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(6) + 10 + 202 pages; with an engraved frontispiece and ten engraved plates, collated complete; there are also ten vignettes and engraved tail-pieces, per each canto of the poem; with the subscribers' list present, an interesting historical, social and literary study in itself and which also offers a research opportunity for the study of the sale of premier books by first-run authors of the time; the dedication and subscribers' list sections in English, the poem itself in French; printed on quality paper, with generous margins, the volume approx. 9 1/2" x 12" size; Francois-Marie Arouet, 'Voltaire' (1694-1778) French poet, historian and philosopher. Originally, this work appeared as la Ligue ou Henri le Grand in 1723, and as La Henriade in 1728, (here-where in exile in England, Voltaire improved and expanded this poem) which "...showed signs of the author's nascent political revolt...the dominant trait of his writings on political as well as on religious subjects is lack of respect for existing institutions and contempt for authority; he was thus a dissolvent influence and prepared the way for the Revolution..." (Oxford French); volume is approx. 9 1/2" x 12" size; previous owner inscription on title page lower margin of Salis Marschlins (perhaps of the Swiss scientist of that name, Carl Ulisses von Salis-Marschlins (1762 -1818) naturalist interested in botany , entomology, and conchology) and a further inscription in pencil noting "heritier epoux de Mlle de Leyden de Breda"; bound in full dark brown polished speckled 18th century leather, gilt cover armorial design, its form aligning with a design on a later 19th century bookplate on the endpaper of John Callendar Livingston, motto of "Si Je Puis", evidence on opposite endpaper of another bookplate, removed; thin-lined gilt rules and small corner floral ornaments on covers; 5 raised bands on spine, ornate gilt designs in compartments, no title label, gone; all edges lightly speckled in red; marbled endpapers; spine ends chipped away; the first and last leaves with a discoloration in the gutter; the quality of the paper is such that it did not allow further incursion of any staining, leaving the contents fresh; a clean, nice copy of one of Voltaire's earlier works, enhanced with the good engravings that illustrate the poetic work.
La Henriade.
Voltaire
London: 1728.
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(12) pages; Limited edition No. 70 of 75, first printing of this short lyrical work by William Stafford (1914-1993) American poet laureate; signed by Stafford and by Barry Moser, who accomplished the wood engravings, designed and accomplished the presswork of the piece; set in Eric Gill's Perpetua type, printed on Kitakata and Dover; approx. 6" x 7" oblong format; titles printed in purple-blue and text in black, engravings in sepia tones; not bound, this simply the original folded sheets, with several extra plain sheets used as covering, presumably as ready for a binding; virtually no wear and in very good condition.
Late, Passing Prairie Farm
Stafford, William
Northampton Massachusetts: Main Street, Inc., 1976.
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An interesting group of work by this Cuban writer; Spanish texts throughout; 5 Items include: Reino, La Habana 1938, one of 500 copies, unnumbered and signed in full on the title page, well-printed in red and black throughout by Garcia y Compania, que dirige Fernando Garcia Mora, bound in stiff printed paper wraps, some spine ends wear, very good; Conversacion A Mi Padre, Habana 1949 Coleccion "Yagruma" printed on handmade dark soft paper by Ayon, inscribed and signed in the year of publication by the author, "For Julie and Hoffman (Hays) Where are you? Best regards from Florit N.Y. Oct. 1949," 15 pages, stapled printed paper wraps, light wear, very good; La Estrella (Auto de Navidad) Ucar, Garcia y Cia La Habana 1947, inscribed and signed by the author in the year of publication
A Collection of 5 Signed and and Inscribed Items By Cuban Poet and Diplomat Eugenio Florit: Reino; La Estrella (Auto De Navidad); Asonante Final Y Otros Poemas (1946-1955); Conversacion a Mi Padre & Eugenio Florit Vida y Obra-Bibliografia-Antologia...
Florit, Eugenio
Havana & New York: Various, 1938.
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The Long Island Farmer's Poems: Lines Written on the "Quaker City" Excursion To Palestine, and other Poems
Cutter, Bloodgood H.
N.Tibbals & Sons 1886,
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Echoes from the Garret
Cecy (Celia Sealey)
Buffalo, New York: D.T. Stiles, 1861.
