The Poetry Library of Marie Bullock - Locus Solus Rare Books

403. HILLYER, ROBERT. Collected Poems. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1961. First edition.
8vo, blue cloth. Slight lean, a bit of offsetting, else fine in a lightly used dust jacket. A
review copy, with publisher’s slip. $30
404. HOBSON, MARY. A Garden for Joy. London: De la More Press, n.d. Small 8vo, original
wrappers. Bookplate; a touch of edge wear and some darkening, near fine. With a tipped-in
autograph letter from the poet to John Drinkwater, dated 1934, presenting him with the book
and asking for his help and advice. With Drinkwater’s ownership initial-stamp on the title
page. $75
405. HOFFMAN, DANIEL. “Moonlight Dries No Mittens.” Carl Sandburg Reconsidered.
Washington: Library of Congress, 1979. First edition. 4to, wrappers. Few rumples, near fine.
Lecture in the Gertude Clarke Whittall series. $20
406. HOFFMAN, DANIEL. Brotherly Love. New York: Random House, (1981). First edition.
8vo, cloth-backed boards. Fine in a lightly used, price-clipped dust jacket. Inscribed by
Hoffman on the title page to Mrs. Bullock. $40
407. HOGG, QUINTIN. The Devil’s Own Song and Other Verses. (London): Hodder &
Stoughton, (1968). First edition. 8vo, boards. A trifle bumped, else fine in a very lightly used
dust jacket. Inscribed by Hogg on the front endpaper: “With best wishes, I hope you are still
well. Q.H.” $35
408. HOLBROOK, DAVID. Old World, New World: Poems. London: Rapp & Whiting,
(1969). First edition. Square 8vo, white cloth. Covers bowed owing to a binding error, else
near fine in dust jacket. A Poetry Book Society choice, with the PBS Bulletin laid in. $30
409. HOLLANDER, JOHN. Movie-Going. New York: Atheneum, 1962. First edition. 8vo,
wrappers. Lightly rubbed, near fine. Poet’s second book. $25
410. HOLLANDER, JOHN. Visions from the Ramble. New York: Atheneum, 1965. First
edition. 8vo, wrappers. Very good. $20
411. HOLMES, JOHN. Address to the Living. New York: Twayne Publishers, (1949). Third
printing. 8vo, cloth Fine in a lightly sunned, soiled dust jacket, spine brittle. Signed by
Holmes on the front flyleaf. $50
PRAIRIE PRESS
412. HOLMES, JOHN. The Symbols. Wood-Engraving by John De Pol. Iowa City: Prairie Press,
(1955). First edition. 8vo, printed wrappers, stapled. Fine. Designed and printed by Carroll
Coleman in an unspecified number of copies. This copy has been inscribed by Holmes on the
copyright page to Mrs. Bullock. With two ephemeral publications — a broadside poem and a
folded card-poem — by Holmes laid in. $50
413. HOLMES. OLIVER WENDELL. The Iron Gate, and Other Poems. Boston: Houghton
Mifflin, 1881. First edition. 8vo, decorative endpapers; black-brown cloth, stamped in gilt,
t.e.g. Three bookplates, covers a bit rubbed and marked. A presentation copy, inscribed on
the front free endpaper: “Mr. Edmund Routledge with the compliments of Oliver Wendell
Holmes, Boston March First 1881, written with the pen with wh. the Autocrat was written.”
The recipient was part of the Routledge publishing family, who brought out Holmes’s work
in England, and editor of “Every Boy’s Magazine.” His handsome bookplate is on the front
pastedown; two other plates from subsequent owners are also present. A nice inscription and
a meaningful association. $500
414. HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL. Dorothy Q. Together With a Ballad of the Boston Tea
Party & Grandmother’s Story of Bunker Hill Battle. With Illustrations by Howard Pyle.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1893. First edition. 8vo, gray cloth stamped in silver, t.e.s. Few
spots of foxing, else a fine, bright copy with just a touch of rubbing to the covers. First issue,
with “flashed” on p. 50:8. $175