Poetry

1930. KUNITZ, Stanley. INTELLECTUAL THINGS. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1930. First edition of the author's first book. 12mo., grey cloth, printed spine label. Inscriptions have been bleached from the half-title and title pages. The bump at top-edge of front board is stained black. Volume is also gently bumped at bottom-edge of rear board and at spine extremities. Clean text. Quite scarce in the dust jacket, which is sunned at spine and edgeworn with sporadic chips. Very good.

New York: Delacorte Press / A Seymour Lawrence Book, 1970. First edition / First printing. Illustrated boards. Fine in near fine dust jacket with a trace of fading to the spine and light wear.

London : Macmillan and Co, 1929. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 5" x 7.5. 203 pages. A lovely selection of poems by William Butler Yates published in this format for the first time in 1929 including some previously unpublished material. There is an illustration of Yeats from an engraving by Sargent on the title page. Blue cloth covered boards with embossed decoration to the front, gilt lettering to the spine and gilt top edges to the pages. In clean and sound condition apart from a rust mark from a paper clip to the top of the page between the front free end paper and the half title page. The erratum slip is present. Slight wear / bumping to the edges of the boards. Included with this copy is a hand-written letter on "The Nation" letterhead requesting a review of the book and signed by Frank Gallagher of Irish nationalism fame. Also a newspaper clipping of a review. All orders processed and shipped promptly from the UK. Please call or email with… Read More

New York, Pageant Press, 1953, hardcover, viii-173 pp, First Edition stated, Good condition, lacking dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, spine-end and corner wear. An epic work of verse comprising a collection of inter-related poems 'to help establish a lasting peace upon our earth'. Presented as a tale of happenings to a family in varying voices of the Father, the Mother, and the Son.

John Murray. London. 1960. PROOF COPY. Illustrated with drawings by Michael Tree. Publishers green proof stiff card wrapper. Decorative endpapers bound in. A couple of page corners creased and the green wraps rubbed to the edges but overall a very good example.

1666 Frankish King CLOVIS Desmarets Epic Poem Christian PAGAN French Illustrated
Jean Desmarets's famous epic poem 'Clovis' has long been considered one of the most important works of poetry pertaining to the triumph of Christianity over paganism. Clovis, the 5th-century Frankish king, was born into paganism but his conversion heavily influenced his expanded rule over most of Gaul. Scholars agree that 'Clovis' is the first modern Christian epic and contends with many of the ancient epics.
This 1666 edition is valuable, not just for its famous content, but for the inclusion of 24 exquisite engravings by Bosse and Chauveau.
Item number: #11302
Price: $599
DESMARETS, Jean de Saint-Sorlin

Clovis, ou la France chrestienne : Poeme heroique, enrichy de plusieurs figures.
Paris : Michel Bobin & Nicolas Le Gras, 1666.

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Language: French
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1652 GREEK Poetry Hesiod Pythagoras Theocritus Phocylides Greek Latin Cambridge

'Poetae Minores Graeci' is an 17th-century collection of ancient Greek poetry. Published in 1652 Cambridge, this book includes the works of Hesiod, Theocritus, Moschus, Phocylides, and Pythagoras! This fine edition was edited by Ralph Winterton and includes both Latin and Greek texts in parallel pages.
Item number: #14613
Price: $750
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Poetæ minores Græci, selecti & emendati: scilicet, Hesiodus, Theocritus, Moschus, Bion, Smyrn. Musæus, Theognis, Phocylides, Pythagoras
Cantabrigiae : Apud Thom. Buck ..., 1652.

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[8], 533, [91]
· Provenance: Handwritten – John Stanton
· Language: Latin / Greek in parallel
· Binding: Leather; tight & secure
· Size: ~6.5in X 4.5in (16.5cm x 11cm)
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Richard Robinson, 1970. Unknown. Near Fine/No Jacket. 4to - 9¾" - 12" Tall (oblong). Signed by Charles Bukowski at lower left (thiss is an actual and authentic Charles Bukowski autograph, not part of the image). Scarce original black-and-white photograph of Charles Bukowski, part of the classic series by Richard Robinson dating from the early 1970s. This particular view, landscape in format, shows Bukowski in a close-up head-and-shoulders view, in partial profile, looking thoughtfully into the distance, a rundown Skid Row-esque street scene behind him. This great portrait is one of the scarcer images from Robinson's series. Several of the images from this photo shoot were for a number of years distributed by Bukowski's publisher Black Sparrow Press to media outlets for use in news coverage (and appeared with joint credits in the LA Times, Baltimore Sun, etc.). 10 x 8 inches, framed. The image is fine; the frame has some cosmetic dings.Original B/w Photo By Richard Robinson.

Hardcover Condition: VG. Internally clean. Marbled end papers.

