Search Results: Poetry from Gyre & Gimble

New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1934. Hardcover. Very Good. Dark blue cloth w/gilt lettering. Heavy wear to head and heel of spine. Tips of corners bumped and rubbed. Gilt rubbed on spine. Ink notes on reverse of rear endpaper, text is otherwise clean and bright, no marks. Endpapers tanned. Includes Lincoln, Walt Whitman, Henry James, Ernest Hemingway and more.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1962. New Shorter Edition. Hardcover. Good. Red cloth with gilt and white lettering. Spine slightly wrinkled, corners bumped. Text shows extensive underline and copious margin notes in a tiny and neat hand. Student store stamp front endpaper, owner bookplate pasted inside front cover. 1, 223 pages with Index.

New York: Halcyon House, 1939. Revised and Enlarged. Hardcover. Good. Blue cloth w/black block and decoration, gilt lettering. Spine starting inside front cover, rear endpaper, endpapers tanned, first four pages dog eared. Text clean and tight, evenly and lightly toned. Shelfwear head and heel, corners bumped, light discoloration to front board, (hardly noticable), small splatter stain on rear cover.

No City: Published by the Author, No Date. Presumed First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Appears unread. Text is clean and white. Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page, no other marks. DJ shows minor general soiling. A collection of poetry.

Tamas & Brownson Publishers, 1984. First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Grey cloth with silver lettering. Appears unread. Text is clean and white, no marks. DJ shows rubbing to all edges, small tear to center of top edge. "Yes, Gentlemen, there is a heart and there is poetry behind pinstripes. This is Newman's new theme. Not just for this book, but for his life. In this cynical age, the image of the faceless, heartless business man has become a comforting cliche. But it is a cliche that isn't always true. The truth is that many literate, sensitive men and women have chosen to place themselves behind pinstripes." (from the jacket)

Augusta, Maine: Kenebec Journal Company, 1916. First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. Light bump to head and heel of spine and tips of corners. Scuffing to boards. Small tear to front margin of pages 3-8. Text is otherwise clean and bright, no marks. "Should this book come into the hands of anyone outside the college circle, such a person should feel no sort of obligation to choke himself with this particular dust from the hoof of Pegasus. On the other hand, it should be said that these are not, for the most part, college poems. Some of them were written before I came to college; some, I am afraid, before I entered high school. Could I have flattered myself with the certainty of improvement with growing experience, I might have arranged them in some appoximation of chronological sequence. As it is, they are thrown together, not without any principle of arrangement, I trust, but not at all in the order of composition." (from the Preface)

London: Swam Sonnenschein & Co. Ltd., 1906. Fifth Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Red cloth with gilt lettering and spine decoration, embossed cover decoration. Moderate rubbing to all edges. Corners bumped. Long scratch to center of spine. Bump to head and heel of spine. Light foxing to endpapers. Text is clean and bright, no marks.

Denver: Alan Swallow, 1964. First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Green cloth with black lettering. Hint of rub to head and heel of spine. Text is clean and white. Signed by the author on the title page, and warmly inscribed and signed on the front endpaper. Price-clipped DJ with design by Lynn Meiners shows loss to head of front cover and lower front corner, light rubbing to edges. "A major and large collection of over sixty poems which permits the talent of the poet to show fully in all its variety and all its themes. The poems vary from the short to those of considerable length; the themes, feelings, and methods vary as much." (from the jacket)

New York: Dodge Publishing Company, No Date (1910). Soft Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Beige paper wraps with tan stiff paper DJ decorated with roses and vines, brown lettering. Hing of edgewear, minor wear head and heel of spine. Previous owner Christmas gift inscription to front endpaper dated either 1903 or 1910. Lovely pocket-sized book.

