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The Rattle Bag. An Anthology of Poetry. Selected and edited by Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes by SEAMUS HEANEY AND TED HUGHES - 1982

by SEAMUS HEANEY AND TED HUGHES

The Rattle Bag. An Anthology of Poetry. Selected and edited by Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes by SEAMUS HEANEY AND TED HUGHES - 1982

The Rattle Bag. An Anthology of Poetry. Selected and edited by Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes

by SEAMUS HEANEY AND TED HUGHES

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Faber, London, 1982. First Edition (first printing) - the uncommon casebound issue. 8vo. 498pp. Yellow cloth lettered and ruled in gold at the spine. Spine ends and corner tips very lightly rubbed. Contemporary former owner gift inscription inked to the front free endpaper. Very good indeed in very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with a little corresponding chafing to the spine panel ends. The scarce hardback edition of this anthology of nearly five hundred poems. Brandes & Durkan B58.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.
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Country Sentiment. Poems.
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Country Sentiment. Poems.

by ROBERT GRAVES.

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Martin Secker, London, 1920. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 81pp. 'Cobble-stone' decorated paper-covered boards with a paper spine label. A strip of light partial browned in the free endpapers and some spotting throughout. A tiny dealer plate to the front pastedown. A nice bright copy in the uncommon dust wrapper, slightly dust marked and tanned, and chipped at the spine panel ends with a little loss. Graves' fifth book, forty-six poems, dedicated to his wife Nancy Nicholson. 1,000 copies were printed. Higginson A5.
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Careless Love and Its Apostrophes. Poems. (SIGNED LIMITED EDITION)
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Careless Love and Its Apostrophes. Poems. (SIGNED LIMITED EDITION)

by WILLIAM BRONK.

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Red Ozier Press, New York, 1985. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First edition, limited to 175 numbered copies, this being one of just forty casebound copies (#22), signed by the author in pencil at the base of the colophon. 8vo. Unpaginated. Printed on Johannot mouldmade paper with hand-lettering by Anita Karl and bound into decorated paper-covered cloth designed by Claire Maziarczyk and with a paper spine label. A fine copy of a most handsome production. No dust wrapper called for, but housed in the original unprinted acetate protector. Thirty-one poems. Uncommon..
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No Continuing City. Poems 1963-1968.
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No Continuing City. Poems 1963-1968.

by MICHAEL LONGLEY

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Gill and Macmillan, Dublin, 1969. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) of the author's first regularly published collection (which was preceded by two pamphlets). Slim 8vo. 56pp. Blue cloth lettered in silver at the spine. Some fairly light spotting to the endpapers and to several concluding leaves, and also to occasional text leaves. A very crisp copy in price-clipped dust wrapper, a little rubbed, marked and chafed, and exhibiting some light internal spotting. A brief dedicatory verse precedes thirty-seven poems. Uncommon, especially in this casebound format (a UK edition was published alongside this Irish issue, but that one was only issued in wrappers)..
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The Double Image. Poems.
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The Double Image. Poems.

by DENISE LEVERTOV (writing as 'Denise Levertoff').

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The Cresset Press, London, 1946. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Small 8vo. 45pp. Cream cloth lettered in gold at the spine and upper board. Just a touch of very light spotting to the top edge and endpapers. Very good indeed in slightly dust soiled and spotted non-price-clipped dust wrapper. Thirty-five poems; the author's first collection of verse, published when she was just 23 years old. The author's father was a Russian Hassidic Jew named Paul Levertoff, but after the publication of this first book the author changed the spelling to Levertov, allegedly because 'v' looked more symmetrical than 'ff'..
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Inner Landscape. Poems.
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Inner Landscape. Poems.

by MAY SARTON

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The Cresset Press, London [1939]. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The correct first edition of the author's uncommon second book, preceding the US edition which was printed from these Cresset Press sheets. 8vo. 95pp. Green cloth lettered in gold at the spine and upper board, and with the fore- and bottom edges rough-trimmed. A light scattering of spotting to the top edge and free endpapers, with just a touch more to several preliminary leaves. A lengthy but light crease to the front free endpaper. A very crisp copy in the scarce dust wrapper, non-price-clipped but tanned at the spine panel and with some spotting and a little edge-chafing. A short crease to the base of the front wrapper flap..
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Country Sentiment. Poems.
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Country Sentiment. Poems.

by ROBERT GRAVES.

