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All Things Considered
by Roche, Paul
- Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- good
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 1966
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
- Item Price
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$85.00
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London: Gerald Duckworth & Co., Ltd., 1966. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/good. Small octavo. (standard size). Slight wear to edges and cornes of boards, slight stain along foredges of dust jacket with some light spotting. Includes a poem to a Barbara on the fluyleaf, not sure it has ever been published, signed only "P.R". ALSO, inscribed and fully… Read more about this item Item Price
$85.00
Machinery
by Black, MacKnight
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 1929
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
- Item Price
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$40.00
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New York, NY: Horace Liveright, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Thin octavo. (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. Faint line of a scratch on front cover. Half title as a short closed tear at top, and a small piece missing from the lower right corner of p.3, not coming close to the text. Missing… Read more about this item Item Price
$40.00
Poems
by Eliot, T. S.
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- Early Printing
- Published
- 1929
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
- Item Price
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$60.00
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New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. , 1929. Early Printing. Hardcover. Good. Thin octavo (standard size). Some wear to edges and corners of boards. Hinge separation at half title. Webbing visible. Name of former owner and date of Jan. 1930 on flyleaf. 56 pages. An early US printing of Eliot's 2nd book of poetry.
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$60.00
Jubilate Agno
by Smart, Christopher. re-edited from the original manuscript with an introduction by W. H. Bond
- Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- very good, price clipped
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 1954
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
- Item Price
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$125.00
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London: Rupert Hart Davis, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good, price clipped. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. Dj has a few spots on back cover. Bookstore sticker from Dufour Editions on front pastedown. A set of original Library of Congress cataloguing cards for the book in their original… Read more about this item Item Price
$125.00
Shibboleth. Oxford Poets
by Donaghy, Michael
- Condition
- Used - Very good
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 1988
- Binding
- Paperback
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
- Item Price
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$45.00
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Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. First edition. Paperback. Very good. Very thin octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. Inscribed and SIGNED by Donaghy on the half title page. Light dampstain to head of spine and a bit on adjacent covers. New York born Donaghy's first full length collection
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$45.00
baby anselm [ poetry chapbook ]
by Hollo, Anselm
- Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Edition
- Limited edition
- Published
- 2014
- Binding
- Pamphlet
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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$40.00
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Boulder, CO.: Harry Smith PRint shop, Naropa University, 2014. Limited edition. Pamphlet. Near fine. Squarish pamphlet in a sewn binding. #18 of a 100 copy limited edition. Reprints a poem from Hollo's 1974 work "Black Book No. 1". Inclides colorful abstract frontispiece by Jane Dalrymple-Hollo. Uncommon.
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$40.00
The Zen Works of Stonehouse : Poems and Talks of a Fourteenth Century Chinese Hermit
by Stonehouse. translated by Red Pine
- Condition
- Used - Very good
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 1999
- Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
- Item Price
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$60.00
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San Francisco: Mercury House, 1999. First edition. Trade Paperback. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. 231 p. w/introduction, footnotes. Bilingual, Chinese on the verso, English on the recto.
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$60.00
25 New Nigerian Poets
by Adewale, Toyla editor
- Condition
- Used - Very good
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 2000
- Binding
- Paparback
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
- Item Price
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$50.00
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Berkeley: Ishmael Reed Publishing Co. , 2000. First edition. paparback. Very good. Thin octavo (standard sized). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. ix, 67 p. w/ glossary and biographical information. Each poet has between 1 and 3 poems each in this uncommon collection.