London: Routledge, 1946. Hardcover. Very Good/Poor. Black w/gilt lettering. Minor wear head and heel of spine, corners lightly rubbed. Text clean, tight, no marks, lightly and evenly toned. Unclipped DJ is made of thin paper, shows heavy chipping and small tears, four small holes along spine, several small pieces missing, but still intact. Frontis of Keyes.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1966. Stated First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Edward Gorey. Tan cloth with brown lettering and cover illustration. Smudge to lower front end of spine, upper corners bumped. Tipped in postcard imprinted with Mrs. Benjamin Kaplan is signed by the author, "Sorry this is so late but if 'twere Don when 'twas supposed to have been Don 'twould not be Gailly unexpected. Happy New Year, Felicia." Text is otherwise clean and bright, no marks. Wonderfully and profusely illustrated throughout with drawings by Edward Gorey. Unclipped DJ with $1.95 price shows browing to all edges and spine, closed tear at bottom edge of front covers, light general soiling. Wonderful cover art by Edward Gorey. "A collection of light verse, prose pieces and black-humor drawings. Laughing over the absurdities of our times, Miss Lamport takes us from New York statuses to foreign ruins, from Broadway abysses to transportation traps, from musical soup to political nuts.… Read More

New York: Crown Publishers, 1995. First Crown Publishers Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. White paper-covered boards with white backstrip and silver lettering. Appears unread. Text is clean and white, no marks. Unclipped DJ with $12.00 price shows a hint of scuffing. "This collection of inspirational poems by the famous poet Max Ehrmann brings together twenty-four poems of love between men and women. They beautifully express his eternal optimism and undying love of human beings and their joyful relationship with each other." (from the jacket)

New York: George Braziller, 1972. Second Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Tan cloth with black backstrip and gilt lettering and wagon wheel decoration to front board. Signed and inscribed by Keithley on the half title, text is otherwise clean and white, no marks. Unclipped DJ with $6.50 price shows rubbing to all edges, tiny chip to top edge of front cover. Spine sunned. A retelling of the Donner story in poem form.

Philadelphia: Dorrance & Company, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Light bump to heel of spine, tips of corners. Text is clean and white, no marks. Unclipped DJ with $2.50 price shows minor edgewear, rubbing to corners. Nice cover illustration by Susan H. Gwyn. "The endless anxieties that becloud a middle-class American life are a central theme in these poems." (from the jacket)

New York: T.Y. Crowell and Company, 1899. Hardcover. Good. Textured brown padded full-leather with gilt lettering and flower decoration. Small tears to head and heel of spine, with small loss at head. All edges rubbed. Pocket sized. Previous owner stamp to front pastedown, front endpaper has been removed. Frontis portrait of Holmes with tissue guard. Text is clean and bright, no marks. Hinge to mesh at title page. All edges gilt. With an introduction by Nathan Haskell Dole.

Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1974. First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Green paper-covered boards with green backstrip and gilt lettering. Hint of sun to edges of boards. Previous owner signature to front pastedown. Text is otherwise clean and bright, no marks. Unclipped DJ shows minor edgewear, light soil and minor general wear. "The silence on Emerson as a poet has been absolutely shattering, and it is therefore providential that a distinguished scholar and critic should address himself to the old question of why Emerson has so disappointed the American critical and ethical intelligence." (from the jacket)

New York: State Street Press/Random House, 1993. Book Club. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Black paper-covered boards wtih gilt lettering. Appears unread. Text is clean and white, no marks. DJ shows a hint of scuffing. "This collection contains selections from her three original volumes of poetry, as well as The Single Hound, a subsequent collection published in 1914." (from the jacket)

Chicago: M.A. Donohue & Co.. Hardcover. Very Good. Green cloth with full-color pasted paper cover illustration, gilt lettering. Light rub to head and heel of spine and tips of corners. One small skinned spot at upper edge of pasted cover illustration. Paper is split at gutter inside front cover. Text is clean and bright, no marks. Wonderfully illustrated throughout with black and white drawings.

Ann Arbor: Lowe & B. Hould Publishers, an Imprint of Borders, 1980 (no date). Second Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Red paper-covered boards with gilt lettering. Appears unread. Text is clean and white, no marks. DJ shows minor edgewear. "Spanning four centuries and including generous selections from the greatest and best-loved poets of the English language, this essential anthology is both a primer on the subject of love and a joyful espression of the written word." (from the jacket)

New York: George H. Doran Company, 1926. Hardcover. Good. Purple with gilt lettering. Boards unevenly discolored. Text is clean and bright, no marks. Clipped DJ is battered, with several chips, small loses, large closed tear to front cover. "A sincere and clear-eyed interpretation of some biblical characters, done in poetical form, with a tinge of satire, a touch of humor, and a full compliment of human nature."