Las canciones de los heroes: poemas
[Santiago de Cuba]: Universdad de Oriente, (1974). Jorge Hidalgo. Paperback. illustrations, [19]p. Original wrapper. 26cm. Cover unevenly browned. INSCRIBED by Cos Causse. Spanish text. More
[Santiago de Cuba]: Universdad de Oriente, (1974). Jorge Hidalgo. Paperback. illustrations, [19]p. Original wrapper. 26cm. Cover unevenly browned. INSCRIBED by Cos Causse. Spanish text. More
New York: Henry Harrison, (c. 1938). 1st ed. Hardcover. frontis (portrait), 78p. Green cloth. dj. 21cm. Jacket moderately worn with some chipping, fading and waterspotting. 21cm. INSCRIBED to J. Max Bond by Cotter (in a shaky hand on the front pastedown). Signed copies of his books are uncommon. More
[Louisville]: n. d (1906?). Paperback. [8] unnumbered pages. Stapled pamphlet.19cm. Chipping and wear at top and bottom of all leaves -- loss of two words ("Piper of") in poem's title at beginning of poem on second page. Later horizontal fold. Cotter, an African American, was a high school principal (Paul..... More
Louisville: Bradley & Gilbert, 1898. 1st ed. Hardcover. frontis (portrait), iv, 64p. Original cloth. 18 cm. Some light staining on back cover near backstrip. SIGNED by Cotter on front free endpaper ("With compliments of Joseph S. Cotter"). Cotter's uncommon second book of poetry. More
Francestown, N.H. Golden Quill Press, (c. 1970). Hardcover. 120p. Boards. dj. 20cm. INSCRIBED inside front cover by Cox. More
John B. Alden, 1888. Hardcover. 2 vols. xlix, 398, [399]-744p. Rebound in old maroon buckram. 20 cm. All edges marbled, perhaps when rebound. A few glue spots on endpapers. No jackets. More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1927. Charles Cullen. Later printing (Harper code H-B). Hardcover. illustrations (by Charles Cullen), xi, 89p. Original boards backed in black cloth. 19cm. Upper right corners on cover bumped (some crumpling). Free endpapers browned. No Jacket. Cullen's second book of poetry. A limited edition consisting of..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1927. Later printing. Hardcover. illustrations (by Charles Cullen), xi, 89p. Original marbled boards backed in black cloth. Mounted title labels on backstrip and front cover. 19cm. No jacket. SIGNED ("Cordially Countee Cullen") on front free endpaper which also has the red name stamp of a...... More
Utrecht: De Roos, 1960. 1st ed. Hardcover. illustrations (8 2-color woodcuts by Ru van Rossem), xv, 79, (3)p. Original decorated boards. Slipcase (modestly worn with some splitting along a few edges). 33 cm. Text printed on double-leaves. Fifty poems in by this talented but, sadly, mostly forgotten African American writer..... More
Paradise, Calif. DUST-books, (c. 1969). 1st ed. 45p. Original wrapper. 21cm.Curry, an African American, was born in Cleveland. More
Near Newtown: Gregynog Press, 1933. Hardcover. v, 30p. Marbled green, black and white paper-covered boards backed in green cloth. 24cm. Corner bumped. Ends of backstrip rather frayed and worn. Contents sound and clean but moderately age-toned. No Jacket. Copy No. 138 of an edition limited to 250 numbered copies. More
Chicago: Black Cat Press, 1937. 1st ed. Hardcover. 69p. Original cloth. 24cm. Backstrip and adjacent areas faded on cover. No Jacket. Poetry. Davis, an African American author, wrote three books of strong poetry in the 1930s and 1940s while he was a working journalist in Chicago. He moved to Honolulu..... More
Boston: B. J. Brimmer Company, 1924. 1st ed. Hardcover. 95p. Original cloth-backed boards. 19 cm. Spotting and soiling on title labels. Title-leaf and two following leaves chipped at top. No jacket. INSCRIBED on front free endpaper by De Leeuw ("For Faith Vilas a singer of songs after my own heart..... More
Detroit: Agascha Productions, (c. 1973). Presumed first edition. Paperback. 22p. Pink wrapper. 22cm. Light cover soil & spotting. Poetry. A biographical sketch of the author on page 21 says that she shared the foundership and presidency of Agascha Productions with her husband Agadem and that she had a B. A...... More
Bronx, NY: (c. 1977). Paperback. 20p. Original light green wrapper backed with black tape. 22cm. Inexpensively produced booklet. Very Good. INSCRIBED (perhaps by the author but we can't decipher the scrawl). Poetry. Poetry. More
Parklands: Ad. Donker, (1992). 1st ed. Paperback. vi, 58p. Wrapper. 20cm. More
n.p. n.d. [ca. 1962]. 4p. Disbound (removed from a bound volume). 18cm. No separate wrapper or title-page present. Second leaf trimmed at a modest angle, affecting no text. Authorship of this humorous poem with thirteen four-line stanzas is apparently unknown. More
New York: Farrar, Straus, 1946. 1st ed. Hardcover. 103p. Original cloth. dj. 20 cm. Jacket scuffed and edge-worn. Owen Dodson's bookplate pn front pastedown. Poetry. His first book. More
London: Paul Breman, 1970. 1st ed. Paperback. 28p. Softcover in original wrapper. 21cm. Bookplate (Owen Dodson). Volume 13 in Breman's Heritage Series (of African American poetry). More
Missoula, Montana: Ulysses Doss, n.d. [1976 or 1977]. [1st ed.]. Paperback. text and illustrations printed on one side of 139 numbered leaves. 139p. Stapled softcover with gold-colored front and back covers. 28 cm. Our suggested date comes from another copy, no sold, which had an inscription dated 1977 as well..... More
Bruxelles: L'Ecran du Monde, (1947). Paperback. index, 181p. dj. Softcover in original plain untitled thin card cover (with dj). 24 cm. French text. Jacket has visible staining on and around head of backstrip panel. Unopened. More
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1901. 2nd State (title in green on title-page). Hardcover. frontis (portrait), decorative cover & page borders (by Margaret Armstrong), photos (by the Hampton Institute Camera Club), 127p. Green cloth. Partially gilt cover decorations. 22cm. Heavily browned along gutter of first three leaves (probably from old, now..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1905. 1st ed. Hardcover. frontis, photos (by Leigh Richmond Miner), (117)p. Original decorative brown cover with photo mounted on front cover. dj. 22 cm. Jacket rather heavily chipped around edges and on backstrip (which lacks a large portion at top and a small piece at bottom)..... More
Cincinnati: The John Church Company, (c. 1911). 1st ed.[?]. Paperback. modest rectangular image on first page, 7p. plus publisher's adverts on final page. 31 cm. Coleridge-Taylor met when Dunbar when the poet was in London in 1897. Dunbar allowed Coleridge-Taylor to set some of his poems to music and Coleridge's..... More
Mexico: Tezontle, (1954). Paperback. 95p. Wrapper. 17cm. Unopened. INSCRIBED by Duran. Spanish text. Poetry. More