Search Results: Poetry from Avenue Victor Hugo Books LLC

Stuttgart, Germany: Literatur Comptoir; Stuttgart, 1838, 1839. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Text in German. (2 volumes bound in 1). Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, [6] + 192 pages + 36 black and white plates; 192 + 80 pages + 51 black and white plates; decorative brown cloth. A good, sound hardcover copy overall; interior very good, clean, binding solid, paper cream white with scattered foxing; exterior cloth generally worn at all edges, fore-corner tips worn through to boards, spine cloth frayed at top and bottom edges. An anthology of poetry and illustrations drawn from various works. This copy could be very nicely rebound or used as is.

Springfield, Massachusetts: New Era Publishing, 1919. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Inscribed and signed by Palmer on the title page. This is a hardcover library binding added to the original soft cover first edition with the 'withdrawn' label on the front endpaper, a pen marking on the original stiff wraps, and a blind stamp on the title page. Octavo, 7 3/4" tall, 98 pages, plain green cloth-covered boards with gilt spine titles over. A very good, clean, neat first edition, paper lightly yellowed.

G.P. Putnam's Sons; NY, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Without dust jacket. An uncommon title offered despite its external flaws. Octavo, 8 2/3" tall, viii + 85 pages, black quarter-cloth over pale orange board. A good copy overall, with moderate finger soiling primarily to the cover fore-edge margin, rubbing to the spine cloth edges top and bottom, binding solid, paper lightly yellowed. Without a dust jacket.

Tangerine Press, London, 2016. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine/Without dust jacket (as issued). Cover shown is not correct for this printing. A signed limited edition of 100 copies, 97 pages numbered 39 cloth over decorative purple boards. A fine, clean, neat hard cover with light shelf wear, binding tight, paper cream white. Without dust jacket as issued.

London, England: Fortune Press, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo, 7 3/4" tall, 95 pages, deckled edges black quarter cloth over black boards. A very good, clean, neat hardcover edition overall, with boards shelf-worn through at fore-corner tips; hinges and binding solid, paper clean and paper lightly yellowed with some slight foxing to the endpapers. In a very good, moderately worn dust jacket, lightly soiled with one significant 1/4" chip at the top of the flap fold (internally taped), and with the original price. Dust jacket illustration evidently by Archie Jarman. "This volume, which covers the war years, introduces a new and authentic voice into contemporary poetry. Miss Jarman is equally at home in modern and traditional forms. Her work has the distinction -- rare among women poets -- of combining scientific curiosity with deep spiritual awareness." So sayeth the jacket flap. 

London, England: John Sharpe, 1825. Early printing. Hardcover. Very Good minus. Single volume, 32mo, 5 1/2" tall, 108 + 36 + 36 + 36 pages + 4 engraved title pages, gilt spine titles and decoration on full embossed leather. This small volume is in very good, clean, condition overall with general minor rubbing to the leather, moderate shelf wear with leather worn through at the fore-tips and at lower front spine hinge; gilt decorations fairly bright; internal binding is solid, paper light to moderately yellowed with sporadic foxing to approximately 25 pages; paper still supple. A previous owner's name written small in pen on the flyleaf and first title page.

San Francisco, California: D. P. Elder & Morgan Shepard, 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. With a signed, dated and inscribed poem to the publisher Morgan Shepard from the author. Duodecimo, 7 1/2" tall, 213 pages, decorative green cloth, gilt titles and top edge. A good, clean, internally sturdy, hard cover first edition with minor exterior shelf wear and rubbing at the corners, back strip cloth just starting to fray at top and bottom of spine, paper lightly yellowed, BUT the front hinge has been broken--otherwise in very good condition. Needs restoration.

Bobbs-Merrill : Indianapolis, 1903. First thus. Hardcover. Very Good minus/Without dust jacket. Sold as a good reading copy only. Quarto, 9 7/8" tall, 153 pages with intertextual illustration throughout, gilt titles on a decorated grey cloth cover. A good copy overall, with moderate shelf wear, light exterior soiling, cover rubbed at all corners, binding solid but shaken, paper lightly yellowed with occasional finger marks. Without dust jacket.

London, England: W. Kent & Co. (Late D. Bogue), 1858. Second British Edition. Hardcover. Good. Duodecimo, 7" tall, 227 pages + 40 ads; green embossed cloth with gilt titles on spine. Includes a 40-page publisher's annual catalog dated January 1858. BAL 12121. An early printing. A good plus, clean solid original copy with exterior green cloth discolored to a brown tone along the back strip and top margins, gilt only lightly dimmed, top inch of back strip separating and chipping, internally very good, binding sturdy, paper lightly yellowed with previous owner's name (the Chalmers family of Longcroft in Scotland) on reverse of front free endpaper.

