The Difference and Other Poems, Including the Columbian Ode
Chicago: Covici-McGee, 1924. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards, printed paper spine label; printed dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, scarce with jacket.
Chicago: Covici-McGee, 1924. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards, printed paper spine label; printed dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, scarce with jacket.
London: Faber & Faber, 1964. 8vo. 52 pages. Cloth; dust jacket. First edition, printed in an edition of 1,500 copies. Abbott A23.
4to (11 x 8.5 inches). One page. Fair copy transcribed, signed and dated May 3, 1942 by Moore. Moore titles the poem at head, and writes its complete 27-lines in her characteristic neat, sinuous hand. She notes that it was made at the request of Thomas Brumbaugh of Greencastle, PA.....
New York: Macmillan Company / Viking Press, 1967. 8vo. xiv, 305 pages. Cloth; dust jacket; blue cloth chemise and slipcase. First edition. Abbott A32.a1.
New York: Viking Press, 1959. 8vo. 37 pages. Original two-toned cloth; dust jacket. First edition, first impression. Signed by Moore on the front free endpaper, and dated Sept. 17, 1959 [the date of publication] on the copyright page. Abbott A17.1.
London: Brendin Publishing Company, 1936. 8vo. Illustrated by George Plank. Decorated paper over boards. First edition, one of 120 copies. Abbott.
New York: Viking Press, 1966. 8vo. 57 pages. Quarter cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition, first impression. Abbott A30.1.
New York: Viking Press, 1954. 8vo. x, 342 pages. Cloth; printed dust jacket. First trade edition, presentation copy, inscribed by Marianne Moore: "M.M. from M M with love / Dear Margaret, I I hope I am right in feeling that you would care to have this. Diffidantly, Marianne." Moore has.....
New York: Viking Press, 1954. 8vo. x, 342 pages. Cloth; acetate wrapper; slipcase. First edition, limited issue, number 220 of 400 copies signed by Moore (300 were for sale). Abbott A11.a1a.
New York: [The Spiral Press for] The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1958. 8vo. Wood engraved plate by Leonard Baskin. Original gilt-lettered cloth-backed boards; original slipcase. FIRST EDITION, one of 550 copies. Abbott A16.
New York: Monroe Wheeler, 1923. 8vo. [20] pages. Original printed wrappers, stapled. First edition, Monroe Wheeler estimated that 200 copies were printed, mostly for presentation. Laid-in: Glenway Westcott, "Miss Moore's Observations," folded two-leaf review of Moore's 'Poems' (present in all copies examined by Abbott). Abbott A2.
Brooklyn: Pratt Ad Lib Press, 1960. 4to. 21 pages. Woodcut illustrations by Richard Bennett. Printed wrappers. Number 264 of 300 copies. Produced under the supervision of Fritz Eichenberg at Pratt in celebration of Moore receiving the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters in 1959.
New York: Exposition Press, 1955. 8vo. 64 pages. Green cloth; printed dust jacket. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "To Joe, One who believes. 1956. From us Jim & Poca." Scarce book by this African American poet and educator originally from Talladega, Alabama.
San Francisco: 1974. 4to. 8 pages. Stapled as issued. A very good copy, the first leaf separated from staple, the sheets with characteristic pale toning at edges. FIRST EDITION of this scarce mimeo journal. Contains Joseph Bruchac, "Third World Writing Today"; Rich Mandelsdorf, "Towards Understanding How We Sound"; and Richard.....
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1867. 8vo (6.75 x 4.5 inches). 4-page advertisements at front. 307 pages. Original terra-cotta cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. Provenance: Alice N. Day (1868 ownership signature on title, faint). First American edition, and the first book by Morris published in America. The poem is Morris's epic-length versification of.....
Vancouver: William Hoffer, 1982. 20 x 9 inches. Mounted as issued in cloth portfolio with spine label. One of 26 lettered copies (this letter "H") signed by the poet, from an edition of 330. Printed on Carlyle Japan and tipped into a binding by Courtland Benson. Designed by Robert Bringhurst.....
Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1959. 8vo. Original cloth; dust jacket. First edition, presumed second state with "A26" on verso of p. [44] (though appearing to have been effaced to make it look like A25). Containing 14 poems by Nabokov written between 1942 and 1957.
Norfolk, CT: New Directions, [1944]. 8vo. Original grey printed boards; printed dust jacket. First edition of a fragile early New Directions title.
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, [1929]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. With a foreword by Louis Untermeyer. 8vo. Original decorated cloth-backed boards, paper label, untrimmed. First edition of this book of poetry, limited to 1500 numbered copies, of which this is Copy No. 1 and also the dedication copy. 'A Cedar Box' is.....
[Oakland]: O Books, 1998. 8vo. 79, [1] pages. Printed wrappers. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by the poet on the half-title to two other poets and signed "Boss Hog." A scarce early collection of poetry by this important American cultural theorist, literary critic, and feminist scholar. " Sianne Ngai's writings.....
New York: Macmillan, 1962. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original maroon cloth; printed dust jacket. First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "For Fred Dannay with great respect (and affectionately) Charles Norman." Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee famously wrote under their 'nom de.....
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1913. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original green cloth, gilt-lettered, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Inscribed with four lines of verse from the poem "A Coiner of Angels" (on p. 38 in the book): "From 'The Little Red Ring' / What will.....
Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1923. 8vo. 39 pages. Original cloth-backed boards, printed paper spine label, uncut and unopened; plain dust wrapper. FIRST EDITION, one of 250 copies. Includes "Essay on the Character in Irish Literature by A. E." Scarce with the jacket.
New York: Adventures in Poetry. 11 x 8.5 inches. Ten mimeographed leaves, on rectos only. Stapled in wrappers, front cover with full-bleed photographic reproduction of an aerial view of a Belgrade street. First edition, one of 500 copies. O'Hara's letter to Joe LeSueur is printed here posthumously at the St.....
Buffalo: The Institute of Further Studies, 1968. 8vo. Single sheet. Folding into original printed envelope. Fine small broadside poem by Charles Olson.