Vietnam War Poetry Collection
Author's First Book - Limited and Signed
American Poet

Balaban, John.
Vietnam Poems (Signed).
Oxford: Carcanet Press, 1970.

First edition of the author's first book. Of 600 copies, this is number 40 of 40 numbered copies signed and dated [October, 1970 ] by the author on the title-page. American poet and author, John Balaban (1943 - ) was a conscientious objector to the Vietnam War. He chose to serve in an alternative fashion, by teaching at a University in Vietnam until it was bombed. After he recovered from injuries incurred during the bombing, he returned to Vietnam to help children who had been injured in the war. While in Vietnam, he taped and later translated sung oral Vietnamese poetry, which he published. Nearly thirty years later he became a founder of an organization focused on preserving ancient Vietnamese texts. He has won numerous awards and honors for his work.

Fine in blue side-stapled paper wrappers. 16 pages. Fine. (#30528)

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Includes His Best Known Poem "Baby May" - about his baby daughter
Presentation Copy to the Son of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
English Poet

Bennett, W.C. [William Cox].
Poems.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1850.

Presentation Copy from the author: "Rev. Derwent Coleridge with the Authors Compliments." English scholar and author Derwent Coleridge (1800 - 1883) was the son of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This is an early work by William Cox Bennett (1820 - 1895), who wrote songs as well as poetry. He is best known for "Baby May," a sweet poem about his baby daughter, which appears in this collection. Other poems address a range of topics including witnessing an execution, supporting national education, lost love, love found, grasshoppers, a sonnet to Leigh Hunt, an epitaph for an infant (not Baby May), and more.

Bound in original navy blue cloth boards with gilt title to spine and embossed design to boards. Chipping to head of spine. Interior rear hinge is cracked and spine is rolled. Ex-library with a few stamps to interior. Clean overall. 262 pages. Very Good. (#28989)

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Poems of the Great Depression, 'Recovery', the Great War, and Life in America
Anthology Including Robert Frost, E.E. Cummings, Karl Jay Shapiro, and More
Limited Edition
American Poets

Boggs, Tom [edited by].
American Decade: 68 Poems for the First Time in an Anthology.
Cummington, MA: The Cummington Press, 1943.

First trade edition. Limited to 1 of 475 copies. This book "presents the collected evidence that many poets wrote living poems while their country went through depression and 'recovery' into war. It is as though these events had liberated poetry from the subjectivity, prettiness, and posing that dominated it in the late 'twenties. The poets have become more and more rapt up in the conditions of existence ... In this collection, thirty poets, most of them young, have created our country, compounded it of experience and possibility. Tom Boggs has read some 500,000 poems to select these 68 that have never been in an anthology before and that savor life in this new world and transmute it into an experience and savor of words for us" (jacket).

Bright blue cloth covered boards with white title to spine. One small spot of soiling to front board. Book plate of Virginia Weaver on front pastedown. Minor toning to margins. Slight musty smell. Else is clean and bright with many unopened pages. Beige dust jacket with blue title to front and spine panels. Moderate wear to dust jacket includes heavy chipping, large portion of rear panel missing, as well as small spots of foxing and browning. Dust jacket housed in protective sleeve. Includes Robert Frost, E.E. Cummings, Karl Jay Shapiro, Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, Weldon Kees, and William Carlos Williams. 93 pages. Near Fine / Good. (#29982)

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Poems Addressing Loss - Influenced by WWII Experiences
Signed by Author / First Book
American Poet

Bowers, Edgar.
The Form of Loss.
[Denver]: Alan Swallow, [1956].

Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, dated May 21, 1958. Southern poet, Edgar Bowers (1924 - 2000), was a WWII veteran who was heavily involved in the de-Nazification of Germany. Considered to be one of the 20th centuries masters, he authored five books of poetry of which this was his first. According to the Poetry Foundation: "Both his experiences of Europe during the war and the influence of Yvor Winters (his mentor at Stanford) can be detected in his poems, which are known for their formal control and metaphysical subject matter. Spare and compact, and frequently dealing with loss, memory, and art, Bowers’ poems were described by Clive Wilmer in the Guardian as 'marked by extreme aesthetic refinement and an intense feeling for the mystery of things.'”

