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1) The Old Timer
Adams, Bob

Ithaca: Bob Adams Syndicate. very good+, no dj, brown cloth. 1931. 1st. hard. 56 pgs . more information

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2) A Bouquet of Poetry (Contemporary Poets of Dorrance 222)
Ahearn, Mae Kane

Philadelphia: Dorrance. near fine, no dj, gold-stamped kelly green cloth. c1941. 1st. hard. 40 pgs . more information

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3) Robert Frost and John Bartlett: the record of a friendship
Anderson, Margaret Bartlett

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. near fine, nf dj, brown cloth, some light pencilled underlines. c1963. stated 1st. hard. 224 pgs . more information

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4) Letters to Women
Auslander, Joseph

very good, no dj, paste-on to spine & front cover, black cloth Clare Leighton artwork American poetry Harper & Bros New York c1929 3rd ptg hardcover 85 pgs, Clean text. Tight, solid w/ attractive art. "Letters" addressed to Elinor Wylie, Amy Lowell, Sappho, Eleanora Duse, et al more information

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5) The Doubled House of Life (Poems)
Blasing, Randy

New York: Persea Books. near fine, trade paperback, photog. slate green covers. c1989. stated 1st. 64 pgs . more information

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6) Talking All Morning [Poets on Poetry series]
Bly, Robert

Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan. near fine, trade paperback, turquoise covers. c1980. 1987 5th ptg. 308 pgs . more information

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7) Margins, a Sequence of New and Selected Poems
Booth, Philip

New York: Viking. very good+, vg dj, lightly soiled blue cloth, clean text, tight. c1953-1969. 1970 1st. hard. 100 pgs . more information

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8) Poems
Brown, Rita Mae

near fine, trade paperback, faded spine panel, clean text Diana Souza cover American poetry Crossing Press Freedom, CA c1971, 1973 1st paper unpaged, ISBN: 0-89594-247-X more information

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9) My Father's Business and Other Poems [Second edition]
Brown, Spencer

New Rochelle, NY: Elizabeth Press. fine, stapled booklet, blue paper covers. c1956. 1980 1st thus. paper. more information

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10) Poems
Bryant, William Cullen

New York: Crowell. very good+, no dj, elaborately stamped brown cloth, gilt edges. no date. 19th-century. hard. 342 pgs . more information

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11) The Unknown Way
Bryant, William Cullen

New York: Dutton. very good, no dj, tooled leather covers, bound by gold ribbon. c1885. presumed 1st. hard. unpaged . more information

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12) Star Apocrypha
Buckley, Christopher

Evanston, IL: Northwestern Univ.. near fine, trade paperback, pict. b/w covers. c2001. 1st paper. 74 pgs . more information

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13) 39 Poems
Ciardi, John

New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers. near fine, near fine price-clipped dj, aqua cl spine w/ boards. 1959. 5th ptg. hard. 86 pgs . more information

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14) The Monster Den or Look What Happened at My House -- and To It
Ciardi, John

Philadelphia/New York: Lippincott. very good, fair tape-repaired worn price-clipped dj, pict. bds. c1963-1966. presumed 1st. hard. 64 pgs . more information

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15) Primer for America
Coffin, Robert P. Tristram

New York: Macmillan. very good+, good+ tape-repaired dj, gold-stamped black cloth. c1943. 2nd ptg. hard. 167 pgs . more information

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16) An American in August-Land
Coleman, Elliott

very good, good+ soiled lightly chipped dj, blue cloth. Tight American poetry Univ. of North Carolina Chapel Hill c1940 1st hardcover 82 pgs, Small inked note front endpaper, some traces of foxing to text. Still attractive. Binghamton, New York-born poet more information

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17) Fort Bragg & Other Points South (Poems)
Daniell, Rosemary

New York: Henry Holt. near fine, trade paperback, pict. teal covers. c1968-1988. 1st Owl. 72 pgs . more information

