New York: Glenn Horowitz, 1987. First Edition. Paperback. Sewn into brown printed wrappers.; 12mo. 9 pp. One of 200 copies printed at the Kelly Winterton Press, NY. Bishop's letter on her cleaning lady, food places and other wonderful mundane things in Boston. Poly protective cover added. Fine.
Toronto: Fingerprinting Inkoperated, 1997. First Edition. Paperback. Sewn, illustrated wraps; 32mo. One of 70 signed and numbered copies. Text printed on translucent leaves of mylar; issued with magnifying lens in pocket inside back cover. Presumably an excerpt from his first book published by Coach House Press in 1994; this a......
New York: The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, 1996. First Edition. no binding. Single 8vo. leaf folded to make four pages and a single leaf, printed on both sides, loosely inserted. Among the listed readers, three Nobel Prize winners: Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott, Czeslaw Milosz, as well as.....
Fayetteville, The University of Arkansas Press, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Navy linen cloth, white lettering in dust jacket; tall 8vo. 61 pp. The simultaneously issued cloth edition of the poet's third (and first regularly published) volume. Inscribed "To __ __, All my best" signed in full by Collins and dated.....
Great Barrington, MA: The Figures, 1987. First edition. Paperback. Side-stapled, printed card wrappers; square 8vo. [20 pp.] The Figures known primarily for publishing LANGUAGE poets. The material here originally published in UNITED ARTISTS #8. An easily very good copy, lightly toned, although a scholar has annotated it thoroughly in light.....
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/Bolinas: Adventures in Poetry/Big Sky, 1975. First Edition. Paperback. Photographic wraps; 4to. 71 pp. Inscribed on the title page to a friend: "__ is with [an arrow pointing to her printed name] & love does exist [and signed] Bernadette". One of a 1000 copies, and well represented in institutions.....
New York: Knopf, 1971. First edition. Cloth. Cloth with gold lettering in dust jacket; large 8vo. 586 pp. First edition, first issue (the Larry Rivers "suppressed") jacket. Edited by Donald Allen with an introduction by John Ashbery. This copy inscribed by Ashbery to Philip Charron on the rear flyleaf "In.....
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.....
Santa Barbara: Bradford Morrow, 1980. First Edition. Paperback. Sewn printed wrappers; 12mo. Seventeen bawdy lyrics: "Issued forth with a full measure of rascality from Bradford Morrow's back room on the occasion of Kenneth Rexroth's 75th birthday (& may he explore many more), served into type by Patrick Reagh in an.....
Evansville, IN: The University of Evansville Press, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Red cloth stamped in gold in dust jacket; 8vo. 69 pp. The first regularly published book, recipient of the Wilbur Award, from this poet whose formal verse steeped in the classics along with her translations earned her a MacArthur.....
Omaha, NB: The Cummington Press with Abattoir Editions, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Handmade paper over boards, hand-stitched with paper spine label; large 8vo. 71 pp. One of 100 copies printed by Harry Duncan and others on Rives paper at West Branch and Omaha. Original poems by Stern, previously published only.....
New York: Knopf, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Orange cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 51 pp. Inscribed "For __ __ With affection and Thanks" and signed by the poet on the title page. Fine copy, in a fine dust jacket (designed by Chip Kidd) (in removable archival protective covers)...
[New York]: Segue Foundation/ROOF, 1980. First Edition. Paperback. Black and white paper covers; 8vo. 91 pp. Published as Roof XI, Vol. 3 No. 3. Notes throughout in faint pencil, else fine.
Barrytown, NY: Open Book/Station Hill, 1982. First Edition. Paperback. Illustrated wraps; 8vo. [28 pp.] Experimental poetry and performance, based on semaphore. Illustrated in black and white including work by Sol LeWitt. Rubbed but near fine. Scarce.
Windsor, VT: Awede Press, 1983. First Edition. Paperback. Stapled wraps, 8vo. Handset and printed at the press; even for Weiner an interesting book typographically. Light soiling, still near fine. Quite uncommon in the trade.
n.p. n.p., circa 1988. First Edition. no binding. Glossy photograph on Fuji Film Photo Paper (8 1/2 x 11 in.; image approx. 7 1/2 square) of James Laughlin IV by Jonathan Williams, and signed by Williams in the margin. The photograph is in color although the subject in profile against.....
