The Poetry Library of Marie Bullock - Locus Solus Rare Books

782. ROBINSON, EDWIN ARLINGTON. Matthias at the Door. New York: Macmillan, 1931.
First edition. 8vo, brown cloth. Endsheets toned, spine dulled, near fine in a spine-darkened
dust jacket, rubbed; apparently a second issue, with front flap awakwardly clipped and a new
price added. $50
783. ROBINSON, EDWIN ARLINGTON. Nicodemus: A Book of Poems. New York: Macmillan,
1932. First edition. 8vo, blue cloth. Spine rubbed and slightly darkened, very good. $25
784. ROBINSON, EDWIN ARLINGTON. Talifer. New York: Macmillan, 1933. First edition.
8vo, brown cloth. Fine in a sun-darkened dust jacket with a bit of wear to the upper edge. $40
785. ROBINSON, EDWIN ARLINGTON. Amaranth. New York: Macmillan, 1934. First edition.
8vo, black and red cloth, t.e.g. Fine in a lightly soiled slipcase. One of 226 numbered copies
signed by Robinson, specially bound. $200
786. ROBINSON, EDWIN ARLINGTON. King Jasper: A Poem. With an Introduction by Robert
Frost. New York: Macmillan, 1935. First edition. 8vo, blue cloth. Endsheets offset from
binder’s glue, spine sunned a bit, else fine. $30
787. ROBINSON, EDWIN ARLINGTON. Letters of Edwin Arlington Robinson to
Howard George Schmitt. Edited by Carl J. Weber. Waterville, Maine: Colby College
Library, 1943. First edition. 8vo, decorative boards. A touch of soil to the extremities, else
fine in original glassine, chipped and darkened One of 200 numbered copies, the entire
edition. $100
788. ROBINSON, SELMA. City Child. Decorations by Rockwell Kent. New York: Farrar &
Rinehart, 1931. First edition. 8vo, brown cloth. Some fading, very good, without jacket. $30
ASTRONOMER AND POETIC PRODIGY
789. ROBINSON, THOMAS ROMNEY. Poems, Written Between the Ages of Seven and Thirteen,
to Which is Prefixed a Short Account of the Author, by a Member of the Belfast Literary
Society. Brooklyn: Thomas Kirk, 1808. First American edition. 8vo, frontispiece portrait,
140pp, rather crudely bound in contemporary cloth-backed boards, rubbed; few pages
creased, otherwise internally clean. The well-known Irish astronomer was a precocious
juvenile poet who published this book at the age of thirteen. Rare. $750
790. ROETHKE, THEODORE. The Lost Son and Other Poems. Garden City: Doubleday, 1948.
First edition. 8vo, black cloth. Tiny scratch to front panel, spine dulled slightly, else fine in a
decent dust jacket, with a bit of edge wear. One of an unknown number of copies signed by
Roethke on the front flyleaf at the time of publication in his characteristic green ink. A book
subject to severe wear, this copy is better than most. $350
791. ROETHKE, THEODORE. Words for the Wind. London: Secker & Warburg, 1957. First
edition, preceding the U.S. publication. 8vo, green cloth. Fine in a very lightly sunned dust
jacket. With the Poetry Book Society Bulletin discussing this selection laid in. A better-thanusual
copy. $200
792. ROETHKE, THEODORE. Once More, The Round. N.P. N.p., n.d. (1961). First separate
edition. Broadside poem, measuring 29.5 X 12.5 CM on card stock, illustrated. One
horizontal crease in the bottom third, some general rumpling. One of an undoubtedly small
number of copies of this scarce, unrecorded printing probably done up as a Christmas card
for the poet. The illustration is initialed “B.R.,” likely the poet’s wife Beatrice. This copy
has been inscribed on the front: “Happy New Year! to Marie Bullock from Theodore
Roethke.” On the verso, Roethke has written a letter to Mrs. Bullock: “Will be in town with
pulchritudinous frau, for the Poetry Society of America shindig, Jan. 18, will give you a
buzz, T.R. Ancient news: Marianne Moore and I (two raging Presbyterians) were given the
Award of the Golden Plate by the Academy of Achievement, Monterey, California. No
novelists, One painter: Thomas Hart Benton, [one] sculptor: Adolph Bloch, 52 Americans, 10
foreigners in all — mostly scientists, business men.” $1,500