New York: Sturgis & Walton Company, 1912. First Edition. Octavo. 298 pp. Blue-green boards stamped in black and silver. Lacks dust jacket. Boards lightly worn at extremities with some very light general spotting and a touch of toning along fore edge. Sturdy and square in boards and pages..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. First Edition. Bookplate signed by Piercy loosely laid in at front. Octavo. 134 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with original "$8.95" price present. Black boards stamped in gilt. Dust jacket lightly rubbed along edges with a couple very shallow closed tears along edges..... More
![Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well [Inscribed and Signed]. Maya Angelou](/pictures/thumb/9454.jpg?v=1620071825)
New York: Random House, 1997. Reprint. Slim octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's boards in photo-illustrated dust jacket; x,66pp. Spine ends very slightly tapped, else a Near Fine copy. Inscribed and signed on half title: "Joy! Maya Angelou / 9/99 / For Cassandra Allison's Mother." More
New York: Random House, 1971. First Edition, First Printing with numberline ending with 2 in keeping with publisher's methods at the time. Slim octavo (22cm.); publisher's cloth-backed boards in black pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($4.95); [2],viii,48pp. Light shelf wear to jacket extremities, faint glue residue to top and..... More
![In the Mecca: Poems [Signed Bookplate Laid in]. Gwendolyn Brooks](/pictures/thumb/9452.jpg?v=1620071036)
New York: Harper & Row, 1968. First Edition, stated. Slim octavo (21cm.); publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; vii,[1],54pp. Light shelf wear to extremities, chiefly at jacket spine ends and cloth corners, front pastedown a bit creased, else Very Good or better. Bookplate signed by Brooks laid in. More
Amherst: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1978. First Edition. Octavo; [viii], 64pp. Printed two-tone orange dust jacket over yellow cloth boards with black lettering to spine. Jacket shows one closed 3/4" tear with associated creasing at top front, some light rubbing at corners and spine ends, and a bit of..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1959. First Edition. Octavo; xii, 47pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $3.50 price intact; book in red cloth with gilt lettering and ornamentation. Jacket shows a few clean, shallow tears along edges and some associated creasing, along with some general scuffs and smudges. Boards are square..... More
![The Heart's Choice and Other Poems [Signed to F.T.F. Lovejoy]. Henry Alexander Lavely](/pictures/thumb/9436.jpg?v=1619724769)
Cambridge: The Riverside Press, 1900. Revised Edition. Signed by the author opposite title page with inscription to industrialist F.T.F. Lovejoy with inscription "To Mr. F.T.F. Lovejoy with the cordial regards of Henry Alexander Lavely. Pittsburgh, October 29, 1900." 12mo; (7" x 4.75"), [1-4], 5-93pp. Facsimiles of "Carnegie's Gift to..... More