London: Faber & Faber, 1992. First Edition. Paperback. Uncorrected advanced proofs in printed wrappers; small 8vo. This proof with the Faber design rather than the Teddy Bear design of the final jacket also used on a proof. Briefly inscribed by the poet and signed in full. Spine and edges a......
Beckhamsted, Hertfordshire: Priapus Poets, 1986. First Edition. Paperback. Sewn card covers; thin 16 mo. One of 100 copies signed by the author; additionally inscribed by the author on the title-page: "To __ and __, Love Wendy". Fine.
Leamington Spa: The Other Branch Readings, November 1984. First Edition. Paperback. Red stapled wrappers; thin 8vo. One of 100 numbered copies. This a presentation ciopy, inscribed to a publisher/printer (US) and signed "Wendy". Good or better, scarce signed.
Alton (UK): Clarion Publishing, 1994. John Vernon Lord. First Edition. Hardcover (issued without a dust jacket). Pictorial sewn wrappers; 8vo. "Printed litho in Palatino type ... at the Didcot Press on Zerkell mould made paper." [Colophon] This is one of the 499 numbered copies, 99 were signed by the author.....
Alton (UK): Clarion Publishing, 1994. John Vernon Lord. First Edition. Paperback. Pictorial paper-covered boards; 8vo. "Printed litho in Palatino type ... at the Didcot Press on Zerkell mould made paper." [Colophon] Of 499 copies, 99 were signed by the author and the artist, and an additional 50 numbered (1-50) for.....
London: Faber and Faber, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing (number line ending in "1")Black cloth in dust jacket; small 8vo. 66 pp. Inscribed to a publisher/printer (US) (@ his wife) noted for his Poetry publications, and signed "Love, Wendy". Top tips bumped, else fine in like dust jacket, the.....
London: Faber and Faber, 1986. First Edition. Paperback. Uncorrected advance proof; small 8vo. 69 pp. Signed (not inscribed to anyone) by the poet. The poet's first commercially published book in the scarce advanced format; very much so signed. Larkin's Annus Mirabilis has been written in pencil on the last leaf.....
New York: Atheneum, 1973. First Thus. Paperback. First Trade edition, first printing (preceded by a limited edition); Decorated wrappers; 8vo. 52 pp. Inscribed by the poet: "To __ & __ These poems seem to me now like the diminishing echoes of a remote past indeed but...." Other than a scarce.....
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.....
New York: Atheneum, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Gray cloth, yellow top stain, in dust jacket; 8vo. 137 pp., w/ Notes. Inscribed by the poet to a noted fine press publisher/printer of poetry: "__ & __ Warm regards" and signed in full. Pulitzer Prize-winner for Poetry for 1980. A fine copy.....
Boston: Godine, 1975. First edition. Hardcover (issued without a dust jacket). Patterned boards, without jacket (as issued); 8vo. 44 pp. The Godine Poetry Chapbook, Series II; nicely printed at The Stinehour Press. Fine bright copy. Kelleher A-16.
New York: Knopf, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. Black cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 76 pp. Briefly inscribed by the poet and signed in full on the title page. A nice production with 23 wood engravings by Leonard Baskin reproduced from a Gehenna Press edition of 60 copies. Two pages of.....
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1983. First Edition. Paperback. Tan wrappers; 8vo. 287 pp., w/ index. Uncorrected proof of this revised and expanded (including her final volume and later poems) edition of the the 1970 National Book Award- winner. Pub Rev. slips laid in. An easily very good copy.....
Cummington, MA: Cummington Press, 1950. Wightman Williams. First Edition. Paperback. Red wraps glued to sewn covers; small 8vo. [8 pp.] Fragile and scarce collection from the press; limited to 200 copies, printed by Harry Duncan and Wightman Williams, with a small illus. signed by Williams as a frontispiece. Worn at.....
Oxford: Sycamore, 1969. First Edition. no binding. Single sheet folded twice to form 6 pages; thin 8vo. Sycamore Broadseet 8. Two poems published while the author was still at Oxford; published by John Fuller. The poet's second "book", his first published the prior year was also the first book of.....
New York: Knopf, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Navy cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 75 pp. Briefly inscribed and signed in full by the poet. Published simultaneously with his Collected Early Poems. Hecht is simply one of our finest poets, winner of the Pulitzer and Bollingen and many other awards. Fine.....
New York: Atheneum, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 91 pp. Review copy with rev. slip and publisher newsletter laid in. Additionally briefly inscribed on the half-title and signed in full by the poet. First issued as a limited edition by Godine, this is the expanded.....
Great Barrington: Penmaen Press, 1983. Michael McCurdy. First edition. Paperback. Sewn blue wraps; 8vo. [24 pp.] One of 300 total with a McCurdy woodblock in black & white. Half the edition were numbered and signed; this copy out-of-series, not numbered, but signed at the colophon by Anthony Hecht. Two thread.....
Great Barrington: Penmaen Press, 1983. Michael McCurdy. First edition. Paperback. Sewn blue wraps; 8vo. [24 pp.] One of 300 total with a McCurdy woodblock in black & white. Half the edition were numbered and signed; this copy out-of-series, not numbered, but signed at the colophon by Anthony Hecht. Two thread.....
New York: Macmillan, 1954. First printing. Hardcover. Cloth-backed boards; 8vp. 64 pp. Briefly inscribed by the poet on the half-title, and signed in full. The first book a collection of poems in traditional form by a poet who would go on to win most of the major prizes over a......
Hitchin, Hertfordshire: Mandeville, 1983. First U.K. Edition. Paperback. Green printed wrappers; small 4to. [16 pp.] One of 450 copies, originally published in POETRY. This copy signed by the poet in full (not inscribed) on the colophon page. Lightly creased and toned at the extremities, else fine. Rare signed.
Los Angeles: The Symposium Press, 1986. First edition. Hardcover (issued without a dust jacket). Brown cloth, paper label; 8vo. 17 pp. One of 350 copies, of which 285 were for sale, this copy numbered 70. Designed and printed by Patrick Reagh, Printers. in Glendale, CA. Epigrams & translations, generally about.....
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.....
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1985. First Edition. Paperback. Revised edition (adding three more years to the diary). Uncorrected proof in pink wrappers; 8vo. 312 pp. Rev. slip laid in. The complete Larkin jazz record reviews. Near Fine.
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Revised edition (adding three more years to the diary). Wine-red cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 316 pp. The complete Larkin jazz record reviews. A virtually as new copy.
