1. [Milton Hindus Provenance] Various.

Columbia Poetry 1939 – [Personal copy of poet Milton Hindus, with his poetry published in this Anthology. The book contains the following poems by Milton Hindus: “For the Lover of Walks” / “Summer Nights” / “Self Wears Vanity to Make Itself Invisible” / “Prayer to My Muse” / The Anthology also includes six first edition poems by Thomas Merton.

New York, Columbia University Press, 1939. 13 cm x 19.5 cm. XIX, 93 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with minor signs of external wear. From the library of poet and critic, Milton Hindus, with his name on the front free endpaper.

2. Lowth, Robert.

[On the Sacred Poetry of the Hebrews] De Sacra Poesi Hebræorum : Prælectiones Academicæ Oxonii habitæ a Roberto Lowth, et poeticæ publico prælectores; nunc episcopo oxoniensii. Subjicitur Metricæ Harianæ brevis confutatio: et Oratio Crewiana.

Editio Tertia, emendatior. Oxonii, E Typographeo Clarendoniano [Imprimatur, J. Browne, Vice-Can. Oxon], 1775. 13 cm x 22 cm. (8), 515 pages plus 11 pages Index and Errata. Original Hardcover / Beautiful 18th century calf with gilt lettering and ornament to spine and the wonderful original marbled endpapers. With the original spinelabel. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. This edition printed on excellent paper with no foxing !

3. Frimet, Hillel / William Carlos Williams.

The Broken Promise and Other Poems. With an Open Letter to William Carlos Williams.

No.121 of a Limited Edition. New York, Survival Press, 1959. 15.3 cm x 22.4 cm. 62 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Fine condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only very minor discolouration to edging, endpapers and pages. Signed by the author Hillel Frimet on half-title page. Errata-leaf loosely inserted. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen-Translator Erik Haugaard. With his bookplate / Exlibris to front pastedown (Exlibris design by Brian Lalor).

4. Cole, Peter(ed.)

The Dream of the Poem. Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain 950-1492.Translated, Edited and Introducted by Peter Cole.

Princeton / Oxford, Princeton University Press, 2007. 15.5 cm x 23.3 cm. 548 pages. Original illustrated Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Name of preowner on endpaper.

5. Anonymous.

The Haggada. With an English translation and explanatory notes.

Tel-Aviv, “SINAI” Publishing, 1978. 17.2 cm x 24.4 cm. 64 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrations. Very good condition with minor signs of wear. Occasional light stains on the interior.

6. Amichai, Yehuda.

Great Tranquillity: Questions and Answers. Translated from the Hebrew by Glenda Abramson and Tudor Parfitt.

First edition, New York / Cambridge and others, Harper & Row, 1983. 14.5 cm x 20.9 cm 90 pages. Original softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Inscribed and signed by Yehuda Amichai to american poet William Jay Smith and his wife Sonja: “To Bill and Sonja – with much affection – Yehuda – NY – 2-10-84”.