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Shakespeare's Sonnets
by William Shakespeare
"I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant and clear text for either the study or the rehearsal room, notes where you need them and the distinguished scholarship of the general editors, Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller who understand that these are plays for performance as well as great texts for contemplation." (Patrick Stewart)The...
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Verse Books & Ephemera
Monovassia 1976
by Eleni Fourtouni
New Haven: Thelphini Press, 1979. Soft cover. Good. Several passages appear in English and French side by side, this would be the journal sections by (and for) "Christian": "The poems - the voice of the woman - framed within passages of the man's journal".....the poetess who is closely aligned to her Greek heritage falls for a Frenchman in New England informs these love poems. From a design perspective, aside from the poetry itself, this is an intriguing work, unfortunately the...
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€30.00
Saul
by Robert Browning
Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1901. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Frank O. Small. Several bumps to edges causing small closed tear in bottom edge of six pages; and rubbed through on all corners, green boards extensively stained. Binding split at pages 14 and 43. Dampstain to introduction by J.A. MacVannel and first ten pages of text (not wavey but stained). Drawings by Frank O. Small. 1905 gift inscription on FFEP. Still an excellent reading copy. 45 pages of...
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€15.00
Momentos (Coleccion Opera Prima)
by Nicole Rosenthal
Grupo Editorial Gaceta, 1985. Soft cover. Good. Illustrated collection of poems after five year residency in Mexico (she was born in NY to French parents), the last two poems in the collection are in English, all others in Spanish. Text block is mildly yellowed, covers faded, otherwise minimal wear. Print run of 1000.
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€26.00
Prairie Poetry
by Jim Hoy
ISBN- 1880652498
Prairie Poetry, by Jim Hoy, 1995
published by The Wichita Eagle & Beacon Co. very good condition. Minor edge ware or shelfware. Binding good and tight. 159 pages of clean white pages. No markings or inkings of any sort.
About the book: EVER SINCE THE FIRST GATHERING AT ELKO, Nevada, in 1985 the popularity of cowboy poetry has burgeoned. Cowboy and cowgirl poets from Kansas have been active in the movement, building on a tradition that had linked our state with cowboy poetry since the... Read more about this item
Prairie Poetry, by Jim Hoy, 1995
published by The Wichita Eagle & Beacon Co. very good condition. Minor edge ware or shelfware. Binding good and tight. 159 pages of clean white pages. No markings or inkings of any sort.
About the book: EVER SINCE THE FIRST GATHERING AT ELKO, Nevada, in 1985 the popularity of cowboy poetry has burgeoned. Cowboy and cowgirl poets from Kansas have been active in the movement, building on a tradition that had linked our state with cowboy poetry since the... Read more about this item
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€59.55
Iatrogenic: Their Testimonies
by Pafunda, Danielle
Noemi Press, 2010. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. One creased corner, remainder mark on bottom edge, still almost new. 58 pages of poetry. VG-
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€15.00
Poems : The Sawdust War
by Barnes, Jim
University of Illinois Press, 1991. Soft cover. Near Fine. Minimal wear, almost new. Inscribed by author. 117 pages. ISBN 0252062396
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€20.00
Les Amours (Poésie)
by Pierre de Ronsard
Gallimard, 1974. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 1990 printing, mild edge wear and yellowed page margins.
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€10.00
Robert Burns: Selected Poems
by Robert Burns; Donald Low
Barnes & Noble, 2003. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Number stamped to page foredges otherwise as new. Selected by Donald Low. Reprint of Everyman 1996 edition in hardcover with dust jacket in the Pocket Library series by Barnes & Noble. 103 pages + chronology. ISBN 0760749035
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€10.00
Poems : The Mountains Have Come Closer
by Jim Wayne Miller
Boone, NC: Appalachian Consortium Press, 1980. Soft cover. Near Fine. Bel exemplaire, 64 pages. Rare edition by the Appalachian Consortium Press. A collection of poems by Jim Wayne Miller which draw on his life experiences growing up and living in Appalachia. Miller was awarded the Thomas Wolfe Award for the book in 1980.
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€18.00
Deeper into the Blue
by Sonneborn, Carrie
Canberra: Boris Books, 1997. Soft cover. Good. Judith Rosenberg. Edgewear with a few rub marks. Tight binding and fine interior. Inscribed by author on title page "To dear Geri, Thanks for being you and making Maui special. Love, "Sister" Carrie". 40 pages of poetry. Rare
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€25.00
Anthologie De La Poésie Française - Tome 11 -- Le XXe Siècle - Tome 1
by Robert Kanters, Maurice Nadeau, editors
Editions Rencontre, 1967. Hardcover. Good. Light scuffing of covers, rounded corners, foxed on top page edges, yellowed margins. None of these defects are grave, still an attractive copy.
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€23.00
TWENTY-FIVE POEMS
by Thomas, Dylan
1936. ["another unprocurable"] London: J. M. Dent & Sons, (1936). Original grey boards, with dust jacket. First Edition of Thomas's second book, which consisted of only 730 copies. His only earlier book had been EIGHTEEN POEMS, a 1934 issue of 250 copies by the Sunday Referee & Parton Bookshop. After the variously toned but never indifferent reception accorded to EIGHTEEN POEMS, Thomas's name began to appear regularly in a number of literary journals. But Victor Neuberg [poetry editor of the Sunday...
