DEATH IN APRIL & Other Poems.
Windham, CT: Hawthorn House, 1935. First edition of AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. Very good with covers rubbed and spine ends and tips worn. There were only 160 copies, making this book understandably scarce. Item #35677 More
POETRY
WHITE SHROUD: Poems 1980-1985.
New York: Harper & Row, (1986). First edition. REVIEW COPY with publisher's photograph of Ginsberg laid in. SIGNED BY GINSBERG on title page with his circled "AH" symbol and dated by him "4/27/96." Near fine with boards gently splayed; in slightly rumpled but otherwise fine dust jacket. Item #71755 More
99 POEMS NEW & SELECTED; (With Typed Letter Signed by Gioia).
Minneapolis, MN: Graywolf Press, 2016. First edition. Laid in is a copy of the TLS from Mears to Gioia and Gioa's TLS in response talking about the book. Fine in dust jacket. Some pages lightly dog-eared. Item #55952 More
SELECTED POEMS.
New York: The Macmillan Co., 1933. First U.S. edition. Fine in very good, price-clipped dust jacket with light edgewear, spine tanned and few small chips. Item #43108 More
LISTEN! I HEAR A SOFT WIND.
Philadelphia: Dorrance & Company, (1976). First edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the free endpaper in 1976. Very good or better with a touch of rubbing to the bottom of the spine. In a price-clipped dust jacket that has a thin short line of blue offset to the front cover..... Item #50758 More
POEMS AND PLAYS: To Which Is Prefixed THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR.
London: B. Newbery and T. Johnson, 1780. Early edition with the ten-page "Life of the Author" added. The first edition was published in Dublin in 1777. Engraved title page; final leaf with contents listed on recto and with verso stating: "This edition contains several additions and corrections never before printed;..... Item #52806 More
GRANTA: THE MAGAZINE OF NEW WRITING; [119 issues from the collection of sports writer Paul "Dr. Z" Zimmerman--40 of the issues with contents pages heavily annotated in pencil by him].
Cambridge, et al: Granta Publications, 1980 to 2014. First edition of the "new series" issues 2 - 126 lacking issues 3, 13, 14, 20, 49, 63, 104, and with 4th edition of issue 1 published May, 1994 (originally published 1979) and 2nd edition of "The Granta Book of Family." In..... Item #54388 More
ON ENGLISH POETRY.
London: Wm. Heinemann, 1922. First edition, first issue in yellow cloth. Unavoidable offset to endpapers, page edges very faintly foxed, rear cover lightly soiled and spine ends just slightly darkened, still very good or better in very good, tanned dust jacket with shallow chipping, few inconspicuous tears and spine extremities..... Item #52311 More
THE PIER-GLASS.
London: Martin Secker, [no date but 1921]. First edition. 500 copies printed. Patterned paper covered boards with printed spine label. Good or better with spine tanned, short splits at spine ends, small bump and tear to top edge front cover, short inscription on front free endpaper, offset on title page..... Item #35944 More
POEMS 1953.
London: Cassell & Company Ltd., (1953). First edition. Fine with only light bumping to lower corner tips. In dust jacket that is complete and has only light soiling and small bit of softening on top spine edge. Item #35918 More
DANCING DAVID.
Kripplebush, New York: Nadja, (1995). First edition, limited issue. Illustrated with a wispy stream of red squiggled lines by Dorothea Tanning (1910-2012), a painter, printmaker, sculptor, writer, and poet herself, whose work after 1960 was almost completely abstract (Wikipedia). NUMBER XVII (17) of 25 ROMAN-NUMERALED COPIES "reserved for the poet..... Item #54267 More
HEROES OF THE TETON MYTHOS.
(Denver: Copper Canyon Press, 1973). First edition. One of 500 copies. Near fine in paperwraps with faint soil mark near spine and light sticker shadow to front cover. (Only 10 hardback copies.). Item #24117 More
BOOK FOR SENSEI.
Pacifica: Big Bridge Press, 1990. First edition. One of 74 numbered copies. There were also 26 signed lettered copies. Poems by Harrison, Rothenberg, McClure, Whalen, Kyger, and Codrescu, with illustratations by Nancy Davis. Accordian-folded sheet attached to boards in back and front. In slipcase. Nice production and scarce. SIGNED BY..... Item #45454 More
THE POWER OF LESS: Poetry and Public Speech.
(Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, 2007). First edition. SIGNED BY HAZO on title page. Hazo's February 1, 2007, lecture for the university's American Experience Lecture Series. Stapled paperwraps, 16 pages. Fine. Dr. Samuel John Hazo, a National Book Award finalist, founded the International Poetry Forum and served as Pennsylvania's first State..... Item #55571 More
THE SONG OF THE HORSE | THE MARRIAGE DIALOGUES (with ALS) | THE POWER OF LESS (2 volumes) | THANK A BORED ANGEL | THE AUTOBIOGRAPHERS OF EVERYBODY | THIS PART OF THE WORLD: [Seven volumes, all but one signed or inscribed, one with autograph letter signed laid in].
Various places, Various publishers, 1983-2009. First edition of each of the 7 volumes. Dr. Samuel John Hazo, a National Book Award finalist, founded the International Poetry Forum and served as Pennsylvania’s first State Poet from 1993 to 2003. He is the author of over 50 books, including poetry, fiction and..... Item #55538 More
THE DOOR STANDS OPEN: Czeslaw Milosz 1911-2004.
Dublin: Irish Writers Center, 2005. First edition. Number 8 of 250 SIGNED numbered copies. Includes two poems and an essay written by Seamus Heaney in memory of Milosz. Designed by Pawel Tryzno and printed partially on Zanders Zeta paper and partially on handwoven paper by the Book Art Museum, Lodz..... Item #50591 More
SELECTED POEMS 1966 - 1987.
New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1990. First U.S. edition. INSCRIBED on front endpaper, "Inscribed with all good wishes for Harold J. Herman/ Seamus Heaney/ April 1991." At the time, Herman (1929 - 2016) was a professor at University of Maryland, where he lectured on the Arthurian Legend. With AUTOGRAPH..... Item #71551 More
AUBADE.
[Colorado Springs]: The Press at Colorado College, 2004. First edition. Hecht's final published poem, an "aubade" -- a morning love song, traditionally "from a door or window to a sleeping woman," according to Wikipedia -- printed for Hecht's reading at Colorado College on October 14, 2004, just one week before..... Item #54272 More
ATLANTIC AVENUE.
Santa Barbara, CA: Unicorn Press, (1970). First edition. Limited edition, one of 375. Errata slip tipped in. Near fine in dark orange, pictorial, sewn paperwraps with one very small stain to the upper left corner of the back cover but otherwise only the barest wear. Item #51397 More
MY FATHER'S ASHES; Broadside poem.
[No-place]: Peniel Press, 1992. First edition. Number 38 of 100 copies SIGNED BY HILL. 14 x 7" light gray heavy card stock with titling in darker gray and rest printed in black. Fine. Item #56203 More
THE SUBURB BY THE SEA New Poems.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952. First edition. Warmly INSCRIBED by author on front endpaper. Fine in dust jacket with one small chip on the lower back panel. Item #45266 More
MANHATTAN PASTURES.
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1963. First edition. Fine in price-clipped dustwapper which has a few foxed spots. Item #43118 More
VOYAGE HOME.
(Paris): Two Cities Editions, (1960). First edition of AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. White paperwraps printed in blue and black. Very good or better with few small stains to covers. Item #55146 More