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Alcools: Poems (1898-1913). Avec un Portrait de L’Auteur par Pablo Picasso.

Paris: Mercure de France, 1913.

First edition of Apollinaire’s first collection of poems, signed by him and Pablo Picasso. Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco with gilt titles and raised bands to the spine, patterned endpap...

$35,000.00 Item Number: RRB-128083

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Ginsberg, Allen

Howl, for Carl Solomon. Mimeographed for the Six Gallery Reading.

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Two sheets from an exceptionally rare privately produced mimeographed printing of Howl, preceding the first edition. One of 25 copies printed on rectos only in purple ink typed by the poet Robert Cree...

$35,000.00 Item Number: RRB-40140

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Poe, Edgar Allan

The Raven. [In The American Review: A Whig Journal of Politics, Literature, Art and Science. No. II February, 1845.

New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1845.

First appearance in print of The Raven, one of the most famous and recognizable poems ever written, which Poe considered his finest poem, calling it “the greatest poem that was ever written.” Octavo,...

$25,000.00 Item Number: RRB-136274

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Carroll, Lewis. [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson]

The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits.

London: Macmillan and Co., 1876.

First edition of Carroll’s whimsical nonsense poem. Octavo, original publisher’s decorated cloth, all edges gilt, with nine illustrations by Henry Holiday. Near fine in the scarce original...

$22,500.00 Item Number: RRB-130492

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Crane, Hart

The Bridge: A Poem.

New York: Horace Liveright, 1930.

First American edition of Crane’s landmark modernist epic. Octavo, original blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, illustrated with three photographs by Walter Evans. Presenta...

$22,500.00 Item Number: RRB-123618

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Silverstein, Shel

Where the Sidewalk Ends: Poems and Drawings.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1974.

First edition of the author’s first collection of children’s poetry. Stated first edition on the copyright page. Small quarto, original brown cloth, illustrated. Association copy, inscribe...

$20,000.00 Item Number: RRB-91344

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Lewis, C.S

The Problem of Pain.

London: The Centenary Pres, 1941.

Early printing of Lewis’s classic discussion of the nature of good and evil; inscribed by him with a quotation from Coventry Patmore’s poem The Angel in the House which had a profound infl...

$19,500.00 Item Number: RRB-143183

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Thoreau, Henry David

The Manuscript Edition of The Writings of Henry David Thoreau.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1906.

The manuscript edition of the writings of Henry David Thoreau. With the original manuscript sheet by Thoreau from his journal tipped-in to volume 1. The two page manuscript fragment comprises 58 lines...

$18,500.00 Item Number: RRB-97590

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Lewis, C.S

A Preface to Paradise Lost.

London: Oxford University Press, 1942.

First edition of this classic work, which discusses Milton’s Paradise Lost. Octavo, original green cloth. Boldly signed by C.S. Lewis on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a near fine dust ja...

$18,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149050

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Cohen, Leonard

Let Us Compare Mythologies.

Montreal: McGill Poetry Series by Contact Press, 1956.

First edition of Cohen’s first book, which explores philosophy, sexuality, death, a world of violent contrasts that would define his future literary and musical careers. Octavo, original cloth,...

$18,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151868

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Poe, Edgar Allan

Eureka: A Prose Poem.

New York: George P. Putnam, 1848.

First edition, first issue of Poe’s classic work. Duodecimo, original publishers blind stamped black cloth with gilt lettering to the spine. First issue, without the review for Eureka on page 2...

$17,500.00 Item Number: RRB-37022

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Thomas, Dylan

Eighteen Poems.

London: Sunday Referee and the Parton Press, 1936.

First edition, first issue of Thomas’ first book, one of 250 copies. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author to Desmond Hawkins, who was Dylan’s literary editor a...

$15,000.00 Item Number: RRB-111544

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Byron, George Gordon Noel. [Lord Byron]

Don Juan.

London: Thomas Davison [i.e., John Murray], 1819-1821 (Cantos I-V, Volumes I-II)/John Hunt, 1823-24 (Cantos VI-XVI, Volumes III-VI).

Scarce complete first edition set of Byron’s great work which was widely criticized as immoral upon publication and is now considered one of the greatest poems of the Romantics; from the library...

$15,000.00 Item Number: RRB-142573

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Eliot, T.S

The Waste Land.

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1922.

First edition, second impression with the ‘a’ dropped from “mountain” on page 41, and “water” with the ‘a’ on page 22 of one of the most influential works of...

$15,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151923

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Lorca, Federico Garcia [Leonard Cohen]

The Poet In New York and Other Poems.

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1940.

First edition of Lorca’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by fellow poet Leonard Cohen on the front free endpaper. Cohen was deeply influenced by the work of Lorca for the duration of his p...

$15,000.00 Item Number: RRB-110825

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Whitman, Walt

Leaves of Grass.

Brooklyn, New York: Fowler and Wells, 1856.

Rare second edition, one of 1000 copies of the most important volume in American poetry, with an additional twenty poems not found in the first edition as well as a new section of correspondence and r...

$14,000.00 Item Number: RRB-50052

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Cohen, Leonard

Let Us Compare Mythologies.

Montreal: McGill Poetry Series by Contact Press, 1956.

First edition of Cohen’s first book, which explores philosophy, sexuality, death, a world of violent contrasts that would define his future literary and musical careers. Octavo, original cloth....

$14,000.00 Item Number: RRB-107435

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Eliot, T.S. [Allen Tate]

The Waste Land.

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1922.

First edition, first issue of one of the most influential works of the 20th century, from the library of poet Allen Tate. Octavo, original black flexible cloth, lettered in gilt. One of one thousand c...

$14,000.00 Item Number: RRB-149678

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Poe, Edgar Allan

Eureka: A Prose Poem.

New York: George P. Putnam, 1848.

First edition, first issue of Poe’s classic work. Duodecimo, original publishers blind stamped black cloth with gilt lettering to the spine. First issue, without the review for Eureka on page 2...

$14,000.00 Item Number: RRB-140614

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Cohen, Leonard

Let Us Compare Mythologies.

Montreal: McGill Poetry Series by Contact Press, 1956.

First edition of Cohen’s first book, which explores philosophy, sexuality, death, a world of violent contrasts that would define his future literary and musical careers. Octavo, original cloth....

$13,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151360

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Thomas, Dylan

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog.

London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1940.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Dylan Thomas on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco chemise and...

$12,800.00 Item Number: RRB-148096

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Kipling, Rudyard [Cormac McCarthy]

Being a Man [If-].

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Rare print of Rudyard Kipling’s poem Being a Man, more commonly referred to as “If-“. One page, typed. Boldly signed by author Cormac McCarthy at the bottom right corner. Cormac McCa...

$12,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150490

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Whitman, Walt

Leaves of Grass.

Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1881-82.

The “suppressed Boston edition” (seventh edition overall) of the most important volume in American poetry, one of 1,010 copies printed. Octavo, original publisher’s mustard cloth wit...

$12,500.00 Item Number: RRB-139829

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Heaney, Seamus

Death of a Naturalist.

London: Faber and Faber, 1966.

First edition of Heaney’s first major published volume. Octavo, original green cloth with titles to the spine in gilt. Association copy, inscribed by the author to his aunt in a contemporary han...

$12,500.00 Item Number: RRB-3529

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