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€448.97
Autograph Poetry in the English Language : Facsimiles of Original Manuscripts from the Fourteenth to the Twentieth Century
by Croft, P. J
London: Cassell & Company, Ltd.. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1973. Limited/Numbered Edition. Hardcover. Lacks the slipcase. Volume I: Very short closed tear adjacent to the head of the dust jacket.; This 2-volume set presents 197 full-page plates showing poetry in manuscript by 146 English authors from the 14th to 20th centuries. Manuscript examples from Butler, Dryden, Keats, Milton, Swift, Thomas, Yeats, and 139 others. The manuscript plates are printed on the recto of pages and each facing...
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€47.26
Sur le Vif... Fables et Courts Poemes
by Suzanne Le Brun
Nancy: Rigot & Cie. , 1935. Soft cover. Good. A few stains on covers, edge wear, rough cut to pages on cream stock with several graphic elements, 84 pages.
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€12.00
Divagate
by Kim Christoff
Tempe, AZ: Lesser Fruit Publishing, 1999. Staplebound. Near Fine. Limited edition poetry collection of just 29 copies published in 1999. As new except for smudge on back cover. Pamphlet single-thread sewn binding, [20 pages]
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€20.00
I began to speak : From a City of Two Rivers a legacy of poetry
by B.L. Kennedy and Linda Thorell
The Archives Group, 2006. Audio Book (DVD). Good. DVD documentary film about the poetry scene in Sacramento, California. Ex-library, case shows signs of wear, DVD plays fine, both have library stickers. Approx. 110 minutes running time. Written, directed and produced by B.L. Kennedy and Linda Thorell.
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€30.00
PRIZE SELECTIONS : FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS BEING FROM ENGLISH AND AMERICAN POETS: From Chaucer to the Present Time
by Moulton, C. W. (Compiler & Editor)
Boston, MA: D. Lothrop & Company, 1887. First Edition, First Thus . Hard Cover/Stitched. Very Good/None (As Issued?). Text/Near New & Bright w/some check marks. Vintage 1887 First Edition, Furst Thus. Blue linen boards w/gilt lettering/NF --- with "$300.00" to lower front also in gilt ( is not the price of the volume, but the publisher's offered prize to the reader able to correctly identify authors of quoted of lines), w/trace wear to surface & corner tips. DJ/None (as...
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€33.08
Poems : The Women and the Men
by Giovanni, Nikki
Morrow Quill Paperbacks, 1975. 1st Printing. Soft cover. Good. General edge wear, price blacked out, sun faded covers, a few pages with underlining in pencil. Unpaginated [50+pp]. Rare 1st printing
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€20.00
Corca Bascinn
by Liddy, James
Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1977 8vo pp64 VG Irish American poetry, centred on an area of the West Clare region of Ireland. Edge fading, Fine text.
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€15.22
Old Blazes
by Paul Croy
Sandpoint, Idaho: Myers and Co., lithographers, 1947. 2nd Edition 2nd Printing. Spiral. Good. Ora Spoor (sketches); Ross Hall (photography). Oblong 8.25 x 11 inches padded etched faux leather binding, boards rubbed through on corners and ends of spine, textured embossed face in very good condition. Encased is a quarter inch gage white plastic spiral binding with two pulled tabs. Yellowed endpapers not affecting text or sepia toned photos. Second printing of Second Revised Edition August 1947. Includes...
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€40.00
La mer interdite et autres poèmes
by Blaga Dimitrova
Éditions Est-Ouest internationales, 1994. Soft cover. Fine.
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€19.00
Reliques Of Ancient English Poetry : Consisting Of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs, and other Pieces of our earlier Poets, Together with some few of later Date. The Third Edition [1775]. Volume the Third [tome 3].
by Thomas Percy, editor
London: J. Dodsley, Pall-Mall, London, 1775. 3rd Edition . Hardcover. Poor/No DJ as Issued. pp: [iv] i-xxxix [i] 1-359 [1]. THE THIRD VOLUME ONLY. Bound in mid-brown leather covered boards with the title in gilt within a red title piece on the spine. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 8¾" Tall. Interior has faint to light foxing throughout, still bright and quite legible. Useful "A Glossary of the Obsolete and Scottish Words in Volume the Third" pp.350-9. and page 360 is...
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€26.00
Maïakovski poèmes 1922-1923 tome 3
by Vladimir Maiakovski
Messidor, 1986. Soft cover. Good. Transparent brodart book cover taped in. Library stamps and stickers in endpapers (FFEP and BFEP) but aside from these two blank pages the book is in fine almost new condition. 280+ pages. Bilingual edition side by side Russian - French. Traduits et presentes par Claude Frioux. From back cover: Le Tome 3 (1922-1923) comprend : "J'aime", "La Quatrieme Internationale", "La Cinquieme Internationale", "Sur Ca", "Aux ouvriers...
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€40.00
From the Girls in the Galaxy
by Sara Harrell
SoftcoverISBN / 0942257189Publisher: New Chapter Press , New York 1990Used - Fine: First edition. Signed by Author... not once, but twice. Book is like new
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€64.27
Les Heures et les Demeures
by Yoland Simon
Editions Corps Puce, 1993. Soft cover. Near Fine.
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€15.00