Here you will find the 293 titles currently catalogued that are on our poetry shelves (and I added in some poets biographies, and other poetry related titles) at Ray Boas, Bookseller in Walpole, New Hampshire, on September 28, 2007. Enjoy browsing (or use the Find function with your browser to jump to the poet you like), make a note of the Order No(s) you would like to add to your library, and feel free to place an order at any time. Thank you, RAY

1. GREEN MOUNTAIN POETS: A COLLECTION OF POEMS FROM THE BEST TALENT IN THE GREEN MOUNTAIN STATE, SECOND EDITION, Lee & Shepard, Boston, MA, orig pub 1872, B&W frontis, 522pp, good, brown cloth, aeg (hardcover) light edgewear to cloth, (Order No: 40384 ), $20.00

2. A MISCELLANY OF AMERICAN POETRY, 1920, Harcourt, Brace and Howe, New York, 1920, 187pp, good, paper covered boards w/light edgewear (hardcover), This volume is, as its name half implies, a miscellany of the most recent work of eleven American poets., (Order No: 36067 ), $12.50

3. Abbe, Frederick R., THE TEMPLE REBUILT: A POEM - A NEW EDITION, REVISED AND ENGLARGED, D. Lothrop and Company, Boston, MA, 1882, 251pp, good, green cloth (hardcover) light rubbing to cloth covers, A NEW EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED. BOOK I.--THE EDIFICE; BOOK II.--THE RUINS; BOOK III.--THE NEW FOUNDATION; BOOK IV.--THE HOLY BUILDERS; BOOK V.--THE SACRED IMPLEMENTS; BOOK VI.--THE SANCTUARY; BOOK VII.--THE COURT OF THE NATION; BOOK VIII.--THE COURT OF THE WORLD; BOOK IX.--FINISHED; BOOK X.--HALLELUJAH., (Order No: 51256 ), $15.00

4. Acker, Ally, WAITING FOR THE BELOVED, Red Hen Press, Los Angeles, CA, (1999) 1st ed, 88pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 1888996110, (Order No: 34644 ), $5.00

5. Acker, Ally, SURVIVING DESIRE: POEMS, Garden Street Press, San Luis Obispo, CA, 1994 1st ptg, 56pp, fine, wraps (softcover) review slip laid in, ISBN 0963348175, (Order No: 35131 ), $5.00

6. Adams, Franklin P., TOBOGGANING ON PARNASSUS, Doubleday, Page & Company, New York, 1913, 142pp, very good, decorated brown cloth (hardcover), (Order No: 40480 ), $7.00

7. Adams, M. Winchester, "POLLY" AND OTHER POEMS, Francis W. Orvis, New York, 1901, B&W illustrations, 95pp, good, cream cloth, teg (hardcover) light wear to covers, Owner's inscription on front-free endpaper., (Order No: 52040 ), $25.00

8. Agran, Rick; Crill, Hildred; and DeCarteret, Mark (edited by) (introduction by Maxine Kumin), UNDER THE LEGISLATURE OF STARS: 62 NEW HAMPSHIRE POETS, Oyster River Press, Durham, NH, (1999) 1st ptg, 96pp, very good, wraps (softcover), ISBN 188229159X Chosen with care, these poems represent the best among our poets, some famous, some familiar, some to be discovered., (Order No: 42037 ), $20.00

9. Aldrich, Thomas Bailey (T.B.A.), THE BELLS: A COLLECTION OF CHIMES, BY T.B.A., J. C. Derby, New York, 1855 1st ed, 144pp, very good, brown cloth in leather case with raised bands, BAL 246. Author's first book. Previous owner's book plate on front paste down, and in pencil on the front free endpaper he wrote; "At last I obtain 'with a great sum,' this perfect copy of T.B.A.'s first book, which nearly completes my set - mostly his own gifts - of his publications. E.C.S. April 1906." Book is housed within a green leather case that looks like a book with raised bands and gilt stampings on the spine. The spine opens out with a flap catch. A "must have item" for the Aldrich collector!!!, (Order No: 35192 ), $250.00

10. Allen, Lyman Whitney, ABRAHAM LINCOLN - A POEM, G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1896, 112pp, very good, blue cloth, teg (hardcover), (Order No: 42299 ), $15.00

11. Ammons, A. R. (poems by), DIVERSIFICATIONS - POEMS, W. W. Norton & Company, New York, (1975) 1st ed, 98pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0393044149 A collection of shorter poems by the poet whose COLLECTED POEMS won the National Book Award for 1973 and whose long poem SPHERE won the Bollingen Prize in Poetry (1973-1974) and was nominated for the National Book Award for 1975., (Order No: 31927 ), $15.00

12. Angelo, Valenti (illustrated and illuminated by), THE SONG OF SONGS WHICH IS SOLOMON'S, The Heritage Press, New York, 1935, ill. by Valenti Angelo, very good, black cloth (hardcover) (no slipcase), (Order No: 29058 ), $7.50

13. Badger, Kingsbury, UNTHORN THE SEASON, The Christopher Pub. House, Boston, MA, (1965) rev ed, 109pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) signed by the poet, This revised and enlarged second edition is at once daringly original and moderately reactionary--original in conception and presentation and reactionary in the sense that its author aims at music, delicate feeling, and aesthetic delight as opposed to the involutions, studied obscurities, and what he calls the "auto-psychographic effects" of most modern poetry of the avant-garde variety., (Order No: 45172 ), $10.00

14. Bailey, Margaret Emerson, WHITE CHRISTMAS, G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1931, 73pp, good w/chipped dustjacket (hardcover) (dj lacks several pieces), The first collection of Miss Bailey's poems., (Order No: 30041 ), $7.50

15. Barber, Joel D. (foreword by Gordon Grand), 'LONG SHORE, The Derrydale Press, Lyon, MS, (1993), ill. by Arthur D. Fuller, 108pp, fine, red leather, aeg (hardcover) faintly signed by the author, (Order No: 51417 ), $20.00

16. Benet, Rosemary and Benet, Stephen Vincent, A BOOK OF AMERICANS, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, (1961), ill. by Charles Child, 115pp, good+ w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), First published in 1933. Fifty-six verses about famous American men and women from Columbus to Woodrow Wilson., (Order No: 40553 ), $14.50

17. Bennett, Bruce, NOT WANTING TO WRITE LIKE EVERYONE ELSE, State Street Press, Brockport, NY, 1987, 30pp, very good+, wraps (softcover) inscribed by the poet, (Order No: 45070 ), $12.50

18. Bennett, Bruce, I NEVER DANCED WITH MARY BETH, Foothills Publishing, Bath, NY, (1991), 36pp, fine, wraps (softcover) with letter from poet laid in, "I NEVER DANCED WITH MARY BETH is about an image, and the pursuit of that image, and the consequences of that pursuit. Although what I have written is not strictly autobiographical, I have tried to be honest. I may be speaking only for myself, but I don't think so." Bruce Bennett, (Order No: 45071 ), $30.00

19. Bevington, Helen, DR. JOHNSON'S WATERFALL AND OTHER POEMS, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA, (1946), 164pp, good w/lightly edgeworn dustjacket (hardcover), (Order No: 35699 ), $14.50

20. Bissett, Bill, PASS TH FOOD RELEASE TH SPIRIT BOOK, Talonbooks, Vancouver, (1973) 1st ptg, B&W ill., unpaginated, very good, wraps (softcover), (Order No: 31196 ), $25.00

21. Bissett, Bill, LIVING WITH TH VISHYUN, New Star Books, n.p., (1974), B&W ill., 146pp, very good, wraps (softcover), (Order No: 31198 ), $25.00

22. Black, Baxter (illustrated by Don Gill and Bob Black with help from Jay Adams; Jan Swan Gifford; Cheryl Hawes; et al., COYOTE COWBOY POETRY, Coyote Cowboy Company, Denver, CO, B&W illustrations, 202pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0939343002 This book includes verse and stories from Black's first three poetry books: THE COWBOY & HIS DOG; A RIDER, A ROPER & A HECK'UVA WINDMILL MAN and DOC, WHILE YER HERE. Also included are an additional thirty-five pieces never published in book form., (Order No: 21772 ), $10.00

23. Bolles, Frank, CHOCORUA'S TENANTS, Houghton, Mifflin and Co., Boston, 1895, 8 B&W illustrations, 68pp, very good, blue cloth, teg (hardcover), Published by Elizabeth Q. Bolles the year after her husband's death. Frank Bolles summered at Chocorua Lake near Tamworth, New Hampshire, and his poems relate tales of the lake's permanent residents, including: The crow, Log-Cock, Ruffed Grouse, Eaves Swallow, Blue Jay, Oven-Bird, and other birds. Uncommon., (Order No: 30865 ), $35.00

24. Booth, Philip, AVAILABLE LIGHT: POEMS, The Viking Press, New York, (1976), 84pp, good+ w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0670143103, (Order No: 35690 ), $11.50

25. Bouchard, Dave (text) and Vickers, Roy Henry (images), THE ELDERS ARE WATCHING, Eagle Dancer Enterprises Ltd, B.C., Canada, (1990), color illustrations, unpaginated, very good+, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0969348533, (Order No: 45705 ), $7.50

26. Bradley, George, SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED: POEMS, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2001 1st ed, 74pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 037541195X Bradley meditates on contemporary culture, on the natural world and the world imagined, and on the life of the poet., (Order No: 34039 ), $8.50

27. Brainard, John G. C., THE POEMS OF JOHN G. C. BRAINARD - A NEW AND AUTHENTIC COLLECTION, WITH AN ORIGINAL MEMOIR OF HIS LIFE, S. Andrus and Son, Hartford, CT, 1847, 220pp, good+, 3/4 leather, raised bands, aeg (hardcover) light edgewear, Nice tight copy., (Order No: 49049 ), $50.00

28. Brand, Millen, LOCAL LIVES - POEMS ABOUT THE PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH, Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., New York, (1975) 1st ed, 526pp, good+ w/good dustjacket (hardcover) owner's inscription, ISBN 0517519984, (Order No: 48874 ), $8.00

29. Bridges, Robert (introduction by George Gordon), VERSES WRITTEN FOR MRS. DANIEL, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1932, vergood, white cloth spine, paper covered boards (hardcover), Limited to 300 copies on hand-made paper. 19 pages followed by a facsimile of the verses. Some sunning to the edges of the paper covered boards. Largely unopened pages., (Order No: 24363 ), $75.00

30. Brohl, Ted, A SIMPLE GRACE, Vantage Press, New York, (1994) 1st ed, 185pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover) inscribed by the author, ISBN 0533107350, (Order No: 12382 ), $10.00

31. Brown, Harry, THE BEAST IN HIS HUNGER, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1949 1st ed, 86pp, good+ w/good dustjacket (hardcover), In this little volume, Harry Brown returns to poetry, giving us a distilled selection of his finest work over the past six years., (Order No: 45453 ), $6.00

32. Bryan, George S., YANKEE NOTIONS, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1922, 72pp, good, green cloth spine (hardcover) light soil & edgewear, (Order No: 28606 ), $10.00

33. Bunner, H. C., ROWEN: "SECOND CROP" SONGS, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1892 1st ed, 101pp, very good, blue cloth, teg (hardcover), Front panel of dustjacket laid in., (Order No: 28309 ), $20.00

34. Burden, Jean, JOURNEY TOWARD POETRY, October House Inc., New York, (1969) 2nd ptg, B&W illustrations, 112pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), First published in 1966. The emphasis is on that adventure of awareness, intellect and emotion which is preliminary to creation., (Order No: 32545 ), $7.50

35. Burnett, Gracie D., MESSAGES ABOUT GENUINE IMAGES, Vantage Press, New York, (1986) 1st ed, 32pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover) inscribed by poet, ISBN 0533067006 From her experience as a young woman facing challenges and ambiguity to her joy at the wonder of nature's beauty, Ms. Burnett writes of life as she knows it., (Order No: 50887 ), $12.50

