MY WAY; Speeches and Poems
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. First Edition. Paperback. Trade paperback issue in illustrated wrappers; 8vo. 321 pp. w/ notes. Inscribed to fellow poet, colleague and friend "with love, Charles"
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. First Edition. Paperback. Trade paperback issue in illustrated wrappers; 8vo. 321 pp. w/ notes. Inscribed to fellow poet, colleague and friend "with love, Charles"
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 189 pp. A collection of poems, also issued as an eBook (no paperback). This copy briefly inscribed to a friend and former colleague "with Love", and signed "Charles". Fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
Los Angeles: Sun & Moon, 2000. First Edition. Paperback. Illustrated wrappers; small 8vo. 361 pp. Inscribed to a former colleague and friend: "past of.Gradually" [and signed] " Love, Charles". Solid collection from previous volumes with new work. Fine.
Providence: Paradigm, 1989. Second Edition. Paperback. Stapled wrappers; thin 8vo. Second edition. Originally published as TUUMBA 20; this one of 600 copies. Fine.
Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth in dust jacket; small 8vo. Inscribed by the poet to a former colleague and friend: "For _, with love after years and years" and signed "Charles". Susan Bee cover illustration. Fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
Vancouver, BC: Nomados, 2004. First Edition. Paperback. Illustrated wrappers; thin 8vo. 19 pp. Inscribed to a colleague, and signed "Charles" in 2004. Scarce. Near fine.
[Alberqurque]: Dept. of English, UNM, N.d. First edition. no binding. Poster for the Spring Reading Series for UNM held at the Franklin Dickey Memorial Theater. Readings by Bernstein, Enslin (unusual for Ted not the poet's preferred Theodore for print to be used in a publication), Eastlake, Kittredge and Baker on.....
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. First Edition. Paperback. Trade paper issue in illustrated wrappers; 8vo. 183 pp. Fine copy.
Chicago: The Yellow Press, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. Red, gold embossed, cloth; 8vo. Cover by Rochelle Kraut; jacket photo by Gerard Malanga. Inscribed "Tom with Love" and signed "Ted". Near fine, one corner bumped, in a very good rubbed (backpanel) lightly worn at extremities complete dust jacket; spine a bit.....
Berkeley: Blue Wind Press, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover (issued without a dust jacket). Red cloth in cloth slipcase; thick 8vo. 403 pp. One of 75 numbered and signed copies. Selected poems arranged in chronological order with new poems. Spine faded, a bit soiled and gilt dulled, case lightly rubbed, else.....
[London]: Aloes Books, [1974]. First UK edition. Paperback. Printed card covers, stapled. One of 479 copies, inexpensively produced. Originally published in 1971. Paper toned, creasing, else very good. Scarce publisctaion.
New York: n. p., 1979. First Edition. no binding. Poster on orange paper (8 1/2 x 11 in.) for the Thursday Evening Poetry Readings at Viridian Gallery in NYC. Listed in the following pairings: Steve Hamilton and Jackson Mac Low; Yuki Hartman and June Jordan; Jim Brodey and Michael Slater;.....
Santa Barbara: Am Here Books. Immediate Editions, 1982. First Edition. Paperback. Stapled photocopies printed on rectos only; this is the limited edition with hand-colored cover by publisher Tom Clark; signed by Clark and by the author. There were 250 regular copies of TB's last book published during his lifetime; there.....
Washington DC: Counterpoint, 1998. First Edition. Paperback. Spiral bound sheets 8 1/2 x 11 inches; advanced proofs. 176 pp., marked "first pass. Scarce advance form preceding Trade/hardcover issue as well as the bound galleys; generally for reviewers and in-house use. Near fine.
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Black cloth in dust jacket; square 8vo. 115 pp. A review copy with review slip laid in. 115 sonnets mostly written and rewritten according to Charles Thornbury the editor of his Collected Poems in 1947, two decades before they were.....
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1989. First edition. Paperback. Uncorrected proof in dark blue printed wrappers; 8vo. 335 pp. Promotional flyer laid in. Includes the seven collections of his short poems (Dream Songs were published separately) published during his lifetime. With extensive notes from the editor Charles Thornbury and.....
New York: Columbia University Press, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover (issued without a dust jacket). Green cloth with paper spine label; 12mo. 45 pp. Berryman's first book appearance. His bibliographer notes only stiff blue-green wrappers, but copies including this seem to exist that were contemporaneously bound in cloth. Spine label worn;.....
New York: Sloane, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 103 pp. The poet's first major collection. Shelfworn else fine in a worn at extremities (small loss at crown) very good and complete (not price-clipped) dust jacket.Stefanik A4.
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. Black cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. A review copy with slip and FSG "Book News" - a two page publicity letter - laid in. Published posthumously, it includes a number of uncollected Dream Songs as well as unfinished poems. A......
Pawlet, Vt. Claude Fredericks, 1958. First Edition. Paperback. Thin 8vo. Sewn cream wrappers. Number 288 of 500 copies (526 in total), with the original printed envelope. The book was printed and handbound at Fredericks' private press. This was the first publication or first book appearance of ten of the eleven.....
Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1942. First edition. Paperback. First printing. A lovely copy in stiff wraps in a bright blue dust jacket, with very light fading to the spine, and the bottom edge bumped. According to Eileen Simpson his then wife, he was paid an advance of $25 for this.....
Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1942. First edition. Hardcover. Paper-cover boards in dust jacket; 8vo. 25 pp. One of 500 (of 2000 total) in hardcover of Berryman's first separately published book. Issued in New Directions' Poet of the Month Series in 1942. Light fading of the blue-green dust jacket along the.....
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Cloth-backed paper-covered boards in dust jacket; 8vo. 120 pp. Signed by the poet on the front free end paper. A fine copy, in a fine, bright dust jacket. Previous owner's name on ffep: Edith Mucke who was then a student.....
New York: Sloane, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. Stamped on the FFEP with a prior owner's (Albert P. Madeira - a former UMASS professor) stamped address and date of Jan 30, 1951. Edgeworn, price-clipped jacket; top edge has a few small brown stains, otherwise fine. Stefanik A6.1.a.
Chicago: April 1948. Paperback. An interesting issue. Five poems from Berryman, his first appearance in this magazine, including the title poem of "The Dispossessed". Poems by Eberhart and Cowley, and a review of a prose translation of "The Odyssey" by Fitzgerald, with his own verse (well prior to his landmark.....