Gaylordsville [CT]: The Slide Mountain Press, 1929. First edition. Hardcover (issued without a dust jacket). Linen-backed boards decorated in red green and gold; small 4to. No. 29 of 83 copies signed by Stephens on the half-title page as called for. Distributed by Random House when it was transitioning from a......
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1925. First edition. Hardcover (issued without a dust jacket). xxviii, 237 [5] pp. 8vo. One of 600 copies (this copy not numbered). Printed for the Book Club of CA by John Henry Nash. Lovely production, orange paper over boards, vellum spine w/ gilt dec.....
New Rochelle: James L. Weil, 1986. First Edition. Paperback. String-tied orange wrappers; 8vo. Single poem by Stillnger, issued as one of 50 copies, designed by Martino Mardersteig and printed by Stamperia Valdonega. Issued unsigned. Stillnger a prominent Keats scholar. Fine.
Jamaica, VT: Bull Thistle, 1992. First Edition. Paperback. Single printed sheet sewn into decorated covers; 8vo. Single poem, letterpress printed; announcement for the poet's collection Drawing Water on back cover, so presumably a prospectus. Two copies listed on WorldCat.
Jamaica, VT: Bull Thistle, 1992. First Edition. Paperback. Sewn wraps in printed dust jacket; 8vo. Chapbook, one of 229 letterpress printed by Greg Joly at his fine press. Fine.
Madison, WI: Sea Pen Press, 1976. First Edition. Paperback. Hand-stitched paper covers; oblong 8vo. [24 pp.] One of 60 press numbered and signed copies on hand-made paper (there were an additional 60 regular copies on Frankfort Cream). A beautiful production on heavy paper printed in three colors. Fine.
Madison, WI: Sea Pen Press, 1976. First Edition. Paperback. Hand-stitched paper covers; oblong 8vo. [24 pp.] One of 60 press numbered and signed copies on hand-made paper (there were an additional 60 regular copies on Frankfort Cream). This copy additionally inscribed to another poet "For __, with Thanks, Admiration and.....
Iowa City: The Windhover Press, 1990. First Edition. Paperback. Cord tied, stiff handmade paper wrappers, paper spine label; Folio. Specially signed by the author. Illustrated with two original woodcuts by Neil Welliver. Number 65 of 225 numbered copies printed on Windhover paper by Kim Merker and Don Howell using a......
Portland, OR: Charles Seluzicki, 1987. First Edition. Paperback. Gray-brown wrappers sewn into matching wrappers with orange title pasted on; large 8vo. [16 pp.] Printed by Barbara Cash at the Ives Street Press in Sweden, Maine on Rives BFK. Number 104 of 187 copies signed by the poet. Two reporoductions of.....
Portland, OR: Charles Seluzicki, 1987. First Edition. Paperback. Gray-brown wrappers sewn into matching wrappers with orange title pasted on; large 8vo. [16 pp.] Printed by Barbara Cash at the Ives Street Press in Sweden, Maine on Rives BFK. Number 142 of 187 copies signed by the poet. This copy signed.....
Iowa City: The Prairie Press, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue-green cloth in dust jacket; tall 8vo. 74 pp. Hand set and printed by Carroll Coleman at his important fine press. A near fine shelf-worn copy in a price-clipped, lightly soiled dust jacket with two large chips and edge wear along.....
West Branch, Iowa: Cummington Press, 1966. First Edition. Paperback. Blue-gray wrappers, printed label 10 pp. One of 125 copies (reportedly only 100 printed). Few spots of foxing as usual with most on front edge of the rfep. Attractive copy of a simple production from one of the finest of small.....
Cummington: Cummington Press, 1947. First Edition. Paperback. Small chapbook sew into gray paper wrappers with a printed red paper label; 8vo. [8 pp.] Christmas greetings from Caroline [Gordon] and Allen Tate, consisting of a poem from his Selected Poems of 1937, beginning "Not yet the thirtieth year...". Two small coffee.....
