Charles Bukowski

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Missouri

A classic in the Bukowski poetry canon, Love Is a Dog from Hell is a raw, lyrical, exploration of the exigencies, heartbreaks, and limits of love.

A book that captures the Dirty Old Man of American letters at his fiercest and most vulnerable, on a subject that hits home with all of us. Charles Bukowski was a man of intense emotions, someone an editor once called a "passionate madman." Alternating between tough and gentle, sensitive and gritty, Bukowski lays bare the myriad facets of love--its selfishness and its narcissism, its randomness, its mystery and its misery, and, ultimately, its true joyfulness, endurance, and redemptive power.

"there is a loneliness in this world so great

that you can see it in the slow movement of

the hands of a clock."

Love Is a Dog from Hell

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1934 rare, very limitedly-printed folio of a previously unpublished poem by D. H. Lawrence. This was printed at the Chiswick Polytechnic School of Art by Catherine Carswell, who was a close friend of Lawrence’s. This folio is in great shape; only some cover wear, and the threaded binding is worn slightly. The item’s binding  is still tight, and pages are in damaged. There is a mark in pencil at the bottom of the opening page that looks to be 71/93 or 71 193. Either way, this is a limited very printing. There is also a pencil mark on the back cover with a scribble and (what looks to be) “WRATO”. Photos of markings included above.

New Mexico

An Original Poem by D. H. Lawrence 

California

A collection of poetry focusing on the hardships that come with shattered relationships, the feelings that bloom in love lost, and the experiences of finding closure. Ice Cream And Suicide is a personal look at the events that have scarred and inspired the author to begin poetry. The woman who Ray writes about has not one name, but many. The collection truly captures the dark side of love and is proof that words can kill just as bullets or hand grenades.

Ice Cream and Suicide

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"A collection of poetry and prose about survival, about the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity"--Amazon.com.

Milk and Honey

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Kevin Kantor

An collection published by Button Poetry.

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Please Come Off-Book queers the theatrical canon we all grew up with. Kantor critiques the treatment of queer figures and imagines a braver and bolder future that allows queer voices the agency over their own stories. Drawing upon elements of the Aristotelian dramatic structure and the Hero's Journey, Please Come Off-Book is both a love letter to and a scathing critique of American culture and the lenses we choose to see ourselves through.

Please Come Off-Book

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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Caroline Kennedy

Pages are like new but the cover has some shelf ware. Never read.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis loved literature, especially poetry. Once you can express yourself, she wrote, you can tell the world what you want from it. Now, Caroline Kennedy shares her mothers favorite poems by such renowned authors as William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, e.e. cummings, and Robert Frost. The book also includes a poem written by Jacqueline Kennedy and is illustrated with photographs of the Kennedy clan. This is a wonderful volume for reading aloud or by yourself and a meaningful gift or keepsake for Mothers Day.

The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

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Copyright is 1968
The cover is worn from age but binding is still firm and ver good condition. Previous owner made some notes on the inside, most are done in pencil. One side is in Spanish and the other side is the English translation. 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Arizona

Nine Latin American Poets

Has personalized message written on first page but other than that, rest of book in excellent shape!

Michigan

Poems for Grandparents, Lovers and Others

Adventures in Poetic Prose

1896 Eclectic English Classics. Hardcover and binding secure. Previous owner’s name in ink, as well as several personal notes written in pencil, underlining, etc. #hardcover #poetry #history

Illinois

English

An Essay on Robert Burns 

Shaykh Qummi

Ali Qarai

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Washington

Volume One: Supplications and Periodic Observances

The is a book of prayers and devotional observances. Among the religious traditions of humanity the Imami Shi'ah tradition within Islam is unmatched in its rich corpus of devotional texts (du'a and ziyarah literature) handed down from the original leaders of the faith, the Prophet Muhammad and the Imams of his family, the Ahl al-Bayt.The Mafatih al-Jinan is the most popular manual of Islamic devotional observances and prayer-texts by Shaykh Abbas Qummi, which draws its contents from well-known, reliable sources. As a manual of devotional literature, the Mafatih al-Jinan follows a long tradition established by the Misbah al-Mutahajjid of Shaykh Tusi (d. 460/1067) and followed up in the works of Sayyid Ibn Tawus (d. 664/1265), Kaf'ami (d. 905/1499) and others. Most of the contents of the Mafatih are drawn from these earlier works. Since its publication, the Mafatih has enjoyed an uncontested popularity among Farsi-speaking Muslims, and its Arabic and Urdu versions are widely used by the devout in the Arab world and the Indian subcontinent.

