POETRY / General from Barbara Bilson Books

Wien: Phaidon-Verlag Very good (considerable edgewear noticeable because of dark covers--see scan; pen marking on one page, otherwise clean pages throughout) without dust jacket. Attractive book, unique binding (see scan), of 130 doubled pages (so that no page is printed on the back of another) and 8 color prints. Klabund translated and revised Chinese poetry into German, and this book… Read more about this item

Boston, Mass.: Four Seas Company, 1913. Volume one, Number three of the Poetry Journal. Poems by Sara Teasdale and others. See scan of front cover for brief listing of contents. About 50 pages plus ads. Surprisingly fresh with some edgewear and llight soiling to covers (see scan), clean interior, some rough cut pages, and some uncut pages.. Soft Cover.

East Walpole, Mass: Four Seas Company, 1913. Volume one, Number two of the Poetry Journal. Poems by Amelia Burr, Louis Untermeyer, Cuthbert Wright, and others. 50 pages plus ads. Surprisingly fresh with some edgewear to covers (see scan), clean interior, some rough cut pages, and some uncut pages.. Soft Cover.

Boston: Beacon, 1972. Very good (coffee stain on front cover, see scan). Soft cover. A short introduction by the editor, poet Robert Bly, who writes about Walt Whitman's influence on Neruda but also about a critical difference with Whitman. 269 pages, poems of Neruda with the Spanish original and the English translation on facing pages. . Soft Cover.

Paris: Editions d'Art Edouard Pelletan, 1927. Number 1819 of a limited edition of 1850. French language. About 95 pages. About 6 x 4 inches. Very good (somewhat faded multi-color binding; top-edge gilt intact; small gilt and leather title intact on spine; attractive endpapers--marbled or faux marbled--and illustrations). A lovely gift.. Limited/Numbered. Hard Cover. Illus. by E. Carlegle.

New York: Reconstructionist Press , 1968. Near fine in good+ dust jacket (rubbed w/ tears at top of spine but protected from further wear by Brodart archival cover). . 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970. A companion volume to her "A Cup of Sun." Tiny poems in a tiny volume (7 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches, 63 pages) written for adults by this author primarily known for her children's books. Possibly appropriate for children reading with an adult. Decorative drawings by Anglund. Fine in near fine dust jacket… Read more about this item

Boston: Beacon, 1978. Fine in near-fine dust jacket (lightly soiled or rubbed at spine). Published simultaneously in Canada, and in paperback edition. Anthology with contributions from such writers as Sylvia Plath, Audre Lorde, Anne Sexton, Liv Ullmann, Marge Piercy, Diane Wakoski, Sonia Sanchez, Adrienne Rich, and Nikki Giovanni. Don't miss Lifshin's own contributions, especially "My Mother and the Bed."… Read more about this item

London: Femina Books, 1968. Very good (wrinkle at top of spine, spotting at front and rear endpapers, text clean and unmarked) in very good-- dust jacket (frayed edges, rubbed front panel & fold edges). Poems by--among others--Sylvia Plath, Sara Teasdale, Denise Levertov, Stevie Smith, Edith Sitwell, Amy Lowell. 208 pages including notes on poets, index to first lines, and index… Read more about this item

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985. Berry was born in Jamaica and has lived in England since 1948. Well-known as poet and critic, he won the National Poetry Competition in 1981. 94 pages. Very good (creased corner and indentation on front cover; very light soil on page edges) in pictorial paperback cover with a rubbed spot on the back cover,… Read more about this item

Minneapolis: Winston Press, 1984. Very good+ (slight creases at front corners of shiny pictorial wraps). Photographs by Cyril A. Reilly and Renee Travis Reilly interwoven with haiku by Roseliep. 64 pages. Intended as gift with presentation page at the beginning: "To: ... From ... On the occasion of ...." First edition (number line ending in 1).. 1st Edition.… Read more about this item