Ex libris of the Author's Club with bookplate to front pastedown. In light green dust jacket with dark green title to spine and front panels. The jacket is somewhat soiled and rubbed, faded along the top edge of the front panel and the spine panel. 48 pages. Fine / Very Good. (#29920)

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Scottish Poet - known for feud with popular poets of his day

Buchanan, Robert.
London Poems.
London: Alexander Strahan, 1866.

First Edition. Robert Williams Buchanan (1841-1901) was a Scottish poet, novelist, and playwright who struggled early in his career but later found success. He is remembered for his long and bitter feud against some of the major poets of his day - Rossetti, Morris, Swinburne - ignited by his 1871 essay titled "The Fleshly School of Poetry. This collection includes a Scottish poem written in dialect and a glossary of "Scotticisms" used in the poem.

Size - 12mo. In original green cloth with gold medallion in center of front cover and gilt title to spine. Cloth a bit bubbled, hinges starting, slight foxing at half title but otherwise a very good copy of the author's third book. Ownership book plates of bibliophiles Simon Nowell-Smith and C.J. Peacock on front paste down. Ownership signature dated 1866 on title page. 272 pages. Very Good. (#14683)

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Canadian Poet Laureate
Limited Edition, Signed by the Author

Carman, Bliss.
Poems (2 VOLUMES).
Boston: L.C. Page and Company, 1905.

110 of 500 copies. Signed by the Author. Canadian poet William Bliss Carman (1861 - 1929) spent most of his life in the United States, however, later in life he toured Canada and was named Canada's Poet Laureate. He signed on with publisher L.C. Page and Company in 1902 and they published seven books of his poetry including this one in a short four year time period. A prolific poet, his formal metered verse often explores themes on nature and spirituality (Poetry Foundation). This set includes the following poetry series: Low Tide on Grand Prix, Behind the Arras, Lyrics from an Old Play, Ballads of Lost Haven, Memorabilia, Songs of the Sea Children (an epic poem), Green Book of the Bards, In a Grand Pre Garden, A Winter Holiday, Valentines, The Book of Pierrot, The Pipes of Pan, and The Word at St. Kavin's

Black, paper-covered boards with leather title-labels to spines. Top inch of paper spine of volume two is missing. Leather labels on both volumes rubbed and cracked and difficult to read. Else is very good with illustrated frontis in volume I. Light foxing to frontispiece and title page. Many unopened pages. A fine printing at the Chiswick Press. Vol. I: 293 pages, VOL II: 292 pages. Size: Quarto. Very Good. (#12607)

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Narrative Poem Commemorating a Scottish Vacation
First Edition
English Author

Clough, Arthur Hugh.
Bothie of Toper-Na-Fuosich. A Long Vacation Pastoral.
Oxford: Francis Macpherson, 1848.

First edition. Arthur Clough (1819 - 61), close friend of Matthew Arnold and Ruskin, hosted reading parties on his vacations to Scotland. This poem was composed in response one such vacation and supposedly both delighted and outraged his guests."The poem follows its main character, Philip, as he departs from his Oxford companions who are studying in the Scottish Highlands, to pursue a life filled with love and adventure" (Wikipedia).

Very good in original blue cloth flexible boards with gilt title to front cover. Minor wear to edges of covers. There are a few small chip to edges of several pages. The binding is split in a few places; however, all of the pages remain bound in. Features the bookplate of a notable collector, Mark Samuels Lasner. 55 pages plus 1 page of ads. Very Good. (#23764)

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Poetry on Mountains & Nature
First American Edition - scarce in jacket
American Woman Author

Dargan, Olive Tilford.
Path Flower and Other Verses.
London and New York: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. and Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914.

