Books in the Poetry Aisle
Total Matching Books: 4, Displaying 1 - 4.
In Bohemia and Other Studies for Poems.
 [110628] (CANADA) Mrs. T. Sterry Hunt .
Toronto: William Briggs, 1900. Octavo, 189 pages. First Edition. Bound in cloth, w/o dust jacket. Top-edge gilt. Illustrated. A very good copy. Signed and inscribed, “With Kind Regards from the author to W.M. Sterry,” dated 1901, Montreal. This collection of poems devoted to people and places of Prague, and surrounding lands, Canada, travel impressions. The author was the wife of famed Canadian chemist-geologist T. Sterry Hunt who, among many other things, is credited with the invention of green ink used since 1862 to print US banknotes, and wrote the “Report on the Chemistry of the Earth” in 1870. [Watters, “A Check List of Canadian Literature...” p. 69.] $150
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 “Of Battles” - Army Potomac.
[140958] (CIVIL WAR - AMERICAN POETRY) James H. Rea Esq. .
[N.p.]: [s.n.], 1906. [66] pages. First Edition. 8¾" x 5¾" Stapled wraps, dark gray paper covers, with “An Epic” stamped to front cover. Mild cover creases else a near fine copy. OCLC, [4]. The Civil War told in rhyming verse, printed on plain coated paper: “These troops were fresh, were not at Chancellorsville, / They needed little for their ranks to fill; / Were Longstreet's pets and Lee's best fighting men; / Tho' ne'er been whipped, were doomed to whipping then. / They met the Philadelphia brigade / Who, unprotected or protected, staid. / Brigade with cannon soon was reinforced, / Retained their ground all officers unhorsed; / Webb fell, alas! Untimely was his fall, / But naught the Philadelphia appal...” $125
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 Eight most Harvard poets, John Yard Copp, Otto Dashe, Maxmilian Keezer, Jimmie Waldorf, Wyd O'Nolen, Aston Deane, Hagg Bunkmaker Goody, George Washington Terry.
[140583] (HARVARD - SATIRE) John Wheelwright Malcolm Cowley et. al .
New York: Brentano's, 1923. Octavo, 39 pages. First Edition. Gray wrappers. A good copy with stains, some soil, some browning from age to exterior. Contents clean and in very good condition. A parody of “Eight More Harvard Poets.” and “Un-edited by the Harvard Poetry Society.” Contributors include (under their various fictitious names) Grant Code, Jack Merten, John Wheelwright, Norman Cabot, Malcolm Cowley, Royall Snow, etc.) “This slender volume contains the best work of eight representatives of the Harvard College of today. The widely varying forms included all typify the spirit of the Poetry Society. We predict in a few brief days the listing of this volume among the rarities of the collector's treasures,” etc. This copy belonged to contributor Grant Code. $65
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 Selected Poems.
[140647] (POETRY) Walt Whitman .
New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1892. Octavo,179, [4] pages. First Edition. First issue. Top-edge of book darkened else a fine copy, an exceptional example. In publisher's original cloth. Some copies, as ours, have an inserted leaf informing that publications by Webster are also available through McKay. No priority noted. Frontispiece portrait of Walt Whitman. Published in the year of Whitman's death and edited by Arthur Stedman. [BAL 21638. Myerson C7.I.a1.] $200
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