Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition. 47 pp. Gray-green cloth in dj. Printed by Carroll Coleman at his Prairie Press. Briefly inscribed on the front free endpaper to George Leite; signed "J Laughlin". Leite was (as was Laughlin in New York) at the very center (literally.....
Gaylordsville: Slide Mountain Press, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. Patterned paper-covered boards, printed paper label; small 8vo. [16 pp.] One of 200 signed copies. Sonnets. This copy also inscribed by the printer James Raye Wells. Toned at the edges, otherwise about fine in unprinted glassine dust jacket which is about 80%.....
La Crosse, WI: Sutton Hoo Press, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover (issued without a dust jacket). Full blue cloth, decorated endpapers; 12mo. [29 leaves.] Illustrated with calligraphic ornaments by Cheryl Jacobsen. Letter "G" of 52 lettered copies on Nideggan & Johannot, from a total edition of 200 copies (plus artists' proofs) signed.....
La Crosse, WI: Sutton Hoo Press, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover (issued without a dust jacket). Quarter blue cloth and marbled front board; narrow 4to. [24 pp.] Signed by Levine at the colophon; additionally double inscribed; to the novelist Nicholas Delbanco and his wife on the title page and to a......
Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University, 2003. First Separate Printing. no binding. Single sheet folded; 9 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches. One of 75 copies printed in two colors at the Aureole Press by Timothy Gieger from Dante types on Nideggen paper. Signed by Philip Levine on the back panel. The poem.....
Syracuse, NY: Tamarack, 1984. First Edition. Paperback. Sewn gray-brown printed wrappers; 8vo. [32 pp.] Frontispiece and one additional linocut by Michael Corr. Number 153 of 200 (an additional 39 in cloth on Johannot) printed by Allen Hoey at the press on Mohawk Superfine. Lewandowski has had numerous chapbooks published; he.....
Denver: Swallow Press, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Decorated paper-covered boards, printed paper labels, in green printed dust jacket; small 4to. 67 pp. This copy inscribed by the Janet Lewis "in memory of a very pleasant visit" and signed in full in Feb. 1991. Laid in is a color photograph of.....
San Francisco: Grabhorn, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Large quarto, 14 pp. Cloth-backed decorated boards, spine label. Tipped in photo and halftone illus. Inscribed by Oscar Lewis to Louise Barr (?). Somewhat whimsical piece created for Bender's 75th birthday, but he died before printing was completed. Limited to 250 copies distributed.....
Berkeley: Hit & Run Press, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover (issued without a dust jacket). Green buckram binding with gold lettering; 8vo. [12 pp.] One of 50 (#24) copies numbered and signed by the author, with an original etching on the frontispiece. (There were 250 in paper issued - the etching.....
Berkeley: Hit & Run Press, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover (issued without a dust jacket). Quarter leather over marbled boards with leather label; 8vo. [16 pp.] One of 50 (#16) copies numbered and signed by the author. (There were an additional 250 copies in paper.) Translations by Liddy of an Ossian.....
Omaha: Abattoir/University of Nebraska Press, 1984. First edition. Hardcover (issued without a dust jacket). Blue cloth with paper labels, without dust jacket (as issued); 8vo. 48 pp. One of 293 numbered copies. Printed by Harry Duncan on Rives paper with Poliphilus, Blado, and Perpetua types, initials in blue. Logan's second.....
New Rochelle: James L. Weil, 2003. First Edition. Paperback. Sewn blue wrappers; oblong 12mo. One of 50 printed "at the Kelly-Winterton Press to celebrate in memoriam the eighty-fifth birthday of William Bronk...". Short personal note to another publisher/poet from Weil on his printed card. Fine.
Frenich, Foss: Kulgin Duval & Colin H. Hamilton, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover (issued without a dust jacket). Quarter red morocco over gray paper-covered boards, gilt titling and dec. rule; 4to. Number 34 of 200 copies signed by the author. Designed by Martino Mardesteig and printed at the Stamperia Valdonega in.....
Falkland: Kulgin Duval & Colin H. Hamilton, 1969. First Thus. Hardcover (issued without a dust jacket). Quarter vellum, gilt titling and rule, with paper-covered boards patterned in blue, t.e.g.; 4to. 145 pp. Number 106 of 160 copies signed by MacDiarmid, Frans Masereel, and Giovanni Mardersteig. Illustrated with eight full-page woodcuts.....
Edinburgh: K. D. Duval, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover (issued without a dust jacket). Quarter vellum, gilt titling and rule, with paper-covered patterned boards, t.e.g.; 4to. One of 300 numbered copies signed by the author. Printed by Giovanni Mardersteig on hand-made paper on the hand-press of the Officina Bodoni in Verona.....
Hardwicke, MA: Four Zoas Press, [circa 1971]. First edition. Paperback. Elegantly and delicately printed on ivory paper stitched into sage-green wraps by S. R. Lavin in an edition of 350.
Boston: Godine, 1979. Barry Moser. First edition. Hardcover. Red cloth in dust jacket; narrow small 4to. 61 pp. Elegant tall volume, Mariani's first collection. This copy is signed by both Mariani and artist Barry Moser, highly unusual -- and both are lovely signatures. Moser set the type at his Pennyroyal.....
[Omaha, NB]: Abattoir, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover (issued without a dust jacket). Tan cloth with paper spine label. One of 260 numbered copies printed under the direction of Harry Duncan on Nideggen paper. Specially signed and inscribed on the title page to another poet associated with New Formalism. Scarce signed.....
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Specially handbound in boards by Earle Gray; 8vo. 174 pp. Copy "F" of 26 copies signed and with a drawing by the author. Top edge spotted otherwise fine and very clean in original acetate dust jacket.
Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Center for the Book, 2001. First Separate Printing. Paperback. Sewn paper wrappers with printed paper label; small 8vo. Pamphlet in an edition of 100 copies; signed by Merwin. Includes Dante's poem in Italian and with Merwin's English translation. "This sonnet from Vita Nuova was.....
Jamaiaca, VT: Bull Thistle Press, 1994. First Edition. Paperback. Single poem sewn into prnted card wraps. One of 147 printed. Metras is publisher of Adastra Press. Fine.
New York: Helikon, 1972. First edition. Paperback. Illustrated stapled wrappers; thin 8vo. Printed letterpress; signed at the colophon, copy 118 of 125, and also inscribed on the front free endpage, warmly to Vermont poet David Budbill. Fine. Signed by Author(s).
New Rochelle: James L. Weil, 1986. First edition. Paperback. String-tied wrappers; 16mo. [5 pp.] A single poem by the poet (previously printed), issued as one of 50 "keepsake copies" printed by Martino Mardersteig, issued unsigned. Fine and quite scarce.
St. Paul, MN: North Central Publishing, 1973. Frank Kacmarcik. First Edition. Hardcover. 8 vo. 20 pp. Limited to an edition of 1250, this is the 1973 North Central Christmas Book. The text is taken from " A Rosary of Mystery Plays" translated by Margaret S. Mooney. Printed in two colors.....
New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1962. Robert Andrew Parker. First Edition. Hardcover (issued without a dust jacket). Cloth-backed gray/brown paper over boards in slipcase, with paper label; 4to. Published by MOMA under the direction of Monroe Wheeler. Number 138 of 195 copies all signed by Ms. Moore and.....
