Highlights from Peter Harrington’s new Poetry catalogue include:
* A complete copy of Anne Bradstreet’s Several Poems Compiled with great Variety of Wit and Learning, full of Delight… By a Gentlewoman in New-England. Bradstreet is credited as “the first American to publish a book of poetry”, and the first colonial poet in English”.
* Presentation copy of Rainer Maria Rilke’s Das Buch der Bilder, one of 50 deluxe copies printed on japon and specially bound by the Weimar School of Fine Arts, inscribed with a four-line poem for his friend Lucy von Goldschmidt-Rothschild. One of the most lavishly produced volumes of Rilke’s poems done in his lifetime.
* A highly unusual manuscript poem Bío-Bío by Pablo Neruda, handmade in booklet format with illustrations by the poet. Bío-Bío appears in part III of Canto General, published in Mexico City in 1950, the same year as this manuscript was made.
* Three unpublished letters from Derek Walcott to his American publisher, Robert Giroux, primarily concerning Walcott’s longest and most ambitious poem, Another Life (1973).
