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Chicago and New York: Scott, Foresman & Co., 1900. 165pgs. Very Good condition small blue cloth hardcover. Light rubbing to cloth along edges and corners, slight fading to spine. Owner name and date on front endpaper, else clean and unmarked with sound binding. Contents: Preface; Introduction: I. England in Milton's Youth, II. The Life of Milton, III. L'Allegro and Il Pensero, IV. Comus, V. Lycidas, VI. Milton's Puritanism; Text [of thepoems]; Notes; Word Index. #1977. No Additional Printings Indicated. Cloth Hardcover. Very Good. 16mo - 5¾ Inches - 6 3/4 Inches Tall.

New York: Random House, 1993. Fine pamphlet bound softcover with navy blue self wraps and gilt lettering, pristine condition. Read by American Poet Maya Angelou at the inauguration of William Jefferson Clinton 20 January 1993. Pubisher's number line 468C9753. ISBN 0679748385. Book# 2630.. Pamplet Bound Paper Wraps. Fine. 16mo - 6.5 Inches Tall.

London and New York: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1901. 12mo. 120 pgs. Green cloth hardcover with gilt lettering and decoration to front board and spine. Top edge gilt. Light wear to spine edges, light foxing to rear endpapers else clean, sound, unmarked. #1129. Sixth Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, NY. 1895. (c.1884). Press of Bewick & Smith, Boston., 1929. 12mo. 698 pgs. Good to Very Good hardcover. Green cloth with some shallow bumps and corner rubs. Spine edges rubbed. Clean and sound. Contents: The Silver Box, Joy, Strife, The Eldest Son, Justice, The Little Dream, The Pigeon, The Fugitive, The Mob, A Bit o'Love, The Foundations, The Skin Game, A Family Man, Loyalties, Windows, The Forest, Old English, The Show, Escape, The First and the Last, The Little Man, Hall-Marked, Defeat, The Sun, Punch and Go. #455.. Hard Cover. Good to Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: Herbert S. Stone and Co., 1905. 12 mo. 377 pgs. Good to Very Good condition in navy cloth with some light wear to spine edges and corners. Paper title piece with a few tiny chips. Text clean and unmarked, unread as some pages unopened. Includes: You Never Can Tell, Arms and the Man, Candida, The Man of Destiny. #401.. Later Printing. Hard Cover. Good to Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1980. 163pgs. Very Good hardcover in Very Good jacket. Clean and unmarked but for a small faint shadow from a former sticker on front endpaper. Binding tight, light wear to bottom edge of spine. Jacket has slight darkening to paper of spine, no chips or tears. Following the text is a very readable and intriguing notes and sources section. Evidence is presented that Poe indeed fatheredf an ill-fated child with Fanny Oagood while he was married to the ailing Virginia Clemm and she to Sam Osgood, inspiring the poem Ulalume. Sections: Prologue: Region of Sighs, Region of Weir, Epilogue, Appendix A: The Oil Portrait of Poe by S.S. Osgood, Appendix B: "Lulin, or The Diamond Fay" by Frances S. Osgood, Notes, Bibliography, Index. ISBN 0882296833. #2526.. First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo, 8.5 x 5.75 Inches.

Rockefeller Center, New York: Pocket Books Incorporated, 1949. 292 pgs. Good to Very Good condition vintage paperback. May 1949 first printing of first Pocket Book edition, with Gertrude the kangaroo logo design inside covers and red text block edges, #586 on spine. Binding sound, light rubbing along spine edges and margins, pages are clean and unmarked, with uniform age darkening along margins. A huge variety of stories, articles and poems in a tiny package by renowned writers and poets, this format was originally intended as a small take-along for a weekend holiday or the like. Table of Contents, Introduction by Philip Van Doren Stern, Valedictory by MacKinlay Kantor, A Cup of Tea by Katherine Mansfield, The Gioconda Smile by Aldous Huxley, Specter of the Rose by Ben Hecht, Who Lived and Died Believing by Nancy Hale, A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud.by Carson McCullers, Hookby Walter Van Tilburg Clark, The Little Gentleman by Booth Tarkington, LuKundo by Edward Lucas White, The Beast With Five Fingers by… Leer más

Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1884. xiii.543pgs. Brown cloth hardcover with gilt and black decoration to front and spine. Attractive, ompact and sound. Unmarked but for previous owner neatly penned on front enpaper. Includes a small clipping of a prayer by Frances Ripley Havergal (1876-1839) a religious poet. Pages slightly and evenly age toned. Closed tear to the middle of two adjacent pages, likely a result of being folded in half at some time in the past, text not affected. A complete collection of works by this poet arranged in sections, including some poems by Elizabeth H. Whittier, as well as various maxims, hymns, ballads and inscriptions. #2557.. 1884. Cloth Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 24mo - 5" - 5¾" Tall.

Pittsburg: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1982. xviii.802 pgs. Fine condition hardcover, as new, clean, tight and unmarked. Includes illustrations of Emerson's first edition title and copyright pages, bindings and dust jackets. Sections: Introduction, Separate publications, Collected Editions, Miscellaneous Collections, First Book and Pamplet Appearances, First-Appearance Contributions to Magazines and Newspapers, Books Editited by Emerson, Reprinted Material in Books and Pamphlets, Material Attributed to Emerson, Compiler's Notes, Appendix: Principal Works About Emerson, Index. ISBN 0822934523 #2355.. No Additional Printings Indicated. Cloth Hardcover. Fine. 8vo - 7¾ - 9¾ Inches Tall.

