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"You go your way I'll go your way too": Book of Longing; Signed by Leonard Cohen
COHEN, Leonard.
Book of Longing.
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2006.
First Canadian edition and true first of Cohen's provocative book of poetry. Octavo, original boards. Signed by Leonard Cohen on the title page who has added his stamp. Fine in a fine price-clipped dust jacket, inscription to the front free endpaper.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 135256
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First Edition of The Blood of Adonis; Inscribed by both Adonis and the Translator Samuel Hazo
ADONIS [ALI AHMED SAID]; TRANSLATED BY SAMUEL HAZO,.
The Blood of Adonis.
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1971.
First edition of the poet's first book to be translated into English. Octavo, original red cloth. Inscribed by both the poet Adonis and by the translator, Samuel Hazo. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $950.00 Item Number: 1544
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"I ask you, how much beauty can a person bear? It is heavier than ugliness, even the burden of emptiness is nothing beside it": First Edition of Louise Gluck's The Triumph of Achilles; Signed by Her
GLUCK, Louise.
The Triumph of Achilles.
New York: The Ecco Press, 1985.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's classic work, her most anthologized. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Louise Glück on the title page. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 137436
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First Edition of John Ashbery’s Pulitizer Prize-Winning Work; Signed by him
ASHBERY, John.
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror.
New York: The Viking Press, 1975.
First edition of the author's Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by John Ashbery on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Michael Teague. Jacket design by Jacqueline Schuman. An exceptional example.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 110844
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Limited First Edition of Robert Frost's Snow To Snow
FROST, Robert.
From Snow to Snow.
New York: Henry Holt Company, 1936.
Limited first edition of this collection of poems chosen by Frost for each month of the year. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the rare original glassine dust jacket. We have never seen another example in the original glassine.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 136371
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"HOLD FAST TO DREAMS For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly": First Edition of Langston Hughes's The Dream Keeper
HUGHES, Langston.
The Dream Keeper.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1949.
First edition of this classic collection of poems. Octavo, original cloth, illustrations by Helen Sewell. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Helen Sewell. First editions are uncommon.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 125808
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“MY HEART, THAT USED TO PUMP ALONG SO PLEASANTLY HAS COME TO A DIFFERENT SORT OF MUSIC”: First Edition of Evidence; Signed by Mary Oliver
OLIVER, Mary.
Evidence.
Boston: Beacon Press, 2008.
First edition of this collection of poems by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. Octavo, original boards. Signed by Mary Oliver on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Bob Kosturko.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 77859
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"Oh, let it be a night of lyric rain and singing breezes, when my bell is tolled": Signed limited edition of Not So Deep As A Well; one of 485 numbered copies signed by Dorothy Parker
PARKER, Dorothy.
Not So Deep as a Well: The Collected Poems of Dorothy Parker.
New York: The Viking Press, 1936.
First edition, signed limited issue of the collected poems of Dorothy Parker. Octavo, original publisher's half cloth over patterned red paper boards, decorated by Valenti Angelo. One of 485 numbered copies signed by the author, this is number 167. In near fine condition.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 142965
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“My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me": The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; finely bound with a concealed fore-edge painting
LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth.
The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. [Fore-edge Painting].
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1877.
Finely bound example of the collected poetical works of Longfellow. Octavo, bound in full contemporary crushed levant morocco with elaborate gilt tooling to the spine and panels, morocco spine label lettered in gilt, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, decorated with a concealed fore-edge painting of a pastoral scene, illustrated. In very good condition. Housed in a custom slipcase. An attractive binding.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 138812
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First Edition of Joseph Brodsky's To Urania" Poems; Lengthily Inscribed by Him
BRODSKY, Joseph.
To Urania: Poems.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1988.
First edition of this classic work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For David Picasky from the Author Joseph Brodsky April 5th 1992 Morgantown." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration of a Roman sarcophagus depicting the nine muses.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 139908
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"I ask you, how much beauty can a person bear? It is heavier than ugliness, even the burden of emptiness is nothing beside it": First Edition of Louise Gluck's The Triumph of Achilles; Inscribed by Her
GLUCK, Louise.
The Triumph of Achilles.
