Essentials. Definitions and Aphorisms
Chicago: Privately Printed, 1931. First edition, No. 411 of 1000 copies. The author's second book, printed by the... Read More
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Agenda. Volume One, Number One through Volume 3, Number 6.
London: Poets & Painters Press, 1959-1964. First. Read More
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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 ... '") Aiken's... Read More
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The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. With a memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas.
London: Bell and Daldy Fleet Street, 1866. Read More
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The Young Grayhead. A Tale of the Ford.
Yonkers: William H. Post, 1865. First separate publication. This poem was originally pubished in the “Knickerbocker” of January 1848 where it was mis-attributed to Mr.Thoma Miller. An inscription on the front free endpaper reads “A Christmas Present from Bailey Hobbs Yonkers to Mrs. Erastus Titus, City of New York Dec... Read More
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems. By A.
London: B. Fellowes; R. Clay, Printer, 1852. First edition. With author's signature laid-in. Read More
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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An Angler's Anthology. Collected by.
London: Country Life Limited, [1930]. Wilkinson, Norman. First edition. Read More
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Four Manuscript Poems.
N.p. [American]: ca. 1780s? A somewhat bleak collection of four sacred poems, accomplished in a neat manuscript hand with a lovely calligraphic title, and signed by Mary S. Austin. The titles include "On the Death of Miss Hamilton By a Lady of Hudson," "A. Hymm," "Maria," and "Mortality." Read More
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Author's First Book
The Frog Prince and Other Poems.
Aldington, Kent: The Ditchling Press, Sussex, 1952. First edition of the author's first book. Number IX in the publisher's series, "Poems in Pamphlet 1952" Author's First Book. First book by the poet, who later adopted the pseudonym, "Gabriel Fielding" Read More
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Woman, A Poem.
London: for Henry Colburn, Public Library, Conduit Street, Hanover Square, 1818. First edition thus. Barrett (1786-1820) first published a poem entitled ' Woman' in 1810; in this version of 1818 ' I determined to rewrite the poem ... I have found so much omission, alteration, and new matter necessary, that... Read More
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