First American Edition. SCARCE, especially with dust jacket. American poet and author Olive Tilford Dargan (1869 - 1968) from the South was known for her dramatic and lyric poetry on nature. This collection was her first that focused on the mountains and the beauty of nature. Her later work (mostly novels) took a feminist view on politics, activism, and romanticism. She also wrote fiction under the pseudonym Fielding Burke.

Original vellum backed and gray paper boards with gilt title to spine. Light bumping to spine ends and corners. Minor browning to paste downs and end pages. Else is clean and bright. Many pages are unopened. Grey dust jacket with black title to front and spine panels. Dust jacket missing pieces at the head and foot of the spine and along the top edge of the front panel. Minor browning to edges of dust jacket. "Scribners" at the foot of the spine. Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co, Edinburgh. 119 pages. Very Good / Good. (#30031)

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Presentation Copy
American Woman Author

Eckley, Sophia May.
Minor Chords.
London: Bell and Daldy, 1869.

Presentation Copy. Inscribed "To my dear Friend Mrs. Tipping with the love of her affec[tionate] Sophie May Eckley. London Nov. 30th 1868 (and many a happy memory of Chatsworth). Eckley (1823 - 1874) was a wealthy American lady who became an intimate friend with Elizabeth Barrett Browning during a chance meeting in Italy. They had a falling out several years later, but much of their relationship is detailed in "The Brownings Correspondence." She authored several books including travelogues and poetry. This poetry collection includes poems on dreams, hymns, churches, flowers, Fontainbleau, memory, gardens, Handel, Alpine adventures, angels, art, and more.

Bound in original green cloth with black ruling and design to covers and gilt author and title to spine. Some bumping and chipping but otherwise in very good condition. Spotting to endpapers and occasional spotting in text. Laid in bookplate from previous owner. A very nice copy. 277 pages plus 2 page publisher addendum with quotes from reviews of Eckley's first book. Very Good. (#25919)

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Includes a Poem Inspired by Max Beerbohm Portrait
Presentation Copy
Irish Author

Freyer, Dermot.
Sunlit Leaves: A Second Book of Verse Including Some Translations.
London: Henry J. Glaisher, 1909.

Inscribed: "To R.P.K., from D.J. F. March 19, 1912." Frontispiece portrait from a drawing by Dorothy Newill. Includes a poem inspired by Max Beerbohm's caricatures. Scarce volume by a minor but interesting modernist poet. Born in India, Dermot Johnston Freyer (1883 - 1970) was an Irish author and activist in England.

Bound in original cream wraps. Title and author in red on front cover. Some soiling, chipping and small tears along spine. Foxing to endpapers. Very good condition. 48 pages.  (#25925)

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Irish Poet
Inscribed by the Author

Groarke, Vona.
Flight and Earlier Poems.
Winston-Salem, NC: Wake Forest University Press, (2004).

INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. Vona Groarke (1964 - ) is Irish poet that teaches at the University of Manchester. She has published six books of poetry including this one. She has won multiple awards for her poetry. In this book "everything is on the move - from Elvis to oranges, from blackbirds to love - in poems that listen hard and find in movement a kind of music that is as complex and as delicate as the language used to pin it to the page. Flight features two award-winning meditations on the troubled subjects of history and time ... Other shorter lyrics and love poems develop the book's distinctive resonances" (jacket).

Turquoise cloth covered boards with gilt title to spine and gilt author's name to front board. Minor fading to top edge of boards and to spine. Author's signature to title page. Else is pristine. Includes paper from The Folger Poetry Series laid in. Translucent white dust jacket with slight edge wear and slight tonight to spine. 111 pages. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. (#25647)

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Inscribed by the Author
American Author / Homeopathic Doctor

Harlan, C.
Elflora of the Susquehanna. A Poem.
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1879.