New York: The Ecco Press, 1985.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's classic work, her most anthologized. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author, "For Meryl with good wishes Louise Glück." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 138593
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Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying": The Poetical Works of Robert Herrick; finely bound in full dark green calf by Zaehnsdorf
HERRICK, Robert.
The Poetical Works of Robert Herrick.
London: William Pickering, 1825.
Finely bound nineteenth century printing of Herrick's collected poems. Octavo, two volumes bound in full dark green calf by Zaehnsdorf, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, triple gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 137228
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First Edition of Helen Adam's Turn Again To Me and Other Poems; Signed by Her
ADAM, Helen.
Turn Again To Me and Other Poems.
New York: Kulchar Foundation, 1977.
First edition of the first book by Adam. Quarto, original boards. Boldly signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "All good wishes Helen Adam." In near fine condition.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 127711
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The Poetical Works - with a fore-edge painting of a British-flagged frigate
FALCONER, William.
The Poetical Works: With a Fore-Edge Painting of a British Flagged Frigate. [Fore-Edge Painting].
London: William Pickering, 1836.
Octavo, bound in straight-grain full green morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, all edges gilt. With a fore-edge painting of a British-flagged three-masted frigate, sails full, with land on the horizon.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 52023
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"We are thy daughters: of no lesser breed could such a cry for justice first have come, or such strong odds be faced!": Rare first editions of Laurence Housman's The "Physical Force" Fallacy and Woman's Cause
HOUSMAN, Laurence.
The “Physical Force” Fallacy.
London: The Woman's Press/Women Writer's Suffrage League, .
First edition of Laurence Housman's treatise refuting the "physical force" anti-suffragette argument. Octavo, original wrappers. With a first edition of Woman's Cause, a prologue also written by Housman for the Scala Theatre Matinee, November 12th 1909. In very good condition. Rare.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 135236
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"On the road to Mandalay, Where the flyin'-fishes play, An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer; China 'crost the Bay!": Scarce unauthorized edition of Rudyard Kipling's Barack-Room Ballads
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Barrack-Room Ballads.
1892.
Scarce unauthorized edition of perhaps Kipling's most popular poetry collection. Octavo, original wrappers. In very good condition. This collection was so popular upon publication in 1892 it was pirated in a small number of unauthorized editions which were sold on the streets of London and quickly suppressed. Housed in a custom chemise case. Scarce.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 120604
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Czeslaw Milosz's Native Realm: A Search for Self-Definition; Signed by Him
MILOSZ, Czeslaw.
Native Realm: A Search for Self-Definition.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1968.
First edition of the re-issue of the Nobel Prize-winning author's classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Czeslaw Milosz on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Lewis Friedman. Author photograph by Thomas Victor.
Price: $800.00 Item Number: 142086
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First Edition of Mary Oliver's The Leaf And The Cloud: A Poem; Signed by Her
OLIVER, Mary.
The Leaf and the Cloud: A Poem.
New York: Da Capo Press, 2000.
First edition of this book-length poem in seven parts from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Mary Oliver on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Steven Cooley.
Price: $800.00 Item Number: 68345
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First Edition of Mary Oliver's Blue Horses; Signed by Her
OLIVER, Mary.
Blue Horses: Poems.
New York: Penguin Press, 2014.
First edition of this "lyric collection to be treasured" (The New York Journal of Books). Octavo, original boards. Signed by Mary Oliver on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Darren Haggar.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 103431
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"This faint resemblance of thy charms, though strong as mortal art could give": Finely bound collection of the Poems of Lord Byron, each accompanied by an elaborately engraved plate
LORD BYRON. DRAWINGS BY CHALON, Leslie.
Heath’s Illustrations to the Works of Lord Byron, From Drawings by The First Artists.
London: A. Fullarton, And Co, c.1830.
Finely bound example of the poems of Lord Byron, each accompanied by a period engraving. Quarto, bound in three quarters morocco over decorative boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised gilt bands, inner dentelles, all edges gilt, frontispiece engraved portrait of Lord Byron. Illustrated with 36 full page engraved plates. In very good condition with the plates bright and crisp.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 95864