Category: Poetry, Drama, Verse, Essays

Aeschylus. The Seven Plays in English Verse. Lewis Campbell.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press

Seller ID: 2586

Condition: Very Good

xxi.278pgs. Not dated, circa 1900. Very Good green cloth hardcover, gilt lettering and decoration to spine, top edge gilt. Attractive pocket-sized book. Clean and unmarked, Decorated endpapers, original red ribbon page marker present but detached. Frontis portrait. A preface and preparatory note to the edition of 1890 is followed by The Suppliants, The Persians, Seven Against Thebes, Agamemnon, The Choephoebe, or Libation Bearers, The Eumenides, Prometheus Bound. Book#2586.
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A Door Must Be Either Open or Shut. A Proverb.

By: Alfred De Musset

Price: $12.00

Publisher: London, The Rodale Press : 1955

Seller ID: 1025

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

8vo. 44 pgs. Very good hardcover with very good glassine jacket as issued. Printed in England at The Chiswick Press. Scarce. Printed translucent glassine jacket has a few small closed edge tears and tiny chips, slight age toning along edges, with British price on front flap. Bi-toned Illustration on front board, very slight fading to board and spine edges, light foxing to text block edges and endpapers. Internally clean and unmarked. #1025.
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On the Pulse of Morning. The Inaural Poem.

By: Angelou. Maya

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Random House : 1993

Seller ID: 2630

ISBN-13: 9780679748380

Binding: Pamplet Bound Paper Wraps

Condition: Fine

Fine pamphlet bound softcover with navy blue self wraps and gilt lettering, pristine condition. Read by American Poet Maya Angelou at the inauguration of William Jefferson Clinton 20 January 1993. Pubisher's number line 468C9753. ISBN 0679748385. Book# 2630.
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A Treasury of Jewish Folklore. Stories, Traditions, Legends, Humor, Wisdom and Folk Songs of the Jewish People.

By: Ausubel, Nathan. Editor.

Price: $16.00

Publisher: New York, Crown Publishers, Inc. : 1956

Seller ID: 2632

Binding: Cloth Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

xvi. 741pgs. Very Good condition cloth hardcover, minimal shelwear, binding sound, internally clean and unmarked. Divided into six parts, each with its own introduction and sub-sections. Part One: Jewish Salt; Part Two: Heroes: Wise Men, Holy Men, Miracles, Fighters and Strong Men; Part Three: The Human Comedy: Droll Characters, Rogues and Sinners, Traditional Types, Humorous Anecdotes and Jests; Part Four: Tales and Legends: Biblical Sidelights, The World to Come, The Ten Lost Tribes, Folk Tales, Demon Tales, Animal Tales; Part Five: Proverbs and Riddles: Proverbs and Folk Sayings, FolkQuips...
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Animula Vagula.

By: Bacon, Leonard

Price: $12.00

Seller ID: 541

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

12 mo. 37 pgs Very Good condition hardcover. Stated First Edition. Green cloth with paper title pieces on spine and front cover. Some edge chipping to paper of title on spine, not obtrusive to lettering. Very lightly foxed endpapers, with owner name on front endpaper, else clean, sound and unmarked. Introduction followed by 27 poems. Other works by this Pulitzer Prize winning poet include The Heroic Battles of Servia, The Cid, Ulug beg, Ph.D.s, Guinea-fowl and Other Poultry, Lost Buffalo and Other Poems, Sunderland Capture and Day of Fire. #541.
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Sudden Door

By: Benedict, Madeline

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New Hampshire, The Golden Quill Press. : 1960

Seller ID: 542

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

64 pgs. Near Fine hardcover in Very Good+ condition jacket. Blue cloth boards, white leather spine with gilt lettering and decoration. Very slight rubbing to bottom corners. White dustwrapper with uncut front flap, blue decoration and lettering. Upper edge of jacket has a tiny closed tear and corner chip. SIGNED and inscribed "Cordially ever, Madeline Benedict" on front endpaper. Clean and unmarked. By the author of "Spring Will Not Fail" and "Fleet as the Swallow's Dip". #542.
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BLACKBIRD BYE BYE.

