Search Results: Poetry from Garnet Books

New York: Harmony Books, [1978]. Hardcover. Good/poor. 4to. [126] pp. Bound in brown boards, title stamped in pink on front cover and spine, in brown dust jacket printed in pink, black and white photograph on front cover. Photographs by Joseph Szabo with poetry by teens collected by Alan Ziegler from his poetry workshops. Foreword by Cornell Capa. Good, previous owner's full page inscription to front free endpaper, otherwise internally clean and tight, 2" water stain across top edge of front cover, some staining across bottom edge of rear cover, light rubbing to head and tail of spine and corners, in Poor price-clipped dust jacket, several 1" tears, chips missing at bottom edge of front cover, edges of verso heavily abraded especially at top edge of front cover. In protective mylar.

Middletown, CT: The Piratical Primrose Press, 1984. Paperback. Fine/fine. Reed, Joseph. 12mo. 36, [4] pp. Bound in sewn white wrappers in marbled dust jacket, paper title label affixed to front cover. Illustrated with black and white effigies by Joseph Reed. Introduction and notes by W. Leeming. Inscribed by Horgan on inside of front cover: "Howard/&/Shirley/allgood/greetings/Christmas/1984/Paul." Fine, bright copy, in Fine dust jacket.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. Second Printing. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. 8vo. xiv, 250, [4] pp. Bound in dark gray over light gray boards, in illustrated dust jacket. Fine, bright, crisp copy, in Near Fine dust jacket with light scuffing to extremities.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. 8vo. 60 pp. Bound in half green cloth over gray boards, stamped in gilt on cover and spine, deckle edge, in illustrated dust jacket. First Edition stated, with full number line. Very Good+, crisp and clean, minor age-toning and shelf wear to extremities, in Near Fine dust jacket with minor shelf wear.

[Washington, D.C.]: Pushkin Press, [1982]. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. 78, [2] pp. Bound in illustrated wrappers. Illustrated with 8 color plates by the author. Inscribed by Author on half-title: "For Judith-/April/84/Blessings and Best Wishes,/wCs." Very Good, scuffing and wear to wrappers, internally bright.

Washington DC: Howard University Press, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 8vo. xiv, 216 pp. Bound in full natural cloth, title stamped in brown on spine, in brown, yellow, black and white dust jacket. Very Good, back board slightly bowed, previous owner's large stamp and name in ink to half title, otherwise clean, tight copy, in Very Good dust jacket with minor wear and chipping to extremities, scuffing overall.

New York: Viking, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good +. Bearden, Ro. 4to. 32 pp. Bound in glossy, illustrated boards, in matching dust jacket. Hughes poems is illustrated with full color collage by Romare Bearden. Near Fine, minor age-toning to pages, light bumping to corners of binding, otherwise clean, bright copy, in Very Good+ dust jacket with two short tears to top edge of rear cover, rubbing and wear to extremities, overall scuffing.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good +. Small 4to. x, 86 pp. Bound in gold cloth, in gold, illustrated dust jacket. Illustrations by the Author throughout. Near Fine, bright, clean copy, a few tiny pin pricks to lower front cover, erasure mark to front free endpaper, in Very Good+ dust jacket with several small pin pricks to lower front cover, minor light creasing to extremities.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1934. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good. First Edition. 8vo. 106 pp. Bound in blue paper covered boards, paper title labels pasted to cover and spine. Very Good+, previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper, foxing to edges of text block, internally clean, minor wear to extremities, in Very Good dust jacket with rubbing and wear to spine and extremities, two small pieces missing to lower edge of front cover.

New York: John Day Company, [1934]. Hardcover. Very Good/fair. 8vo. [14], 76, [2] pp. Bound in full green cloth, title stamped in gilt on spine, in gray dust jacket printed in black. Inscribed by Poet on front free endpaper: "To Carolyn Savidge/Audrey Wurdemann/May 29,1934." Wurdemann won the 1935 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for this, her first collection of poems. Very Good+, age-toning to pages, otherwise internally clean, rubbing and bumping to head and tail of spine and extremities, gilt lettering on spine is dulled, in Fair heavily age-toned dust jacket, front cover is detached, all but top two inches of spine is missing, heavy chipping and wear to extremities, horizontal mark across middle of rear cover.

