Category: Art and Poetry

A Guide to Great Orchestral Music (A Modern Library Giant #G61)

Price: $14.95

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library : 1943

Seller ID: 006158

532 pp., catalogues of Columbia Records and Victor Records, index. Green cloth boards with rubbed gold lettering on black background. Some edgewear, a few pages have short margin notes and underlining. DJ somewhat foxed, edgewear, ssmall chips at spine and flap ends, scuff mark on front repaired with tape. "A comprehensive volume on all the great symphonic compositions and many other instrumental works heard in concert and on the radio, from the classics to the works of the youngest contemporaries. It provides concise biographies of the composers, with evaluations of their significan...
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Amazon Poetry: An Anthology of Lesbian Poetry

By: Larkins, Joan; Bulkin, Elly

Price: $22.50

Publisher: Brooklyn, NY, Out & Out Books : 1975

Seller ID: 004516

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good+

Light spoting along edge. Wraps and text clean and unmarked. From the Prefatory Note: "We have put together a book of poems that show the scope and intensity of lesbian experience. They were all written by women who define themselves as lesbians. And who have chosen, by publishing their poetry here, to affirm that identity. With us, they - and their poems - belie a simple sexual definition of lesbianism. Our lives have many sides. The poetry expresses them - growing up, sisterhood, sexuality, family, motherhood, work, dying. Myth. Racism. Old age, war, ritual. For us, this range...
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Black Poets

By: Randall, Dudley (editor)

Price: $7.50

Publisher: New York, Bantam Books : 1988

Seller ID: 006592

ISBN-13: 9780553275636

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good+

353 pp. Spine slightly slanted with single crease, corners a bit bumped. A bright, attractive copy.

A definitive anthology of African American poetry spanning the era of slave songs to the present, and including both folk poetry and literary poetry through the 1960's.; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall
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Contemporary Poetry

By: Kelling, Lucile

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina Press : 1938

Seller ID: 003766

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good

88 pp, yellow wraps. Spine slightly slanted, sunning along spine/edges, some soiling/edgewear, back cover and last 4 pages creased/scuffed. Text is clear and unmarked.

A discussion of American, British and Irish poets of the day, including an indepth study of "Pulitzer Prize" poets, women poets, and African-American poets. University of North Carolina Library Extension Publication, Vol. IV, No. 3, April 1938.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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English Poetry from Tennyson to Whitman (The Harvard Classics Volume #42)

By: Eliot, Charles W., LLD, Editor

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, P. F. Collier & Son : 1956

Seller ID: 8758

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

Brown cloth with gold lettering. Corners a bit chipped, minor chipping and edge wear. ; Frontispiece, contains pages 959 - 1422 of the three volume English Poetry books. "The most comprehensive and well-researched anthology of all time comprises both the 50-volume "5-foot shelf of books" and the 20-volume Shelf of Fiction. Together they cover every major literary figure, philosopher, religion, folklore and historical subject through the twentieth century." William Allan Nielson states: " The Five-Foot Shelf, with its introductions, notes, guides to reading, and exhaustive ...
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Folk Songs of Many Lands

By: Van Loon, Hendrik Willem; Castagnetta, Grace

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Simon & Schuster : 1938

Seller ID: 003238

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ in Good+ dust jacket

96 pp, numerous color and b/w illustrations, white boards with color sketch of a mountain village gathered in the town square for a winter celebration. Title page has authors names in script, giving the impression of being their signatures. Spine has 1" tear down the back hinge, corners bumped and chipped, some edge wear esp. to top of spine. Jacket has a 1/2" tear at top of spine leaving a small flap across the spine, some edge wear and several small tears and chips along edges, a little darkening, price-clipped, sticker remains at top of front cover. Overall a quite attractive copy i...
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Folksongs and Ballads Popular in Ireland, Volume I

By: Loesberg, John (collected & arranged by)

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Cork, Ireland, Ossian Publications : 1997

Seller ID: 005524

ISBN-13: 9780946005000

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good-

Minor edgewear and slight soiling on cover. A nice copy.

A collection of songs popular in modern Ireland including each song's complete lyrics, guitar chords and notation. Two songs in Gaelic are included: "Báidín fheilimí" and "Óró sé bheatha 'bhaile."; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
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Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field

By: Scott, Sir Walter

Price: $130.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Henry Altemus Company

Seller ID: 004259

Binding: Decorative Cloth

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

194 pp, frontispiece and six illustrations, notes at end. Ivory cloth boards, 6 1/4" x 4 3/8". Chipping to corners, moderate edge wear, chipping, a little soiling mainly on spine and back board. Spine has 1/8" strip at top, 1/4" at bottom missing, with some scuffing and sunning. Front board separated from text block, front free end paper missing. Text in very good condition, clean and unmarked. Silver embossed decorative stamped binding. A maroon, green and black floral design on front board. Spine has silver lettering and four bands with maroon background and ivory flowers ou...
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Now as Zen

By: Stone, Lee

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Roanoke Island, NC, Edgewood Press

Seller ID: 005617

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Covers are stiff white wraps with black type. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. A bright attractive copy.