Mafatih Al-Jinan: a Treasury of Islamic Piety (Translation and Transliteration)

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This antique book is a complete volume of poetical works by Percy Shelley. It is a hardcover book published by The American News Company in New York. It has some illustrations throughout. Pages are gilt edged.  The book was printed in 1883 and is an original copy.

The book cover shows signs of shelf wear and use. The title page is loose from the binding and  the front interior hinges are cracked. The original owner’s name is marked in pencil on front cover page. Please view photos for condition.


Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Florida

The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley

#paperback #blackpoets #africanamericanpoets #americanpoetry #poetry #americanpoets #medgarevers

The Unghosting of Medgar Evers

Around the void left by the murder of Medgar Evers in 1963, the poems in this collection speak, unleashing the strong emotions both before and after the moment of assassination. Poems take on the voices of Evers's widow, Myrlie; his brother, Charles; his assassin, Byron De La Beckwith; and each of De La Beckwith's two wives. Except for the book's title,"Turn me loose," which were his final words, Evers remains in this collection silent. Yet the poems accumulate facets of the love and hate with which others saw this man, unghosting him in a way that only imagination makes possible.

Turn Me Loose

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This is a 1913 collection of poems written by southern poets and the subsequent themes reflecting southern society in the 1800s. Some notes written by the original owner are penciled throughout.


Virginia

Riverside Literature Series 

Southern Poems

Lang Leav poetry box set excellent preowned condition.

Texas

Poetry collection

Lang Leav poetry collection

Vintage collected from Vanguard of Edith Sitwells poetry without sleeve cover published in 1954, onky 5,000 copies were printed

New York

The collected poems of edith sitwell

David Whyte

1999 third printing by Many Rivers Press. Out of print. Excellent poetry from Whyte. The volume is in excellent shape, with no annotations and very, very minor shelf wear on the jacket. 

Poems by David Whyte

This is David Whyte's first book of poetry. Now in its fourth printing.

Songs for Coming Home

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Excellent condition, clean first edition signed copy. 

(First Edition, Signed, 1972)

Seventh Heaven

Shakespeare's complete works. Plays & poetry

Pennsylvania

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abbey Library Hardcover Ex Library


Vintage Hardcover Poetry Book Collection | The World’s 1000 Best Poems (c. 1929)

"The World’s 1000 Best Poems," a timeless anthology published by Funk & Wagnalls in 1929 and arranged by Berton Braley.

Volumes 1,2,4,5,6,7,8,10

Very good vintage, pre-loved condition with some light age-appropriate wear and tear.

📏 Dimensions: Each book measures approximately 6.25” in height, 4” in width, and 0.25” in depth.

The World’s 1000 Best Poems

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

The best loved poems of the American people 

Ellen Hopkins

Identical

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poetry books 

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Excellent condition may have minor wrinkles on toes cover from storage

No American writer of the nineteenth century was more universally enjoyed and admired than Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. His works were extraordinary bestsellers for their era, achieving fame both here and abroad. Now, for the first time in over twenty-five years, The Library of America offers a full-scale literary portrait of America’s greatest popular poet. Here are the poems that created an American mythology: Evangeline in the forest primeval, Hiawatha by the shores of Gitche Gumee, the midnight ride of Paul Revere, the wreck of the Hesperus, the village blacksmith under the spreading chestnut tree, the strange courtship of Miles Standish, the maiden Priscilla and the hesitant John Alden; verses like “A Psalm of Life” and “The Children’s Hour,” whose phrases and characters have become part of the culture. Here as well, along with the public antislavery poems, are the sparer, darker lyrics—"The Fire of Drift-Wood," “Mezzo Cammin,” “Snow-Flakes,” and many others—that show a more austere aspect of Longfellow’s poetic gift. Erudite and fluent in many languages, Longfellow was endlessly fascinated with the byways of history and the curiosities of legend. As a verse storyteller he had no peer, whether in the great book-length narratives such as Evangeline and The Song of Hiawatha (both included in full) or the stories collected in Tales of a Wayside Inn (reprinted here in a generous selection). His many poems on literary themes, such as his moving homages to Dante and Chaucer, his verse translations from Lope de Vega, Heinrich Heine, and Michelangelo, and his ambitious verse dramas, notably The New England Tragedies (also complete), are remarkable in their range and ambition. As a special feature, this volume restores to print Longfellow’s novel Kavanagh, a study of small-town life and literary ambition that was praised by Emerson as an important contribution to the development of American fiction. A selection of essays rounds out of the volume and provides testimony of Longfellow’s concern with creating an American national literature. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poems and Other Writings (LOA #118)

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553 pages. 5 1/2” x 8 1/4” x 1 1/2”
Published by Charles Scribner’s sons, 1927

Five collections of poetry, plus index by 1st line. 
VG. Green fabric cover embossed in gold. Tight. EX Libras on inside front cover.

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