POETRY from Champ & Mabel Collectibles

Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co., 1925. Pictorial boards. Very good/No Jacket. 30p. Pages toned along gutter, cover rubbed. Collection of poems by the British-born American known as People's Poet. [Wikipedia] Color decorations. (6-3/4"x5-1/2")

Los Angeles & Fairfax: The Red Hill Press, 1973. Stapled wraps. Very good. Unpaginated (approx. 19p.) Wrap edges lightly scuffed. English translation of Argentine poet's El Angel Desterrado. (11"x4-1/4")

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co., 1964. First Edition, Stated. Cloth. Very good/good. 95p. Cover has damp stain on front corresponding to stain on jacket front, price clipped jacket edges chipped and scraped. Jacket design by Ursula Suess. (8-1/2"x5-7/8")

New York: Henry Harrison, 1932. (1st Edition). Cloth. Very good/good +. 63p. Signed by poet on front endpaper and title page. Gift note on front endpaper, jacket has chips to edges and 1" tear at top back edge near spine. Collection of poems by the first woman Poet Laureate of Florida. (8-3/4"x

Milwaukee: People's Book Shop, 1946. Stapled wraps. Good +. 23p. Pages and wraps toned, top back wrap chipped and chip at top front. Wisconsin labor organizer and poet's tribute to the victims of the Nazi's extermination of Jews. (8-3/8"x5-5/8")

Willimantic, Connecticut: Curbstone Press, 1991. Softcover. Very good. 125p. 3rd printing (1996) Signed by author on title page. Cover corners slightly worn. Collection of poems dealing with homelessness, unemployment, and the struggle of the working class. (8-1/2"x5-3/8")

[Twin Falls, Idaho]: [Self-published], 1951. Stapled wraps. Very good. Unpaginated (approx. 16p.) Cover corners worn. Poet and author who wrote about life in the Rock Creek area of Idaho and was the wife of pioneering surveyor John E. Hayes. (6-1/8"x4-5/8")

Kettering: J.L. Carr, [197?]. Stapled wraps. Very good. Unpaginated (approx. 16p.) Stain on inside wrap. One of a series of booklets published by J.L. Carr. This one is a tête-bêche with examples of Owen's poetry in one half and Brooke's poetry in the other half. (5-1/8"x3-7/8")

Kettering: J.L. Carr, [1976]. Stapled wraps. Very good. Newcombe, Peter. Unpaginated (approx. 18p.) One of a series of booklets published by J.L. Carr with examples of Thomas' poetry and very brief selection of anecdotes about the poet. B&w illustrations by Peter Newcombe. (5-1/8"x3-7/8")

Los Angeles: Red Wind Books, 1995. Trade paperback. Very good. 245p. 1st printing. Cover corners worn, a few pages dog eared. A Los Angeles Poetry Festival Anthology. (8-1/2"x5-1/2")

Spring, Texas: Willie Naulls Ministries, 2007. Softcover. Very good. [xii], [202p.] Cover corners lightly worn. Poetry by the former UCLA and Boston Celtics basketball player, now pastor, written to promote understanding of his life experiences. Wire binding. (8-1/2"x6")

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989. (1st Edition). Cloth. Very Good/very good. [xii], 65p. Signed by author on title page. Cover soiled, jacket corners lightly worn. (9-1/4"x6-3/8")

San Francisco: Deep Forest, 1992. Stapled wraps. Very good. [24p.] Signed by poet on front endpaper. Published in an edition of 100 of which this is #35. (8-1/2"x5-3/8")

New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1933. Cloth. Very good/good. [121p.] 9th printing (1943) Gift note on front endpaper, cover edges sunned, jacket has chips to edges and spine sunned. Collection of poems by the popular and prolific 20th century American poet, many influenced by the writer's affinity for Hawaii. B&w illustrations. (7-1/2"x5-1/4")

Philadelphia: Dorrance & Co., 1963. Cloth. Very good/very good. 79p. Signed by author on front endpaper. Jacket rubbed and lightly soiled. (7-3/4"x5-1/4")

New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1939. Cloth. Very good/good. [143p.] 9th printing (1946) Endpapers toned, jacket has sunned spine and holes on flap folds and chips to edges. Collection of poems by the popular and prolific 20th century American poet, many influenced by the writer's affinity for Hawaii. B&w illustrations. (7-1/2"x5-1/2")

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1890. Cloth. Very good/No Jacket. McVickar, Henry W.. [xvi], [269p.] Endpapers toned, spine sunned with corners lightly worn. Collection of French prose poems translated by the 19th century American poet. Red cloth. B&w illustrations. (7"x4-5/8")

Istanbul: Do an Karde Yayinlari, [1957?]. Stiff stapled wraps. Good +. 64p. Pages and wraps toned, back foxed, tear along spine crease, wraps creased. Poetry for a juvenile audience by one of the cofounders of the Garip movement of 20th century Turkish poetry. (7-7/8"x5-1/2')

Wymondham, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire: Trevor Hickman at Brewhouse Press, 1972. Cloth. Very good +/No Jacket. Graham, Rigby. [44p.] Limited to 200 numbered copies of which this is 109. B&w line drawings and color auto-lithographs by Rigby Graham. (10"x7-1/4")

Preston near Hitchin, Hertfordshire: Cupid Press, 1950. Hardcover. Very good/good. Whistler, Rex. xx, 153p. Bookstore label of front pastedown, foldout frontispiece creased, clear jacket is chipped on top of spine. Collection of 115 English poems from the Restoration period. Six hundred and sixty copies have been printed of which this is number 325. 6 b&w plates by Rex… Ler mais sobre este item