FOR THE UNFALLEN: Poems 1952-1958
Second impression of the distinguished poet's first book.
Second impression of the distinguished poet's first book.
First Gorey edition of the first poem from Lear's BOOK OF NONSENSE, the first of two Gorey books using Lear's nonsense verse.
First edition, the simultaneous paperback issue, of the confessional poet's uncommon second book of verse.
First edition, review copy, of the confessional poet's uncommon second book of verse.
First edition of the Nobel winner's perhaps most acclaimed collection, winner of both the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the Poetry Society of America's William Carlos Williams Award.
First edition, advance uncorrected proof copy, of Carson's "fictional essay in 29 tangos," a sequence of poems on Keatsian themes.
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, 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.
First edition of the Pulitzer- and Nobel-winning authors fourth book of poetry, the title poem addressing "the power of grief to motivate heroic action" (Morris, 50) — not through victory in battle, but through Achilles's love of Patroclus.
First edition of Glück's second book of poetry, considered her "breakthrough volume" that shows "the discovery of a distinctive voice" (Morris, 152).
Signed first edition of the Pulitzer- and Nobel-winning poet's ninth poetry collection, a striking sequence of nature- and mythology-inflected verses.
First edition of this epic poem from the Romantic school writer and later Poet Laureate, a combination of myth and fantasy in a style similar to Coleridge's early work.
First edition of this important landmark of lesbian literature.
Original catalogue for an exhibition to mark the bicentenary of John Keats, held by the Wordsworth Trust.
Beautifully bound late Georgian book of Moore's famed lyrics, including "The Last Rose of Summer" — this copy with a contemporary leather presentation bookplate to one Mary Harle.
First US edition of the only Plath poetry collection published within the author's lifetime, originally published by Heinemann in 1960 and issued by Knopf two years later with several poems omitted.
First edition of the first book by the influential Japanese American poet (and later contributor to the landmark feminist anthology THIS BRIDGE CALLED MY BACK), exploring her memories of WWII-era internment.
Beautiful Edwardian-era set of the Ancient Greek epic, bound in rich full goatskin by Roger de Coverly and Sons.
Original autograph manuscript of one of Plath's earliest poems, in a version preceding the 1946 revision published in her junior high school literary magazine and collected nowhere else.
Inscribed first printing of the great Guatemalan intellectual's first book of poetry.
First printing of this powerful collection of poetry, posthumously published after Dumas was murdered by a police officer in 1968.
Previously unknown original carbon typescript of the most important postwar American poem: Allen Ginsberg's "Howl." Almost certainly the only surviving draft version of this iconic poem remaining in private hands, and the only one to ever be separately offered for sale.
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.
Landmark second edition of the epic American poetry collection, the first to include among the most famous blurbs in literature — Emerson's complimentary quote stamped, without permission, on the book's spine.
Lovely three-volume pocket edition of Dryden's translation of the AENEID, ECOLOGUES, and GEORGICS, printed by the famed Scottish Enlightenment printers, the Foulis brothers.