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18) The Skyline Trail: a book of Western Verse. SIGNED by author
Davies, Mary Carolyn

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill. very good+, fair worn heavily chipped dj, pictorial cloth. c1924. 1st trade. hard. 159 pgs . more information

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19) A Garland of Straw
De Vinck, Catherine

Allendale, NJ: Alleluia Press. very good+, trade paperback, mustard covers. 1981. 1st. paper. 92 pgs . more information

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20) The Zodiac
Dickey, James

Garden City: Doubleday. good++, no dj, gold-stamped red cloth, partly stained fr cover. c1976. 1st. hard. 62 pgs . more information

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21) The Road to Town: a book of poems
Divine, Charles

New York: Thomas Seltzer. very good+, no dj, orange-stamped dark green cloth. 1925. 1st. hard. 85 pgs . more information

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22) Like Memory, Caverns: Poems
Dodd, Elizabeth

fine, trade paperback, pict. blue & yellow covers William B. Gay cover art American poetry New York University New York and London c1992 1st paper 94 pgs, ISBN: 0-8147-1855-8. Elmer Holmes Bobst Award winner. Giftable! more information

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23) In the Afternoon. SIGNED by author
Dunning, William Bailey

Albany NY: The Argus Press. near fine, no dj, silver-stamped green cloth. c1954. No.56 of 500. hard. 50 pgs . more information

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24) Motor Disturbance
Elmslie, Kenward

New York and London: Columbia Univ.. very good, no dj, waterstains to front cover, turquoise cloth. c1971. 1st hard. 75 pgs . more information

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25) American Child, a Sonnet Sequence
Engle, Paul

New York: Random. very good+, fair chipped worn dj, black cloth w/ patterned bds. c1945. stated 1st. hard. 66 pgs . more information

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26) American Child: a sonnet sequence
Engle, Paul

New York: Random. good, no dj, black cloth spine w/ patterned bds, worn edges. c1945. 3rd ptg. hard. 66 pgs . more information

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27) A Little Book of Tribune Verse (A Number of Hitherto Uncollected Poems, Grave and Gay). Edited by Joseph G. Brown
Field, Eugene

New York: Grosset & Dunlap. very good, no dj, pict. light blue cloth, waterspeckled spine. c1901. early reprint. hard. 249 pgs . more information

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28) One to a Customer: Collected Poems
Fishback, Margaret

New York: Dutton. very good+, good+ tape-repaired dj, gray cloth. c1932-1937. 10/47 reprint. hard. 450 pgs . more information

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29) A Further Range (Book Six)
Frost, Robert

very good+, vg chipped dj, gold-stamped maroon buckram. Tight American poetry Henry Holt New York c1936 Book Club hardcover 102 pgs, No names, clean text. BMOC flyer laid in. Attractive more information

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30) Orchard Park and Istanbul
Glazier, Lyle

Denver: Big Mountain Press. very good+, good+ soiled white dj, turquoise cloth. 1965. 1st. hard. 87 pgs . more information

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31) Poems, Plays, and Essays by Oliver Goldsmith
Goldsmith, Oliver

near fine, no dj, bright gold-stamped green cloth. Gilt edges b/w plates poetry Crowell New York/ Boston c1884 "Imperial" hardcover 530 pgs, No names, bkplates, clean text. With essay by Henry T. Tuckerman & memoir by John Aiken more information

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32) Hawkweed (Poems)
Goodman, Paul

very good, mass market paper, pict. dark green covers. Tight American poetry Vintage (V-402)/ Random New York c1942-1967 9/67 1st thus 185 pgs, Denise Levertov blurb. Could have either small sticker scar or remainder mk. Clean text. more information

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33) A Heap o' Livin'
Guest, Edgar A

very good, vg+ lightly chipped dj, bright gold-stamped green cl American poetry Reilly & Lee Chicago c1916 not stated hardcover 192 pgs, A few dog-ears, two tiny inked notes in text. Handsome copy, scarce dj more information

