In the Cold Country.
New York: Bonacio & Saul and Grove Press, 1954. Hardcover. 8vo. Tan cloth, dust jacket. 48pp. Very good/good plus. First edition of Howes' second poetry collection. More
New York: Bonacio & Saul and Grove Press, 1954. Hardcover. 8vo. Tan cloth, dust jacket. 48pp. Very good/good plus. First edition of Howes' second poetry collection. More
New York: F.S. Crofts & Co., 1937. Hardcover. Edited by Albert Schinz. Small 8vo. Blue cloth spine and tan patterned paper over boards. xxvii, 274pp. Very good. Tight and attractive copy of the revised edition of this 1908 collection. The preface and notes are largely in English, the poems one..... More
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1932. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth spine with gilt lettering and lavender paper over boards, dust jacket. viii, 166pp. Very good/good plus. Jacket somewhat age toned and edgeworn, with spine lightly sunned. First edition of this short story and verse collection, limited to 1500 numbered..... More
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1932. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth spine with gilt lettering and lavender paper over boards, dust jacket. viii, 166pp. Very good/good plus. Jacket rather age toned, lightly soiled and edgeworn, with tiny chips at head and tail of spine. A tight and attractive first edition..... More
Iowa City: Friends of the University of Iowa Libraries, 1984. Hardcover. 12mo. Red and grey cloth, dust jacket. 31pp, viii, 112pp, 4pp. Near fine/very good. Rhodes Dunlap introduces this facsimile reprint of Hunt's 1835 anti-war poem. A handsome, tight copy. More
Iowa City: Friends of the University of Iowa Libraries, 1984. Hardcover. With an introduction to this edition by Rhodes Dunlap. 12mo. Red and grey cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 31pp, 112pp, 4pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Fine/fine. Pristine first of this edition, a fine facsimile with added introduction. This..... More
Iowa City: The University of Iowa School of Journalism, 1965. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff pale lavender wrappers. ix, 22pp. Tipped-in illustration. Near fine. Sharp and tight first edition. Title page elaborates, "Notes printed from the autograph manuscript... with translations of the sonnets into English by Joseph Garrow, Shelley, and Charles..... More
Iowa City: The University of Iowa School of Journalism, 1965. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff pale lavender wrappers. ix, 22pp. Tipped-in illustration. Near fine. A tight and quite lovely first edition. Title page elaborates, "Notes printed from the autograph manuscript... with translations of the sonnets into English by Joseph Garrow, Shelley..... More
London: How and Parsons, 1842. Hardcover. 8vo. Dark green blind-embossed cloth with gilt lettering. 80pp. All edges gilt. Illustrations. Good plus. Slightly edgeworn and bearing dark green book cloth tape to spine, though internally tight and near fine. First edition, tight and attractive. Bookplate on front pastedown of noted Chicago..... More
Iowa City: Friends of the University of Iowa Libraries, 1984. Paperback. 16mo. Stiff tan wrappers. (2pp). Fine. Pristine first thus of this tiny poetry pairing, "Rondeau" (also known as "Jenny kiss'd Me") and the Arab-themed "Abou Ben Adhem" -- two of the best-known brief poems of the English poet/essayist/critic (1784-1859)..... More
New York: Vantage Press, 1953. Hardcover. 8vo. Burgundy cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 48pp. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear, with several quite small edge chips; minor offsetting to pastedowns, as usual. Probable sole printing, signed boldly by the author in blue fountain pen on the front flyleaf. More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, n.y. Hardcover. Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Small 4to. Orange cloth with black lettering and decoration, pictorial dust jacket. 256pp. Captioned tissue-guarded color frontispiece, 11 captioned tissue-guarded color full-page plates (as called for), decorative endpapers. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear, with several small edge chips; some..... More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1881. Hardcover. 12mo. Dark green cloth over bevel-edged boards with elaborate gilt and black decorative stamping. 520pp, (1p). All edges gilt. Tissue-guarded frontispiece, illustrations. Near fine. Remarkably tight, bright and lovely collection by the minor English poet and novelist (1820-97). Each text page bordered in..... More
New York: John Wurtelle Lovell, 1880. Hardcover. 12mo. Brown cloth over bevel-edged boards with elaborate gilt and black decorative stamping. 520pp, (1p). All edges gilt. Tissue-guarded frontispiece, illustrations. Very good. Bit of mild edgewear and faint rubbing; quaint contemporary non-authorial gift inscription on inner flyleaf. A tight and attractive collection..... More
Iowa City: University of Iowa, [1961]. Paperback. Narrow small 4to. Stiff pale blue wrappers. (26pp). Fine. First and surely sole printing of this slim, scarce pamphlet whose contributors include Iowa Poetry Workshop's long-time director Paul Engle along with such luminaries as Philip Levine, W.D. Snodgrass, Donald Justice, William Dickey and..... More
Iowa City: The Qara Press, [1959]. Paperback. Narrow 8vo. Stiff cream wrappers. (14pp). Fine. Superb copy of this slim gathering of 13 poems by 13 poets, with rear colophon (which notes "The printer's debt to Paul Engle and Harry Duncan is larger than the colophon will hold") citing an edition..... More
San Francisco: Paul Elder and Company, [1902]. Paperback. Illustrations by Gelett Burgess. Small 4to. Stiff tan wrappers with brown, black and burgundy lettering and decorations. (5ppp). Frontispiece, full-page line drawings, decorative borders. Good. Outer wrappers typically worn, with 1½" chip at tail of spine; as always, text block moderately age..... More
Washington, DC: Dryad Press, 1983. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff tan pictorial wrappers. 75pp. Very good. Bit of rubbing to wrappers (only). Tight, attractive first edition of this verse collection. More
New York: The Modern Library, n.y. Hardcover. 12mo. Grey cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. xii, 295pp, (8pp ads). Grey decorative endpapers. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear. Tight, quite nice later printing of #118, first published in 1935 but here undated (based on jacket/binding details of mid-..... More
Urbana, IL: The Finial Press, 1969. Hardcover. Illustrations by Tom Kovacs. 8vo. Yellow cloth. (Ca. 75pp). Very good. Very minor cloth soiling, else tight and attractive. First U.S. edition, limited to 171 numbered copies (this #171 -- last of its kind!) signed by Johnson and Kovacs. Notes the title page..... More
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, [2000]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth with white spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 59pp. Fine/fine. Perfectly pristine first edition of this poet's first book, winner of the 1999 Walt Whitman Award and the 2000 National Book Critics Circle Award. More
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., [1975]. Hardcover. Woodcuts by Kay Cole. Square 8vo. Black cloth spine with gilt lettering and green paper over boards, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. Frontispiece, full-page illustrations. Near fine/very good. Spine a bit age toned on otherwise near fine jacket. Handsome and tight first edition..... More
New York: Serenade Publishing, Inc., 1942-47. Hardcover. 8vo. Complete two-volume set in slipcase. Brown cloth with green lettering, dust jackets, slipcase with paper label. 65pp, 64pp. Fine/very good. Both volumes pristine, both jackets lightly age toned and faintly edgeworn, slipcase with several expertly, archivally mended seams. Handsome set of this..... More
New York: The Modern Library, [1951]. Hardcover. Edited by Harold Edgar Briggs. 12mo. Burgundy cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xxxvi, 515pp, (9pp ads). Grey decorative endpapers. Near fine/very good. Faintest of jacket edgewear; tiny front pastedown ownership signature. Tight and handsome later ML edition of #273, first..... More