Why
[New York]: Privately Printed [by The Derrydale Press], 1929. First edition, one of 1000 copies, Frazier’s 4th state. Read More about Why
Price: $2,250
Literature > Poetry
Featured
The Author's First Book -- One of 10 Copies
Those Not Elect.
New York: Robert M. McBride, 1925. First Edition, one of 10 signed copies on Ingres paper not for sale. The Author's First Book -- One of 10 Copies. The rare signed issue of the author's first book -- unrecorded by our only bibliographical resource: Bruccoli - Clark's First Printings of American Authors. Read More about Those Not Elect
Price: $750
Agenda. Volume One, Number One through Volume 3, Number 6.
London: Poets & Painters Press, 1959-1964. First. Read More about Agenda. Volume One, Number One through Volume 3, Number 6
Price: $450
Selected Poems.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1961. Inscribed by Aiken on the flyleaf to ALLEN TATE, who supplied the lengthy blurb on the rear panel of the dust jacket ("ALLEN TATE says of Conrad Aiken ... 'he represents the perfection of a vanishing American type: the complete man of letters ... '") Aiken's... Read More about Selected Poems
Price: $750
Thee.
New York: George Braziller, [1967]. First edition. Inscribed, "For Allen/con amore/ and I don't know How/ Somerset Maugham got on my back-!/ Conrad/ 1967." Read More about Thee
Price: $750
The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. With a memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas.
London: Bell and Daldy Fleet Street, 1866. Read More about The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. With a memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas
Price: $150
The Aldine Edition of British Poets.
London: George Bell & Sons, York St., Covent Garden. New York: 112, Fourth Street, 1891-1901. The poets (and number of volumes) are: Akenside (1), Beattie (1), William Blake (1), Burns (3), Butler (2), Chatterton (2), Chaucer (6), Churchill (3), Coleridge (2), Collins (1), Cowper (3), Dryden (5), Falconer (1), Goldsmith... Read More about The Aldine Edition of British Poets
Price: $7,500
Presentation Copy
Grand’ther Baldwin’s Thanksgiving with Other Ballads and Poems.
Boston: Loring, Publisher Corner Bromfield and Washington Streets. Printers Rockwell & Churchill, [1875]. First edition of the author’s first book of verse. Presentation Copy. Inscribed by the author on flyleaf, "Mrs. Maria Brown/ from the author/ Dec. 25, 1875" Read More about Grand’ther Baldwin’s Thanksgiving with Other Ballads and Poems
Price: $2,500
A Poem; Sacred to the Memory of George Washington, late President of the United States, and Commander in Chief of...
hartford: Printed by Hudson and Goodwin, 1800. First edition, first issue, before the lines "In swelling phrase and terms unmeaning veils | Her hellish plots, her dark designs conceals' were censored from p. 20. One of the founding and most talented members of the Hartford Wits and of the famous... Read More about A Poem; Sacred to the Memory of George Washington, late President of the United States, and...
Price: $200
Superior Copy
Paul Bunyan and Resinous Rhymes of The North Woods.
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1934. First edition, first state, No. 222 of 332 copies, signed by the author on the title page. Superior Copy. The mythic lumberjack (and Babe, his blue ox) in picture and poetry. Read More about Paul Bunyan and Resinous Rhymes of The North Woods
Price: $350
Review Copy
A Case of Samples. Poems 1946-1956.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1957). First American edition. Review Copy. With Advance slip tipped in. Read More about A Case of Samples. Poems 1946-1956
Price: $200
Mid-American Chants.
New York: John Lan Company, 1918. First edition. Read More about Mid-American Chants
Price: $200
"The News We Like"
np: c. 1904. A seemingly unpublished poem about the one cent news issued by "Deh Joinal" including verses on Russo-Japanese War, striking miners, murderous wives and more. Read More about "The News We Like"
Price: $150
The Romance of the Rubaiyat. Edward FitzGerald's First Edition Reprinted with Introduction and Notes.
New York: The Macmillan Company, [1959]. First American edition, from English sheets. Read More about The Romance of the Rubaiyat. Edward FitzGerald's First Edition Reprinted with Introduction and Notes
Price: $50
Arnold's Debut, Inscribed
Alaric at Rome. A Prize Poem, Recited in Rugby School, June XII, MDCCCXL.
Rugby: Combe and Crossley, 1840. First edition. Arnold's Debut, Inscribed. The first edition of Matthew Arnold's first work, his Rugby School prize poem on the conquest of Rome by the Visigoth Alaric I in 410 AD. Unusual for a prize poem, the work was published anonymously and was not identified... Read More about Alaric at Rome. A Prize Poem, Recited in Rugby School, June XII, MDCCCXL
Price: $60,000
Cromwell: a prize poem, recited in the theatre, Oxford; June 28, 1843.
Oxford: Printed and Published by J. Vincent, 1843. First edition of the author's second appearance in book form, preceded by his first book, Alaric in Rome, 1840. Arnold was awarded the Newdigate Prize for this poem, written while he was a student at Oxford. Read More about Cromwell: a prize poem, recited in the theatre, Oxford; June 28, 1843
Price: $1,250
Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems.
London: B. Fellowes; R. Clay, Printer, 1852. First edition. With author's signature laid-in. Read More about Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems
Price: $350
Creatures.
New York: Macmillan, 1930. First editon, Deluxe Issue, Number 202 of 300 copies, signed by the author and artist. Read More about Creatures
Price: $250
Inscribed
Shadow Train.
New York: Viking, [1981]. First edition. Inscribed. Inscribed on the title page, "for Roslyn Targ on her birthday. John Ashbery" Read More about Shadow Train
Price: $175
Inscribed by Schulyer and with an Autograph Postcard Signed
A Nest of Ninnies.
Calais, Vermont: Z Press, 1975. Brainard, Joe. Inscribed by Schulyer and with an Autograph Postcard Signed. Inscribed by Schuyler on the half-title and with an autograph postcard signed ("Jim Schuyler") loosely inserted, dated July 17, 1995 and reading in part: "I'm going up to Hudson to help John Ashbery celebrate... Read More about A Nest of Ninnies
Price: $150
Three Madrigals.
New York: Poet's Press, Inc. Hotel Albert, 1968]. First edition, one of 150 copies, signed by the poet. Read More about Three Madrigals
Price: $175
The Table Talk of W.H. Auden.
New York: Sea Cliff, 1989. First edition. A collection of transcribed conversations between Ansen and W. H. Auden from November 1946 to April 1948, covering topics that range freely from Balzac and Wagner to homosexuality and communism. Read More about The Table Talk of W.H. Auden
Price: $200
The Age of Anxiety. A Baroque Eclogue.
London: Faber and Faber Limited, [1948]. First English edition, one of 3000 copies, preceded a year earlier by the American edition. Read More about The Age of Anxiety. A Baroque Eclogue
Price: $150
Autograph letter signed ("W.H. Auden"), 1 p, to N. John Hall.
Kirchstetten, Austria: June 1, 1970. Auden writes to literary scholar N. John Hall regarding the English wit Sydney Smith: "... I don't recognise the Sydney Smith quotation. The sentence "What happiness ... domestic shackles" could well be by him, but, if so, certainly meant sarcastically. Smith was very respectable in... Read More about Autograph letter signed ("W.H. Auden"), 1 p, to N. John Hall
Price: $450
The Old Man's Road.
New York: Voyage's Press, 1956. One of 700 copies of the trade issue of a total edition of 750 (there were also 50 signed copies). Read More about The Old Man's Road
Price: $125