Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Inscribed to Burt (Britton), NYC bookseller (The Strand). A lovely copy of the poet's first book. She would win the National Book Award in 1999 for her collection Vice. Ai born Florence Anthony died in 2010. Fine in Near Fine very.....
New York: Norton, 1999. First edition. Paperback. 252 pp. Uncorrected proof copy in light green wrappers of the National Book Award winner for 1999. From her five previous books - Cruelty, Killing Floor, Sin, Fate and Greed, along with 17 new poems. Fine.
Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Two-toned paper-covered boards in dust jacket; large 8vo. Signed by the poet on the title page. Includes her 2009 Inaugural poem "Praise Song for the Day" as well as selections from five previous volumes. The book is very good and shows some use.....
Detroit: Lotus Press, 1982. Second Printing. Paperback. Printed wrappers; 8vo. 75 pp. Second printing of the volume of poems by a poet associated with New Orleans. This copy inscribed to Albert Murray, signed on the inside front cover. A nice association: Dent associated with the Black Arts Movement, and like.....
New York: Norton, 1989. First edition. Paperback. Printed lilac wrappers; small 8vo. An uncorrected proof copy in light purple wrappers, with three printed pages of biographical material and blurbs from Norton publicity laid in. Also, laid in is a glossy photo (c card) of the book jacket. Her fourth major.....
New York: Norton, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Green cloth with gilt lettering in dust jacket; 8vo. 77 pp. A Review copy with printed sheet laid in of a new collection of poems published when she was US Poet Laureate (the youngest). Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. (In removable protective archival.....
Lisbon, IA: Penumbra Press, 1977. First Edition. Paperback. Sewn wrappers in printed envelope; square 8vo. [20 pp.] First edition of the author's first book of poems. One of only approximately 200 copies (this no. "94") hand printed on Frankfurt Creme. Hand colored fingernails to frontispiece illustration. This copy specially signed.....
Merylhurst, OR: Breeitenbush Publiications, 1984. First edition. Paperback. 75 pp. An uncorrected proof copy of this volume of poems, with printed pub sheet laid in, wrapper in untrimmed proof covers. Also, tipped in a handwritten review by Lewis Turco (unsigned). Published by James Anderson, Hamill himself an important poetry publisher.....
London: Vista Books/Pocket Poets, 1962. First edition. Paperback. 48 pp. Small chapbook in patterned wrappers. Poems selected by Hollo include those Wole Soyinka, Derek Walcott, Ted Joans, Leroi Joans and others including Anonymous and his blues. Secondary school stamps on first and last leaf, small inkblot erasing a price(?), else.....
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Gray cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 64 pp. Cloth issue of the author's first major collection of poetry, the 54th book in the prestigious series; A National Council on the Arts Selection. Compliments of the publisher card laid in. A few.....
Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Cream cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 100 pp, including an index of first lines. This Black poet's second book, the first volume in the Sagittarius Poetry Series, with a preface by John Gardner, who founded the series for the press.....
East St. Louis, IL: Black River Writers, 1973. First Edition. Paperback. Illustrated covers; 8vo. 103 pp. Front cover and interior illustrations by artist Lucy B. Harrison. Inscribed by the poet "To Albert Murray, - Press on! Power" Signed by Redmond and dated Dec. 1974. A terrific association copy, the younger.....
East St. Louis, IL: Black River Writers, 1972. Third printing. Paperback. Stapled wrappers; 8vo. 32 pp. Inscribed by the poet to Albert Murray: "To Luck & Strength in your struggles"; Signed and dated in Dec. 1974. A terrific association copy, the younger Redmond associated with the Black Arts Movement, Murray.....
New York: Atheneum, 1998. First edition. Paperback. [233 pp.] An uncorrected proof in yellow printed wrappers. The first collected poems from one of our finest and most controversial writers. Faintly sunned spine, otherwise fine.
New York: MacMillan, 1977. First Thus. Paperback. The uncorrected proof copy in red wrappers of the first hardcover and second edition of her first book, a "choreopoem", previously published by Shameless Hussy Press in 1975. In the preface (not present in the earlier book) Shange writes about the opening at.....
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover (issued without a dust jacket). Orange cloth embossed in black; 8vo. 96 pp. The poet's second book in the scarce cloth issue here with a long inscription to his teacher at Bennington College Alvin Feinman and signed "Love, Reginald". Fine copy.....
New York: Corinth, 1970. First Edition. Paperback. Original printed wrappers; square 8vo. 47 pp. Weatherly's first book designed by Joan Wilentz. One of 3000 copies. Inscribed and signed by the author in 1985 with reference to "Sinai"---and with a four line poem in Weatherly's holograph on page 5. Also, 3 mss. corrections to.....
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000. First edition. Paperback. Advance uncorrected proof: 8 1/2 x 11 in. sheets; spiral bound, plain printed cover. The collected poems of this MacArthur Fellow, winner of a 2000 Lannan Award. Scarce format and considering its bulk (723 pp.) in surprisingly fine condition with.....
Cambridge: Harvard, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Black cloth with gold titling and the school emblems in color; large 4to. 479 pp. Kevin Young's senior year yearbook from Harvard. He has signed his name in the index where he is listed as an Adams House resident. An interesting yearbook, but there.....
New York: Knopf, 2003. First Edition. Paperback. Uncorrected proof in printed gold wrappers; square 8vo. Unpaginated. Signed by the poet on the title page. The third collection from this fine young poet; the volume was a finalist for the National Book Award. Near fine, rare signed.
New York: Conde Nast, 2003-2016. First Edition. Paperback. Illustrated wrappers; 4to. Six issues of this magazine with poems by Kevin Young. Each signed by the poet at his contribution. Young would become and is currently the poetry editor for the magazine; in 2020 it was announced that he would become.....
Chicago: The Modern Poetry Association, 2003-2011. First Edition. Paperback. Wrappers; small 8vo. Six volumes of poetry magazine, five of which are signed by Kevin Young at his contribution, in each case a poem; also, the Dec. 2003 issue which is not signed has a joint review of The Selected Poems.....
Mount Morris, IL: Poets & Writers, Jan/Feb 2003. First Edition. Paperback. The Kevin Young issue with his face gracing the cover; an interview with the poet by his friend from Harvard Colson Whithead pp. 30-37. Signed by Kevin young on the cover as well as the interior where there are.....