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Fetes De Venus. Inspirations De Catulle. & Conjectures Sur L'Auteur De La Veillee De Venus... Par M. De Cayrol & Sur La Fete Appelee La Veillee De Venus. De Cayrol & Lysis, Poeme & La Veille De Venus, Hymn Chantee Par Les Jeunes Romaines
De Catulle
France:
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19th Century Scrapbook Compiled in Southold Lond Island
(19th Century Scrapbook)
New York:
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The Poetry of Architecture: Cottage, Villa, Etc. To Which is Added Suggestions on Works of Art. By "Kata Phusin" Conjectured Nom-De-Plume of John Ruskin.
(Ruskin, John)
New York & Tokyo: John Wiley & Son, 1873.
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(42) pages; Copy No. "B" of 26 copies half-bound and lettered A-Z, signed by the author and including a hand-colored drawing by Doug Edge; printed in red & black type throughout; Additionally warmly inscribed and signed by the poet on the copyright page, "terry, its been "sheer joy" knowing you & your art all these years and our friendship will always mean so much to me. And if we could have another member in our family it would be You!, love, Anne"; laid-in is a black and and whilte illustrated card printed in red and black descrbing the editions available of the book; nicely printed and bound in red paper covered boards, black cloth spine, red cover titles; light wear; in very good condition, a nice example of this press' work.
A Slice of Wry
Edge, Anne
Isla Vista California: Turkey Press, 1981.
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xv + 249 pages; Inscribed and signed on the front endpaper, "For Jeanne Taylor with admiring regards - Max Eastman October 29 1955" and with a mailing envelope bearing Max Eastman's printed return address on back at 8 West 13th Street, New York postmarked Nov. 14 1955 and containing 2 typed letters signed by Max Eastman, a note typed and signed by him and a postcard typed and signed by him and a carbon copy of a letter sent to him from the inscribed Jeanne Taylor; all of this correspondence evidently having to do with Eastman's apartment and furnishings abused (and perhaps destroyed or lost) by Ms. Taylor, Jay Caldwell and Barbara Eldridge (who perhaps sublet his apartment) and who have signed in type on the carbon reply to Eastman's accusations and commiserations regarding his belongings with their side of the story; All the correspondence on Eastman's letterhead except for the postcard; Eastman always very polite and almost apologetic regarding the distasteful circumstances of the communications, mostly he is pained by the apparent loss of part a manuscript that he'd left at his place; Max Forrester Eastman (1883-1969) writer and political activist, editor of the 'Masses' from 1912, transformed a foundering socialist monthly into a lively leftwing periodical that provided a forum for opposition to American entry into World War I, also founded in 1919 the 'Liberator', regarded as the chief Anti-Stalinist on the American left, Eastman became increasingly disenchanted with the left and moved steadily towards a much more rightist viewpoint in his career. (DAB); with a prefatory foreword by the author and essays concerning poetry at the back; some edge, tips wear, darkening to the dustjacket; contents in very good condition.
Poems of Five Decades (with) a Group of Letters Signed from the Author
Eastman, Max
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1954.
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Le Avventure Di Due Fedelissimi Amanti Paris e Vienna: Composta in Ottava Rima
Orvietavo, Angelo Albani
Napoli: F. Avallone, 1871.
Price: $165.00
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Poems
Wingate, Maude Lamb
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1938.
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xii + 235 pages; with a dedication by Washington Irving to Samuel Rogers and a preface by William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) American poet and editor; by 1840 he had become one of the leading Democratic editors in the nation, which he later broke with and began to take an advanced position against slavery, eventually taking a radical antislavery position; this is the first British edition of his Poems, introduced by his friend Irving to the British public. (DAB); previous owner bookplate of William John Robertson on the front endpaper; previous owner initial on title page; bound in greeen pebbled cloth, dark brown leather spine and corners, gilt rules, gilt spine titles, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, by Palmer Howe and Co. Manchester, with their binder's stamp at the front endpaper edge; some wear and rubbing to covers, spine leather sunned to lighter brown; endpapers with some foxing; overall, good condition, good Medford Middlesex Massachusetts genealogical and historical material.
Poems By William Cullen Bryant, an American. Edited By Washington Irving.
