Select Poems, Signed (18 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 184 Pages, Inscribed " This Copy Of . Is For Both Engels ! J Colombo " This Inscription T Canadian Authors Howard And Marian Engel. Pages A Bit Browing O/W Sound. Inscribed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. About the book: Softcover. Staples exposed. Signed by Carruthers below his image. Poem by Edna St. Millay has been written out in full on first blank page. Book is in fair condition with a fair bit of wear and tear. Additional photos available upon request. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Presumed first edition. No additional dates, editions or printings indicated. Near fine 29 page saddle-stapled chapbook. Only trivial signs of age/wear/previous use, primarily barely noticeable sun-darkening along spine. May be signed by author on half title page: "To XXXXXX-Bless your loving heart and thank you for everything Love Kathleen August 29 1999". Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. [Association Copy: West Virginia Provenance] Inscribed by the author's son, Arthur English, to the Hon. Stephen B. Elkins. Elkins was the Secretary of War, a Congressman and U.S. Senator from West Virginia for two terms. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. 1st Edition. See photos for condition details. Hardcover, inscribed and signed by the author on the second front end page: "To (illegible name) from Thos Dunn English. A blind man's autograph.". Dr. English lost most of his eyesight from his literary exertions before his death in 1902. Blue cloth boards with gilt on text and spine. Exterior shows scuffing and soiling along with edge and corner bumps/wear top 1 inch of spine has a couple scuffs as well as a small tear. The interior binding of the text portion of the pages are good as is the front hinge though the rear hinge is starting to open at the top 2 inches. Rear pastedown also has a small spot to the paper. Pages are toned due to age and there is some very minor scattered foxing present. There are also a couple pages that had small corner folds which have been straightened out. Minor chipping is also present on a few scattered pages. Signed by Author(s).

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Review pasted to first page. Grey top page edges. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Author Signed.

Hardcover , Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First Edition, viii + 120 + (1)pp of book adverts, an inscription in a contemporary hand 'From the Author' on the half title, uncut, original boards, neatly & expertly re-spined, C. & W. Galabin, London, 1803. * extremely pleasing typography. Oriental scholar and historian, best known for being one of the earliest writers to popularise the history and religion of India. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition||Inscribed. This is an early edition of "The Young Carthaginian: A Story of the Times of Hannibal" by G.A. Henty, published by Blackie & Son, Limited, and Charles Scribner's Sons. The book features a signature on the title page, which may be the author's. The cover and spine show some wear, typical for its age. A great addition for collectors of historical fiction or G.A. Henty's works. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Green soft cover with silver lettering on front cover. Title and copyright pages dated 1930. 112 pages. Covers are slightly tattered along edges. Silver lettering on front cover is shiny and legible. Deckle edge pages. 3 line inscription on front free endpaper, not from the authors, dated January 3rd, 1930. Folded newspaper clipping showing a review of this title by David Rankin Barbee, who made the inscription on the front free endpaper, has been glued to the title page. Toning in the shape of this newspaper clipping on title page and opposite title page. Pages are otherwise clean and tidy. Binding is strong. Very Good condition. Signed by both authors on the title page with no inscription. Please contact us with questions or if you would like to see photographs. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. First edition. Thick 8vo in navy blue cloth lettered in gilt. x+ 694 pp. All pages of the text bordered in red. A tight, bright, fine example. Laid in is a short typed note dated at Newark, N.J. October 14th, 1894 and signed "Yours truly/ Thos. Dunn English'. Thomas Dunn English (1819-1902) was Philadelphia native who spent most of his life in neighboring southern New Jersey. In addition to being an author, poet and songwriter, he was a U.S. Congressman 1891-95. His most famous piece was "Ben Bolt" (1843) that was published in the New York Mirror. English was a friend of Edgar Allan Poe but broke with him over a scandal concerning Frances Sargent Osgood and Elizabeth Ellet. Skeptical of Poe's side of the story, the two engaged in a fistfight; thereafter, Poe attacked English's work in print and English responded in kind (one of English's published pieces resulted in a successful libel suit against him by Poe).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover, 91 pages. Bound in full leather with gold tooling. Marbled endpapers. Engraved title page. This copy is inscribed on the first blank page by Philidelphia Barnard - wife or daughter of the auther, perhaps. Very good condition. One of 50 copies. This volume is from a large collection of Italian Humanist writings, Italian memorial volumes from the 18th and 19th cenutry, and assorted works of Dante and Petrarch. If you'd like to see a complete list, please drop me a note. The Riverby C-Series. Signed by Author(s).

