Search Results: Poetry from Monkey House Books

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969. Softcover, trade paperback. Good. Includes Donne, Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Thomas Traherne, and Richard Crashaw. From the Borzoi Anthology of 17th Century English Literature, volume I. 294 pages, reading copy. Moderate cover wear, occasional marginalia.

Garden City: Anchor Books, Doubleday, 1969. Softcover, trade paperback. Good. Comprehensive selection of both secular and religious poetry from the likes of Donne, Herbert, Crashaw, Marvell, Vaughan, and others. 525 pages, moderate wear. Extensive revision of the 1963 title The Meditative Poem, with introduction, notes, and commentary.

New Delhi: Nirala Publications, 2012. 2nd Edition. Softcover, trade paperback. Very Good. SIGNED and INSCRIBED in green ink on title page. Nirala Series of Contemporary Literature. Major collection from one of South Asia's most prominent poets. Sensual and sharp poems about the Annapurna Ridge region in the Himalayas. 101 pages.

New York: The Modern Library, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover, green cloth. Very Good/Dust Jacket condition good. True Modern Library First, #48, with an introduction from March 1934 by Kronenberger. General agewear to the volume but no major flaws. 291 pages, Toledano binding #7, green balloon cloth, Kent endpapers. Dust jacket lists 225 titles inside, and the back panel has the 1933-1935 design with a mail-in coupon. Blue typographical jacket with monochromatic design elements, spine is darkened. 'Merry quips and satirical shafts.' Though not indicated, this copy is from the library of T. R. Smith, who was chief editor at Boni & Liveright during the 1920s. More of Smith's Modern Library collection is available.

New York: Horace Liveright, 1929. Hardcover, blue paper boards, tan cloth spine. Good/No Dust Jacket. Uncommon first book by this early 20th century poet. Collection of somewhat amusing poems about Biblical lands and characters, ancient dignitaries, and the like. 102 pages, edges untrimmed. Some darkening to spine and endpapers, boards sunned, corners bumped.

New York; Philadelphia; Chicago: The Nottingham Society, 1909. Olive cloth boards, applied spine label. Good/No Dust Jacket. Volume VIII. Bombay Edition, Edition de Luxe. Printed for subscribers only, limited to 1000 sets. Frontispiece with tissue. Wear and fraying to ends and corners. Uncut edges. 332 pages.

San Francisco: Five Fingers Press, 1989. Trade paperback. Very Good. 58 pages. Light wear.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 11 E. 16th Street, [no date] c.1920. Red cloth boards, white-stamped cover & spine. Good/No Dust Jacket. 220 pages plus advertisements. Hinges good, text clean, binding starting to crack at center. Ends & corners bumped & worn. Josiah Gilbert Holland, 1819-1881, was an American novelist and poet who also published under the pseudonym Timothy Titcomb.

Bentonville, Arkansas: The Bella Vista Press, 1964. Blue cloth boards, white-stamped cover and spine. Good/Dust Jacket condition Good . Light blue plain paper dust jacket with dark blue decoration. Ex-library with spine label, stamps, card pocket. 36 pages, clean and bright. Written by a deaf poet, includes ""Ulysses Remembers,"" ""Random Harvest,"" ""Arachne"" and others. Also includes the author's translation of Baudelaire's ""L'Albatros.""

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1908. Hardcover, medium brown cloth boards, gilt-stamped cover & spine. Good/No Dust Jacket. Volume XII from the set, The Works of James Whitcomb Riley on spine. Homestead Edition. 154 pages, a few edges torn where pages were opened roughly. Riley, 1849-1916, was an American poet, lecturer, and newspaperman, known particularly as a Hoosier poet who wrote in the local Midwestern dialect.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1908. Hardcover, medium brown cloth boards, gilt-stamped cover & spine. Good/No Dust Jacket. Volume X from the set, The Works of James Whitcomb Riley on spine. Homestead Edition. 152 pages, frontispiece with tissue. Spine darkened, edges rough cut, previous owner's label on fep. Riley, 1849-1916, was an American poet, lecturer, and newspaperman, known particularly as a Hoosier poet who wrote in the local Midwestern dialect.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1940. Tan cloth boards.. Good./Dust Jacket condition good in clear protective wraps.. Frontispiece. Occasional light dirt on several pages. Ex-library with clear wraps, spine label, and rfep razored out (unfortunately also affecting last page of index). Wear on top and bottom of boards. Still a nice, readable volume.

New York: Boni and Liveright, Inc. Publishers, [no date, 1918]. First Edition. Hardcover, dark green leatherette. Good/No Jacket. Early Modern Library printing of volume #38, Toledano spine #1. Limp leatherette, worn at extremities. BL colophon, marbled endpapers. List of The Modern Library titles (50, Toledano C4) at front opposite title page. 358 pages, front hinge cracked, previous owner's address label.

New York: The Book League of America, Inc., 1938. Dark blue cloth boards.. Good Plus./No Dust Jacket. Edited with an introduction by Casper J. Kraemer, Jr. Published in the 2000th year of his birth. Satires, conversation pieces, mostly poetry, refrains, odes, epistles. 412 pages, binding solid, text unmarked. A bit dusty, spine faded, endpapers darkened.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1923. Hardcover, dark blue cloth boards. Good/No Dust Jacket. Anthology of 19th and early 20th century American, English, Irish, and Canadian poetry. 372 pages, index. August, 2nd printing. Previous owner's name on ffep. Wear & bumping to ends & corners.

Galley Press, Ottemheimer Publishers, Inc., 1980. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Selections fro the Poetry, Poems 1844, Poems 1850. 160 pages, index of first lines. Handsome yet inexpensive copy, small volume, light brown leatherette, ribbon marker. English poet, 1806-1861, married poet Robert Browning, died in Italy.

New York: The Harvard Classics, P. F. Collier & Son Corporation, 1938. Hardcover. Very Good. Dark green leather, spine gilt rubbed/worn. Clean and tight, light cover wear. Three volume collection of English (British) and American poets, with a total of 1422 pages, introduction & notes.

New York: The Devin-Adler Company, 1950. Dark green cloth boards, silver-stamped spine. Very Good/Dust Jacket condition Good . 2nd volume, companion to Drink From the Rock covering 1939-1944. Includes contributions from Daniel Berrigan, S.J. and Thomas Merton. 115 pages, gift inscription on ffep, text clean and unmarked. Hinges darkened. Dust jacket interior stained, back panel spotted/soiled, edgewear and small chips & tears.

New York: Bookman, 1959. Hardcover pictorial boards. Very Good/No Jacket. Signed, brief inscription on first leaf. Island poems, love poems, poems for my daughter, conflict & peace, cities & people, and more. 96 pages, corners bumped, rubbed.

Cornwall-on-Hudson: Idlewild Press, 1939. Light blue cloth boards, silver-stamped spine. Very Good/Dust Jacket condition Good . Collection of spiritual (not necessarily religious) poetry originally published in ""Spirit"" magazine, printed for its 5th anniversary. Preface by Francis X. Talbot, S.J. 2nd printing, June 1939. 105 pages, index, tight and square. Plain blue paper jacket with dark blue titling on cover; edges browned and worn, losses to top and bottom of jacket spine. Clear wraps added for preservation. Pages lightly toned.