San Francisco: Margery Cantor Press, 1984. First edition. #19/200. Large (9.75" x 12") stitched letterpress pamphlet with a wrap-around jacket of Fabriano Roma paper stamped "charles olson" in brush script on the front panel. Title page calligraphy by Glen Epstein. 8-page poem, un-paginated. Designed and printed by Margery Cantor. Very..... Item #55630 More
Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, (1973). First edition. Edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli. Foreword by Jacques Barzun. Number 211 of a limited first printing of 499 copies of which the first 400 were for sale. Gilt-stamped red-leatherette backed off-white "marbled" paper boards; top edge red; ribbon place marker. In..... Item #53937 More
(Chicago): David Company, (1991). First edition. Poetry collection written from the points of view of imagined young students that sometimes reflects the all too harsh realities existing in some children's lives. INSCRIBED BY BROOKS on first blank page, "For Bethany,/ Sincerely!/ Gwendolyn Brooks/ February 26, 1993." Published by Brooks' own..... Item #72094 More
[No-place: Pipers Press, et al, 1953 - 1969. First edition. This small gathering from the collection of Washington poet Ernest Kroll includes four holiday greetings printed by Doris & Harry Hoehns' Pipers Press: "ANTIPHONAL: The Cross Town Omnibus" (1953), 13 x 6.5" peach-colored leaf with "Season Greetings/ John & Gini..... Item #56198 More
London: Jonathan Cape, (1950). First edition. Adds SPEAK TO THE EARTH, NICODEMUS and THE GREEN MAN to contents of the 1936 edition of his COLLECTED POEMS. Dewey classification number on copyright page is for poetry, "821.91," whereas the one appearing on front flap -- "321.91" -- is for fascism. We're..... Item #48138 More
New York: Macmillan, 1922. First edition, second printing with "That ruins" p. 474:11 (versus "The ruins" in subsequent printings). Retains the copyright statement from the first printing, "Set up and electrotyped. Published October, 1921" but with title page date 1922 (versus 1921). In first-issue binding with 3 gilt dots below..... Item #50686 More
New York: Noonday Press, (1954). First edition. Errata slip laid in. Near fine in a price-clipped dust jacket with one small closed tear (with small tape repair on verso), light soiling and spine slightly tanned. Item #35634 More
New York: Ecco Press, (1988). First edition. Selections compiled by the Nobel Prize-winning Polish-American poet himself with the assistance of award-winning American poet Robert Haas (who Milosz credits in his preface with helping to finesse the English translations). Uncorrected proof in green, printed paperwraps with publisher's newsletter and TLS from..... Item #55643 More
New York: Oxford University Press, (1936). First edition. First appearance of the poem " 'Coda' to Buckshee." INSCRIBED BY FORD on half-title, "For Denise Close with affection, for her birthday, Ford Madox Ford, Stamford," and dated December 17, 1938 in Roman numerals. Spine faded, inner hinges a bit toned (offset..... Item #71542 More
Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1997-2000. First edition thus of each of the three volumes, with material not in earlier editions. Two of the volumes are one of 100 numbered deluxe copies and one is the hardback trade issue, of which there were only 300 copies. (There were also..... Item #55687 More
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1988-2001. First edition of each volume. All five volumes are fine in fine dust jackets with just a touch of barest wear. VOLUME ONE (1988): "Poems from 1920-1928." Frontispiece photo by Ansel Adams, book designed by Adrian Wilson. Endpapers are Dove Gray 80-pound Permalin Corduroy..... Item #56070 More
Woodside, Amherst, and Berkeley: Heyeck Press et al, (1987 – 1999). First edition of each. Archive from the collection of Allen K. Mears. 10 bound volumes, including two magazines; 4-page TYPED LETTER SIGNED, AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, brief AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED, AUTOGRAPH POSTCARD SIGNED, and printouts of 2 emails; as well..... Item #71932 More
