The Poetry Library of Marie Bullock - Locus Solus Rare Books

519. LOWELL, AMY. Sword Blades and Poppy Seeds. New York: Macmillan, 1914. First
edition. 12mo, cloth-backed boards. Slight soil, else fine in a chipped and torn dust jacket,
mended with tape. $75
520. LOWELL, AMY. Men, Women and Ghosts. New York: Macmillan, 1916. First edition.
12mo, cloth-backed boards. Bookplate; some shelf wear and soil to covers, very good.
Presentation copy, inscribed by Lowell on the front flyleaf: “To C.K. Bolton Esq. With kind
regards from The Author, October 1916,” Bolton was a noted historian and writer, as well as
librarian of the Boston Atheneum. $250
521. LOWELL, AMY. Can Grande’s Castle. New York: Macmillan, 1918. First edition. 12mo,
cloth-backed boards. Bookplate; covers rubbed and a bit soiled, very good. Presentation
copy, inscribed on the front flyleaf: “Mr. Bolton, with kind regards, from Amy Lowell,
October, 1918.” $250
522. LOWELL, AMY. Pictures of the Floating World. New York: Macmillan, 1919. First
edition. 12mo, cloth-backed boards. Shelf wear to edges, some soil, very good. Presentation
copy, inscribed by Lowell on the front flyleaf: E.F. Edgett Esq! With kind regards from the
Author, September 1919.” $250
523. LOWELL, AMY. Legends. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1921). First edition. 12mo, clothbacked
boards. Covers rubbed and lightly soiled. $40
524. [LOWELL, AMY]. A Critical Fable . . . An Account of the Times by A Poker of Fun.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1922. First edition. 8vo, original printed wrappers.
Last page rather roughly opened; a bit of wear to the edges of the oversized wrappers, some
soil, still an attractive copy, very good. An amusing satire in verse, anonymously parodying
many of the poet’s contemporaries. $75
525. LOWELL, AMY. What’s O’Clock. London: Jonathan Cape, n.d. (1925). First edition,
English issue. 8vo, blue cloth. Spine slightly darkened, very good. Lowell’s Pulitzer Prizewinning
collection, awarded posthumously. $40
526. LOWELL, AMY. East Wind. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1926. First edition. 12mo, clothbacked
boards. Slight shelf wear, else fine in a lightly rubbed dust jacket, with a touch of
wear to the ends of the spine and a bit of darkening to the spine. $100
527. LOWELL, AMY. Poetry and Poets: Essays. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1930. First edition.
12mo, cloth-backed boards. Slight soil and shelf-rubbing, else fine in an edge-worn and
chipped dust jacket, sunned on the spine. $40
528. LOWELL, ROBERT. The Mills of the Kavanaghs. New York: Harcourt, Brace, (1951).
First edition. 8vo, black cloth. Tips a trifle bumped, spine stamping somewhat dull, else fine
in a lightly used, price-clipped dust jacket, slight fading to the spine. A not unattractive
copy. $175
529. LOWELL, ROBERT. Life Studies. New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, (1959). First
edition. 8vo, green cloth. Fine in a crisp dust jacket with the slightest edge wear to the
extremities. A much better-than-usual copy. $200
530. LOWELL, ROBERT. For the Union Dead. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1964).
First edition. 8vo, green cloth. Fine in a very lightly rubbed dust jacket. $100
531. LOWELL, ROBERT. Near the Ocean. Drawings by Sidney Nolan. New York: Farrar,
Straus and Giroux, (1967). First edition. 4to, black cloth. Fine in a very lightly used dust
jacket with a hint of sun toward the upper edge and spine. $100
532. LOWELL, ROBERT. Notebook 1967-68. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1969).
First edition. 8vo, blue cloth. Fine in dust jacket. $100