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Five Degrees South
Five Degrees South
by Francis Brett Young
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London: Martin Secker (1917). Printed brown paper wrappers. Splitting along spine & with chipping at head. 46pp. OCLC 4584964... (read more)

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Poems of Edmund Blunden (includes Autographed Letter Signed)
Poems of Edmund Blunden (includes Autographed Letter Signed)
by Edmund Blunden
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London: Cobden-Sanderson 1930. 336pp. ALS tipped in. Cream colored buckram. Cloth is spotted and darkened at the edges. Full letter signed and in Blunden's script tipped onto endpaper. The letter is a lovely new year's sentiment addressed to Mr. Rogers .... (read more)

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Ten War Elegies Limited Edition
Ten War Elegies Limited Edition
by William Everson
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Waldport: Untide Press 1943 Limited edition. Oversized blue wraps that overhang text block printed in yellow & black. Uneven fading of blue paper wraps. Large chips from cover corners & edges. Text block clean with all corners square. Fair pc... (read more)

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Hungerfield, Limited Edition Inscribed by Author to His Brother
Hungerfield, Limited Edition Inscribed by Author to His Brother
by Robinson Jeffers
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San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1952. Inscribed Limited 1st ed, 1/30 Olive paper boards with linen spine. Red title label on spine with gilt print. Inscribed to his brother, noted astronomer Hamilton Jeffers and his sister-in-law Bobbie. Book: Good... (read more)

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Down in My Heart 1st Edition
Down in My Heart 1st Edition
by William Stafford
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Green cloth-covered boards w/gilt on front & spine. Fair/Poor(Water damage to bottom & fore-edge of boards & tail of spine;Internal water damage limited to tail of gutter w/some spreading along bottom page edges;Ink name on FFEP;Fore-edges slightly... (read more)

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Ballads, etc. The Bridal of Triermain and Harold the Dauntless Poems
Ballads, etc. The Bridal of Triermain and Harold the Dauntless Poems
by Walter Scott
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Edinburgh: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1819, Pagination (pp 184-510) indicates part of a multi-volume set, but there is no reference to other volumes. Brown leather with gilt-stamped boards and edges. Front joints and hinges cracked but held... (read more)

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Maximus Poems 1-10:  Jargon 7
Maximus Poems 1-10: Jargon 7
by Charles Olson
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Stuttgart: Jonathan Williams, Publisher. 1953, Edition of 300 copies. Jargon 7. Oversized trade paperback with blue paper over stiff card boards printed in black and white. Poem titles printed in blue throughout text. Several small 1/4-1/2 " closed tears... (read more)

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Poems, 1st Edition
Poems, 1st Edition
by John Berryman
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Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1942. Green paper boards with black titling and decorations printed on the front cover. Green paper dust jacket as issued. Light rubbing to extremities. Bumping to the spine ends. Light rubbing to the dust jacket, with a... (read more)

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Stances and Distances 1st Edition
Stances and Distances 1st Edition
by Cid Corman
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Massachusetts: Origin Press 1957 1st edition wraps 12mo Printed in Italy cover design by Edwina CurtisG (Covers soiled;Light edge wear;Rubbing to spine;Small impression in front cover 'impacted' first few pages;Shallow crease across bottom right corner... (read more)

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Leonora
Leonora
by Gottfried Augustus Burgher
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London: T. Bensley 1796. Folio 415x325mm. 35pp. First edition. Bound in full contemporary diced calf panelled in gilt. Inner dentelles gilt. Rebacked; spine with 6 raised bands and stamped in gilt. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. With a frontis 4... (read more)

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Collected Poems of Weldon Kees
Collected Poems of Weldon Kees
by Weldon Kees
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Iowa City IA: Stone Wall Press, 1960. #46 of limited edition of 200 Copies. 1/4 bound in black leather w/gilt on spine & green handmade paper over boards. Front board blindstamped with poet's initials. Tiny white specks of paint on spine & front board... (read more)

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Five Young American Poets, Third Series, 1944
Five Young American Poets, Third Series, 1944
by Eve Merriam
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Norfolk, Connecticut::New Directions 1944 Yellow & Blue Pictorial Cloth Boards. Grey, Blue & Brown Dust Jacket. Boards show minor wear & soiling. Dust Jacket is somewhat more soiled & has a few small tears and a crease on the back cover. Good/Fair... (read more)

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Palgrave's Golden Treasury
Palgrave's Golden Treasury
by Francis Turner Palgrave
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New York, NY: J. M. Dent & Company, 1907 Full vellum stamped in gilt on front & spine with tipped-in illustrations in color & black & white. Boards bowed & lightly soiled with small red stain on top front. Extremities lightly rubbed with creasing... (read more)

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Solar Fur Signed
Solar Fur Signed
by Michael Hannon
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Monterey: Peters Gate Press 1972. This edition is limited to one hundred autographed copies of which this is number 5. Cover design by Pat Lofthouse. 8vo yellow paper boards with orange letters and silver pictorial design pp42. Boards have some soiling... (read more)

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Complete Works of Robert Burns, 12 Volumes
Complete Works of Robert Burns, 12 Volumes
by Robert Burns
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Philadelphia: Gebbie Publishing Co. Limited 1896. 6 Volume set beautifully bound in twelve volumes in polished black morocco with gilt borders on covers. Spine done in elaborate gilt with thistle device in spine compartments. Inner dentelles decorated... (read more)

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Flute Over the Valley: Antrim Song
Flute Over the Valley: Antrim Song
by John Lyle Donaghy
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Larne: Inver Press 1931. Slim stapled pamphlet 14cm x 2 0cm tall. 23pp 20 poems. Green paper wraps. Worn wraps chipping to edges rusting through at staples. Rubbed lightly soiled crease to back. Black text to front. Interior clean. The fourth collection... (read more)

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Poems and Lyrics of the Joy of Earth
Poems and Lyrics of the Joy of Earth
by George Meredith
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London: Macmillan & Co. 1883. 1st edition version I. Collie XXXVIIIa. Advertisement page half title Imprint R. Clay lacking corrections of later versions. 181pp + publisher's catalogue. Plain blue boards with gilt on spine patterened endpapers. Ownership... (read more)

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Legends of the Dakotas and Other Poems
Legends of the Dakotas and Other Poems
by Samuel William Pond
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Minneapolis:K. C. Holter Pub. Co. 1911 1st edition. Half bound in maroon leather with green pebbled cloth over boards. Gilt title author & rules on spine. Spine slightly faded.Extremities rubbed.Slight chipping of leather at spine ends & corner tips... (read more)

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Sonnets Preceding the Inferno Purgatorio & Paradiso of the Comedy of Dante Alighieri of Florence
Sonnets Preceding the Inferno Purgatorio & Paradiso of the Comedy of Dante Alighieri of Florence
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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San Francisco: Printed for Aurelia Henry Reinhardt by John Henry Nash, 1925, limited edition of 400 copies. Oversized sewn pamphlet style binding with olive covers and pasted down title plate on front cover. Uneven fading of covers which are lightly... (read more)

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Holy Sonnets of John Donne Signed Edition
Holy Sonnets of John Donne Signed Edition
by John Donne
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London: Hague & Gill / J.M. Dent, 1938. Limited Edition. One of 550 signed copies. Signed on colophon by Eric Gill. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Dust jacket missing. Light back slant to spine. Half-inch tear in cloth... (read more)

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