POETRY
AUTUMN VARIATIONS; [Association copy inscribed to Anthony Hecht].
(New York): Nadja, (1990). First edition. Number 97 of 100 SIGNED numbered copies bound in handmade paper wrappers from a total edition of 126. ADDITIONALLY INSCRIBED TO PRIZE-WINNING POET LAUREATE ANTHONY HECHT on notched blank page opposite the title page, "for/ Tony/ with gratitude and admiration,/ De." 12mo handsewn plain..... Item #72022 More
THE FUHRER BUNKER: A Cycle of Poems in Progress.
Brockport: BOA Editions, 1977. First edition. One of 1000 copies. Red cloth boards with black lettering on spine, black endpages. INSCRIBED on title page by Snodgrass to Pulitzer Prize winner and Poet Laureate Anthony Hecht and wife, "for Tony and Helen with delight and affection / De / W. D...... Item #53731 More
HEART'S NEEDLE.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959. First edition. AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, one of only 1,500 copies printed. From the collection of Pulitzer Prize winner and Poet Laureate Anthony Hecht, with his ownership signature on front endpaper. Fine in very good dust jacket with scant 1/8" chipped away at head of..... Item #53726 More
TRADITIONAL HUNGARIAN SONGS.
Baltimore: Charles Seluzicki, 1978. First edition. Printed at the Janus Press. Number 218 of 300 copies SIGNED by Snodgrass, who translated the folk songs herein from the collections first made by Bartok and Kodaly (1906 and 1929, respectively). Illustrated with decorations cut by Dorian McGowan. Stiff, unlettered, tan paperwraps, with..... Item #54275 More
TREE SONG; and DOGWOOD, FOREST - YOSEMITE; [1/50 signed by both the poet and photographer].
San Francisco: James Linden, 1986. First edition. Designed and printed by Peter Rutledge Koch. Number 17 of 50 numbered copies (of a total edition of 226), SIGNED BY SNYDER AND MUNDY. There were also 150 unsigned copies and 26 lettered copies. Snyder's broadside poem, "Tree Song," signed by him beneath..... Item #55387 More
THE FATES OF ROCKS & TREES: Two Poems, Two Photographs; [Prospectus only].
San Francisco: James Linden, [circa 1986]. First edition. Prospectus for the limited edition publication. Single 6 x 9" leaf printed in black and green. Fine. Item #72128 More
THE FANFARLO: And Other Verse.
Kent: The Hand and Flower Press, 1952. First edition in first-issue paperwraps lettered in red (vs. blue). Fine. Item #15842 More
THE FANFARLO: And Other Verse.
Kent: The Hand and Flower Press, 1952. First edition in the first-issue paperwraps lettered in red (vs. blue). Minor wear to tips otherwise fine. From the collection of cartoonist Claude Smith with his penciled ownership signature inside front cover. Item #35438 More
THE PARADOX IN THE CIRCLE. And Other Poems.
Norfolk: New Directions, (1941). First edition. In the New Directions "Poet of the Month" series. Fine in stiff paperwraps in dust jacket. There was also a small simultaneous edition in boards. Item #33703 More
SO I LOOKED DOWN TO CAMELOT.
(Northwood, Middlesex: Scorpion Press, 1962). First edition. Number 2 of ONLY 25 COPIES SIGNED BY STANHOPE. After her career as an actress was derailed by the outbreak of WWII, the indomitable Stanhope worked as a radio mechanic for the Women’s Royal Naval Service and then in various jobs before re-training..... Item #72053 More
THE RABBIT.
(London: Turret Books / Steam Press, 1973). First edition. Number 30 of only 100 copies (of 1,000 in total) SIGNED by Steadman and Lucie-Smith. A six-line poem by Lucie-Smith illustrated by Steadman: "The virile rabbit has no use / For solitary self-abuse. / He copulates with dash and vim; /..... Item #53290 More
TWO POEMS OF NIGHT.
London: Turret Books, (1972). First edition. Number 66 of 100 SIGNED copies (of 1,000 copies in total). Poem by Smith and illustrations by Steadman and signed by both. Minor creasing otherwise bright and fine in stiff paperwraps (oblong, 8 x 10"). This copy also INSCRIBED by Smith to an old..... Item #53291 More
GREEN BRANCHES
Dublin/London: Maunsel & Co., (1916). First edition. Three poems, "Autumn 1915," Spring 1916," and "Joy Be with Us." One of 500 numbered copies. Very fine in stiff brown wraps with only the barest of wear. Item #40772 More
MATTINO DOMENICALE: Ed Altre Poesie.