By: Bernard, April

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York and Cleveland, Random House. : 1989

Seller ID: 591

ISBN: 0394535369

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

66 pgs. Near Fine hardcover in Near Fine jacket. Black cloth spine, maroon boards. Clean and unmarked. Very shallow bump to upper front corner. Faint wrinkle to upper edge of rear panel of dust jacket, no chips or tears. Complex and eclectic, this collection explores a wide range of characters " from gangsters to politicians, from artists to beggars to young lovers". The Staions of the Cross become "a contemporary journey in pain and doubt". Winner of The Academy of American Poets' 1988 Walt Whitman Award. Author of "Pirate Jenny". ISBN 0394535369. # 591.
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Screaming with Joy : The Life of Allen Ginsberg

By: Caveney, Graham

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, NY, U.S.A., Bantam Books. : 1999

Seller ID: 1487

ISBN-13: 9780767902786

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New

8vo. 216 pgs. As New hardcover in As New jacket, clean and unmarked. Black and white cover art.The first fully illustrated tribute to Allen Ginsberg, the best-known American poet of the post-war generation, mother of the Beats, and walking embodiment of Western counterculture. ISBN 0767902785. #1487.
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Charles Lamb. Selections from His Letter, Essays and Verses. [Little Masterpieces]

By: Charles Lamb.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Thompson, Brown & Co : 1915

Seller ID: 1926

Binding: Cloth Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

ix.156pgs. Very Good little green cloth hardcover, light shelf wear and rubbing to cloth at corners, gilt lettering and decoration to front and spine. Internally clean, sound, unmarked. Frontis portrait engraving of Charles Lamb, tissue intact. Contents: Editor's Introduction; Essays: The Two Races of Men, New Year's Eve, Imperfect Sympathies, Dream-Children: A Reverie, A Dissertaction Upon Roast Pig, On Some of the Old Actors, Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading, The Superannuated Man, Old China; Letters: To Coleridge [3 letters], To Manning [2 letters], To Wordsworth [4 letters], To Miss ...
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Edgar Allan Poe: A Bibliography of Criticism, 1827-1967 (Bibliographical Society Ser.)

By: Dameron, Lasley J., Cauthen, Irby B., Jr.

Price: $29.00

Publisher: Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A., University Press of Virginia : 1974

Seller ID: 2135

ISBN-13: 9780813904986

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Near Fine

8vo. xvi. 386 pgs. Near Fine condition hardcover, as new. Red cloth, gilt lettering to spine and front board. The prefrace by L.J. Dameron introduces the book as a guide to the scholarly and critical work on Poe covered up until 1968, the year first covered by the Poe Newsletter (aka Poe Studies) in its annual listings of Poe Criticism. All entries composed in English are annotated with few exceptions. Contents: Preface, Abbreviations, Checklist of Poe Criticism Composed in English 1827-1967, Checklist of Poe Criticism in Foreign Languages, 1827-1967, Index. #2135. ISBN 0813904986
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A Treasury of Stephen Foster

By: Deems Taylor, John Tasker Howard, Ray Lev, Dorothy Berliner Commins [Stephen Foster]

Price: $14.00

Publisher: New York, Random House : 1946

Seller ID: 2521

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good to Very Good

222 pgs. Good to Very Good hardcover, green boards, red cloth spine. General wear to cloth and boards at edges and corners, lettering to spine somewhat faded, rubbing to paper edges and shallow scuffing of boards. Binding sound, internally clean and unmarked. Contents: Foreword by Deems Taylor, Stephen Collins Foster by John Tasker Howard, Open Thy Lattice Love, Oh! Boys Carry Me 'Long, Hard Times Come Again No More, Ellen Bayne, Oh! Susanna, Away Down Souf, Lou'siana Belle, Old Uncle Ned, My Brudder Gum, Nelly Was a Lady, Oh! Lemuel!, Camptown Races, Angelina Baker, Nelly Bly, Ring De Banjo, ...
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Candle in the Dark. A Postcript to Despair.

By: Edman, Irwin

Price: $14.00

Publisher: NY, The Viking Press : 1939

Seller ID: 346

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good to Very Good

88 pgs. Good to Very Good condition hardcover, no jacket. Navy boards with blind stamp decorative front cover, tan spine, top edge of textblock is colored red. Internally clean, tight, unmarked. Exterior is has one light paint spot on front cover and a bump to edge of back cover affecting the edge of the last few pages. "First published November 1939" on copyright page. In a time of war and global turmoil, Edman's words are a clear flickering "Candle in the Dark", sharing the timeless darkness but offering glimpses of light and hope. Excerpt: "The crisis of civilization through which we are li...
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Shake Well Before Using. Poems By Michael Erlanger.

