Item 196Brownstone Eclogues and Other Poems
Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1942. first edition. hardcover. Octavo, 99 pp. stated first edition. collection of poems by modernist American poet Conrad Aiken. #00097.
poetry & drama
Item 191The Kid
Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1947. first edition. hardcover. Octavo, 32 pp. Aiken's poem about William Blackstone, an individualistic early New England settler Aiken used to represent the American spirit. #00096.
Item 399Selected Poems
Meridian Books, 1961. trade paperback. Duodecimo 274pp. Meridian Books M177. #00509.
Item 194Thee
George Braziller, 1967. Leonard Baskin. first edition. hardcover. Octavo, pages unnumbered. From DJ flap: "Thee is a metaphysical work--a spare, cryptic, inspired, religious statement of the mystery of existence, of man's relation to God, or to the unknowable." #00095.
Item 195Thee
George Braziller, 1967. Leonard Baskin. first edition. hardcover. Octavo, pages unnumbered. From DJ flap: "Thee is a metaphysical work--a spare, cryptic, inspired, religious statement of the mystery of existence, of man's relation to God, or to the unknowable." #00098.
Item 690The Pleasures of Reading
Simon and Schuster, 1989. hardcover. 8vo 250pp. early work by now world renown Bible scholar and translator Robert Alter. from Publishers Weekly review: ""Peculiar things have clearly been happening in the academic study of literature," observes Alter ( Partial Magic ). A professor of Hebrew and comparative literature at UC.....
Item 170Tea and Sympathy
Signet, 1956. first thus. mass market paperback. Signet 1343. first printing September 1956. #00407.
Item 178Tea and Sympathy
Signet, 1956. first thus. mass market paperback. Signet 1343. first printing September 1956. #00415.
Item 117The Diwan of Abu'l-ala
E P Dutton and Company, 1908. first thus. first American edition, this is part of The Wisdom of the East series. From the Editorial Note: "The object of the Editors of this series is a very definite one. They desire above all things that, in their humble way, these books.....
Item 250One Hundred Best Poems for Boys and Girls
Whitman Publishing Company, 1930. Paula Rees Good. hardcover. Duodecimo 123pp. + index. Collection of classic poems suitable for young readers, excellent candidates for memorization. Includes poems by Kipling, Housman, Longfellow, Dickinson, Yeats and more. Presumed first edition, no confirmation. #00139.
Item 941These Were Our Years
Doubleday and Company, 1959. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 528pp. Association copy for Sydney Chaplin, American stage and film actor and Charlie Chaplin's son. from editor's introduction: "This book then, in one way, is a nostalgic look backward at a way of life we will never know again. It is a......
Item 920Robert Browning's Selected Poems
Thomas Y Crowell and Co, 1896. hardcover. 8vo 512pp. from title page: "From the Author's Revised Text of 1889 His Own Selections With Additions From His Latest Works Edited With Biographical and Critical Notes and Introductions by Charlotte Porter and Helen A. Clarke" #01001.
Item 441Literature of the Early Republic
Rinehart and Company, 1950. trade paperback. Duodecimo 495pp. Rinehart Editions 44. Collection of letters, essays, poems, historical sketches by important figures in the early history of America. Includes Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Paine, Adams, Noah Webster, more. #00523.
Item 122The Cairn of Stars
Henry Holt and Company, 1920. first edition. hardcover. second collection of poems by the reclusive Irish mystic poet Francis Carlin (a pseudonym for James MacDonell).inscribed by the author to the writer Carroll Frey: "to Carroll Frey, in memory of a droll day, from the author Francis Carlin Nov 10, 1923"unique.....
Item 598Under the Pines
Way and Williams, 1895. first edition. hardcover. 16mo. 104pp. A collection of light verse by social leader, writer, and president of Chicago Women's Club. Signed by author on half title page. #00667.
Item 404Counting Myself Lucky
Black Sparrow Press, 1992. trade paperback. Octavo 307pp. . #00520.
Item 114The Prophet
Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. first edition. hardcover. First edition, eighteenth printing February 1929 of Kahlil Gibran's classic. #00073.
Item 236Poems for Little Ears
Platt and Munk, 1962. hardcover. Duodecimo 130pp. from title page: "More Than 100 Poems About the Child's Own World" #00148.
Item 355The Theatre of George Jean Nathan
Simon and Schuster, 1926. first edition. hardcover. Octavo 269pp. Study of the American drama critic and magazine editor including biography and appraisal of his work as founder of The Smart Set (with H.L. Mencken), The American Mercury and The American Spectator, along with his drama criticism and his correspondence with.....
Item 188The Gypsy Trail
Mitchell Kennerley, 1922. hardcover. An anthology for campers of classic English and German poems, selections from scripture and drama, organized around nature themes. sextodecimo (roughly 6" x 4"). #00124.
Item 467Man and God
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1951. BOMC. hardcover. Octavo 576pp. Collection of aphorisms, excerpts, poems, stories, etc. from religious and secular literature. From author's foreword: "But this is an anthology with a purpose in perhaps a peculiar, even rather polemical, sense; and the subtitle indicates what the purpose is. Anti-religious humanism and.....
Item 215The Path to Home
Reilly and Lee Company, 1919. first edition. hardcover. Duodecimo 191pp. Book of light verse from "Poet of the Plain People" #00126.
Item 363The Path to Home
The Reilly and Lee Company, 1919. first edition. hardcover. Duodecimo 192pp. light verse. #00208.
Item 715Story Hour
Doubleday and Company, 1963. Jim McMullan. hardcover. 8vo 71pp. stated first edition. from front flap: "A leading American poet takes a second, mid-20th century look at thirty familiar fairy-tales and nursery rhymes." #00798.
Item 1Beowulf
WW Norton & Company, 2002. Norton Critical Edition. softcover.