Poetry from Great Expectations Rare Books

New York: Grove Weidenfeld Book. Fine. Soft cover. Later Printing. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Slim trade paperback. 121 pages. Index to First Lines. Evergreen edition, first published 1959, this copy later printing published post 1970 with ISBN. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy. Fine..… Read more about this item

University park, PA: Penn State University Press, 1988. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, wine colored cloth in publisher's burnt orange dust-jacket. 206 pages. Bibliographical References, Index. First edition. Significant underlining in pen, several pages show black marker and marginalia. Else a tight, sound, copy. Good in… Read more about this item

New York: Doubleday / Anchor, 1987. Book. Near Very Good. Soft cover. Fourth Printing. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Trade paperback. 178 pages. Text of poems in Chinese and English. Fourth printing. No previous ownership marks. No spine crease. A clean, tight and unmarked copy. Near very good. .

New York: Quill/William Morrow, 1991. Book. Fine. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Trade paperback. 107 pages. Selected by Edward Hirsch. First Quill edition, first printing with full number line. No previous ownership marks. No spine crease. But for small red star stamped on upper front free end-paper a… Read more about this item

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1986. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, full genuine dark brown leather binding, heavily gilt stamped with elaborate decorations and multiple rules. 676 pages. All edges gilt. Sewn in silk book-mark, marbled paper end-sheets and smyth sewn book block complete this work… Read more about this item

New York : Children's Classics, 1985. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Later Printing. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Large format hardcover, quarto size volume bound in white boards, lettered in red on spine, in publisher's dust-jacket. 119 pages. Illustrated with 8 full page color plates and numerous vignette black and white drawings by Jessie Willcox Smith.… Read more about this item

New York: Eugene C. Lewis Co., 1915. Book. Good. Hardcover. Second Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. lettered in gold on spine and front cover. 98 pages. Second edition. The title poem was first published in 1914 at the outbreak of war in Europe. While the Great War is famous for producing a wealth… Read more about this item

Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1984. Book. As New. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, full genuine forest green leather binding, heavily gilt stamped with elaborate decorations and multiple rules. 199 pages. Index of first lines. All edges gilt. Sewn in silk book-mark, marbled paper end-sheets and smyth sewn… Read more about this item

Boston: Fields, Osgood and Company, 1871. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Hardcover, variant blue cloth lettered in gold and blind-stamped on front cover. 106 pages. First edition, second issue without the publisher's logo on the spine. White uncoated end-papers, engraved frontispiece and title-page. Very mild mottling to cloth,… Read more about this item

Iowa City: The Happy Press, 1982. Book. Fine. No Binding. First Edition. 24mo - over 5 - 5¾" tall. Complete set of 32 loose printed 3" x 5" illustrated postcards in an illustrated card sleeve. Variant red sleeve, no priority established. This Postcard Issue represents reprints from the book "Poetry Comics: A Cartoonvesrse of Poems," published by Simon… Read more about this item

New York: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc., 1997. Book. As New. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Large format hardcover in pictorial laminated boards, with publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket, repeating the same art work. 48 pages. Index. Edited by Jonathan Levin. Illustrated by Jim Burke with color drawings throughout. … Read more about this item

Iowa City: The Happy Press, 1982. Book. Near Fine. No Binding. First Edition. 24mo - over 5 - 5¾" tall. 29 postcard size cartoons (4.5" x 5.5") of 32 that were issued, in a printed paper sleeve. This Postcard Issue represents reprints from the book "Poetry Comics: A Cartoonvesrse of Poems," published by Simon and Schuster. Lacking… Read more about this item

New York: Fawcett Premier, 1988. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. re-issue. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Mass market paperback. 336 pages. Contains hundreds of poems arranged around major themes, including selections from the Middle Ages to the present. Re-issue by Ballantine books (1988), first thus. Page edges toned as per usual. No previous… Read more about this item

New York: Delacorte Press, 1970. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, gray cloth, lacking dust-jacket. 154 pages. Illustrated with drawings by J.K. Lambert. Introduction by editor. First edition, stated first printing. A presentation of Whitman's more flagrant carnality culled from various editions of Leaves of Grass… Read more about this item

New York: W W Norton & Co Inc., 2002. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Second Printing. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 392 pages. Newly translated into verse by Michael Palma. Second printing. Previous owner's name inside front cover and his round embossed book-plate on half-title and penultimate blank leaf,… Read more about this item

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2001. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Large trade paperback in black covers with French Flaps [Gatefold], decorated in silver and gold. i - xxxi, 213 pages. Introduction by translator and a brief "Note on the Names" by Alfred David. Bilingual edition… Read more about this item

Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Seven off-prints from various scholarly journals, in several different languages, all pertaining to early Arabic poetry. Publishing dates range from 1928 to 1975. Printed on rectos only and professionally bound in brown buckram hardcovers. No marking or lettering to buckram covers. Handwritten table of… Read more about this item

Damascus: Academy of the Arabic Language in Damascus, 1974. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, black cloth covers and faux leather raised black spine lettered and decorated in gold. Published in Damascus, Syria, text in Arabic. 261 pages. Compiled by Mata'a Tarabishi. First edition thus. Referred to as an… Read more about this item

Iraq: Iraqi Scientific Society, 1968. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, faux marbled spine with raised bands and gilt decoration over reddish cloth covered boards. Published in Iraq, text entirely in Arabic. 286 pages. Edited by Dr. Karfaisal. Numerous indices appended, including bibliographical references. Illustrated with several plates of… Read more about this item

New York: October House Inc., 1970. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Third Printing. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Trade paperback. 292 pages. Bilingual edition with Russian text printed on verso and corresponding English text printed on facing rectos. Selected, edited and translated by George Reavey. Third printing. No previous ownership marks. No… Read more about this item