Poetry from Focloir

Irish literature 2453 Duryee, Mary Ballard. Words alone are certain good; William Butler Yeats: himself, the poet, his ghost. Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1961, 43 pages. Some fraying to bottom edge of spine, offsetting on lining papers. Good, clean, tight copy. $12.50 Box 399 Notes: Poems and explanatory notes "for and about W. B. Y."

China luchi Lu Chi/Hughes, E. R. The Art of Letters: Lu Chi's "Wen Fu," A. D. 302. A Translation and Comparative Study by E.R. Hughes. With a Forenote by I.A. Richards. (Series: Bollingen Series XXIX). New York: Published for Bollingen Foundation Inc. by Pantheon Books Inc, 1951, xviii, 261 pages, frontispiece, eight plates, one a fold-out in color, (all present),… Read more about this item

England dlod Day Lewis, C. Overtures to death and other poems. London: Jonathan Cape, 1938, 62 pages. First edition. Book is in clean, tight condition, no marks other than a gift inscription on the front free endpaper"George & Joan Brewster, Christmas, 1938 from E. F. K.". Dust jacket is pretty worn and has parts… Read more about this item

Ireland sjsc Stephens, James. Songs from the clay. New York: Macmillan Company, 1925, 106p. Poetry. Good copy. $9.50 Box 8181

Ireland ddld Devlin, Denis, 1908-1959. Lough Derg and other poems. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1946, 79p. Very good copy of the first edition. Believe the volume was first published in the United States. $5.00 Box 2021

Persia Fshna Firdawsī /Atkinson, James, 1780-1852. The Sháh námeh of the Persian poet Firdausí, translated and abridged in prose and verse, by James Atkinson. Edited by J. A. Atkinson. (Series: The Chandos classics). London/New York: Frederick Warne, 1886, xxxi, 412 pages. Publisher's ads. Bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine and top edge gilt. In good clean shape,… Read more about this item

Americana wmdd Wigglesworth, Michael, 1631-1705. The Day of Doom or A Poetical Description of the Great and Last Judgment with Other Poems. Edited with an Introduction by Kenneth B Murdock. New York: The Spiral Press, 1929, xi, 94 pages. This is number 448 of 535 numbered copies. The book is in overall good condition but with the following detractions:… Read more about this item

Ireland mjps Montague, John. Patriotic Suite. Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1966, 15 pages, paperbound. 1 of 1000 copies. Very good. $15.00 Box 126

England brtb Bridges, Robert. The Testament of Beauty: a poem in four books. New York: Oxford University Press, 1930, 183 pages. This is the 1930 second edition. It was printed by William Edwin Rudge. The book was selected by the American Institute of Graphic Arts as one of the 50 best books of the year. The copright page… Read more about this item

Ireland ptysc (Yeats, W.B.) Parkinson, Thomas. W. B. Yeats, self-critic: a study of his early verse and The Later Poetry. Two volumes in one. University of California Press, 1971, xv, 196; 260p. New introduction to this combined volume. $15.00 Box A 124

Ireland djuf Deane, John F. Upon foreign soil. Dublin: Dedalus, 1999, 43p. Paperbound. (Icarus series, Number 3, limited to 500 copies). Fine copy of this book of poetry. Signed on endpaper by Deane. $13.50 Box 508

Scotland yjls Young, John. Lochlomond side and other poems. Glasgow: George Gallie, 1872, viii, 176p. Green cloth with gilt lettering and top and side paper edges. There is some foxing on title page and flyleaf. There is a bookplate on front lining paper with name scratched off. The motto is "Nil penna sed usus" –Not the… Read more about this item

Ireland mjbl McAuliffe, John, 1973- A better life. Oldcastle, County Meath: Gallery, 2002, 54 pages. Dust jacket has small blemish else fine copy in like dust jacket. Poetry. $13.50 Box A 121.

Scotland mdhc MacDiarmid, Hugh. A Clyack-Sheaf. London: Macgibbon and Kee, 1969, 57p. Fine in dust jacket. $15.00 Box 4118

Ireland sjas Stephens, James, 1882-1950. The adventures of Seumas Beg:The rocky road to Dublin. London: Macmillan, 1915, vii, [1], 86 pages. Copyright edition, so stated. Book is in overall good condition but there is some fraying to head of spine, little to heel of spine, 5 or 6 pages carelessly unopened, offsetting to endpapers (Pretty common in many books). … Read more about this item

France rpss Ronsard, Pierre de, 1524-1585. Songs and sonnets of Pierre de Ronsard. Translated into English verse with an introductory essay and notes, by Curtis Hidden Page. Boston/New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1924, xlvii, 139p. Couple of small pencillings, spine very dull, else a good copy with many pages still uncut. Front free endpaper has minor fold at bottom… Read more about this item

American lit decp Davison, Edward, 1898-1970. Collected Poems, 1917-1939. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1940, xi, 195 pages. Printed label on spine. Good, clean, tight copy. Signed by Davison, dated 1940, on front free endpaper. First edition, so stated. No dust jacket. $10.00 Box 10 Edward… Read more about this item

Ancient world asa Archilochos, Sappho, Alkman: Three Lyric Poets of the Late Greek Bronze Age. Translated, with an Introduction, by Guy Davenport. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980, 176p, notes. Very good in dust jacket. … Read more about this item

Ireland kbdb Kennelly, Brendan. Dream of a black fox. Dublin: Allen Figgis, 1968, 70 pages. There is light offsetting on front and back endpapers (usually from the glue used in binding), some slight bubbling to paper edge of front cover. Else, very good copy. Poetry. $20.00 Box 27

France atra Armstrong, Elizabeth Tyler. Ronsard and the Age of Gold. London: Cambridge University Press, 1968, xiv, 213 pages,. 8 plates, illus., facsims., map, bib, index. Hardcover, shows shelf wear, no marks other than a few ink notes on back endpaper. Not a crisp copy, decent copy but wouldn't call it good, call it acceptable. $6.50 Box… Read more about this item