poetry
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SHELLEY. PERCY BYSSHE.. — Fine Binding by Ramage. POEMS OF SHELLEY. Selected and arranged by Stopford A. Brooke. —- The Golden Treasury series.
Macmillan and Co. Ltd. London. 1897 Reprint of the 1880 Brooke edition. Small 8vo. (6.2 x 4.1 inches). Engraved image of Shelley’s birthplace, by Roffe, on the title page. Finely bound, by Ramage of London, in beautiful early twentieth century full red crushed morocco, extra gilt. The spine with raised bands, ruled in gilt. Compartments…
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Shelley’s Poetical Works
Sumptuously Bound by Bayntun of Bath SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Edited by Mrs. Shelley. London: Edward Moxen, 1839. Four volumes. Octavo, xvi, 380; 347; viii, 314; 361 pp. All half- titles present. Late nineteenth-/early twentieth-century full crushed blue Morocco by Bayntun of Bath, covers ornately gilt-stamped, spines decoratively gilt-stamped…
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Poe, Edgar Allan; Stedman, Edmund C.
The Raven New York: Harper & Brothers, 1884. Dore, Gustave; Vedder, Elihu. First American Edition. Large Hardcover. Good / No Jacket. Item #2346167 First American edition thus. Corners exposed, boards a bit soiled with a few spots on front, binding a bit shaken but all plates present and all pages holding tightly at sewings, ink gift note dated Christmas 1884…
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Ingoldsby, Thomas. The Ingoldsby Legends (Signed) 1907 (Richard Harris Barham)
4to (29 x 23 cm). 549 pp. Signed by Rackham on limitation page. #490 of the large paper edition. Original vellum, silk ties missing. T.e.g. Twenty-four tipped-in color plates on dark green paper with descriptive tissue guards, 12 duotone plates and numerous text illustrations in black and white. Text offset onto plate at p.254, pages 393-96 and…
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Frost, Robert. North of Boston. 1914
8vo (19 x 15 cm). 143 [1] pp. Binding F with green cloth covers, gilt titles to upper cover and spine. Fading to spine, edges of covers and corners. Offsetting to endpapers, untrimmed fore/ bottom-edges), text block tight and unmarked. One of 200 copies of binding F, bound in 1923 from the first issue sheets…
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Poe, Edgar Allan; Baudelaire, Charles (transl.); Prussen, Eduard (ill.)The Raven. Le Corbeau.Donkey Press, Cologne, 2000
A beautiful edition of Poe’s ‘The Raven’ printed in a small limited edition of only 55 copies, of which this is no. 4. With 19 original linocuts, each signed by the artist. The text set by hand, in English and French. The English text correspondends to the first edition. The french version follows the original…
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Poe, Edgar [Allen]; Maret, J.acques: Le diable dans le beffroi.J. et J. Vaucher, Paris, 1927
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Rare edition of Poe’s ‘The Devil in the Belfry’ illustrated with 25 polychrome woodcuts by Jacques Maret. Hand-numbered copy no. 18 from a limited edition of 160 copies. Description: Plain wrappers with illustrated jacket, housed in brown cardboard folder with paper label to front. Octavo: 24 × 20 cm; pp. 49, [1] (unbound and uncut…
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Milton, JohnParadise Lost, a Poem in XII Books. [AND] Paradise Regain’d, a Poem in IV Books (…) Doves Press, Hammersmith, 1902 & 1905
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A masterpiece by The Doves Press and a great example of contemporary typography and book design. Very attractive copies of 300 each printed on paper from a total edition of 322 copies (22 on vellum each). Description: Two volumes. Original full limp vellum with title in gilt on spine. Octavo: 24 × 17 cm; pp.…
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Horn, Roni. Wonderwater (Alice Offshore).
Roni Horn, Louise Bourgeois, Anne Carson, Hélène Cixious, John Waters. (Göttingen) Steidl Verlag (2004). 20,7:14:6,5cm. 4 vols. in slipcase. Each vol. between 140 to 176 pp. (including an envelope containing 8 booklets of Carson’s drawings). Four softcover books containing responses to Roni Horn’s work. The publication takes the form of four individual books contained in…
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Bishop, Elizabeth. The Complete Poems
Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1969 The hardcover copy is the first edition, first printing (so stated on the copyright page). An important collection by a major twentieth-century American poet reflecting three decades of Bishop’s work and a cluster of new poems and translations of contemporary poets writing in Spanish. Winner of the 1970…