SOME POEMS OF FRIEDRICH HOLDERLIN.
Norfolk: Poets of the Year/New Directions, [ 1943]. Printed wrapper. First edition, issue in wrappers. About fine in lightly sunned dust jacket.
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LOVE SONNETS. By Louise Labé.
New York: New Directions, 1947. Small octavo. Cloth and decorated boards. Spine sunned (as is very common with this book), else near fine in slipcase. First edition, trade issue of these translations. One of 2000 copies printed on Hamilton paper, in addition to 24 numbered and signed copies on Montgolfier.....
LOST ILLUSIONS. By Honore de Balzac.
London: John Lehmann, [ 1951]. Large, thick octavo. Plain paper wrappers. Illustrations by Philippe Jullian. Introduction by Raymond Mortimer. Page proofs of the first edition of this new translation. Wrappers somewhat soiled, nicked and creased, a few corners turned down, but a good copy of this very bulky, fragile format.....
POEMS FROM THE GREEK ANTHOLOGY.
London: Faber and Faber, [1943]. Gilt cloth. First edition. Some faint erased pencil annotations, but a very good copy, in moderately sunned and smudged, price-clipped dust jacket.
SELECTED POEMS. By Pierre Reverdy.
[ New York]: New Directions, [ 1969]. Cloth, t.e.g. First edition, limited issue. One of 150 numbered copies, specially printed and signed by Rexroth. Title-page, sectional division and slipcase illustrations after designs by Juan Gris. Fine in faintly dust smudged pictorial slipcase.
ONE HUNDRED MORE POEMS FROM THE JAPANESE.
[New York]: New Directions, [1976]. Cloth and decorated boards. First edition, clothbound issue. Uniform tanning to textblock, as usual, otherwise fine in acetate dust jacket.
SELECTED POEMS. By Pierre Reverdy.
[ New York]: New Directions, [ 1969]. Cloth, t.e.g. Hint of minor dust soiling to lower board at edges, otherwise fine in slipcase. First edition, limited issue. Copy #1 of 150 numbered copies, specially printed and signed by Rexroth. Title-page, sectional division and slipcase illustrations after designs by Juan Gris.....
LI CH'ING-SHAO: COMPLETE POEMS.
[New York]: New Directions, [1979]. Cloth and decorated boards. First edition, clothbound issue. Top edge of lower board sunned, otherwise near fine in acetate jacket.
THE RUBÁIYÁT OF 'UMAR KHAIYÁM TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH OF J.B. NICOLAS ... TOGETHER WITH A REPRINT OF THE FRENCH TEXT.
London: John Lane The Bodley Head, [1924]. Small quarto. Tan cloth, lettered in gilt, with pictorial decorations. Frontis and fifteen color plates by Hamzeh Carr. Extremities nicked and frayed, endleaves browned, old clipping and residue of same affixed to recto and verso of half-title, with consequent offset tanning; a good.....
NEW YOUNG GERMAN POETS.
San Francisco: City Light/Pocket Poets 11, [ 1959]. Printed wrappers. First edition of the poet's first book, albeit comprised of translations. Very faint dust marking to lower wrapper, else about fine.
NEW YOUNG GERMAN POETS.
San Francisco: City Light/Pocket Poets 11, [ 1959]. Printed wrappers. First edition of the poet's first book, albeit comprised of translations. Very faint dust marking to wrappers, ink name, else very good or better.
THREE ELEGIES OF QUINTILIUS.
Tunbridge Wells: The Pound Press, 1954. Quarto. Pictorial wrapper over stiff wrappers. First edition. One of 365 numbered copies (of 399). This copy bears Russell's early inscription to fellow poet/translator/editor, Cid Corman. A few light coffee stains to the front wrapper, else a very good or better copy.
RUSSIAN POETRY AN ANTHOLOGY.
London: Martin Lawrence, [ nd]. Gilt cloth. British issue of American sheets. Endsheets and edges lightly foxed, ink name dated 1932, else very good in lightly chipped dust jacket (bearing denotation "Second Edition").
