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"Cantos IX, X" [Versions of Dante's Inferno] ANTAEUS. No. 67, Fall, 1991
(Clampitt, Amy) Halpern, Daniel (ed).
Tangier/London/New York: ANTAEUS, 1991.
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"Fireweed" in THE WILLIAM AND MARY REVIEW Volume 28, 1990
Clampitt, Amy.
Williamsburg, Virginia: The College of William and Mary, 1990.
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"The Halloween Parade" in GRAND STREET Autumn 1989 Vol. 9, No. 1
(Clampitt, Amy).
New York: GRAND STREET, 1989.
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First separate edition. A Christmas keepsake issued in December 1950, “Edition limited to friends and followers of Thoreau’s trends of life”. Inscribed by the Ishills at the first leaf. Booklet: 6 x 3-3/8", unpaginated; stiff green wrappers (sewn) printed in deeper green. Title page printed in green; decorative device at first page and publisher’s logo at colophon. Mild rumple to lower margin; minute wear to tips. Original mailing envelope accompanies. Very good. The inscription reads: " - for - / Mr. and Mrs. Donald A. Sinclair / with the cordial / greetings of the season / from - / The Ishills / Dec. 1950". The keepsake, printed on laid paper, was hand-set with Cloister Old Style type. A paragraph from WALDEN ("I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately") precedes Alcott's elegy, which begins, "We, sighing, said, ‘Our Pan is dead". The poem first appeared in THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY September 1863 issue. OCLC records 14 institutional holdings.
"Thoreau's Flute" [a poem by] Louisa M. Alcott
Alcott, Louise.
Berkeley Heights, N.J.: The Oriole Press, 1950.
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"Triptych" in THE KENYON REVIEW New Series Volume IV Number 1 Winter 1982
(Clampitt, Amy).
(Gambier, Ohio): THE KENYON REVIEW Kenyon College, 1982.
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First edition. (1/551 copies). Signed at the title page by the poet. Small 8vo, 85pp; pinkish paper over boards stamped in brown at the front cover; matching dust jacket. A touch of fading to jacket's spine. Fine. Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929 - ) graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Radcliffe in 1951 and also won the annual competition by Yale University Press for books by beginning poets. For Rich it was a remarkable year. For American poetry it was a remarkable debut. A CHANGE OF WORLD is preceded by two childhood productions. The poet's first collection of verse and her first title as a mature writer. A lovely copy. CONTEMPORARY POETS, pp. 1270-1271. THE FEMINIST COMPANION, pp. 898-899. [Auden] Bloomfield and Mendelson B43.
A CHANGE OF WORLD with a foreword by W.H. Auden
Rich, Adrienne Cecile.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1951.
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First edition. Signed by the poet at the title page. 8vo, viii, 61pp; blue-green wove cloth lettered in gold at the spine; printed light beige dust jacket. Fine. Following her earlier OF WOMAN BORN (1976) and THE DREAM OF A COMMON LANGUAGE (1978), Rich in A WILD PATIENCE continues to explore the selves of women and to give voice to those who have been silent. In "Heroines" she portrays the 19th century woman: "You belong first to your father / then to him who / chooses you / if you fail to marry / you are without recourse / unable to earn / a workingman's salary / forbidden to vote / forbidden to speak ... how can I give you / all your due / take courage from your courage ..." A lovely copy.
A WILD PATIENCE HAS TAKEN ME THIS FAR Poems 1978-1981
Rich, Adrienne.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, (1981).
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First edition. Review copy with the publisher's slip laid in. 8vo, xiv, 80pp; orange cloth lettered in black at the spine; white dust jacket printed in black and deep orange. Light wear along top edge of dust jacket with a 1/4" closed tear at the front cover (near the spine). Very good. The poet's first book. Cynthia MacDonald (b. 1928) studied at Bennington and Sarah Lawrence. Trained in opera, she performed in concerts and in operas. She taught at Sarah Lawrence and Johns Hopkins and helped found the University of Houston Graduate Creative Writing Program. AMPUTATIONS was followed by TRANSPLANTS (1976); (W)HOLES (1980); ALTERNATE MEANS OF TRANSPORT (1985): LIVING WILLS (1991); and I CAN'T REMEMBER (1997). She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an award from the National Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, in addition to numerous other prizes. One critic notes that she "writes poems stressing the intermittent music of the modern mind trying to achieve wholeness".
AMPUTATIONS Poems by Cynthia MacDonald with a note by Richard Howard
MacDonald, Cynthia.
New York: George Braziller, (1972).
