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Poetry

1. Adam, Antoine. THE ART OF PAUL VERLAINE.. N.Y. Univ. Press. 1963. Trade paperback. Small 8vo. Very good copy. 180pp. Translated by Carl Morse. Part of the Gotham Library series. Minor marks on cover.
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2. Auden, W.H. COLLECTED SHORTER POEMS 1927-1957.. Random House. (1966). Cloth. 8vo. Nicked dj. Near fine. 7th printing. Gilt lettering on spine and front cover. 351pp. Auden (1907-1973) British poet, became an American citizen in 1946.
Our price $50.00

3. Bacon, Leonard. THE LEGEND OF QUINCIBALD.. Harper. 1928. 1st edition. Cloth. 12mo. very good with chipped dj. Few spots on covers. Few small marks on flyleaf. 76pp. A long poem in three parts dealing with the stuff of personality symbolically.
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4. Benet, Stephen Vincent. JOHN BROWN'S BODY. NY. Farrar & Rinehart. (1928). Cloth. Small 8vo. Good reading copy. No dust jacket. 29th edition. Faded spine. Small blisters on covers. Shelfwear and minor marks outside. Glue shadow along inner edge of two pages and front endpapers. Text not affected. viii & 336pp.
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5. Blanding, Don. VAGABOND'S HOUSE.. Dodd Mead. 1935. Illustrations by author. Cloth. Large 12mo. Good, No dust jacket. 16th printing. Flyleaf removed. Some shelfwear and fading outside. 114pp.
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6. Breslin, James E.B. FROM MODERN TO CONTEMPORARY. AMERICAN POETRY, 1945-1965.. Univ. of Chicago Press. Trade paperback. Small 8vo. Very good. 3rd printing of paperback edition 1985. Tape marked 'used' found near foot of spine. Small label shadow on rear cover. Califiornia academic describes and critiques radical shift in American poetry in the mid-twentieth century. Chapters on Ginsberg, Robert Lowell, Levertov, James Wright, Frank O'Hara. xvi & 272pp
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7. Browning, Robert. PAULINE: PARACELSUS: STRAFFORD: SORDELLO: PIPPA PASSES: KING VICTOR AND KING CHARLES. Boston. Houghton Mifflin. 1893. Frontis of Browning. Cloth. Large 12mo. No dj. Good. vi & 412pp and 25 page appendix. Top edge gilt. Volume I of the Riverside Edition of the six volume 'The Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning'. Volume I only. Very light rubs to cover corners and spine ends. Spine faded.
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8. Burrows, E.G. ON THE ROAD TO BAILEY'S. Highland Park, MI. Fallen Angel Press. (1979). Wraps. Large 12mo. Fine dj. Near fine. Poetry. 36pp. Center stapled. Dust jacket over plain paper covers.
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9. Caudwell, Christopher. ILLUSION AND REALITY, A Study of the Sources of Poetry. NY. International Publishers. (1947). Cloth. 8vo. No dj. Rubs to head & foot of spine. Rubs to cover corners & top edge. 342pp. Small hole burned in half-title page. Good used copy. Author was killed serving with the International Brigade in Spain in 1937. Mild bump to top outer corner.
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10. Chester, Laura. IN THE ZONE. New and Selected Writing. Santa Rosa. Black Sparrow Press. 1988. Trade paperback. Small 8vo. Very good. Poetry and short prose pieces. Shadow of small label on front cover. 231pp. A few short light creases in cover. Cover corners have a very slight tendency to curle. Photo portrait of author on author's bio page.
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11. Conarroe, Joel (Editor). SIX AMERICAN POETS. An Anthology.. Random House. (1991). 1st edition. Portraits of the six poets. Hardback. 8vo. Fine dj. Fine. Autograph presentation to Sarah on half-title page signed with author's first name. Dated Dec. 12, 1991. Poets: Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Wallace Srevens, William Carlos Williams, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes. xxxiv & 281pp. 2nd printing.
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12. Corman, Cid (Editor). THE GIST OF ORIGIN. An Anthology.. Grossman. 1975. Hardback. 8vo. Very good dj. Very good. Very light bump to upper outside corner of rear cover. xxxvii & 525pp. Poems and articles from Origin (a magazine published 1951-1971) selected by publisher. The gang's all here. Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, Gary Snyder, Louis Zukofsky, Robert Duncan, Denise Levertov, Paul Blackburn, and others.
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13. Cromie, Robert (Editor). WHERE STEEL WINDS BLOW. Poets on War: A Collection.. David McKay. (1968). Cloth. Small 8vo. Nicked dj. Very good+. Large signature on endpaper:'Ron Whyte '71' Small stamp on endpaper and title page: Ron Whyte. The Muse Coalition. with NYC address. xxvii & 192pp. including a section giving short bios of the poets and an index. Author was war correspondent during WWII and a natinally known literary critic. Contains poems by Rupert Brooke, Constantine Cavafy, John Ciardi, E.E. Cummings, Robert Graves, Paul Horgan, Langston Hughes, Denise Levertov, Herman Melville, Siegfriedv Sassoon, Louis Simpson, Richard Wilbur, Yevgeny Yevtushenko among many others.
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14. Dahl, Roald. REVOLTING RHYMES.. Buffin Books. (1986). Reprint. Illustrations. by Quentin Blake. Trade paperback. 8vo. Very good. 46pp. Note on verso of front cover. Dahl's rhyming verse revisions of fairy tales: Jach and the Beanstalk, Snow-White, Goldilocks, Red Riding Hood, Three Little Pigs. (Size: 9' high x 6?' wide)
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15. Dana, Robert. THE POWER OF THE VISIBLE.. Swallow Press. (1971). 1st edition. Cover design. Trade paperback. Small 8vo. Good. (Text block is very good). Poetry. Red dot on verso of front cover. Light label marks on front cover. 71+pp.
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16. Dean, Leonard (Editor). RENAISSANCE POETRY, Volume III.. Prentice-Hall. (1950). 2nd editon. Trade paperback. Large 12mo. Very good. 12th printing. Short light crease on front cover. ix & 342pp
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17. Dickey, James. BABEL TO BYZANTIUM. Poets & Poetry Now.. Universal Library/ Grosset & Dunlap. (1971). Trade paperback. Small 8vo. Very good. Small label shadow on cover. 296pp. Some sixty poets discussed: Roethke, Marianne Moore, Randall Jarrell, Robert Frost, Ignatow, Nemerov, Ginsberg, Ashbery, Patchen, Cummings, Olson, Graves, WCW, among others. Recommended by Richard Howard, Saul Maloff.
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18. Dugan, Alan. POEMS 2.. Yale Univ. Press. 1963. Cover design by Judith Shahn. Stiff wraps. Large 12mo. Near fine. 62+pp. Slight darkening outside. Name on half-title page: 'Richard Currie, New York University' Recommended by Dudley Fitts, Louise Bogan.
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19. Dunning, Stephen, Edward Lueders, Hugh Smith (Compiled by). REFLECTIONS ON A GIFT OF WATERMELON PICKLE.and other modern verse.. Scott, Foresman and Co. (1966). Photo illustrations. Cloth. Very good. No dj. Ex Library. Library slip pasted to endpaper. Minor rub marks outside. 160pp (Size: 9?' high x 7' wide)
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20. Enslin, Theodore. RANGER (Volume I). Richmond, CA. North Atlantic Books. (1978). Trade paperback. 8vo. Very good copy. Small label shadow on rear cover. A few minor rubs to edges and spine ends. 430pp. Decorated front cover. Ted Enslin, born March 25, 1925 in Chester, Pa. He and his wife moved to Temple, Maine in 1960. A short bioo of him at ttp://www.ume.maine.edu/~npf/cat54.html
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21. Everson, William. THE MASKS OF DROUGHT. Santa Barbara. Black Sparrow Press. 1980. Photo and short bio. of author on next to last page. Stiff wraps. Small 8vo. Very good plus. Poems 1972-1979. Small label shadows on covers. 92+pp.
Our price $15.00