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34) The Laughing Muse
Guiterman, Arthur

New York: Harper & Bros. very good+, no dj, gold-stamped light blue cloth, gilt top. 1915. 9/15 1st. hard. 246 pgs . more information

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35) Taking Notice
Hacker, Marilyn

near fine, trade paperback, pictorial cream covers J. C. Constantin DJ art American poetry Alfred A. Knopf New York c1976-1980 1980 1st paper 121 pgs, ISBN: 0-394-73917-5. Dedicated to Marie Ponsot more information

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36) Pass It On (Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets)
Hadas, Rachel

Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ.. near fine, trade paper, photog. rust covers. c1989. 1st paper. 73 pgs . more information

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37) Seasonal Rights (Poems)
Halpern, Daniel

New York: Viking / Penguin. near fine, trade paperback, pict. covers, clean text, unread. c1979-1982. 1st paper. 69 pgs . more information

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38) One Tough Marine: the autobiography of First Sergeant Don N. Hamblen, USMC
Hamblen, First Sergeant Don N. and Major Bruce H. "Doc" Norton

fine, fine dj, black bds. Clean text. Tight b/w photos, maps military Ballantine New York c1993 Book Club hardcover 337 pgs, ISBN: 0-345-38481-4. Indexed. Vietnam War era more information

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39) Weather and Season (New Poems)
Hamburger, Michael

New York: Atheneum. very good+, no dj, gold-stamped brown cloth. 1963. 1st American. hard. 64 pgs . more information

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40) The Distance Anywhere (The Lamont Poetry Selection for 1966)
Hanson, Kenneth O

Seattle and London: Univ. of Washington. fine, near fine lightly chipped dj, gold-stamped black cloth. 1967. 1st. hard. 85 pgs . more information

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41) Carnival Woods: Poems
Harris, Emily Katherine and Ellen Tifft

Endwell, NY: Johnson City Publishing. fine, near fine dj, black-stamped red cloth. 1972. 1st. hard. 138 pgs . more information

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42) Story Hour
Hay, Sara Henderson

Garden City: Doubleday. fine, vg+ chipped price-clipped dj, black cloth. c1961, 1963. 1st. hard. 71 pgs . more information

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43) Long Island Light: poems and a memoir
Heyen, William

New York: Vanguard. very good, trade paper, partly faded yellow covers, clean text. c1967-1979. 1st paper. 197 pgs . more information

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44) The Mistress of the Manse
Holland, J.G

New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Co. vgood+, no dj, lightly soiled elaborately stamped deep siena cl. c1874. 1874. hardcover. 245+ pgs . more information

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45) The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes. Household Edition
Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin. very good, no dj, mustard cloth, darkened spine. c1850-1890. hard. 403 pgs . more information

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46) The Shadow of a Man
House, Homer C

New York: Loker Raley. very good+, vg lightly worn dj, labels to blue cloth. 1940. 1st. hard. 124 pgs . more information

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47) Dartmouth Lyrics
Hovey, Richard

very good+, no dj, gold & green-stamped taupe cloth. Clean text American poetry Dartmouth College Pub. Hanover, NH c1938 "subscription" hardcover 55 pgs, Intro: Francis Lane Childs. Early poems by the American romantic poet who died in 1900. Small dent upper spine more information

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48) The Never-ending (New Poems)
Hudgins, Andrew

Boston: Houghton Mifflin. near fine, trade paper, pict. gold covers. Clean & tight. c1991. 1st paper. 67 pgs . more information

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49) After the Stravinsky Concert and Other Poems
Hunting, Constance

New York: Scribner's. fine, fine dj, mottled tan bds. 1969. 1st. hard. 73 pgs . more information

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50) Walt Whitman, a Life
Kaplan, Justin

New York: Simon and Schuster. very good, vg+ dj, brown cloth & bds, tight. c1980. 1st. hard. 432 pgs . more information

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