Poems by Roberts, Charles G.D. ( SIGNED ) - 1901

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1968 First printing of the stated first edition. Author's first book. Bookplate of "The Ed Sullivans" to front fly leaf and mild shelf wear to boards, else book in fine condition; dust jacket with chips, tears and creasing, rubbing along folds, light tanning/offsetting to front cover.

New York: L.C. Matlack, 1850 Additional title page in gilt, 202pp, bound in brown cloth with blind stamped borders, gilt flowers, gilt designs on spine, all edges gilt, designed endpapers. Covers show corner wear, wear to top/heel of backstrip, interior foxing. BINDING & HINGES TIGHT.

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.

Springfield, MA: Zone Art Center, 1991 IN NEAR FINE CONDITION. Unpaginated, oblong format, in original stiff wraps with plastic spiral binding. ILLUSTRATED poetry and stories, inspired by unusual triptychs created by Kearns and displayed on buses. This book is 9 writers that responded to the the images in poetry & prose. Includes folding illustrations.

Boston: Walter H. Baker Company, 1929 IN VERY GOOD CONDITION. 60pp [4], bound in original stiff wraps, with binding and hinges tight. Pages age darkened, price on cover changed to 75 cents. NO LABELS, INSCRIPTIONS, NOR INNER MARKINGS. In a protective mylar sleeve.

London, United Kingdom: C. Kegan Paul & Co, 1881. Original cream cloth, lettered in gilt and decorated in black and blue with bevilled edges, sl age browned else unworn, wood-engraved frontispiece by author on India paper, with clean tissue guard, Morris style floral eps, white eps lightly browned, gilt top edge, pp120 on handmade paper. An excellent copy.. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Fine/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Dublin: The Inver Press, 1931. Limited. <p>Dublin: The Inver Press, 1931. An early and probably privately printed collection of twenty poems in a 32-page brochure stapled together with overprinted green light paper flapped cover, ink inscribed "Selma from Lyle. August 1934." on title page. Cover with creases and some rusting around the staples. Otherwise clean. Contact bookseller for more information. Limited. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" Tall.</p>

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1939. First Edition . Cloth. Fine/Very Good-. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Presentation copy to Cecil Lang (? Cecil Y. Lang, a long time professor at Syracuse, Chicago, and Virginia who specialized in 19th century British literature as part of his doctoral studies at Harvard ?) SIGNED by Editor Janet Camp Troxell, daughter of Walter Camp. Troxell's collection of manuscripts and research materials relating to the Rossettis and their circle are held at the Princeton University Library. Illuminating study re-evaluating Dante Gabriel Rossetti's poem and his various changes in the text from 1854-1881. Among the illustrations is a reproduction of part of the rare Dusseldorf Album for 1854 in which "Sister Helen" was first printed. 95 pp. Nine illustrations of some of Rossetti's changes from manuscripts, proofs and books, one of which is a fold-out measuring approximately 13 by 17 inches. Black cloth boards with very bright gilt title to spine. Tightly bound and very… Read More

One of 100 large-paper copies printed on hand-made paper. Overall size c.9.3/8 x 6.1/4 inches. c.24 x 16 cm. Original lithographic portrait of the author by Wilson Steer as frontispiece. pps 8 + 204. Usual browning to free end-papers o/w internally near fine. Binding slightly soiled and rubbed, more so on corner tips but a very good copy of the fragile boards.

Belfast: John Henderson, 1844. Hardcover. Good/no d/j. 12mo. Exceptionally scarce Belfast-published collected works of the Scots-born poet who emigrated to the US in 1794 and is regarded as the founder or American ornithology and an inspiration for Audubon. Includes fascinating memoir with much on Wilson's life in America and the creation of his nine-volume masterwork, American Ornithology. Frontispiece and engraved title showing Wilson and birds of prey respectively. This, second title and contents rather spotted, but thereafter all is generally clean and bright until the last couple of pages of the glossary and rear endpaper. Block marbled to all edges. Binding tight. Former owner's name neatly to first blank. Well worn half leather with worn marbled paper. Some loss to leather titlepiece. 12mo. xxxviii + 504pp