Search Results: Poetry from Auldfarran Books, IOBA

Pittsburgh: Dorrance Publishing, 2001 1st ed. 95pp. illus. hardback 12mo in laminated pictorial boards w/endpp. maps (of Avondale Estates, Georgia): near Fine/no dj [touch of foxing to endpp; else a nice clean and crisp copy] A book of poems about a suburb of Atlanta.

Boston: Little, Brown, 1976 1st ed. 83pp. hardback 8vo: Very Good in a Very Good dj in Brodart poly cover [ink inscription ffep below a tiny blacked out name label; bit of edge foxing; dj = small tear @ top edge of front cover; else VG; a nice clean, complete & tight copy]

London: Jonathan Cape. 1978 reprint. 71pp. paperback 8vo: Very Good+. Poetry from Liverpool performance poet (and Beatles contemporary) Roger McGough (b. 1937).

Kent, OH: Kent State Univ. Press, 1994. SIGNED on ffep by poet under a generic "This is no poem but a prayer." 99pp. illus. purple cloth 8vo: Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover [dj = nicked @ top rear corner; else F] Poetry by Carl Sandburg’s daughter Helga Sandburg Crile (1918-2014).

Los Angeles: Karo Communications, 1974 1st ed. unpaginated illustrated blue cloth oblong tall 8vo: Very Good in a near Very Good dj [some age browning of blue cover cloth; else VG; dj = few tears; else nrVG] A ballad by the former priest Kavanaugh (1928-2009).

Boston: Little, Brown, 1974 book club ed. 831pp. illus. red cloth sm 4to: Good in a Good dj in Brodart poly cover [few pp. mid-text are creased @ the top corner; foxing to top & fore edges; else a clean, complete & tight copy] A massive collection informed by the knowledge of a scholar of American folk lore, Duncan Emrich (1908-77). This is a publisher’s quality book club edition.

Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1995 reprint. 141pp. paperback 8vo: Good [some pencil underlining & notes; a coffee splash inside back cover; else a complete & tight copy]

Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1995 1st ed. SIGNED on title p. by author. 141pp. paperback 8vo: Fine. A work by the former Poet Laureate of Georgia, Bottoms (1949-2023).

New York: Collier Books. 1972 2nd ptg. 274pp. paperback 8vo: Very Good.

New York: Vintage International, 1995 1st ed. thus. 220pp. paperback 8vo: near Very Good [edges are age foxed; else a clean, complete, tight and uncreased copy]

privately issued, 1975 1st ed. INSCRIBED on ffep. by author. unpaginated [20pp] green cloth 8vo w/gilt titles: Fine/no dj. An early book of poetry by Long (1929-2013), Emory University's Atticus Haygood Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies.

New York: Knopf/Everyman's Library Pocket Poets, 1995 reissue. 256pp. beige cloth 16mo w/sewn-in marker ribbon: near Fine in a near Fine dj [hint of age browning to edges; small stray pencil line bottom edge; else a nice crisp copy] A nice little Everyman pocket hardback of Anglo-American poet Wystan Hugh Auden's (1907-73) poetry.

Boston: Little, Brown, 1969. 127pp. paperback: Good [brief ink inscrip.; some light age browning; a fore edge scrape; else a clean, complete & tight copy] Humorous verse about illness by the American poet Ogden Nash (1902-71).

Edmonton, AB: Spotted Cow Press, 1998 1st ed. INSCRIBED on dedication p. by author. 97pp. paperback sq. 12mo: Fine.

Philadelphia: Running Press. 1983 reprint. 159pp. paperback sm 4to: Fine. England-born poet Robert Service's (1874-1958) Yukon works, including all the usual suspects, "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" and "The Cremation of Sam McGee.

Hanover, NH: Univ. Press of New England, 1989 reprint. 187pp. paperback 8vo: Fine [hint of age darkening to top & fore edges; else a nice crisp copy] Includes "72 Form-True Verse Translations with Facing Originals, Commentary, and Compact Biography." A very useful volume of Rilke’s (1875-1926) poetry.

Westport, CT: Meckler. 1986 1st ed. 72pp. black cloth 8vo: ex lib. copy; usual stickers & markings from a library deletion; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy.

Knoxville: Univ. of Tennessee Press, 1988 reprint. 190pp. burgundy cloth 8vo: ex lib. copy; some markings from a public library deletion; else a very nice clean, complete & tight copy, little read. Nine scholarly monographs on poets ranging from Melvin Tolson to Gwendolyn Brooks.

New York: Oxford, c1986 reprint. 393pp. paperback 8vo: near Fine [slight front cover crease; else a nice clean and crisp copy] An anthology that includes the work of more than 190 poets ranging from Sappho to Anthony Hecht.

Melbourne: Humphrey Milford/Oxford Univ. Press, 1945 revised ed. 284pp. navy cloth 12mo: Good in a worn dj [touch of rippling of only the first several pp. from old water contact; else a clean, complete and tight copy w/charming personal inscription ffep by earlier owner] Oxford Editions of Standard Authors.