Inscribed by the Author. C. Harlan (1814 - 1902) was a physician that promoted homeopathic remedies. He wrote poetry as well as books on medicine. He practiced in Pennsylvania and Delaware, but was heavily criticized by his contemporaries for his homeopathic remedies.

Very good in green cloth covered boards with gilt title to front board and gilt decoration to head and foot of spine. Minor bumping to spine ends and corners. Front free end page is loose at the top, rear free end page has been removed. Author's inscription written in pen on the second front end page reads "Charles E. Smith, With the kindest regards of the Author, June 6th 1879." Else is clean and bright with very light foxing throughout. 84 pages. Dimensions: 7 x 4 3/4. Poetry. Very Good. (#7336)

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Inscribed by the Author
American Author

Hirsch, Howard.
Earthly Measures.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994.

INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. “These are poems of immense wonder and rigor. To say they are religious poems is only to recognize their grandeur and generosity, and their heartbreaking longing.” —Patricia Hampl, The New York Times Book Review. "From gritty, apocalyptic views of the urban Midwest to brilliantly empathetic portrayals of Simone Weil and Hugo von Hofmannsthal, the range of poems is at once wide and subtle ... There is an argument about transcendence in these poems, an evocation of American spaces and European landscapes, a quest for reconciliation to the earth as it is" (jacket).

Pale green cloth covered boards with embossed title to front board and gilt title to spine. Very slight fading to bottom and top edges of boards. Pristine interior. Ticket to Folger Poetry Series laid in. Pail green and black illustrated dust jacket with white title to front and spine panels. Slight toning to edges of inside of dust jacket. 93 pages. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. (#25488)

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Co-Founder of the Poetry Society of Maryland
American Woman Author

Kinsolving, Sally Bruce.
Many Waters.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, (1942).

Sally Bruce Kinsolving (1876 - 1962) published her first poetry collection in 1921 and co-founded the Poetry Society of Maryland two years later. She was known for holding poetry salons in Baltimore and hosting prominent poets such as Carl Sandburg.

Very good in green cloth covered boards with gilt title to front board and to spine. Light bumping to spine ends and corners. Minor browning and foxing to end pages. Interior is clean and bright. Very good price clipped green and grey illustrated dust jacket with white title to front ad spine panels. Minor fading to spine panel and minor chipping and creasing to edges of dust jacket. 203 pages. Poetry. Very Good / Very Good. (#28083)

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Inscribed by the Author - to the editor of the North London Press
English Author

Le Gallienne, Richard.
English Poems.
London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane and New York: The Gassel Publishing Company, 1892.

Second edition. Inscribed by Le Gallienne to Ernest Parke: "Ernest Parke with grateful regard, from his friend, Richard Le Gallienne. Parke was the editor of the North London Press and a local politician. Richard Le Gallienne (1866 - 1947) was a prolific English author and poet. This collection includes poems on platonic love, faery gold, poets, a goldfish's epitaph, time, and much more.

Bound in original tan paper boards with paper label to spine. Boards are soiled and bumped and there are chips to the spine. Foxing to rear board and ad pages in rear as well as along fore-edge and occasionally to text. Otherwise in very good condition. 129 pages plus 7 pages of ads. Very Good. (#24914)

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Collection of French Songs & Poetry
Lovely Full Leather Prize Binding
English Author

Masson, Gustave.
Lyre Francaise.
London: Macmillan and Co, 1907.

A pretty book of French songs and poetry bound in a prize binding of full brown tree calf with gilt title, decoration, and raised bands to spine. Gilt insignia for the Royal Grammar School, Lancaster to the front board. Certificate pasted down to front endpaper - a prize for French awarded by the Head Master, Herbert A. Watson to John Shilbeck Wane in 1907. Both hinges are starting and there are a few chips to spine ends. Full marbled edges and marbled endpapers. Clean interior with illustrated title page. Preface in English as are subheads in Contents, but all poems are in FRENCH. 459 pages. Very Good. (#32952)

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First Printing of Melville's Poem 'The March to the Sea'

[Melville, Herman; Wilkie Collins].
Harper's New Monthly Magazine. Volume XXXII (32), Number 189 February 1866.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1866.

