FOR THE UNFALLEN: Poems 1952-1958
(1960)
Second impression of the distinguished poet's first book.
20th century
THE JUMBLIES
(1968)
First Gorey edition of the first poem from Lear's BOOK OF NONSENSE, the first of two Gorey books using Lear's nonsense verse.
ALL MY PRETTY ONES
1962
First edition, the simultaneous paperback issue, of the confessional poet's uncommon second book of verse.
ALL MY PRETTY ONES
1962
First edition, review copy, of the confessional poet's uncommon second book of verse.
SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET
(1991)
First Applause printing of the script for the Tony-winning Victorian slasher musical, based on the classic 19th-century Penny Dreadful story.
THE WILD IRIS
(1993)
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.
DESCENDING FIGURE
(1980)
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).
FIRSTBORN
(1968)
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.
THE TRIUMPH OF ACHILLES
(1985)
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.
THE HOUSE ON MARSHLAND
(1975)
First edition of Glück's second book of poetry, considered her "breakthrough volume" that shows "the discovery of a distinctive voice" (Morris, 152).
A BOOK
(1923)
First edition of this important landmark of lesbian literature.
JOHN KEATS
1995
Original catalogue for an exhibition to mark the bicentenary of John Keats, held by the Wordsworth Trust.
THE COLOSSUS
1962
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.
LUNAR BAEDEKER AND TIME-TABLES
(1958)
Rare signed limited "author's edition" of Loy's selected poems, inscribed by the poet to her daughter Joella Bayer and son-in-law, Bauhaus designer-architect Herbert Bayer.
THE ODYSSEY
1903, 1910
Beautiful Edwardian-era set of the Ancient Greek epic, bound in rich full goatskin by Roger de Coverly and Sons.
Unpublished Autograph Poem: THE SNOWFLAKE STAR
[circa 1945]
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.
POEMAS DE LA IZQUIERDA EROTICA
(1973)
Inscribed first printing of the great Guatemalan intellectual's first book of poetry.
PLAY EBONY PLAY IVORY
(1974)
First printing of this powerful collection of poetry, posthumously published after Dumas was murdered by a police officer in 1968.
Original Carbon Typescript for Part I of "Howl"
[1955/6]
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.
THE ODES OF KEATS: And Their Earliest Known Manuscripts
(1970)
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.
THE POET AND OTHER POEMS
1920
First edition of the second poetry collection by the Black artist and author called by contemporaries the "Paul Laurence Dunbar of Cincinnati."
THE POET AND OTHER POEMS
1920
Rare inscribed first edition of the second poetry collection by the Black artist and author called by contemporaries the "Paul Laurence Dunbar of Cincinnati," presented to another Cincinnati poet.
THE LADY OF THE LAKE
(1910)
First Christy-illustrated edition of this beloved poem of the Highlands, populated by beautiful "Christy Girls" — very scarce signed.
THE PRINCESS
(1911)
First Christy-illustrated edition of this mock-medieval Tennyson poem, very scarce signed.
AU PARVIS DE L'AVRIL
(1966)
Signed limited first edition of these privately printed poems by artist, poet, and French Resistance fighter Verdet, illustrated with three fine prints by Jean Lurçat, issued in the year of the artist's death and dedicated to him by the poet.
