The Poetry Library of Marie Bullock - Locus Solus Rare Books

678. MORLEY, CHRISTOPHER. The Middle Kingdom: Poems 1929-1944. [New York]:
Harcourt Brace, 1944. First edition. 8vo, blue cloth. Fine in a very lightly sunned dust jacket
with a few chips. $40
first book
679. MORTON, DAVID. Ships in Harbour. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, (1921). First
edition. 8vo, boards. Spine slightly faded, a touch of wear to extremities. The poet’s first
book. With a lengthy gift inscription to Mrs. Bullock, and a slip with her pencil notes loosely
inserted. $50
680. MORTON, DAVID. Harvest: A Book of Sonnets. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1924.
First edition. 8vo, brown boards. Spine faded a shade, fine. $45
681. MORTON, DAVID (Compiler). Six For Them. Amherst, Mass.: The Poetry Society of
Amherst College, (1931). First edition. 8vo, cloth-backed boards. Extremities just a trifle
rubbed, fine. Gathers poems by Ralph Hodgson, James Stephens, W.B. Yeats, and David
Morton. Signed by Morton on the front flyleaf. One of an unknown number of copies in the
edition, finely printed on high-quality wove paper. $100
682. MORTON, DAVID. Earth’s Processional. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1932. First
edition. 8vo, cloth-backed boards. Very good. $25
683. MORTON, DAVID. Spell Against Time. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1936. First
edition. 8vo, cloth-backed boards. Covers a bit sunstruck and with two marks $25
684. MORTON, DAVID. All In One Breath: A Book of Fifty Lyrics. New York: Macmillan,
1939. First edition. 8vo, cloth. Fine in a lightly sunned second-issue dust jacket with a small
hole to the spine and a closed tear to the front panel. $30
685. MORTON, DAVID. Poems 1920-1945. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1945. First edition.
8vo, cloth. Near fine in a very lightly sunned dust jacket with a touch of edge-wear and one
tape mend at the crown. $25
686. MORTON, DAVID. Like a Man in Love. Dublin, New Hampshire: Yankee, Incorporated,
1953. First edition. 8vo, cloth. Fine in original glassine wrapper, worn. $30
687. (MORTON, DAVID). Memorial Service for David Morton. Amherst College Chapel,
October 27, 1957. First edition. 8vo, cloth. Fine in original glassine wrapper. One of 300
copies printed. The poet was a longtime English professor and boxing instructor at Amherst.
Later he would become Poet in Residence at the Deerfield Academy, where one of his
students was a young John Ashbery. $20
688. MORTON, DAVID. Journey Into Time. Norfolk, Virginia: Pentelic Press, 1958. First
edition. 8vo, cloth. Fine in original glassine wrapper, few tiny chips. Publisher’s prospectus
and postcard laid in. $30
689. MOSS, HOWARD. The Toy Fair. New York: Scribner’s, 1954. First edition. 8vo, black
cloth. Fine in a bright, crisp dust jacket with just a hint of sun to the spine. The poet’s second
book. $75
690. MOSS, HOWARD. A Winter Come, A Summer Gone: Poems 1946-1960. New York:
Scribner’s, (1960). First edition. 8vo, green cloth. Lightly dulled in a nice dust jacket.
“Compliments of the Author” card laid in, annotated on verso with Moss’s return address at
The New Yorker. $40
691. MOSS, HOWARD. Finding Them Lost. New York: Scribner’s, (1965). First edition. 8vo,
brown boards. Very slight lean, else fine in a lightly rubbed dust jacket. Signed by Moss on
the title page. $100