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$50.00
Sword and Blossom Poems Vol. II
by Kimura, Shotaro and Charlotte M. A. Peake. illustrated by Japanese artists
- Condition
- Used - Very good
- Published
- early 1900s
- Binding
- Padded softcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
- Item Price
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$85.00
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Tokyo: T. Hasegawa, early 1900s. padded softcover. Very good. Duodecimo (smaller than standard - approx 7" tall). Some wear to edges and corners, some spotting on covers. Covers are illustrated cloth with padding over cardboard. the illustration reminds me of rays (fish) in water. The second of three volumes in this series. the Blossom songs are Chinese poems… Read more about this item Item Price
$85.00
Walking Artist : The Separation of Subject and Medium [ Rainbow Walking on the cover ]
by Fulton, Hamish author and designer
- Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 1999
- Binding
- Softcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
- Item Price
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$75.00
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Edinburgh: Crawford Arts Centre, St. Andrews / Morning Star Publications, 1999. First edition. softcover. Very good/very good. Square duodecimo (smaller than standard). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. SIGNED by the author on the first flap in pencil. 750 copies only. Has a different signature (not Fulton's) in pencil under the limitation statement - possibly… Read more about this item Item Price
$75.00
It's a New Day ( poems for young brothas and sistuhs )
by Sanchez, Sonia. Illustrations and cover by Ademola Olugebefola
- Condition
- Used - Very good
- Edition
- Second printing
- Published
- 1973 [ 1971 ]
- Binding
- Staplebound Wraps
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
- Item Price
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$125.00
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Detroit, MI: Broadside Press, 1973 [ 1971 ]. Second printing. Staplebound Wraps. Very good. Thin pamphlet. Slight scuffing and wear to edges and covers. 29 p. w/ illustrations, order form. list of Broadside Press publicans on rear inside cover. An early collection of poems from this leading and influential figure in the Black Arts Movement and winner of… Read more about this item Item Price
$125.00
12 Portraits [ Fine Press ]
by Mitchell, Stephen . Illustrated by Wesley B. Tanner
- Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 1987
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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$65.00
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Berkeley: Arif Press, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Thin octavo. (standard size). Very slight wear to edges and corners of boards. Only 95 copies printed. SIGNED and inscribed by Tanner, who was also the printer, on limitation page. An attractive work of poetry from a Californian fine press.
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$65.00
Collected Poems, Prose, & Plays : Complete Poems 1949, In the Clearing, Uncollected Poems, Plays, and Lectures, Essays, Stories, and Letters
by Frost, Robert
- Condition
- Used - Very good
- Edition
- Second printing
- Published
- 1995
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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$50.00
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New York, NY: Library of America, 1995. Second printing. Hardcover. Very good. The uncommon leather bound edition. Slight wear to edges and corners. Brown leather with gilt lettering, green label on spine. 1036 p. w/ indexes. A nearly complete collection of the writings of this great American man of letters and poetry in an attractive edition
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$50.00
Death of a Naturalist
by Heaney, Seamus
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 1966
- Binding
- Hardcover in green cloth
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
- Item Price
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$1,450.00
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New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1966. First edition. Hardcover in green cloth . Very Good/very good. First American edition, first printing. Thin octavo ( standard size). Dj has slight wear at corners and head and heel of spine and slightly faded at dj spine and along the foredge of the dj. Small closed tear to upper… Read more about this item Item Price
$1,450.00
Sonnets from the Portuguese : Done Into A Brochure By The / Roycrofters, At Their Print Shop / Which Is In East Aurora / Erie County, New York State
by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 1917
- Binding
- Pamphlet with illustrated covers
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
- Item Price
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$95.00
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East Aurora, NY: The Roycrofters, 1917. First edition. Pamphlet with illustrated covers. Very Good. Small pamphlet , 6 in tall by 3.5 in. wide. Cover has green and red design on cream paper, with a "medallion" of a building with a walkway to it at the top. Title in green and red on cover. Slight wear to edges… Read more about this item Item Price
$95.00
Aphorisms : [ for ] the 840th Anniversary of the 12th Century Great Azerbaijanian Poet and Philosopher Nizami Ganjevi
by Nizami Ganjevi
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 1982
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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$85.00
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Baku, Azerbaijan: Jazyy, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. Gilt designs and lettering to spine and front board. Text in Russian, Azerbaijani, English, and Persian. Unnumbered pages. Each page illustrated at borders or with reproductions from manuscripts. A lovely book, one of the few on the poet… Read more about this item Item Price
$85.00
Clayfeld Rejoices, Clayfeld Laments : A Sequence of Poems
by Pack, Robert
- Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 1987
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
- Item Price
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$25.00
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Boston: David R. Godine, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards. Dj has light wear and rubbing to edges with slight scuffing to covers. Back board and back cover of dj have shallow groove running down… Read more about this item Item Price
$25.00
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
by Omar Khayyam. Translated by Edward Fitzgerald.
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First edition thus
- Published
- 1948
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
- Item Price
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$50.00
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Stockholm: Jan Forlag, 1948. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good. Georges Popoff. Very good octavo hardcover in tan cloth binding with plant designs in good slipcase. Light wear to edges of boards with browning along spine. Slight bumping to head of spine and upper corner of front cover. Page edges are lightly browned. Slipcase… Read more about this item Item Price
$50.00
Routine Risks. Abattoir Editions.
by Hahn, Robert.
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- Limited edition
- Published
- 1976
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
- Item Price
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$30.00
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Omaha: The University of Nebraska at Omaha, 1976. Limited edition. Hardcover. Very Good. #5 of 200 copies of first edition. Very good hardcover with white tissue-like covering/jacket. Light wear to edges of boards. 68 pages.
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$30.00