THE LITTLE REVIEW, Vol. IV, No. 5
September, 1917
Lively issue of the celebrated Modernist journal, with contributions from T.S. Eliot and others.
Criticism
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THE LITTLE REVIEW, Vol. III, No. 3
May, 1916
Issue of the celebrated Modernist magazine, including Emma Goldman's LETTERS FROM PRISON.
THE LITTLE REVIEW, Vol. XI, No. 2
Winter 1926
"Special Theatre Number" of the celebrated Modernist magazine, featuring one of the lit mag's celebrated graphic cover designs.
THE LITTLE REVIEW, Vol. III, No. 4
June-July, 1916
Double issue of the celebrated Modernist magazine.
THE LITTLE REVIEW, Vol. 1, No. 10
January, 1915
Early issue of the celebrated Modernist journal, full of vigorous cultural and literary criticism.
ECONOMY OF THE UNLOST: (Reading Simonides of Keos with Paul Celan)
(1999)
First edition of Carson's comparative study of Simonides and Paul Celan, part of the Martin Classical Lectures series, from the library of poet Stanley Plumly and with his marginal commentary.
HART CRANE'S THE BRIDGE: An Annotated Edition
2011
First edition thus of this thoroughly annotated and elucidated edition of Crane's modernist epic.
CENTRE AND PERIPHERY IN MODERN BRITISH POETRY
(2005)
First printing, review copy, of this sharply argued and observed "history without narrative" of modern poetry in Britain.
THE NEGRO IN ENGLISH ROMANTIC THOUGHT
1942
First printing of this critical assessment of the appearance of Black people in Romantic poetry and prose by a trailblazing Black academic.
REMEMBERING POETS: Reminiscences and Opinions
(1978)
Review copy of Hall's personally gathered "literary gossip" about Ezra Pound, Dylan Thomas, T.S. Eliot, and Robert Frost.
THE TRUTH OF POETRY: Tensions in Modern Poetry from Baudelaire to the 1960s
(1969)
First printing of this critical discussion of modern US and European poetry and its difficulties.
A LITTLE BOOK ON FORM: An Exploration into the Formal Imagination of Poetry
(2017)
First printing of Hass's largish "little book" on poetic form, an outgrowth of a seminar originally developed for the University of Iowa Writers Workshop.
WHAT LIGHT CAN DO: Essays on Art, Imagination, and the Natural World
(2012)
First printing of these collected essays, primarily on literature, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and former Poet Laureate of the United States.
JOHN KEATS: A Poet and His Manuscripts
(2009)
First printing of this illustrated literary biography of Keats, traced through the history of his surviving manuscripts.
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.
THE POUND ERA
1971
Rare first printing of Kenner's most important work, a monumental study of modernist literature and an argument for Ezra Pound's centrality to it.
WHAT PERSISTS: Selected Essays on Poetry from The Georgia Review 1988-2014
(2016)
First edition of this collection of eighteen of Kitchen's critical essays on contemporary writers, with a foreword by Stephen Corey.
THE GREAT WILLIAM: Writers Reading Shakespeare
(2016)
First edition of this critical study of Shakespearean readings by Coleridge, Keats, Woolf, Charles Olson, John Berryman, Allen Ginsberg, and Ted Hughes, inscribed by Leinwand to contemporary poet Stanley Plumly.
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.
JOHN KEATS POETRY MANUSCRIPTS AT HARVARD
1990
Lovely first printing of Keats's poetry holographs held by Harvard, reproduced here in 140 photographs with facing-page transcriptions.
THE TEXTS OF KEATS'S POEMS
1974
First printing of Stillinger's major study of the textual history of Keats's holograph manuscripts, transcripts, and early printings.
TALKING WITH POETS
(2002)
Advance uncorrected proof copy of these collected student interviews with Robert Pinsky, Seamus Heaney, Philip Levine, Michael Hofmann, and David Perry.
THE OCEAN, THE BIRD AND THE SCHOLAR
2015
First edition of this collection of essays on 19th- and 20th-century poets, including Elizabeth Bishop, Wallace Stevens, Seamus Heaney, and Jorie Graham.
ROMANTIC SHADES AND SHADOWS
(2018)
First edition of this critical examination of the spooks, haunts, and phantasms of Byron, Keats, Coleridge, M. Shelley, Hazlitt, Wordsworth, and others.
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