New York: George H. Doran Company, 1927. 135 pgs. Very Good condition blue cloth hardcover, clean, sound, unmarked with light rubbing to edges and corners. A biography of Robert Frost by the author of "Waldo Frank: A Study". Chapters: The Generations of Men, Once by the Pacific, A Boy's Will, The Road Not Taken, New Hampshire, Pan With Us, Into My Own, A Sensibilitist, Against the World in General. Appendices: Selected British Opinion on Robert Frost, Books by Robert Frost, Principal Essays on Robert Frost, Robert Frost on Education, Index. #2356.. No Additional Printings Indicated. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - 7¾ - 9¾ Inches Tall.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Bantam Books., 1999. 8vo. 216 pgs. As New hardcover in As New jacket, clean and unmarked. Black and white cover art.The first fully illustrated tribute to Allen Ginsberg, the best-known American poet of the post-war generation, mother of the Beats, and walking embodiment of Western counterculture. ISBN 0767902785. #1487.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 8vo.

Athens, Georgia: The Delmar Company, 1985. 8vo. 48 pgs. Very Good+ condition hardcover. Faint sunning to top of rear board, else near fine. One of 200 copies printed by Dwight Agner and bound by the Delmar Company in November 1985, on the occasion of the author's seventieth birthday, at the request of Mary Erlanger. Front endpaper is dated 12/7/85 and inscribed by the author "Dear-XXX, Dear-XXXX, I'm glad we're friends, All best, Michael" Author Michael Erlanger (1915-2002) was president of the Mark Twain Library in Redding CT.#2015.. Signed by Author. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York and Boston: H.M. Caldwell Co., 1900. 178pgs. Very Good+ condition, very attractive little green cloth hardcover, bright gilt lettering and decoration to front and spine. Top edge of text block also gilt, sides and bottoms of pages untrimmed. Binding tight, barely discernable shelfwear to cloth at spine ends. Publisher's insignia for Oliver Goldsmith on front endpaper. [See also matching binding Book#2590 for Elizabeth Barrett Browning from same publisher]. Book#2591.. First Thus. Cloth Hardcover. Very Good+. 24mo - 5" - 5¾" Tall.

New Hampshire: The Golden Quill Press., 1960. 64 pgs. Near Fine hardcover in Very Good+ condition jacket. Blue cloth boards, white leather spine with gilt lettering and decoration. Very slight rubbing to bottom corners. White dustwrapper with uncut front flap, blue decoration and lettering. Upper edge of jacket has a tiny closed tear and corner chip. SIGNED and inscribed "Cordially ever, Madeline Benedict" on front endpaper. Clean and unmarked. By the author of "Spring Will Not Fail" and "Fleet as the Swallow's Dip". #542.. Signed by Author. No Additional Printings Indicated. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good+. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: Random House, 1946. 222 pgs. Good to Very Good hardcover, green boards, red cloth spine. General wear to cloth and boards at edges and corners, lettering to spine somewhat faded, rubbing to paper edges and shallow scuffing of boards. Binding sound, internally clean and unmarked. Contents: Foreword by Deems Taylor, Stephen Collins Foster by John Tasker Howard, Open Thy Lattice Love, Oh! Boys Carry Me 'Long, Hard Times Come Again No More, Ellen Bayne, Oh! Susanna, Away Down Souf, Lou'siana Belle, Old Uncle Ned, My Brudder Gum, Nelly Was a Lady, Oh! Lemuel!, Camptown Races, Angelina Baker, Nelly Bly, Ring De Banjo, Laura Lee, My Hopes Have Departed Forever, Old Folks at Home, Willie My Brave, My Old Kentucky Home Good Night, Massa's in De Cold Ground, Old Dog Tray, Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair, Little Jennie Dow, Willie We Have Missed You, Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming, Comrades Fill No Glass For Me, Gentle Annie, The Glendy Burk, Old Black Joe, Down Amongthe Cane Brakes,… Leer más

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1956. xvi. 741pgs. Very Good condition cloth hardcover, minimal shelwear, binding sound, internally clean and unmarked. Divided into six parts, each with its own introduction and sub-sections. Part One: Jewish Salt; Part Two: Heroes: Wise Men, Holy Men, Miracles, Fighters and Strong Men; Part Three: The Human Comedy: Droll Characters, Rogues and Sinners, Traditional Types, Humorous Anecdotes and Jests; Part Four: Tales and Legends: Biblical Sidelights, The World to Come, The Ten Lost Tribes, Folk Tales, Demon Tales, Animal Tales; Part Five: Proverbs and Riddles: Proverbs and Folk Sayings, FolkQuips, Riddles, Conundrums; Part Six: Songs and Dances: Folk Songs, Religious Songs, ; Glossary; Index. This is the 1956 printing of the 1948 first edition. Book #2632.. Later Printing. Cloth Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo, 8.75 x 5.5 Inches.

New York and Cleveland: New York University Press, 1992. 8vo. xii. 217 pgs. Very Good+ hardcover, green cloth, gilt lettering. Tiny rear corner bump. Shallow waving to paper around pg. 41 due to a transparent waterspot, else clean and unmarked throughtout. Contents: acknowledgements, abbreviations, introduction, the image of Poe inherited from Baudelaire and Mallarme, Valery's view on influence, Dupin-Teste: the Poe connection, Poe, Valery and modern criticism, poetics and poetry, "On Poe's Eureka", conclusion: unity of effect, Afterword: Poe in France since 1945, Notes, Selected Bibliography, Index, about the author. ISBN 0814787711. #2102.. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Brockhampton Press, 1999. 4to. 120 pgs. As New hardcover in As New dust jacket. Illustrated throughout with period paintings, portraits, woodcuts and drawings. Contents: Background and Early Years, Yeats the poet, Searching for an Identity, Maturity, Personal Recollections, Late Flowering and Death, The Poems, Index of First Lines, Further Reading. ISBN 1860199615. #1384.. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 4to - 9¾" - 12" Tall.