London, England: Chatto and Windus, 1878. Reprint. Hardcover. Good. Rowlandson. Publisher's ads dated 1878. Small Octavo, 8" tall, xlvii + 354 pages, with 80 full-page colored printed plates + 40 ads, green cloth with gilt decoration. A good only, reprint edition with significant shelf wear, cloth worn to the board at edges and fraying at ends of backstrip, hinges split but still holding, binding shaken; front free endpaper glued in, and last 2 pages detached, paper moderately yellowed, illustrations clean.

London, England: Erskine MacDonald, 1917. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo, 7" tall, 75 pages, brown quarter-cloth over grey boards, paper spine label. A very good, clean, neat hard cover first edition with light shelf wear and rubbing at the corners, hinges and binding tight, paper lightly yellowed. A very nice copy .

Liveright Publishing; New York, 1983. First paperback Printing. Paperback. Very Good minus. Quarto, 10 7/8" tall, xiii + 188 pages, illustrated wraps. A very good minus, generally clean, neat soft cover edition with minor shelf wear, cover color fading, binding tight, paper cream white but a light blush of foxing to the fore-edges and endpapers.

Edward Moxon & Co, Dover Street, 1867. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Signed by the author above the title on the title page. 12mo, 6 2/3" tall, [vi] + 178 pages; no half-title page; gilt fore-edges and gilt spine titles, gilt piping and tooled cover edges, five spine bands, full dark brown calf. This is a very good minus copy overall with moderate but visible shelf wear and rubbing to the spine edges top to bottom, back fore-corner tips worn through to boards, hinges and binding solid, paper moderately yellowed, minor foxing primarily to the endpapers and flyleaves.

Port Townsend, WA: Graywolf Press, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Nearr Fine. Octavo, 10 1/4" tall, 70 + [2] pages, black paper over boards. A near fine, clean, neat hardcover first edition with light shelf wear, hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a near fine, slightly edgeworn dust jacket.

Boston, Massachusetts: The Four Seas Company, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. #150 of a 200 copy limited edition signed by the author. Quarto 10" tall, 63 pages, yellow quarter-cloth, red boards. A good original hardcover only, generally clean, with significant shelf wear and rubbing to extremities, soiling to the front cover, (does not effect text); foxing to fore-edges; hinges and biding tight, paper lightly yellowed with previous owner's bookplate on the front endpaper. Without dust jacket.

Andre Deutsch; London, 1960. Second Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Signed by the author on the title page. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 59 pages, brown titles on gray boards. A very good, clean, sturdy hard cover second impression, with light shelf wear, binding tight, BUT paper just slightly yellowed. In a very good lightly edge worn dust jacket, with a slight color darkening (sunning) to the backstrip and the original price clipped.

Granville, Ohio: Limekiln Press, 1997. First Edition, limited. Hardcover. Near Fine/Without dust jacket (none issue. #31 of 100 limited edition, printed by hand by Paul Evans Holbrook at The King Library Press, wood engravings by Siri Beckman at her press in Maine. Octavo, 9 2/3" tall, ix + 81 pages, handmade paper, sewn binding, marbled orange paper over boards with paper title label. Errata sheet laid in with two addition poems. A near fine, clean, neat hard cover with light shelf wear (soft handmade paper outer layer has rubbed through to inner boards at one corner tip and picked up some very slight soiling), interior fine, hinges and binding tight, paper cream white.

Boston, Massachusetts: William D. Ticknor, 1845. Early printing. Hardcover. Good. A scarce copy sold despite condition. An ex-library copy with markings to the spine, title page, and rear-end paper. Duodecimo, 7" tall, 377 pages, three-quarter leather over marbled boards. A good copy overall, with general shelf wear but the spine is especially rubbed and chipped, fore-corner tips through to boards, the front hinge is broken but internal binding sturdy, paper light to moderately yellowed with sporadic foxing.

Alfred A. Knopf; NY, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Without dust jacket. Signed with an inscription to a previous owner Octavo, 7 3/4" tall, vii + 82 pages, yellow boards. A good, sturdy hardcover edition with shelf wear, fore-corner tips through to boards, and exterior soiling, spine darkened; paper light to moderately yellowed. Without dust jacket.

Geo C. Rand & Avery/For the Author, 1858. First Edition. Hardcover. Good minus. A scarce volume sold despite the condition. 16mo, 6 1/2" x 4", 144 pages, gilt titles of embossed red cloth. A good copy only, moderately worn and soiled, pages showing a damp stain from the fore-edges throughout, paper lightly yellowed with foxing to the fore-edges and endpapers. ,