THE TOUR OF DOCTOR SYNTAX
Lovely Victorian edition in pictorial cloth of this popular comedic poem, executed in reverse order — caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson drew the illustrations before William Combe wrote the text.
Lovely Victorian edition in pictorial cloth of this popular comedic poem, executed in reverse order — caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson drew the illustrations before William Combe wrote the text.
First edition of this stunning anthology of poetry designed and illustrated in Arts and Crafts style by one of its greatest practitioners.
Beautifully bound first edition of Zotti's annotated DIVINE COMEDY, primarily designed for British women learning Italian and dedicated by the editor to three aristocratic women patrons.
First printing of these Lear-esque nonsense limericks incongruously paired with woodcuts from Dodd's Specimens of Early Early Wood Engraving, much in the manner of contemporary internet memes beloved by the very online medievalists of our times.
First edition of the third poetry collection by Digges, winner of the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Poetry Award.
First printing of Dove's first book-length publication — a fresh, beautiful copy.
First printing of Doyle's second poetry collection, consisting of 33 narrative, philosophic, and "miscellaneous" verses.
First printing of this powerful collection of poetry, posthumously published after Dumas was murdered by a police officer in 1968.
First printing, review copy, of this sharply argued and observed "history without narrative" of modern poetry in Britain.
Luxurious re-issue of the original 1958 livre d'artiste — housed in the original shipping carton.
First edition in English of these fifty poems, composed over several decades by the Greek poet, including selections from AXION ESTI.
First trade edition of the last collection of poems published within Faulkner's lifetime, in the Lynd Ward dust jacket in uncommonly good condition.
First (and only) printing of this pamphlet, the first of four issued by Equinox for Christmas of 1932, a revised version of Faulkner's poem "My Epitaph" included in the following year's A GREEN BOUGH.
Signed limited first edition of the last collection of poems published within Faulkner's lifetime.
First UK edition of this collection of lyrical, evocative, and often humorous poetry, by the co-founder of City Lights Booksellers – in remarkably sharp condition.
Inscribed first edition of this collection from Movement poet Donald Davie, written while he was working as a professor at the University of Essex – with hauntingly stark illustrations by Michael Foreman.
Inscribed first printing of this collection of poems and "not quite poems," an intimate look through the eyes of the Black Arts Movement icon.
First edition of Gittings's commentary on the five odes of Keats published in 1820, with facsimile reproductions and transcriptions of the earliest known manuscripts.
First edition of Glück's acclaimed fifth poetry collection.
First edition, review copy with publisher's promotional broadside laid in, of the Nobel-winning author's third book of poetry, a "confrontation with the fragility and risk involved in allowing oneself to love what is passing" (Morris, 6).
First edition, advance uncorrected proof copy, of the Nobel-winning author's third book of poetry, a "confrontation with the fragility and risk involved in allowing oneself to love what is passing" (Morris, 6).
First edition, review copy with publisher's slip laid in, of the Pulizter- and Nobel-winning poet's first book, published when she was only 25 and already capturing Glück's characteristic mix of symbolic allusion, disciplined expression of anger, and breathtakingly lyrical composition.
Fine press limited first edition of this early work in the Pulitzer- and Nobel-winning poet's oeuvre.
Contemporary poet Stanley Plumly's copy of this Pulitzer- and Nobel-winning poet's ninth poetry collection — sent to him with birthday greetings from the publisher.
Signed first edition of the Pulitzer- and Nobel-winning poet's ninth poetry collection, a striking sequence of nature- and mythology-inflected verses.