Manuscript Poetry from Charles Agvent
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SELECTED POEMS Inscribed with Two Autograph Poems
by SASSOON, Siegfried
- Condition
- Used - Minor rubbing to edges; short closed tear at lower edge of half-title; minor split between gatherings C and D; minor paper clip
- Edition
- Reprint
- Published
- (1935)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 8,591.25
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London: William Heinemann Ltd., (1935). Reprint. Hardcover. Minor rubbing to edges; short closed tear at lower edge of half-title; minor split between gatherings C and D; minor paper clip stains and toning touching poems. Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper. INSCRIBED by the poet Kate Carter/Hotel Boulevard/Veytaux/1935 on the front free endpaper. In addition Sassoon has written two AUTOGRAPH… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 8,591.25
AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED (AQS)
by LOWELL, James Russell
- Condition
- Used - Minor stains from mounting on verso. Boldly written and attractive. About Fine
- Published
- 11 January 1886
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- Manuscript
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 1,030.95
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Deerfoot Farm, 11 January 1886. Manuscript. Minor stains from mounting on verso. Boldly written and attractive. About Fine. On a 4-1/2" x 6-3/4" sheet of paper Lowell has written out the last 8 lines of his long poem Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration, July 21, 1865, written for and read at the Commemoration Day exercises at Harvard… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 1,030.95
AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT SIGNED (AMS) with Partial Manuscripts
by LOWELL, James Russell
- Condition
- Used - Mounting on verso obscures a few letters. Very Good in a Fine slipcase
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- Manuscript
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 1,288.69
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Manuscript. Mounting on verso obscures a few letters. Very Good in a Fine slipcase. On a 3-1/2" x 6" sheet of paper Lowell has written out his poem A[n] Epigram on Certain Conservatives, and SIGNED it below with his initials and a closing: "So, ending with a piece of/nonsense for a stopgap/I remain yours as always/J.R.L." On the… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 1,288.69
A SAD HEART AT THE SUPERMARKET with a Complete MANUSCRIPT of His Poem "The Sign"
by JARRELL, Randall
- Condition
- Used - A few spots of foxing to the bulked fore-edge of the text. Near Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1962
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 6,013.88
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New York: Atheneum, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. A few spots of foxing to the bulked fore-edge of the text. Near Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper. This collection of essays and fables is INSCRIBED on the front pastedown and SIGNED by the poet "For David Posner/from/Randall Jarrell/with all best wishes." On the facing page, the front endpaper, Jarrell… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 6,013.88
THE WOMAN AT THE WASHINGTON ZOO with a Complete MANUSCRIPT of His Poem "A War"
by JARRELL, Randall
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1960
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 6,013.88
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New York: Atheneum, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. His fourth book. INSCRIBED on the verso of the front blank and SIGNED by the poet "To David Rogers/with all best wishes/from/Randall Jarrell." On the facing page Jarrell has also written out the complete short but powerful poem, "A War," first published in NATION… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 6,013.88
THE SEVEN-LEAGUE CRUTCHES with a Complete MANUSCRIPT of His Famous Poem "A Sick Child"
by JARRELL, Randall
- Condition
- Used - Slight toning to text; covers a little marked with minor fraying along spine edge. Very Good in a Near Fine dustwrapper
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- (1951)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 12,886.88
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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1951). First Edition. Hardcover. Slight toning to text; covers a little marked with minor fraying along spine edge. Very Good in a Near Fine dustwrapper. His fourth book. INSCRIBED on the front free endpaper and pastedown and SIGNED by the poet to his friends and poets Meryl and Courtney Johnson. Jarrell has… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 12,886.88
NORTH OF BOSTON
by FROST, Robert
- Condition
- Used - Evidence of removal of bookplate on the front pastedown; light edgewear. Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Published
- (Dec. 1925)
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 4,295.62
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New York: Henry Holt and Company, (Dec. 1925). Second Edition. Hardcover. Evidence of removal of bookplate on the front pastedown; light edgewear. Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper. Cloth-backed boards. Later Printing (December 1925) of Frost's second book. Portrait frontispiece of the author. SIGNED by the poet on the front endpaper with a three-line stanza from a poem in… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 4,295.62
THE VEIL AND OTHER POEMS
by DE LA MARE, Walter
- Condition
- Used - Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- (1921)
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 601.39
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London: Constable and Co. Ltd., (1921). First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper. Cloth-backed decorated boards with a paper spine label. The trade edition INSCRIBED for Aubrey Lees in 1953 and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper where De La Mare has written out a MANUSCRIPT POEM that appears on page 9 of the book,… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 601.39
SELECTED POEMS
by FROST, Robert
- Condition
- Two facing pages tanned from a previously laid in newsclipping, another two facing pages with old adhesive stain at the gutters;
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- (1928)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 2,577.38
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New York: Henry Holt and Company, (1928). First Edition. Hardcover. Two facing pages tanned from a previously laid in newsclipping, another two facing pages with old adhesive stain at the gutters; slightly shaken. Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper. Cloth-backed boards. This copy is INSCRIBED "Garnett F. Colgan" and SIGNED by the poet on the title page with one… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 2,577.38
A FURTHER RANGE
by FROST, Robert
- Condition
- Used - Owner name on the front endpaper. Spine sunned. Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- (1936)
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 8,591.25
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New York: Henry Holt and Company, (1936). First Edition. Hardcover. Owner name on the front endpaper. Spine sunned. Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper. A later printing of the First Trade Edition of Frost's third Pulitzer Prize winner. This copy is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the half-title page to a professor at the University of Texas,… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 8,591.25
NEW HAMPSHIRE. A POEM WITH NOTES AND GRACE NOTES
by FROST, Robert
- Condition
- Used - Light wear to the corners and faint dampstaining to the very edge of the boards and endpapers. Near Fine, lacking the dustwrappe
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1923
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 3,436.50
