Literature / Poetry from Bygone Books

London: Cranbrook Tower Press, 1960. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Poet Laureate Series No. 1. A bibliography and eighty-first birthday tribute. Limited ed. of 999 copies, this out of series and unsigned. 1st ed. 8vo, red cloth with gilt titles and signature of Masefield, 96 pages, b/w illustrations throughout.… Read more about this item

New York: Israel Post, 1845. Hardcover. VG-. Various. Volume III [pages1-286] and IV [pages 1-286] bound in one volume, 1845. Small 4to, ¾ leather with 3 raised bands, dark green pebbled boards, light green paper endpapers, each of the 12 months is paginated separately, each month has a full-page color fashion plate, music notation, various engravings, poetry, short… Read more about this item

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 1st Edition . Soft cover. New. 1st edition, SIGNED by the author on the title page, 8vo, softbound, 179 pages, notes, bibliography, index. Condition: NEW. "'Reading John Keats' reconstructs the adventure of becoming a poet, and is itself an adventure for the reader, since it evokes the energies of Keats's imagination with… Read more about this item

Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1969. 3rd Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 3rd printing (1969, first published in 1961), 8vo, rust cloth hardcover with gilt titles on spine, 182 pages, index. Condition is VERY GOOD+ / no jacket: light rubbing to extremities, appears unread.

London: Oxford University Press, 1975. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The 1975 edition with further revisions by Brian Southam; first published in 1954, reprinted in 1958, with revsions 1963, 1965, all edited by R. W. Chapman; further revisions by B. C. Southam 1969, 1972, and 1975. Includes Chapman's preface of 1953, and Southam's of 1967. 12mo, green cloth with… Read more about this item

Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1976. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 1st edition, 8vo, gray cloth, 282 pages, 80 of which is a glossary of characters in all the books discussed. Condition: VERY GOOD / no jacket: light rubbing to extremities and bottom edges. Archon's "Plots and Characters series" covering various titles by Austen, Eliot and the three… Read more about this item

London: Curwen Press for the Heritage Press of New York. Hardcover. Near Fine. Rene Ben Sussan. With introductory notes by John Mason Brown and Carl Van Doren and Illustrations by René Ben Sussan. No date noted, but circa 1956. Large 8vo, decorated cloth, red spine label, glassine wrapper (just a portion of the rear panel remains), slipcase, 333… Read more about this item

London: Chiswick Press / Longmans, Green and Co., 1901. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. William Morris. A Tale of the House of the Wolfings and all the Kindreds of the Mark Written in Prose and in Verse by William Morris. London: Chiswick Press / Longmans, Green and Co., 1901. Printed at the Chiswick Press with the Golden… Read more about this item

New York: Mentor Association, 1919. Soft cover. Very Good. From The Mentor's Department of Literature, Volume 7, Number 13, August 15, 1919, Serial No. 185. Large 8vo, stapled wraps, 12 pages, six photogravures laid-in. Condition is VERY GOOD: light edgewear around paper covers and spine, internally clean and tight with all six gravures present and in excellent condition.… Read more about this item

New York: Chautauqua-Century Press, 1898. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Susan Hale. Men and Manners of the Eighteenth Century. New York: Chautauqua-Century Press, 1898 / Meadville, PA: Flood and Vincent, 1898. 1st thus ed. 12mo, green cloth with black decoration, gilt titles on spine, 326 pages, index. Condition: VERY GOOD+ / no jacket: slight rubbing… Read more about this item

New York: House of Books, Ltd., 1951. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Robert Frost. Hard not to be King. New York: House of Books, 1951. 1st edition limited to 300 numbered copies Signed by the Author: this is number 73, and signed by Frost. A crown octavo, blue cloth… Read more about this item

London / New York: Frederick Warne, 1975. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 32mo - over 4 - 5" tall. Kate Greenaway's Birthday Book. With verses by Mrs. Sale Barker. London / New York: Frederick Warne, no date [circa 1970s]. Printed in Great Britain. Description: 32mo, beige cloth,126 pages (only the pages with verses are numbered, not the opposite blank… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1840. Hardcover. Collectible; VG-. Later printing, 12mo, original brownish publisher's cloth with paper spine label, 336 pages, 6 pages publisher ads. Condition: VERY GOOD- : cover wear (staining, fading, slight rippling to rear board cloth), faint foxing to endpapers, three owner names to front endpaper, internally clean and tight. Hemans (1793-1835), born Felicia… Read more about this item

London: George Routledge, 1905. First paperback edition . Hardcover. G+. No additional printings noted. 8vo, brown cloth with gilt titles, top edge gilt, 380 pages, xxxvii - introduction by Ernest A. Baker. Condition: GOOD+ / no jacket: fading to the black at edges and spine, rubbing to extremities with 1" tear to top spine gutter,… Read more about this item

London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson in the Strand, 1767. Hardcover. Collecitble, VG-. 16mo, full calf with 6 raised bands, red spine label, 301 p., [12] (index), frontis engraving. Dedication to the Right Honourable Thomas Earl of Wharton. Condition is VERY GOOD-: boards are slightly loose, textblock is tight; head and tail chipped, corners rubbed, all edges… Read more about this item

Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1978. First Edition . Hardcover. VG+/VG+. 1st edition, 8vo, gray cloth, 320 pages, bibliographies.VERY GOOD+ book / VERY GOOD+ jacket: slight spotting to top page edge, otherwise appears unread; jacket has very light edgewear, toning to spine.

Oxford, Uk: Oxford, Printed For Members of the The Limited Editions Club, 1934. Limited/Numbered . Hardcover. Collectible, VG+`. Rene Ben Sussan. With an introduction by Carl Van Doren and hand-coloured etchings by Rene Ben Sussan. Limited edition of 1500 copies [this is number 601], designed by Francis Meynell and printed under his supervision at the Oxford University… Read more about this item

NY: Columbia University Press, 1990. First paperback edition . Soft cover. VG-. 0231072511 1st paperback edition [number line], 8vo, 269 pages, bw/ illustrations, bibliography. VERY GOOD- : slight edgewear, some scattered underlinings to the "Vindication ..Women" chapter, otherwise a great clean and tight working copy.

Praha [ Prague ]: Lmada fronta, 1957. Hardcover. VG+/G-. Paul Hogarth.. Czech text [ prelozila Jarmilla Fastrova], 8 vo, tan linen cloth with green and black illustrations and titles, 570 pages, b/w full-page illustrations by Paul Hogarth, ribbon bookmark. VERY GOOD+ book / GOOD- jacket: book has faint spotting to bottom and fore edges,… Read more about this item

Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith, 1972. Reprint Edition . Hardcover. VG+. Reprint edition, first published in The Anchor Books edition in 1963. 8vo, salmon cloth, 339 pages. VERY GOOD+ / no jacket: light rubbing to corners, spine lightly sunned, otherwise appears unread. These stories, selected by Randall Jarrell with an introduction, include… Read more about this item