Poetry from AARDWOLF Fine Books

Privately Published, NY, 1847; First Edition; 8vo. (4 3/4" x 7 5/8", 132 pgs.; embossed maroon cloth; gilt titles and decorations; frontispiece engraved portrait plate of the poet, with guard tissue. Biography of American poet Sumner Lincoln Fairfield (1803-1844) who in spite of seemingly endless personal trials went on to publish a large body of prose and poetical… Ler mais sobre este item

Valentine & Sons, Ltd, Edinburgh, circa 1905; 16mo, (2 1/2" x 3 1/8"),186 pages; illustrated; plaid cloth; all page edges gilt; gilt morocco title label. The complete six cantos of Sir Walter Scott’s great narrative poem Marmion, including the closing "L’Envoy to the reader." No printed publication date. Brief inscription on front paste down dated August, 1905, Melrose,… Ler mais sobre este item

Houghton Mifflin, Boston and New York, ca. 1911; 8vo, 409 pages; half leather. The poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson, edited by Edward Emerson, the poet’s brother. Includes the entirety of the Riverside Press edition plus additional poems and fragments. ‘The House,’ which appeared in the first volume of "Poems," and ‘Nemesis,’ ‘Una,’ ‘Love and Thought,’ and ‘Merlin’s Songs,’… Ler mais sobre este item

Frederick A. Stokes Co., NY and London, 1895; First Edition; 458 pages; illustrated; green cloth; gilt titles and decorations; all page edges gilt. Critiques and biographical sketches of the Poets Laureate of England up to and including Tennyson, with multitudinous selections from the works of each, plus nearly fifty b&w illustration plates by Frederick C. Gordon. Beautifully bound… Ler mais sobre este item

Alfred A. Knopf / Barclay’s, New York, 1936; First Edition; tall 8vo, 73 pages; blue cloth boards; gilt titles and decorations; frontispiece portrait plate of the author. Selection of forty-eight previously unpublished poems by eminent classicist and poet Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936), released in the year of his death by his brother Laurence in accordance with Alfred’s last… Ler mais sobre este item

Farrar Straus Giroux, NY, 1977; First Edition; 8vo, 418 pages. Biography of poet Delmore Schwartz, based on interviews and previously unpublished papers, including Schwartz’s private satires of friends and acquaintances, autobiographical stories, and correspondence with such notables as Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and Paul Goodman. Very Good, in a Very Good price-clipped dust jacket. Small damp stain… Ler mais sobre este item

Ohio University Press, Chicago, 1981; First Edition; Signed; 8vo, 112 pages. A collection of sixty years of Janet Lewis’s poetry, beginning with "The Freighters," which won her admission to the Poetry Club at the University Of Chicago in 1918. Inscribed and signed in year of publication by the author to personal friends, Los Angeles millionairess and philanthropist Anna… Ler mais sobre este item

City Lights Books, San Francisco, 1964; First Edition; 12mo, 116 pages; illustrated. Daniel Moore’s first book, with cover art and in-text illustrations by the poet. Moore at a later date came to renounce written poetry and established the "Floating Lotus Magic Opera Company" in San Francisco, which offered free live stage productions to audiences at Berkeley’s Hinkel Park.… Ler mais sobre este item

Farrar, Straus & Giroux, NY, 1973; First Edition; 8vo, 207 pages. Large body of poems, 370 in all, by rugged individualist Robert Lowell, who twice tried to enlist in the American Armed Forces and was both times rejected, then, when finally called up, had become a conscientious objector. Speaking of him, William Dean Howells once said, "More than… Ler mais sobre este item

Random House, NY, 2002; First Edition; 8vo, 120 pages. Poems by American Poet Laureate Billy Collins. Very Fine, in a Very Fine dust jacket.

Random House, NY, 1956; First Edition; 8vo, 175 pages. Very Good Plus, in a Very Good dust jacket that has some miniscule chipping at the uppermost extremity of the spine panel, not affecting titles or graphics. Clean, crisp, bright, and sharp.

John Daniel, Santa Barbara, 1988; First Edition; 8vo, 111 pages. Selected poems of notable California poet Hildegarde Flanner (1899-1987), once described by Jeffrey Paine of the San Francisco Chronicle as, "the best unknown writer in America." Flanner first visited California in 1915 as a girl of fifteen, where, inspired by a meeting with Olive Percival, she determined to… Ler mais sobre este item

Imprenta Salesiana, Rome, 1929; First Edition; Signed; 12mo, 159 pages; wraps. Collection of works by Colombian author and poet Luis Maria Mora, (1867-1936) member of the literary/political group known as "La Gruta Simbolica." Preface by influential Colombian author/literary critic Antonio Gomez Restrepo providing an analysis of Mora’s work. Inscribed and signed in year of publication by the author… Ler mais sobre este item

Polonia Publishing House, Warsaw, 1955; First Edition; 8vo, 192 pages; illustrated. Centenary collection of the works of legendary Polish national poet and patriot Adam Mickiewicz (1798-1855), edited and with an introduction by Stanislaw Helsztynski. A wealth of both prose and poetry works, including a synopsis with substantial chapters from "Master Thaddeus," (Pan Tadeusz) plus a collection of… Ler mais sobre este item

Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York, 1931; First Edition; 8vo, 200 pages; frontispiece portrait sketch, with guard tissue. Selected poems of William Vaughn Moody, with extensive ninety-two page biography at the front. (BAL 14332). Very Good Plus. Clean, crisp, and exceptionally bright, in a Very Good dust jacket with slight spine tan.

D. Appleton and Company, NY, 1878; First Edition; 8vo, 501 pages; green cloth; illustrated. Complete collection of Bryant’s poetical works, beautifully illustrated throughout with 100 engravings from drawings by Birket Foster, Harry Fenn, Alfred Fredericks, et. al. Steel engraved frontispiece portrait plate of the author, with guard tissue. Richly bound in beveled boards with lime green cloth illustrated… Ler mais sobre este item

Viking Press, NY, 1961; First Edition; 8vo, 301 pages; Prussian blue boards, gray cloth spine. Extensive prose and poetry collection of Marianne Moore, once described by T. S. Eliot as "one of the few (writers) who have done the language some service in my lifetime," and who in 1951 had the unique distinction of winning the Pulitzer Prize,… Ler mais sobre este item

Harcourt, Brace and Co., New York, 1960; First Edition; 8vo, 127 pages; illustrated. Carl Sandburg’s personal selection of poems from amongst his many published works which he believed were particularly suited to children, plus sixteen entirely new poems. Illustrations by William A. Smith. Charming rear panel photograph of Sandburg posed with Smith’s young daughter. Very Good Plus, in… Ler mais sobre este item

The Macmillan Company, NY, 1915; First Edition; 8vo, 186 pages plus a 4-page Macmillan catalogue at the back; black cloth; gilt spine titles. Collection of 29 poems by Robert Browning and 6 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, uncovered for the first time at the Sotheby’s 1913 sale of the Browning estate and heretofore unpublished but for a very small… Ler mais sobre este item

Hiram Powers Dilworth, Chicago, 1926; First Edition; small 8vo, 58 pages. Moving series of elegiac sonnets dedicated to his parents, by turn of the century Chicago poet Hiram Powers Dilworth. Very Good, in printed wraps.