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AGEE, Chris, 1956- : IN THE NEW HAMPSHIRE WOODS. Dublin : Dedalus Press, (1992). First edition : the hardback issue. A collection over 100 poems on Irish and American themes from the San Francisco born poet. £15 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 18390 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
BERGÉ, Carol, 1928- : THE CHAMBERS. Abergavenny : Brocard Sewell, 1969. First edition : limited to 400 copies. A collection of poems. Printed at the Daedalus Press. £15 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 10875 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
BERRY, Wendell, 1934- : CLEARING. New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1977). First edition. A sequence of seven poems. £15 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 10888 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
BERRYMAN, John, 1914-1972 : ONE ANSWER TO A QUESTION. Portree : Aquila Publishing, (1981). First edition. Aquila Essay No. 2 - a Berryman essay on his own work. £15 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 11484 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
BURROWAY, Janet, 1936- : BUT TO THE SEASON. [Keele] : Universities' Poetry, 1961. First edition. A collection of thirteen poems. With the contemporary ownership inscription of Meic Stephens. In the University Poets series. £15 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 11511 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
CARLSON, Michael : WINTER LOVERS. Frome : Bran's Head, (1981). First edition : limited to 325 copies. Seventeen poems. SOLD To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 11582 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
CARRUTH, Hayden, 1921- : FROM SNOW AND ROCK, FROM CHAOS. London : Chatto & Windus / Hogarth Press, 1973. First edition : the British issue. Thirty-six poems. £15 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 13410 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
DEUTSCH, Babette, 1895-1982 : ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MINERAL. New York : E.P.Dutton & Co., 1954. First edition. Attached to the front pastedown is an envelope addressed to Louis Untermeyer - containing a single-page 1963 typed letter (signed with forename) on her own purple-headed notepaper from Babette Deutsch concerning the selection of poems for an anthology. A carbon copy of Untermeyer's earlier letter to Deutsch is also enclosed. A collection of thirty-two poems. £40 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 19158 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
DISCH, Tom (Thomas Michael), 1940- : BURN THIS. London : Hutchinson & Co., (1982). First edition. A collection of forty-six poems. £15 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 13559 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
DONOGHUE, Denis, 1928- - editor : SEVEN AMERICAN POETS FROM MACLEISH TO NEMEROV : AN INTRODUCTION. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, (1975). First edition. Essays by various hands on John Berryman, Richard Eberhart, Randall Jarrell, Robert Lowell, Archibald MacLeish, Howard Nemerov and Theodore Roethke. SOLD To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 19169 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
DOWDEN, Kaviraj George : POEM FOR JAYNE. GEORGE DOWDEN. Rushden : Sceptre Press, (1973). First edition : one of fifty numbered copies (of 150) signed by George Dowden. A poem. £15 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 13568 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
DUFF, Gerald, 1938- : A CEREMONY OF LIGHT : POEMS. Egham : Interim Press, (1976). First edition : one of twenty copies (of 200) numbered and signed by the American poet, Gerald Duff. Eleven poems. £20 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 11906 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
DUPREE, Robert S. (Robert Scott), 1940- : ALLEN TATE AND THE AUGUSTINIAN IMAGINATION : A STUDY OF THE POETRY. Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, (1983). First edition. £15 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 18260 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
EVANS, George, 1948- : A.M. New Malden : Tony Baker, [1982]. First edition. A poem sequence from the Pittsburgh poet. £15 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 13657 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
FRIED, Michael : OTHER HANDS. Oxford : Oscar Mellor at the Fantasy Press, (1962). First edition. Eight poems from the New York poet. £25 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 23357 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
FROST, Robert, 1874-1963 : MY OBJECTION TO BEING STEPPED ON : A NEW POEM. [New York] : Henry Holt & Co., (1957). First edition : [one of 2,675 copies (of 8,290) printed for Henry Holt & Co.]. A Christmas greeting, with Frost's poem and drawings by Leonard Baskin. Loosely inserted is a later related printed card from the collector and bibliographer, Jack Hagstrom. £25 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 24402 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
FROST, Robert, 1874-1963 : NOTES BY ROBERT FROST ON HIS LIFE AND EARLY WRITINGS. Amherst : Friends of the Amherst College Library, 1991. First edition : one of 3,000 copies. An autobiographical essay originally compiled for John Gallishaw in the early 1920s. With an introduction by William H. Pritchard. £40 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 24414 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
