From E.E. Cummings to Allen Tate
“Marion”
n.d. From E.E. Cummings to Allen Tate. An oil bust portrait of Cummings’ wife, Marion Morehouse, given to... Read More about “Marion&rdquo
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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..... Read More about Those Not Elect
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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
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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 ... '")..... Read More about Selected Poems
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Senlin: A Biography.
London: Hogarth Press, 1925. First edition, first issue binding. The poem is revised from its earlier appearance. The number of copies printed is not known. Read More about Senlin: A Biography
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Thee.
New York: George Braziller, [1967]. First edition. Inscribed by the author to poet ALLEN TATE, "For Allen/con amore/ and I don't know How/ Somerset Maugham got on my back-!/ Conrad/ 1967." Read More about Thee
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![Item #333028 Uroki muzyki. Stikhi. [Music Lessons]. Bella Akhmadulina](/pictures/thumb/333028.jpg?v=1656546639)
Uroki muzyki. Stikhi. [Music Lessons].
Moscow: Sovetskiĭ Pisatel', 1969. First edition. After her first book of poems Struna [String] (1962) was published, as a success, her work was criticized by the government as "superfluous and too intimate". It took her seven years to publish this, her second volume. Joseph Brodsky called her the best living..... Read More about Uroki muzyki. Stikhi. [Music Lessons
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![Item #333036 Izbrannye stikhotvorenii︠a︡ [Selected Poems]. Anna Akhmatova](/pictures/thumb/333036.jpg?v=1656546641)
Izbrannye stikhotvorenii︠a︡ [Selected Poems].
New York: Izd-vo im. Chekhova, 1952. Read More about Izbrannye stikhotvorenii︠a︡ [Selected Poems
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A New Folder ... Americans: Poems and Drawings. With a foreward by Wallace Fowlie.
New York: Folder Editions, nd. First edition. Number 16 of 150 copies bound in cloth. Signed by Aldan on the title and limitation leaf. Poetry and art by John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, Franz Kline, Larry Rivers, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Denise Levertov, James Merrill, Charles Olson, Robert Motherwell, and Willem..... Read More about A New Folder ... Americans: Poems and Drawings. With a foreward by Wallace Fowlie
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The Poetry of the East.
Boston: Whiiemore, Niles and Hall, 1856. William Rounseville Alger (1822-1905) was a Unitarian minister and author whose writings were important to the development of comparative religious studies. His works included The Poetry of the East (1856) and A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life (1860). Contents. Read More about The Poetry of the East
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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...
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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
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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
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Mid-American Chants.
New York: John Lan Company, 1918. First edition. Read More about Mid-American Chants
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"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"
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LES PEINTRES CUBISTES: Meditations Esthetiques par Guillaume Apollinaire. Pablo Picasso- Georges Braque... Juan Gris- Fernand Leger- Francis Picabia- Marcel Duchamp-...
Geneve: Pierre Cailler, Editeur, 1950. First edition thus, by this publisher, trade issue. Read More about LES PEINTRES CUBISTES: Meditations Esthetiques par Guillaume Apollinaire. Pablo Picasso- Georges...
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Creatures.
New York: Macmillan, 1930. First editon, Deluxe Issue, Number 202 of 300 copies, signed by the author and artist. Read More about Creatures
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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
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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
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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
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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