and others, which appeared in the Anti-Jacobin, or Weekly Examiner..... Read More about Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin
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N.p: n.d. [before 1906]. Nobel Prize Winner’s Holograph Poem. The influential poet and teacher Gosuè Carducci (1835-1907) was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1906; he was the frst Italian to receive that honor. His poem “Panteismo” first appeared in RIME NUOVE, published in Bologna (Zanichetti) in 1889, and..... Read More about Autograph Manuscript, unsigned of his poem “Panteismo"
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Brooklyn, [New York]: Jan. 17/86. American author. Read More about Autograph Letter, Signed. To Mrs. Ryman. asking her to meet him at United States Hotel and not at...
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[Minnesota: privately printed, 1904. First edition. Howard Lake, Minnesota, 1904. Inscribed on the first blank leaf by the author, to Luther A. Brewer (American publisher, president of Torch Press, Cedar Rapids, Iowa). Dated in ink on the wrapper, July, 1904. Account in verse (to a Longfellow meter) of the fishing trip..... Read More about Legends of the Fishing Trip in Minnesota
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New York: Random House, (1986). First edition. Read More about Ultramarine. Poems
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Boston: Richard G. Badger/ The Gorham Press, 1903. First edition. Cather's First Book. First edition of the author's first book, and apart from the author's revised edition which she published in 1923, her only collection of verse. Read More about April Twilights. Poems by Willa Sibert Cather
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New York: Phaidon dist. by Oxford University Press, [1949]. Read More about The Life of..By Himself
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Cambridge: Printed at the Riverside Press, 1872. First Edition. Spiritualist's Poems, Inscribed. Inscribed on flyleaf "Hiram B. Croisby With the Regards of the Author, June 17, 1872." Miss Chafa went on to become Mrs. H.S. Lake, speaker at the First Spiritual Temple. Her life was quite spirited. Her husband Mr. Lake..... Read More about Napoleon Bonaparte and other Poems
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Philadelphia: The Centaur Press, 1938. First Edition. Poem written for music by Harl McDinald, intended “to be a major work for a woman’s chorus and orchestra, a poem that had vigor and passion, a poem that voice a deep emotion in the hearts of contemporary American women.” (Author’s note). First..... Read More about Lament for the Stolen. A poem for a Chorus
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[Hertfordshire: Ashendene Press, 8 January 1898]. No 33 of 50 copies printed for private circulation, signed by the publisher on the colophon. Signed by publisher C.H. St. John Hornsby. One of the early productions of the Ashendene Press, in the scarce original wrappers. Read More about The Prologue to the Tales of Caunterbury
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[London: printed by John Kyngston for John White, anno. 1561]. Stowe edition, issue without illustrations in prelims. 1561 Stowe edition. The fifth printed edition of Chaucer overall. The editing is mostly William Thynne's, from his edition of 1532, with several additions made by John Stowe of pieces he attributed to..... Read More about The woorkes of Geffrey Chaucer, newly printed, with divers addicions
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Londin: [printed by Adam Islip for] George Bishop, 1598. First Speght edition. First Speght edition. The first of several influential editions to be published by Thomas Speght; while it relies heavily on the Stowe edition of 1561, "Speght's notes and introductory material are far more elaborate than in any previous..... Read More about The Workes of our Antient and lerned English Poet, Geffrey Chaucer, newly Printed
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London: Bernard Lintot, 1721. First Urry edition. First Urry Edition. Though editor John Urry (1666-1715) was subsequently criticized for his frequent conjectural emmendations, "the justice of such criticisms should not obscure his achievement. His the first edition of Chaucer for nearly a hundred and fifty years to consult any manuscripts..... Read More about The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Compared with the Former Editions, and many valuable MSS. Out of...
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London: T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1906. With 3 TLS to Elsie [Ellen Elisabeth] Hill, contributor of the poem “When Polly Buys a Hat” on p. 94.: one from Louey Chisolm and two from the editor of “St. Nicholas” magazine, in which the poem was first printed. With her bookplate laid..... Read More about The Golden Staircase. Poems and Verses for Children. Chosen by …
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New York: The Sarabande Press, 1985. First Edition, one of 26 lettered copies, Signed by Clampitt, Laurens & Freeman on the colophon page. One of 26 Copies. First edition of Clampitt’s Homage, consisting of 8 meditative poems on Keats, each of which utilizes as a theme, a place central to..... Read More about A Homage to John Keats
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Dublin: Maunsel and Co, 1917. First edition of the author's first book. Hugh Martin's copy and signed by him on the ffep. Read More about The Vengeance of Fionn
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London: Printed by R. Holt for Obadiah Blagrave, 1687. First edition. Read More about The Works…Containing his Poems, Orations, Epistles collected into One Volume with the life of...
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Thavies Inn: Richard Cobden-Sanderson, 1920. First edition. T.J. Cobden-Sanderson's Copy with 2 Pages of MS Notes. T.J. Cobden-Sanderson's copy, signed ("T.J. Cobden Sanderson") on the flyleaf and with his marginal notes in pencil throughout and 2 pages of notes ("For a 2nd. Ed.") in pen on the rear free endpaper..... Read More about Wordsworth An Anthology
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London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd, 1915. First Edition. This copy signed "T.J. Cobden-Sanderson, 5 Nov. 1915" Read More about Poems of Today: An Anthology
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Brunswick, Maine: Oct. 5, 1938. In part: "Maine missed the hurricaine mostly. My only disaster was having the lights go out on me when I was making a speech, and I with two pages of notes on Maine history to cover! But the speech turned out far better without the..... Read More about Typed letter signed ("Robert P. Tristram Coffin"), to Loring Wiliiams of American Weave
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