36. Burns, Robert (introduction by William Marion Reedy), THE JOLLY BEGGARS: A CANTATA BY ROBERT BURNS, Thomas Bird Mosher, Portland, ME, 1914, sepia toned frontis, 107pp, very good++, original paper dustjacket (hardcover) worn slipcase, One of 750 copies printed on Van Gelder Hand-Made Paper. Exceptionally nice copy in original slipcase, albiet a worn slipcase., (Order No: 39018 ), $125.00

37. Burns, Roberts, THE COMPLETE ILLUSTRATED POEMS, SONGS & BALLADS OF ROBERT BURNS, Lomond Books, London, (19930, 80 B&W illustrations, 651pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover) OWNER INSCRIPTION, ISBN 185152018X Reprint of the text first published in 1905 by J. M. Dent & Co., (Order No: 52018 ), $10.00

38. Burt, Katharine B., CONNECTICUT LEGEND, Privately Printed, n.p., 1942, 77pp, very good, olive green cloth (hardcover) - LACKS FRONTIS, Limited to 200 copies, a poem dedicated "To the Skipper of the Halcyone." "All names and characters in CONNECTICUT LEGEND are fictional, excepting, perhaps, the devil.", (Order No: 30640 ), $15.00

39. Burton, Virginia Lee (designed & illustrated by); Malcolmson, Anne (selected & edited by); music by Grace Castagnetta, SONG OF ROBIN HOOD, Houghton Mifflin Co., New York, 1947 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 123pp, good, decorated cloth w/light wear (hardcover) no dustjacket, No Dustjacket with this copy. Former owner's inscription on blank verso of the front free endpaper. One of Virginia Lee Burton's most exquisite works., (Order No: 16149 ), $14.50

40. Carew, Thomas, THE INCONSTANT MISTRIS - THE LOVE POEMS OF THOMAS CAREW, The Golden Eagle Press, Mount Vernon, NY, (1948), drawings by Kurt Roesch, 34pp, very good, tan boards (hardcover) (no slipcase), Limited to 1960 copies., (Order No: 43711 ), $10.00

41. Chappell, Fred; Cherry, Kelly; Dillard, R. H. W.; Galvin, Brendan; Garrett, George; Slavitt, David R.; and, Taylor, Henry, A NEW PLEIADE: SELECTED POEMS, SEVEN AMERICAN POETS, Louisiana State Univ. Press, Baton Rouge, LA, 1998 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 233pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), review slip laid in, ISBN 0807123293 A celebration of close literary friendships among seven eminent American poets., (Order No: 30624 ), $25.00

42. Chase, Edith Newlin, SMALL WINDOW PANES: VERSES FOR CHILDREN, Edith Newlin Chase, Alstead, NH, (1978), ill. by Janet Hendry Brown, 34pp, very good+, wraps (softcover) inscribed by the poet, (Order No: 48834 ), $10.00

43. Chase, Edith Newlin, TWIGS FROM MY TREE, William L. Bauhan, Publisher, Dublin, NH, (1984), ill. by Janet Hendry Brown, 80pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0872330745, (Order No: 49108 ), $20.00

44. Cheyney, Ralph (introduction by Joseph T. Shipley), TOUCH AND GO, Henry Harrison, New York, 1926, ill. by Herbert E. Fouts, 95pp, good, blue cloth (hardcover) inscribed by the author/poet, (Order No: 32036 ), $25.00

45. Clampitt, Amy, WESTWARD: POEMS, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1990 1st ed, 111pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0679728678 The author takes on an extraordinary challenge: to illuminate her Iowa past, the rural backdrop, the stoic 'hinterland.', (Order No: 32904 ), $5.00

46. Clark, Annie E., POEMS, J. B. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia, PA, 1866, 146pp, very good+, green cloth, teg (hardcover), (Order No: 48916 ), $30.00

47. Clark, Donald Lemen (edited with an introduction by), COLUMBIA POETRY, 1941, Columbia University Press, New York, 1941, 85pp, good+, light blue cloth (hardcover) original tissue jacket, (Order No: 42690 ), $30.00

48. Clarke, George Herbert, WAYFARINGS, Windsor & Kenfield Pub., Chicago, IL, 1901, B&W illustrations, 94pp, good, green cloth, teg (hardcover), (Order No: 39128 ), $20.00

49. Coates, Elmer Ruan, LAUREL HILL: A POEM, published by the author, Philadelphia, PA, 1878, 61pp, very good, maroon cloth (hardcover), Poem apparently written about the Laurel Hill Cemetary in Philadelphia. Laurel Hill was planned as early as 1835, and this poem about death and the people permanently now residing in Laurel Hill was most likely written in conjunction with the Centennial Celebration held in Fairmount Park., (Order No: 44826 ), $75.00

50. Coates, Walter John, LAND OF ALLEN AND OTHER VERSE, W. Paul Cook, n.p., 1928, B&W frontis, 100pp, very good+, maroon cloth (hardcover) original tissue cover, Contents include: Vermontiana; Idealism; Protest and Appreciation; Heart-Tints; Sonnets; From Charles H. Stone; Index to Titles., (Order No: 44337 ), $40.00

51. Coblentz, Stanton A. (compiled by), MODERN LYRICS, AMERICAN AND BRITISH: TWO VOLUMES IN ONE, AN ANTHOLOGY, Loring & Mussey, New York, (1924), 218pp, good+, green cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), Clean, bright and tight copy., (Order No: 39270 ), $12.50

52. Coffin, Robert P. Tristram, STRANGE HOLINESS, The Macmillan Company, New York, 1937 3rd ptg, 101pp, good w/chipped dustjacket (hardcover) owner's notes 3 pages, Intimate understanding of country things and feeling for country folk and customs mark this volume of poems., (Order No: 42082 ), $10.00

53. Collins, Bertha Miller, AROUND MY HOME - POEMS - A VERMONT BOOK, The Driftwood Press, N. Montpelier, VT, (1938), 75pp, good+, tan cloth (hardcover) signed by the poet/author, Printed Christmas poem by author laid in along with advertising piece for the book., (Order No: 43227 ), $45.00

54. compiled by Poets House through the Poetry Publication Showcase, DIRECTORY OF AMERICAN POETRY BOOKS - 2000: THIRD EDITION, VOLUME III, Poets House, New York, (2000), 571pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 1890695025 Poetry in the 1990's--an annotated guide to poetry books published in America during the past three years., (Order No: 34077 ), $6.00

55. Cone, Helen Gray (1859-1934), THE COAT WITHOUT A SEAM AND OTHER POEMS, E. P. Dutton & Company, New York, (1919) 1st ed, 100pp, good++ w/good dustjacket (hardcover), Poet was a Professor of English Literature at Hunter College in New York., (Order No: 40315 ), $100.00

56. Cooke, Edmund Vance, RIMES TO BE READ, Dodge Publishing Company, New York, (1905), color illustrations, 167pp, very good, maroon cloth (hardcover) inscribed by the author, In the present volume, an even half of the titles appeared in the former editions of the book, four of them are from "A Patch of Pansies," and twenty-six of them have never before been between covers., (Order No: 46449 ), $10.00

57. Cottrell, Robert D., THE GRAMMAR OF SILENCE: A READING OF MARGUERITE DE NAVARRE'S POETRY, Catholic Univ. of America Pr, Washington, D.C., (1986), 338pp, fine w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0813206154 Beginning with an analysis of the aspects of Christian hermeneutics that underlie mystical literature, this book offers close readings of Marguerite's major poems, studying the ways in which her texts strive to deny their own presence and to reveal the spirit, or Johannine logos. The author demonstrates how Marguerite's poems probe the limits of linguistic performance and the relationship between verbal sign and truth., (Order No: 14393 ), $8.50

58. Cowley, Abraham (translated into English verse by), ANACREON, The Golden Eagle Press, Mount Vernon, NY, n.d. - c1940s, unpaginated, very good w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover), "Some Copies of Verses Translated Paraphrastically out of ANACREON", (Order No: 45242 ), $10.00

59. Crump, L. M., THE MARRIAGE OF NAUSICAA AND OTHER POEMS, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1923, 35pp, good, salmon paper coverd board (hardcover), Contents include: The Marriage of Nausicaa; Odysseus' Reverie; Chryseis--The Willing Captive; Andromache--The Captive Rebellious; Circe's Apology; Calypso's Prayer., (Order No: 45696 ), $65.00

60. Dakin, Emma Sahler (foreword by David Morton), FIGURE AND LANDSCAPE, The Fine Editions Press, New York, (1946), 32pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), In this first selection of her poems, Mrs. Dakin offers the matured work of a mind that recollects in tranquility much of the vision and ardor experienced in travel, reading and reflection., (Order No: 51656 ), $10.00

61. Daugherty, James (written and illustrated by), WEST OF BOSTON - YANKEE RHYMES AND DOGGEREL, The Viking Press, New York, 1956 1st ed, ill. by James Daugherty, 95pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), Verses expressing enjoyment of and affection for the people and places of our history., (Order No: 52012 ), $7.50

62. Day, Sarah J., FROM MAYFLOWERS TO MISTLETOE: A YEAR WITH THE FLOWER FOLK, G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1900, 95pp, good, decorated light green cloth (hardcover), (Order No: 27170 ), $20.00

63. de la Mare, Walter, WINGED CHARIOT AND OTHER POEMS, The Viking Press, New York, 1951, 160pp, good, maroon cloth w/faded spine (hardcover) (no dustjacket), (Order No: 38254 ), $7.50

64. de Longchamps, Joanne, THE WISHING ANIMAL - POEMS, Vanderbilt University Press, Nashville, TN, 1970, 88pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), Taped in is a note signed by the poet, and a few pictures are laid in., (Order No: 47736 ), $7.50

65. deCormier, Regina (with an introduction by Richard Howard), HOOFBEATS ON THE DOOR: POEMS, Helicon Nine Editions, Kansas City, MS, (1993) 1st ed, 97pp, very good+, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0962746037, (Order No: 33169 ), $4.00

66. Deming, Alison Hawthorne (edited by), POETRY OF THE AMERICAN WAY: A COLUMBIA ANTHOLOGY, Columbia University Press, New York, (1996) 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 328pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0231103867 With more than 150 poems and forty striking photographs, this volume chronicles the imagery of the region's long and diverse cultural heritage., (Order No: 31303 ), $9.50

67. Dickins, Bruce and Wilson, R. M. (edited by), EARLY MIDDLE ENGLISH TEXTS, Bowes & Bowes, London, (1959) 3rd ptg, 335pp, good, blue cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket) fade to spine, This book is planned to bridge the gap between the various Old English readers and Kenneth Sisam's admirable FOURTEENTH CENTURY VERSE AND PROSE., (Order No: 45660 ), $7.50

68. Divine, Charles (Private 27th Division), CITY WAYS AND COMPANY STREETS, Moffat, Yard & Company, New York, 1918, B&W frontis, 64pp, good+, brown paper covered boards (hardcover), (Order No: 35160 ), $15.00

69. Dorr, Dorothy Countryman, WHOLE MUSIC, The Ward Ritchie Press, Los Angeles, CA, 1943, B&W frontis, 87pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), As the title suggests, Dorothy heard the "whole music" of life, was stirred by its loveliness and deeply hurt by the least disharmony., (Order No: 40762 ), $12.50

70. Dunn, Stephen, LOOSESTRIFE: POEMS, W. W. Norton & Company, New York, (1996) 1st ptg, 96pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 039303982X, (Order No: 35825 ), $10.00

71. Durst, Simon, WOONSOCKETEER - VOLUME I. NUMBER I. -- RHAPSODIES OF POETICUS HUNGRICUS, Woonsocket Publishing Co., Woonsocket, RI, 1901, 24pp, good+, wraps (softcover), The Woonsocketeer will be published to herald the Rhyme Books of Simon Durst et alii et aliae. This issue of the Woonsocketeer contains 19 stanzas out of 327 or thereabouts from Durst's Rhyme Book, Number one, entitled, "Rhapsodies of Poeticus Hungricus.", (Order No: 46767 ), $45.00

72. Duryee, Samuel S., CROSS REFERENCE, Standard Publishing Company, Vineland, NJ, (1969), 48pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), In CROSS REFERENCE, Samuel Duryee has included a group of highly personal poems., (Order No: 44668 ), $5.00