22. Ferguson, Russell. IN MEMORY OF MY FEELINGS: FRANK O'HARA AND AMERICAN ART.. The Museum of Contemporary Art. Los Angeles/ Univ. of Calif. Press. Berkeley. (1999). Many illustrations. some in color. Hardback. Large 8vo. No dust jacket. (Size. Approx. 10? x 8? inches). Decorated covers and endpapers. Very small pressure marks on cover's lower edges and foredge else a near fine copy. Printed in Germany. Book's publication accompanied exhibition at Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles July 11-Nov. 14, 1999. 160pp. Library of Sara Blackburn slip laid-in. Cloth page-marker bound in. 160pp. O'Hara (1926-1966) American poet.
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23. Gibran, Jean and Kahlil Gibran. KAHLIL GIBRAN. His Life and World.. Avenel. (1981 edition). Reprint. 100 b/w Illustrations. Hardback. Large 8vo. Chipped dj. Near fine. Square 8vo. Life of Lebanese poet who was very popular in English speaking world in first half of 20th Century. Written by his cousin and namesake and his cousin's wife. 442pp. (Size: 9?' high x 7?' wide) Photo portraits of the poet on front & rear panels of dust jacket. Also b/w reproduction (as frontispiece) of poet's self-portrait done in 1911.
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24. Goedicke, Patricia. THE TRAIL THAT TURNS ON ITSELF, Poems. Ithaca, NY. Ithaca House. (1978). Cover design by Petra Cabot. Wraps. Small 8vo. Near fine. 81pp. Author,born in USA in 1931, was living in Mexico when this book was published. In 2000 she was teaching at the University of Montana.
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25. Goldfarb, Sidney. MESSAGES.. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. (1971). 1st printing. Cover design. Wraps. Large 12mo. Very good+. Poetry. viii & 83pp. Red dot inside front cover. Small label mark on front cover. Photo portrait of author on cover.
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