Thank You, Fog
London: Faber and Faber, 1974. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1974. Cloth backed boards in dust jacket, 57 pp., clean unmarked text, Fine copy in Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket.
Poetry
A Lone Red Apple
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Greek Amer Press, 1998. First Edition. Paperback. VG+ soft cover octavo first edition. Some discoloration to cover. Illus. Signed and inscribed by author. To Jeanne Shaffer, a Pittsburgh-based Willa Cather scholar and longtime supporter of Pittsburgh's International Poetry Forum. 226pp.
Translation
New York: Marsilio Publishers, 1997. First printing. Paperback. octavo, paper wraps, book is in very good with wear to wrap edges and rubbing, mild toning to the text block, 407pp.
![Item #B56530 The Paradise of the World [Inscribed by Austin to poet Robert Lima!]. Deborah Austin](https://commoncrowbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/B56530.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1664567444)
The Paradise of the World [Inscribed by Austin to poet Robert Lima!]
University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1964. Paperback. Inscribed by Austin to poet Robert Lima [+ handwritten note and Austin's obituary laid in]! Printed paper wraps, octavo, not illustrated. Book has rubbing to wraps, sun to spine, binding tight, text clean and unmarked.
Pere Lachaise (fine printed broadside poem, 1972 on the occasion of Oscar Wilde's birthday)
Highland Park, MI: Red Hanrahan Press, 1972. Broadside poem unfolds to 24 x 8 inches, with map of the famous cemetery in Paris and poem about it below, finely printed, sharp copy.
In Celebration: Anemos (Poems presented to Denise Levertov on her 60th birthday)
Palo Alto: Matrix Press, 1983. First printing. Paperback. One of 150 copies. Quarto, wraps with dust jacket, handsome printing: poems by Forché, Hamill, Creeley, Alice Walker, James Laughlin, Al Young, Galway Kinnell, et al. Although not stated, a duplicate from Sam Hamill's own collection.
Plutuland: wa-Qasaid ukhra min shi'r al-khassah / Plutoland and other poems -- in Arabic
Cairo: Matbaat al-Karnak, 1947. First printing. Paperback. 8vo, wraps, very good, light wear, tanning and soil to covers, contents a little toned, first page of preface has light blue pencil underlining. Looks like it was inscribed by the poet in 1948, but unsure of this. 105 pp. In 1947 Louis.....
Ca. 1820s love letter in verse to "Eliza"
10.5 x 8 inches, single sheet, two sides, addressed to an Eliza, whom the author knew when she was a child but has "begun to develope they graces of feminine sway" which has inspired him to commit his ardor to verse. The author (1799-1862) lived his entire life in Hebron.....
Malta: The New Poetry - An Anthology of Modern Maltese Verse
Malta: Klabb, Kotba, Maltin, 1971. Paperback. Softcover. c.1971. 8vo. 187pp. Very Good. Light general shelfwear, mild rubbing to wraps, spine creased.
Bachhylides
Germany: Biblioteca Scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana, 1992. Paperback. Paperback octavo; Ancient Greek language edition with preface in Latin; clean, unmarked text; 172 pp. Near Fine copy shows light wear and soil; otherwise, excellent. Unread copy.
VDB Wordlist
Toronto: BookThug, 2007. Second printing. Paperback. Second printing, 2007. Softcover, 17 pp., clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy.
Seascape: Lost Literature Series, 11; with 'After Writing' by Charles Bernstein in rear pocket
Brooklyn: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2013. First printing. Paperback. First edition, 2013. Oblong softcover, unpaginated, folding sheet entitled 'After Writing' in rear pocket, clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy.
Group of 18 Works by Bernadine Bailey, Including Einar, Maureen Marshall Private Eye, American Shrines in England, Abraham Lincoln Man of Courage, Carol Carson: Books Across the Border, Christopher Columbus: Sailor and Dreamer. The Captive Nations: Our First Line of Defense, Denmark: Wonderland of Work and Play, Famous Latin American Liberators, Famous Modern Explorers, Austria and Switzerland: Alphine Countries, Juan Pance de Leon, Bellsbellsbells, Washington D.C.: Our Nation's Capital, and 4 Copies of From My Heart to Yours, Most INSCRIBED by the Author
New York/ London: Dodd, Mead, and Co./ Houghton, Mifflin/ et al. 1956-1978. First edition. Hardcover. Group of 18 Works by Bernadine Bailey, most of which are INSCRIBED to 'Betty and George' by Bailey. Includes: Einar, Maureen Marshall Private Eye, American Shrines in England, Abraham Lincoln Man of Courage, Carol Carson.....