Lincoln, Nebraska:: Blue Heron Press,, 2021.. Edition of 25. 7" x 4" closed, extends to 56"; 16 pages. Etching, woodcut and letterpress on various Japanese Nishinouchi papers, and artist-made blue kozo. Handset Century, 14 pt type. Accordion fold structure. Housed in a folder of blue silk moire covered boards.Printed, bound and published by Blue Heron Press at Constellation Studios, Lincoln, Nebraska. Signed and numbered by the artist. Karen Kunc: "'Release' evokes the inexorable tension of our times and the realization of irrevocable change. This work is a visual metaphor of transition and a memorial to our loved ones passed. " The poems are from Wassily Kandinsky's Sounds (Klange) originally in German, published in a livre d' artiste in Munich in 1912. Translated by Elizabeth R. Napier, Yale University Press, 1981.

1558 Ausonius Ancient Roman Poetry Edyllium Periochae Homer Iliad RARE Tournes
Decimus Magnus Ausonius was a 4th-century Roman poet who is best known for his poem 'Mosella' – a description of the French river the Moselle. This edition of the works of Ausonius was published in Lyon in 1558 and includes his most important works such as 'Epigrams', 'Edyllium', and 'Periochae' – a prose summary of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. Ausonius's works provide an account of what daily life was like in Ancient Rome.
Item number: #20252
Price: $795
AUSONIUS, Decimus Magnus
D. Magni Ausonii Burdigalensis… Opera tertiae fere partis complemento auctiora et diligentiore quam hactenus.
Lyon: apud Jean de Tournes, 1558.

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[16], 290, [12]
· References: USTC 152527
· Language: Latin
· Binding: Leather; tight and secure
· Size: ~6.75in X 4.25in (17cm x 11cm)
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1514 RARE Parthenice Mariana Carmelite Mantuanus Hagiography Badius P. Incunable

Baptista Mantuanus was a Carmelite poet whose 15th-century works were influential during the Protestant Reformation. Perhaps the most influential of his works was 'Parthenice Mariana' – a collection of hagiographic poems each of which honored the lives church fathers, Catholic saints and theologians, classical writers and philosophers, mythical heroes, and iconic biblical figures. Notable names include:
• the Virgin Mary
• Catherine of Alexandria
• Hippolytus of Rome
• Euripides
• Jesus Christ
• Hercules
• Hesiod
• Polybius
• And many more (see photos of the table for a complete list of contents)
These poems would become the basis for a new style of writing – the epic poem on religious subjects which heavily influenced Erasmus and John Milton.

This incredibly rare 1514, post-incunable printing of Mantuanus's "Parthenice" features two sets of commentary – one from Sebastian Murrho and the other… Read More

Gradual de laudes poesias de angel gaztelu primera edicion habana cuba ediciones origenes 1955 signed.con dedicatoria de su autor,el padre gaztelu en la poesia por jose lezama lima dibujos y vinetas de rene portocarrero caratulas originales su autor.Gaztelu, Ángel (1914-2003).
Sacerdote y poeta navarro, nacido el 19 de abril de 1914 en Puente de la Reina (Navarra) y fallecido el 30 de octubre de 2003 en Miami (Florida, Estados Unidos).

Ordenado en 1938, realizó su carrera literaria en Cuba, donde formó parte del grupo "Orígenes" y dirigió, junto con el poeta cubano José Lezama Lima, la revista Nadie parecía entre los años de 1942 y 1944.

Su poesía parte de unas hondas raíces clásicas y de un deseo de armonía poética al que une el característico juego verbal del grupo poético al que estuvo vinculado, pero que no es óbice para la búsqueda, y el hallazgo, de una poesía densa y auténtica en la que el estado sacerdotal del autor influye en la presencia constante de la temática… Read More

Oxford at the Clarenden Press. 1924. Reprint. 8vo. (6.8 x 4.5 inches). Finely bound in attractive full limp vellum binding. Spine lettered in gilt. School arms for St. Paul's School, London, stamped in gilt on front board. Gilt stamped statue bust on the rear board. Marbled endpapers with a blank school prize label on the front pastedown endpaper. All edges gilt Two wide green silk ties to both boards. A fine copy in a fine binding. The binding is unsigned but certainly by a master Binder.

Edgar Allan Poe Tales of Imagination 1895
The Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan PoeVolume 1 of 6No. 200 of 250 copies on Imperial Japan Paper with publisher's printed presentation in this Volume I. Publisher's Red cloth with gilt lettering and gilt edging.. Spine cover has been previously repaired with Japanese paper; . Some creases to plain tissue overleaves; some scattered inoffensive foxing. Reasonably tight and sound.. . Frontage piece Photogravure on The Gold-Bug Original Etching, . Preface.Printed by George Barrie & Son, Publishers Philadelphia # 200 of 250 printed for C. M. Stone, Keystone, South DakotaPhotogravures onThe Gold-BugBereniceLigeiaMetzengersteinThe Fall of The House of UsherThe Pit and The PendulumThe Facts in The Case of M. ValdemarMs. Found In a BottleThe Black Cat
The Tales and PoemsThe Gold-BugBereniceLigeiaMorellaMetzengersteinThe Imp of the PerverseThe Fall of The House of UsherThe Pit and The PendulumThe Mask of The Red DeathThe Cask of AmontilladoMesmeric RevelationThe Facts… Read More