POETRY from Franklin Gilliam :: Rare Books

London : Printed by W. Bulmer and Co, 1797. . 4to, contemporary marbled boards, leather spine and tips; front board skillfully rehinged; armorial bookplate of the ?Elliott family on front pastedown According to Lowndes this was privately printed for the Translater, Bedford, at about the time he went up to Cambridge.

London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd., 1911. . Small 8vo, original printed maroon stiff wrappers; spine and 1/2 inch across top back cover faded. FIRST EDITION.Lengthy In Memoriam by fellow poet and reviewer, Humbert Wolfe on the verso of the dedication page and facing "Author's Note"

Trajecti ad Rhenum [Utrecht]: Apud Henricum Spruit, 1748. . 8vo, full contemporary calf, lacking spine, front cover detached, but present Four volumes in one. Adriaan Reland (1676-1718), also known as Adriaen Reeland/Reelant and Hadrianus Relandus was a noted Dutch scholar, cartographer and philologist. and one of the early Orientalists. He made a long-lasting and significant contribution to the historical… Read more about this item

London: [Various Publishers], 1864-1892. . 8vo, various green cloths "Enoch Arden" (Moxon 1864); "Queen Mary" (King 1875Ñinner hinges cracked; 2nd Ed.)"Harold" (King 1877Ñinner front hinge cracked)"The Lover's Tale" (Kegan Paul 1879Ñring on front cover."Ballads and Other Poems" (Kegan Paul 1880Ñ(inner hinges cracked)"Tiresias" (Macmillan 1885Ñhead & tail spine slightly abraded)"Locksley Hall" (Macmillan 1886Ñhead & tail spine slightly abraded)"Demeter" (Macmillan… Read more about this item

Newcastle: J. White and T. Saint, 1764. . 8vo, modern paper-covered boards, leather spine and spine label; first few leaves dampstained; paper browned throughout; top edge cut; others untrimmed. Ownership signature of Richard Dodsley on the front free endpaper, dated 1769. FIRST EDITION. Text is largely extracted from his dissertation: "A dissertation on the rise, union, and powers, the… Read more about this item

London: Erskine Macdonald, Ltd., after 1927. . 8vo, rose-colored stiff wrappers, wallet edges, somewhat faded, outer front hinge cracked; edges chippe. No copies located in the US; 6 holdings in COPAC.Non-authorial gift presentation on the front free endpaper, dated 1927.The author is not to be consfused the American author Eliza Brown Chase who often signed her… Read more about this item

[Iowa City]: The Stone Wall Press [and] The Seamark Press, . . Small 8vo, bright blue cloth-covered boards, white paper label. As New One of 250 copies."The fourth Seamark book (Cargo, 1972) is set in Emerson, a type Kay would continue to use. This, you could say, is the first sign of her mature style. But Cargo represents yet… Read more about this item

London: Edward Moxon & Co., [1866]. . 8vo, green publisher's pebbled cloth, beveled edges, gilt on both covers and spine INSCRIBED on the front free endpaper: "G. R. Chapman, Esq. with kind compliments from Alfred B. Richards Feby 20th 1868"COPAC assigns this printing to 1866, the same year as the Chapman and Hall printing of the same number of… Read more about this item

Boston: D. Lothrop and Company, 1882. . 8vo, maroon cloth, title on front cover on gilt background, spine gilt. Superb condition. the slightest of wear on corners and tail of spine First Edition. BAL 7889. Two press clippings neatly pasted to back pastedown

[Berkeley: [The Shop, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, 1965. . 12mo. blue printed wrappers. As New. Treated are: Robin Blaser, Robert Creeley, Richard Duerden, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Leroi Jones, Joanne Kyger, Ron Loewinsohn, Charles Olson, Gary Snyder, Jack Spicer, George Stanley, Lew Welch, and John Wieners.

London: Printed and Sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster. Price 2 Pence, . . 8vo, disbound, showing evidence of previous pamphlet binding. One of several 1709 printings. This is ESTC 19866 and Foxon C19. No Priority established.This was also issued as part of: ÕA collection of the best English poetry, by several handsÕ, London, 1717.The poem… Read more about this item

London: John Murray, 1839. . 3 volumes. 12mo, rose ribbed cloth, spines faded and with some abrasion at head and tails.Frontispiece, half-title and extra-engraved title in each volume. Some foxing to early leaves in each volume FIRST EDITION? The extra-engraved titles are dated 1840.

London: Privately Printed, 1853. . 8vo, red contemporary 3/4 morocco, marbled boards, some wear on edges and corners; minor foxing on first and last few leaves. FIRST EDITION, the second of two privately printed editions. The first being printed in 1834. Finally published in 1862.INSCRIBED on the half-title by the editor, the author's father, to Mrs. [Sarah] Austin, an… Read more about this item

Winter Park, Florida: The Angel Alley Press, 1927. . 12mo, marbled boards, black cloth spine; non-authorial gift presentation on front free endpaper. One of 450 signed copies. Printed at the Cuneo Press, typography by Douglas C. McMurtrie

Windsor: The School (Printed by the Medici Society), 1937. . 4to, full vellum, arms of the college on front cover, t.e.g., others uncut; covers bowed; bookseller ticket of "The Brick Row Book Shop" Austin, Texas on the back pastedown Privately printed by the Medici Society for Eton College.In this case the preliminaries are misbound with the title following the… Read more about this item

Sewanee, Tennessee: University Press of Sewanee Tennessee, 1905. . Tall 12mo in halfsheets, blue paper-covered boards, white cloth spine (soiled); bottom corners badly bumped resulting in some paper loss One of 250 copies. This copy unopened and uncut

Paris: Baudry, at the English, Italian, Spanish, German and Portuguese Library, 1828. . 16mo, bright green wrappers, spine label; front wrapper lacking; text block broken at front but holding In "The British Classics" series.

Santa Fe: Writer's Editions, 1935. . Large 8vo, original black buckram, beveled edges, three ink spots on front free endpaper. One of 1,000 copies printed by the Rydal Press, and signed by the author

New-York: Printed and Published by George Long, 1821. . 12mo in half sheets, contemporary mottled calf, rear hinge repaired with original spine laid down; lightly foxed throughout; small ink-stain on S6-7 but text legible Shaw and Shoemaker 6105 listing four holdings. First published in Dublin in 1820.

Richmond: Whittet & Shepperson, 1895. . 8vo, sage-green cloth, gilt, slightly soiled, bevelled edges. Published posthumously, and published by his wife who has penned a gift presentation on the blank, following the front free endpaper.Evans, a lawyer, was born in King William County, in 1822; was educated in Richmond. On being admitted to the Bar he rose with distinction… Read more about this item