Search Results: Individual Poets

Whitman Pub Co., Racine, 1958. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: New American Library / Signet Classic, 1980. Book. Good. Soft cover. Reprint. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Mass Market Paperback. 432 pages. Index of Titles, and a revised and updated Selected Bibliography. Introduction by Gay Wilson Allen. Reprint. Previous owner's name on first page, with one page showing brief marginalia in green ink and a number of poems in contents page showing check marks in front in right hand margin. Minor corner crease to lower corner of front cover. No spine crease. A sound, used copy. Good. .

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall Inc., 1962. Book. Good. Hardcover. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, ex-library copy, no dust-jacket. 184 pages. Includes a Chronology of Important Dates and a Bibliography. Introduction by the editor, Roy Harvey Pearce and fourteen essays by various scholars grouped under four major headings: The Open Road; The Integrity of 'Leaves of Grass'; The Poet in His Art; Democratic Vistas. Sixth printing. Library stamps on edges of bulked sheets and discard stamp on title-page. Spine number excised and card removed from front free end-paper. A sound, tight, internally unmarked copy. Good. .

New York: Dover Publications, 1995. Book. Very Good+. Soft cover. First Edition Thus. Trade paperback. 90 pages. Indices: Alphabetical List of Poem Tiles and Alphabetical List of Poem First Lines. First edition thus. An anthology of selected poems from Leaves of Grass and prose selection taken from Memoranda During the War and Whitman's letters. No previous ownership marks. No spine crease. A hint of toning to margins (as per usual), else a fine copy. Very good+. .

New York: Avenel Books, 1961. Book. Good. Hardcover. Later Printing. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, brown boards lettered in gold. 115 pages. Title Index and Index of First Lines. Introduction by Walter Lowenfels. Illustrated with three full page plates and facsimiles of frontispiece and title-page from the first edition. Reprint, circa late 1960's. No previous ownership marks. Light wear, principally consisting of several pages showing moderate creases from binder and one page with small mark. A tight, sound, otherwise clean copy. Good. .

New York: William Sloane Associates, Inc., 1955. Book. Good. Soft cover. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Trade paperback. 191 pages. Index. Apollo Edition. Previous owner's name and approximately a dozen pages showing underlining and annotation. Else a clean, sound, tight copy. Good, .

New York: Grove Press, 1961. Book. Good. Soft cover. First Edition Thus. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Small paperback. 120 pages. References and Select Bibliography. A title in the Evergreen Pilot Books series, printed in Great Britain, first edition thus. An excellent introduction to Whitman, the man and the poet. A brief biographical account is followed by a detailed survey of the poet's work with a sampling of the best criticism available. A tight, clean copy with no underlining, highlighting or writing in text. Crude drawing in pen on rear cover, else no prevous ownership marks. Good. .

Kent State, 1968. 2nd prtg. Fine condition..

Minneapolis, MN: Holy Cow Press, 1981. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Trade paperback. 394 pages. Introduction by Ed Folsom. Illustrated with 17 half-tones. First edition, stated first printing. Contains dozens of poems and prose works responding to Whitman's challenge in "Poets to Come". No previous ownership marks. No writing or underlining. Not ex-library. Very mild crease to spine, else a tight, square, unmarked copy. Very good. .

Pullman, WA: Vivace Press, 1996. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Softbound musical score book, staple bound in stiff card covers. 16 pages. Contains three of the author's compositions inspired by Whitman poems, written for piano: The Dalliance of Eagles; So Long!; That Music Always Round Me. No previous ownership marks. Sharp corners, clean and unmarked, no marking to covers or interior. A like new copy. Fine.

Houghton Mifflin, 1979. First edition. Near fine stiff wraps with strong spine with small attractive bookplate to opening flyleaf. We note some brief marking to some of the text from another poet's library, nothing at all offensive

London: Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1995. Book. As New. Soft cover. First Edition Thus. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Paperback. 558 pages. Biographical and Bibliographical Chronology. Introduction by David Rogers. First edition thus. A title in the Wordsworth Poetry Library. No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh, unmarked and unread copy, like new. .

Chicago: Argus Books, 1955. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, light gray cloth in worn dust-jacket. 374 pages. First edition. The fictionalized life of Walt Whitman from the time of his first visit to New Orleans to shortly after the close of the Civil War. No previous ownership marks. Book is clean, sound and unmarked. Dust-jacket worn and lacking sevral large chips along lower edge. Very good in a fair dusr-jacket. .

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1971. Book. Near Very Good. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Trade paperback. 170 pages. Poems selected by Lawrence Clark Powell, with his prefatory note. Decorated with monochrome drawings by John and Clare Romano Ross. Apollo edition (1971), reprint of the title originally published 1964. No previous ownership marks. No spine crease. No writing, underlining or highlighting to text. Mild rubbing to covers from age, else a clean, tight and unmarked copy. Near very good. .

191 pp. This 115 year-old book is in Near Fine condition with only very minor bumping to head foot and spine. There is an ink inscription on the front FFLF underneath a very small, blind-stamped book shop name. Poems are accompanied by lovely, ethereal black and white photographs. Pages are clean and bright. Hinge is tight.All proceeds benefit The Friends of the San Anselmo Library. No expedited shipping outside of the United States.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1968. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, lacking dust-jacket. 182 pages. Selected Bibliography, Index. Portrait frontispiece of Whitman. A clean, tight, fresh and unmarked copy. Near fine. .

David Alpaugh, 2002. First edition. Close to fine staples wraps with clean text

Volume II of the Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson, edited by Eugene Parsons. Red leather limp bound with gilt on front and spine. Floral decorative endpapers. B&W frontispiece with intact tipped-in protective tissue. Title page in black, white & red.FON on front pages, dated 1903.Cover is worn, especially on spine, with fraying on edges and hinges. Upper corner of front cover and front pages are bend. Front endpapers are cracked. Pages are age tanned.

Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1962. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, blue cloth lettered in gold on spine, no just-jacket. 188 pages. Notes and References, Selected Bibliography and an Index. First edition. A title [no. 20] in Twayne's United States Authors Series. Ex-library with no markings but for small stamp at very bottom of title page and call number on upper dedication page. No previous ownership marks. No spine number. No pocket, etc. A clean, tight and unmarked copy. Very good+. .

New York: International Publishers, 1946. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, russet cloth lacking dust-jacket. 96 pages. Introduction by Langston Hughes. Illustrated with vignette drawings by Alexander Dobkin. First edition. Poems selected under four chapter headings: Men and Women; America; Civil War and Abraham Lincoln; Freedom and the Future. No previous ownership marks. Mild rubbing to spine cloth, else a clean, tight, and unmarked copy. Very good. .