Includes the first printing of Melville's poem "The March to the Sea" on page 366. Also includes chapters from "Armadale" by Wilkie Collins and "Blackwell's Island Lunatic Asylum."

In the original paper wrappers with black title to spine and front cover. Heavy chipping / loss to paper on spine. Light dampstain to bottom edge of front wrapper and to edges of several other interior pages. Chipping and a few closed tears to edges of wrappers. Rubbing and light soiling to covers. Many pages are unopened. Illustrated. Pages 273 - 408 plus advertisements. Very Good. (#32236)

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Romantic Novel in Verse
In Lovely Full Leather Gift Binding
English Author

Meredith, Owen [Robert Bulwer-Lytton].
Lucile.
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1882.

A novel written in verse about a young women in 19th century England and her pursuit of happiness. This is the author's best known work. Illustrated with full pages plates and in text vignettes. In a gift binding.

Beautifully bound in full tan leather boards. Both covers feature a marbled tree design. Gilt title to dark brown title label on spine. Floral devices to five spine compartments. Gilt design to edges and dentelles of both boards. Marbled endpapers and full edges gilt. Minor bookworm damage to inside of front board. Two inch split to leather at bottom of front hinge. Rubbing and minor wear to hinges, edges, and corners of boards. Cracking to leather on spine. Occasional spots of soiling and finger smudges to margins. A few small spots of foxing. Light evidence of dampstain to about 1/4 inch along all exterior margins of textblock. A few small blue pen markings to title page. Text and images are not affected. Very slight cockling to pages. Previous owner's signature in pen dated 1881 to front free endpaper. Slight splay to boards. An attractive book despite noted condition issues. 332 pages. Very Good. (#35972)

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Autobiography of a Young Man
Author's First Book of Poetry
American Author

Nathan, Robert.
Youth Grows Old.
New York: McBride, 1922.

Robert Nathan (1894–1985) was an American novelist and poet who published prose and poetry for 56 years, with his last novel appearing in 1975 and his last published poetry in 1973. His novels The Bishop's Wife, One More Spring, and Portrait of Jennie were converted into films. In the early 1940s, he became a screenwriter for MGM. Youth Grows Old was Nathan's 3rd publication, and his first of poetry. Read in sequence, the poems within give the spiritual and emotional autobiography of a young man.

First Edition. Octavo. Black cloth covered boards with gilt title to spine. Small light spots of discoloration to the rear board and minor bumping to spine ends. Interior is clean and bright. Maroon dust jacket with black title to front and spine panel. Light wear to dust jacket includes fading to spine and one small spots of discoloration to front panel. 54 pages. Poetry. Very Good + in Very Good + DJ. (#6119)

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Poetry by an Olympic Medal Winning Swordsman
Presentation Copy - First Edition
English Author

Newton-Robinson, Charles.
Ver Lyrae: Selected Poems.
London: Lawrence and Bullen, Ltd., 1896.

First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed To W. Radcliffe from C. Newton-Robinson Sept 1906. Charles Edmund Newton-Robinson (1853 – 1913) was an English poet, fencer, gemologist, barrister, and yachtsman. He founded a fencing club and participated in the Olympics, winning the Silver medal in the 1906 Olympic Games in Athens.

Original grey cloth with faded gilt title to spine. Small spot on spine, spine head a bit rubbed, else a very good copy. Poetry. (#4112)

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Uncommon First Edition of the Author's First Book
Written by English Poet & Socialist - Follower of William Morris

Radford, Ernest.
Translations from Heine and other verses.
Cambridge: E. Johnson, 1882.

