Poetry from EGR books
New Arrivals
More Photos
Bell's Edition. The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill
by John Bell (publisher)
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- Second edition
- Published
- 1781
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Centreville, Virginia, USA
- Item Price
-
$7,500.00
Show Details
Description:
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine/Fine. The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill, 109 volumes. Believed to be the second (2nd) edition. Engraved additional pictorial title in each volume, 48 engraved portraits, contemporary tree calf gilt, roll-tool borders to sides, flat spines in six compartments, marbled endpapers, and green and red morocco lettering and number labels. Interior pages are… Read more about this item Item Price
$7,500.00
More Photos
These Things Are Ours
by Gwen Frostic
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1960
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Centreville, Virginia, USA
- Item Price
-
$100.00
Show Details
Description:
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition First Printing. Signed by author. Poetry collection from Michigan naturalist (1906-2001), featuring her nature-inspired Linocut block print artwork on each of the rough-edged vellum-like pages. Unpaginated. Internally clean. Edgewear and toning to top edge of front cover. Item Price
$100.00
More Photos
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
by Omar Khayyam; Edward Fitzgerald , Translator; Eugene Karlin, illustrator
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Edition
- First Edition, Limited Edition
- Published
- 1964
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Centreville, Virginia, USA
- Item Price
-
$325.00
Show Details
Description:
Hardcover. Condition: Fine/New. Slipcase Condition: Near Fine. . Limited Edition No. 428 of 500. Signed by Eugene Karlin (illustrator). Stated first printing. Bound in full red leather , morocco grained and gold stamped, with marbleized endpapers and upper edge gilt, Published by Thomas Y. Crowell Company, printed by Clarke & Way, NYC. Near Fine slipcase has light edgewear. Hardcover is… Read more about this item Item Price
$325.00
More Photos
Geography III
by Elizabeth Bishop
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1976
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Centreville, Virginia, USA
- Item Price
-
$225.00
Show Details
Description:
Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First Printing stated. Hardcover is Fine or possibly As New. Dust jacket is Fine and is unclipped with very light wrinkling to head and foot of spine. Internally clean. A collector's copy. 50pp. Author won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1956. Item Price
$225.00
More Photos
Shaker, Why Don't You Sing?
by Maya Angelou
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1983
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Centreville, Virginia, USA
- Item Price
-
$275.00
Show Details
Description:
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine/Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition state, First Printing. (Number line 24689753 indicates first printing of Random House at this time). Signed and inscribed Maya Angelou. Near Fine/Fine hardcover has some light rubbing and wear, light tanning/offsetting to front and rear pastedown, and owner's bookplate to rear endpaper. Fine Dust jacket is unclipped, vibrant,… Read more about this item Item Price
$275.00
More Photos
The Work of the Late Ingenious Mr George Farquhar: Containing all his Poems, Letters, Essays and Comedies Published in his Life Time
by George Farquhar
- Condition
- Used - Good+
- Edition
- Ninth Edition
- Published
- 1760
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Centreville, Virginia, USA
- Item Price
-
$125.00
Show Details
Description:
Hardcover Condition. Good+. Two volumes. Ninth Edition. Rebound in 1/4 green calf with marbled boards, endpapers, and text block edges. Front board on volume I is detached. A beautiful set. In Very Good+/Near Fine condition other than detached board.
George Farquhar (1677 – 29 April 1707) was an Irish dramatist. He is noted for his contributions… Read more about this item Item Price
$125.00
More Photos
The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing His Poems, Songs, and Correspondence
by Robert Burns
- Condition
- Used - Fair
- Published
- 1839
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Centreville, Virginia, USA
- Item Price
-
$40.00
Show Details
Description:
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Full leather with gilt tooling. a.e.g. Two volumes. Publishing date of 1839 listed. Two volumes. Both front covers detached. Spine crown chipped on Volume 2. Foxing to plates. Beautiful binding and excellent candidate for restoration. Large items. Some extra postage may be necessary. Item Price
$40.00
More Photos
The Works of William Shakespeare: The Chandos Poets
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Published
- undated
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Centreville, Virginia, USA
- Item Price
-
$80.00
Show Details
Description:
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Circa 1895. One quarter leather. Wear to extremities. Foxing to endpapers, flyleaves, frontis, and title page. Over 40 of Shakespeare's works with glossary as well as Shakespeare's memoirs and Shakespeare's will. 1124 pp. Binding is tight and square. Item Price
$80.00
More Photos
This Is My Beloved
by Walter Benton
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1943
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Centreville, Virginia, USA
- Item Price
-
$40.00
Show Details
Description:
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket. Condition: Very Good. First Edition, First Printing of author's first book. Dust jacket is price clipped with some wear along the extremities. Some light staining to rear of dust jacket. Item Price
$40.00
More Photos
Underwoods
by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Condition
- Used - Good-
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1887
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Centreville, Virginia, USA
- Item Price
-
$110.00
Show Details
Description:
Hardcover. Condition: Good-. No Jacket. First Edition. Large paper edition. No. 9 of 50 copies. Signed by printers R. & R. Clark. Cream cloth covers. Much of spine cloth missing. Front hinge cracked at top. Front board is fragile. Soiling to covers with red stain to front board. Endpapers tanned. Interior is clean. Item Price
$110.00
More Photos
The Ballad of Reading Gaol