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First edition. 8vo, x, 102pp; + endmatter: "Notes", pp. 103-112, "Acknowledgments", p. 113, "A Note about the Author", p. <115>, and "A Note on the Type", p. <116>; dark gold wove cloth stamped in gold front and spine; pictorial black dust jacket printed in gray, green and orange. Tiny crinkling at fore-edge of two pages. Trace of darkening along top edge of front flap. Near fine/fine. Number 26 in the Knopf Poetry Series and the writer's third regularly published book. The title and the epigraph are from Virginia Woolf and, according to Clampitt "suggest...a central concern is with the experience of women, as individuals and as a part of human history". The poems are collected into four sections: "Hellas"; "The Mirror of the Gorgon"; "A Gathering of Shades"; and, "Attachments, Links, Dependencies".
ARCHAIC FIGURE Poems
Clampitt, Amy.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987.
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A keepsake printed in commemoration of the author's 100th birthday (1/500 copies). Quarto, unpaginated; purplish-gray wrappers (sewn) with printed white label at front cover. Printed by The Meriden-Stinehour Press. Upper right corner a trifle creased. Near fine. The letter from Ezra Pound to Viola Baxter is reproduced in facsimile on full text pages interleaved with half-pages which describe the letter, print its text and provide notes by Donald Gallup. A vivid letter reflecting a youthful, exuberant Pound and a handsomely-designed keepsake.
At the Circulo de Recreo with Ezra Pound A Letter from Ezra Pound to Viola Baxter May 9, 1906
Pound, Ezra.
New Haven, Connecticut: The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Yale University, 1985.
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First edition. 8vo, 30pp; drab boards printed in black; linen cloth spine with paper label printed in black, text printed in two colors; dust jacket. Jacket slightly chipped at spinal ends and darkened; 1/2" closed tear top edge with tape at reverse. The book is fine, altogether a very nice copy. In custom-made case. The poet's first book.
BODY OF THIS DEATH. Poems
Bogan, Louise.
New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1923.
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Only edition. Reprint from THE NEW ENGLAND QUARTERLY, Volume V, Number 2, 1932. 9-1/2 x 6-1/4", <1>, 217-220pp; green self-wrappers (stapled) printed in black at the front cover. Slight suggestion of fading at edges. Near fine. With a brief introduction by the editors in which they note the poems are among those presented by Thomas Higginson to the Boston Public Library. They comment: "The cause of their not having been published before is not far to seek. The poems are unsuccessful in so far as formal perfection is concerned. But the very quality of their imperfection reveals something of the method of Emily Dickinson, the poet. They fail, not through lack of inspiration, but through lack of art ... What is needed is a new assaying, a new refining". The .poems: "To undertake is to achieve" [Franklin 991B]; "Dominion lasts until obtain" [Franklin 1299]; "The days that we can spare" [Franklin 1229B]; "The mind lives on the heart" Franklin 1384E]; "'Faithful to the end' amended" [Franklin 1386D]; and, "After all birds have been investigated and laid aside" [Franklin 1383F]. Franklin, R.W. (ed.), THE POEMS OF EMILY DICKINSON Variorum Edition. See BAL Volume 2, p. 453. See Myerson D42 for the NEW ENGLAND QUARTERLY appearance. OCLC notes five institutional holdings: Harvard College and Houghton Libraries at Harvard University; the University of Virginia; the University of Wisconsin, Madison and Oxford.
Booklet: UNPUBLISHED POEMS OF EMILY DICKINSON [edited by] Margaret Higginson Barney Frederic Ives Carpenter
Dickinson, Emily.
[Portland, Maine]: The Southworth Press, 1932.
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First edition. 8vo, 74pp; gray linen cloth, at the spine author's name and publisher's device stamped in black and title in green; photographic dust jacket. Dust jacket, price-clipped at the front flap, shows traces of wear at head of spine and the white back panel is a trifle dusty. A lovely copy. The writer's first book. Near fine/fine.
BREAKING CAMP
Piercy, Marge.
Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, (1968).
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Broadside: "Nurture"
Kumin, Maxine.
[Minneapolis]: Pilot Rock Press Minnesota Center for Book Arts, 1987.
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First edition. With the interesting inscription at the front free endpaper: "For Joan whom May loved so well and who brought her such tender surcease these last years. with all my love and endless gratitude / Susan July 14, 1995". 8vo, 71pp; blue-green wove cloth stamped in silver front and spine; pictorial dust jacket with John Marin's "Sea Fantasy No. 7" reproduced at the front panel. . "Susan" is probably Susan Sherman who published MAY SARTON: Among the usual days: a portrait: unpublished poems, letters, journals and photographs (1993) and an edition of May Sarton's letters (1997). "Joan" is probably Joan Pavuk, one of three assistants whom Margot Peters identifies in her biography of the poet among the "number of helpers paid and unpaid who waited on her". Peters, Margot, MAY SARTON, p. 381.
