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Peter Pindar; [pseud. of John Wolcott]

Odes to Kien Long, The Present Emperor of China; with The Quakers, a Tale; To a Fly, Drowned in a Bowl of Punch; Ode to MacManus, Townsend, and Jealous, the Thief-Takers; to Caelia--To a Pretty Milliner--To the Fleas of Teneriffe--to Sir William Hamilton--To My Candle, &c. &c. &c.

New Edition. London / Edinburgh: H.D. Symonds / Robertson and Berry, 1792. New Edition. Quarto; [ii], 77pp +1 ads. Green paper-covered boards with white cloth spine. Front board and endpapers completely detached, with back board becoming so but still holding by a few inches of cloth. Covers edgeworn, scuffed, smudged... More about Odes to Kien Long, The Present Emperor of China; with The Quakers, a Tale; To a Fly, Drowned in a...

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Rod McKuen

Another Beautiful Day: The All New 1985 Rod McKuen Book of Days Datebook & Diary

First Edition. Hardcover. Los Angeles: Cheval Books/Harper & Row, 1984. Stated first edition. Signed and inscribed by author on page 128 (Dec. 17). Quarto; not paginated. Original pictorial dust jacket. Brown leatherette with lettering and decoration stamped in gold on cover and spine. Dust jacket has some rubbing and minor... More about Another Beautiful Day: The All New 1985 Rod McKuen Book of Days Datebook & Diary

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Terrance Hayes

Lighthead

Later Printing. New York: Penguin, 2010. Later Printing. Signed by the author without inscription on full title. Octavo; 95pp. Illustrated paper wraps. Covers lightly shelfworn, but crisp overall with no chips, tears, or marks. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Author's fourth collection, and winner of the 2010 National Book Award. More about Lighthead

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Robert Lowell

For the Union Dead

First Printing. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1964. Stated First Printing. Octavo; 72pp. Illustrated dust jacket with original $3.95 price; book in green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket edgeworn with a small, clean tear at top front and shallow chipping to head of spine. Boards are square... More about For the Union Dead

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Francois Villon; Jordan Herbert Stabler [trans.]

The Jargon of Master Francois Villon, Clerk of Paris A.D.MCCCCLII. Being Seven Ballads from The Thieves' Argot of the XVth Century

First Thus. Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Company / Riverside Press, 1918. First English Language translation, limited to 380 copies of which 350 were for sale, this copy numbered 348 on colophon at back. Octavo; 42pp. Some pages still uncut. Armorial bookplate of Constance Virginia Carter on front pastedown, with bookseller's ticket... More about The Jargon of Master Francois Villon, Clerk of Paris A.D.MCCCCLII. Being Seven Ballads from The...

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Reginald L. Cook; George Anderson; Donald Davidson; Cleanth Brooks;

Robert Frost and Bread Loaf

Limited Edition. Middlebury: The Middlebury College Press, 1964. Limited Edition (number unspecified). Side-stapled pamphlet (9" x 6"); unpaginated. Covers lightly shelfworn with no chips, tears, or marks. Foxing to fore-edge and sparsely to interior, else pages clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. Five memorial addresses delivered by Frost's friends... More about Robert Frost and Bread Loaf

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Douglas Dunn

Elegies

Softcover. London: Faber and Faber, 1985. 12th printing. Octavo; 64pp. Green paper covers with french flaps. Cover has only minor rubbing on corners, no tears. Binding is tight. Pages are clean and unmarked. This copy belonged to journalist and White House speechwriter William Safire. Inscribed to "Bill" and dated... More about Elegies

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Robert Boyle, S.J.

Metaphor in Hopkins

Hardcover. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1961. Octavo; 231pp. Black, white and orange dust jacket with clipped price. Black cloth binding with lettering stamped in gold on spine. Dust jacket has some edge wear including chipped front top corners and a closed tear (>1 inch) about halfway down... More about Metaphor in Hopkins

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Richard Peabody [ed.]; Lucinda Ebersole [ed.]; Diane Williams; Ben Marcus; Nick Cave; Russell Edson; et al

Gargoyle, Number 39/40: 20th Anniversary Issue

First Edition. Washington, D.C.: Paycock Press, 1997. First Edition. Signed by contributors Diane Williams and Ben Marcus on their respective pages. Octavo; 363pp +4pp ads. Illustrated paper wraps. Covers very lightly shelfworn, but clean and crisp overall. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Gargoyle was founded in 1976... More about Gargoyle, Number 39/40: 20th Anniversary Issue

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Karel Teige; Eric Dluhosch [trans.]; Linda Gregg [signed]

The Minimum Dwelling

Advance Uncorrected Page Proof. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2002. Advance, Uncorrected Page Proof. Signed by poet Linda Gregg on half title; from her personal library. Small quarto; 408pp. Illustrated paper wraps. Covers toned along edges with a light bump at bottom front corner, else clean and crisp. Binding is sound... More about The Minimum Dwelling

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Kirby Congdon [ed.]; Charles Bukowski [contrib.]; Diane Wakowski [contrib.];

Magazine Three

First Edition. New York: Interim Books, 1966. First Edition. Quarto (11" x 8.5"); 100pp. Printed paper wraps. Covers edgeworn with chips at corners and spine ends, a few small tears, and some toning and foxing. First two pages chipped at top corner, with no loss to text. Pages toned and... More about Magazine Three

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John Hay

Poems by John Hay (Brown University Ratcliffe Hicks Prize Limited Edition)

Limited Edition. Cambridge: The Riverside Press, 1913. Limited Edition of 150 copies; Ratcliffe Hicks Prize, Brown University. Signed by Brown University President W.H.P. Faunce and Dean Alexander Meiklejohn on printed award page for Daniel Lucius Brown, Class of 1912. Octavo; x, 97pp. Leather boards with blindstamped Brown University seal to... More about Poems by John Hay (Brown University Ratcliffe Hicks Prize Limited Edition

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Capitol Hill Books

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Odes to Kien Long, The Present Emperor of China; with The Quakers, a Tale; To a Fly, Drowned in a Bowl of Punch; Ode to MacManus, Townsend, and Jealous, the Thief-Takers; to Caelia--To a Pretty Milliner--To the Fleas of Teneriffe--to Sir William Hamilton--To My Candle, &c. &c. &c.

Another Beautiful Day: The All New 1985 Rod McKuen Book of Days Datebook & Diary

Lighthead

For the Union Dead

The Jargon of Master Francois Villon, Clerk of Paris A.D.MCCCCLII. Being Seven Ballads from The Thieves' Argot of the XVth Century

Robert Frost and Bread Loaf

Elegies

Metaphor in Hopkins

Gargoyle, Number 39/40: 20th Anniversary Issue

The Minimum Dwelling

Magazine Three

Poems by John Hay (Brown University Ratcliffe Hicks Prize Limited Edition)

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