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Mystical Poems of R m : First Selection, Poems 1-200
by R M ; A.J. Arberry, trans
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, [1968]. First Thus. Octavo (22cm.); original cloth in pale blue-grey pictorial dust jacket; v,[3],203pp. Jacket spine toned and slightly chipped at crown, bottom corners lightly bumped, else Very Good and sound. Forms part of the Persian Heritage Series.
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$75.00
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Sequence, Sometimes Metaphysical [Deluxe Copy]
by Roethke, Theodore; illustrated with wood engravings by John Roy
Iowa City: Stone Wall Press, 1963. First Edition. Leather bound. Fine. A beautiful collection of poems, printed by Kim Merker, with illustrations printed on delicate mulberry paper bound in between. This book is generally regarded as one of the finest from the press, which is known for the excellence of its letterpress printing and book design. The edition size was 270 copies, of which this is one of 60 deluxe copies bound in quarter-leather and paper printed with an engraved design by Roy. These...
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$3000.00
Waiting For The King Of Spain
by WAKOSKI, Diane
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1976. First Edition. First Printing, wrappered issue. Octavo (22.75cm); decorative card wrappers; [12],13-157,[7]pp. A Fine, unread copy. MORROW & COONEY 251a.
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$20.00
Millennium's End (Inscribed Presentation Copy)
by BUGEJA, Michael
Santa Maria: Archer Books, 1999. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 110pp. Presentation copy, inscribed on title page to Minnesota poet John Calvin Rezmerski: "To John / Thank you for loving knowledge, and sharing it, poetically, with others;" signed, undated. Fine copy in fine dustwrapper.
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$25.00
Texts
by JOHNSON, Roy Ivan
Columbia, MO: The Missouri Book Publisher, 1923. First Edition. Octavo (19cm); dark blue cloth, stamped in gilt, in blue dustwrapper; xiv, 104pp. Dustwrapper sunned, particularly along spine and margins; extremities chipped, with small tears and some material loss (mostly rear upper edge). Textblock edges dust-soiled; light offsetting to preliminaries (from dustwrapper); else interiors are clean and sound. Very Good. Roy Ivan Johnson was a Missouri educator who produced a number of instructional texts...
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$30.00
Selected Strawberries and Other Poems
by MUSGRAVE, Susan
Victoria, BC: Sono Nis Press, 1977. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 164pp. Fine copy. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, light creased at extremities, Near Fine. Selections from the British-Columbian poet's two previous collections, Entrance of the Celebrant (1972) and Grave-Dirt and Selected Strawberries (1974).
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$30.00
Außer der Liebe nichts. Liebesgedichte. (1. Aufl. dieser Ausgabe).
by Rühmkorf, Peter
Reinbek bei Hamburg, Rowohlt, (1998). . Erste Auflage dieser Auswahl. Vorsätze nach einer Fotografie von Leonore Mau. - Gut und sauber
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€12.00
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Corporate Security [Samisdat, Vol. 31, no. 1]
by CONDRY, Dorothea
Richford, VT: Samisdat, 1982. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's blue decorative staplebound card wrappers; 12pp. Spine sunned, else Very Good or better. Poetry inspired by the disparity between corporate and blue collar America, topics ranging from idle chatter by the Xerox machine to the assembly line.
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$20.00
The Movie at the End of the World: Collected Poems
by McGRATH, Thomas
Denver: Swallow Press, 1972. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Brown cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 188pp. Tight, clean and unmarked; about Fine. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $8.00 on front flap), lightly rubbed and with some sun-fading to spine panel; just VG. Selections from the North Dakota poet's first nine books of poems, published between 1942 and 1970.
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$30.00
Herz im Muschelkalk. In memoriam Joachim Ringelnatz.
by Harbeck, Hans
(Hamburg), Hamburgische Bücherei (B. Meyer-Marwitz), (1961). . Erste Ausgabe dieser Verse in der "Mentalität u. Gangart des Daddeldu-Dichters" (Klappentext), den der Autor verehrte u. mit dem er befreundet war. - Mit gereimter handschriftlicher WIDMUNG des Verfassers für Balduin Baas. - Hans Harbeck (1887-1968), Schriftsteller, Übersetzer, Kunsthistoriker, Dramaturg, Schauspieler u. Kabarettist. - Balduin Baas (eigtl. Balduin Baaske, 1922-2006), Schauspieler, Kabarettist, Schriftsteller u....
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€90.00
Cafe Poems
by SIBUM, Norm
[Ottawa]: Oberon Press, 1988. First Edition. First printing, cloth issue. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 72pp. Fine in barely edge-rubbed, Near Fine dustwrapper. Issued simultaneously in paperback.
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$35.00
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Broadside: Sacred Secrets [Signed]
by DANTICAT, Edwidge
[Saint Paul, MN]: Midnight Paper Sales, 1999. First Edition. One of 90 numbered copies signed by the author, this being copy no.69. Broadside, with text and decorative elements stamped in black and maroon on white handmade paper, measuring 10 7/8" x 14.75" (27.5cm x 37.5cm). A Fine copy of this broadside poem by the Haitian-American author, issued as Hungry Midnight #19. OCLC notes 3 holdings (SUNY Buffalo, Brown, Ransom Center).
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$75.00
For George Herbert
by RUTHVEN, Grey
Cambridge: The Pym-Randall Press, [1967]. First, Limited Edition. Copy "O" of 26 lettered copies (from a total edition of 126). Fine in original deep purple wrappers, signed by the author on colophon (as called for).
