Poetry

Aberdeen Journal, 1893. First Edition. Hardcover (Embossed Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. From the 1000+ volume private collection of well-known Australian poet and author Guy Weller all of which are listed or will soon be listed on this site. Includes many hardcover Collected Poems from sought-after 20th century poets from all countries. Search Mr Pickwick's store on this site under category Poetry, or else do a Keyword search for the special keyword '"pickwickpoems" to display these as an isolated group. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Slight foxing front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Poetry; Antiquarian & Rare. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos.… Read More

Frankfurt: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1958 2 volumes in NEAR FINE CONDITION (small spot on backstrip), in original slipcase with paper spine label (slipcase shows edge wear). 774pp; 709pp bound in original tan silk over boards, with creme cloth spine labels, original silk ribbon page markers intact. TIGHT & CLEAN, no labels, inscriptions nor markings. Text is in German. POETRY/PROSE.

Oxford UK, Carcanet Press, 1970, softcover in self-wrappers, 16 pp, first printing of the first edition, limited to 600 copies of which 40 were signed by the author, this being copy number 28, Signed and dated October 1970 on the title page. Straight, tight and clean with no other markings, light edge and corner bumps. The first book from the award-winning author, poet, translator and authority on Vietnamese literature.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1952. First edition. Hardcover. Very good copy/very good. 8vo. Cloth. Pp 134, (ii). Translated from the original verse-forms by Norman Cameron. Alan Hodge's copy with a brief note to Hodge signed by Robert [Graves] laid in.

John Murray, London, 1875. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition, never reprinted. Small 8vo. 112pp. Yellow pebbled cloth, a little marked, handled and soiled, lettered and ruled in gold at the upper board and with a small gilt vignette of the sun. Blind rule to the rear board. Some spotting to the endpapers and, lightly, to occasional text leaves. Binding just a little tender in places. A nice bright copy. With the bookplates of noted bibliophile and bibliographic scholar Simon Novel-Smith and his wife Judith Adams. Fifty-one poems. Extremely uncommon..

New York: Antaeus, Spring 1989. Includes: Madison Smartt Bell, "Finding Natasha." Signed by Bell. Robert Creeley, "Four Poems." Signed by Creeley. David Long, "The New World." Signed by Long. W.S. Merwin, "Manini." Signed by Merwin. Mark Strand "From a Lost Diary." Signed by Strand. First edition / First printing. Illustrated wrappers. Very fine.

Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1972 A volume of poetry. One of just 500 copies that Arkham printed (and which sold out very quickly). This copy was signed (not inscribed) by the author. There are no remainder marks, no price-clipping, no bumped edges. However, there is soiling to the front and rear of the jacket. Overall, a nice copy of a scarce title. Comes in a Brodart protective cover. All books are bubble-wrapped and placed in a sturdy shipping box when mailed.

Hardback. Good. For J Tonson, London, 1717, first edition of this collection; 8vo, pp [xx, being the publisher's introductory essay], 536; contemporary panelled calf, a little rubbed in places and with the front board weak; internally clean and firm; contemporary ownership inscriptions on the title, the older of "Eli. Stannard" with a date that may be 1722 or 1733 and a later "Mary Stannard her Book given her by Mrs Elinor Stannard Nov 15th 1767". Dillon's Essay on Translated Verse, included here, was first published in 1684 and led, together with his earlier blank verse translation of the Ars Poetica, to his reputation as a didactic writer and critic, a poet concerned with the importance of a good moral approach in his poetry and the necessity of being fastidious in his writing. He was the first critic to write admiringly of Milton's Paradise Lost. He was much admired by Pope.

The Fortune Press, London, 1945. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition of the author's first book, this being in un-noted binding variant in grey cloth, lettered in gold at the spine. Printed on Glastonbury watermarked paper by S.C.Jennings & Sons Ltd. Slim 8vo. 36pp. A touch of wear to two or three extremities. Some production fault creasing to two text leaves. A very good copy. No dust wrapper. Bloomfield (2002) notes: "White laid paper watermarked: 'I Batchelor & Sons Ltd | HAND MADE'. Copies are also found with paper watermarked: '[crown] | Glastonbury' and with mixtures of both. This is due to the owner of The Fortune Press habitually buying end runs of paper stock for his printers". Printed in an edition likely not exceeding 500 copies. Thirty-one poems. Bloomfield (2002) A1..

n.p.: Tuumba Press, 2002. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, 48pp, printed wrappers. Warmly INSCRIBED by the author on the title page. 1 of 1500 stated copies of this experimental work published by Hejinian's own Tuumba Press.

John Murray. London. + For the Booksellers. London. 1827 and 1826. EIGHT VOLUMES. 8vo. (6.5 x 4.2 inches). Six volumes of The Works, dated 1827, and two volumes of Don Juan, dated 1826. All uniformly bound in attractive fine early leather bindings of full red straight grained morocco. Spines with four raised bands, each with gilt ruling. Compartments ruled, lettered and decorated in gilt. Gilt decorative borders on boards, with four blind stamped ruled lines inside the panel. Turn-ins with floral gilt roll. Board edges with gilt tooling to corners. All edges gilt. Neat previous owner bookplates on front paste downs. One gathering slightly sprung in volume one. Some light spotting to a few pages in each volume, but generally a clean set. Spine of volume three is a bit faded and worn and a bit of rubbing to the extremities of the other volumes but overall a very good and beautifully bound set.

Routledge, Warne, And Routledge. London. 1864. EARLY REPRINT (originally published in 1862). 4to. (10.4 x 8.2 inches). Illustrated with 30 full page plates. Some foxing to several pages but overall a very good example in a fine early leather binding of full dark green morocco. Spine with five raised bands, each with blind ruled line. Compartments ruled, lettered and decorated in gilt. Both boards have bevelled edges and are decorated and lettered with elaborate floral and ruled line designs and decorative lettering. Turn-ins with decorative and ruled gilt designs. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Some rubbing to the extremities but overall a very good and attractive copy of this delightful example of Victorian book production. The binding is unsigned but is certainly the work of a highly skilled binder.

New York: Hawthorne Books, Inc, 1967. Later printing. Hardcover. Very good +. 12mo (17 x 17.5 cm). Tan paper covers with dark brown design to upper/lower and dark brown titles to spine. Signed by Edward Gorey on the title by crossing out his printed name and handwriting his name above printed Gorey, rest of text block tight and unmarked. 3-10 on copyright page.

New York: Angel Hair, 1968. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 4to, 64pp (letterpress printed), stapled wrappers. Another beautifully designed issue of this literary and artistic magazine edited by Anne Waldman and Lewis Warsh amidst the cultural ferment of 1960s New York City. Includes writing by Joe Brainard and other key members of the New York School. Unmarked copy, typical wear to lap wrapper edges, light dusting to covers.

Los Angeles: Momentum Press, 1977. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. Narrow 4to, 64pp, printed wrappers. Publisher's Second Printing stamp to copyright page. The author's elusive first book, a collection of poems that precedes Lithium for Medea by two years. Unmarked copy, light wear and soil.