Omaha: Abattoir/The University of Nebraska, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. A lovely production in 1/4 bound leather with Japanese paper covers, no dust jacket, as issued. 51 pp. One of 290 copies, printed on Ingres-Fabriano paper from Bembo type, Joanna italic and Octavian capitals and perpetua initials, by Harry Duncan &.....
West Hatfield, MA: Penny Royal Press, 1983. First edition. no binding. An original woodcut, 16 1/2" x 10 3/4". From page 149 of Moser's masterpiece. Signed in pencil with "ap". Printed at Moser's own Penny Royal Press. Light handling, else fine.
West Hatfield, MA: Penny Royal Press, 1983. First Edition. no binding. An original woodcut, 16 1/2" x 10 3/4". From page 10 of Moser's masterpiece. Signed in pencil with "ap". Printed at Moser's own Penny Royal Press. Light handling, else fine.
New York: Albondocani Press, 1972. First Edition. Paperback. Sewn card covers in marbled wrappers, printed paper label; square 12mo. Number 19 of 150 numbered copies (of 176 total), signed by the poet on the colophon; additionally inscribed by Moss to a prominent small fine press publisher/printer on the first leaf.....
Alton, Hampshire: Clarion Press, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Sewn into board covers with a printed paper label; 8vo. Illustrated by Rigby Graham with a three panel centerfold, one of 149 numbered copies (#77) of 499 total letterpress printed; signed by the author and illustrator. Prospero Poets series. Fine...
Columbus, OH: Logan Elm Press, 2008. Dale E. Starr. First Edition. Paperback. Paper covers, hand-sewn, with paper label; small 8vo. [18 pp.] Translated by Davis from the 14th C Persian. "Designed by Robert Tauber & printed on a No. 4 Vandercock letterpress at The Ohio State University Libraries' Center for.....
Mt Horeb, WI: Perishable Press, 1977. First edition. Paperback. Original Wraps. Signed by the Author and specially signed by both Illustrators. Created for the occasion of Miriam Meltzer becoming a PhD; "five poems by her adoring husband Toby Olson." Signed by the poet and both artists. This is copy number.....
Private Fine Press, 1979. First edition. Paperback. Single sheet french-folded into self-wrappers. Created for a Bar Mitzvah, a short poem preceded by a quote from Genesis 28:14. Oppenheimer is associated with the Black Mountain Poets and The New York School, and was a Village Voice Columnist and Professor at New.....
New York: Poetry East/Four Zoas, 1980. First edition. Paperback. String-tied printed wrappers; 8vo. 36 pp. A Poetry East Chapbook printed by Four Zoas Night Horse.Introduction by Stanley Kunitz. One of 112 (of 175) numbered copies on Ragston paper. Spine is faded, else fine in sewn wrappers.
Medford, MA: Parker, February 1934. First edition. Paperback. 36 pp. Monthly printed by hand-set type, and seemingly a short-lived near one person project. Black covers with embossed design and hand-sewn. According to John Harrison in his Books at Iowa 62, Parker encouraged a young Carroll Coleman who would found The.....
New York: New York Public Library/ Aralia Press, 1996. First Edition. no binding. Folded sheets in a clamshell box, paper cover label; large 8vo. One of 210 copies, commissioned to celebrate the NYPL's centenary. Inscribed in 1997 by Rodney Phillips, the Berg curator who provides the introduction. The ten poets are.....
Iowa City: The Windhover Press, [1985]. First Edition. no binding. Single sheet 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches. Prospectus for one of the great Windhover Press books, previously uncollected translations by EP. "The most ambitious project the Press has undertaken" according to the prospectus. One of 200 copies offered at.....
{New York]: Kelly Winterton, 1980. First Thus. Paperback. Sewn rust-colored wrappers with black calligraphic label; 12mo. [4 pp.] One of 100 copies. Lightly wrinkled; but easily very good. Scarce and lovely production from a prolific, but excellent press.
Iowa City: The Stone Wall Press, 1963. First edition. Hardcover (issued without a dust jacket). Gilt-lettered orange paper-covered boards, slipcase; Tall 8vo. Number 79, of 270 copies (330 total) printed on a Washington Press from Romanee Type and original blocks on Rives Heavy and Mulberry. The first publication of these.....
Iowa City: The Stone Wall Press, 1963. First edition. Hardcover (issued without a dust jacket). Gilt-lettered orange paper-covered boards, slipcase; Tall 8vo. Number 252, of 270 copies (330 total) printed on a Washington Press from Romanee Type and original blocks on Rives Heavy and Mulberry. The first publication of these.....
Berkeley: Two Windows Press, n. p. First edition. Paperback. Sewn wrappers; 12mo. Drawings by Nancy Davis. Copy 62 of 200, signed by author, illustrator, and Don Gray, the designer/printer. Exquisite letterpress work on Curtis Rag in handmade abaca wrapper, delicate rose and gray. Fine copy.
Austin: Cuneiform Press, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Commonplace was produced by Kyle Schlesinger during an artist's residency at the Center for Book and Paper Art at Columbia College in the summer of 2011. The poem was conceived at the Collaboration and the Artist's Book Conference in Caen and the images were.....
West Burke, VT: Janus Press, 1976. First Edition. Paperback. Orange wrappers with silver moon decoration, printed in two colors with double-page cut-out endpapers; 8vo. One of 150 copies. "...designed, handset in Monotype Times Roman, printed, torn, cut, and bound by Claire Van Vliet at the Janus Press on and of.....
West Branch, Iowa: Cummington Press, 1968. First Edition. Paperback. Original decorative paper wrappers, wrap around paper label on spine; tall 8vo, [32pp.]. Hand printed on Okawara paper by Harry Duncan and David Pollen. Number 176 of 320 total copies; the first 150 copies were signed by the author and had.....
New Rochelle: James L. Weil, 1988. First Separate Printing. Paperback. String-tied wrappers; 8vo. Single poem by Shapiro taken from his New & Selected, issued as one of 75 copies, designed by Martino Mardersteig and printed by Stamperia Valdonega. Issued unsigned. Fine.
Syracuse: Clockworks Press, 1998. Holly E. Brown. First edition. no binding. 3 sets of loose signatures (poetry broadsides) each in a printed folder; separate title & colophon leaf; housed in a dark blue clamshell box with silver titling; 4to. Limited to 12 total copies (this number 7). Holly Brown contributes.....
Durango, CO: Logbridge-Rhodes, 1980. First thus. Hardcover (issued without a dust jacket). Blue cloth; square 8vo. 27 pp. Originally published in 1972, this is one of 22 hand bound in boards, numbered and signed, with ten lines from the poem hand written by the poet. Laid in is the prospectus.....
London/New York: Heinemann/Doubleday, n.d. First Edition. Hardcover. Large quarto, [18] unnumbered pages in marbled cloth and blue cloth spine with gilt titling; t.e.g; in dust jacket. One of 520 numbered and signed copies, this number 131. Nicely printed and bound by The Windmill Press, Kingswood Surrey; lovely marbled cloth, large.....
Syracuse: Tamarack, 1981. Barry Moser. First Edition. Paperback. One of 336 copies issued (36 were bound in hardcovers), this is one of 250 numbered copies in sewn blue wrappers. Illustrations by Barry Moser. Designed and printed by Allen Hoey. The wrappers are very lightly faded, still about fine. Specially signed.....
Concord: Ewert, 1990. First edition. Hardcover (issued without a dust jacket). Leather-backed boards which are titled in gold; tall 8vo. 20 pp. Of 100 signed copies (the total edition), this is one of 15 specially bound for the publisher. The rest of the edition issued in wrappers. Translated with an.....