Tuning
Pittsburgh: Slow Loris Press, 1978. First printing. Hardcover. First printing, 1978, hardcover with orange cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 40pp., not illustrated. Book VG+ with handsome boards and tight binding, text has a dampstain to upper corner throughout, otherwise fine. DJ VG with dampstain, toning, rubbing, mild soil...
Tuning
Pittsburgh: Slow Loris Press, 1978. First printing. Hardcover. First printing, 1978, hardcover with orange cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 40pp., not illustrated. Book fine with handsome boards and tight binding, text clean and unmarked. DJ VG with toning, rubbing, mild soil and edgewear.
Tuning
Pittsburgh: Slow Loris Press, 1978. First printing. Paperback. First edition, 1978. Softcover, 40 pp., clean unmarked text, Very Good copy, a bit of rubbing or wear to the tips and edges of the covers, covers also with some soil or discoloration. Pamphlet from publisher laid in.
Festus: A Poem
New York: James Miller, no date. Hardcover. Gilt and black stamped brown cloth boards, octavo, 391pp., sparsely illustrated in b&w. Book has wear to spine ends and corners, sun to spine, rubbing, binding tight, front endpapers foxed, text clean and unmarked, showing a few dog-ears, gilt to edges of block.....
On Teaching English: With Detailed Examples, and an Enquiry Into the Definition of Poetry
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1887. Hardcover. Very Good Hardback with no dj. All pages clean and unmarked, excpet some foxing that occurs on the first ten pages & last five. Boards show some minor wear to edges (scratching, bumping), ex-library copy with usual marks (writing to spine, writing to.....
Heresy and the Ideal: On Contemporary Poetry
Fayetteville, AR: University of Arkansas Press, 2000. First printing. Paperback. Inscribed by Baker! First printing, 2000, paperback, octavo, 291pp., not illustrated. Book VG+ with sun to spine, mild wear to corners, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. No DJ.
![Item #0091686 The Spirit That Triumphs [signed!]. Dora E. Baker](https://commoncrowbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/0091686.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1698874796)
The Spirit That Triumphs [signed!]
Philadelphia: Dorrance and Company, 1937. First printing. Hardcover. Cloth, association copy--inscribed by the author with a personalized poem to the Bakers's family doctor, clean unmarked text, very good copy, light toning to the pages and page-edges, soiling and edgewear to the book's covers, no dust jacket.
Point Lace and Diamonds, New and Revised Edition with numerous new poems
New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1893. Hardcover. Small octavo, lovely maroon watered silk binding with gilt decorations, very good, slight smoke odor. 127 pp, all edges gilt.
Vietnamese Folk Poetry
Greensboro: Unicorn Press, 1974. First printing. Brown and yellow cloth boards, no DJ., 47pp.
June-tree: New and Selected Poems 1974-2000
New York: Harper Collins, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. octavo, blue and orange cloth boards in corner clipped dust jacket, book and jacket are in very good + condition, jacket shows edgewear and rubbing, book shows light wear, 178pp.
Tristram 1971-1972 (Bucknell University literary magazine)
Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University, 1971. Paperback. Published 1971, quarto stapled wraps, 58 pp, illustrated, including covers by John Beckley (from whose estate we purchased this), features early work by C. PETER BALAKIAN, (B. 1951) the 2016 winner of the Pulitzer Prize in poetry. 2 poems by him, among his first.....
Tristram 1971-1972 (Bucknell University literary magazine)
Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University, 1971. Paperback. Published 1971, quarto stapled wraps, 58 pp, illustrated, including covers by John Beckley (from whose estate we purchased this), features early work by C. PETER BALAKIAN, (B. 1951) the 2016 winner of the Pulitzer Prize in poetry. 2 poems by him, among his first.....