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New York: Henry Holt, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Light wear to the corners and faint dampstaining to the very edge of the boards and endpapers. Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper. J. J. Lankes. Fourth Printing of this, one of Frost's most notable books and winner of his first Pulitzer Prize containing such poems as "Stopping by Woods on… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 3,436.50
NEW HAMPSHIRE. A POEM WITH NOTES AND GRACE NOTES with AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT STANZA
by FROST, Robert
- Condition
- Used - Very light wear to the spine tips and corners. At the bottom blank margin of the poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay," the previous owne
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1923 (1924)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 6,873.00
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New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1923 (1924). First Edition. Hardcover. Very light wear to the spine tips and corners. At the bottom blank margin of the poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay," the previous owner has penned a poem by Emily Dickinson. Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper. J. J. Lankes. Third Printing of the First Trade Edition of… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 6,873.00
NORTH OF BOSTON
by FROST, Robert
- Condition
- Used - Hinges cracked, possibly repaired, but now tight; spine a bit dull. Very Good in a Near Fine dustwrapper
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Published
- 1914 (Dec 1924)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 6,013.88
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New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1914 (Dec 1924). Second Edition. Hardcover. Hinges cracked, possibly repaired, but now tight; spine a bit dull. Very Good in a Near Fine dustwrapper. Cloth-backed boards. Later Printing (December 1924) of Frost's second book. Portrait frontispiece of the author. SIGNED by the poet on the front endpaper with some of his most… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 6,013.88
NORTH OF BOSTON
by FROST, Robert
- Condition
- Used - Owner name and address on the rear endpaper. Spine quite dull with the lettering barely visible. Near Fine, lacking the dustwrap
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Published
- (Jan. 1929)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 3,866.06
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New York: Henry Holt and Company, (Jan. 1929). Second Edition. Hardcover. Owner name and address on the rear endpaper. Spine quite dull with the lettering barely visible. Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper. Cloth-backed boards. Later Printing (January 1929) of Frost's second book. Portrait frontispiece of the author. SIGNED by the poet on the title page with one of… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 3,866.06
COLLECTED POEMS OF ROBERT FROST with AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT POEM
by FROST, Robert
- Condition
- Used - Fine, lacking the dustwrapper
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- (1939)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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SGD 12,886.88
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New York: Halcyon House, (1939). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine, lacking the dustwrapper. First Printing of the Halcyon House edition, a near exact reproduction of the Holt edition published a month earlier but without the introduction. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author "For Cornelius Weygandt" on the front endpaper with the final eight lines of the final poem in… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 12,886.88
AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT: "After Sunset"
by SWINBURNE, Algernon
- Condition
- Used - Some edgewear to the paper with a small piece, containing part of the title, detached but present. Paper somewhat fragile but st
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- n.d
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- Manuscript
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 2,577.38
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n.p., n.d. Manuscript. Some edgewear to the paper with a small piece, containing part of the title, detached but present. Paper somewhat fragile but still Very Good. HOLOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT Poem in Swinburne's hand of 25 lines titled "After Sunset" on two sides of a 5-3/8" x 11-3/4" sheet of plain paper. The poem is identical to the version… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 2,577.38
EASTER DAY
by COPPARD, A. E
- Condition
- Used - Fine in a Very Good slipcase with minor wear and splits
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- n.d [1931]
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 257.74
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n.p., n.d [1931]. First Edition. hardcover. Fine in a Very Good slipcase with minor wear and splits. Green marbled boards lettered in red backed with green cloth. A lithographic reproduction of four leaves of the original manuscript of this poem, with the fifth and last page, consisting of four lines, in the author's HOLOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT. SIGNED and dated… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 257.74
AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT POEM (Juvenilia - 4 pages): "Bank Holiday"
by AUDEN, W. H
- Condition
- Used - Several words on the last page are partly faded and obliterated by a repaired tear. A spectacular find in Good to Very Good cond
- Published
- [1926]
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- Manuscript
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 12,886.88
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[1926]. Manuscript. Several words on the last page are partly faded and obliterated by a repaired tear. A spectacular find in Good to Very Good condition. Exceptionally scarce 4-page AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT of a poem written by Auden as a teenager. Published in THE OXFORD OUTLOOK in November 1926 and not published in book form until 1994 in W.… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 12,886.88
NORTH OF BOSTON with an AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED and a 14-line MANUSCRIPT FRAGMENT OF "BIRCHES" by Frost
by FROST, Robert
- Condition
- Used - Gilt bright, very minor rubbing to the spine tips. The scarce dustwrapper has the correct spelling of "faint" on the front. Some
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Published
- 1915
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 42,956.25
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New York: Henry Holt, 1915. First American Edition. Hardcover. Gilt bright, very minor rubbing to the spine tips. The scarce dustwrapper has the correct spelling of "faint" on the front. Some mild chipping to the head of the spine just affecting "North" in the title and slightly extending to both panels. Near Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper. … Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 42,956.25
SELECTED POEMS with AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT POEM
by FROST, Robert
- Condition
- Used - Spine a tad darkened, gilt still clear. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. A beautiful example
- Edition
- Third Edition
- Published
- (1934)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 11,168.62
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New York: Henry Holt, (1934). Third Edition. Hardcover. Spine a tad darkened, gilt still clear. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. A beautiful example. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author "For Harry and Anna-Louise Rudin of Vermont" on the front endpaper with the entire eight-line poem "Dust of Snow" in FROST'S HOLOGRAPH above the inscription.
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SGD 11,168.62