73. Ebin, Lois A., ILLUMINATOR MAKAR VATES: VISIONS OF POETRY IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE, (1988), 253pp, very good, black cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), ISBN 0803218125 Study of the period between Lydgate (fl. 1410-40) and Skelton (fl. 1483-1528), among the most neglected in English literary history. Throughout the century, the poets of this age refine and extend the vision of the poet as an "enluminer" whose writing enlightens and leads humanity to wisdom, harmony, and political order, and the corresponding style linked with these views., (Order No: 14357 ), $8.00

74. Eddy, Lefa Morse (edited by), FLORIDA LANTERN, A Lantern Publication, Brooklyn, NY, 1939, 26pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) couple pencil marks, Presents a group of Florida poets--some established--others, moving toward definite goals and individual niches in the World of Poetry., (Order No: 40002 ), $25.00

75. Edwards, Anthony S. G. (editor), SKELTON: THE CRITICAL HERITAGE, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, (1981), 224pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0710007248 John Skelton, who was born in about 1460 and died in 1529, was one of the earliest Tudor poets. Skelton's work has always attracted controversy, a trait that makes his reputation a particularly rewarding subject for study., (Order No: 14019 ), $9.50

76. Eldridge, Paul, LIFE THROBS, The Poet Lore Company Pub., Boston, MA, (1911), 59pp, very good, gray boards (hardcover) inscribed with letter, Inscribed by the author to the historian and writer, Dr. Cornelius Weygandt. Also laid in is a letter from the author to Weygandt described his book., (Order No: 39463 ), $40.00

77. Eliot, Elizabeth Ann, THE CROWNED KNOT OF FIRE: A STUDY OF THE INFLUENCE OF MEDIEVAL SYMBOLISM ON MODERN POETRY, Vantage Press, New York, (1980) 1st ed, 153pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) inscribed by the author, ISBN 0533044251, (Order No: 5533 ), $10.00

78. Emmons, Earl H.; Hooker, William Francis (introduction by - and warmly inscribed by), MAVERICKS, Oswald Publishing Company, New York, 1924, 125pp, good+, green cloth spine (hardcover), Inscribed by William Francis Hooker who, as editor of The Erie Railroad Magazine, shared in the discovery and publishing of much of Emmons work., (Order No: 40778 ), $50.00

79. Epstein, Daniel Mark (poems by), THE BOOK OF FORTUNE, The Overlook Press, Woodstock, NY, (1982), 53pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 087951146X The author continues his forays into the American past and his meditations on her present. Review slip and review press release laid in., (Order No: 27004 ), $12.50

80. Erskine, Payne, THE HARPER & THE KING'S HORSE, The Blue Sky Press, Chicago, (1905), 47pp, very good, brown cloth spine, paper covered boards (hardcover), A handsome copy., (Order No: 25107 ), $35.00

81. Evans, Donald, TWO DEATHS IN THE BRONX, Nicholas L. Brown, Philadelphia, PA, 1916, 60pp, good+, black paper covered boards (hardcover) paper spine label, "The volume is a series of pitiless photographs of profligate men and women who fritter away life, seeking new pleasures, new sensations.", (Order No: 26522 ), $25.00

82. Evans, William Bacon, SEVEN SCORE BIRD SONGS: SONNETS, BATTLE-DORE, UNCONVENTIONAL VERSE &C, Christopher Publishing House, Boston, MA, (1943), 258pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), "The author has done a remarkable piece of work in imitating the bird songs in verse. The songs achieve the difficult combination of ingenuity and beauty, and express a strong and clear feeling for nature's inner essences; and, at the same time, a keen and balancing sense of humor and the light touch.", (Order No: 35217 ), $20.00

83. Evans, William Bacon, CHORUS OF BIRD VOICES SONNETS BATTLE-DORE UNCONVENTIONAL VERSE ETC., Published by the author, Moorestown, NH, 1939, 95pp, good, wraps (softcover) light cover soil, author inscribed, (Order No: 48947 ), $10.00

84. Fellows, Antoinette Buchard, CARGOES OF INDIA, The Story Book Press, Dallas, TX, (1953), 94pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) inscribed by author, "If in reading these stanzas one can catch a glimpse of the eternal verities beyond man's journey through the gates of birth and death, it will have justified the building of the necklace of words which weave these ancient truths into a tapestry." Advertising card for the book laid in along with the memorial card for the author's death., (Order No: 39271 ), $25.00

85. Field, Eugene, HOOSIER LYRICS, M. A. Donohue & Company, Chicago, (1905), 160pp, very good, bright decorated pictorial cloth (hardcover), (Order No: 14095 ), $5.00

86. Field, Eugene, SECOND BOOK OF VERSE, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1893 (1892), 260pp, good, blue/gray cloth, teg (hardcover), (Order No: 32051 ), $5.00

87. Field, Eugene, A LITTLE BOOK OF WESTERN VERSE, Charles Scribner's Sons, Cambridge, UK, 1896, 202pp, very good, light blue cloth, teg (hardcover), (Order No: 50427 ), $5.00

88. Foote, Miriam Sage (forword by B. L. Ullman), ON BULFINCH WING, Exposition Press, New York, (1964) 1st ed, 72pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover) inscribed by poet, "Selections From Thomas Bulfinch's 'Age of Fable' Rendered Into Light Verse." Warmly inscribed and signed by the author January 12, 1964., (Order No: 51416 ), $15.00

89. Fowler, William Plumer (foreword by Ogden Nash), NEW ENGLAND SONNETS, Branden Press Publishers, Boston, MA, (1966), 126pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), These sonnets bring us the salty flavor of the New England seacoast, especially of the stretch of New Hampshire coast running from Massachusetts to Maine., (Order No: 39871 ), $14.50

90. Frisbie, A. L., THE SIEGE OF CALAIS AND OTHER POEMS, Mills & Company, Publishers, Des Moines, IA, 1880, 166pp, good+, decorated brown cloth (hardcover), Handsome clean and tight copy., (Order No: 40779 ), $40.00

91. Fuller, Eugene White, TRAVELER'S RETURN, Ralph Fletcher Seymour, Chicago, IL, (1959), 64pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), Contents include: A Voyage; London; Attica; Istanbul; Stonehenge; Battle Abbey; Casablanca; In Egypt; Cheops; Alhambra; Gibraltar; Marrakesh; Linlithgow; Algiers; Chepstow Castle; Deer Herd Fleeing; Orion, North and South; Across The Andes; Rimes From Rio; Flight Across The Caribbean; Vienna; Schonbrunn; One Who Plunged To Death; Eastern Bazaar; Rome; Venice; Storm In The Alps; Paris; Staircase of Chambord; Seaside; Point Lobos; Journey's End., (Order No: 39872 ), $30.00

92. Garrett, Erwin Clarkson, JENGHIZ KHAN AND OTHER VERSES, The John C. Winston Company, Philadelphia, PA, 1924, 251pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) teg, inscribed by author, (Order No: 31215 ), $30.00

93. Gery, John, NUCLEAR ANNIHILATION AND CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POETRY: WAYS OF NOTHINGNESS, University Press of Florida, Gainesville, FL, (1996) 1st ptg, 235pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover) owner's name, ISBN 0813014174 The first full-length study of nuclear theory and American poetry, this book examines four distinct poetic approaches to nuclear culture--protest poetry, apocalyptic lyric poetry, psycho-historical poetry, and the poetry of uncertainty., (Order No: 52113 ), $20.00

94. Gibbons, Virginia (illustrations by Alan Dodge; sketches by Priscilla Alden Bass and Virginia Gibbons), PICTURES IN VERSE, Thomas Todd Company, Boston, MA, 1954, B&W illustrations, unpaginated, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) inscribed by the poet, Most of the poems that make up this volume have been written in answer to requests--some from her radio audience, some from her platform audience and still others by the young wounded soldiers at various army camps where for years she went armed with paper and pencil to put their thoughts into rhyming words to send to some loved one., (Order No: 45398 ), $10.00

95. Gibson, Walker, THE RECKLESS SPENDERS, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, (1954), 79pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover) author inscribed, Here are the minutiae and the magnitudes that delight, dumbfound, depress and distract us all., (Order No: 40016 ), $15.00

96. Ginsberg, Joanne (photographs by Ruth Orkin) (introduction by Maurice Dolbier), LEGACY OF LOVE, Grosset & Dunlap, Inc., New York, (1971), B&W illustrations, 63pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 044800643X, (Order No: 40341 ), $7.50

97. Gleason, Judith (an anthology, with commentary by Judith Gleason), LEAF AND BONE: AFRICAN PRAISE-POEMS, The Viking Press, New York, (1980), 221pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0670421782 All the poems in this book were originally "performances." Some praises are of individuals; others are more concerned with the family or clan. Plants and animals, even bicycles and trains, are also addressed., (Order No: 30034 ), $8.00

98. Goldberg, Barbara, MARVELOUS PURSUITS, Snake Nation Press, Valdosta, GA, 1995, 84pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0963836447, (Order No: 32733 ), $7.50

99. Gollnick, Albert F., THE WINDING TRAIL OF LIFE: POEMS BY ALBERT F. GOLLNICK, Exposition Press, New York, (1950), 192pp, good, light green cloth w/some light wear (hardcover), (Order No: 29077 ), $15.00

100. Goudge, Elizabeth, SONGS & VERSES, Coward-McCann, New York, 1948, 56pp, good+ w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), Here are a few unpublished pieces, and many of the songs and verses which embellish Elizabeth Goudge's books., (Order No: 27511 ), $15.00

101. Greene, Aella, HAPPY DAYS AT HAMPTON AND OTHER POEMS, Gill & Hayes, Springfield, MA, 1872, 98pp, very good, green cloth (hardcover), (Order No: 51053 ), $35.00

102. Greene, Aella, IDYLS OF FREEDOM AND OTHER POEMS (SECOND EDITION), The Bryant Printing Company, Florence, MA, 1894, 125pp, very good, maroon cloth (hardcover) w/original kraft jacket, Original plain kraft paper dustjacket with some chips and tears., (Order No: 51888 ), $45.00

103. Greene, Aella, RIVER, BIRD AND STAR, The Bryant Printing Company, Florence, MA, 1895, 151pp, very good, maroon cloth (hardcover), Remnants of half of the original kraft paper dustjacket., (Order No: 51889 ), $30.00

104. Gregory, Horace, COLLECTED POEMS, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, (1964) 1st ed, 226pp, very good w/lightly worn dustjacket (hardcover) poet inscribed, THE COLLECTED POEMS contains all those poems that Horace Gregory wishes to keep from his six previous volumes of verse--from CHELSEA ROOMING HOUSE (1930) to MEDUSA IN GRAMERCY PARK (1961). These poems, which appear here in their final, revised versions, constitute the poet's spiritual autobiography., (Order No: 52041 ), $10.00

105. Grigson, Geoffrey, POETS IN THEIR PRIDE, Basic Books, Inc., Pub., New York, (1964) 2nd ptg, 12 B&W ill., 178pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), Grigson has chosen twelve favorite poets to "exhibit in their pride and in their courage." These poets include; Sir Philip Sidney, Sir Walter Ralegh, John Donne, John Milton, John Dryden, Christopher Smart, William Blake, William Wordsworth, John Clare, Alfred Tennyson, Thomas Hardy, and Henry Vaughan, Silurist., (Order No: 15829 ), $7.50

106. Grilikhes, Alexandra, ON WOMEN ARTISTS: POEMS 1975-1980, Cleis Press, Minneapolis, MN, (1981) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 84pp, very good, wraps (softcover) inscribed by poet, bump top spine, ISBN 093941600X, (Order No: 45065 ), $7.00

107. Grilikhes, Alexandra, THE BLUE SCAR & OTHER POEMS, Folder Editions, New York, (1988), 65pp, very good, wraps (softcover) inscribed by the poet, ISBN 0913152525017, (Order No: 45066 ), $20.00