GELPI, Albert (Albert Joseph), 1931- : A COHERENT SPLENDOR : THE AMERICAN POETIC RENAISSANCE, 1910-1950. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, (1987). First edition. With chapters on "H.D." (Hilda Doolittle), T.S.Eliot, Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, etc. £25 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 14381 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
HEYEN, William, 1940- : THE CHILDREN. Knotting : Sceptre Press, (1979). First edition : one of fifty numbered copies (of 150) signed by William Heyen. A poem. £15 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 15070 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
HEYEN, William, 1940- : DECEMBER 31 1979 : THE CANDLE. Knotting : Martin Booth, (1980). First edition : one of fifty numbered copies (of 125) signed by William Heyen. A poem. £15 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 15072 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
HEYEN, William, 1940- : THE DESCENT. Knotting : Sceptre Press, (1979). First edition : one of fifty numbered copies (of 150) signed by William Heyen. A poem. £15 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 15071 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
HEYEN, William, 1940- : ENSOULMENT. Concord : William B. Ewert, 1983. First edition : limited to 100 numbered copies. Broadside poster poem with coloured woodcut by Leigh McLellan. Signed by both Heyen and McLellan. £25 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 13521 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
HEYEN, William, 1940- : THIS YEAR. Concord : William B. Ewert, (1988). First edition : one of twenty-six lettered copies (of 286) signed by William Heyen. A poem, with a colour illustration by Gino Lee. £20 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 11464 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
HUMPHRIES, Rolfe, 1894-1969 : FORBID THY RAVENS : DIDACTIC AND LYRICAL POEMS. New York & London : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947. First edition : the first issue, with the Scribner seal and letter A. A presentation copy, inscribed to the poet Stephen Spender, signed and dated (1947) by Rolfe Humphries. A collection of twenty-four poems. £25 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 11576 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
JAFFIN, David, 1937- : AS ONE. New Rochelle : Elizabeth Press, (1975). First edition : limited to 400 copies. Poems. £15 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 11608 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
JAFFIN, David, 1937- : FOR THE FINGER'S WANT OF SOUND. Plymouth : Blue Guitar Books, (1982). First edition. A collection of poems, issued as No. 8 of the magazine Shearsman. £15 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 15493 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
JAFFIN, David, 1937- : IN THE GLASS OF WINTER. London: Abelard Schuman (1975). First edition. Inscribed and signed with initials by Jaffin. Poems. £15 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 11609 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
JAFFIN, David, 1937- : LATE MARCH. Rushden : Sceptre Press, (1973). First edition : one of thirty numbered copies (of 100) signed by David Jaffin. A poem. £15 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 15491 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
JAFFIN, David, 1937- : OF. Knotting : Sceptre Press, (1974). First edition : one of fifty numbered copies (of 150) signed byDavid Jaffin. A poem. £15 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 15492 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
JANSSEN, Marian (Maria Lina Margaretha), 1953- : THE KENYON REVIEW 1939-1970 : A CRITICAL HISTORY. Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, (1990). First edition. A comprehensive overview of the magazine's history - John Crowe Ransom, Robert Lowell, Karl Shapiro, Flannery O'Connor, Robert Penn Warren, etc. £25 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 15560 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
KLEINSCHMIDT, Edward, 1946- : TO REMAIN. Woodside : Heyeck Press, 1990. First edition : one of just 200 copies, hand-printed and in hand-marbled wrappers. A poem. Number 6 in the Flowering Quince Poetry Series. £15 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 11723 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
KNIGHT, Glee, 1947- : THE BIG APPLE. Knotting : Sceptre Press, (1974). First edition : one of fifty numbered copies (of 150) signed by Glee Knight. A poem. £15 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 16163 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
KRAPF, Norbert, 1943- : SONG OF THE MUSIC STAND. Knotting : Sceptre Press, (1977). First edition : limited to 150 copies. This copy of the poem not numbered, but marked out of series and signed by Norbert Krapf. £15 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 16175 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
KRAPF, Norbert, 1943- : STAG HUNT : AFTER CRANACH. Knotting : Sceptre Press, (1976). First edition : one of fifty numbered copies (of 150) signed by Norbert Krapf. A poem. £15 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 16174 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
LOWELL, Robert (Robert Traill Spence), 1917-1977 : LORD WEARY'S CASTLE. New York : Harcourt, Brace & Co., (1946). First edition. Lowell's first regularly published collection of poems. £25 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 23777 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
LOWELL, Robert (Robert Traill Spence), 1917-1977 : THE MILLS OF THE KAVANAUGHS. New York : Harcourt, Brace & Co., (1951). First edition. A collection of seven mainly longer poems. £100 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 10172 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