First Edition. Author's first book. SCARCE. Poet and socialist, Ernest Radford (1857 - 1919), was a follower of William Morris and served as the secretary of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society. He was also the husband of author Dollie Radford (Caroline Maitland). Includes poetry in translation from the original German of Heinrich Heine.

Very good in original grey paper covered boards with printed paper label on spine. The title label, which is a bit browned and lightly scuffed, is printed vertically in brown ink. Darkening to spine and minor chipping to head of spine. Short closed tear to edge of rear board. Offsetting to endpages, otherwise the interior is clean. 93 pages. (#22961)

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Written by the Poet Laureate of Maryland
Signed by the Author - First Edition
American Woman Author

Reese, Lizette Woodworth.
White April and Other Poems.
New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1930.

Signed by the author. First Edition. Lizette Woodworth Reese (1856-1935) was born in Maryland and taught English for many years in Baltimore schools. She published her first poem in Southern Magazine in 1874. Her first published volume of poetry was in 1887. She was especially noted for her strength in the sonnet form. White April and Other Poems, a later work, was published in 1930. In the following year, 1931, she was named Poet Laureate of Maryland.

Octavo. Green cloth covered boards with dark green title to front board and to spine. Fading to spine and light fading to edges of boards. Minor bumping to spine ends and corners. Previous owner's bookplate to front endpaper. Author's signature to front free end page. Pages are yellowed, but clean, except for remnants of erased pencil markings on several pages throughout. 67 pages. Very Good. (#705)

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Poetry by a German Jewish Girl - Right Before Holocaust
German Woman Author

Rosenfeld, Ruth.
Beyond These Shores 1934-1940: Poems and Diary of a Jewish Girl Who Escaped from Nazi Germany.
Baltimore: Icarus Books, 1996.

Poetry in German with English translation on facing pages. The second part of the book is diary entries written aboard a refugee ship. An interesting insight into the life of a young Jewish girl in Germany during this time period.

Near fine in black and white paper wraps with white title to front wrapper and black title to white spine. Inscription to half title page. Else is clean and bright with photographic illustrations of the author. 79 pages. Holocaust. Near Fine in Wraps. (#30572)

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Criticism of Swinburne's Fourth Book of Poetry
First Edition
English Author

Rossetti, William Michael.
Swinburne's Poems and Ballads: A Criticism.
London: John Camden Hotten, 1866.

First edition. This work primarily deals with Swinburne's fourth book of poetry, published when he was just 29 years old. Rossetti endeavors to provide a "calm" and even critique of Swinburne's work following the fervid and excited reviews of many other critics. In the preface, Rossetti affirms that Swinburne is a friend but assures the reader that this in no way influences his criticism.

Bound in original dark green cloth with gilt title and author to spine. Tape repair to hinges otherwise very good. Interior is clean with slight creases to upper right edges of pages 61-65. 80 pages + 10 pages of ads followed by 6 pages of ads.  (#20460)

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Inscribed by the Author - First Edition
American Author

Saxe, John G.
Poems.
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1855.

Inscribed by author "To Appleton? Oaksworth? Esq. from his friend and brother poet, Jo. G. Saxe. Sept. 1, 1885". John Godfrey Saxe (1816 - 1887) was an American poet best known for his retelling of the Indian parable 'The Blind Men and the Elephant.'

Near fine in brown cloth boards with gilt title to spine. Gentle rubbing to boards and edges. Frontispiece illustration. Clean interior with a few small, light spots of foxing. Tight binding with hinges in excellent condition. 192 pages. plus 8 pages of ads. Near Fine. (#22009)

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Inscribed by the Author
Observational Poetry - on people in crisis
English Author

Stallworthy, Jon.
Root and Branch.
London: Chatto and Windus / The Hogarth Press, 1969.

