Resultados de búsqueda: Poetry from Twin City Antiquarian Books

Urbana & Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1992 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Inscribed by author. Grey cloth, foil titles on spine, blind-stamped decoration on front board, xxv 107, [2] pp, map. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Inscribed by author to legendary Minneapolis bookman J. Harold Kittleson on title page, date 30 Sept. 1992. An invitation to the event with Kittleson's handwritten comment is laid in along with a newspaper clipping from the same date. From the DJ: "Intrigued by the mystery that still surrounds Columbus, Hyett has written 47 poems that enlarge on the entries in his Diario, the journal he presented to Ferdinand and Isabela of Spain on his return from what he called the 'First Voyage of Discovery.' Prefacing each poem with an excerpt from this journal, Hyett provides her own 'double reckoning.'" The title is derived from a journal entry in which Columbus states: "Today I made 60… Leer más

Chicago: Reilly & Lee WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. No date, copyright 1916, t.p. mentions other books published 1917 to 1921. Full black cloth, gilt titles on front board & spine, dark grey endpapers, 192 pp, index of first lines. Tail of spine slightly frayed, gift inscriptions dated 1923 and 1961 on ffep. Guest was not popular with literary critics, but sold a lot of books to ordinary people who usually don't like poetry. This couplet from "Home" is a fair example: "Home ain't a place that gold can buy or get up in a minute; afore it's home there's got t' be a heap o' livin' in it". Shipping weight 1 lb.. Reprint. . G+/No dj. 17 X 11 cm.

Minneapolis: The Lund Press, Inc., 1945 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue cloth, foil titles on front board, 96 pp, many small b & w drawings. Bookplate on fpd and gift inscription dated in year of publication on recto of ffep, else fine. Shipping weight 1 lb.. . Near Fine/No dj. Illus. by Grace Kaercher Davis. 21 X 14½ cm.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1928 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Edition statement: "First Edition/After the Printing of 201 De Luxe Copies". Full black cloth, gold ink titles on spine, [vi], 377 pp. Titles on spine dull, slight overall wear, book plate on front paste-down. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Trade. . VG-/No dj. 21½ X 14½ cm.

London: Oxford University Press, 1928 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Ex-Library. Chestnut library buckram, viii, 178 pp, 20 ff plates. Rubbed, bumped, stiff overcast library sewing is causing frontispiece to crack along fold, usual library markings. The 20 plates contain high-quality facsimiles (probably collotypes) of pages from Keats's copies of Shakespeare showing his manuscript notes. Keats's markings in The Tempest, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Measure for Measure, Antony and Cleopatra, and Troilus and Cressida are indicated typographically. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Good/No dj. 24½ X 16 cm.

Pikeville, KY: Quentin R. Howard, 1964 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Inscribed by editor. Pamphlet. Stapled through fold in green printed card covers, contents duplicated from typescript, [54] pp. Covers sunned near extremities. Presentation inscription by editor on preliminary blank. Anthology mostly of poetry, but with a few brief essays, by Sylvia Auxier, Bruce Bennett Brown, Jessie J. Brown, Lillie D. Chaffin, the editor, William M. Justice, Alice J. Kinder, and Truda McCoy. A single dittoed sheet with a poem about teaching by Art Berger is laid in. Shipping weight 6 oz.. Pamphlet. VG/No dj. 21 X 14 cm.

Mendocino, CA: Privately Printed, 1979 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Signed by Author on title page. Perfect bound in pictorial card covers, 80 pp. Slight edge wear, else fine. Shipping weight 1 lb.. Soft Cover. VG+/No dj. 21½ X 13½ cm.

New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1975 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Brown boards, gilt titles on spine, green endpapers, [ix], 246 pp, index. Slight edge wear, else fine. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. 12th ptg. . Near Fine/Near Fine. 14 X 22 cm (oblong).

New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1946 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue boards, black cloth corners & spine, titles on paper label on spine, viii, 65, [1] pp. Head of spine beginning to fray, top edge somewhat dusty. Shipping weight 1 lb.. 3rd Ed. . VG/No dj. 21 X 14½ cm.

