WIND ABOUT THE EAVES AN ANTHOLOGY VOLUME TWO.
Rochester, NH: Printed for Erato by the Record Press, 1932. Decorated wrappers. First edition of the second number in the series. Edges faded, else very good. George Abbe makes an early appearance.
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IRELAND'S ABBEY THEATRE A HISTORY 1899 - 1951.
London: Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd., [1951]. Gilt mustard-brown cloth. Photographs. Very good or better in spine tanned dust jacket with tiny inner mend at edge. First edition. The official and essential history to its date, including cast lists, lists of plays in Gaelic and those noted as "experimental," etc.
PHAËTHON WITH THREE OTHER STORIES IN VERSE AND A PROSE CONTENTION.
Kingston, NY: Styles & Kiersted, 1901. Small octavo. Blue cloth, spine stamped in gilt. First edition. One of 750 copies printed. Light rubbing to edges, otherwise a very good (or better) copy. Copies also appeared in orange cloth.
PLOUGHED EARTH POEMS.
London: Constable, 1930. Cloth. First edition. One of fifty numbered copies, specially bound and signed by the author. This copy is additionally inscribed and signed by him. Backstrip sunned, very good.
ROMANTICISM.
London: Martin Secker, 1926. Cloth and boards. First edition. Near fine in fragile, lightly sunned and chipped dust jacket with internal mend.
BARBARA.
[London: Ferry Press, 1966]. Pictorial wrappers. First edition. One of 350 copies. Wrappers lightly edge-tanned and soiled, but a good copy.
ACCENT AN ANTHOLOGY, 1940-60.
Urbana: Univ. of Illinois, [1973]. Cloth. First edition of this ample selection from the magazine, edited by Dan Curley, et al. Fine in near fine dust jacket.
THE NATURE OF THE MOMENT.
[New York]: New Directions, [1996]. 64pp. Gilt cloth. First edition, US clothbound issue, printed in Great Britain. Cloth somewhat humidity speckled, otherwise very good in fine dust jacket.
AFTER ACORN MEDITATIONS ON THE MESSAGE OF CANADA'S PEOPLE'S POET.
Pittsburgh: UnMon America, 2000. Quarto. Printed stapled wrappers. Portrait. First U.S. edition. Some light use, couple of soft wrinkles, but near fine.
BELIEFS AND BLASPHEMIES A COLLECTION OF POEMS.
New York: Random House, [1998]. Boards. First edition. Review slip and promotional material laid in. Spine ends slightly rubbed, otherwise about fine in faintly dust smudged dust jacket.
POEMS. A SELECTION.
New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1954. Cloth. First edition. Bookplate trace on pastedown, otherwise very good in dust jacket with chipping along the top edge.
POEMS. A SELECTION.
New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1954. Cloth. First edition. Usual slight tanning toward edges, but very good in lightly tanned and worn dust jacket.
SCARECROW POEMS.
[Boston: BMB Publishing], 1972. Printed wrappers. First edition. Very good.
THE AURA & THE UMBRA.
London: Paul Breman, 1970. Pictorial wrappers. First edition of the author's first book, issued as volume eight of the Heritage Series. About fine, with prospectus laid in.
NORTH AMERICAN NEGRO POETS A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL CHECKLIST OF THEIR WRITINGS 1760 -1944.
Hattiesburg, MS: The Book Farm [Charles Heartman], 1945. 90pp. Printed wrappers. Wrappers tanned at edges, but very good. First edition, ordinary wrapperbound issue, of this expansion on the pioneering 1916 list compiled by Arthur Schomburg, Published as Heartman's Historical Series No. 70.
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SLUNECNI PRUDKÉ POCHODNE [SUNSHINE TORCHES].
Prague: Mladá Fronta, 1962. [24]pp. Narrow quarto. Folded signatures laid into decorated stiff textured card wallet folder. Illustrations in color. Fine. First edition thus. One of 2000 copies. A collection of African poems and songs, translated from English and French into Czech by Jiri Valja and Petr Kopta, accompanied by.....
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PERMIT ME VOYAGE AND OTHER POEMS [altered to: THE COLLECTED POEMS OF....].
Boston: Houghton, 1968. Original uncorrected long galleys of the first edition, edited with an introduction by Robert Fitzgerald. This copy bears a number of manuscript corrections and revisions by Fitzgerald in his introduction, and bears his alteration of the original title to the published title. Very good.
PERMIT ME VOYAGE... WITH A FOREWORD BY ARCHIBALD MACLEISH.
New Haven, Yale, 1934. Large octavo. Cloth. First edition, first book. Issued as YSP 33. Spine and edges tanned, else very good, lacking the dust jacket.
PERMIT ME VOYAGE... WITH A FOREWORD BY ARCHIBALD MACLEISH.
New Haven, Yale, 1934. Large octavo. Cloth. First edition, first book. Issued as YSP 33, with an introduction by Archibald MacLeish. Spine and edges faded, internally very good, lacking the dust jacket.
BROOKS-BRYCE ANGLO-AMERICAN PRIZE ESSAYS - 1927.
New York: Brooks-Bryce Foundation, [ 1927]. Small octavo. Red paper boards, printed label. Boards a bit edgeworn and sunned at spine, but about very good. First edition. Agee's first appearance in a book, as winner of the third prize while an 18 year-old student at Phillips Exeter Academy. His essay.....
HOUSES.
[Carrboro]: Truck Press, 1976. Printed wrappers. Photographs. First edition of the poet/novelist's first book. One of ca. five hundred copies. Fine.
AGENDA.
London: Poets & Painters Press, January 1959 Autumn 1966. I:1; II:5-11/12; III:1-6; IV:2-5/6. Twenty-one numbers in sixteen issues. Printed and pictorial wrappers. Each number with library receipt stamp on upper wrapper, otherwise very good copies. Edited by William Cookson. Inaugurated explicitly as a successor to Dallam Simpson and Henry Swabey's.....
AGENDA AN ANTHOLOGY THE FIRST FOUR DECADES (1959-1993).
Manchester & Riverdale-on-Hudson, Carcanet Press / Sheep Meadow Press, [1994]. Gilt cloth. First edition. Foreword by Grey Gownie. Fine in very good U.S. issue dust jacket, with review material laid in. An excellent retrospective.
ENGAGEMENTS AND DISENGAGEMENTS.
[ Centereach], NY: Writers Ink Press, 1998. Pictorial wrappers. First edition. With the author's signed presentation inscription on the half-title. Crown of spine bumped, else near fine.
SEAWEED.
[ Rushden, Northamptonshire: Sceptre Press, 1974]. [4]pp. Printed leaflet. First edition, ordinary issue. One of one hundred numbered copies (of 150). Fine.