Brownsville, OR: Story Line Press, 1994. First Edition. Paperback. Uncorrected proof in printed wrappers; 8vo. 141 pp. Inscribed by the author "To __ Who loves words as I do -" and signed in full by the poet, as well as the illustrator. Laid in are two tickets to a publisher.....
Brownsville, OR: Story Line Press, 1994. First Edition. Paperback. Illustrated wrappers; 8vo. 140 pp. (There was a ltd. hardcover issue of 276 copies.) Briefly inscribed by the author and signed in full by the poet, as well as the illustrator. Laid in are two tickets to a publisher celebration honoring.....
Minneapolis: Tunheim Santrizos Company, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover (issued without a dust jacket). Cloth-backed marbled boards. No. 355 of 660: printed at the Nomadic Press on Lana Royal Classic text paper with three wood engravings by Kent Aldrich. Signed by the author on the rear limitation page, as issued. Fine.....
New York: Norton, 1989. First edition. Paperback. Printed lilac wrappers; small 8vo. An uncorrected proof copy in light purple wrappers, with three printed pages of biographical material and blurbs from Norton publicity laid in. Also, laid in is a glossy photo (c card) of the book jacket. Her fourth major.....
New York: Norton, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Green cloth with gilt lettering in dust jacket; 8vo. 77 pp. A Review copy with printed sheet laid in of a new collection of poems published when she was US Poet Laureate (the youngest). Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. (In removable protective archival.....
Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. Black cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 77 pp. First printing in the simultaneously issued hardcover edition of the poet's second regularly published book, her third would go on to win a Pulitzer prize. This copy briefly inscribed on the title page.....
Lisbon, IA: Penumbra Press, 1977. First Edition. Paperback. Sewn wrappers in printed envelope; square 8vo. [20 pp.] First edition of the author's first book of poems. One of only approximately 200 copies (this no. "94") hand printed on Frankfurt Creme. Hand colored fingernails to frontispiece illustration. This copy specially signed.....
Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Black cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 79 pp. The simultaneously issued hardback in the first state dust jacket without the Pulitzer prize notice on the front panel. Signed by Dove on the title page, and then additionally inscribed on the half.....
Berkeley: Hit & Run Press, 2018. First Edition. no binding. Poetry broadside; 9 1/4 x 13 inches. Goethe's poem "Ein Gleiches" translated from the German by Rita Dove. First published in the New Yorker, Nov. 13, 2017. Original German and English versions printed in Jenson Bold text, with Goudy Bold.....
Berkeley: Hit & Run Press, 2018. First Edition. no binding. Poetry broadside; 9 1/4 x 13 inches. Goethe's poem "Ein Gleiches" translated from the German by Rita Dove. First published in the New Yorker, Nov. 13, 2017. Original German and English versions printed in Jenson Bold text, with Goudy Bold.....