A collection of poems in the Japanese poetry style of senryu which are "simple observations of the interplay of light and shadow that is the phenomenon of being human."; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall; Signed by Author
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One More Time - Poems

By: Patterson, Joseph Jr.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New Bern, NC, Griffin and Tilghman : 1999

Seller ID: 003226

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good+

xv + 328 pp. White wraps with a drawing of Old Man Time on the cover. Corners bumped, a little rubbing. Ex-library but the only markings are stamps on the top edge and front free end paper. Inscribed and signed by the author on front free end paper. "It has been interesting to me to note how different poems attract different individuals. Now it is my turn to be selective. The poems included are neither the best nor the worst but simply my choice. And, since this book has been self-published also, I have exercised my prerogative by including as many of them as I desired." from the Pref...
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The Complete Poems of John Milton (The Harvard Classics Volume #4)

By: Milton, John (edited by Charles Eliot)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, P. F. Collier & Son : 1910

Seller ID: 8763

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

Some sunning, minor edge wear and a little chipping. ; Frontispiece. "The most comprehensive and well-researched anthology of all time comprises both the 50-volume "5-foot shelf of books" and the 20-volume Shelf of Fiction. Together they cover every major literary figure, philosopher, religion, folklore and historical subject through the twentieth century." William Allan Nielson states: " The Five-Foot Shelf, with its introductions, notes, guides to reading, and exhaustive indexes, may claim to constitute a reading course unparalleled in comprehensiveness and authority....
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The Dolphin's Path: A Bookman's Sequel to the Odyssey of Homer

By: Gold, Harry

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Chapel Hill, NC, Harry Gold : 1979

Seller ID: 005252

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

319 pp. Minor edge wear, a little soiling to boards, interior clean and unmarked. Limited edition of 1000 copies.

Inscribed by the author as follows: "To _________ This first part of 'The Dolphin's Path' is strictly for your enjoyment and contemplation, and is a boon and stout companion to the 'Ulysses' of James Joyce (who I fed in Paris years ago) and the sober and more somber 'Odyssey, a Modern Sequel,' by Nikos Kazantzakis (who I never met), with my best wishes, Harry Gold, 9/19/79"; 9¾" - 12" Tall; Signed by Author
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The Joy of Nursery Rhymes

By: Ornadel, Cyril (arranger)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: London, Yorktown Music Press : 1994

Seller ID: 005749

ISBN-13: 9780711936164

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Minor edgewear and bumping. A bright, clean, attractive copy.

A collection of fifty traditional nursery rhyme favorites such as "Baa Baa Black Sheep," "Hey Diddle Diddle," "Mary Had a Little Lamb," "Simple Simon," and "Wee Willie Winkie." Each rhyme is set forth, usually one to a page, with a simple accompaniment.
Age Level: Preschool through Grade 3; 9¾" - 12" Tall
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The Red Flower: Poems Written in War Time

By: Van Dyke, Henry

Price: $16.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons : 1917

Seller ID: 004284

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

52 pp. Grey paper boards with black backstrip, title lettered in black. Some edgewear, corners a little bumped/chipped, back board has a couple of spots, PO name inside. Text is clean and unmarked.

21 poems written by Henry Van Dyke during World War I between 1914 and 1917. In the Preface the author states: "These are verses that came to me in this dreadful war time amid the cares and labors of a heavy task. "; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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The Samuel H. Kress Collection

By: Wescher, Paul (introduction)

Price: $17.50

Publisher: Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art : 1960

Seller ID: 004116

Binding: Pictorial Cover

Condition: Good+

146 pp., index of artists, b/w and color photos. Stiff gold colored pictorial wraps, some scuffing and soiling to wraps, minor edge wear, interior is clean and unmarked. Exhibition catalog. A nice copy.

The collection of early and later Italian paintings, altar pieces, as well as selections from the French, Dutch, Flemish and German schools comprising the gift from the Kress Foundation which led to the birth of the North Carolina Museum of Art.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
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The UNC Library Extension Publication, Vol. XI, # 1 (January, 1945): Contemporary Poetry, Second Series

By: Kelling, Lucile

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina Press : 1945

Seller ID: 003767

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good+

48 pp, orange wraps. Bibliographies, additional reading list. Front cover shows a little soiling, 1/2 x 1 1/2" splotch diagonally across front cover and going through partially to title page. A nice copy. A discussion of American, British and Irish poets of the day, including an indepth study of "Pulitzer Prize" poets, women poets, and African-American poets, as well as war poets and new poets since the author's first "Contemporary Poetry" publication in 1938. University of North Carolina Library Extension Publication, Vol. XI, No. 1, January, 1945.; 8vo - over 7¾" - ...
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Thought for Food

By: Stone, Lee

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Roanoke Island, NC, Edgewood Press

Seller ID: 005616

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Covers are stiff light gray wraps with black type. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. A bright attractive copy.

A collection of poetry, many in the Japanese senryu style, by artist Lee Stone.; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
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Category: Art and Poetry