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Boston, MA: E.O. Libby & Co, 1859. 9.3 x 14.2 cm. Tupper (1810-1889) was an English poet and philosopher. Brilliant little commentaries. Poem ""Waterloo"" commemorates the Iron Duke in British victory over Napoleon. ""Scene in High Life"" describes Henry Mynton, who has charged Sir Richard Hunt of cheating at cards. ""Worthlessness of Easy Converts"". Blue cloth on board… Read more about this item

Boston, MA: Lee and Shepard, Publishers, 1886. 33.5 x 23.8 cm. Elegant book of illustrated poems through the year, by T. B. Aldrich, Celia Thaxter, A.A.Proctor, Bryant, Horace Smith, George Arnold, George Macdonald, Susan Hartley Swett, Whittier, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson, Craik, Lucy Larcom, B.F. Taylor, Susan Coolidge, John James Platt, Rose Terry Cooke, Mary E. Blake, ""H.H."". Decorated cloth… Read more about this item

ca. 1948. 13.5 x 23.8 cm. These are the timeless adventures of Abdul Buhl the terrible, and Morbhid Dhung, his man, told in verse. Charmingly illustrated by Polly Hill, Adul and Morbhid cross a desert, go out to sea, meet some Amazons, including Sweet Ahlmad Buhl, from Abdul's clan. They encounter Whirling Dervishes, Attila's Huns, sail back over… Read more about this item

Odessa, MO: American Press; Nancy M. Ryan, 1990. 13 x 21 cm. Collection of Poems: March in Yellowstone, 1989; A Social Life on the Skids; Crevices; Dreamscape; Being; August Interlude; Tiananmen Square; Red Alert; Easternmost Point; First Snow; more. Paper booklet, signed by author. Very good. . Catalogs: Poetry.

New York, NY: Dodge Publishing Co, 1912. 9.5 x 19.6 cm. Little booklet of poetry.""Not on the store of sprightly wine, Nor plenty of delicious meats, Though generous Nature did design To court us with perpetual treats,-- 'Tis not on those we for content depend, So much as on the shadow of a Friend."" From the Greek of Menander.… Read more about this item

Bruxelles: J.P. Meline, Libraire-Éditeur, 1837. 10 x 15 cm. Première Harmonie: Invocation. L'hymne de la Nuit. Hymne du Matin. La Lame du Temple. Bénédiction de Dieu dans la Solitude. Aux Chrétiens dans les temps d'épreuves. Hymne de l'Enfant a son Réveil. Hymne du soir dans les Temples. Etc. Marbled boards with leather spine, covers detached. Leather of spine… Read more about this item

ca. 1924. 14 x 21 cm. Memorial tribute to young Kathryn Gray McFarland Wood, b. 1903, d. 1924. Tribute by Ada L. Snell, Department of English, Mt. Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA. Tipped in photo of beautiful young Kathryn, student at Mt. Holyoke College, who spent her junior year at the Sorbonne in Paris, and met Remsen V. Wood… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Cupples & Leon Company, Publishers, ca. 1925. 13 x 20 cm. Slim, hardcover book of poetry, poems on floral-decorated heavy pages.""Pansies for thoughts -- the thoughts come unbidden, Growing within the heart almost unseenÂ…"" by Clifton Bingham. Also ""We are listening to the birds on yonder sprayÂ…"" by Charlotte Murray; also poems by Ellis Walton… Read more about this item

Hartford, CT: Pometime Publishers WTIC, 1941. 12 x 18 cm. Poem Time with Gene & Glenn; a collection of selected verse by Bill Ludlum. Gene & Glenn had a regular broadcast on the NBC (Red) network, sponsored by Quaker Oats. Their broadcasts of Bill Ludlum's poems brought hope and cheer to many. Poems include ""National Unity"", ""The 'Mike' Before… Read more about this item

1889. 13 x 19 cm. Unique poetry cuts a wide swath of learning in a small, un-cut booklet. Includes reference to a rare marine plant named after a correspondent of Darwin's. This is the Word, feed of wind, the thought-gyvers preach-- Numskulls so brittle, one could brain with a fan, Who scatters the white-wheat, barn smut, chaff and bran...The… Read more about this item

Buffalo, NY: Phinney & Co., Publishers, 1854. 12 x 18.5 cm. Judge of Erie County wrote many poems in his early years, and this is a collection of them: Tehoseroron; The Hero of the Plague; Moral Beauty; The Hearth-Stone. Red cloth on board, blind-stamped design with gilt lettering and emblem of lyre on cover; cover lightly soiled, minor wear,… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co, ca. 1914. 11 x 18 cm. Collection of Kipling's poems, led by Recessional, a Victorian Ode, The Vampire, as suggested by the painting by Philip Burne-Jones; Danny Deever; Tommy [O it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an ""Tommy go away""; But it's ""Thank you Mister Atlins,"" when the band begins to… Read more about this item

New York, NY: The Book Shop, 155 w. 23rd. St, 1908. 12 x18 cm. "And all men kill the thing theylove, by all let this be heard, some do it with a bitter look, some with a flattering word, the coward does it with a kiss, the brave man with a sword."" Paper booklet, cover sunfaded. Very good. .… Read more about this item