by Oscar Wilde
- Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 1899
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Centreville, Virginia, USA
- Item Price
-
$100.00
Show Details
Description:
Hardcover. Condition. Very Good-. Unauthorized or pirated edition by the printer of the original, first edition . The last edition that was authorized by Wilde for Smithers to print was dated 1899, later unauthorized editions also show that date. Probably printed in 1904 based on 1904 gift inscription on FFEP. Soiling to boards. Backstrip of spine has tears along the… Read more about this item Item Price
$100.00
More Photos
The Testament of Beauty
by Robert Bridges
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1929
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Centreville, Virginia, USA
- Item Price
-
$100.00
Show Details
Description:
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. By Robert Bridges, Poet Laureate. This Limited Edition of 250 copies is printed by William Rudge on Vidalon paper in Estienne type. Each book was bound and boxed in Douglas Cockerel hand dipped marble paper boards. $25 listed price. With the 'Publisher's Note on the Text" inserted.… Read more about this item Item Price
$100.00
More Photos
Select Pieces of Early Popular Poetry: Re-published Principally from Early Printed Copies in the Black Letter
by Edward Vernon Utterson [editor]
- Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Published
- 1825
- Binding
- Hering binding
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Centreville, Virginia, USA
- Item Price
-
$425.00
Show Details
Description:
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+/Near Fine. Two volumes. 8vo. Full calf. Gilt dentelles to spine and perimeter of boards Bound by Hering (1794-1844). Marbled text block edges. Beautiful marbled endpapers. Binding is tight and square. Calf is lightly rubbed in a few places. Missing some of the spine labels. The missing title label is inserted in the book. It can be… Read more about this item Item Price
$425.00
More Photos
Poems of William Cullen Bryant Collected and Arranged by the Author in Two Volumes
by William Cullen Bryant
- Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1856
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Centreville, Virginia, USA
- Item Price
-
$100.00
Show Details
Description:
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Two volumes. Original embossed cloth, gilt spine, A.e.g. New York: D. Appleton and Company 1856. 12mo. Gift inscription on flyleaf from Christmas 1855. Some wear to the extremities. Cloth on spine somewhat faded. Tight and sound bindings. Clean interior. Item Price
$100.00
More Photos
Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Poetical Works in Five Volumes
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Published
- 1884
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Centreville, Virginia, USA
- Item Price
-
$795.00
Show Details
Description:
Hardcover. Condition: VG+/NF. Five volumes. Limited edition. No. 51 of 150 copies printed on Holland paper "all of which are signed and numbered, was printed in the month of May 1884." (2 additional copies printed on Vellum and 20 additional copies printed on Japan paper.) Signed by the printer, Theo. L. DeVinne.
Bound in 3/4s red morocco with marbled boards and… Read more about this item Item Price
$795.00
More Photos
The Works of Edmund Waller, Esq.; In Verse and Prose
by Edmund Waller
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Published
- 1758
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Centreville, Virginia, USA
- Item Price
-
$250.00
Show Details
Description:
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Edition from 1758, not first edition. Full calf with rebacked spine. Five raised bands. Gilt tooling to spine and title label. Light scuffing to calf and extremities. Offsetting to endpapers. Tanning to flyleaves. frontispiece, and title page. Text pages have very light, occasional spotting/foxing. Binding is tight and… Read more about this item Item Price
$250.00
More Photos
The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope
by Alexander Pope
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Published
- 1828
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Centreville, Virginia, USA
- Item Price
-
$115.00
Show Details
Description:
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Complete in 2 volumes. Wear to extremities. Some soiling to boards. Scattered foxing throughout, heavier foxing to endpapers, flyleaves, and title page. Clean interior otherwise. Binding is tight and square. Item Price
$115.00
More Photos
Wildflowers: or, Pastoral and Local Poetry
by Robert Bloomfield
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- Second edition
- Published
- 1819
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Centreville, Virginia, USA
- Item Price
-
$75.00
Show Details
Description:
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Full olive green leather. Fine binding. New edition. Eight plates, including frontispiece. Decorative embossed pattern and along border of boards. Edge wear to extremities, including rubbing to spine head and foot. Scattered, moderate foxing throughout.
Robert Bloomfield (3 December 1766 – 19 August 1823) was an English laboring-class… Read more about this item Item Price
$75.00
More Photos
Collected Works of Arthur Symons; Poems
by Arthur Symons
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1924
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Centreville, Virginia, USA
- Item Price
-
$75.00
Show Details
Description:
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Three volumes. One of 650 sets. Original cloth. t.e.g. Excellent condition other than some chipping and light staining to head and foot of spines. Tanning to endpapers. Interior pages clean. Item Price
$75.00
More Photos
Ulug Beg: An Epic Poem, Comic in Intention in VII Cantos. Being the HIstory of Origin, Progress, and Explosion of a Superstition. By Autolycus A Snapper-Up of Unconsidered Trifles
by Leonard Bacon [Autolycus]
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1923
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Centreville, Virginia, USA
- Item Price
-
$75.00
Show Details
Description:
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Inscribed by Leonard Bacon to Henry Seidel Canby, a critic, edition, and Yale professor. Boards are in fine condition. Spine label rubbed. Offsetting to eps. Foxing from front flyleaves up to Table of Contents page as well as final few pages, otherwise pages are clean. Leonard Bacon He won the… Read more about this item Item Price
$75.00
