New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1860. Full Leather. A Book of Favourite Modern Ballads. With floral borders to the text, numerous engraved illustrations, frontispiece, and additional title page, illustrated with black, gray, and gilt. Scattered foxing. Contemporary inscription on... More about A BOOK OF FAVOURITE MODERN BALLADS
London: J. J. Chidley, 1846. Full Leather. The Book of the Poets: Chaucer to Beattie, published by John James Chidley. With an additional title page, engraved. Engraved illustrations throughout, with half page tissue guards bound in. Foxing to the engraved... More about THE BOOK OF THE POETS. CHAUCER TO BEATTIE. WITH AN ESSAY ON ENGLISH POETRY
Philadelphia: Thomas T. Ash, 1835. 32mo. Full Leather. A gift book from 1835. The Bouquet, or Spirit of the English Annuals. Frontispiece. Lacking endpapers; scattered foxing; personal inscription on the recto of the frontispiece. Embossed calf, with a chipped leather... More about THE BOUQUET, OR SPIRIT OF THE ENGLISH ANNUALS, FOR 1835
Boston: Saxton and Kelt, 1845. 32mo. Hard Cover. Third Edition. A copy of Gems of Sacred Poetry, a collection of religious poems from various authors. Blindstamp on the front endpaper and faint smudging to some pages. Shelfwear; minor loss to... More about GEMS OF SACRED POETRY
New York: Leavitt & Allen, [1847]. Hard Cover. A gift book, The Language of Flowers, with frontispiece and four additional hand colored plates. Previous owner’s names. Minor shelfwear, and some discoloration to the binding. Brown embossed cloth, with gilt lettering..... More about THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS, POETICALLY EXPRESSED; BEING A COMPLETE FLORA’S ALBUM
Toronto | Buffalo | London: University of Toronto Press, [2004]. Hard Cover. A clean copy. Dustjacket is clean and bright. More about STATELIEST MEASURES. TENNYSON AND THE LITERATURE OF GREECE AND ROME
London: Bell and Daldy, 1866. Full Leather. New Edition, with Additions. Works by the popular 19th century poet, who began her careers writing for Dickens’ Household Words and All the Year Round.~Legends and Lyrics was first published in 1858, a.... More about LEGENDS AND LYRICS
Boston: Brown, Taggard & Chase, 1859. Hard Cover. First Edition. First Edition copy of the New Hampshire poet’s POEMS, with his photograph pasted in. Acquired from the Laighton family with signatures. Front hinge is cracked but holding well. Some wear..... More about POEMS
Dayton, VA: Ruebush, Kieffer & Co., Printers, 1881. First Edition. Published by Ruebush-Kieffer, the firm founded by the grandson of Joseph Funk, the great Mennonite printer. The volume of verse by Kieffer is full of local references, poems such as... More about HOURS OF FANCY: OR VIGIL AND VISION
London: Lawton Gilliver, 1729. Full Leather. Second Edition. One of a number of variant printings of this Second Edition of Pope’s great satirical poem. This with the frontispiece showing an owl on the stack of books on the donkey’s saddle..... More about THE DUNCIAD. WITH NOTES VARIORUM AND THE PROLEGOMENA OF SCRIBLERUS
London: T. Bensley; for F. J. du Roveray, 1798. Full Leather. Pope’s comic poem, first printed anonymously in 1711 -- a lock of hair cut off without permission causes a breach between two aristocratic families. It is, as the Preface... More about THE RAPE OF THE LOCK, AN HEROI-COMICAL POEM. ... ADORNED WITH PLATES
Charlottesville: The University of Virginia Press, 1991. Hard Cover. First Edition. A crisp copy with some light sunning to the top of the binding. No marks of any kind. More about POPE’S DUNCIAD OF 1728: A HISTORY AND FACSMILE
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 2000. Alexander Wilson’s long narrative poem detailing the natural beauty encountered on his trek from Philadelphia to Niagara Falls. #102 of 150 copies printed at the Bird & Bull Press. Quarter brown morocco over... More about THE FORESTERS
New York: The Viking Press, [1980]. Soft Cover. Proof Copy. Publisher’s proof copy in ochre printed wrappers; there are no marks in the book. Mylar cover has some loss to the top of the rear panel. More about THE VARIOUS LIGHT
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1929. Three Quarters Leather. Signed. With a mounted ALS from Tennyson at the front of Volume I. The set issued in seven sumptuous volumes; this copy sadly lacking Volume II. In three-quarter green crushed morocco over... More about THE POETIC AND DRAMATIC WORKS OF ALFRED LORD TENNYSON [LACKING VOL. II
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press | Harvard University Press, 1981. Hard Cover. Autograph letter signed by the editor, Edgar F. Shannon, Jr. laid in, along with other relevant correspondences. A clean copy of Volume I only. Blindstamp on the title... More about THE LETTERS OF ALFRED LORD TENNYSON. VOLUME I. 1821-1850
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, [1920]. Hard Cover. A clean copy, complete in three volumes. lettering and decorations stamped in gilt on the front boards and spine. Lettering on the spine darkened. Some foxing to the endpapers of Vol... More about COLLECTED POEMS. COMPLETE IN THREE VOLUMES
NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. Hard Cover. First Edition. Quite a nice first edition copy with no marks of any kind. Dustjacket is not price-clipped. More about ARCHAIC FIGURE
The Sarabande Press, 1984. Folio. Soft Cover. Limited Edition, number “m” of 26 copies “press-lettered and specially bound”. Signed by Clampitt, G. G. Laurens and designer Joe Marc Freedman. Fabulously bound in hand-made stiff paper wrappers; a gorgeous copy housed..... More about A HOMAGE TO JOHN KEATS
New York: Sarabande Press, 1983. Illustrated by: Marsha Eva Gold. Folio. Disbound. Limited Edition, numbered 18 of 33. Signed by Clampitt, Gold and the designer and printer Joe Marc Freedman on the colophon. A beautifully designed accordion binding on handmade... More about THE SUMMER SOLSTICE
Berkeley: Oyez, 1973. Octavo. Hard Cover. 1st Edition. Signed by Wyatt on title page. Light rubbing and small closed tear to dust jacket; dust jacket protected in a new mylar cover; pen mark to page forty two otherwise no markings... More about POEMS OF THE MORNING & POEMS OF THE STORM
Cambridge, Massachusetts | London, England: Harvard University Press, 2004. Hard Cover. Angelo Poliziano’s Silvae. Text in Latin and English. A clean copy, with no marks of any kind. Near Fine dustjacket. Now protected in a mylar cover. More about ANGELO POLIZIANO. SILVAE. (THE I TATTI LIBRARY
Timisoara: Helicon, [1996]. 32mo. Hard Cover. A clean copy. Bound in tan paper covered boards with lettering in brown. Some wear along the extremities of the joints. Text in Romanian. An uncommon book, with only three copies found on OCLC... More about PE MARGINEA CERULUI. | SUL MARGINE DEL CIELO
c. 1900. Broaddus was a native of Richmond where she taught music after attending the New England Conservatory of Music. She is buried in Oakwood Cemetery. Front hinge has been repaired. More about POEMS
Omaha, Nebraska: Abattoir Editions, 1984. Hard Cover. First Edition. With two woodcuts by James A. Crowley. Limited to 250 numbered copies of which this is #43. Very slight musty odor. In tan cloth with white wrar-around paper spine label. More about WHAT WE DID AFTER RAIN