[Rarebooks] Rare Browning and other poets

[Gil Mott]

1.  Bishop, Morris (trans.) and Kingsbury, Alison Mason (illus.) [Petrarch].
Love Rimes of Petrarch. Ithaca: Dragon Press, 1932. Limited ed. Yellow cloth
soiled, some foxing to title pages, interior tight and clean.  Inscribed and
signed by translator and illustrator.  1 of 500 printed.  7.5" by 5.5".
Translucent dust wrapper sunned and chipped. Hardbound. Very good.
Signed. (13126) $140.00

2.  Browning,  Robert. Dramatic Idylls. Second Series. London: Smith, Elder,
& Co., 1880. First edition. Brown cloth with decorative borders.  Light
edgewear, heavier at top and bottom of spine.  1-inch tear along rear
joiint. Some toning.  Else clean, tight.  147 pp. plus ad leaf.   Hardbound.
Very good.  (27758) $300.00

3.  Byron, Lord and Sire de Chamblay (Edmond Haraucourt). Forbidden Fruit (a
suppressed poem) and Eden (or, Adam and Eve's First Coition). Paris:
Bibliotheque de Curieux, 1893. Limited ed. Red cloth, scratched.  Pages
somewhat darkened.  Interior tight and clean.  24 pp.  Erotic (daring for
their day) interpretations in verse of the Adam and Eve story. Hardbound.
Very Good/no DJ.  (16054) $100.00

4.  Canning, George. Poems. London: Printed for the author, 1767. Full
leather.  Boards and rear endpaper detached, front board missing.  5 raised
bands on spine. Some loss to leather on spine.  Some foxing.  Else interior
tight and clean.  428 pp. Hardbound. Poor.  (23227) $100.00

5.  Halliday, Wilfrid J. (compiler). Pro Patria A book of patriotic verse.
London: J. M. Dent, 1915. Red cloth soiled, worn at  edges.  Edges soiled.
Occasional pencil marginalia.  Patriotic poems from numerous countries (all
in English). 220 pp. Hardbound. Good/no DJ.  (13547) $100.00

6.  McDonald, Lawrence . Songs and Sonnets. Pittsburgh: Colonial Press,
1907. Green cloth worn at edges.  Spine split.  4 pages stained where
newspaper clippings had been folded in.  Inscribed by author on endpaper.
Some poems originally published under name of Lawrence Sarsfield. Hardbound.
Good.  (10317) $225.00


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