THE SILENT FIREFLY JAPANESE SONGS OF LOVE AND OTHER THINGS.
Tokyo: Kodansha, [ 1963]. Octavo. Cloth-backed marbled boards, paper labels. Woodblock illustrations by Kitao Masami. Light wear to a couple of corners, else very good in a lightly worn pictorial slipcase. First edition. Signed by the translator, Eric Sackheim. An anthology of popular Japanese folk songs, some dating back to.....
TWENTIETH-CENTURY GERMAN VERSE A SELECTION.
Princeton: Princeton, 1952. Cloth. First edition. Top edge a bit dusty, else near very good in a spine and edge-faded dust jacket with slight chipping to the crown of the spine. Rilke, Hesse, Hofmannsthal, et al.
GUILLEVIC SELECTED POEMS.
Middlesex: Penguin, [1974]. Pictorial stiff wrapper. Very near fine. First edition of this selection of translations, with an introduction, published in the Penguin Modern European Poets series, by Teo Savory. Inscribed and signed by Savory, "with admiration and good wishes," to poet & publisher James Laughlin. New Directions published Denise.....
THE LEGACY, THE TESTAMENT by Francois Villon.
[ Ashland, OR]: Story Line Press, 2000. Printed wrappers. Uncorrected page proofs of the first edition of this translation by Louis Simpson. Fine.
GALLOWS SONGS. By Christian Morgenstern.
Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, [1967]. Quarto. Decorated boards. Illustrations by Paul Klee. First edition of this translation. Fine in near fine dust jacket. This was one of Snodgrass's own copies, with his blindstamp in the upper forecorner of the title.
GALLOWS SONGS. By Christian Morgenstern.
Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, [ 1967]. Quarto. Decorated boards. Illustrations by Paul Klee. First edition of this translation. Fine in near fine, price clipped dust jacket.
SONGS OF THE TEWA ... PRECEDED BY AN ESSAY ON AMERICAN INDIAN POETRY WITH A SELECTION OF OUTSTANDING COMPOSITIONS FROM NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA....
[New York: Exposition of Indian Tribal Arts, Inc., 1933]. Quarto. Cloth and printed paper over boards. Boards very lightly dust spoiled, a couple of marginal finger smudges, otherwise very good to near fine. First edition. The appendix includes phonetic transcriptions of the songs, with notes and bibliographical references.
POEMS FROM HOLLAND AND BELGIUM.
Phillips, ME: John Wade, [ 1999]. Printed wrappers. First edition. Publisher's review stamp on title. Near fine.
POEMATA HUMANISTICA DECEM RENAISSANCE LATIN POEMS WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS BY FRIENDS OF THE HOUGHTON LIBRARY....
Cambridge: Houghton Library, 1986. Printed wrapper over stiff wrappers. First edition (one thousand copies printed). Faint crease and sunning to upper wrapper, otherwise near fine. Updike, Lattimore, Ferry, et al.
THE GREAT IMPROVISATION. By Adam Mickiewicz.
New York: Voyages, 1956. Printed wrapper over stiff wrappers. Portrait. First edition of this translation. One of 100 numbered copies, specially printed on Tweedweave laid paper, and signed by the translator, from a total edition of 1000. Fine in slightly edge tanned dust jacket with small nick.
THE GREAT IMPROVISATION. By Adam Mickiewicz.
New York: Voyages, 1956. Printed wrapper over stiff wrappers. Portrait. First edition of this translation. One of nine hundred ordinary copies, from an edition of 1000. Wraps sunned, else fine.
THE FOUR SEASONS.
New York: Targ Editions, 1984. Quarto. Cockerell paper over boards, printed label, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Fine in slightly torn plain glassine wrapper. First edition of Snodgrass's translation, printed in parallel with the Italian text and including sections of the score. One of 150 copies printed at the Grenfell.....