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
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
New York: Random House, 1937. First edition, limited issue. Number 134 of 300 SIGNED COPIES. Title and cover decorations made from wood engravings by Fritz Eichenberg. 8vo quarter leather lettered in dark brown or black on spine; patterned paper boards. Tiny imperfection on colophon page otherwise fine in the original..... Item #55827 More
New York: Random House, (1937). First edition. INSCRIBED BY JEFFERS on front endpaper, "Inscribed for Eleanor Pesonen -/ Robinson Jeffers./ Tor House, Carmel -- July, 1958." 8vo gilt-stamped red cloth boards; top edge brown; 129 pages; uncredited title vignette by Fritz Eichenberg. [Broomfield A26]. Near fine with subtle thinning to..... Item #55826 More
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, (1960). First edition. Fine in slightly soiled dust jacket wih tanned spine, a few tiny edge tears and tape reinforcement to verso of head of spine. The 1959 Lamont Poetry Selection. Item #35660 More
New York: Albondocani Press, 1969. First edition. Limited to 176 copies SIGNED BY GUNN, this one being numbered "out-of-series 3/4." 8vo plain black paperwraps handsewn into marbled covers with flaps; off-white titling label printed in black on front extending slightly to back cover; 15 pages. Near fine with tiny tear..... Item #72020 More
Norfolk: New Directions, (1942). First edition. In the New Directions "Poet of the Month" series. Plain stapled paperwraps in green printed dust jacket. Near fine. Item #34663 More
Albany, CA | San Francisco | Berkeley: verygraphics | HarperSanFrancisco | Celestial Arts, 1986 | 1997 | 1998. First edition of each of the three volumes --including Pond's extremely scarce first book, TAKEN (a book of erotic poetry): 5.5 x 8.5" white stapled paperwraps printed in black and light purple..... Item #55486 More
New York: Peter G. Boyle, (1924). First edition of his third book. One of only 500 copies [Broomfield A3]. Small 8vo gilt-stamped gray linen boards; 127 pages. Near fine with only a touch of light soiling and minor wear. Lacking scarce unprinted dust jacket. Housed in custom gilt-stamped leather-backed clamshell..... Item #55816 More
Brooklyn: The Hale Press, 1990. First edition. Linocuts by Christy Hale. Number 146 of 150 copies SIGNED by the author. Fine in green paperwraps. Item #39067 More
(Santa Cruz): Peter and Donna Thomas, 1995. First edition. Number 14 of 75 copies SIGNED BY THE PUBLISHERS / ILLUSTRATOR (there were an additional seven lettered copies in boards). Posthumously published collection of six previously unpublished poems written from 1972 – 1974. Peter Thomas studied under Everson and was his..... Item #55620 More
(San Francisco): City Light Books, (1970). First edition. Number 26 in The Pocket Poets Series. Very good to near fine in pictorial paperwraps with light soiling and a small skinned spot (from sticker removal) on front cover. Item #26277 More
Aromas, CA: Cayucos Books, 1973. #215/250 copies SIGNED BY EVERSON. Designed and printed by Clifford Burke at the Cranium Press. Hand-bound by Cardoza-James Bindery, San Francisco, with a quarter-leather spine and decorated paper-covered boards. The type is Goudy Thirty, set by Mackenzie and Harris of San Francisco. The mould-made paper..... Item #55679 More
San Leandro: Greater West Publishing Co., 1935. First edition of Everson's first book, SIGNED on the front cover. Sixteen poems with an introduction by "H.A.H." 8vo stapled selfwraps printed in black with purple decorations; twelve pages including covers. In the "Pamphlet Series of Western Poets." Near fine with slight tanning..... Item #72224 More
Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1986. First edition, simultaneous paperback issue; second state, with Pulitzer slug on cover. INSCRIBED by the poet on the half-title page, "For Jeff, In the spirit -- Rita Dove/ Philly, 10 Feb 90.". Fine in paperwraps. Item #47664 More
Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1986. First edition, simultaneous hardback issue of her Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry collection. In second state dust jacket with Pulitzer notice on front panel. Bright and near fine in like dust jacket with just two tiny tears to top edge rear panel. Scarce in hardback. Item #49450 More
Berkeley: Soft Skull Press, (2015). First edition. INSCRIBED on title page, "For Elizabeth" followed by his scrawled signature. Fine in pictorial paperwraps. Item #56129 More
[New Haven]: School of Design, Yale University, (1956). First edition. One of only about 175 copies [Grimshaw A14, p.84]. Designed and printed by Jane Doggett in the Department of Graphic Arts. Illustrated with five blue-and-white woodcuts, one before each section of the poem by her also. Blue-and-white paper boards; 7.5..... Item #55458 More
[New Haven]: Yale University, (1956). First edition. One of only about 175 copies [Grimshaw A14, p.84]. Designed, printed, and illustrated by Jane Doggett at Yale University's School of Design. This copy WARMLY INSCRIBED BY WARREN on front endpaper, "To Stuart (W) with admiration and friendship. Red (W)." Bibliographer and publisher..... Item #49496 More
Woodside, Heyeck Press, 1990. First edition. The Flowering Quince Poetry Series Number 6. One of 200 copies handsewn in “Heyeck hand marbled paper” from a total edition of 950 (the rest were issued in plain gray stapled wraps). Although not called for, this copy SIGNED by Kleinschmidt on page preceding..... Item #71934 More
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
(Santa Cruz): Lime Kiln Press, 1973. First edition. A previously unpublished poem unearthed by Everson that is a "stern admonition to Aldolf Hitler written in 1943" (from the prospectus). Number 124 of 200 copies SIGNED BY EVERSON AND CLOUGH, who supplied the full-page woodcut preceding the poem. Folio, quarter black..... Item #55594 More
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
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1952. First edition. " A limited edition. Not for sale" and first print appearance of this play. THE TROJAN HORSE was first presented by the BBC and was later included in MacLeish's COLLECTED POEMS: 1917-1952 (for which he won the National Book Award for poetry in..... Item #33413 More
(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