Poetry from Tannery Books

Humphrey Milford - Oxford University Press, 1925. Hardcover. Good. Robert Browning. Poems of Robert Browning, Containing Dramatic Lyrics, Dramatic Romances, Men and Women, Dramas, Pauline, Paracelsus, Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day, Sordello, and Dramatix Personae. Humphrey Milford - Oxford University Press, 1925. Dark blue cloth HC with gilt shield on front and simple blind-stamped frame on front and back, small… Read more

Francestown, N.H.: The Golden Quill Press, 1959. First Printing. Hardcover. Ex-library. Winifred Rawlins, fire Within, Francestown, N.H., The Golden Quill Press, 1959, First Printing (many poems previously published in periodicals). Quarter redcloth over mottled cloth boards, slim 12mo (19 cm), 76 pp. Poems on a variety of topics including science and astronomy, hospital (dying), business, etc. Good/no DJ:… Read more

Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1892. Later printing. Hardcover. Good. John Greenleaf Whittier, with designs by E. H. Garrett, Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1892, later printing. White cloth hc with green-stamped design, 12mo (18 cm), green floral endpapers, [vi] v-[x] leaves, 1-43 leaves with text on rectos, 10 illustrated plates including portrait frontispiece, red title and capitals. Good/no DJ:… Read more

Greensboro: Trans Verse Press, 1989. First edition. Paperback. Good. Edited by Evalyn P. Gill, Nancy Gates, Elizabeth Hunt, Alice Rice, Clare Rosen; Women of the Piedmont Triad: Poetry and Prose; Greensboro, N.C., Trans Verse Press, 1989, First Edition. Glossy pink trade pb with floral illustration on front, 320 pp. Good: corners bumped and creased, writing on title page.… Read more

New York: Arrow Editions, 1935. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good/good +. Robert Fitzgerald, Poems, New York, Arrow Editions, 1935. First Printing of Fitzgerald's first book. Orange cloth hc, 8vo (20 cm), [vi] 62 pp; plain orange paper dustjacket with black lettering. Very Good/Good+: corners bumped, endpaers and deckled edges foxed, po sticker on front pastedown, no writing; DJ… Read more

Philadelphia: J. & A. Y. Humphreys, 1811. First American edition. Leather_bound. Good. Robert Southey and Henry Kirk White, The Remains of Henry Kirk White, of Nottingham, Late of St. John's College, Cambridge, With an Account of his Life, Vol. I, Philadelphia, J. & A. Y. Humphreys, First American, from the fourth London edition, 1811. Full leather, red leather… Read more

London: Ernest Benn Ltd., 1929. Third printing. Hardcover. Good +/fair. George Morrow. A. P. Herbert, illustrated by George Morrow, Laughing Ann and Other Poems, London, Ernest Benn Ltd., 1929, third printing. Benn's Essex Library series No. 20. Brown cloth hc with black floral design, 12mo (17 cm), 24 pp including ad for H.G. Wells' works, line drawings; blue… Read more

Charlotte: Heritage House, 1959. First edition. Hardcover. Good/fair. Harold H. Fletcher, Faith of a Salesman, Charlotte, Heritage House, 1959, First. Green cloth with small pastedown title on front, thin 8vo, viii, 54 pp; transparent DJ. SIGNED by the author on title page. Poems about the road and spiritual life by a former Methodist pastor, member of High Point… Read more