108. Groom, G. Laurence (foreword by Richard Le Gallienne), THE SINGING SWORD: A POEM, Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, 1929, ill. by Clinton Balmer, 74pp, very good, green cloth spine, paper covered boards (hardcover), (Order No: 25230 ), $10.00

109. Hadas, Rachel, LIVING IN TIME, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ, (1990), 188pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0813515939 In this book, which consists of a long poem preceded and followed by essay-length memoirs, poet Rachel Hadas explores a lifetime of literary activity., (Order No: 39358 ), $7.50

110. Hammerslough, Freda Haas, CONNECTICUT PORTAL, The Poets Press, New York, (1935) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 140pp, good, light blue cloth (hardcover), Nice illustrations of the State of Connecticut with poems Dedicated to Connecticut's Tercentenary., (Order No: 32269 ), $20.00

111. Hanley, Evelyn A., NATURE IN THEME AND SYMBOL: WORDSWORTH TO ELIOT, Heath Cote Publishing Co., New York, (1972), 94pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), Traces the influence of the nature tradition established by Wordsworth as it is manifested in the poetry of some of his major successors in two centuries; including: Matthew Arnold, Thomas Hardy, A.E. Housman, William Butler Yeats, Robert Frost, and T.S. Eliot., (Order No: 10205 ), $25.00

112. Hard, Walter, VERMONT: SALT AND VINTAGE, Stephen Daye Press, New York, (1955) 5th ptg, 208pp, good+ w/good dustjacket (hardcover), (Order No: 15142 ), $7.50

113. Hard, Walter (foreword by Carl Carmer), A MATTER OF FIFTY HOUSES, The Vermont Book Shop, Middlebury, VT, (1952) 3rd ptg, 90pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) signed by author on FFEP, (Order No: 15143 ), $6.00

114. Hard, Walter, VERMONT NEIGHBORS, Vermont Books, Middlebury, VT, (1960), 122pp, very good w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover), (Order No: 15145 ), $10.00

115. Harper, Eileen H., MOONLIGHT ON THE SAND: A SELECTION OF POPULAR VERSE, George G. Gullock Publisher, Vineland, NJ, 1942, 70pp, very good, blue cloth (hardcover), (Order No: 44667 ), $25.00

116. Harrington, Karl Pomeroy (edited with introduction and notes by), THE ROMAN ELEGIAC POETS, American Book Company, New York, (1914), 444pp, good, blue cloth (hardcover), A textbook containing a judicious selection from the whole field of Roman elegy with suitable introductory matter and English comments. Introduction in English - text in Latin., (Order No: 33825 ), $15.00

117. Harte, Bret, HER LETTER: HIS ANSWER & HER LAST LETTER, Houghton, Mifflin & Company, Boston, MA, 1905, ill. by Arthur I. Keller, unpaginated, very good, decorated green cloth, teg (hardcover), (Order No: 42707 ), $20.00

118. Heffernan, Michael (preface by), LOVE'S ANSWER: POEMS, University of Iowa Press, Iowa City, IA, (1994) 1st ptg, 84pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0877454515 A pleasurable, wry, sweet book, full of prayers against the difficult passage of the night., (Order No: 32794 ), $12.50

119. Heine, Heinrich (done into English and edited by Basil Ashmore; with an introduction by J. C. Trewin), DOKTOR FAUST: A DANCE POEM; TOGETHER WITH SOME RARE ACCOUNTS OF WITCHES, DEVILS AND THE ANCIENT ART OF SORCERY, Peter Nevill, London, (1952), ill. by Hellmuth Weissenborn, 64pp, very good, 1/4 red leather, teg, gray covered boards, Copy 87 of 150 specially bound copies - unsigned., (Order No: 25143 ), $35.00

120. Henderson, Walter Brooks Drayton (edited by Wayland Wells Williams; introduction by Leonard Bacon), CASTLE IN SPAIN, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1942, B&W frontis, 70pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), The work of an intensified loneliness. The slim book was written for the greater part on a summer voyage to Spain in 1933, when Americans still found it agreeble to visit Europe., (Order No: 40186 ), $12.00

121. Herman, Leonora Owsley, RATHER PERSONAL, Stephen Daye Press, Brattleboro, VT, (1934), 126pp, good w/chipped dustjacket (hardcover), The author of these delightful verses has brought to them the gaiety, tolerance, and simplicity of the cosmopolite which, in truth, she is., (Order No: 30038 ), $14.50

122. Hewitt, Arthur Wentworth, THE MOUNTAIN TROUBADOUR, The Golden Quill Press, Francestown, NH, (1962), 64pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), Here we meet a poet who delights us with his imagination and apt expressions, gives serious warnings against thoughtless living--and tempers what he has to say with pleasant humor., (Order No: 46374 ), $20.00

123. Hillyer, Robert Silliman, THE HILLS GIVE PROMISE - A VOLUME OF LYRICS TOGETHER WITH CARMUS: A SYMPHONIC POEM, B. J. Brimmer Company, Boston, MA, (1923), ill. by Beatrice Stevens, 160pp, good, brown boards (hardcover), (Order No: 51795 ), $15.00

124. Hinesley-Spuehler, Ruth E., ESTHER: A NARRATIVE POEM IN FIFTEEN CHAPTERS FROM THE BOOK OF ESTHER, Twin Oaks Press, Chicago, IL, (1941), ill. by Ernst A. Spuehler, 94pp, very good, decorated brown boards (hardcover), Limited to 300 copies. Signed by the poet and illustrator., (Order No: 36756 ), $25.00

125. Hoban, Russell (poems by); drawings by Lillian Hoban, THE PEDALING MAN AND OTHER POEMS, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York, (1968) 1st ptg, ill. by Lillian Hoban, unpaginated, good w/lightly edgeworn dj (hardcover) review slip tipped in, These poems are about animals and people, both big and small, and about those things and those movements in life that are worth holding on to., (Order No: 29675 ), $7.00

126. Hochman, Sandra (foreword by Galt MacDermot, composer of "Hair"), STREAMS: LIFE-SECRETS FOR WRITING POEMS AND SONGS, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ, (1978) 1st ptg, 169pp, good+ w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0138512612 A revolutionary new "inner game" approach to learning the art of writing poetry and lyrics., (Order No: 24596 ), $10.00

127. Hopkins, Gerard Manley, SELECTED POEMS, Nonesuch Press, London, 1954, ill. on title page, 105pp, very good, vellum spine (hardcover) lightly edgeworn slipcase, Of this edition 1100 copies have been printed. This is number 73., (Order No: 51972 ), $45.00

128. Horne, William C., MAKING A HEAVEN OF HELL: THE PROBLEM OF THE COMPANIONATE IDEAL IN ENGLISH MARRIAGE POETRY, 1650-1800, University of Georgia Press, Athens, GA, (1993) 1st ptg, 375pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0820314749 From 1650 to 1800 in England, notions about marriage underwent significant change. The new model that arose--the companionate ideal--emphasized a couple's compatibility in age, temperament, and background and celebrated the husband and wife as affectionate friends, lovers, and parents. The companionate ideal became a central feature in what some historians see as the emergence of the nuclear family and the rise of domesticity., (Order No: 18880 ), $12.50

129. Houghton, Walter E., THE POETRY OF CLOUGH: AN ESSAY IN REVALUATION, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, (1965) 2nd ptg, 236pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), (Order No: 5397 ), $11.50

130. Hovey, Richard (edited with introduction and notes by Mrs. Richard Hovey; and a preface by Bliss Carman), THE HOLY GRAAL AND OTHER FRAGMENTS - BEING THE UNCOMPLETED PARTS OF THE ARTHURIAN DRAMAS, Duffield & Company, New York, 1907 1st ed, 128pp, ads, very good, green cloth (hardcover), BAL 9395 LAUNCELOT AND GUENEVERE: A POEM IN DRAMAS - Part V. It had been Mr. Hovey's intention to complete his notable Arthurian Series in nine dramas, of which only four had been published at the time of his death. He left fragmentary portions in manuscript of all the remaining five, and these fragments have been edited and arranged, with notes, by his widow, as the only possible attempt toward completion of this matchless monument of American verse., (Order No: 28282 ), $45.00

131. Hovey, Richard, THE MARRIAGE OF GUENEVERE: LAUNCELOT AND GUENEVERE - A POEM IN DRAMAS - PART II, Duffield and Company, New York, 1909, 171pp, very good, green cloth (hardcover) faint stain top corner, BAL 9382 First published in 1891 in "Launcelot and Guenevere" and revised in 1885 and reissued in 1899., (Order No: 40129 ), $30.00

132. Hovey, Richard, THE BIRTH OF GALAHAD: LAUNCELOT AND GUENEVERE - A POEM IN DRAMAS - PART III, Duffield and Company, New York, 1909, 124pp, very good, green cloth (hardcover) minute stain top corner, BAL 9387 First published in 1898., (Order No: 40130 ), $30.00

133. Howard, Richard, NO TRAVELLER, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1989, 97pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0679723021 Features two long narrative poems plus a group of dramatic meditations., (Order No: 39913 ), $6.00

134. Howard, Richard (editor) (David Lehman, Series Editor), THE BEST AMERICAN POETRY 1995, Touchstone Simon & Schuster, New York, (1995) 1st ptg, 303pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0684801515, (Order No: 40604 ), $5.00

135. Irwin, Wallace, CHINATOWN BALLADS, Duffield & Company, New York, 1906 1st ed, 81pp, good, decorated cream cloth (hardcover) lacks front endpaper, (Order No: 50053 ), $6.00

136. Jaffin, David, EMPTIED SPACES - THE ABELARD POETS, Abelard-Schuman, London, (1972), ill. by Jacques Lipchitz, 32pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0200718746, (Order No: 43236 ), $10.00

137. Jenney, Adeline M. (edited by), PRAIRIE POETS - AN ANTHOLOGY OF VERSE OF THE SOUTH DAKOTA STATE POETRY SOCIETY 1927-1949, Lund Press, Inc., Minneapolis, MN, (1949), B&W illustrations, 209pp, good+ w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), "The South Dakota State Poetry Society and its magazine organ, Pasque Petals, present an interesting and stimulating cross section of what is best in South Dakota's outstanding creative writing project.", (Order No: 49733 ), $12.50

138. Johnson, Davis Ben, HODGE-PODGE, Davis B. Johnson, Wauseon, OH, (1939), 257pp, good+, "burlap" tan cloth (hardcover) signed by author in 1940, (Order No: 26811 ), $15.00

139. Johnson, Linnea, MAKING SENSE - NINE LOVE POEMS, Polemic Number One Press, Allentown, PA, (1989), 16pp, very good, wraps (softcover), signed by the poet, (Order No: 45072 ), $20.00

140. Keeney, Susan Dorothea, THE FOUR WINDS BLOWING, Allen, Lane and Scott, n.p., 1956, B&W frontis, 66pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) signed by the author, "Susan Dorothea Keeney writes in the finest and oldest tradition of English lyric verse, untroubled by the restlessness of today's world.", (Order No: 32162 ), $20.00

141. King, Roma A., THE FOCUSING ARTIFICE: THE POETRY OF ROBERT BROWNING, Ohio University Press, Athens, OH, 1968, 288pp, very good w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover), "Shows how Robert Browning's poetry from PAULINE through ASOLANDO arises from and embodies Browning's two major concerns.", (Order No: 6731 ), $5.00

142. Kinsey, Leland, NOT ONE MAN'S WORK, Lyons & Burford, Publishers, New York, (1996), 89pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 1558214305 Many of the poems in this, Leland Kinsey's third book, are set in Vermont's remote Northeast Kingdom; but others range to places as diverse as Atlantic City, Vietnam, and Labrador., (Order No: 19874 ), $7.50

143. Kizer, Carolyn, THE NEARNESS OF YOU: POEMS, Copper Canyon Press, Port Townsend, WA, (1986), 99pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0914742973 Poems for lovers, friends, and fathers., (Order No: 32864 ), $3.50

144. Lamb, Charles, THE POETICAL WORKS OF CHARLES LAMB, E. H. Butler & Co., Philadelphia, PA, 1865, B&W illustrations, 117pp, very good, original green cloth, aeg (hardcover) faint edgewear, (Order No: 51419 ), $20.00

