LEAVES OF GRASS
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.
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.
First edition in book form of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven," the single most famous American poem of the nineteenth century.
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.
Stark and haunting card of mourning from the September 10th, 1898 funeral of Stephane Mallarmé.
Elaborately ornamented edition of Shelley's 1820 poem, lavishly illustrated by Charles Robinson and in the full maroon leather binding variant, the scarcest of the edition's bindings.
Scarce and magnificent deluxe edition of this beautifully illustrated edition of Shelley's poem in the original dust jacket.
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.
Presentation copy of this rare limited first edition of Mallarmé's Hérodiade, rendered in English by Clark Mills and illustrated with an engraving by surrealist Kurt Seligmann.
Lovely Victorian edition of Tennyson's classic love poem, in a deluxe leather binding.
Late Georgian edition of Johnson's landmark collection of essays on 52 poets, a major work in English canon formation.
Beautifully bound late Georgian edition of Moore's famed lyrics, including "The Last Rose of Summer" — this copy with a contemporary leather presentation bookplate to one Mary Harle.
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.
Scarce first edition of poetry by the fairy-tale specialist arranged in categories like "Science," "Cameos," and "Rhymes a la mode."
First printing of this selection of poems with a preface by actor and onetime Shelley portrayer Julian Sands, inscribed by editor Wu to contemporary poet and author of POSTHUMOUS KEATS: A Personal Biography, Stanley Plumly.
Handsome second edition of these sonnets on classical and Spanish themes, composed during and after the Swedish poet's diplomatic mission in Madrid, originally published in 1871.
Inscribed first printing of Heffernan's study of landscape in the arts of four English Romantic painters and poets, recipient of the Brown University Press First Book Prize Award.
First printing of the collected papers from the 1995 John Keats Bicentennial Conference, inscribed by editor Ronald Sharp to poet Stanley Plumly (author of the later POSTHUMOUS KEATS), with Plumly's own annotations.
Original catalogue for an exhibition to mark the bicentenary of John Keats, held by the Wordsworth Trust.
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.