POETRY from Barbara Bilson Books

Boston: The Four Seas Company, 1920. Very good condition (lightly sunned covers so that the light blue cloth covers appear gray, darkened spine, owner's name and date (1920) on first free endpaper in ink but in small writing) without dust jacket. First edition.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1975. Very good+ (slightly soiled and worn edges, slight wrinkle running lengthwise on the spine) in very good dust jacket (sunned spine, corresponding slight wrinkle on the spine). 97 pages. . 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Trident Press, 1966. Near fine (slightly dusty or sunned page and cover edges) in very good dust jacket (sunned spine, edgeworn, one closed tear). Rella's first book other than poems printed privately. . 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1991. Fine in soft cover. Like new paperback edition. 129 pages. Publisher's promotional brochure laid in.. 1st Edition. Soft Cover.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1893. Very good copy (soiled, sunned spine and edges, but still quite presentable) with top-edge gilt bright and intact, gilt title on white covers. Beautifully printed with 9 illustrations (including frontispiece of Whittier), several still protected by the laid-in tissues. Text is bright and clean except for some toning on page edges. NOTE on the edition: "At… Read more about this item

Boston: Ginn & Company/ The Athenaeum Press, 1900. Very good (sunned, browned covers and page edges, general toning--i.e., light browning through age--of the pages; owner's ink name on first free endpaper; text clean). Edited with an introduction and extensive notes by T. F. Huntington. 130 pages. Part of the Standard English Classics series.. Hard Cover.

Century Guild Press. SIGNED by author on title page and dated 1/4/99. This is number 123 of 250. Beautifully printed softcover book. . 1st Edition. Soft Cover.

Santa Cruz, California: University of California at Santa Cruz, 1973. Very good (sunned and lightly soiled cover, some fading of the lavender pages, small ink name and phone number on inside of rear cover). Stapled, paperback pamphlet. Limited to 800 copies. 32 unnumbered pages.. Limited. Soft Cover.

Glendale, California: Prometheus Press, 1993. Fine soft cover book. 61 pages. Edition of 1000 copies. . 1st Edition. Soft Cover.

Socorro, New Mexico: New Mexico Tech, 1980. Very good (light edgewear) soft cover literary magazine. Includes short stories by Gordon Weaver, "Looking for the Lost Eden," and Howard Schwartz, "Three Hasidic Tales" (actually based on St Louis rather than Poland). 108 pages overall.. Soft Cover.

Los Angeles: Momentum Press, 1975. SIGNED by author and by the publisher, William Mohr, opposite title page. (This is not one of the 25 numbered copies but it IS signed.) One of 750 in a limited edition. Small (4 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches) paperback poetry book from this Los Angeles poet. Very good (light edgewear on paper… Read more about this item

Point Reyes Station: Eidolon Editions, 1979. INSCRIBED by author on half-title: "For Andrew & Bee--w/ my love--Peter 5-7-79." and SIGNED by author on title page. One of 1000 copies. Very good (lightly foxed top page edges, and some foxing on first few pages). Very nice soft covers with illustration by Arthur Okamura. Good picture of the author toward the end… Read more about this item

Bellingham, Washington: Goliards Press, 1969. Very good in wraps (giver's inscription to previous owners on verso of front cover, small water stain on front cover--about 3/4 of an inch wide). A 51-page anthology with stapled spine and heavy paper covers. Poets include Victor Contoski, Mark McCloskey, Ed Ochester, Gene Fowler, Bob Watt, and Jerry Burns. An idiosyncratic collection of the… Read more about this item

London: George Routledge & Sons. Good (frayed spine exterior, interior shows some separation between the three signatures, still firm but somewhat fragile; some light staining on covers, and some color transfer from brown covers to endpapers). One of a series of "Broadway Booklets" published by George Routledge in the UK and Dutton in the US. No date of publication Nice… Read more about this item

New York: James Miller, 1873. Originally published in 1848, this is a "carefully revised, much enlarged, and continued to the present time" edition, according to the title page of this 1873 edition. 487 pages including index. Very good (edgeworn covers, heavily at spine edges; quite a few pages show some water staining at the top although the gilded page edges… Read more about this item

New York: Viking Press, 1977. Very good (a little bit of edgewear on the covers) in very good- dust jacket (considerable edgewear at spine, top edge, and folds with a small missing chip and tape repair at the top of spine; jacket now protected in Brodart cover).. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

Northwestern University Press, 1987. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translated from the Russian by Frances Padoor Brent and Carol J. Arvins. A cycle of 47 poems written during the author's imprisonment for agitating against the Soviet regime. Printed in facing pages of Russian and English. 121 pages including notes.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

Tucson, AZ, 1976. A "little magazine" of poetry (and some art) with several significant contributors: poems by Norman Dubie, Richard Hugo, and others, and prose translations by W. S. Merwin, Mark Strand, Samuel Charters, and others. Very good paperback magazine (owner's name on the title page, check marks by three poems).. Soft Cover.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. Very good (sunned, especially spine; somewhat yellowed pages; previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown) without dust jacket. 138 pages, beautifully printed. Scribner's "A" is present on copyright page.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Harcourt, 2000. Near fine (tiny spot by edge of spine on front cover, probably glue spot from manufacturing) in fine dust jacket. Translated from the Slovenian. Edited by Charles Simic, foreword by Edward Hirsch.. 1st American edition. Hard Cover.