145. Langfeld, William R. (brought together from various sources by), THE POEMS OF WASHINGTON IRVING, The New York Public Library, New York, 1931, 19pp, very good, wraps (softcover), (Order No: 26956 ), $25.00

146. Lappin, Kendall (translated from the French by), THE MUSE SPOKE FRENCH: SELECTED POEMS, Asylum Arts, Santa Maria, CA, (1994), 128pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 1878580590 An eclectic selection of forty-eight classic French poems--which includes works by Villon, Voltaire, Baudelaire, Musser, Nerval, and Hugo, as well as lesser-known poets such as d'Orleans, DuBellay, Prudhomme, Heredia, Coppee and Rollinat., (Order No: 32993 ), $6.50

147. Lassell, Michael and Georgiou, Elena (edited by), THE WORLD IN US: LESBIAN AND GAY POETRY OF THE NEXT WAVE - AN ANTHOLOGY, St. Martin's Press, New York, (2000) 1st ed, 392pp, fine w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0312209436, (Order No: 34028 ), $3.50

148. Lawrence, Louis (foreword by Roy Strong), THE SEASONS, Webb & Bower, Exeter, Devon, (1981), ill. by Louis Lawrence, unpaginated, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0906671221 To illustrate the four seasons of the year Louis Lawrence chose and wrote out in decorative script short extracts of poetry and prose by writers such as Longfellow, Southey, Scott, Tennyson and Wordsworth. He decorated each page with his own delicate drawings and watercolours., (Order No: 39222 ), $10.00

149. Le Gallienne, Richard (edited with an introduction by), THE LE GALLIENNE BOOK OF AMERICAN VERSE - ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN VERSE (ON THE SPINE), Boni and Liveright, New York, (1925) 1st ptg, 402pp, very good, decorated black cloth (hardcover), Presentation edition specially printed on water-marked paper and strictly limited to 485 copies., (Order No: 36287 ), $45.00

150. Ledward, Patricia and Strang, Colin (edited by) (with an introduction by Edmund Blunden), POEMS OF THIS WAR BY YOUNGER POETS, Cambridge Univ. Pr/Macmillan, Cambridge/New York, 1944, 99pp, good+ w/chipped dustjacket (hardcover), This is an anthology of war poems from England. All the contributors are young., (Order No: 44043 ), $12.50

151. Lehman, David, VALENTINE PLACE: POEMS, Scribner, New York, (1996) 1st ptg, 95pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0684815702 An unflinching look at romantic and erotic love. (Minute closed tear on dustjacket)., (Order No: 28638 ), $12.50

152. LeSueur, Meridel, RITES OF ANCIENT RIPENING, Vanilla Press, Inc., Minneapolis, MN, (1976) 2nd ptg, B&W ill., 58pp, good, wraps (softcover), inscribed by the poet, ISBN 0917266110, (Order No: 35047 ), $5.00

153. Lewis, C. Day, COLLECTED POEMS 1929-1933 & A HOPE FOR POETRY, Random House, New York, (1935), 256pp, very good, brown cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket, (Order No: 51175 ), $6.00

154. Lindsay, Jack, MEETINGS WITH POETS: MEMORIES OF DYLAN THOMAS, EDITH SITWELL, LOUIS ARAGON, PAUL ELUARD, & TRISTAN TZARA, Frederick Ungar Publishing, New York, (1969) 1st Amer, 245pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0804425264 Jack Lindsay has personally known all of these poets. Here he shares his impressions of them and interpretations of their work., (Order No: 13591 ), $18.50

155. Lloyd, Rosemary (edited and translated by), SELECTED LETTERS OF STEPHANE MALLARME, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, (1988) 1st ptg, 238pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover) bump lower corner, ISBN 0226488411, (Order No: 8128 ), $12.50

156. Locker, Frederick, LONDON LYRICS, The Book Fellow's Club, New York, 1883, B&W ill., 105pp, very good, yellow cloth (very light soiling) (hardcover), Limited to 104 copies, this edition printed by the Press of Theo. L. De Vinne & Co., NY. Article tipped in on the Book Fellow's Club and the publication of this piece., (Order No: 32446 ), $125.00

157. Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, THE POETICAL WORKS OF HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, AND THE PROSE WORKS OF HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW - 7 VOLUME SET COMPLETE, Ticknor and Fields, Boston, MA, 1866, very good, 3/4 leather, teg (hardcover) light rubbing to leather, Handsome set, Revised Edition. THE POETICAL WORKS: Volume I; 318pp, Voices of the Night, Ballads and Other Poems, Poems on Slavery, The Spanish Student; Volume II; 283pp, The Belfrey of Bruges and Other Poems, Evangeline, the Seaside and the Fireside; Volume III; 351pp, The Golden Legend, The Courtship of Miles Standish, Birds of Passage; Volume IV; 372pp, The Song of Hiawatha, Tales of a Wayside Inn, Birds of Passage; THE PROSE WORKS: Volume I; 364pp, Outre-Mer., Volume II; 391pp, Hyperion; and, Volume III, 365pp, Kavanagh, Drift-Wood., (Order No: 51606 ), $250.00

158. Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (a complete facsimile edited with an introduction and notes by Arthur Christy), THE LEAP OF ROUSHAN BEG, William Edwin Rudge, New York, 1931, 37pp, good, light red cloth w/faded spine as usual (hardcover), Limited to 500 copies., (Order No: 25101 ), $8.00

159. Lovelace, Richard, LUCASTA ET CETERA - THE LOVE POEMS OF RICHARD LOVELACE, The Golden Eagle Press, Mount Vernon, NY, (1948), drawings by Kurt Roesch, 24pp, very good, tan boards (hardcover) (no slipcase), Limited to 1960 copies., (Order No: 43710 ), $10.00

160. Lowell, Robert, NEAR THE OCEAN, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, (1967) 1st ptg, ill. by Sidney Nolan, 125pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), (Order No: 51437 ), $10.00

161. Macdonald, Cynthia, ALTERNATE MEANS OF TRANSPORT: POEMS, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1985 1st ed, 81pp, very good+, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0394729684, (Order No: 34178 ), $3.50

162. Mack, Robert Ellice (selected and arranged by), FROM LEAF TO LEAF - A VOLUME OF POEMS WITH ILLUSTRATIONS, E. P. Dutton & Company, New York, n.d. c1890s, B&W illustrations, unpaginated, very good w/lightly chipped dustjacket, aeg (hardcover), A lovely volume lithographed and printed by E. Nister at Nuremberg. Blue boards, bright with bright decorations in an uncommon dustjacket., (Order No: 50404 ), $40.00

163. Magowan, Robin, BURNING THE KNIFE: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS, The Scarecrow Press, Inc., Metuchen, NJ, 1985, 114pp, very good+, wraps (softcover) inscribed by the poet, ISBN 0810817772, (Order No: 35045 ), $7.50

164. Mann, David D. (compiled and edited by), A CONCORDANCE TO THE PLAYS AND POEMS OF SIR GEORGE ETHEREGE, Greenwood Press, Westport, CT, (1985) 1st ptg, 445pp, very good++, green cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket as issued), ISBN 0313209766 One of the central shapers of Restoration drama was Sir George Etherege (1636?-1691?), whose first play, THE COMICAL REVENGE; OR, LOVE IN A TUB (1664), popularized a new kind of comedy that both ennobled and satirized heroic action through its several plots., (Order No: 14188 ), $30.00

165. Mara, Mark, POEMS OF OLD CONCORD: BIRTHPLACE OF AMERICAN LIBERTY, Vantage Press, New York, (1975) 1st ed, B&W frontis, 94pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0533019346 This book allows you to share the loves, sorrows, joys, and excitement of those bygone days in our United States., (Order No: 45205 ), $7.50

166. Marcus, Morton, PAGES FROM A SCRAPBOOK OF IMMIGRANTS: A JOURNEY IN POEMS, Coffee House Press, Minneapolis, MN, 1988, 130pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0918273471 The story of the author's family life in Czarist Russia and in America., (Order No: 31241 ), $6.50

167. Marker, Edward D., SANCTUARY AND OTHER POEMS, Sussex House Publications, Cherry Hill, NJ, 1977, 23pp, very good, wraps (softcover), (Order No: 44820 ), $10.00

168. Markham, Edwin, THE MAN WITH THE HOE AND OTHER POEMS, Doubleday & McClure Company, New York, 1899, frontis, 134pp, good++, green cloth (hardcover), (Order No: 51140 ), $7.50

169. Marx, Anne, THE SECOND VOICE - A BOOK OF POEMS, The Fine Editions Press, New York, 1963, 72pp, good+ w/good dustjacket (hardcover) signed by the poet, Warmly inscribed by the author/poet., (Order No: 27193 ), $14.50

170. Masefield, John (poems by) and Seago, Edward (pictures by), TRIBUTE TO BALLET, The Macmillan Company, New York, 1938 1st ed, color and B&W plates, 72pp, plates, good, blue cloth (hardcover) (faded cloth as usual), The pictures appearing in this book are impressions of certain Ballets and Dancers that the artist has been fortunate enough to see. With the selection of pictures that have been included he pays tribute to Ballet as a whole., (Order No: 16808 ), $25.00

171. McCreary, F. R., ON OMPOMPANOOSUC RIVER, Reynolds-DeWalt, New Bedford, MA, (1973), 79pp, fine, light blue cloth (hardcover), (Order No: 48652 ), $15.00

172. McGroarty, John S. (compiled and edited by), THE POETS AND POETRY OF WYOMING VALLEY, R. Lambert, Printer, Wilkes-Barre, PA, 1886, 118pp, good, black cloth (hardcover) inscribed by author in 1891, A book of samples of the poetical literature of the Wyoming Valley. Newpaper article about author laid in causing acidic offset to front pastedown and front free endpaper., (Order No: 40551 ), $65.00

173. Meredith, William, THE WRECK OF THE THRESHER AND OTHER POEMS, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1965 2nd ptg, 48pp, good+ w/good dustjacket (hardcover), (Order No: 10329 ), $10.00

174. Merrill, James, A SCATTERING OF SALTS: POEMS, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1995 1st ed, 101pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0679441581, (Order No: 34026 ), $3.50

175. Middleton, Jesse Edgar, SEA DOGS AND MEN AT ARMS: A CANADIAN BOOK OF SONGS, G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1918 1st ed, color frontis, 104pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), (Order No: 25137 ), $20.00

176. Miller, R. Baxter (edited by), BLACK AMERICAN POETS BETWEEN WORLDS, 1940-1960 -- TENNESSEE STUDIES IN LITERATURE, VOLUME 30, University of Tennessee Pr., Knoxville, TN, (1988), 190pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0870495909, (Order No: 51902 ), $5.00

177. Miner, Earl, DRYDEN'S POETRY, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, (1968) 2nd ptg, 9 B&W ill., 354pp, very good+ w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover), Combining sensitive analysis of the text with the presentation of new-found historical information, the book enlarges on traditional treatments by its inclusion of Dryden's plays and translations along with the nondramatic verse., (Order No: 11462 ), $8.50

178. Moore, Honor (edited by along with the members of the Write Poems Women Workshop), WRITE POEMS WOMEN: AN ANTHOLOGY, Write Poems Women Workshop, New York, (1976) 1st ed, 64pp, fine, wraps (softcover), (Order No: 34176 ), $10.00

179. More, Brookes (illustrated by Tracy Porter Rudd and Lewis Perry), THE RING OF LOVE AND OTHER POEMS, Cornhill Publishing Company, Boston, MA, (1923), B&W illustrations, 191pp, very good+, black cloth, aeg (hardcover) inscribed by author, (Order No: 51242 ), $15.00

180. Morgan, Robin, UPSTAIRS IN THE GARDEN: POEMS SELECTED AND NEW, 1968-1988, W. W. Norton & Company, New York, (1990) 1st ed, 251pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0393028321 This volume demonstrates the wide range of Morgan's craft, from skill at such traditional forms as sonnet, villanelle, and elegy through her more colloquial poems., (Order No: 34025 ), $3.00

