The Poetry Library of Marie Bullock - Locus Solus Rare Books

880. STUART, JESSE. The World of Jesse Stuart: Selected Poems. Edited and with an
Introduction by J.R. Le Master. New York: McGraw-Hill, (1975). First edition. 8vo, gray
buckram. Tips bumped, slight abrasion to rear endpapers, else fine in a lightly rubbed dust
jacket. With a warm presentation inscription signed by Stuart on the front free endpaper to
Mrs. Bullock. Laid in is a copy of a form nominating this book for a Pulitzer Prize. $250
DECKER PRESS
881. SULLIVAN, A.M. Ballad of a Man Named Smith. Prairie City, Illinois: Press of James
A. Decker, (1940). First edition. 8vo, cloth. Covers somewhat soiled, very good. $50
882. SULLIVAN, A.M. Stars and Atoms Have No Size: Poems of Science and Industry. New
York: E.P. Dutton, 1946. First edition. 8vo, blue cloth. Spine slightly faded; fine in a lightly
sunned and rubbed dust jacket with a bit of fraying at the crown. With a presentation
inscription to Mrs. Bullock on the half title, dated 1947. $45
883. SULLIVAN, A.M. Tim Murphy Morgan Rifleman and Other Ballads. Illustrated by
Howard S. Zoll. New York: The Declan X. McMullen Company, 1947. First edition. 8vo,
gray cloth. Fine in lightly sunned, lightly rubbed dust jacket. Presentation copy, inscribed by
Sullivan to Mrs. Bullock. $45
884. SULLIVAN, A.M. Psalms of the Prodigal and Other Poems. New York: P.J. Kennedy,
(1954). First edition. 8vo, cloth-backed boards. Fine in a very lightly rubbed dust jacket.
Inscribed by Sullivan to Mrs. Bullock. $40
885. SULLIVAN, A.M. Songs of the Musconetcong and Other Poems of New Jersey.
Stanhope, N.J.: Guinea Hollow Press, 1968. First edition. 8vo, wrappers. Fine. Inscribed by
Sullivan on the half title page to Mrs. Bullock, with a 1968 ALS from Sullivan laid in. $40
886. SULLIVAN, A.M. Selected Lyrics and Sonnets. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, (1970).
First edition. 8vo, maroon cloth. Fine in a very lightly rubbed dust jacket. Inscribed by
Sullivan on the half title page to Mrs. Bullock. $40
887. SWEENEY, JOHN L. Loch Inchiquin. (Cambridge: Privately printed by David R. Godine
for friends of the Poetry Room, Harvard University, 1971). First edition. 8vo, marbled
wrappers, saddle stitched. Fine, title label loosely inserted. One of 300 copies printed in
honor of John Lincoln Sweeney, a Harvard faculty member. Laid in is the handwritten name
and address of poet Robert Fitzgerald at the Poetry Room, torn from the envelope in which
he mailed the book to Mrs. Bullock. $40
888. SWENSON, MAY. A Cage of Spines. New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc., (1958). First
edition. 8vo, dark gray cloth. Fine and bright in a lightly rubbed dust jacket. The poet’s
increasingly uncommon second book. The jacket includes blurbs by Robert Lowell, Elizabeth
Bishop, Richard Wilbur, Howard Moss, and John Ciardi. $75
889. TATE, ALLEN, et al. The Translation of Poetry. Washington: Library of Congress, 1972.
First edition. 8vo, wrappers. Fine. A lecture by Tate and a panel discussion among Tate,
William Jay Smith, Louis Untermeyer, Zulfikar Ghose, Serge Gavronsky, Miller Williams,
Yehuda Amichai, Donald Finkel, Harold P. Wright, and John Malcolm Brinnin. Errata slip
laid in. $30
890. TEASDALE, SARA. Rivers to the Sea. New York: Macmillan, 1915. First edition. 8vo,
blue cloth. Very slight lean; light fading toward edges, a bit rubbed. Signed and dated by
Teasdale in 1915 on the first leaf. $350
891. TEASDALE, SARA. Flame and Shadow. New York: Macmillan, 1920. First edition. 8vo,
blue cloth. Near fine, without dust jacket. $40
892. TEASDALE, SARA. Dark of the Moon. New York: Macmillan, 1926. First edition. 8vo,
blue cloth, rubbed. From the library of poet Leonora Speyer, with the text of a Teasdale
poem written out by her on the front flyleaf, beneath which Speyer has noted: “(Written in