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 Rare Books: $60.00 Pamphlet 
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Flute Over the Valley: Antrim Song
by John Lyle Donaghy  Notes 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...
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Rare Books: $75.00 Trade Paper
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Smoke's Way: Poems from Limited Editions 1968-1981 Signed
by William Stafford Notes Port Townsend Wa, Graywolf Press, 1983, Second Printing, ISBN 091530841x Smoke's Way Poems From Limited Editions 1968-1981 By William Stafford. Previous Owner's Name In Blue Ink On Free Endpaper. Signed by William Stafford on the Title Page In Blue Ink. "...
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Rare Books: $125.00 Hardcover
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Theocritos: The Complete Poems Translated
by Jack Lindsay Notes London: Fancrolico Press, 1929. 4to, 163pp, Green bevelled vellum boards with gilt illustration on cover. Limited edition of 500, this being no.159. TEG, deckled edges. Included with Jack Lindsay's translations of Theocritus' work are wood cuts by Lionel...
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Rare Books: $200.00 Set Hardcover
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Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Limited Edition, 6 Volumes
by William Knight Notes Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1882. Original blue cloth. Number 8 of 25 copies printed on Imprerial Paper. 11"x8". Ex-library, with spines discolored from labels. Bookplates removed. Corners bumped, spines faded. Overall good condition. BH...
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Rare Books: $150.00 Hardcover
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Winter Stars 1st Edition
by Larry Levis Notes Pittsburgh,PA: University of Pittsburgh Press 1985 1ED 87pp. Hardcover edition of California poets scarce fourth book. A winner of both the Fullbright and Guggenheim fellowship, Levis delivers his most mature and self reflecting work in this admired...
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Rare Books: $100.00 Pamphlet
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Solar Fur Signed
by Michael Hannon Notes 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...
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Rare Books: $125.00 Hardcover
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Etain the Beloved and Other Poems
by James H Cousins Notes Dublin: Maunsel & Company, Ltd., 1912. 8vo.; vi, (1l), 87pp. Light blue cloth over boards, decorated in gilt. Owner's name in pencil on ffep; slight foxing to preliminary pages. Printed dj is faded, worn at head & tail, split into 2 pieces at front joint....
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Rare Books: $85.00 Trade Paper
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In the Midst of My Fever
by Irving Layton Notes Palma de Mallorca: The Divers Press, 1954. Paper wrappers, pasted into yellow and black pictorial dust jacket. Spine sunned, and light wear overall. Internally clean. Errata slip laid in at front. SJH...
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Rare Books: $795.00 Hardcover
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Collected Poems of Weldon Kees
by Weldon Kees Notes 1/2 bound in black leather w/gilt on spine & green handmade paper over boards,front blindstamped with poet's initials.Fair/NI(Tiny white specks of paint on spine & front board;Uneven fading of boards along top & spine edge;Pg.5 has a small circular U.of...
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Collectible: $45.00 Hardcover
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The Good European
by R. P. Blackmur Notes [No Place]: The Cummington Press, 1947. Octovo. Black & white striped paper-covered boards with brown cloth back; paper title label on spine. Some browning around top and fore edges. Previous owner's writing in ink on title page; some light foxing. This...
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Rare Books: $200.00 Hardcover
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Aird: A New Edition, Inscribed
by Thomas Aird Notes Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1856. Octavo, red cloth with blind-ruled borders on boards and spine. Cloth faded; spine darkened; fraying to head and foot of spine. vi, 439pp. Inscribed by author on half-title page. Previous owner's inscriptions on...
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Rare Books: $295.00 Hardcover
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Le Serpent Limited Edition
by Paul Valery Notes London: R. Cobden-Sanderson, 1924 #50 of a Limited Edition 525 copies; Intro by T.S. Eliot Good/Fair(Spine slightly cocked;Tanning of Front & Rear Free Endpapers near gutters;Few instances of pencil underlining & notes in margins;Else VG.DJ-DJ lightly...
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Collectible: $35.00 Hardcover
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5 Young American Poets: Second Series, 1941
by Paul Goodman and Jeanne McGahey and Clark Mills and David Schubert and Karl Shapiro Notes Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1941. First edition, 8vo, 218pp. Green cloth boards stamped in gilt at spine. Beige DJ printed in maroon. Leaves have faded slightly to brown. DJ is edgeworn and chipped at corners. Boards are lightly edgeworn and bumped at...
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Rare Books: $125.00 Set Hardcover
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Poetical and Dramatic Works of Thomas Randolph, 2 Volumes
by W. Carew Hazlitt Notes London: Reeves and Turner, 1875. Rebound in green cloth with paper title labels to spine. Spine labels show some soiling and wear, and may be from original dust jacket. Two volumes. xxiv, 370pp; 371-680pp. + 2pp. ads. New endpapers. Plain blue bookplate...
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Rare Books: $175.00 Hardcover
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The Note-Books and Papers of Gerard Manley Hopkins
by Humphry House Notes London: Oxford University Press, 1937. First edition. 8vo. 473pp. Frontispiece. 13 black & white plates. Original publisher's cloth with gilt letters to spine. DJ with red design and black letters. Some foxing to the paste downs and endpapers. Text pages...
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Rare Books: $195.00 Slipcase
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Songs of Innocence
by William Blake Notes London: Trianon Press, 1954. Facsimile edition, limited to 1600 copies; this one numbered 248. Quarter calf with paper covered boards. Spine heavily chipped; chipping has caused some loss to gilt title. Boards lightly sunned at top edge. 1 1/4" split in...
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Rare Books: $250.00 Trade Paper
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Poems: 1950
by Basil Bunting Notes New York: Kasper & Horton, Publishers, 1950 (1951?) (Sheets from ltd ed. of 1000 sold by Cleaners Press to Kaspar & Horton),stiff gray wraps,55pp Good(Kasper & Horton address on back cover blacked out and "Square Dollar Series,P.O. Box 6964,Congress...
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Rare Books: $750.00 Hardcover
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Down in My Heart 1st Edition
by William Stafford Notes Elgin, Illinois: Brethren Publishing House, 1947 First edition/Author's first book. VG/Fair: 8vo., pale green gilt stamped cloth, prev.owner's name in ink on FFE, light foxing along top edge, corners gently bumped, binding tight, a solid clean copy. DJ...
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Rare Books: $80.00 Leather
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Life Mosaic: the Ministry of Song and Under the Surface
by Frances Ridley Havergal Notes London: James Nisbet & Co., 1880. 8vo, 205x155mm. xi + 315pp. 9th thousand. Fine Victorian gift binding. Bound in full leather. Boards and spine stamped in gilt and blind. Inner dentelles in blind. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. 12 chromo plates...
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Rare Books: $200.00 Trade Paper
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Twenty Poems of Georg Trakl
by Georg Trakl and James Wright and Robert Bly Notes Sixties Press, Madison MN, 1961. Softcover with dust jacket. 8vo 61pp. Chosen and translated by James Wright and Robert Bly. With introductions by both translators. Tra kl, one of the great German poets of the twentieth century, died at age 27 and his...
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