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Martin Secker, London, 1920. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 81pp. 'Cobble-stone' decorated paper-covered boards with a paper spine label. A strip of light partial browned in the free endpapers and some spotting throughout. A tiny dealer plate to the front pastedown. A nice bright copy in the uncommon dust wrapper, slightly dust marked and tanned, and chipped at the spine panel ends with a little loss. Graves' fifth book, forty-six poems, dedicated to his wife Nancy Nicholson. 1,000 copies were printed. Higginson A5.
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contributes ten poems to the anthology Poetry from Oxford in Wartime. Edited by William Bell.
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contributes ten poems to the anthology Poetry from Oxford in Wartime. Edited by William Bell.

by PHILIP LARKIN

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The Fortune Press, London, 1945. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition, second state (bound in grained cloth instead of smooth). Slim 8vo. 94pp + [ii] advertisements. Dark purplish-blue grained cloth lettered in gold at the spine. A small area of discolouration to the head of the backstrip where the dust wrapper is defective, paperstock very lightly tanned and with just a hint of spotting to the title page and to very occasional text leaves. A very crisp copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, tanned at the spine panel with a single small area of loss, and with a little further uneven tanning to the front and rear panels. Former owner name neatly inked to the head of the front free endpaper, along side a date to the base of the front pastedown (this last obscured by the wrapper flap). Larkin's second mature appearance in print. Also includes contributions from Drummond Allison, William Bell, Ian Davie, W.J.Harvey, John Heath-Stubbs, Brian Hutton, Francis King, Christopher… Read More
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No Continuing City. Poems 1963-1968.
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No Continuing City. Poems 1963-1968.

by MICHAEL LONGLEY

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Gill and Macmillan, Dublin, 1969. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) of the author's first regularly published collection (which was preceded by two pamphlets). Slim 8vo. 56pp. Blue cloth lettered in silver at the spine. Some fairly light spotting to the endpapers and to several concluding leaves, and also to occasional text leaves. A very crisp copy in price-clipped dust wrapper, a little rubbed, marked and chafed, and exhibiting some light internal spotting. A brief dedicatory verse precedes thirty-seven poems. Uncommon, especially in this casebound format (a UK edition was published alongside this Irish issue, but that one was only issued in wrappers)..
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The Double Image. Poems.
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The Double Image. Poems.

by DENISE LEVERTOV (writing as 'Denise Levertoff').

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The Cresset Press, London, 1946. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Small 8vo. 45pp. Cream cloth lettered in gold at the spine and upper board. Just a touch of very light spotting to the top edge and endpapers. Very good indeed in slightly dust soiled and spotted non-price-clipped dust wrapper. Thirty-five poems; the author's first collection of verse, published when she was just 23 years old. The author's father was a Russian Hassidic Jew named Paul Levertoff, but after the publication of this first book the author changed the spelling to Levertov, allegedly because 'v' looked more symmetrical than 'ff'..
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Inner Landscape. Poems.
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Inner Landscape. Poems.

by MAY SARTON

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The Cresset Press, London [1939]. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The correct first edition of the author's uncommon second book, preceding the US edition which was printed from these Cresset Press sheets. 8vo. 95pp. Green cloth lettered in gold at the spine and upper board, and with the fore- and bottom edges rough-trimmed. A light scattering of spotting to the top edge and free endpapers, with just a touch more to several preliminary leaves. A lengthy but light crease to the front free endpaper. A very crisp copy in the scarce dust wrapper, non-price-clipped but tanned at the spine panel and with some spotting and a little edge-chafing. A short crease to the base of the front wrapper flap..
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Arvon Foundation Poetry Competition : 1980 Anthology

Arvon Foundation Poetry Competition : 1980 Anthology

by EDITED BY Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney

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Kilnhurst Publishing Company. Good+. 1982. Paperback. - Good overall condition. General wear. Light blemishes on cover. No writing. .
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Ploughshares, Volume 6, No. 1

by Heaney, Seamus, editor. Ted Hughes, Seamus Deane, Brian Friel, Derek Mahon, and other contributors

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Cambridge, 1980. First Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. Near fine in wrappers with light rubbing.
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The School Bag

The School Bag

by Heaney, Seamus and Ted Hughes (editors)

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Faber and Faber. Paperback. 590pp. Some creasing to spine. Lightly rubbed. Clean and sound. Good+, sound copy . Paperback. 1997.
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Tenfold: Poems for Frances Horovitz

by (HEANEY, Seamus, Ted Hughes, P. J. Kavanagh, Anne Stevens, and others)

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Published for Martin Booth at th, 1983T. paperback. Very Good. in x in x in. A clean and tight copy.
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[CD]: Great Poets of the 20th Century

[CD]: Great Poets of the 20th Century

by (SASSOON, Siegfried, W.H. Auden, T.S. Eliot, Ted Hughes, Philip Larkin, Sylvia Plath, and Seamus Heaney)

