Poetry from Berthoff Books

Mightee Ltd/International Times, 2012. Soft cover. Near Fine. 92 pages. Anti-monarchist verses and quotations. Trade paperback with no visible wear, binding tight, pages bright and unmarked.

Random House, 2002. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 121 pages. Collection of poems published while the author was Poet Laureate of the United States. 8vo, charcoal gray and light gray paper over boards, red lettering on spine, scant wear, foxing to top edge, stain on front end papers, in unclipped dust jacket with very minor wear.… Read more about this item

Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1963. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 347 pages, with indexes of poems and epitaphs, first lines, persons. Includes Preface to the first edition (1927) and a short one to this version dated 1951. Two portrait plates, one other illustration - facsimiile of the 1681 folio. 8vo, dark blue cloth with rubbed-away gilt… Read more about this item

Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1981. Soft cover. Very Good. THIS BOOK IS IN ITALIAN. 267 pagine, a cura di Aurora Ciliberti, Introduzione di Marisa Bulgheroni. Italian translation of Auden's collection City without Walls and Other Poems. Trade paperback, light wear at crown, faint foxing-type marks to wraps, binding tight, pages unmarked.

The King's Press, 1930. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Vol. 1 - 298 pages, Vol. II - 301 pages (numbered continuously, ending with 599). Preface by Murry in Vol. 1, Index of First Lines in Vol. 2. Blurb on a rear end paper states that the edition was limited to 765 copies, of which this is… Read more about this item

Thomas Y. Crowell & Company, 1896. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 512 pages, with Editors' Preface, Biographical Introduction, Critical Introduction, Bibliography, Index to Poems, Index to First Lines. "From the Author's Revised Text of 1889, his own selections with additions from his latest works." 12mo (5-1/8" x 7-1/2"), dark red buckram with gilt lettering, gilt and black decoration, top edge… Read more about this item

Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1957. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 177 pages, with List of Poets cited. An alphabetical list of terms related to versification and the composition and reading of poetry. Author's essay "By Way of a Preface" is dated 1956. 8vo, faded blue cloth with black lettering, heavily worn at corners and spine with backstrip torn along edges… Read more about this item

HarperEntertainment, 1999. Soft cover. Very Good. 140 pages. Illustrations by Pat Steir, Afterword by the author. Book of poems by the singer-songwriter. Trade paperback with glossy self-wraps, light dust soil, minimal shelf wear. Gift inscription on inside of front flap, otherwise unmarked.

The Odyssey Press (Bobbs-Merrill), 1973. Soft cover. Good. 1330 pages plus 35 Roman-numeralled pages of front matter, with overall introduction, bibliography of general studies of English poetry in this period, intro and selected bibliography for each poet, index to titles and first lines. Included are works by Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, Crashaw, Jonson, Herrick, Marvell. Twelve illustrations include portraits… Read more about this item

Houghton Mifflin Company, 1974. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 1902 pages, with General Introduction by Harry Levin, textual editing by G. Blakemore Evans, introductory essays Shakespeare's Text, Chronology and Sources, Appendices A - Shakespeare's Plays in Performance, B - Records, Documents, and Allusions, C - Annals (chronologies). Contributions from Frank Kermode, Herschel Baker, other scholars. Illustrated with seven color plates,… Read more about this item

Livingston University Press, 1994. Soft cover. Very Good/Good. 91 pages, with index of first lines. Poems are grouped into four sections: Contraband, Contradance, Contradiction, and Counterpoint. 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" in white card wraps with a few faint foxing-like marks on front cover, dust soil to top edge, practically no wear; DJ decorated with lizard wearing a spiffy metallic… Read more about this item

Soft cover. Good. 12 pages including front and back, stapled in pamphlet form. Evidently a concert program: "Lyrics by Eugene Walter, Music by Donald Ashwander, Fred Baldwin, Alexis Biolley & Francis Imbragulio". Performer listed after each poem (song): Phyllis Demetropoulos - soprano, Greg Riley - tenor, Teri Ann Willams - soprano, Linda Evans - alto. Most of the… Read more about this item

Crane Hill Publlishers, 1992. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Good. New Enlarged Edition, ~70 unnumbered pages. A whimsical alphabet in reverse, with texts and b&w illustrations (drawings and reproductions) throughout. 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" soft cover in self-wraps, pages printed on alternating pink and yellow paper, water spots and rippling to front cover inside and out, reading crease, crease… Read more about this item

New Benjamin Franklin House, 1985. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 451 pages, with 16 pages of b&w illustrations. Collection includes Don Carlos, the Letters on Don Carlos, the essays "Theater Considered as a Moral Institution" and "On the Aesthetical Education of Man", some poems, and the Ghost Seer. Trade paperback, shelf wear, chip to heel, edges… Read more about this item

The Metropolitcan Museum of Art / The Viking Press, 1984. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Introduction, notes, and translations by Yakuko Betchaku and Joan B. Mirviss. The Book of Insects by artist Utamaro (1753-1806) is reproduced on 15 "double" color plates - one image across facing pages; the paintings incorporate poems, which are translated in a notes section at the… Read more about this item

Elder and Shepard, 1902. Soft cover. Fair. 30 unnumbered pages plus end papers. With an introduction by Gelett Burgess. Twenty-three poems spiked with criminal slang (and racist remarks), with a (mock-scholarly) introduction by Gelett Burgess. Popular humor, in their day. Sewn booklet, 5-1/4" x 7", bound in flower-printed cloth with paper label affixed to front, wraps heavily worn,… Read more about this item

The Willoughby Institute, 1987. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good/Very Good. 59 pages. Poems by the inimitable Renaissance man from Mobile, Alabama, illustrated throughout with his drawings. Thirty-five poems including "The Quarterback's Lament" and such works of the Reagan era as "Goodbye to Mr. Edwin Meese, or, The Triumph of Dolly Parton". 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" paperback in… Read more about this item

North Point Press (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), 1994. Soft cover. Very Good. BILINGUAL EDITION GERMAN-ENGLISH. 258 pages, including four pages of Notes at the end, plus 16 pages front matter/introduction. Translated by Edward Snow. German originals and English translations on facing pages. Fourth printing (1996) of Revised Edition; translation of Das Buch der Bilder first published 1991. Trade… Read more about this item

Grove Press, Inc., 1964. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 107 pages. First printing. Translated and with an Introduction by Anselm Hollo. Poems by one of the two leading poets (with Yevgeni Yevtushenko) of the Soviet cultural "thaw" beginning in the late 1950s. 8vo, red cloth with black lettering on spine, corners sharp, light dust soil to top… Read more about this item

Capricorn Books (G.B. Putnam), 1960. Soft cover. Good. 257 pages. Selected, edited, and translated by George Reavey with an essay on the life and writings of Pasternak. Reavey knew Pasternak for 30 years. His essay, "Boris Pasternak: The Man, the Poet and the Theorist of Beauty", comprises the first 100 pages of this edition. Also included is Pasternak's… Read more about this item