The Essential Browning (Essential Poets)
Ecco Pr, December 1990. Paper Back. 12mo. Foxing. Clean text. Remainder mark bottom edge. Damp stain. More
Ecco Pr, December 1990. Paper Back. 12mo. Foxing. Clean text. Remainder mark bottom edge. Damp stain. More
W. W. Norton & Company, April 2024. Paper Back. Hailed as "indispensable" (David Wojahn), Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Stephen Dunn masterfully shifts between the metaphysical and the ironic, never wavering in his essential honesty. His graceful poems confront our contradictions with tenderness and wit, enliven the ordinary with penetrating observation, and..... More
University of Oklahoma Press, February 1970. Paper Back. Octavo. Scar upper right corner of front cover. Spine tanned. Previous owner's name in ink on half title page. [209 pages]. More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, November 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. In a city like that one might sail through life led by a runaway hat. The young scattered in whatever directions their wild hair pointed and, gusting into one another, they fell in love. --from "Windy City" In his second book..... More
Penguin Books, August 1994. Paper Back. Previous owner's name. More
University of Illinois Press, March 1979. Hardcover. Second printing, 1980; Tight binding; Clean, sturdy cloth covered boards w/ gilt lettering at spine; Previous owner initials present at front free-end page; Text free of markings; Un-clipped dust jacket mildly edge-worn w/ some slight chipping at tearing, mild sun-fading; Jacket housed in..... More
Franklin Library, January 1983. Leather. Full leather. Gilt edges. Moire endpapers. Silk ribbon page marker. More
Easton Press, January 2014. Leather. Gilt-decorative blue leather binding in slipcase. Still in shrink wrap. More
Black Sparrow Press, April 1998. Hardcover. Well worn. No jacket as issued. More
University of California Press, May 1972. Cloth. Octavo. {6' x 9 & 1/4'} Sacremento green cloth covered boards with gold lettering upon spine. Bright, clean, sound, very good plus overall. Tightly bound. [332 pages]. More
The Franklin Library, January 1979. Leather. Gilt edges and cover design. Moire endpapers. Limited edition. More
The Johns Hopkins University Press, December 1969. Paper Back. {5 & 1/4' x 8'} Octavo in well worn soft cover. Heavily rubbed, spine sunned. Previous owner's name inked half title page.[290 pp.]. More
Definition Press, January 1957. Hardcover. Second printing stated; February, 1958; Tight binding; Clean, sturdy, brown cloth boards w/ immaculate gilt at spine; Text free of markings; Dust jacket shows moderate wear w/ chipping at edges, most notably at upper rear of jacket, a couple of mild stains at front of..... More
Yale University Press, August 2006. Paper Back. The definitive edition of the most influential poem of the twentieth century One of the twentieth century's most powerful--and controversial--works, The Waste Land waspublished in the desolate wake of the First World War. This definitive edition of T. S. Eliot's masterpiece presents a...... More
Harcourt, Brace & World, 1981. Hardcover. An indispensable collection of the Nobel Prize winner's most renowned works "In ten years' time," wrote Edmund Wilson in Axel's Castle, "Eliot has left upon English poetry a mark more unmistakable than that of any other poet writing in English." In 1948, Eliot was..... More
Harvest Books, September 1982. Trade Paperback. More
Harvest Books, 1962. Soft Cover. This all-new Signet Classic contains many of T.S. Eliot's most important early peoms, leading to perhaps his greatest masterpiece, "The Waste land," which has long been regarded as one of the fundamental texts of modernism. By combining poetic elements from many diverse sources with bits..... More
Chelsea House Publishers, January 1986. Hardcover. -- Presents the most important 20th-century criticism on major works from The Odyssey through modern literature -- The critical essays reflect a variety of schools of criticism -- Contains critical biographies, notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author's life, and an..... More
Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs NJ, January 1962. Reprint. Cloth. Octavo. Dustjacket is missing. Black cloth covered boards with gold lettering along spine. Worn edges. Heavily worn with chewed/frayed cloth top of spine. Heavy cardstock boards and bound/glued textblock edge exposed corresponding to worn cloth. Splotch of black marker at top..... More
ANCHOR BOOKS, January 1962. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Well worn mass market paperback with slightly cocked spine. Edgeworn with marginal darkening. Damp stained in narrow band back cover to fore-edge and bottom edge. [97 pages plus one page list of Anchor titles then available]. More
Harcourt Brace and Company, December, 6 1948. Cloth. {5 & 3/4 x 8 & 1/2} In darkened jacket with heavily darkened spine and margins. Flap is clipped. Black cloth covered boards with gold lettering along spine. Previous owner's bookplate affixed to front pastedown. Designed by Robert Josephy. [220 pages]... More
Faber & Faber, October 2004. Paper Back. More
Faber & Faber Ltd., January 1954. First Edition. Cloth. In edgeworn dustjacket. Front flap is clipped. Denim blue cloth covered boards with gold lettering. First UK edition. [136 pages]. More
Oxford University Press, December 1964. Reprint. Paper Back. This classic study of Yeats' verse examines the poet's development of theme, symbol, style, and pattern. Through his knowledge of Yeats' life as well as his published and unpublished work, Ellmann recreates Yeats' ways of thinking, seeing, and writing and clarifies his..... More
Vintage, Novembe 1988. Trade Paperback. Winner of both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize, Oscar Wilde is the definitive biography of the tortured poet and playwright and the last book by renowned biographer and literary critic Richard Ellmann. Ellmann dedicated two decades to the research and..... More