The Poetry Library of Marie Bullock - Locus Solus Rare Books

first book
561. MACNEICE, LOUIS. Poems. (London): Faber and Faber, (1935). First edition. 8vo, rose
cloth. Slight darkening toward edges, else fine in a price-clipped dust jacket, lightly rubbed,
with fading to the spine. The poet’s first book. $350
562. MACNEICE, LOUIS. The Earth Compels. London: Faber and Faber, (1938). First edition.
8vo, brown cloth. Covers a bit marked, near fine, without dust jacket. $30
563. MACNEICE, LOUIS. Autumn Journal. London: Faber & Faber, (1939). First edition. 8vo,
terracotta cloth. Light foxing to endsheets; small spot and slight soil to top edge, else just
about fine in a crisp dust jacket with a touch of wear to the extremities and slight sundarkening
to the spine. With the neat ownership signature of Scottish poet Ruthven Todd on
the front flyleaf. A nice association copy of an uncommon book. $450
564. MACNEICE, LOUIS. Visitations. London: Faber & Faber, (1957). First edition. 8vo, blue
cloth. Fine in a very lightly spine-faded dust jacket, with the original Poetry Book Society
wraparound band. The Poetry Book Society Bulletin featuring this selection is loosely
inserted. $75
565. MACNEICE, LOUIS. The Burning Perch. London: Faber and Faber, (1963). First edition.
8vo, plum cloth. Fine in a bright, crisp pink dust jacket, very slight fading to the spine. With
the Poetry Book Society Bulletin featuring this selection laid in. $75
566. MARKHAM, EDWIN. The Man With the Hoe. San Francisco: A.M. Robertson, 1899.
First edition. Small 8vo, original wrappers, printed in red and black, saddle stitched. Fine,
with the original printed envelope, chipped. The first appearance in book-form of Markham’s
famous poem, which was first issued as a supplement to the San Francisco Examiner. An
attractive little book, not common in this condition. $300
567. MARKHAM, EDWIN. The Man With the Hoe and Other Poems. New York: Doubleday &
McClure, 1899. First edition. 8vo, original green cloth. Extremities lightly rubbed, cloth
clean and bright, gilt stamping fresh. An interesting copy, containing a number of items
pasted in by the original owner: glued to the front pastedown is a 1909 TLS from Markham
about his poem “Villon,” a clipped copy of which is affixed to the facing flyleaf above the
recipient’s ownership signature; on the verso of that page is a 1910 ALS from Catherine
Markham, enclosing a signed typescript poem, which has been glued to the facing page; the
envelopes that contained these two mailings have been affixed to the next two pages, and
John Jerome Rooney’s poem “Edwin Markham,” clipped from a magazine, has been mounted
on the dedication page; finally, loosely inserted is a folded copy of a 1924 broadside printing
of the famous title poem, signed and dated by Markham in 1933. An appealing, embellished
copy. $750
568. MARKHAM, EDWIN. Lincoln and Other Poems. New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1901.
First edition. 8vo, frontispiece, dark green cloth, t.e.g.. Bookplate; hinges starting,
extremities a bit rubbed, a bright, attractive copy. Presentation copy, inscribed and signed by
Markham on the back of the frontispiece, signed in full and dated 1901. In addition,
Markham has signed three poems in the book on their respective pages. $250
the POET’S OWN, CORRECTED COPY
569. MARKHAM, EDWIN. The Man with the Hoe and Other Poems. Garden City: Doubleday,
Page and Company, 1917. Later edition. 8vo, blue cloth. Slightly shaken, frontispiece loose,
covers a bit rubbed and marked. A significant copy, inscribed by Markham on the front
flyleaf: “My reading copy, for my good friend — poet-friend, William J. Robinson. Edwin
Markham. Staten Island, NY, Jan. 1919.” Beneath this, Markham has written the four-line
poem “Preparedness.” Additonally, the book has been annotated throughout with Markham’s
revisions and alterations to the poems. These range from altered and deleted words, to entire
strophes that have been rewritten and titles changed. The recipient was a well-known doctor,
writer, editor, birth-control advocate, and antiwar activist. $1,000
570. MARKHAM, EDWIN. Edwin Markham Himself: The Man with the Hoe and Other
Poems N.P. (New York): Timely Records, n.d. First edition thus. 4to, three 78rpm
phonograph recordings on vinyl disks, housed in original album of buckram-backed cloth,