MOORE, Marianne (Marianne Craig), 1887-1972 : LIKE A BULWARK. London : Faber & Faber, (1957). First British edition : [one of 1,000 copies]. A collection of thirteen poems - the selection and text varying from that of the earlier American edition. £25 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 25979 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
O'BRIEN, Michael, 1939- : THE SUMMER POEMS. New York : Eventorium Press, (1967). First edition. Inscribed (to Peter Hoy), signed and dated (1970) by Michael O'Brien. A collection of thirty-three poems, including the seven Summer Poems of the title. £20 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 12006 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
ORR, Gregory, 1947- : STANLEY KUNITZ : AN INTRODUCTION TO THE POETRY. New York : Columbia University Press, 1985. First edition. A full-length study in the Columbia Introductions to Twentieth-Century American Poetry series. SOLD To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 11728 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
PLATH, Sylvia, 1932-1963 : AMONG THE NARCISSI. [Ashington] : MidNAG, [1971]. First separate edition. A handsome silkscreen broadside - Poetry Poster No. 10 in the Mid Northumberland Arts Group series, decorated by Birtley Aris. £100 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 27454 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
PLATH, Sylvia, 1932-1963 - contributor : BEST POEMS OF 1963 : BORESTONE MOUNTAIN POETRY AWARDS 1964. Palo Alto : Pacific Books, 1964. First edition. The sixteenth annual publication of this "compilation of original poetry published in the magazines of the English-speaking world". Includes three poems by Sylvia Plath, the Ted Hughes poem, "Full Moon", and poems by Margaret Atwood, George Barker, Thomas Blackburn, Charles Bukowski, Charles Causley, James Dickey, W.S.Merwin, Howard Nemerov, Derek Walcott, and many more. £20 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 24984 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
RUPPERSBURG, Hugh : ROBERT PENN WARREN AND THE AMERICAN IMAGINATION. Athens & London : University of Georgia Press, (1990). First edition. A full-length study of Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989) and "the myth of America". £20 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 18157 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
SPIVEY, Ted R. (Ted Ray), 1927- : THE WRITER AS SHAMAN : THE PILGIMAGES OF CONRAD AIKEN AND WALKER PERCY. Macon : Mercer University Press, (1986). First edition. £15 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 18392 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
STEVENSON, Anne, 1933- : A MORDEN TOWER READING : 3. Newcastle upon Tyne : Morden Tower Publications, 1977. First edition. Seventeen poems. £15 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 17991 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
STEVENSON, Anne, 1933- : REVERSALS. Middletown : Wesleyan University Press, [1969]. First edition. An early collection of forty poems. £15 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 12693 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
TATE, Allen (John Orley Allen), 1899-1979 : THE POETRY REVIEWS OF ALLEN TATE : 1924-1944. Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, (1983). First edition. Tate on Conrad Aiken, W.H.Auden, Hart Crane, E.E.Cummings, T.S.Eliot, Robert Lowell, Archibald MacLeish, Ezra Pound, John Crowe Ransom, Laura Riding, Edward Arlington Robinson, Yvor Winters and many more. Edited by Ashley Brown and Frances Neel Cheney. £20 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 14565 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
WILBUR, Richard (Richard Purdy), 1921- : A BARRED OWL. [New York] : Sea Cliff Press, 1992. First edition: "printed for a Wilbur evening at the Grolier Club, 27 April, 1992, and for the subscribers and friends of Sea Cliff Press". £20 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 24409 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
WILLIAMS, Jonathan (Jonathan Chamberlain), 1929- : JONATHAN WILLIAMS' FIFTY EPIPHYTES. London : Poet & Printer, 1967. First edition : [one of 600 copies]. Fifty epiphytes, epitaphs, epitomes, epigrams and epithets. £20 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 13230 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
WOOLMER, J. Howard (James Howard) : THE LEONARD L. MILBERG COLLECTION OF AMERICAN POETRY. COMPILED BY J. HOWARD WOOLMER. Princeton : Princeton University Library, 1994. First edition. Loosely inserted is the compliments card of the compiler, J. Howard Woolmer. A catalogue of an impressive collection of the works of seventy contemporary American poets, with an introductory biographical essay on each poet by Molly Weigel. £25 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 27256 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
WRIGHT, James, 1927-1980 : SAINT JUDAS. Middletown : Wesleyan University Press, (1959). First edition : the wrappers issue. His second book - a collection of thirty-one poems. £15 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 13249 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
YONKIN, D.R. : VOICES FROM THE OTHER ROOM : A SELECTION OF POEMS. Newport : Envoi Poets, [1986]. First edition. A collection of twenty-four poems. £15 To confirm availability and to purchase this book please note the stock number 18250 and go to the database. Enter the number in the stock/order number box - press the search button - and a shopping basket should appear. Or simply call us or e-mail books@ashrare.com. | |
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