COMING INTO EIGHTY Poems
Sarton, May.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, (1994).
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Periodical: 8-3/8 x 5-3/8", 40pp; stiff dark orange wrappers (stapled) printed in black; text printed on laid paper. Illus. Drawing by Edward Gorey at front cover. Ownership signature at upper front cover; minor fading along spine fold. Very good. With two poems by Sandra McPherson: "A Generation" and "Magazine Salesman". British poet Tony Connor contributes "In the Happy Valley". Other contributors include L.W. Michaelson, Laura Jensen, Joannne Wiater and Brent Logan. Brief notes about the contributors printed at the rear.
CONSUMPTION Vol, 1, No. 4 Summer, 1968
(McPherson, Sandra).
(Seattle, Washington): CONSUMPTION MAGAZINE, 1968.
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CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN WOMEN POETS Issued Under the Auspices of THE SPINNERS: A Bi-Monthly of Women's Verse
Gordi, Tooni (ed.).
New York: Henry Harrison, Poetry Publisher, (1936).
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First edition. 9-3/16 x 8-1/4", 22pp; pictorial silver boards, with silk ribbon tie and silver silk fringe at edges. Illustrated with four full page chromolithographs. Printed on laid paper with text and facsimile manuscript on alternate pages. Pencil date (April 5th, 1885, Easter) at a preliminary leaf. Pictorial boards darkened and worn around spine, with 3" separation along the lower portion; much of the delicate fringe worn away. The chromolithographs fresh and bright, however. And this fragile production generally attractive. About very good. Skelding exhibited at the National Academy of Design and the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Art. Throughout the 1880s she illustrated and edited a number of titles which combined the Victorian love of poetry with handsome illustrations of flowers, birds and other subjects. H.H. Jackson's poetry appeared in a number of these: PANSIES AND ORCHIDS (1884); GLIMPSES OF THREE COASTS (1886); FLOWERS FROM DELL AND BOWER (1886), among others. BAL notes that White, Stokes & Allen may have issued EASTER BELLS in a variety of bindings. The publisher enjoyed great success with these elaborate gift item pieces. The Skelding illustrations are acutely observed and gracefully rendered. BAL 10457. OCLC records nine institutional holdings (Colorado College, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, Brown, Delaware, Harvard, Ohio State, Wayne State and Wisconsin).
EASTER BELLS An Original Poem by H.H. (Helen Jackson) with Designs of Pansies; Anemone; Hepatica; Daffodils; and Narcissus by Susie B. Skelding
{Jackson}, H[elen] H[unt].
New York: White, Stokes & Allen Publishers, (1884).
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ELECTRIC LIGHT
Heaney, Seamus.
London: Faber and Faber, 2001.
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First edition thus. Reprinted from VICTORIAN POETS (1876); 1/1280 copies. 32mo, 96pp; (including "Synopsis of Contents"); terra-cotta cloth, stamped in black at the front and spine; abbreviated title, "MRS. BROWNING" and author stamped in gold at the front cover. Printed endpapers with a list of the "Vest-Pocket Series" at the front and "Works of E.C. Stedman" at the rear. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Elizabeth Barrett Browning; vignette at the title page and other decorative embellishments. Light touch of wear to spine ends and tips. Fine. E.C. Stedman (1833-1908) has become a dim figure to 21st century readers. To contemporaries his poetry, and even more, his critical writing and anthologies cast a wide influence. He recognized the talent of nascent authors and appreciated the work of the mature. This extended essay suggests the epigrammatic style and elevated language for which Victorians prized Stedman's prose. Here, for instance, he describes the poet's early education: "A gifted mind in youth has an unconsciousness of evil, and an affinity for the beautiful and true, which enable it, when given the freedom of a library, to assimilate what is suited to its needs". The "Synopsis" indexes the range of subjects which the essay treats, such as "Her years of unmarried life"; ""Her classical studies"; "Her scholarship liberal, but not pedantic"; "Her classicism distinct from Landor's", etc. The subject, the prose style and the attractive printing of this "Vest-Pocket" volume render this a very nice example. BAL 18728. CBEL III, p. 250.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
[Browning, Elizabeth Barrett] Stedman, Edmund Clarence.
Boston: James R. Osgood, 1877.
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