(William Cullen Bryant)
London: J. Andrews, 1832.
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In two volumes; lxii + 173 pages + 243 pages; illustrated with tissue-guarded portrait frontispieces of Browning and with facsimiles of her writings in the text; one of a limited edition of 453 copies printed at the De Vinne Press for the Bibliophile Society; Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) English poet, read Homer in Greek and wrote verses a the age of eight, in 1833 her 'Prometheus Bound' was published and constantly wrote prose and verse after this, met and married Robert Browning, with whom she lived for most of the rest of her life in Italy-she also took a keen interest in the Italian struggle for freedom. (DNB); previous owner pencil name on the endpaper of Vol. II of Mary Ella Hopkins August 27, 1940; bound in the original light brown full butter calf leather boards, conservatively gilt ruled, gilt titled, gilt Bibliophile Society emblem on spines, top edges gilt; contained in the original yellow polished paper covered slipcases with brown cloth spines, which are in turn contained in brown cloth slipcases having paper title labels on the spines; outer cases browned and worn; slight wear to bindings, contents very clean and in very good condition.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Hitherto Unpublished poems and Stories with an Inedited Autobiography
(Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
Boston: The Bibliophile Society, 1914.
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(85) pages; the poem and with notes following by Felicia Dorothea Hemans [née Browne] (1793-1835) British poet "...In the 1970s and especially the 1980s feminist critics began to find value in her studies of women's situations and women's creativity. In the 1990s historicist critics took up questions of style, poetics, and politics, arguing that these reveal Hemans as a critic of conventions such as patriotism and female self-sacrifice. Hemans is now recognized by many literary historians as the most notable British poet flourishing between the death of Byron and the rise of Tennyson and the Brownings." (Nanora Sweet in the DNB); handwritten throughout in a light sepia ink, in a good later 19th-century hand, with few errors and corrections and rather elegantly presented in a straight-grain full green morocco leather binding, gilt cover titles and roll-tool decorated bordering, spine with gilt rules, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt; evidently produced with some painstaking effort and with a bookplate of E.F. Keene laid-in, presenting the book via a handwritten note on the plate to F.E. Keene in 1931, "...on her eighteenth birthday..." from her father; binding with some wear and rubbing, little chipping along spine edge, still firm and sound, a handsome look; very good condition.
The Forest Sanctuary By Felicia Hemans Handwritten and Leatherbound
(Felicia Hemans)
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125 pages, printed letterpress by de D'Hautel; 4 1/4" x 2 1/2"; engraved frontispiece illustration of a gentleman speaking in a fashionable drawing room, audience of men and women "Le Coeur d'Iris ne fut jamais severe; Elle a pitie de mon paubre orphelin" and a nice little title page illustration of a dapper man in a top hat peering into a tall cupboard filled with plates of food; songs of food and drink, including several Chansons De Table, Chansons a Boire; Ma Bouteille, Le Trin Trin Ronde, L'Eloge De Bacchus, L'union De Bacchus et De l'Amour, Le Secret Revele, Le Whisk, La Maitresse, L'abandon de la Virginite, more; Partying, partaking in Risque Behavior, Light Erotica: "...Elle dit et s'enfuit, comme un eclair rapide; La nymphe dont le coeur eu est encore epris; Jusqu'a trois fois en vain la rappelle a grand cris. Le seul hymen descend, de sa conquete avide, A la main de l'epoux il joint sa main timide, Et bientot a ses pleurs ont succede les ris."; old paper binding; worn; some foxing throughout, edge tears and "bites" (no loss to text); OCLC search in 2006 lists only one holding for this title; good minus condition for reading or reference.
Le Nouveau Chansonnier De La Table et Du Lit
(French Songs)
Paris: Chez Davi et Locard Libraires, 1816.
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Illuminations I Summer 1965
(Illuminations)
San Francisco California: Illuminations Press, 1965.
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Greetings from the George O'Connells and the Lewis Turcos 1990
O'Connell, George & Turco, Lewis
Mathom/Grey Heron, 1990.
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South Manuscript Poem By Lucien Stryk
Stryk, Lucien
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On Wind of Chance
Cummins, Virginia Kent
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1931.
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