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$50.00
Immigrants in Our Own Land & Selected Early Poems
by BACA, Jimmy Santiago
[New York]: New Direction Book, [1990]. First Edition. Octavo (20cm.); original white pictorial card wrappers; [8],86pp. Fine.
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$15.00
Meier Helmbrecht von Wernher dem Gärtner. Neudeutsch von Will Vesper.
by Werner der Gärtner
München, C. H. Beck, 1906. . Versnovelle von der fragwürdigen Karriere des Bauernsohnes Helmbrecht als Raubritter, der sein sündhaftes Leben schließlich mit einem schrecklichen Ende bezahlt. - Werner der Gärtner, auch Wernher der Gartenaere (2. Hälfte 13. Jh.) war ein Dichter aus dem bairisch-austrischen Raum. - Will Vesper (1882-1962), Bauernsohn wie Helmbrecht, war ein deutscher Schriftsteller, Literaturkritiker und Nationalsozialist. -Buchblock leicht schief; stellenweise mäßig stockfleckig
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€15.00
The Tongues of Toil and Other Poems
by BARNARD, William Francis
Chicago: The Workers' Art Press, 1913. [Second Edition]. 12mo (17.5cm.); publisher's navy blue cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in gilt; xii,13-192pp. Spine a hint cocked, corners a bit rubbed, faint dampstain along spine edge, else Very Good and sound. Socialist poems in praise of the workers' struggle.
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$25.00
THE OXFORD NURSERY RHYME BOOK
by IONA AND PETER OPIE
1955, FIRST EDITION, MISSING DJ, BINDING IS SOUND, CLOTH IS BRITTLE AT SPINE, PAGES UNMARKED.
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$20.00
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Fourth Dimension [Issue Seven / Samisdat, Vol. 30, no. 2] [Broadside Proposal Laid in, Signed by Kemp]
by KEMP, P.J., ed
Richford, VT: Samisdat, 1982. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's yellow pictorial staplebound card wrappers printed in blue; 51pp.; illus. Some toning to spine edge, light wear, else Very Good and sound. Printed broadside proposal for the next issue of Fourth Dimension signed by Kamp laid in. Political and environmental 'zine issued by the poetry chapbook publisher "Samisdat." This issue includes a contribution by animal welfare activist Merritt Clifton.
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$35.00
Fanal. Aufsätze und Gedichte 1905-1932. Hrsg. von Kurt Kreiler.
by Mühsam, Erich
Berlin, Wagenbach, 1977. . Papier leicht gebräunt. Gut und sauber
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€10.00
Broadside: Holiday Greetings 1998
by BRADBURY, Ray and Margueritte
[Los Angeles: Privately Printed by Ray Bradbury, 1998]. First Edition. Broadside, with text printed in red on white laid paper, measuring 8.5" x 11". Mild handling, else a Fine copy. Late Christmas broadside produced by Bradbury and his wife, a holiday tradition maintained by the family, sent to family and friends. This one prints his poem "Which Shall It Be.
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$40.00
Bild + Zeichen.
by Fritz, Walter Helmut
(Hamburg), Claassen, (1958). . Erste Ausgabe dieser frühen Lyrik-Sammlung des Schriftstellers W. H. Fritz (1929-2010). - Umschlag tlw. verblaßt; sonst gutes Exemplar
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€23.00
The Brother in Elysium: ideas of friendship and society in the United States
by BRONK, William
New Rochelle: Elizabeth Press, (1980). First Edition. Octavo (22cm). Printed card wrappers; 243pp. Printed in Venice at the Stamperia Valdonega, designed by Martino Mardersteig. Some creasing and rubbing to spine, else Near Fine. A somewhat uncommon Bronk work.
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$50.00
Nordische Klänge. Russische Dichtungen in deutscher Übertragung (u. mit einer Vorrede) von A. Ascharin.
by Ascharin, A. (Übers.)
Riga, Jonck & Poliewsky, 1894. . Erste Ausgabe dieser Übertragungen ausgewählter Dichtungen von A. V. Kolzow [Kol'cov], M. Ju. Lermontov, A. N. Maikow [Majkov], S. Ja. Nadson, N. A. Nekrassow [Nekrasov], A. S. Puschkin [Puskin], M. P. Rosenheim [Rozengejm], A. K. Tolstoj u.a.m. - Andreas Ascharin (A. A. Asarin, 1843-1896), baltisch-russischer Schriftsteller, Pädagoge u. Übersetzer (Dt.-Balt. Biogr. Lex. 1710-1960, S. 19). - Erste u. letzte Bll. ganz schwach stockfl., kl. Nrn.-Stempel im hint....
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€65.00
Collected Poems
by GUNN, Thom
London: Faber and Faber, 1993. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo; black cloth, with titles stamped in ivory on spine; dustjacket; 495pp, [1]. Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket. Lovely copy of the English author's collected poems.
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$35.00
Für Lebende und Tote. Gedichte. Aus dem Schwedischen von Hanns Grössel.
by Tranströmer, Tomas
München, Hanser, 1993. . Der erste Teil des Buches, "Für Lebende und Tote", ist 1989 bei Bonniers in Stockholm erschienen. Der zweite Teil, "Neue Gedichte", liegt hier erstmals in Buchform vor. - Deckel etwas begriffen
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€10.00
