Cherry Valley, NY: Cherry Valley Editions, 1974. First Edition. Paperback. Stapled Kraft paper. [20 pp.] Edition limited to 250 copies. Signed by the poet. Poet/publisher's first book. Price inked out, else about fine. Arnold and his wife Susan among the more significant publishers of small fine press poetry with Longhouse.....
Denver: Alan Swallow, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Second issue, later issue dust jacket.Tan cloth stamped in brown; in printed dust jacket; Small 8vo. Poet's first book. Inscribed to poet Robert Mezey, "Iowa City, August 19. 1959". Mss. corrections on p. 23 (new line) and p. 35 ("And" to "The"); Mezey's.....
Winchester, Hampshire: The Wykeham Press, 1988. First Edition. Paperback. Sewn wrappers; 8vo. One of 500 total numbered copies; this copy specilly signed (not inscribed) "Best wishes, Wendy Cope". Light soiling and wear, easily very good, and scarce signed.
San Francisco: The Colt Press, 1942. First edition. Paperback. Stiff paper boards in pasted into wraps of wall paper in a floral design, printed label; 8vo. 31pp. First edition of the poet's first published book, and his first collection of poems (preceded only by a prose rarity that has only.....
n.p. n.p., n.d. First Thus. no binding. Broadside printed for Larry's Books & Autographs at Littoral Press. Fine.
Phoenix, AZ: The Baleen Press, 1974. First Edition. Paperback. Stapled illustrated wrappers; small 8v. 27 pp. Signed by Mark Doty at his contribution using his own name (many after this time signed as M. R. Doty). According to previous dealer's note the author claims this as his second published poem.....
Portland: Trask House, 1971. First Thus. Paperback. First sub-edition (Bertholf). First printed in 1964 by SUMBOOKS. Large 8vo (6.75” x 8.5”). Unpaginated [60 pp]. In stapled blue wraps illustrated by Duncan; printed on light yellow-brown paper. One of 1,000 copies printed by Trask House. Made from plates from first edition.....
New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1959. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Black cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 134 pp. A play. Fine copy, salmon top stain still bright, in a lightly worn and rubbed worn at extremities easily very good complete (not price-clipped) dust jacket (in removable archival cover)...
Waldport: Untide Press, 1944. Kemper Nowland. First edition thus. Hardcover (issued without a dust jacket). First printed edition. Leather-covered boards, gilt titling, with marbled papers; 8vo. Number "1" of 30 numbered copies using the original printed sheets; signed by Everson on the limitation page. Ads "War Elegy V" to the.....
New York: Oxford University Press, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Paper-covered boards in dust jacket; small 8vo. 59 pp. Poet's first book. Errata slip laid in. Near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with a short indent at the gutter.
Belfast: Ulster Museum, 1982. First Edition. Paperback. Illustrated wrappers; small 4to. Heaney's selection from the museum's holdings of art work for an exhibition; the cover of Edward McGuire's famous portrait of Heaney held at the museum. A brief introduction, as well as his and the curator's notings on 37 works.....
London: The Rainbow Press, 1978 (but 1979). First Edition. Hardcover (issued without a dust jacket). Full blue calf binding with raised bands by Gray of Cambridge, gilt spine titles; decorated Japanese endpapers; housed in full blue cloth slipcase with ribbed fabric; 8vo. 23 pages. Frontispiece drawing of a phoenix rising.....
Sydney, AUS: Paper Bark Press, 2001. First Edition. Paperback. Illustrated wrappers; 8vo. 92 pp. Laid in a printed formal note to a poetry editor signed by Johnston with his initials. The poet explains that "the editors have asked me to send review copies myself". US Poet's first book published by.....
New York: Knopf, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Burgundy cloth, yellow top stain, in dust jacket; large 8vo. 176 pp. Briefly inscribed by the poet on the title page and signed in full. The definitive selection of his poems replacing the volume that won the 1980 Pulitzer Prize. This volume was.....
San Francisco: Adrian Wilson, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover (issued without a dust jacket). Cloth-backed decorative boards, paper spine label, wraparound printed band; large 8vo. 82 pp. Quite possibly a Review Copy with the date stamped in red on the front end paper; Jan. 7, 1955, and a prospectus laid in. The.....
Beatrice, NB: Beatrice Public Library et al. 1988. First Edition. no binding. Single folded sheet of a schedule of activities for CELEBRATE WELDON KEES!!, attractively produced with a Bill Witt photo of the author and printed in two colors. Printed for a celebration held in the town in Nebraska where.....
Ithaca: Cornell, 2000. First Edition. Paperback. Illustrated glossy wrappers; 8vo. Pp. 134-254. Inscribed by guest editor Reginald Shepard to his Bennington College teacher Alvin Feinman. Shepard selects work from emerging poets, among them Katherine (Katy) Lederer and Julie Carr. The pink spine faded, else fine, thus only very good. Shepard.....
New York: Journeyman Books, 1966. First Edition. Paperback. Stapled illustrated wrapers; 4to. Designed and illustrated by the publisher Emil Antonucci. Showing some aging and a bit soiled, still very good. Scarce. (In added removable protective mylar covers.).
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n.p: self-published, 1996. First Edition. none. Plain white copy paper, 8 1/2 x 11 in., stapled; 29 sheets in total printed rectos only. Despite the title this is "Forties" 101 through 114 only. Inscribed "Best wishes to __ __" and signed "Jackson Mac Low NYC 2/19/96. Precedes 20 FORTIES which.....
New York: Conjunctions, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 228 pp. A bi-annual, one of the fine literary journals of its day, with work from Tarn, Milosz, Gass, Purdy, Dorn, and a long selection of H. D. letters. The cloth issue, done only for the first 14.....
New York: Atheneum, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue-gray cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 62 pp. Fine in cloth issue, and fine dust jacket (not price-clipped). This copy inscribed to a prominent small fine press printer/publisher of poetry and dated May 8, 1984 a full month ahead of publication date which.....
New York: Atheneum, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue-green cloth in dust jacket; tall 8vo. 40 pp. Inscribed by the poet to William Shawn. Humorous poems on plants with animal names, ilus. by F. H. Belli. Bottom tips lightly bumped else fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket (in.....
Lewes: Sylph Editions/ The American University of Paris, 2008. First Edition. Paperback. Green card covers in an illustrated dust jacket, and wrap around band; 8vo. 42 pp. Illustrated end papers. Signed by the poet. Poet's translations and original work. The eighth book in The Cahiers Series.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Glossy black cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 253 pp. The fourth of five of his books to be nominated for a National Book Award - all failing to win. Bottom edges bumped, very light foxing to edges, else about very good, in a......
Andover, MA: Canto, Spring 1977. First Edition. Paperback. The first issue of this literary magazine with an essay by J. D. O'Hara on Nabokov (pp. 146-155), a review of Heaney's NORTH by W. M. Spackman, and poems by Allen Grossman, Daryl Hine, Thom Gunn, James Merrill, among others. Bottom rear.....