181. Morley, Christopher (selected by), THE BOWLING GREEN: AN ANTHOLOGY OF VERSE, Doubleday, Page & Company, New York, 1924 1st ed, 182pp, good+, blue cloth spine, paper covered boards (hardcover), Dustjacket panels cut and laid in. This anthology is selected from the poems contributed by "clients" of THE BOWLING GREEN, a column printed on the editorial page of the New York EVENING POST from February 9, 1920, to December 31, 1923., (Order No: 31922 ), $12.50

182. Morrison, Theodore (with a preface by Hervey Allen), NOTES OF DEATH AND LIFE, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York, (1935), 86pp, good+, green cloth (hardcover) inscribed by the poet in 1937, (Order No: 34796 ), $15.00

183. Moss, Howard, RULES OF SLEEP, Atheneum, New York, 1984 1st ed, 64pp, very good+, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0689114230, (Order No: 32976 ), $4.50

184. Moss, Sylvia, CITIES IN MOTION, University of Illinois Press, Urbana, IL, (1987) 1st ptg, 59pp, very good+, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0252014367, (Order No: 34652 ), $5.00

185. Murray, Les, SUBHUMAN REDNECK POEMS, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, (1997) 1st Amer, 104pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0374271550 Review press release laid in., (Order No: 31517 ), $8.50

186. Nemerov, Howard, INSIDE THE ONION, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, (1984), 3pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0226572447 A new group of very wise and very lovely poems which constitutes one more way of looking, seeing things familiar from new angles, seeing new things as comment on old ones., (Order No: 13814 ), $5.00

187. Nerber, John, THE SPECTRE IMAGE, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1946, 56pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), Fastidiousness combined with strength, sentiment with courage, and a sure, firm grasp of technique that scorns trickiness and eccentricities--these are the characteristics of the poems of John Nerber., (Order No: 30023 ), $8.50

188. Nickerson, Paul Sumner, SURF, The Mosher Press, Portland, Maine, 1931, 68pp, very good, blue paper covered boards (hardcover) SEE NOTE, One of 500 copies on Van Gelder paper. CONDITION NOTE - Minute split top 3/4 inches along gutter of front board. A usual happening to this title., (Order No: 46360 ), $60.00

189. Oakley, Imogen Brashear, AWAKE, AMERICA! AND OTHER VERSE, Macrae- Smith, Co., Philadelphia, 1934 1st ed, ill. by Thornton Oakley, 75pp, very good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), "Although absorbed in writing for political reform, her pen turned also to pure poetry. In this volume with her poems of mystic fancy are combined those verses in which with rapier keenness yet with deft humor she thrusts at the heart of civic crookedness.", (Order No: 22912 ), $30.00

190. Ochester, Ed and Oresick, Peter (editors), THE PITTSBURGH BOOK OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POETRY, University of Pittsburgh Pr., Pittsburgh, PA, (1993), B&W ill., 397pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0822955067 This commemorative volume is a cross section of much of the best American poetry being written., (Order No: 32789 ), $4.50

191. Osborne, Charles, W. H. AUDEN: THE LIFE OF A POET, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, (1979), B&W illustrations, 336pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0151942862, (Order No: 5996 ), $3.50

192. Page, Curtis Hidden, JAPANESE POETRY: AN HISTORICAL ESSAY WITH TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY TRANSLATIONS, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA, 1923, color frontis, B&W ill., 181pp, good, black cloth spine (hardcover) wear to boards and spine, A short history of Japanese poetry., (Order No: 46573 ), $15.00

193. Paolucci, Anne (preface by Diana Der-Hovanessian), GORBACHEV IN CONCERT (AND OTHER POEMS), Griffon House Publications, Whitestone, NY, (1991), 60pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0918680476, (Order No: 29226 ), $15.00

194. Paquin, Nancy K., MY USED TO BE HUSBAND, Wallace Press, n.p., (2005), unpaginated, fine, wraps (softcover) signed by the poet, Written and signed by New Hampshire poet. "To women who have the need that this poetry can provide, so that they may hold onto the good of what was and let go of what was not -- that they might move on.", (Order No: 49897 ), $12.00

195. Parmelee, Helen L., POEMS: RELIGIOUS AND MISCELLANEOUS, Anson D. F. Randolph, New York, 1865, 112pp, good+, brown cloth, aeg (hardcover), (Order No: 44665 ), $25.00

196. Perse, St.-John (translation by Wallace Fowlie), SEAMARKS: BILINGUAL EDITION, Pantheon Books, New York, (1958), 363pp, good+, black cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), BOLLINGEN SERIES LXVII "The Sea, in celebration of its steps, like an ode of stone: vigil and celebration on our frontiers, murmur and celebration to the height of men--the Sea itself our vigil, like a divine promulgation...", (Order No: 35478 ), $12.50

197. Peters, Robert, HUNTING THE SNARK: A COMPENDIUM OF NEW POETIC TERMINOLOGY, Paragon House, New York, (1989) 1st ed, 396pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), Author fashions an entirely new approach to contemporary American poetry. Eschewing the usual chronological or geographical divisions used by other editors of reference works in the field, he sorts through modernist and current poems, separating them into nearly a hundred categores., (Order No: 13566 ), $10.00

198. Peters, Robert, THE GREAT AMERICAN POETRY BAKE-OFF, The Scarecrow Press, Inc., Metuchen, NJ, 1979, B&W illustrations, 274pp, very good, tan cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket as published), ISBN 0810812312, (Order No: 35691 ), $5.00

199. Pollard, Arthur (edited, with an introduction by), SILVER POETS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, London, (1976), 274pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) small chip front of dj, ISBN 0460100858 This volume contains a generous and representative selection from the work of the five most important eighteenth-century poets after Pope and Dryden. The poems chosen include Goldsmith's THE DESERTED VILLAGE, Gray's ELEGY, Johnson's THE VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES and Swift's VERSES ON THE DEATH OF DR SWIFT., (Order No: 52100 ), $12.50

200. Pollet, Elizabeth (edited and introduced by), PORTRAIT OF DELMORE: JOURNALS AND NOTES OF DELMORE SCHWARTZ, 1939-1959, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, New York, (1986) 1st ptg, 663pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0374236399 These journals and notes provide a brilliant self-portrait of the poet, showing his creative genius at work. They are full of poems, notes for poems, night thoughts, daytime speculations. They also constitute an important document of the New York literary milieu of the forties and fifties., (Order No: 16462 ), $11.50

201. Pope, Alexander; Armstrong, W. C. (edited by), THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF ALEXANDER POPE, ESQ. WITH AN ORIGINAL MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR, ..., Silas Andrus & Son, Hartford, CT, (1848), good, brown cloth (hardcover), "... EMBRACING NOTICES OF MANY EMINENT CONTEMPORARIES; CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES, ORIGINAL AND SELECTED, AND SEVERAL VALUABLE MISCELLANEOUS PRODUCTIONS, NOT CONTAINED IN ANY OTHER EDITION." Fourth Edition, two volumes bound in one (as published). Volume I, 472pp; Volume II, 480pp, ads. Nice clean and tight copy., (Order No: 45249 ), $45.00

202. Popovic, Tatyana, PRINCE MARKO: THE HERO OF SOUTH SLAVIC EPICS, Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY, (1988) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 222pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0815624441 After discussing the background of South Slavic folk literature, Popovic looks at the factual and fictional images of Prince Marko, especially as he was presented in epic poetry and popular lore., (Order No: 30082 ), $12.50

203. Porter, Alan, THE SIGNATURE OF PAIN AND OTHER POEMS, The John Day Company, New York, 1932, 88pp, good+, maroon cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), (Order No: 36403 ), $15.00

204. Porter, Katherine Anne (edited with an introduction by Darlene Harbour Unrue), KATHERINE ANNE PORTER'S POETRY, Univ. of South Carolina Pr., Columbia, SC, (1996) 1st ptg, B&W ill., music examples, 188pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 1570030847 This volume makes available for the first time the complete poetic canon of one of America's most-celebrated writers., (Order No: 30743 ), $12.50

205. Press, John (compiled by), POETIC HERITAGE: A SUNDAY TIMES ANTHOLOGY OF ENGLISH VERSE FROM THE 16TH TO THE 20TH CENTURY, Andre Deutsch, London, (1957), 128pp, good+, gray cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), (Order No: 29101 ), $5.00

206. Procter, Adelaide A. (introduction by Charles Dickens), THE POEMS OF ADELAIDE A. PROCTER - COMPLETE EDITION, Houghton, Mifflin and Co., Boston, MA, 1880, B&W illustrations, 247pp, good, decorated brown cloth, aeg (hardcover) light wear on spine, Nice clean and tight copy., (Order No: 48483 ), $14.50

207. Rand, Frank Prentice, HEART O' TOWN, privately printed, Amherst, MA, 1945, ill. by Frank Prentice Rand, 148pp, very good, brown cloth (hardcover), Poetry about Amherst, Massachusetts, the college, and Emily Dickinson., (Order No: 23276 ), $10.00

208. Red Hawk - pipikwass, WHEN NO ONE IS LOOKING, Little Letterpress, Knox, Maine, 1990, 49pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0962149845, (Order No: 49052 ), $10.00

209. Redman, John Estaugh, MISCELLANEOUS POEMS, John C. Winston & Co., Philadelphia, 1895, B&W frontis, 101pp, very good, maroon cloth (hardcover), Poems by a prominent citizen of Haddonfield, New Jersey., (Order No: 32778 ), $35.00

210. Reed, Edward Bliss, LYRA YALENIS, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, n.d., 60pp, good, tan cloth spine (hardcover), Poems about Yale University., (Order No: 39980 ), $10.00

211. Regueiro, Helen, THE LIMITS OF IMAGINATION: WORDSWORTH, YEATS, AND STEVENS, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, (1976), 222pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0801409942 This subtle, intricately woven study treats the dialectical relationship of imagination and reality in three major poets and, through them, in the poetry of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries., (Order No: 14056 ), $8.50

212. Richards, Mrs. Waldo (selected and arranged by), HIGH TIDE - SONGS OF JOY AND VISION FROM THE PRESENT-DAY POETS OF AMERICA AND GREAT BRITAIN, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA, 1916 1st ed, 206pp, very good, olive green cloth, teg (hardcover), (Order No: 51141 ), $5.00

213. Ridge, Lola, FIREHEAD, Payson & Clarke Ltd, New York, 1929 3rd ptg, 218pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), Contents include: Part I, He; Part II, John; Part III, Judas; Part IV, The Stone; Part V, Peter; Part VI, The Merchant of Babylon; Part VII, Thaddeus the Unborn; Part VIII, The Bondman; Part IX, Resurrection., (Order No: 39677 ), $12.00

214. Riley, James Whitcomb, GREEN FIELDS AND RUNNING BROOKS, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, IN, (1892), B&W frontis, 224pp, good, green cloth, TEG (hardcover), (Order No: 29469 ), $5.00

215. Riley, James Whitcomb (collected and arranged by Hewitt Hanson Howland), THE HOOSIER BOOK - CONTAINING POEMS IN DIALECT, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, IN, (1916), 598pp, good, blue cloth (hardcover), (Order No: 50430 ), $5.00

216. Robinson, Edwin Arlington, CAVENDER'S HOUSE, The Macmillan Company, New York, 1929 1st ed, 103pp, good, purple cloth with some spotting (hardcover) dj laid in, Love, and the death of love, shattered by doubt, compose the theme of this poem., (Order No: 31907 ), $5.00

217. Robinson, Edwin Arlington, CAPTAIN CRAIG: A BOOK OF POEMS, The Macmillan Company, New York, 1915 rev ed, 182pp, good+, maroon cloth, teg (hardcover), Revised edition with additional poems., (Order No: 39278 ), $25.00

218. Rollins, Hyder Edward (edited by), TOTTEL'S MISCELLANY (1557-1587) - VOLUME I, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1928, 345pp, good, brown cloth, teg (hardcover) light fade to spine, Contents include poems by: Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey; Sir Thomas Wyatt; Nicholas Grimald; Uncertain Authors; and, more., (Order No: 40145 ), $40.00