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London: The Guardian / Faber and Faber, [no date]. Unbound. Fine. CD in paper sleeve. Introduced by Claire Amistad. Sleeve trifle worn else fine; the CD appears unused. Features recordings of seven poets reading their poems: Siegfried Sassoon ("The Dug-Out," "Everyone Sang"); W.H. Auden ("Shield of Achilles," "As I Walked out one Evening"); T.S. Eliot ("The Journey of the Magi," "A Game of Chess"); Ted Hughes ("Pike," "February 17th"); Philip Larkin ("The Whitsun Weddings," "The Trees"); Sylvia Plath ("Parliament Hill Fields," "The Applicant"); and Seamus Heaney ("Death of a Naturalist," The Railway Children," "Clearances 3").
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Poetry 1969

Poetry 1969

by (HUGHES, Ted, Seamus Heaney, Louis Simpson, Elizabeth Jennings, and more) GRANT, Damian, edited by

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(London): Critical Quarterly Poetry Supplement, 1969. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Octavo. 24pp. Stapled wrappers. A fine copy. Issued as "Critical Quarterly Poetry Supplement Number 10". Contains three poems by Seamus Heaney (which appeared previously in 'Door Into the Dark'), the first appearance of two poems by Ted Hughes ("Second Bedtime Story" and "Notes for a Little Play" [Sagar & Tabor B44]), and poems by Derek Mahon, Louis Simpson, Elizabeth Jennings, R.S. Thomas, and more.
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Tenfold: Poems for Frances Horovitz

Tenfold: Poems for Frances Horovitz

by (HEANEY, Seamus, Ted Hughes, P. J. Kavanagh, Anne Stevenson, and others)

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Knotting, Bedford: Published for Martin Booth at the Skelton's Press, 1983. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Octavo. Stapled printed wrappers. Fine. One of 500 copies printed for a reading by Gillian Clarke, Seamus Heaney, Libby Houston, Ted Hughes, Paul Hyland, P.J. Kavanagh, Peter Redgrove, Anne Stevenson, D.M. Thomas, and Charles Tomlinson.
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Tenfold Poems for Frances Horovitz

Tenfold Poems for Frances Horovitz

by HOROVITZ, Francis, Gillian Clarke, Seamus Heaney, Libby Houston, Ted Hughes, Paul Hyland, P.J. Kavanagh, Peter Redgrove, Anne Stevenson, D.M. Thomas, and Charles Tomlinson

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np: Martin Booth, 1983. First edition. Softcover. Published in an edition of 500 copies. A collection of poems published on behalf of the Frances Horovitz Benefit. Includes one of her poems along with poems by Gillian Clarke, Seamus Heaney, Libby Houston, Ted Hughes, Paul Hyland, P.J. Kavanagh, Peter Redgrove, Anne Stevenson, D.M. Thomas, and Charles Tomlinson. A near fine copy in stapled wrappers with laid in complimentary slip.
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THE RATTLE BAG

THE RATTLE BAG

by Heaney, Seamus and Hughes, Ted

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London: Faber & Faber No publication date (2006). 498pp. Book clean and square. Several soft reading creases on slightly concaved spine. Art-illustrated (Nigel Owen) card wrapper nominally bumped only. Textblock lightly age-toned, else unmarked. Conceived as a collection of the editors, Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) and Ted Hughes (1930-1998), favourite poems, "The Rattle Bag" has established it itself as the classic anthology of our time . . . Contents include: Prelims., The Poems, beginning with "Adieu, Farewell Earth's Bliss", Thomas Nashe, and closing many poems later with "You're", Sylvia Plath. Glossary. Index of Poets and Works. Acks. Book weight approx. 535g. . Reprint Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 8vo - (approx. 21.5cm x 13.5cm).
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NEW POEMS 1966. Critical Quarterly Poetry Supplement #7

by PLATH Sylvia, Gary Snyder, Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, Thom Gunn and Others

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1st edition 1966. Critical Quarterly Society - London.. Includes "You're" by Sylvia Plath, 3 poems by Snyder, "Reveille" by Ted Hughes & various other contributors inc Thom Gunn, Seamus Heaney, Robert Lowell etc. Decorated stapled card wraps. VG. No dustwrapper as issued. .
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Immortal Prairie (INSCRIBED) (FIRST)
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Immortal Prairie (INSCRIBED) (FIRST)

by Ransom, James H

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2015 - Stated First Edition - Limited Edition - INSCRIBED by author on the title-page "Fran Marie, Friend for many years," - "Unlike the tradition of most books of poetry, Ransom includes photos and paintings." - book: near fine - tight, sound, and square - pages are clean and unmarked - dj: near fine
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Shoemaker's Best Selections Number 5 For Readings and Recitations
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Shoemaker's Best Selections Number 5 For Readings and Recitations