Cummington, MA: Cummington Press, 1943. First edition. Hardcover. Black cloth, spine titled in red, in scarce unprinted glassine dust jacket; 8vo. . One of 430 numbered copies. Latin text introduced and with a translation by Tate. Fine in a worn at extremities else very good jacket (protected in removable mylar.....
Cambridge: Halty Ferguson, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. One of 200 copies (150 for sale) bound in Japanese grasscloth, numbered and signed by the author. A Review copy with slip lid in. Plain blue jacket very, very, lightly spine-faded, otherwise a fine copy of a lovely book. Scarce especially so with.....
Mt Horeb WI: Perishable Press, 1969. First edition. Paperback. Handstitched in gray printed wrappers; thins 8vo. This elegant letterpress chapbook was issued in an edition of 130 for sale (220 total). Lovely, despite staining from poor use of glue at endpapers and tracefoxing throughout. Flawed work from an otherwise reliable.....
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1927. Jacquier. First Edition. Hardcover. Full marbled cloth with leather label at the head of the spine; 4to. xxii, 198 pp. One of 150 copies. Printed by the Kynoch Press. Five hand-colored illustrations by Jacquier hand-coloured through stencils by the Curwen Press, intro. by John Beresford.....
[Paris]: Editions Enrico Navarra, Spring 1993. First Edition. no binding. Complete portfolio consisting of (7) aquatints in color, one as a frontispeice, accompanied by text from Frederic Tuten's "Van Gogh's Bad Cafe: A Love Story," pencil signed by Fischl and Tuten and numbered, in original cloth-covered clamshell portfolio. One of.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1944. Pavel Tchelitchew. First Edition. Hardcover. Black cloth in dust jacket; 4to. A lengthy inscription on the front fly by Parker and signed by him to art critic Harold Rosenberg. Drawings by Tchelitchew through out from his preliminary sketches for his HIDE AND SEEK which.....
[Cedar Falls, IA]: Labyrinth Editions, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover (issued without a dust jacket). Quarter vellum gilt with vellum tips and decorated paper-covered boards, gilt-lettered spine label; publisher's linen clamshell box; small 4to. Greg Dearth woodblock frontispiece. One of 100 numbered copies (#28) on paper (there were 12 copies on.....
Cleveland OH: Bits Press, 1983. First edition. Original Wraps. Blue sewn wrappers; thin 8vo. Number 63 of 94 numbered and signed copies. Signed at the colophon and also on a card from the author laid in, reading "Hope you're amused -- Bob Wallace." Long humorous poem referring to and dedicated.....
St Louis MO: GrafikTrakt, N.D. First edition. no binding. 16-fold broadside, created as the first publication of GrafikTrakt, designed and printed by Ted Smith at Hope Press, St. Louis. It is the second publication of the poet, who is also known as Gene Doty, University of Missouri professor. Limited to.....
Suffern, NY: Kelly-Winterton Press, 2003. First Edition. Paperback. Brick Fabriano wraps; 8vo. One of 96 (26 were lettered); this copy inscribed to another small press publisher/poet at the colophon quoting two lines from William Bronk.. Prospectus and Weil's inscribed business card laid in. Fine.
Jamaica, NY: Kelly-Winterton Press, 1995. First Edition. Paperback. Tan printed wrappers; thin 8vo. One of 65 printed at the Kelly-Winteron Press. Six poems including the title poem. This copy especially signed and inscribed at the colophon to another small press publsiher and poet. Fine.
Jamaica, NY: Kelly-Winterton Press, 2001. First Edition. Paperback. Gray mould-made wraps; 8vo. 17 pp. One of 150 (of 176 total); this copy inscribed to another small press publisher/poet on the front end paper. Designed by Jerry Kelly; printed by Michael and Winifred Bixler. Prospectus laid in. Fine.
