The World's Best Poetry in Ten Volumes, Illustrated de Bliss Carman [Editor-in-Chief] - 1904

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Short 8vo, beautifully bound in full polished calf with ornate gilt-decorated spine and covers; inner & outer dentelles; marbled end papers, A few very light scratches to boards. A Fine copy in a lovely binding. Page numbering meets points. Alciphron rare.

Condition: Very Good. Full calf. Small stain to front of textblock, but it does not soak through to pages. Slight edgewear to upper front board. Toning to inside boards and endpapers. Some light foxing, particularly on the title page. A collected edition of the poems of William Drummond of Hawthornden (1585-1649), which opens with a short account of his life and writings. 12mo

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. One of only 152 copies printed by the De Vinne Press on hand-made paper in full leather binding by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. Full calf, light green binding. Ownership bookplate of James William Ellsworth. Light rubbing to board edges and tips. Rubbing at crown and foot of spine. 1/8" chip at front and rear of the foot of the spine (at the hinge). A few light scuffs to the calf on the rear board. Offsetting to title page. Tight and square binding..

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Trade Edition. Bound by Whitman Bennett bindery (1 of 12 bound by Whitman Bennett) in full decorated crushed morocco, with a note by the author. Beautiful, marbled endpapers. Gilt text block edges. Tight and square binding. Edges and hinges rubbed. Stephen Vincent Benet, a prominent early 20th century poet, wrote his most famous book-length poem about the Civil War. Benét won the Pulitzer Prize for his acclaimed poem named after the song about the great martyr for emancipation, John Brown.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First book appearance of "H. Graham Greene" with the poems "Stepping Stones" and "Apologia." 62 pages. 8vo. Printed at The Shakespeare Head Press for Basil Blackwell. Except for some sun and rubbing to the spine and extremities, a fine, partially unopened copy of this early Greene appearance.

Condition: NF. Light soiling to spine and covers. Beautifully bound. The sonnets of over eighty sonneteers in full vellum. Of this edition on large paper, consisting of 100 copies, 75 were for sale in America. No. 43 of 100 copies. Chosen and edited with a few notes by David M. Main, editor of "A Treasury of English Sonnets." Sonneteers include Shakespeare, Keats, Byron, Shelley, Browning, Milton, and many other luminaries.Additional shipping costs for international orders.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Short 8vo, beautifully bound in full polished calf with ornate gilt-decorated spine and covers; inner & outer dentelles; marbled end papers, A few very light scratches to boards. A Fine copy in a lovely binding. Page numbering meets points. Alciphron rare.

Hardcover Condition: VG. Internally clean. Marbled end papers.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Limited Edition. Two volumes: One of 300 copies (325 printed) made available for sale : Printed at The Alcuin Press in 1929. Private press books. This copy is No. 91. Published by The Richards Press Limited; The Last Poems volume states that it was printed by H.P.R. Finberg at the Alcuin Press, 1929. A Shropshire Lad, 91 pp. and Last Poems, 67 pp. Both have original paper title labels and spare title labels laid in at the rear of each volume. Each volume has some soiling to the boards. Top edge and area of near cloth spine are faded on front board of A Shropshire Lad. Clean interior for each. Printed in red and black. Binding of each is tight and square. Carl J. Weber in the Colby College "Jubilee Edition wrote, "This is certainly the most beautiful piece of press work among all Shropshire editions." Rare when found together in original plain boards with cloth spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Red morocco binding with marbled boards. Gilt top edge. Raised bands. Ownership stamp on front pastedown and flyleaf, otherwise clean interior. Some rubbing to edges and boards. Pre-Civil War anthology of American poetry. Scarce.The preface states, "This volume is the first of a series designed to present a survey of Western Literature--to make known who have been, and who are the poets, orators, and prose writers of the States[ Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas] which comprise what is properly known, in American history and geography, as The West; and to preserve, in a form convenient for reference, their most characteristic productions. .It contains selections, with biographical notices, from the writings of 97 men and 55 women. . .It has been the intention of the Editor to include in this collection every person, legitimately belonging to the West, who has gained recognition as a… Leer más