219. Rosenbaum, Nathan, A MAN FROM PARNASSUS AND OTHER POEMS, Bookman Associates, New York, (1951), 127pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover) ink mark on p72, An important collection of verse by this talented poet. The title poem, "A Man from Parnassus" is a dramatic monologue in which Shylock speaks to Shakespeare. It is an eloquent and impassioned expression of the fate of the Jews throughout history., (Order No: 24990 ), $15.00

220. Rutledge, Archibald, RAIN ON THE MARSH, Bostick & Thornley, Inc., Columbia, South Carolina, 1940, 236pp, good, green cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket) EX-LIB - see note, A scarce collection of Archibald Rutledge poetry. EX-LIB copy, the previous owner (his blindstamp on half-title and title page) had carefully removed the library markings, and only faint traces remain. Some light edgewear to the cloth., (Order No: 21523 ), $100.00

221. Sandburg, Carl (poems by) (selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins), RAINBOWS ARE MADE, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, San Diego, CA, (1982) 1st ed, ill. by Fritz Eichenberg, 82pp, very good w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0152654801 From the more than eight hundred poems Sandburg wrote, the well-known anthologist Lee Bennett Hopkins has culled seventy and grouped them in six sections, each headed by one of Sandburg's own definitions of poetry from Good Morning, America., (Order No: 16665 ), $10.00

222. Sandy, Stephen, THANKSGIVING OVER THE WATER - POEMS, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1992 1st ed, 83pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover) review slip laid in, ISBN 067941679X, (Order No: 17936 ), $7.50

223. Sandy, Stephen, THANKSGIVING OVER THE WATER, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1994 1st ed, 86pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0679752781, (Order No: 34653 ), $3.00

224. Sarton, May, AS DOES NEW HAMPSHIRE AND OTHER POEMS BY MAY SARTON, William L. Bauhan, Publisher, Dublin, NH, 1987, B&W illustrations, 61pp, very good, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0872330982 Reissue of the 1967 edition with additional material., (Order No: 37017 ), $20.00

225. Saunders, Richard W., DASHES OF LAVENDER, H. L. Lindquist, Publisher, New York, 1931, ill. by Fred Stern, 68pp, good+, lavender cloth spine, paper covered boards (hardcover), (Order No: 30025 ), $12.50

226. Service, Robert W., RHYMES OF A ROLLING STONE, Dodd, Mead and Company, Cambridge, UK, 1918, 172pp, very good, green cloth (hardcover), (Order No: 50428 ), $7.50

227. Seth, Vikram, ALL YOU WHO SLEEP TONIGHT, Vintage International, New York, 1991 1st ptg, 62pp, very good++, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0679730275 Seth delves into the varieties of love - love lost, remembered, anddeferred., (Order No: 45064 ), $30.00

228. Shay, Frank (compiled by), A LITTLE BOOK OF VAGABOND SONGS: POEMS OF THE HILLS AND SEA, Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, 1931, B&W illustrations, 60pp, very good, blue cloth (hardcover) dustjacket cut and laid in, Ten etchings by Philip Kappel. Poems of the Sea and Hills., (Order No: 39779 ), $12.50

229. Sherman, Frank Dempster, LYRICS OF JOY, Houghton, Mifflin and Co., Boston, MA, 1904, 104pp, very good, green cloth, teg (hardcover), (Order No: 30027 ), $25.00

230. Shore, Morris B., OUT OF THIS WORLD, published by the author, n.p., (1952), 136pp, good, maroon cloth (hardcover), (Order No: 41691 ), $45.00

231. Shurter, Edwin DuBois and Watkins, Dwight Everett (compiled and edited by), MASTERPIECES OF MODERN VERSE, Noble and Noble, Publishers, New York, (1926), 166pp, good, green cloth (light wear to corners) (hardcover), (Order No: 36289 ), $20.00

232. Sieller, William Vincent, GREEN WATER FOR A GRANITE VALLEY, The Golden Quill Press, Francestown, NH, (1970), 80pp, very good w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0823301443, (Order No: 25995 ), $7.50

233. Simpson, Louis, THE BEST HOUR OF THE NIGHT, Ticknor & Fields, New Haven, 1983 1st ptg, 69pp, very good w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0899192033, (Order No: 14842 ), $8.50

234. Sitwell, Edith, THE CANTICLE OF THE ROSE -- POEMS: 1917-1949, The Vanguard Press, Inc., New York, (1949), 290pp, good, black cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket, (Order No: 52165 ), $5.00

235. Sitwell, Edith (compiled by), A BOOK OF THE WINTER, The Vanguard Press, Inc., New York, (1951), 116pp, good, gray cloth spine (hardcover) no dustjacket, (Order No: 52166 ), $5.00

236. Sleigh, Tom (Phoenix Poets - A Series Edited by Robert von Hallberg), WAKING, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, (1990), 98pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0226762394, (Order No: 26611 ), $5.00

237. Smith, A. J. M. (edited and with an introduction by), THE WORLDLY MUSE: AN ANTHOLOGY OF SERIOUS LIGHT VERSE, Abelard Press, New York, (1951) 1st ed, 388pp, good+, tan cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), "This is an anthology of light verse, but it differs from collections usually described as light in that it is not merely a compilation of amusing, witty, or ingenious verses. Instead, it is a book of poetry, and though the poems are presided over by the muse of Comedy they offer a genuine 'criticism of life,' which though never solemn or pretentious is never trivial either.", (Order No: 38097 ), $35.00

238. Smith, Thomas R., KEEPING THE STAR: POEMS, New Rivers Press, St. Paul, MN, (1988), B&W ill., 63pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0898230993, (Order No: 32732 ), $5.00

239. Smyth, Florida Watts (foreword by Louis Untermeyer), ONLY ON THE WEST WIND, Middlebury College Press, Middlebury, VT, 1940, 21pp, very good, green cloth (hardcover) original tissue jacket, (Order No: 50002 ), $10.00

240. Smythe, Daniel, MAN IN THE LAND, Machigonne Press, Portland, ME, 1953, 68pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) inscribed by the poet, A collection of sensitive observation poetry--poems about people and nature. NOTE - dustjacket is discolored., (Order No: 25442 ), $15.00

241. Snow, Carol, ARTIST AND MODEL, The Atlantic Monthly Press, New York, (1990) 1st ptg, 67pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0871134004 This volume was selected by Robert Hass for the 1989 National Poetry Series. These poems illuminate the relationship between Life and Art., (Order No: 34032 ), $8.50

242. Sockman, William P., TRAVELERS OF THE PLAINS: POEMS & SONNETS, Privately Printed, New York, 1941, 43pp, good+ w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), Printed by William E. Rudge's Sons., (Order No: 25360 ), $25.00

243. Spaar, Lisa Russ (edited by), ACQUAINTED WITH THE NIGHT: INSOMNIA POEMS, Columbia University Press, New York, (1999) 1st ptg, 183pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 023111544X An amazingly rich anthology organized around a single theme--insomnia., (Order No: 32065 ), $12.50

244. Stein, James S., MY COUNTRY, MY PEOPLE - POEMS WITH LOVE AND IRONY, Exposition Press, New York, (1963) 1st ed, 62pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover) author inscribed, (Order No: 51672 ), $15.00

245. Stephens, James, STRICT JOY AND OTHER POEMS, The Macmillan Company, New York, 1931, 53pp, good++ w/chipped dustjacket (hardcover), (Order No: 51195 ), $6.00

246. Steuben Glass, POETRY IN CRYSTAL BY STEUBEN GLASS, Steuben Glass, New York, (1963), B&W illustrations, 86pp, very good, maroon cloth (hardcover), "Interpretations in crystal of thirty-one new poems by contemporary American poets.", (Order No: 15759 ), $3.50

247. Stevens, Thomas Wood, WESTWARD UNDER VEGA: A NOVEL IN VERSE, Covici Friede, New York, (1938), 143pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), This is the story of two young people who struck off the shackles of their routine tasks and searched out adventure across the plains and mountains and rivers of America., (Order No: 24371 ), $10.00

248. Stokes, E. H. (Rev), STARLETS BY THE SEA, published by the author, Ocean Grove, NJ, 1895, B&W illustrations, 96pp, very good, cream spine, blue boards, teg (hardcover), Poems about the religious life and experiences at the summer camp meetings at the New Jersey Shore. Christmas 1895 inscription. Nice clean and tight copy with light soiling on the spine., (Order No: 50123 ), $20.00

249. Strachan, Pearl, HOMESPUN, The Poetry League, London, n.d., 107pp, good, red cloth (hardcover) inscribed by the poet, (Order No: 34795 ), $30.00

250. Straight, Steve, THE DEEPEST BREATH: POEMS, Steve Straight, South Windsor, CT, 1996, 33pp, very good, wraps (softcover) inscribed by poet in 1997, (Order No: 35040 ), $25.00

251. Street, Alfred B., THE BURNING OF SCHENECTADY, AND OTHER POEMS, Weare C. Little, Albany, NY, 1842, 63pp - 36pp, good+, brown cloth (hardcover) light wear top/bottom of spine, THE BURNING OF SCHENECTADY comprises the first 63 pages (with notes on the poem on pages 62 and 63). This is then followed by the other POEMS, pages 1-36. A nice clean and tight copy of an uncommon title with a paper spine label., (Order No: 44120 ), $125.00

252. Streit, Clarence K., HAFIZ IN QUATRAINS: A TRANSFUSION, PRESENTING THE SPIRIT OF THE PERSIAN POET, Ben Abramson, New York, (1946) rev ed, 103pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), Contents include: Proem; Hafiz in Quatrains; The Life of Hafiz; On Transfusing Hafiz; GHAZAL: The New Makes New., (Order No: 35365 ), $25.00

253. Taft, Grace Ellis, CHIMALMAN, AND OTHER POEMS, The Cameo Press, New York, 1916, 96pp, good+, green cloth, teg, (hardcover), The sweet idyllic story of "Chimalman" is unique among Indian myths, being absolutely native to Mexican folk-history, from their genesis in north-central Mexico about the year 700 AD., (Order No: 40090 ), $45.00

254. Tagore, Rabindranath (translated from the original Bengali by the author), THE CRESCENT MOON: CHILD-POEMS, The Macmillan Company, Cambridge, UK, 1914, 8 color illustrations, 82pp, ads, good+, decorated gray cloth (hardcover), (Order No: 50429 ), $10.00

255. Tambimuttu (edited by), FESTSCHRIFT FOR MARIANNE MOORE'S SEVENTY SEVENTH BIRTHDAY, Tambimuttu & Mass, New York, 1964, B&W illustrations, 137pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), The contributions here include: biographical, as for example the reminiscences of her early contemporaries and associates, Malcolm Cowley and Conrad Aiken; personal statements by writers, who describe their first contacts with Miss Moore, and the effect her poetry has had on contemporary literature; essays of pure criticism; and, poems in homage by poets John Ciardi and Richard Wilbur, as well as tributes from poets of the younger generation for whom Marianne Moore has in one way or another been a guide and master., (Order No: 50927 ), $12.50

256. Tate, James (editor) (David Lehman, Series Editor), THE BEST AMERICAN POETRY 1997, Scribner Poetry, New York, (1997) 1st ptg, 269pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0684814528, (Order No: 40605 ), $5.00

257. Taylor, Bert Leston, MOTLEY MEASURES, The Laurentian Publishers, Chicago, IL, 1913, B&W frontis, 126pp, good+, decorated boards (hardcover), The bulk of the verses in this collection first appeared in THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE, under "A Line-o'-Type or Two.", (Order No: 39277 ), $25.00

258. Teasdale, Sara, DARK OF THE MOON, The Macmillan Company, New York, 1926, 92pp, good+, blue cloth (hardcover) a couple faint pencil marks, (Order No: 44670 ), $10.00

259. Tennyson, Alfred Lord, GERAINT AND ENID, T.C. & E.C. Jack, London, c1910, color ill. by Byam Shaw, 63pp, very good+, decorated blue cloth, teg (hardcover), (Order No: 40596 ), $30.00

