REGIONS WITH NO PROPER NAMES
New York: St Martin's Press, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 81 pp. Poet's second collection; he was a professor at The University of Bridgeport. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
New York: St Martin's Press, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 81 pp. Poet's second collection; he was a professor at The University of Bridgeport. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Philadelphia: Dorrance, 1955. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Light red cloth in dust jacket. The poet's rare first book inscribed: "for Barbara 11-30-58" and signed in full by the author. Bookplate of Barbara H. Mallon on front paste down. 49 pp. Light soiling else about fine in a dampstained dust.....
Berkeley: Pantograph Press, 1998. First Edition. Paperback. Pictorial wraps; 4to. 127 pp. Neeli Cherkovski preface; linocuts by Jose Galindo. Signed by the prolific Oakland/Berkeley poet Jack Foley to another poet, one associated with New Formalism. An about very good copy, worn at the foot of the spine, rubbed.
Laurinburg, NC: St. Andrews Presbyterian College, 1985. First Edition. Paperback. Photographic wrappers; 8vo. 144 pp. S. W. DeRachewiltz served as consulting editor for this issue, but despite the subtitle one looking for material on Ezra Pound will find it thin, although the cover is a photo of EP and James.....
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. First Edition. Paperback. Trade paperback issue in illustrated wrappers; 8vo. 321 pp. w/ notes. Inscribed to fellow poet, colleague and friend "with love, Charles"
Los Angeles: Sun & Moon, 2000. First Edition. Paperback. Illustrated wrappers; small 8vo. 361 pp. Inscribed to a former colleague and friend: "past of.Gradually" [and signed] " Love, Charles". Solid collection from previous volumes with new work. Fine.
New York: Glenn Horowitz, 1987. First Edition. Paperback. Sewn into brown printed wrappers.; 12mo. 9 pp. One of 200 copies printed at the Kelly Winterton Press, NY. Bishop's letter on her cleaning lady, food places and other wonderful mundane things in Boston. Poly protective cover added. Fine.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Navy cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 238 pp. w/ index. As new; Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Cummington, MA: The Cummington Press, 1950. First edition. Paperback. First edition. [8 pp.] Stitched signature in stapled decorated wrappers. One of 155 copies; collaboration of Wightman Williams and Harry Duncan. Staples rusty, front cover with 1" tear, erasure mark, minor creasing and wear, uneven toning mostly to back panel, interior.....
Blue Creek, OH: Bloody Twin Press, 1995. First Edition. Paperback. Printed wrappers; 12mo. [28 pp.] Attractive chapbook printed in two colors: Designed, set printed and bound at the press. Very light over abrasion, soiling, else about fine. Bertholf A104.
Vinyard Haven, MA: Salt-Works Press, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover (issued without a dust jacket). Blue cloth; 8vo. 59 pp. Letter "A" of 26 copies bound copies, lettered and signed by the poet (the rest of the edition in wraps). The author's copy. Light foxing to top edge text block, else.....
n. p. Landlocked Press, 1985. First edition. Paperback. Original jacketed wraps. 48 pp. One of 130 letter-press copies created at Landlocked Press. Elegant; Kim Wilson illustrations. Pages have not been cut. (Not to be confused with the later Membrane Press edition printed offset.) Very near fine.
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.
New York: Harper & Row, 1982. First edition. Paperback. An uncorrected proof copy in orange wrappers of this edition published simultaneously in hardcover and trade paper. The spine has faded, and there is a faint impression of a paper clip on the top front edge, otherwise only light wear. Rare.....
East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University, May 1975. First Edition. Paperback. Stapled pictorial covers; 8vo. 64 pp. Carolyn Forche, Judith Minty, Dara Weir and several other women contribute. Forche has signed at her contribution of four poems which precede her first book. Very good copy of an attractive magazine.
Paradise, CA: Dust Books, Spring 1969. First Edition. Paperback. Stapled printed wrappers; small 8vo. 36 pp. A long-running quarerly on small press publications. This issue with Gene Fowler, Harry Smith; Hugh Fox and others contributing. Spine toned; very good. Scarce.
St. Paul: Graywolf Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth-backed boards in dust jacket; 8vo. 257 pp. This copy inscribed to another poet associated with New Formalism. A now classic collection of essays and reviews published after his 1991 title essay in The Atlantic caused a storm of controversy. Probably the.....
[Oakland, CA]: O Books, circa 1990. First Edition. no binding. 62 loose 8 /12 x 11 inch sheets mostly holograph in a black and white clamshell box. Introduction by Leslie Scalapino on the inside front and back covers of the box. Three sections divided by green sheets. In addition laid.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007. First paperback edition. Paperback. Trade paperback issue of this collection; 431 pp. With CD. This copy briefly inscribed and signed by the poet in 2009. Printed on cheap paper which is beginning to tone, else fine.
Philadelphia: APR, January/February 2018. First Edition. Paperback. Newsprint; folio. Signed by Donald Hall on the front cover. Hall's "Selected Poets" is the centerpiece/supplemet of the issue with his takes on poets he knew: Dickey, Spender, Creeley, Hill, Heaney etc. One of his last pblciations and in of course a late.....
Knotting: Sceptre Press, 1979. First edition. Paperback. Chapbook. Number 26 of 50 copies signed by the poet (of 150 total). Fine in tan wrappers.
Washington DC: Counterpoint, 2002. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Cloth-backed boards in dust jacket; small 8vo. 72pp. Fine unread copy in a fine dust jacket (in removable protective archival cover).
Iowa City: Seamark Press, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover (issued without a dust jacket). Cloth-backed hand-made paper-covered boards, printed spine label; 12mo. 317 copies printed on Shinsetsu paper; printed rectos only. This is NOT the regular issue in full cloth, one of an unknown number in woven bright green cloth in.....
Galway: Arlen House, 2003. First Edition. Paperback. Illustrated wrappers; 8vo. `02 pp. Signed by the poet on the copyrights page adding "im" to the "moral rights of the author have been asserted". Very near fine copy of a scarce book signed, by the rather cheeky Irish author, who long taught.....
London: Eland, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Red cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 218 pp. Inscribed to an American poet and signed "John". Greece through the eyes of a poet. Fine copy in like dust jacket. Scarce signed.