New York: Horace Liveright, 1930. Second printing. Hardcover. Fair. 8vo. 70 pp. Bound in purple cloth-backed gray boards, title and decoration in purple on front cover, title stamped in purple on spine. Lacking dust jacket. Fair, previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown and name in ink to facing page, pages and binding are heavily age-darkened, pages 22 and 23 have the shadow of a few pressed leaves laid in but no longer present, binding also shows bumping and wear to corners, spine is heavily faded and rubbed, title stamping almost completely faded.

Mill Valley, CA: Wings Press, 1961. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good-. 8vo. 48 pp. Bound in full gray cloth, title in gilt on cover and spine, in pale gray dust jacket printed in orange. Black and white frontispiece portrait of Nelson by Mabel MacDonald Carver. Signed by Author on front free endpaper. Very Good+, minor bumping and wear to extremities, otherwise, bright, clean copy, in Very Good- dust jacket with 1/2" piece missing at top of front cover, short black mark to bottom of front cover, chipping and wear to extremities, overall age-toning.

New York: Columbia University Press, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. 8vo. xx, 426 pp. Bound in full gray cloth in illustrated dust jacket. Black and white frontispiece and map. Glossary, bibliography and index. Very Good+, minor fading to extremities of binding, otherwise, crisp copy, in Very Good+ dust jacket with light wear to extremities.

Austin: The University of Texas Press, 1965. Limited edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/good. 8vo. 68 pp. Bound in full black cloth, stamped in gilt on cover and spine, in gray dust jacket printed in white on cover and spine. Limited edition of 1000 copies. Near Fine, minor age-toning to pages, otherwise crisp and clean, binding bright, in Good dust jacket with overall age-toning, rubbing to extremities, spine is heavily rubbed and has several holes.

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1928. Hardcover. Very Good +. 8vo. xviiii, 108 pp. Bound in quarter black cloth over decorative paper covered boards, paper title labels pasted to front cover and spine, top edge stained orange, deckle edge, lacking dust jacket. Black and white frontispiece and illustrations throughout by Charles Cullen. Later printing with Harper's code 'I-C ' (indicating September 1928) on verso of title page. Very Good, internally clean and sound, some age-toning to pages and paper labels of binding, heavy rubbing to extremities, corners and head and tail of spine bumped.

[Mexico, D. F.]: Ediciones El Tucan de Virginia, [1993]. Paperback. Very Good+. 8vo. 118, [2] pp. Bound in pink wrappers printed in red and black. Prologue, selection and Spanish translation by Roberto Echavarren. Dual-language edition with English on verso, Spanish on Recto. Includes Houseboat Days, Blue Sonata, Thank You For Not Cooperating, Late Echo, My Erotic Double and others. Very Good+, some pages have not been separated, minor wear and fading to extremities of wrappers, internally crisp and clean. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. 8vo. x, 254, [[4] pp. Bound in black boards in illustrated dust jacket. Includes bibliography and index. Near Fine, minor bumping to corners, in Near Fine dust jacket with minor bumping to corners.

Berkley: University of California Press, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. 8vo. xvi, 264, [2] pp. Bound in orange cloth, in brown dust jacket. Poems by Yemeni women in the original Arabic accompanied by English translations. Fine, bright copy in Near Fine dust jacket. Bright copy.

Mexico, D. F.: Ediciones Sin Nombre, 1997. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. 16mo. 134, [2] pp. Bound in cream wrappers printed in black on cover and spine. Text in Spanish. First book of poetry by Mora, a professor of the Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas at Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. Near Fine, clean copy. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

Harvard University Press, 1989. Paperback. 8vo. [12], 212 pp. Bound in maroon wrappers printed in white. Good, previous owner's name crossed out in permanent marker on half title, ink has seeped through to verso and title page, no other markings, minor wear to wrappers.