Search Results: Books:English Literature:Poetry from ZH BOOKS

London; Valentine & Sons, 1925. Softcover. First edition; 6 x 9; brown wraps with gilt title and vignette to front cover; tartan-inspired DJ with author's portrait on a paste-on label; mild wrinkling to tips of spine and corners; gift inscription; pages clean; illustrated with numerous photographs; overall very good or better. Jacket good with small nicks and chips along edges.Selections of various Burns' works with commentaries and photos depicting the natural sites and landmarks in the corresponding excerpts.

London, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1923. Hardcover. Edition limited to 230 sets of which 200 are for sale (this set hand-numbered #18); 7 x 9 1/2; pp. 234 vol. I (1908-1917), pp. 240 vol. II (1917-1922); white cloth over boards; gilt title; silk page marker detached but present in both volumes; top edge gilt; all edges deckled; hand-made paper; age-toning to spine and margins of covers, else minor wear; signature of previous owner to first blank page; no slip cases; overall very good or better. Signed by author in volume I.John Drinkwater was a British poet, playwright, and critic in the early 1900s. He was a supporter and promoter of repertory theater in England and in 1907 he became the producer the Pilgrim Players (chiefly presenting verse drama) which would eventually develop into the Birmingham Repertory Theatre Company.

Oakland, CA: Published by the Author, 1926. Hardcover. First edition; 5 x 8; pp. 71; textured blue cloth over boards; gilt title to front board a bit faded; a few small rubbed spots to tips and along spine; very minor foxing to first and last page only, else clean; very good or better. Signed and inscribed by author.A beautiful copy, signed and inscribed by Bay Area poet Nels Jensen Herby - to Ina Coolbrith - the first Poet Laureate of California, the first female Poet Laureate in the United States, and mentor to both Mark Twain and Isadora Duncan. Both Herby and Coolbrith were also part of the literary circle which included Gertrude Atherton and Bret Harte.

Cleveland : American Weave Press, 1951. Softcover. Second printing; 5 x 7 1/2; pp. [4], 1-40; hand-sewn blue wraps; mild age-toning and fading to margins of front cover; a photo greeting card pasted on front cover verso; pages fine; overall very good or better. Signed by author with a lengthy inscription on first free page.Donald Campbell Babcock was a long-time University of New Hampshire philosophyprofessor whose numerous poems were often published in 'The New Yorker' and 'Atlantic' magazines. His current book of poetry received the Durham Poetry Award in 1947.The only copy in the trade.

S. l. (Woodside, CA): The Heyeck Press, 1985. Softcover. First edition, 1 of 200 copies; 9 3/4 x 6 1/2; pp. [8]; marbled wraps; a bit of rubbing to tips of spine; finger smudge to first blank leaf; light wear to corners; deckled page edges; one illustration by "Rice;" very good condition.Published by the Heyeck Press of Woodside, California - known for producing fine, limited editions of poetic works and for their hand-marbled paper for over 3 decades - the poetry-and-program booklet was presented, as a keepsake, to the friends of Diane Middlebrook and Carl Djerassi at their wedding. Diane Middlebrook (1939 - 2007) was a poet, writer, and educator. She taught Feminist Studies at Stanford University and was the author of critically acclaimed biographies of Sylvia Plath (together with Silvia's husband Ted Hughes) and Ann Sexton. Carl Djerassi (1923 - 2015) was an Austrian-born Bulgarian-American scientist, author, and playwright, who was the co-inventor of the first contraceptive… Read More

Honolulu: Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 1936. Softcover. Second printing; 6 x 9; pp. 32; stiff green wraps printed and illustrated in black; slight age-toning and spotting along margins; small nameplate to front cover verso; internally bright and clean; illustrated with photographs and drawings; overall very good or better condition.A beautiful collection of poems about the flowers and beauty of Hawaii.

University of California, Berkeley: Libera / Women's Press Collective, 1972. Softcover. First edition; oblong 7 3/4 x 10; pp. 60; orange wraps with b&w photographic illustration; a few small crease lines to corners; minor wear and spotting to tips of spine and margins of covers; a cut-out newspaper article about "Libera" laid in resulting in darkening of pp. 20-21; profusely illustrated with drawings and photographs; internally clean; very good to near fine.The journal emerged as a collaboration between the Libera Collective and the Women's Press Collective in the tumultuous early 1970s in Berkeley. It was conceived as a medium for women to publish graphics, poetry, and articles. As the laid-in newspaper article (appearing to have been cut out of the "Daily Californian") pointed out - the present Issue No. 2 particularly stood out with its write-ups on the San Francisco Breakaway, the letter written from Vietnam to one of the Collective, the controversial use of… Read More

Sao Paulo: Empreza Tipografica Editora <O Pensamento>, 1917. Hardcover. Very Good. Third edition (revised); in Portuguese; small 8vo; pp. [5], vi-xxii, [3], 2-288, [4]; original marbled boards with 1/4 leather spine; three raised bands to spine; gilt title; minor wear to boards (mostly along edges); leather along spine edges show wear and rubbing; previous owner's name to first free page; text clean and unmarked; very good condition. Vicente de Carvalho Augusto was a Brazilian journalist, politician, poet, and short-story writer. His "Poemas e Cancoes" (Poems and Songs) marked the beginning of his poetic career.

