Madison, MN: The Seventies Press, 1977. First Edition. Paperback. Card covers in illustrated dust jacket; 8vo. 81 pp. Trade paperback issue of this Bilingual edition - Spanish and English, translated by Lewis Hyde and Robert Bly. Edited by Lewis Hyde and signed by him (no name, short inscription: "Best Wishes").....
New York: Grove Press, 1957-1960. First Edition. Paperback. Photographic wraps; small 8vo.The first thirteen issues of this magazine that ran for 97. Includes the second "San Francisco Scene" issue which included the first separate publication of Ginsberg's "Howl". Other issues helped introduce Beat and NY School poets (and painters like.....
Green River, VT: Longhouse, 1997-2008. First Edition. Paperback. Seven poetry chapbooks, two postcards and one anthology (single sheet, folded). Ten items from Bob and Susan Arnold's press; all small 16mo - 24mo. books, mostly single shhets folded into covers, some (Pommy Vega, Berge Born, Michaux/Levi) with bands; postcards by Weil.....
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. First Edition. Paperback. Illustrated wrappers; 8vo. 282 pp. Essays on poetry by one of the foremost LANGUAGE poets/critics. This copy inscribed to a friend and former colleague: "For __ "D" - "E"- "F" poet is found that impossible "X" where we will always dwell.....
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 132 pp. A collection of poems issued also in paperback. This copy briefly but elaborately inscribed to a friend and former colleague "with Love", and signed "Charles". Fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
[Anchorage, AK]: Salmon Run Press, 1994. First Edition. Paperback. Sewn wrappers; 8vo. [7 pp.] Number 35 of 50 total copies. Third in the Salmon Run Press pamphlet series. This copy signed by the author. Quite scarce. Fine.
Santa Monica, CA: Earth Books & Gallery, 1974. First Edition. no binding. Single printed sheet, folded (to 8 1/2 x 11 inches) to make 4 pages. Illustrated. Features two poems by Charles Bukowski "Freedom" and "True Story." Also poems by Steve Richmond and John Buckner. Very good, with no real.....
Iowa City: The Prairie Press, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. Cloth-backed decorated boards in dust jacket; tall 8vo. 43 pp. Designed by Carroll Coleman. The poet's third regularly published book, and first with this press. Specially signed in full at the colophon. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a......
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.....
Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1936. First edition. Hardcover. Green linen, stamped in gold, t.e.g., in dust jacket; 8vo. 157 pp., with index of first lines. A nearly fine copy, top tips bumped, bookseller ticket on back pastedown; in an unclipped and fine bright dust jacket. Preceded by a limited.....
Fredonia, NY: The Basilisk Press, 1972. First Edition. Paperback. Signed paperback in glued illustrated wraps. Includes 50 poems from 1962-67. Specially signed by the poet in ink on the title page. One of 600 copies. Fading at spine and extremities; crease to back corner. Overall, clean text and sharp tips.....
n. p. Privately Printed, 1970. First Edition. Paperback. Stapled illustrated wrappers; 8vo 18 pp. Cover illus. by Platt. According to Platt the three set out cross country in Disch's Malibu Chevelle from NYC on I80. These sonnets were written collaboratively along the way as a game, Platt and Disch, depending.....
New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover (issued without a dust jacket). Original beige linen stamped in black, with two paper labels by Lynd Ward; large 8vo. Limited edition, number 259 of 360 total copies, signed by William Faulkner. In addition to the cover engravings, Ward.....
New York: Oxford University Press, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Paper-covered boards in dust jacket; small 8vo. 59 pp. Poet's first book. Errata slip laid in. Near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with a short indent at the gutter.
Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth in photographic jacket; 12mo. 206 pages. From Understanding Contemporary American Literature series, with chapters on Olson, Creeley, and Duncan. Few light pencil marks in text, else fine. Near fine copy in fine jacket. (Dust jacket is in protective mylar.....
Amherst, MA: Friends of the Amherst College Library, 1991. First Edition. Paperback. Sewn card covers in pale green printed wrappers; 12mo. 12 pp. B&W Frontispiece photo of Frost. Designed by Edith McKeon Abbott. Set in Monotype Bulmer and printed in an edition of 3000 at Firefly Press, Somerville, Massachusetts, August.....
Various: Various, Various. First Edition. Paperback. Fifteen magazines with appearances (poetry) by Jack Gilbert. NEW YORKER issues June 7, 2004, August 2, 2004, Oct. 5, 2004, Nov. 15, 2004, Jan. 10, 2005, Oct. 22, 2007; ESQUIRE Jan. 1977, & April 1994; NATIIONAL REVIEW Dec 31, 2001 & July 15, 2002;.....
St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Light blue cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 59 pp. Stated "First Printing"; simultaneously issued in paperback the cloth issue is uncommon. The poet's fourth book. Photo of Gregg by Jack Gilbert on the back cover. Fine in an easily very good.....
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Revised edition (adding three more years to the diary). Wine-red cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 316 pp. The complete Larkin jazz record reviews. A virtually as new copy.
La Crosse, WI: Sutton Hoo Press, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover (issued without a dust jacket). Quarter blue cloth and marbled front board; narrow 4to. [24 pp.] Signed by Levine at the colophon in pencil as called for. "Approximately 200 copies of this book were printed from handset Joanna types by.....
Galway: Arlen House, 2003. First Edition. Paperback. Illustrated wrappers; 8vo. `02 pp. Signed by the poet on the copyrights page adding "im" to the "moral rights of the author have been asserted". Very near fine copy of a scarce book signed, by the rather cheeky Irish author, who long taught.....
Millerton, NY: Something Else Press, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Yellow cloth in dust jacket; large 8vo. 424 pp. "Mac Low has created a sort of cinema of words and word sequences..." [from flap copy]. Massive work using various chance and other composition methods, most of it written and performed in.....
Minneapolis: Rain Taxi, 1998. First Edition. Paperback. Stapled cream-colored card wrappers. Linocut by George Boyd on the cover. Unpaginated. Limited to 300 copies, as stated. Signed by the poet in ink on the title page. Merrill Cove is in North Carolina where these poems were written in the 1950's; here.....
Dalkey Archive Press, 1993. First Edition. Paperback. Photographic covers; 8vo. 275 pp. Includes "E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction" and "From Infinite Jest," two excerpts of what would become Wallace's famous novel. It includes an interview with Wallace by Larry McCaffery, and articles on his work; Daitch and Vollman.....