by Shoemaker, J. W

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1906
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Rare original poetry book with cloth covered boards, copyright 1880 by J. W. Shoemaker & Co. This edition published in 1906 by the Penn Publishing company, Philadelphia. From the estate of my great-great grandfather.Includes many unique poems and recitations such as "To a skull", "Uncle Daniel's Introduction to a Mississippi Steamer", "The Leak in the Dyke", etc. More well-known poetry includes "Song of Birds", "Old Ironsides", and "Bannock Burn" by Robbie Burns. Light rubbing and bumps to outside spine edges. Back cover and interior cloth covered board has a stain at top. Original owner's name and address from 1908, but no other writing or marks. First 2 pages have a stain at top, but text of 192 pages of poetry and recitations is totally clean with light tanning of pages.
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A Ballet of Lepers: A Novel and Stories
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A Ballet of Lepers: A Novel and Stories

by Cohen, Leonard

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New York, Grove Press, 2022, trade paperback, 272 pp, Advance Uncorrected Proof (ARC), New. Straight, tight and clean with no wear or markings in bright, pictorial card covers, no dustjacket as issued. The pieces in this collection, written between 1956 and 1961 and including short fiction, a radio play, and a stunning early novel, offer startling insights into Cohens imagination and creative process. Cohen explores themes that would permeate his later work, from shame and unworthiness to sexual desire in all its sacred and profane dimensions to longing, whether for love, family, freedom, or transcendence. ISBN 9780802160478
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Just God And Me

Just God And Me

by Mary Frances Reyes

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Comet Press Books, New York, 1956, Fine Hardcover / no dustjacket, 56 pages, 5.5" x 8.25". Inscribed by author on ffep.
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Quartering
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Quartering

by Reza, Seema

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Trumansburg, NY: Out of Step Press. Fine with no dust jacket. 2016. Numbered Edition; First Printing. Pamphlet. The author's non-linear poem about the billeting of soldiers in civilian homes in wartime. Copy 89 of a limited edition of 250. Folded into the form of a letter, the work was letterpress printed in wraps of handmade "combat paper" made from military uniforms. The author says: "Some time ago-maybe a year, maybe two? I had a conversation with some of my Combat Paper brothers (well, the kids call them their combat paper uncles, so it follows…) that led to me writing the poem "Quartering." Which was informed by them, of course, and by all the rooms I'm in, and by imagining what is really required of all the caregivers I love. It's a thought experiment: if we tore down the barracks at military hospitals and offered incentives for Americans in the surrounding neighborhoods to quarter injured service members, what would the honest instructions… Read More
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Fan poems

by Tom Clark

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Plainfield: North Atlantic Books, 1976. First Edition, 8vo. [60pp], no pagination. Softcover, pictorial wraps. Very good condition, faint creasing, slight rubbing, top corner bumped and back cover small stain. This project was partially supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington, D.C., a federal agency. Please see photos for specifics. A portion of all book sales from Babcock & 68th are donated to charity.
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Pantone 125

Pantone 125

by Lee, Madeleine

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Singapore: Math Paper Press. Very Good. 2012. First Edition. Softcover. 9810728492 . Printed white wrappers, show moderate soil; light vertical crease front cover. Two Poem anthology, arising from the accidental advocacy of one poet, coming off the back of her love for walking about in the less beaten paths in Singapore. In a series of chapbooks borne of the Babette's Feast public gathering of writers.; 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall .
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Melodie d'Infinito; Rime e Canti dei Chiarori Stellari.

Melodie d'Infinito; Rime e Canti dei Chiarori Stellari.

by Sparito, Giosue [Enrico Fagone]

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Palermo Edizioni Arte e Pensiero, 1947, paperback. Poetry, text in ITALIAN. SIGNED, inscribed by Giosue Sparito (pseudonym of Enrico Fagone). 123 pages. Softcover. Good used condition: binding unglued from spine, covers edgeworn, page margins tanned.
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Dreamer's Den

Dreamer's Den

by Alsup, Byron K

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ISBN 13
9780682486231
ISBN 10
068248623X
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NY: Exposition Press, 1976. Burgundy leatherette boards, bright gilt lettering. Pages [63] clean, unmarked, binding tight and square. Semi-transparent waxpaper dust jacket, appears to be original; in new archival mylar, age discoloration at edges and spine, some edge wear, small bit missing. The author graduated Kennett (Missouri) High School in 1973. Copy of newspaper [DDD] article about the KHS reunion on Jan 18, 2004 laid in. Now also available is a signed copy, same condition but without the transparent dust jacket. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every book listed is located in my smoke free and climate controlled shop. All are inspected by me and will have qualities and/or flaws described. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Good+.
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THE WATER POEM AND OTHERS

THE WATER POEM AND OTHERS

by Friedberg, Martha

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First Edition
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Winnetka, IL: Vixen Press, 1985. First Edition. Pictorial Paper Covers. Fine. 20pp, colophon; six colored wood engravings by Caryl Seidenberg. 9.5" x 6.5" This is #222 of 250 copies only, set in Centaur and Arrighi types and printed by hand on dampened Rives heavyweight. Signed under the colophon by Seidenberg and by Friedberg.
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