Lafayette: Cedar Hill Press, 1974. Soft cover. Near Fine. First edition, limited to 100 copies; 5" x 7"; pp. [4], 1-22 including text to last page; original wraps; pictorial DJ affixed to wraps; very minor wear to covers; faint age-toning to first and last page; near fine. Signed by author to front cover verso. Published in an edition of only 100 copies, the book contains 11 original and somewhat whimsical poems.

Calvert, TX: Tribune Print, 1931. Softcover. First edition; 6 x 9 1/2; pp. [20]; brown wraps tied with a decorative string and illustrated in green; handmade paper; age-toning to wraps; very good or better. Signed and inscribed by author to her sister.Beautiful early 20th century Texas poetry.

Leavitt & Co., New York, 1851. Hardcover. Good. A beautiful early edition of Wordsworth's poems: Poems of the Imagination, Poems of Fancy, Poems of Childhood, etc. Condition: Good - bluish-green covers, elaborate full-cover gilt decorations and title, all page edges gilt; head and tail of spine worn; corners somewhat rubbed, otherwise boards mostly clean; mild to moderate foxing to pages; a small faint signature to first free page.

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1856. Hardcover. Good. A delightful little book - one of the very first editions in which "The Charge of the Light Brigade" and "Maud" were ever published in a book form. Condition: Good - original blind-stamped dark blue covers, gilt title and decorations to spine; all page edges gilt; fading and a few spots to covers; wear along edges, corners and head and tail of spine; faint penciled-in name and date to first free page; foxing only to portrait frontis; pages clean.

San Jose: Rich Publishers, 1981. Hardcover. Fine. First edition;5 3/4" x 8 3/4"; pp. [8], 1-52, [4]; original black boards; pictorial DJ; fine in a near fine jacket. Signed/inscribed by Noel Reyburn. He was a poet and an actor, starring in several movies alongside John Wayne and Walter Reed. Lyrical poetry.

New York: Gilbert H. McKibbin, 1910. Hardcover. Good. Part of "The Manhattan Young People's Library" series; not dated (c1910); 16mo; pp. [8], 11-234; pictorial cloth; black title to spine; illustrated with numerous full-page color and in-line b&w engravings; spine cover faded; head and tail of spine curling; general fading to boards; corners somewhat rubbed; a few minor soil spots scattered mostly to first and last free page, rest of text clean; name plate to front cover verso. The present work contains 10 of Irving's tales - Rip Van Winkle, The Inn Kitchen, The Specter Bridegroom, Christmas, The Stage-coach, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, The Christmas Dinner, Philip of Pokanoket, and The legend of Sleepy Hollow. Washington Irving was an American author and historian in the early 19th century. He was one of the first American writers to earn acclaim in Europe. He was a great proponent of stronger laws to protect American writers from copyright infringement.

New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1907. Hardcover. First edition; 4 1/2 x 6; pp. 137; full velum stamped in gilt; red decorative closing ribbon (tying ends cut); a bit of age-toning to covers; previous owner's name to front cover verso; pages clean; very good or better.An uncommon collection of poems by Louis Magee, published posthumously in his honor and chosen from his archives by his closest friends and family. He was a US businessman and electrical engineer at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century - who had apparently spent several years in Berlin where he had become one of the pioneers of electric railway systems in Europe. In his preface Andrew D. White said Magee was remembered not only for his scientific papers and achievements but also for his ability to "offer his thoughts in verse."

Springfield, MA: Clark W. Bryan Company, 1896. Hardcover. First edition; 5 x 7 1/2"; pp. [11], 8-146, [2]; embossed brick-red cloth over boards; a few small rubbed spots to tips of spine; corners lightly bumped, else very minor wear; faint gift inscription; internally fine; illustrated with photographs including frontispiece of the historic Old Elm in Pittsfield, MA; overall very good or better.A charming, albeit somewhat obscure, collection of verses of and about Massachusetts.

Pennsylvania: Dorrance & Company, 1986. Hardcover. Fine. Second printing; 5 3/4" x 8 3/4"; pp. [4], 1-52; original black boards; pictorial DJ; fine in a near fine jacket (small closed nick to bottom edge). Signed/inscribed by Noel Reyburn. He was a poet and an actor, starring in several movies alongside John Wayne and Walter Reed. His poems reflect basic feeling every human being posesses.

N/A, 1973. Softcover. First edition, n.d. ca 1973 (small note to upper margin of front cover "rec'd 5/73"); 5 1/2 x 8 1/2; pp. 53; mustard wraps illustrated and printed in black; faint fading along margins; thin closed cut to tail of spine; internally clean; very good to near fine.An apparently unrecorded anthology of poems by various well-known female poets, activists, and educators including Marge Piercy, Nikki Giovanni, Rita Mae Brown, Sylvia Plath, etc.