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This is a first edition of An Anthology of Modern Irish Poetry, edited by the American academic Wes Davis. It is a comprehensive representation of Irish poetic achievement in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, from poets such as Austin Clarke and Samuel Beckett, to those who came of age in the turbulent '60s, including Seamus Heaney and Michael Longley; to… Read more about this item

This is an unread First US Edition of I Saw Esau: The Schoolchild's Pocket Book, written by the English folklore experts Iona and Peter Opie. It was originally published in 1947. In 1992, it was re-published, this time full of color illustrations by the great American illustrator Maurice Sendak, best known for Where the Wild Things Are, and his many… Read more about this item

This is a stated First Edition, and first printing, of Good Intentions, a 128-poem collection by the American poet Ogden Nash (1902-1971). Blue boards with a black and gold design on the cover and spine. 180 pages of thick paper. This copy has fading to the spine and a little spot on the cover. It has an old book smell--not musty,… Read more about this item

This is a lovely copy of the Poems of Love by John Donne. Donne (1571-1631) was an English scholar, soldier, cleric and politician. He is also considered the preeminent representative of metaphysical/sensual poetry. The Folio Society first published this book in 1958. It was reprinted via photo lithography in 1990, and again in 1992. This is a copy of the 1992… Read more about this item

This is one of a limited-edition run of a commissioned book, of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, the book of poetry attributed to the 'astronomer poet' of Persia, who died in 1131. It uses the translation of Edward FitzGerald (1809-1883). The book may have been created c 2010. According to a statement in the book, it was created by Mohammadi Hosseinpour… Read more about this item

This is 7 of the 12-book set of The Works of Charles Lamb, published in 1903 by Dent London and then co-published by Dutton New York. This collection was a best-seller and was printed four times. Four of these books are first editions from 1903; three are 1914 reprints. The set was printed in the UK and is of the… Read more about this item

This is a pristine copy of Just So Stories for Little Children, Rudyard Kipling's classic collection of children's stories, all involving animals, first published in 1902. Kipling illustrated the stories himself. This is the Folio Society's edition, which features all of his original illustrations. The Folio Society first published this book in 1991; this is its 10th printing, dated 2005. As you… Read more about this item

This is a pristine copy of The Jungle Books, Volume II, the classic stories of animals in India written in 1894 by Rudyard Kipling. This is the 1948 edition published by Doubleday and illustrated by Aldren Watson. This is a beautiful copy. It is 7 stories, plus poems, with 6 color illustrations and several black and white illustrations. 201 pages, all clean and… Read more about this item

This is a leather-bound mint-condition copy of Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales, published in 2011. It is the 201 fairy tales and 10 legends written by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, the German academics and folklore collectors who, from 1812 to 1857, published the world's most famous fairy tales. Bound in burgundy leather with an inlaid foil design. Bound-in silk bookmark, gold-trimmed pages. 652 pages,… Read more about this item

This is an unread first edition of Baudelaire, written by the English journalist Joanna Richardson and published in 1990. It is a full biography of the French poet Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), which was a best-seller and very well received by critics. It's a big book with few photos. It is mylar-wrapped--you can remove it if you like. The spots you see on the… Read more about this item

This is a stated first edition (1978) of A Captive of Time: My Years With Pasternak. It is the memoirs of the Russian poet Olga Ivinskaya (1912-1995), who was Boris Pasternak's mistress and the woman upon whom 'Lara' is based, in Pasternak's Dr. Zhivago. 462 pages, lots of photos There are a few little marks here and there, just on the covers… Read more about this item

This is a luxury edition of The Canterbury Tales, published in the UK in 1986. This book, written in the late 1400s, remains a best-seller; only the Bible has sold more copies. It is fully illustrated with medieval illuminations and woodcuts. 288 pages, packed with images, 90% in color. It's quite heavy. This copy has not been read, although it was opened to… Read more about this item

This is a first edition (1910) of The Story of Hiawatha, Adapted from Longfellow, by the American author Clayton Edwards. It is illustrated by Maria Louise Kirk (1860-1938), who illustrated L.M Montgomery's books, and the first US edition of Alice in Wonderland. The first part of the book discusses aspects of Ojibwe life, as it was known (or thought) to… Read more about this item

This is edition 108 (2009) of Granta: The Magazine of New Writing (it was originally a magazine). This is a special edition, titled Chicago, and contains short stories, essays and poetry relating to Chicago and contains works by Peter Carey, Don Delillo, George Saunders, Elaine Showalter et al (see contents photo). 288 pages, trade paperback with laminated covers. Heavily… Read more about this item

Beginning in 1835, the Fleet Street (London) publisher Tilt and Bogue (Charles Tilt) began publishing Tilt's Miniature Classic Library. Altogether, 50 titles were published, all classics of English Literature. All of the books are the same: 2 3/4" wide and 4 1/4" high. The covers are embossed with gold, the spines are embossed with gold, the pages are edged with gold… Read more about this item

This is a very nice copy, published in 1961, of Edgar Allan Poe Stories: Twenty-Seven Thrilling Tales by the Master of Suspense, with an Added Selection of His Best Poems. See photo of contents. As you can see, there is quite a bit of wear to the dust jacket, which is unclipped. The book itself is perfect. It does not appear to… Read more about this item

This is a first edition (1989) of Erotic Works of D.H. Lawrence, Illustrated in Color with the Erotic Paintings of D.H. Lawrence. It includes novels, novellas, short stories, essays and poetry -- see contents photos. D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) is known as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. He was prolific, but is most famous for his novels… Read more about this item

This is a first edition of English Romantic Writers, an anthology produced in 1967 by David Perkins, Professor of English and American Literature, Emeritus, at Harvard University. It is selected works of English Romantic writers, each with a biographical sketch and a critical analysis of his work. It covers the years 1798 to 1832; it begins with William Blake and ends… Read more about this item

Under Milk Wood, A Play for Voices, is a 1954 radio drama by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (1914-1953). It was first commissioned by the BBC, and then adapted for the stage. It has also been filmed twice. In it, a narrator invites the audience to listen to the dreams and innermost thoughts of the inhabitants of the fictional small Welsh fishing… Read more about this item

Robert Browning (1812-1889) was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of the dramatic monologue made him one of the foremost Victorian poets. His poems are known for their irony, characterization, dark humour, social commentary, historical settings, and challenging vocabulary and syntax. This copy of his poems was published in 1969 by the Classics Club. It is beige tweed boards with… Read more about this item