Boston: Hilliard, Gray, 1839. First edition. Original green cloth, printed paper label. Volume III of George Ripley's "Specimens of Foreign Standard Literature". A presentation copy: "G.W. Haven, Esq. with the respects of J.S. Dwight". George Wallis Haven contributed some of the translations. Also helping Dwight were George Bancroft, Sarah Margaret Fuller (BAL 6489, her first appearance in a book), James Freeman Clarke, William Henry Channing, Frederic Henry Hedge, Nathaniel Langdon Frothingham, Charles Timothy Brooks, and Christopher Pearse Cranch. Dedicated to Thomas Carlyle, who told George Ellis in May of 1839 that Dwight, in this translation, ".seemed to understand the matter better than anyone else." Spine sunned. Label rubbed and chipped. Front hinge starting. Light foxing. A Very Good copy.

vii, [3], 264pp; viii, 264pp, half titles. 12mo signed in sixes. Early handwritten note to vol. II p.123 identifying an author. Some offset browning to endpapers, otherwise a v.g. clean copy. Full contemporary calf, raised & gilt banded spines, red morocco labels; v. sl. wear to one spine head. v.g. ESTC T117085, noting the final page of Vol. I misnumbered 64, but in this copy it is printed correctly. In Edinburgh in 1758 Donaldson first published his Select Collection of Modern Poems which he re-issued in 1759 and 1763, but this 1768 title is not related, and is in fact the first Scots piracy of Robert Dodsley's Collection which had last been published in London in 1766. Although 95% of the pages are taken from Dodsley the prefatory advertisement skilfully conceals this fact, and announces that the poems 'have been carefully selected by gentlemen well known in the poetical world. [and] are undoubtedly the best collection. in the English language, yet offered to the public'. This was most likely to conceal its origins from James Dodsley, who had taken over sole control of the family business, and also to make it more saleable to a London market. Eight new poems were added, including The Vanity of Human Wishes, by Samuel Johnson, and it was also advertised for sale at Donaldson's London shop, which he had opened in 1763 to compete with the London booksellers. His Edinburgh shop was already well established, selling cheap reprints to undercut London printings, and was frequented by Boswell. Samuel Johnson disliked Donaldson, thinking him 'a fellow who takes advantage of the law to injure his brethren.'. While he made a fortune in his reprint business, he had to bear the expense of legal actions over copyright infringement, and in three cases against him, Boswell acted as his advocate. (Ref: Books & Their Readers in the 18th Century, edited by Isabel Rivers, 2001.).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8° - 8 Original prints acquatint (surrealist). Georg Trakl - "Bottom" Select poems from the legacy. The fables were selected, translated from German and afterwords were written by Ludvik Kundera (1920-2010) Czech writer, translator, poet, playwright, editor and literary historian. The illustrations were graphically edited as part of his diploma work by Pavel Campulka (1943)from the studio of prof. Zdenek Sklenar at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. The text was printed in the school workshop by Marcell Stochl. First edition, published in only 25 numbered copies. Inscribed by Ludwik Kundera and signed by Pavel Campulka. Original boards and slipcase. In Fine condition. Inscribed by Author(s).

29 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The Augustan Books of Poetry Edited by Edward Thompson. 29 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed on p. iii: "Father Charles Nivens from Alfred Douglas November 1938. "This sixpenny edition was published more than twenty years ago & is now out of print. "A.D." An curious question arises here: who pasted the title-page down, which would have belied Douglas' assertion of the antiquity of the book? Original (?) wrappers,with a rectangular incision into the upper cover, displaying the words ?Lord Alfred Douglas? from the title-page, which has been pasted onto the inner front over, obscuring the imprint The Augustan Books of Poetry Edited by Edward Thompson. Signed.

1 vols. 12mo. Second edition. Second edition. 1 vols. 12mo. This collection contains "On a Lady's presenting a Sprig of Myrtle to a Gentleman" by Mr. Hammond (Samuel Johnson) on page 125. There is another poem signed Mr. Hammond on page 57 (contents leaf gives page 47), entitled "A Love Elegy." Grey's "Elegy" is included, two original poems by "a Gentleman formerly of the University of Aberdeen" are among the selections as is a poem by Warton. NCBEL 2:1144 Attractive contemporary calf, some rubbing, generally light, minor worming in lower corner, some browning from turn-ins, else a very nice copy. Signed.

Condition: Fine. Fair copies, each signed at top of page. 2 pp., on recto and verso of a single leaf, in ink. Two lyrics, literally back-to-back, expressive of the poet's yearning for escape. Fair copies, each signed at top of page. 2 pp., on recto and verso of a single leaf, in ink. Signed.

Photographic portrait of the author by Furie Mac Donald mounted as frontispiece. 120 leaves, blank ink on Fabriano (retos only), signed on the title page, at the foot of "The Man with the Hoe", and several other poems. Folio. Superbly executed manuscript fair copy of Markham's own selections of his verse, including "The Man with the Hoe" (signed and dated May 1920), "Keats A-Dyng", Our Israfel, In Memory of Edgar Allan Poe", "The Thinker", and many others, long and short. Edwin Markham (1852-1940) had inscribed a copy of The Man with the Hoe (1899) for Hyatt in 1914; this is further testimony to their friendship. Full blue levant gilt, boards with fiv fillet border, spine titled in gilt,turn-ins gilt, silk doublures, t.e.g. Slight traces of rubbing. Fine. Cloth slipcase Photographic portrait of the author by Furie Mac Donald mounted as frontispiece. 120 leaves, blank ink on Fabriano (retos only), signed on the title page, at the foot of ?The Man with the Hoe?, and several other poems. Folio. Signed.