Search Results: poems by by johnson lionel

Nabu Press, 2011-09-21. Paperback. Good.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2010-09-10. Paperback. Good.

Paperback / softback. New.

New.

Hardback. New.

Portland, ME: Thomas B. Mosher, 1908. First Edition. One of an edition limited to 950 copies. Slight bit of foxing to endpapers, else fine in publisher’s original tissue dust jacket and slipcase. A handsome volume of poetry printed on Van Gelder handmade paper.

London: Elkin Matthews, 1912. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Introduction by Louise Imogen Guiney. Square 16mo. 79 [1], [4 ads] pp. Wrappers with some wear, tiny tears, and a thin 1¾" chip to the yapped edge on the lower wrap, a tiny bit of light internal foxing, very good or better.

Portland, Maine: Thomas B Mosher, 1908. Lionel Johnson (1867-1902) published only three volumes during his short lifetime, but he was highly regarded in the overheated literary world of the time. As an aside, history records that he made the introduction of Lord Alfred Douglas, his cousin, to Oscar Wilde. This is a Near Fine copy of an edition of his work LIMITED to 100 copies. An uncommon to scarce title. Mosher drew the first 21 poems from an 1904 issue by Dun Emer Press; Yeats had selected them from volumes printed in 1895 and 1897. For this edition, Mosher added seven others of his own choosing. The fragile vellum binding, with titling in red and black, is the best Quercus has seen. Some extrremely slight age-toning along the very top edge, else a Fine copy. Clean text; vi, 55 pages; printed on Japan vellum. Present is the even-more fragile tissue dustjacket, completely unworn. Now in an archival plastic protector. Truly a lovely book. . Limited. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 16mo - over… Read More

London / Boston: Elkin Mathews / Copeland & Day, 1895. First Edition. 1st Printing.. Hardcover. Good+. 8vo 7.75 - 9.75'' tall. Hardcover. Book Condition: Good+. Elkin Mathews / Copeland & Day, London / Boston 1895. First Edition. 1st Printing. 115 pages. This edition is limited to 750 copies for England and America. Moderate general wear. Browning on endpapers. Has bookplate. Spine top lightly worn. Size: 8vo 7.75 - 9.75'' tall. Printed at the Chiswick Press. Poetry::Before 1900 6340 6340

Elkin Mathews/Copeland & Day, 1895. Limited . Hardcover. Near Fine. Limited to 750 copies for England and America. On final page "Printed at Chiswick Press MDCCCXCV" with red imprint of printer's sign. Black shiny cloth spine and tips, slate grayish boards, roughcut pges, 116 pages. Browning to upper and lower tips inside covers and adjacent end paper, light browning to top edges of front and back covers. Near Fine copy.

Dundrun: The Dun Emer Press, 1904. First edition, one of two hundred twenty copies. xvi, 40 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Blue paper boards, linen spine, printed paper spine label. Very good, with an unusual color-printed bookplate of "AF" on the front pastedown. Free endpapers a bit discolored. First edition, one of two hundred twenty copies. xvi, 40 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. 'The Dark Angel' and other poems. Lionel Johnson (1867-1902), educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford, affiliated with the Rhymers' Club, is also remembered as having introduced Oscar Wilde to Lord Alfred Douglas. "Yeats, who remembered Johnson in the early 1890s as 'always at my side' (312), thought of him as 'our critic, and above all our theologian' (221) and, impressed and influenced by Johnson's erudition, encouraged his attempts to transform himself into an Irishman (ODNB, citing Yeats, Autobiographies, 1955). Handsome copy of this selection, which includes Johnson's "The Dark Angel". Wade 231