(Torino): Giulio Einaudi Editori, (1954). First edition. Only 3000 copies printed. English and Italian texts on opposing pages. This poetry collection includes the first appearance of "The River of Rivers in Connecticut" and 17 pages of previously unpublished notes on his poetry. Stevens was a reluctant commentator on his own..... Item #48885 More
"RETURN": 1956 Christmas Greeting with poem (and change of address).
(No-place: Privately printed, 1956). First edition. Single leaf, folded twice to make four pages including covers; printed in red. Front cover prints Christmas and New Year's greeting along with notice of the couple's upcoming move to Farnham, Surrey. SIGNED "Sylvia & Leonard Strong" in Strong's hand. Fine in original mailing..... Item #1424 More
AMERICAN WRITING 1942. An Anthology and Yearbook of the American Non-Commercial Magazine.
Prairie City: The Press of James A. Decker, (1942). First edition. Collects stories and poems from 1941 appearances in “little” magazines which Swallows describes in his introduction as often short-lived and with low circulations but important for their embrace of new authors and experimental fiction. Contains a number of first..... Item #71943 More
HANDS; [Six poems].
[New York]: Academy of American Poets, no-date [2004]. First edition. One of only 200 copies. This one being Anthony Hecht's. Includes six poems by the six poets who responded “WITH WILLING HANDS” to Tanning and Melby’s request to “PLEASE WRITE US A POEM”: “Weathering here” (Ammons), “Anthem” (Hecht), “Elementary Principles..... Item #56072 More
YUN-MENG: The King & YUN-MENG: The Goddess; [A set of 2 illustrated broadside poetry prints].
Oneonta, NY: Swamp Press, 1980. First edition and only edition. “At Kao-t’ang Pavilion in Yun-meng Marsh, the King of Hsiang was visited by the Goddess of Wu Mountain, who shared with him pillow and mat. Yun-meng means, literally, Cloud Dream.” – from the colophon. Printed by Edward Rayher and Jo..... Item #71803 More
SELECTED POEMS.
New York: Scribner's Sons, 1937. First edition. Previously uncollected poems together with revised versions of those from POEMS, 1928-1930. 8vo gilt-stamped blue cloth boards; 112 pages. (Also noted in dark blue cloth-backed light blue paper boards; priority unknown.) This copy perhaps interesting for its full Latin translation of Tate's "Ode..... Item #72071 More
A DOG OF WAR.
London: Frederick Etchells & Hugh Macdonald, 1927. First thus. Originally published circa 1628. Number 225 of 375 copies. Includes hand-coloured engravings on wood by Hester Sainbury. Orange buckram spine and orange paper boards with gold lettering on spine. The book has the barest rubbing on edges but is otherwise fine..... Item #36809 More
THE DEATH OF CENONE, AKBAR'S DREAM: And Other Poems.
London and New York: Macmillian and Co., 1892. Two volumes. First UK edition and first U.S. edition. Cloth edges show minor wear on corners and spine ends, previous owner's bookplate in UK. Otherwise both are very good condition. Item #24089 More
TWO EPIGRAMS OF FEALTY BY DYLAN THOMAS DUKE OF GWENO (Cr. 1947).
(Soho: Privately Printed), [1954]. "Photostat proof" of the original edition which was published by Gawsworthy, self-proclaimed "King Juan of Redonda," in an edition of 30 numbered copies. Issued as a memorial after Thomas's death for members of the "Redonda Court." Small booklet printing Thomas's epigrams, "Upon King Juan's Return from..... Item #56089 More
THE WORKS OF FRANCIS THOMPSON.
London: Burns & Oates Ltd., (1913). First edition. Three volume set of his poems (first two volumes) and prose. All three volumes have some foxing (mostly to endpapers) and a small bookstore sticker on front pastedown, otherwise they are bright and about near fine in dust jackets. All three dust..... Item #32940 More
NOTHING TO SAY: A Slight Slap at Mobocratic Snobbery, Which has "Nothing to Do" with "Nothing to Wear".
New York: Rudd & Carleton, 1857. First edition. An answer in verse to the mocking of the rich in the (then) recently published satirical poem, "Nothing to Wear," pointing out the generousity and charity of many in the upper classes. 16mo brown cloth boards elaborately blind stamped on covers and..... Item #38174 More