260. The Arts, DARTMOUTH VERSE 1930, The Arts, Hanover, NH, 1930, ill. by Abner J. Epstein, 52pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) signed, numbered copy, Limited to 750 copies. "An Anthology of Poems written by undergraduates in residence at Dartmouth during the year 1929-30." Poems by: Anderson, C. A.; Baker, C. H.; Beaton, L. E.; Casseres, W. D. Gomes; Colborn, R. B.; Cornell, F. B.; Denney, R. N.; Flaccus, W. K.; Gilmore, L. D.; Levi, A. W.; Parker, R. A.; Rusterholtz, W. P.; Siferd, W. S.; Violante, G. C.; and, Welsh, V. M., (Order No: 40283 ), $27.50

261. Thomas, Dylan, THE MAP OF LOVE - VERSE AND PROSE, J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd., London, (1939) 1st ed, B&W frontis of Dylan Thomas, 116pp, good, purple cloth with gilt stampings (hardcover) no dustjacket, Faint fade to spine as usual., (Order No: 51908 ), $75.00 262. Thompson, Eben Francis (introductin by Nathan Haskell Dole), THE QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHAYYAM OF NISHAPUR, Privately Printed, Worcester, MA, 1906, 290pp, good+, cream cloth, (hardcover) EX-LIB with spine markings, "...TRANSLATED FROM THE PERSIAN INTO ENGLISH VERSE, INCLUDING QUATRAINS NOW FOR THE FIRST TIME SO RENDERED.", (Order No: 10346 ), $45.00

263. Tillinghast, Richard, THE STONECUTTER'S HAND, David R. Godine, Publisher, Boston, (1995) 1st ed, 61pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 156792011X, (Order No: 14885 ), $12.50

264. Tomlinson, Charles, SEEING IS BELIEVING - POEMS, McDowell, Obolensky, New York, (1958) 1st ptg, 59pp, very good w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover), (Order No: 24355 ), $17.50

265. Trine, Grace Hyde (compiled by), DREAMS AND VOICES: SONGS OF MOTHER FATHER AND CHILD, FROM THE WRITINGS OF AMERICAN AND ENGLISH POETS OF TO-DAY, The Womans Press, New York, 1920, frontis by Clinton Brown, 110pp, good, blue boards (hardcover) wear to spine and corners, It is the aim in this little collection to present some of the best poems on the mother and child relationship written in recent years., (Order No: 46576 ), $15.00

266. Trinidad, David, PLASTICVILLE: POEMS, Turtle Point Press, Chappaqua, NY, (2000), 103pp, very good+, wraps (softcover), ISBN 1885983468 A book about a special kind of bliss, the bliss of invention, and collecting, and above all valuing the bits and pieces of popular detritus that constitute our lives., (Order No: 38090 ), $7.50

267. Tucker, Memye Curtis, THE WATCHERS: POEMS, Ohio University Press, Athens, OH, (1998) 1st ptg, 72pp, fine, wraps (softcover), review press release laid in, ISBN 0821412531, (Order No: 26614 ), $6.00

268. Turner, Nancy Byrd, MAGPIE LANE, Harcourt, Brace & Company, New York, (1937) 4th ptg, ill. by Decie Merwin, 88pp, good+, orange cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket, First published in 1927. Nice clean and tight copy., (Order No: 48187 ), $7.50

269. Tusiani, Joseph (translated into English Verse and with an Introduction by), ITALIAN POETS OF THE RENAISSANCE, Baroque Press, Inc., Long Island City, NY, (1971), 265pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), This is the most comprehensive collection of Italian Renaissance poetry ever published in an English translation. Beginning with Petrarch and ending with Campanella, the anthology features thirty-eight poets and spans three centuries of Italian verse., (Order No: 28960 ), $6.00

270. Underwood, John Curtis, PIONEERS, Santa Fe New Mexico Pub. Co., Santa Fe, NM, 1923, 96pp, good, brown cloth, (hardcover) signed by the author (see note), Couple ink tick marks on contents page., (Order No: 26865 ), $15.00

271. Van Stappen, Michael, WHATEVER COMES NEXT, Pippistrelle Press, Wisconsin, (2002), 134pp, very good+, wraps (softcover) owner's inscription, Michael Van Stappen (1956-2000) was a naturalist, a poet, an author, and a photographer. On September 26,2000 Michael Van Stappen passed away after a seven-year battle with brain cancer. This was his last manuscript., (Order No: 52150 ), $12.50

272. Vere-Hodge, H. S. (translated by), THE ODES OF DANTE: THE TEXT TAKEN BY KIND PERMISSION OF THE SOCIETA DANTESCA ITALIANA FROM THEIR 1960 EDITION OF THE OPERE, Oxford at the Clarendon Pr., London, 1963, 270pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), The aim of this book is to make Dante's Odes better known to English readers, especially to those who have some acquaintance with the Divine Comedy., (Order No: 34442 ), $35.00

273. Viereck, Peter, NEW AND SELECTED POEMS, 1932-1967, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, IN, (1967), 176pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), This volume brings together a broad selection of previously published lyric poetry and sardonic verse as well as twenty new poems written since the publication of THE TREE WITCH, a verse drama, in 1961., (Order No: 30491 ), $8.50

274. Villon, Francois (translated by J. U. Nicolson; introduction by Lewis Galantiere), THE COMPLETE WORKS OF FRANCOIS VILLON: INCLUDING THE POEMS LONG ATTRIBUTED TO HIM, Covici Friede Publishers, New York, 1931 1st ed, 316pp, good++ w/good dustjacket (hardcover), (Order No: 19146 ), $20.00

275. Villon, Francois (introduction by John Payne), THE POEMS OF MASTER FRANCOIS VILLON OF PARIS, Thomas B. Mosher, Portland, ME, 1905 2nd ed, B&W frontis, facsimiles, 263pp, very good, stiff wraps w/small tear top of spine, NOW FIRST DONE INTO ENGLISH VERSE IN THE ORIGINAL FORMS WITH A BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL INTRODUCTION BY JOHN PAYNE. Contents include: The Lesser Testament of Master Francois Villon; The Greater Testament of Master Francois Villon; Divers Poems; Sundry Poems Attributed to Villon; Notes; Facsimiles. One of 500 copies printed on Van Gelder hand-made paper., (Order No: 35219 ), $20.00

276. Volk, Cecil, ECHOES THUMPING: THE POETRY OF CECIL VOLK, VOLUME I, Cecil Volk, n.p., (1977), 89pp, very good, red cloth (hardcover) inscribed by the author, (Order No: 27007 ), $12.00

277. Wagner, Charles L. H., FORTY CHARIOT YEARS - SELECTED POEMS BY CHARLES L. H. WAGNER 1908-1948, The Hampshire Press, Inc., Cambridge, MA, (1948), 502pp, good+, blue cloth (hardcover) part of dustjacket laid in, (Order No: 49358 ), $12.50

278. Wagoner, David, LANDFALL, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, MA, (1981) 1st ed, 112pp, very good+, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0316917079, (Order No: 32973 ), $3.00

279. Wallace, Daisy (edited by), WITCH POEMS, Holiday House, New York, (1976), ill. by Trina Schart Hyman, 32pp, very good w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover) EX-LIB no external mark, ISBN 0823402819 Eighteen poems about witches by L. Frank Baum, e. e. cummings, Eleanor Farjeon, and others. EX-LIB with no external marks and removed bookplate., (Order No: 50636 ), $7.50

280. Watts, Charles Henry, THOMAS HOLLEY CHIVERS: HIS LITERARY CAREER AND HIS POETRY, University of Georgia Press, Athens, GA, (1956), 286pp, very good, teal blue cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket, Born in Washington, Georgia, in 1809, Chivers moved through the literary world of pre-Civil War America with an outward confidence startling in the light of the virtually complete critical silence which met his literary efforts throughout his lifetime., (Order No: 31510 ), $8.50

281. Western, Hugh, SERENADE, Walter M. Hill, Chicago, 1926, 64pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) (top edges unopened), (Introduction) "A Word in Parenthesis by Christopher Morley.", (Order No: 16899 ), $35.00

282. Whicher, George Meason, AMITY STREET AND OTHER LIGHT-HEARTED VERSE, The Bookmart, Amherst, MA, 1935, 78pp, good, black cloth (hardcover) signed by the author, This Edition is limited to 300 copies of which this is Number 140. Author's note indicates, however, limitation was 300 copies, +30 (in ink). With original tissue dustcover., (Order No: 31429 ), $10.00

283. White, Gleeson (edited by) - The Book-Lover's Library edited by Henry B. Wheatley, BOOK-SONG: AN ANTHOLOGY OF POEMS AND BOOKS AND BOOKMEN FROM MODERN AUTHORS, Elliot Stock, London, 1893 1st ed, 179pp, index, very good, dark green cloth (hardcover), BAL 717. Tributes to the "love of books.", (Order No: 29211 ), $45.00

284. Whittier, John Greenleaf (edited by), CHILD LIFE: A COLLECTION OF POEMS, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA, orig pub 1871, B&W illustrations, 263pp, good+, decorated olive green cloth (hardcover), "While the compiler has endeavored to accommodate his book to the especial tastes of the young, he has not been without hope that maturer readers may find something of interest in it,--something to bring back the freshness of the past,--hints and echoes from the lost world of childhood." Handsome early 20th century reprint., (Order No: 30855 ), $12.50

285. Whittier, John Greenleaf, THE PENNSYLVANIA PILGRIM, AND OTHER POEMS, James R. Osgood and Company, Boston, MA, 1873, B&W illustrations, 129pp, good, original green cloth w/some light wear (hardcover) EX-LIB, Contents include: The Pennsylvania Pilgrim; The Pageant; The Singer; Chicago; My Birthday; The Brewing of Soma; A Woman; Disarmament; The Robin; The Sisters; Marguerite; King Volmer and Elsie; The Three Bells., (Order No: 39279 ), $15.00

286. Whittier, John Greenleaf, THE TENT ON THE BEACH AND OTHER POEMS, Ticknor and Fields, Boston, MA, 1867 1st ed, 172pp, good+, green cloth (hardcover) light wear on spine, (Order No: 50431 ), $7.50

287. Whittier, John Greenleaf, THE PENNSYLVANIA PILGRIM, AND OTHER POEMS, James R. Osgood and Company, Boston, MA, 1872 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 129pp, very good+, decorated green cloth (hardcover), Exceptionally nice clean, bright and tight copy., (Order No: 51201 ), $14.50

288. Wilcox, Ella Wheeler (Life Studies by Jans Matzene) (Views by Eugene J. Hall), MAURINE, W. B. Conkey Company, Publ., Chicago, IL, (1901), B&W illustrations, 222pp, good++, decorated gray cloth, teg (hardcover)15, Lovely photographic illustrations. Nice clean and tight copy., (Order No: 49810 ), $15.00

289. Wiley, Howard A., NIGHT THOUGHTS OF AN AGING ORPHAN, Philosophical Library, New York, (1964), 91pp, good+ w/good dustjacket (hardcover), (Order No: 32207 ), $15.00

290. Wise, Jane D. (poems transcribed by) (foreword by William Rose Benet; tribute by Edith Olivier), LAST POEMS OF ELINOR WYLIE, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1943 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 109pp, good, tan cloth spine (hardcover) (no dustjacket), The sense in which the word "Last" is used of these poems by Elinor Wylie, now first brought together, is as "last in a series" of books., (Order No: 41532 ), $8.00

291. Woiwode, Larry, EVEN TIDE, Farrar Straus Giroux, New York, (1977) 1st ed, 84pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0374149984, (Order No: 15238 ), $10.00

292. Wolfe, Humbert, THE SILVER CAT AND OTHER POEMS, William Edwin Rudge, New York, (1928), very good+ w/good dustjacket (hardcover), Designed by Bruce Rogers. Limited to 780 copies., (Order No: 39103 ), $40.00

293. Woody, Elizabeth, LUMINARIES OF THE HUMBLE, University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ, (1994) 1st ptg, 127pp, very good+, wraps (softcover) review press release laid in, ISBN 0816514658, (Order No: 36750 ), $3.00