By: Erlanger, Michael

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Athens, Georgia, The Delmar Company : 1985

Seller ID: 2015

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

8vo. 48 pgs. Very Good+ condition hardcover. Faint sunning to top of rear board, else near fine. One of 200 copies printed by Dwight Agner and bound by the Delmar Company in November 1985, on the occasion of the author's seventieth birthday, at the request of Mary Erlanger. Front endpaper is dated 12/7/85 and inscribed by the author "Dear-XXX, Dear-XXXX, I'm glad we're friends, All best, Michael" Author Michael Erlanger (1915-2002) was president of the Mark Twain Library in Redding CT.#2015.
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The Lady's Not for Burning

By: Fry, Christopher

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York and Cleveland, Oxford University Press : 1950

Seller ID: 2058

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

12mo. 95 pgs. Very Good + condition yellow cloth hardbound, black and red decorative and lettering, in Good to Very Good jacket. Jacket has some rubbing and small chips aling spinr edges and corners and a one inch closed tear to edge of back panel. Small bookstore sticker at bottom corner of rear endpaper. A play set in the medieval period, against a background of superstition, witch-hunting and alchemy sprinkled with wry humor. Produced in London with John Gielgud in the leading part. Other plays by this author/playwright and musician include The Firstborn, A Phoenix Too Frequent and Thor, Wi...
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Plays

By: Galsworthy, John.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, NY. 1895. (c.1884). Press of Bewick & Smith, Boston. : 1929

Seller ID: 455

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good to Very Good

12mo. 698 pgs. Good to Very Good hardcover. Green cloth with some shallow bumps and corner rubs. Spine edges rubbed. Clean and sound. Contents: The Silver Box, Joy, Strife, The Eldest Son, Justice, The Little Dream, The Pigeon, The Fugitive, The Mob, A Bit o'Love, The Foundations, The Skin Game, A Family Man, Loyalties, Windows, The Forest, Old English, The Show, Escape, The First and the Last, The Little Man, Hall-Marked, Defeat, The Sun, Punch and Go. #455.
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She Stoops to Conquer. Or, The Mistakes of a Night. A Comedy.

By: Goldsmith, Oliver

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York and Boston, H.M. Caldwell Co. : 1900

Seller ID: 2591

Binding: Cloth Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

178pgs. Very Good+ condition, very attractive little green cloth hardcover, bright gilt lettering and decoration to front and spine. Top edge of text block also gilt, sides and bottoms of pages untrimmed. Binding tight, barely discernable shelfwear to cloth at spine ends. Publisher's insignia for Oliver Goldsmith on front endpaper. [See also matching binding Book#2590 for Elizabeth Barrett Browning from same publisher]. Book#2591.
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English Renaissance Prose Fiction, 1500-1660: An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism (1984-1990)

By: Harner, James L.

Price: $18.00

Publisher: New York, G K Hall : 1992

Seller ID: 1845

ISBN-13: 9780816190881

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xiii.185 pgs. Very Good condition hardcover, no jacket. Shallow bumping to spine edges and corners, else minimal shelf wear, internally clean and unmarked. Contents: The Author, Preface, Acknowledgments, Bibliographies [15 sources], Anthologies [2 sources], General Studies [72 sources], Authors/Translators/Titles [arranged alphabetically], Index. A continuation of the author's "English Renaissance Prose Fiction, 1500-1660: An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism" and its supplement for 1978-1983. The majority of entries are for books and articles published between 1984 and 1990, but also includ...
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Birds and Man.

By: Hudson, William Henry

Price: $18.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf (Turnbull and Spears, London) : 1920

Seller ID: 1925

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good to Very Good

306 pgs. Good to Very Good condition green cloth hardcover, remant of paper title piece on spine, with rubbing to cloth at edges, corners and spine ends. Side and bottom page edges are untrimmed, attractive frontis color plate by "CEC" tipped in, text clean and sound throughout. William Henry Hudson, author of Green Mansions, is a famed British naturalist, ornithologist and South American explorer. In this series of essays, he relates his personal observations of the nature and behavior of numerous species of birds, both wild and domesticated, in their interactions and misadventures with man i...
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Gray & His Poetry (Poetry & Life Series)

By: Hudson, William Henry

Price: $14.00

Publisher: London, George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. : 1920

Seller ID: 1498

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

111 pgs. Very Good condition small cloth hardcover, light shelf wear. Owner name on front endpaper along with paper residue from a previous clipping or insert. Frontis page with vintage photo portrait of Gray, with shallow crease and 1/4 inch tear to bottom edge. Poems interspersed with commentary, biographical and bibliographical information. Poems quoted in whole or in part: Sonnet on the Death of Richard West, West's Ode to May, Ode on the Spring, Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College, Hymn to Adversity, Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat (Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes), The Alliance...
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W.B. Yeats. A Biography with Selected Poems.

By: Lambirth, Andrew [Yeats]

Price: $16.00

Publisher: London, Brockhampton Press : 1999

Seller ID: 1384

ISBN-13: 9781860199615

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New

4to. 120 pgs. As New hardcover in As New dust jacket. Illustrated throughout with period paintings, portraits, woodcuts and drawings. Contents: Background and Early Years, Yeats the poet, Searching for an Identity, Maturity, Personal Recollections, Late Flowering and Death, The Poems, Index of First Lines, Further Reading. ISBN 1860199615. #1384.
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