First edition. Inscribed by the author to the distinguished editor, Catherine Carver: "For Catharine / who launched this book with a bouquet worthy of The Canterbury Tales / with gratitude / from Jon". "A detached but compassionate observation of other people's lives a the moment of crisis gives the opening poems of this book a photographic quality. These 'stills' prepare for a moving sequence in which the poet's eye is turned on himself to record a personal crisis, the birth of a mongol son" (jacket).

Bound in textured orange paper covered boards with gilt title to spine. In brown and white patterned dust jacket with white spine panel and brown title to spine. Minor browning to spine panel of jacket, and short closed tear to bottom edge, else fine. 63 pages. Fine / Near Fine. (#29978)

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Signed by the Author, Limited Edition
Irish Author

Stuart, Francis.
Arrow of Anguish. New Poems.
Dublin: New Island Books, 1995.

SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 1 of 400 copies. Includes 16 poems. Irish author Henry Francis Montgomery Stuart (1902 - 2000) was awarded one of the highest accolades in Ireland before his death; however, he was criticized for the time he spent in Nazi Germany."Today Francis Stuart remains a shamefully neglected major figure in Irish writing. These poems speak honestly out of that loneliness and isolation with the same clarity of insight and unconquerable spirit which has characterized his life's work. Arrow of Anguish is a testament to survival by a voice that refuses to be silenced" (rear cover).

White side-stapled paper wrappers with black title and illustration to front panel. Clean, bright interior with tight binding. 22 pages. Fine. (#20350)

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Eclectic Poetry Collection - Anonymous Authors

Flip-Flap-Tattoo of Daddy Devilthresher's Flail-Flings.
New York: L. Biswurm & Co, 1889.

SCARCE. An eclectic collection of writings (mostly poetry) ranging in subject matter from the benefits of religion (prose piece) to fluffy poetry about aunts, flowers, ... and death to a naval battle in Denmark that happened in 1848 (prose) to a prose piece on strikes, somewhat comical letters from a father to his son, and more. No author(s) identified. Following is an excerpt from "Campaign-Song" dated 1888 - "Flip-flap! Here's a slap, For the good-for-nothing snap, Who would sell his Country's weal for his own benefit, Or his party's dirty rags, Or the boodler's money-bags, Or whatever bait is offer'd by some shuffling hypocrite." Seems relevant despite being nearly 150 years old!

Very good in grey paper wraps. Both wrappers are detached but present. Minor chipping and creasing to wrappers. Stamp to title page. Interior is otherwise clean. 168 pages. Very Good. (#3917)

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Poetry Collection Inscribed by Author's Daughter

V. (Clive, Mrs. Archer).
Poems: Including the IX Poems.
London: Longmans & Green, 1890.

New Edition. A pencil note on the title page says the book has poems not previously published. Published posthumously and inscribed by the editor, Alice Greathed, who was the poet's daughter to Mrs. William Herbert. English poet Mrs. Archer Clive or Caroline Clive (1801 - 1873) suffered from a childhood illness, which impaired her mobility. She published several books of poetry and novels anonymously under the letter "V." Her best work is still considered to be IX Poems, which is included in this book. Her novels were sensational mysteries comparable to the work of contemporary Wilkie Collins.

Bound in original maroon cloth with title and author in gilt to front cover and spine. In very good condition with slight bumping. Protected by both a glassine and mylar cover. Foxing to first and last few pages but otherwise clean. 207 pages. Very Good. (#24917)

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Spiritual Poetry on Happiness

Zimmerman, Leander.
Thoughts for Happiness.
Painfield, NJ: Tudor House Publishers, (1939).

Leander M. Zimmerman (1860 - 1952) was a Lutheran pastor in Baltimore for nearly forty years. He wrote several books on religious themes including this book of poetry.

SCARCE. 8vo. In red cloth covered boards with gilt title to front board and to spine. Light bumping to spine ends and corners. Minor browning to end pages. Small amount of interior underlining. Else is clean and bright. 60 pages. Poetry. Very Good. (#17023)

Price: $35.00 save 50% $17.50