Durham: Duke, 1999. First edition. Paperback. 98 pp. Uncorrected proof in illustrated wrappers of the poet's third collection. Quotes from Mark Doty, Martin Espada and Marilyn Hacker. Cuban-American M.D. who has won the Lambda Award for memoir and poetry; this book was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle.....
Fremont, MI: Sumac Press, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Black embossed cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 69 pp. One of 26 lettered copies ("Y") signed by all three poets. Additionally inscribed by Greg Kohl, mentioning that "the Sumac Press is Dan Gerber of Gerber's Baby Foods". The black cloth fine in.....
N.p. N.p., circa 1967. First Edition. Paperback. [43 pp.] Poetry chapbook, stapled printed wrappers. An interesting book, no place, publisher or edition given, the date is part of the title, the style circa 1967. Poems many about God, and presumably an early if not first book by the priest, novelist.....
Athens: The Univ. of Georgia Press, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 77 pp. The scarce hardcover issue of a sequence of poems he wrote in the early 50's when an inmate at the White Plains, NY mental hospital known as Bloomingdale. The manuscript had been thought.....
Johnson, VT. The Crow's Mark Press, 1967. First edition. Paperback. Small sewn chapbook printed at the Stoveside Press in Vermont; 12 mo.. 33 pp. One of 250 copies numbered and signed by the author. Errata slip. Toned at extremities, else very good in sewn wrappers. The Crow's Mark Press was.....
Santa Cruz: Kayak, 1974. First Edition. Paperback. Stapled blue printed wrappers; 8vo. 40 pp. Inscribed briefly and signed "Hayden". Spine sunned, else fine.
New York: New Directions, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Cloth-backed patterned boards in dust jacket; 8vo. An important collection of five long poems including "The Asylum" and "North Winter". Printed simultaneously in Hard and soft covers. This hardcover in near fine condition in a fine dust jacket with a photo of.....
Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Cloth-backed gray boards; small 4to. 29 pp. One of 300 copies printed on Hayle paper by Harry Duncan and Kim Merker at Iowa City. With enclosed letter TLs on Carruth's Vermont Crow's Mark Press stationary dated 1968, answering a librarian's question re.....
Syracuse: Tamarack Editions, 1982. First edition. Hardcover (issued without a dust jacket). A handsome production letterpress printed on Rives paper and bound in 1/4 cloth and (stunning) marbled boards, with original linoleum block prints by Alice Wand (who also made the paper used for the covers). Number 49 of 50.....
Iowa City: The Prairie Press, 1964. First edition. no binding. Stapled signatures: an unbound advanced copy intended for submission to a book award, with attached note: "This book will be published in November, 1964. Since no bound copies are available to meet the November 1 deadline, this unbound copy is.....
Iowa City: The Prairie Press, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. Cloth-backed decorated boards in dust jacket; tall 8vo. Designed by Carroll Coleman; decorations by Dale Ballantyne. The poet's fourth regularly published book, and second with this press. Inscribed at the colophon and signed in full by the poet. Easily very good.....
New York: Macmillan, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth in dust jakcet; 8vo. 84 pp. Inscribed "For Phyllis, best wishes (and signed) from Hayden" and dated in 1984. Some edgewear to binding in a clean and bright jacket with a only few tiny spots of wear at bottom corners. (As.....
Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1996. First Edition. Paperback. Uncorrected proof in yellow-gold printed wrappers. 102 pp. Publisher material laid in. This volume won the National Book Award. Near fine in wraps.
Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth-backed boards in dust jacket; large 8vo. 101 pp. First printing with full number line (winner of the National Book Award, this volume was reprinted, and the author for really the first time in his life achieved a certain.....
New York: Harper & Row, 1982. First edition. Paperback. An uncorrected proof with publisher material laid in. Light browning else fine in wraps.
Geneva, NY: Hobart & William Smith, 1990. First Edition. Paperback. Photographic wrappers; small 8vo. Signed by the Poet and author Hayden Carruth on the title page. Softbound. Octavo. 151pp including notes on contributors. Twentieth Anniversary Special Edition of the Seneca Review, Volume XX, Number 1 . Fine copy. Signed by.....
New York: Haymarket Press, 1976. First Edition. Paperback. Stapled wrappers; small 8vo. 50 pp. Poems by Corman, Carruth, Steve Richmond, David Ray, Stephen Kessler, Edouard Roditi and others. Spine soiled, but very good.
Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. Cloth in dust jacket; large 8vo. Signed by the author on the title page. Sticker stain on front of jacket does not distract from nice copy, tight and complete. Nar fine in a near fine dust jacket. Scarce signed. Signed.....
Santa Cruz: Kayak Press, 1970. First edition. Paperback. Illustrated wrappers; 8vo. 56 pp. The author's second collection of poems; one of a thousand copies printed. Illustrated by Robert McChesney. Fine copy, quite remarkably so with the only flaws those inherent in George Hichcock's printing.
n. . n. p., 1997. First edition. Paperback. Stapled chapbook; square 12mo. 32 pages of delightful and playful poetry in pictorial wraps. Plenty of whimsical illustrations, too.
Dublin, NH: William L Bauhan, 1981. First edition. Paperback. Trade paperback original in pictorial wraps; 8vo. This copy signed by the author on the half-title page. Lush narrative poetry with strong classicist roots. Wraps are shelf-worn, with light sticker shadows; book is tight, fresh, a treasure of New England poetry.....
Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Black cloth in dust jacket; small 8vo. 47 pp. Inscribed copy: "To Edwin - with affection and grattitude, Helen", of the poet's second book. Her first book won The Yale Series of Younger Poet's award. Issued simultaneously in paper, the hardcover.....
Bronx, NY: Chameleon Productions, 1985. First edition. Paperback. First volume of trilogy (with Iwilla Sourge, Iwilla Rise), by Yvonne Chism-Peace, who was poetry editor for MS. Magazine, 1974-87. Remarkable feminist work. Near-fine copy.
New York: Harcourt Brace, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. The poet's sixth collection briefly inscribed "For John" and signed in full by the poet in 2000. Fine copy in like dust jacket (in removable Brodart dust jacket cover).
New York: Viking, 1988. First edition. Paperback. An uncorrected proof copy in plain blue wrappers, with a page of blurbs (which appear on the back panel of the hardcover) inserted. Tail of spine has a 3/4 " tear, and the sheet of blurbs was once stapled to the FFEP, and.....
