Poetry from Brass DolphinBooks

NY: Barse & Hopkins, 1916. Soft cover. Good/No Jacket. Remarkble gilt stamped suede 'boards'. Paste-downs removed. Still weirdly handsome.

New Directions. 5th or later Edition . Trade Paperback Size. Good. No date seems evident for this 18th pr. Small H2O stain on the first several pages at the lower corner, quite unobtrusive, hard to see. Otherwise newish and lightly handled. *We feel that books offered for internet sale should be described thoroughly and accurately. Books listed by… Read more about this item

London/NY: Verso, 1991. 2nd Edition . Trade Paperback. Near Fine/No Jacket. Newish trade paperback copy, spine uncreased, covers unscuffed. Translator Michael Caesar, previously done in Italian and a much earlier English version. No marking of any kind. *We feel that books offered for internet sale should be described thoroughly and accurately. Books listed by Brass Dolphin are so… Read more about this item

NY: Barse & Hopkins, 1909. Hardcover. Good/None. Average little book, penned over owner name first endsheet. Customary age wear, unmarked binding sound. Excuse the lecture that follows, but, there is some clarification required. Service was a Non-US writer, writing poetry on Canadian subjects, whose publisher, in Canada was Briggs of Toronto in this era, they did a 1909… Read more about this item

New Directions, 1968. 1st Paperback . Trade Paperback. Fair/No Jacket. Trade paper copy is rough but readable. Cover creases, edge wear, staple marks, a fair amount of underlining in text. This said, all text present a serviceable reader. *We feel that books offered for internet sale should be described thoroughly and accurately. Books listed by Brass Dolphin are… Read more about this item

NY: Modern Library/Random House, 2002. 1st Paperback . Trade Paperback. Near Fine/No Jacket. This listing is for 2 newish tradepaper backs sold as a pair at the listed price with one book priced shipping. Information above is for Sel. Poetry. Spine uncreased, texts unmarked. Savage Beauty similar if very slightly more worn. SB is Nancy Milford's bio. of… Read more about this item

NY: Norton, 1963. Later Printing, Revised . Hardcover. Fair+/Fair+. From the wrapper "A Classic Work of Creative Scholarshiip now in a revised edition, hard cover, ex-library. A solid hard cover with many withdrawl marks, library indications, pockets, jacket has some scars from small library sticker removal. Jacket looking decent in new mylar wrappper. Text otherwise clean and unmarked.… Read more about this item

NY: Houghton Mifflin, 1988. Later Printing . Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. This listing is for 2 very nice looking trade paperbacks by Sexton, info above for SPAS, lightly used with mild wear, spine uncreased, text unmarked. LP a bit nicer, newer looking. Perhaps 40% of the contents of LP appear in the other book as well. Just… Read more about this item

Phila PA: E.E Butler, 1858. Not Stated, No Addl. Printings . Hardcover. Good+/No Jacket. 1858, no additional printings, "elegantly illustrated," all edges are gilt. The hard cover purplish board are edge beveled, lavishly blind stamped and lettered in gilt. Some mild abrasion is present, especially at the head/foot of spine, dark endsheets have very minor scars. Book measures… Read more about this item

Boston, US: Osgood, Ticknor Fields, 1876. Later Printing . Hardcover. Very Good-/No Jacket. A lovely old hard cover with rich stamping, blind, gilt and black, on both spine and front cover. Trace abrasion wear to head/foot of spines, beveled boards with the odd tiny scar. Text is lightly age darkened, handsome dark green pastedowns and endsheets. Front endsheet… Read more about this item

NY: J.H. Turney, 1831. Not Stated . Full-Leather. Fair/No Jacket. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. This listing is for three titlles, sold as a group at the listed price with one-book priced media mail domestic shipping. First listed is "Paradise Lost," 5 3/4 x 3 1/4," 283 pages. A little, old book of considerable aged charm.… Read more about this item

Wichita Falls TX: Western Christian Foundation. 1st Paperback . Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. Clean, attractive trade paperback, sigend "To ruth from The Hayseed Poet" beneath his foto. Gift inscription first endsheet. Lightly used copy whose sole real flaw is som spine creasing as from reading. No marking. *We feel that books offered for internet sale should be… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1969. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+/Good+. Includes "The Dispossed," "His Thought Made Pockets & The Plane Buckt," and "Formal Elegy." Decent copy with handsome half-binding, cloth/paper, brown/marbeled yellow. Binding tight, text unmarked, no penned names. Jacket has no long tears, but notable edgewear and a kind of mild soiling typical of… Read more about this item

Salt Lake City: Gibbs M. Smith/Peregrine, 1987. First Edition, Full Number Line . Hardcover. Very Good+. Edited with an introduction by Hal Cannon. Book is essentially sound with good, tight binding and an ultraclean text. Last endsheet had a small dogear. Text otherwise unmarked and straight. Inscription penned first endsheet. Unpriced dustjacket. The jacket, while experiencing slight wear… Read more about this item

Boston: Godine, 1994. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. At the top of the first gutter (the books interior where pages meet) there is tiny binding flaw. One of 2000 copies executed. Inscribed, a minor association to neighbor of deer and author, whimsically done by Barnes title page in form of fish, Xian symbol? Beautiful hard cover copy,… Read more about this item

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1968. Later Printing . Trade Paperback. Reading Copy/No Jacket. Tremendous degree of creasing and cover abrasion wear, soiling. This said, the (tr. pb.) binding is holding acceptably and the text is unmarked and easily readable. *We feel that books offered for internet sale should be described thoroughly and accurately. Books listed by Brass Dolphin… Read more about this item

NY: Doubleday, Page Co, 1920. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fair/None. Roughish copy, but far from shot. Notable abrasion head and foot of spine. Lots of speckle foxing first and last endsheets, Text itself untouched, reads beautifully. Binding sound but a trifle gappy. Two pencilled notes on first pastedown. Fountain penned charming inscription, 6 lines+, including puns, first endsheet… Read more about this item

Boston: HMco, 1922. Later Printing . Hardcover. Fair-/None. Interesting and rough book. Severe board abrasion, especially tips, the odd stain. Text intact if much read, binding sound, no gutter splitting. Text not notably age darkened or foxed. The low grade should be noted by the purchaser.*We feel that books offered for internet sale should be described thoroughly and… Read more about this item

Wakefield, RI: Asphodl Press, 1994. 1st Paperback . Trade Paperback. Very Good+/No Jacket. Slender poetry trade paperback, traces edge and tip wear, very mild, pretty copy. *We feel that books offered for internet sale should be described thoroughly and accurately. We assure the buyer that books listed by Brass Dolphin are so described, and graded, using the strict,… Read more about this item

N.Y.: Anchor, 1970. Trade Paperback. Good -/No Jacket. Text is clean and unmarked. Paper boards have typical, significant, wear and abrasion, bit of separation at top front corner. Text good, paper boards quite worn.*We feel that books offered for internet sale should be described thoroughly and accurately. We assure the buyer that books listed by Brass Dolphin are… Read more about this item