JUNKETS ON A SAD PLANET: Scenes From the Life of John Keats
1994
First printing of Clark's biography in verse, poetic novel, or "historical oratorio" on the life of Keats.
19th century
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THE TOUR OF DOCTOR SYNTAX
[circa 1860]
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.
THE RE-CREATION OF LANDSCAPE
1984
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.
THE LIVES OF THE MOST EMINENT ENGLISH POETS
1806
Late Georgian edition of Johnson's landmark collection of essays on 52 poets, a major work in English canon formation.
JOHN KEATS AND PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY: Essential Poems
2016
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.
RHYMES A LA MODE
1885
Scarce first edition of poetry by the fairy-tale specialist arranged in categories like "Science," "Cameos," and "Rhymes a la mode."
HERODIAS
(1940)
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.
Original Mourning Card from Mallarme's Funeral
[September, 1898]
Stark and haunting card of mourning from the September 10th, 1898 funeral of Stephane Mallarmé.
THE RAVEN AND OTHER POEMS
1845
First edition in book form of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven," the single most famous American poem of the nineteenth century.
THE PERSISTENCE OF POETRY: Bicentennial Essays on Keats
(1998)
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.
THE SENSITIVE PLANT
[1911]
Scarce and magnificent deluxe edition of this beautifully illustrated edition of Shelley's poem in the original dust jacket.
THE SENSITIVE PLANT
[1911]
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.
THE MILLER'S DAUGHTER
[1857]
Lovely Victorian edition of Tennyson's classic love poem, in a deluxe leather binding.
LEAVES OF GRASS
1856
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.
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