New York: Random House, 1941. First edition. Black cloth over boards with gilt lettering. Printed from type set by the Walpole Printing Office. Fine in dust jacket with minor edge-wear, slight darkening on spine and top of front cover, and a small crease. Item #55830 More
New York: Random House, 1941. First edition. Black cloth over boards with gilt lettering. Printed from type set by the Walpole Printing Office. The book is fine in dust jacket slightly toned on edges and spine. Item #55942 More
No-place: Aralia Press, 1998. First edition. One of 160 unnumbered copies. INSCRIBED to Pulitzer Prize winning poet Anthony Hecht, "To Tony Hecht with fond wishes for a prolific New Year. Tim Murphy 28 December 1998." Also with a four-line inscription on an early page signed "Timothy of Shrewsbury." Fine in..... Item #54404 More
Champaign, Illinois: The Ceres Press, 1972. First edition. Poet laureate Van Duyn's fourth book, following her National Book Award-winning TO SEE, TO TAKE. Poetic recollections from the perspective of her grandmother written in Germanic dialect. One of only 300 copies hand printed and hand bound at the Distaff Bindery. This..... Item #54271 More
London: John Murray, 1853. Eight volumes uniformly bound in original brown cloth. Beppo & Don Juan, Dramas, and Miscellanies in two volumes each and Childe Harold and Tales & Poems, each in one volume. Complete set? No illustrations. Minor corner wear, tiny hole in one spine, and the tops of..... Item #28288 More
Boston: William D. Ticknor, 1843. Second U.S. edition. Bookplate of Major James Edwards Poore. Pictorial title page hand colored. Also a number of appropriate pencil illustrations added at beginnings of a few poems. Cover shows wear but the copy is still tight and good or better. EXTRA ILLUSTRATIONS. Item #39182 More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1982. First edition. Deluxe issue. Number 36 of 50 numbered copies SIGNED BY EVERSON beneath the colophon at rear and with SIGNED HOLOGRAPH POEM tipped in following the title page. (There were also 250 signed, numbered copies in slightly different binding without the holograph poem..... Item #55698 More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1922. First edition. SIGNED and INSCRIBED "For John Moffitt with the sincere good wishes of John Hall Wheelock," to which Wheelock has added the last five lines of his poem "The Fish-Hawk" (handwritten by Wheelock) and dated September 28, 1922. Page edges slightly soiled, otherwise..... Item #35572 More
[San Francisco]: Poetry Flash, 1991. First edition. First separate appearance. One of only 75 copies. 14.25 x 20” broadside printed in black on heavy off-white paper. Illustrated with 3 black-and-white photographic images (appear to be of the moon’s surface) and drawing of small blue rock. The very faint colophon is..... Item #71926 More
(Durham, NC): Duke University Press, (1985). First edition thus, adding 33 new poems to the 1971 edition. "The poems [herein] make up an unofficial oral history in verse of the Southern Appalachian folk often vilified and dismissed as hillbillies" (from the foreword by Herbert Leibowitz). Number 38 of 75 numbered..... Item #54877 More
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
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Kentville, Nova Scotia, Canada: Gaspereau Press, 2004. First edition. Limited edition broadside poem. Number 172 of 200 signed by Sanger, who wrote the poem to commemorate the grand opening of the new Gaspereau Press printshop on September 9, 2004. Letterpress printed on Mohawk Superfine paper by Andrew Steeves on a...... Item #55979 More
Aromas, CA: Cayucos Books, 1974. First edition. Number 283 of 285 SIGNED BY EVERSON, who edited and provided commentary, notes, and an afterword. Foreword by Peter Bartlett. Designed by Graham Mackintosh, printed in two colors by Noel Young. Bound in one-quarter leather boards. Measures 9.25" x 6". Near fine with..... Item #55871 More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. First edition. Wheelock's first volume of poetry since 1922. Black cloth boards, teal floral endpapers. Near fine in like dust jacket only very slighty tanned at flap folds and spine. Item #50357 More
Oxford: B. H. Blackwell, 1916. First edition. Only 250 copies printed. His uncommon first book -- a selection of poetry published as number 7 in Blackwell's "Adventurers All" series of "young poets unknown to fame." Small 8vo cream paperwraps with lower and fore edges yapped (i.e., overhanging) and printed labels..... Item #55187 More
(Oakville, Ontario): Mosaic Press / Valley Editions, (1981). First Canadian edition and the first and only English-language edition. Translated from the Yiddish by Seymour Mayne. Introduction by Ruth R. Wisse. Frontis sketch of the author by Susan Katz. This copy INSCRIBED BY THE TRANSLATOR, "For Howard Schwartz, under the wings..... Item #54252 More
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1947. First edition. Number 11 in the Club's annual keepsake series. Stated limitation of only 750 copies. Twelve pamphlets from 12 different presses, each with poem and commentary by a California poet. Includes Jeffers' "Natural Music" printed by Quercus Press. Also includes Yvor Winters..... Item #55866 More
New York: Macmillan, 1916. First edition of the poet's first commercially published book; only 1,200 copies printed [Broomfield A2]. Small 8vo blue cloth boards; gilt-stamped spine; front cover lettered in gilt with pictorial vignette stamped in blue, black, and gilt; top edge gilt. Angling-themed bookplate of Olindus F. Kendall on..... Item #55923 More
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1995. First edition. A paperback original (no hardbound edition). In "The Modern Canadian Poets Series." Presentation copy INSCRIBED BY BRINGHURST, "for Allen Mears,/ with all good wishes,/ Robert Bringhurst/ Vancouver November 1995." This copy sent by Bringhurst to Mears following Bringhurst's reading of Mears' letter to..... Item #55637 More
Guilio Giannini Jr. (Florence, Italy: Guilio Giannini & Figlio, n.d.). Nice reprint. Illustrated by Guilio Giannini Jr. Near fine in white-and-red flower-patterned binding with paper label on front. Item #50125 More
New York: Horace Liveright, (1928). First edition, trade issue. Only 1900 copies per Alberts [Broomfield A9b]. INSCRIBED BY JEFFERS on front endpaper, "Inscribed for Clive M. Saiz./ Sincerely,/ Robinson Jeffers./ Tor House, Carmel, -- November, 1941." 8vo gilt-stamped quarter polished black cloth with purple paper boards; top edge black; 160..... Item #71977 More
New York: Horace Liveright, (1928). First edition, trade issue. Only 1900 copies per Alberts [Broomfield A9b]. 8vo gilt-stamped quarter polished black cloth with purple paper boards; top edge black; 160 pp. Near fine with rust offset from old paperclip to front endpaper and half-title page (most evident on verso of..... Item #71978 More
London: Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1929. First UK edition. Reportedly there were only 500 copies printed of which 270 were subsequently pulped [Broomfield A29c]. Issued as “Hogarth Living Poets, First Series, No.12.” 8vo orange paper boards with flat spine; issued without a dust jacket. A good..... Item #55807 More
(New York: The Center for Book Arts, 2004). First edition. Limited to 100 copies (as stated on each broadside). 12 letterpress-printed broadsides -- EACH ONE SIGNED BY THE POET -- housed together in portfolio handmade by summer interns. Produced in honor of readings at the Center by established and emerging..... Item #55775 More
(New York: The Center for Book Arts, 2005). First edition. Limited to 100 copies (as stated on each broadside). 12 letterpress-printed broadsides -- EACH ONE SIGNED BY THE POET -- housed together in portfolio handmade by summer interns under the leadership of Ana Cordeiro, the Center’s binder-in-residence. Produced in honor..... Item #55773 More