Minneapolis: The League of Minnesota Poets, 1944 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full maroon cloth with reverse gold titles on front board & spine, endpaper maps, 144 pp, 8 ff b & w photo plates, many illustrations in text. 4th Edition stated. DJ, boards, & front endpapers dampstained, with color bleeding from boards to DJ and from DJ to front endpapers, otherwise very good. Gift inscription dated 1944. "In compiling this book, the League of Minnesota Poets has attempted to portray in poetry and pictures as much of our state as possible in so small a book." Contains poems by 163 authors. Shipping weight 1 lb.. 4th ed. . Fair/Fair. 20½ X 14 cm.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1939 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Translated by T. E. Shaw (aka T. E. Lawrence, better known as Lawrence of Arabia.) Full tan cloth, black titles on spine & decoration on front board, illustrated endpapers, [xi], 327 pp. Designed by Bruce Rogers, this is the fourth printing of the "Popular Edition." Boards soiled, rubbed through at top of spine, owner's signature on recto of ffep. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. Later printing. . G+/No dj. 23 X 15 cm.

Boston & Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1972 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full blue cloth, gilt titles on spine, green decoration on front board, green endpapers, [xii], 129 pp, 19 full-page b & w drawings. Gift inscription, one corner bumped, board edges slightly faded. DJ front panel spotted w/a small chip; in Brodart archival cover. One of the shorter verses, to give you a sample: "Poor Manfred, always in bad odor,/Muddled middle-of-the-roader./Veering Left toward visions bright,/Leftist jargon drives him Right/Until the Rightist hatchet men/Turn him toward the Left again,/Searching for a category, Spo-Radical and desul-Tory." Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . VG/VG. Illus. by Robert Binks. 19½ X 13½ cm.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1957 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Black cloth, gilt titles on spine, blind titles on front board, top edge dyed grey, xii, 308 pp. Moderately rubbed, dated owner's signature on recto of front free endpaper, pencil underlining and a few spots inside. Sixteen previously uncollected essays dating from 1926 through 1956, seven of which are on poetry, and nine of which are on specific poets. Shipping weight 2 lbs. Location:Poetry.. First US Edition. . VG/No dj. 21½ X 14½ cm.

London: Hutchinson, 1912 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Red cloth, gilt titles & dec. on spine, blind titles & dec. on front board, xxxv, 422, [1] pp. A bit of edgewear, two small blind impressions on front board, light foxing to fore-edge. Contains 18th & 19th century parodies of poetry. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. . VG/No dj. 17 ½ X 11½ cm.

New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1956 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full orange-red cloth, gilt titles on spine, top edge dyed pale grey, 317 pp, frontispiece, bibliography, index. Remainder mark on bottom edge. DJ complete but rather tired-looking, tears up to 2 cm long, small chips; in Brodart archival cover. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . VG/G. 22 X 15 cm.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1939 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full blue buckram, copper titles on spine [vii], 286 pp. Spine browned, copper titles somewhat dull. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. 4th ptg. . VG/No dj. 21 X 14½ cm.

New York: Random House, 1934 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue cloth, gilt titles on spine, gilt title in decoration on front board, 68 pp. Boards faintly spotted, owner's address label on recto of ffep. DJ soiled & spotted, tears to 7 cm, top edge chipped & tattered, but nearly complete with no loss of text; in Brodart archival cover. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. Early printing. . VG/G. 23½ X 15 cm.

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Company WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. No date, but the Biographical Introduction by Nathan Haskell Dole is copyright 1899 by Crowell. This edition contains 68 poems. "Astor Edition," in burgundy cloth textured to simulate (vaguely) half-leather, frontispiece portrait, tipped-in decorative title page in addtion to the regular t.p., xvi (2 pages are numbered v), 280 pp. Corners bumped, top edge dirty and water-spotted, spine ends somewhat frayed, cloth moderately soiled, owner's name and date (1928) on recto of ffep, still solid and readable. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. . G-/No dj. 19 X 13 cm.

Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. No date, but latest copyright date is 1904, so about 1904 to 1906 as one further revision was published in 1907. Burgundy cloth with gilt titles & decorations on front board & spine, same pattern blind-stamped on rear board, ix, 422 pp, engraved frontispiece portrait of author, 9 ff b & w plates, index of first lines, title index. Spine ends and corners rubbed and beginning to fray, shaken hinges reglued, owner's signature in three places on endpapers; attractively designed decorations still bright on unfaded boards & spine. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. . G+/No dj. 20½ X 13½ cm.

Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. No date, but latest copyright date is 1897, and contains the Shaw Memorial Ode, which was added with the 1898 edition. Burgundy cloth with gilt titles & decorations on front board & spine, same pattern blind-stamped on rear board, dark blue-grey endpapers, ix, 422 pp, engraved frontispiece portrait of author, 9 ff b & w plates, index of first lines, title index. Spine ends and corners heavily rubbed and frayed, tears to spine, badly shaken hinges reglued, gift inscription dated 1900 on flyleaf, covers & edges quite soiled. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. . Fair/No dj. 20½ X 13½ cm.