Various places: Various publishers, 1978 - 2007. Collection assembled by Allen K. Mears. Includes 2-page TLS from Gallagher with extensive handwritten portion and two enclosures; Autograph Postcard Signed from Gallagher; 4 books (2 are later printings) signed and/or inscribed by Gallagher; a broadside signed by Gallagher; a few items of..... Item #56185 More
San Francisco: The Poetry Center San Francisco State College, 1962. First edition. Two volumes. Poems commissioned for the Poetry Festival held June 21-24, 1962. Dedicated to the memory of Dag Hammarskjold and "The Cause of World Peace." 8.5 x 11"; 16 pp; stapled into white covers printed in orange and..... Item #55683 More
(Milan): Al'insegna del Pesce D'oro, (1968). First edition. One of 1000 numbered copies. Includes an introduction in Italian by Cima; Moore's poem, "To Victor Hugo of My Crow Pluto" (in Italian and English); and ten full-page photos, mostly of Moore. Small, 3x4" in heavy plain wraps and dust jacket illustrated..... Item #45606 More
New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1918. First edition, second state (with page 3 unnumbered). A good or better copy that looks better than it sounds--old damp stains to paper boards, shallow chip in paper at head of spine; in price-clipped, water-stained dust jacket with only minimal edge wear. Item #52959 More
1991 & 1992. 1991 broadside: The Work of Happiness, inscribed on the front "For Louis Brodsky/ Gratefully/ May Sarton" and on the back with an 8-line note thanking Brodsky for his generosity, presumably for sending her one of his books of poems, as it reads in part "I re-read the..... Item #56103 More
Hanover: Wesleyan University Press, (1992). First edition. His second collection of poems. INSCRIBED to Pulitzer Prize winner and Poet Laureate Anthony Hecht, "For Tony, with--poems, or no poems--Love [underlined], from Jonathan" beneath which he's sketched a chair and captioned it "Chair, EOS Hotel, Zurich, 21.v.92." Fine in glossy, black, pictorial..... Item #53749 More
Northridge: Lord John Press, 1982. First separate edition, first edition thus. One of 125 SIGNED numbered copies of this illustrated single-sheet poetry broadside designed and printed by Henry Morris for the Lord John Press. Approximately 20 x 14". Suitable for framing. Fine. Item #55439 More
New York: Harper & Row, (1982). First edition after the 1981 signed, limited. INSCRIBED to Pulitzer Prize winner and Poet Laureate Anthony Hecht on title page, "For Anthony, With great admiration and warm regards, and with gratitiude for your warmth and welcome at the library. October 26, 1982 / Washington..... Item #53727 More
[San Francisco]: Tangram, 1998. First edition. One of 170 unnumbered copies. His only book of poems. Nabham is an ecologist, ethnobotanist, and Ecumenical Franciscan. His work focuses primarily on Southwest plants and cultures, and he's considered a pioneer in the local food movement and the movement to save heirloom seeds..... Item #55391 More
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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
(San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1953). First edition. ONE OF ONLY 30 COPIES OF THIS JEFFERS & GRABHORN PRESS RARITY. [Broomfield A39a]. Privately printed for Frances B. Lilienthal February, 1953, on the occasion of her husband’s 60th birthday. Theodore Max "Ted" Lilienthal was a business man, bookseller and publisher (Lantern Press)..... Item #55503 More
New York: Horace Liveright, 1932. First edition, 2nd printing. "INSCRIBED for John Ciardi Sincerely Robinson Jeffers March 3, 1941." Also signed by Ciardi on both pastedowns. Ciardi was an American poet, translator, and etymologist. He also contributed to the Saturday Review as a columnist and long-time poetry editor, and directed..... Item #55799 More
New York: Horace Liveright, 1929. First edition. Precedes the signed limited edition. One of 3,000 copies issued in stiff boards covered in purple paper and polished black cloth spine backstrip. Near fine with very minor rubbing at top of spine, in dust jacket with darkened spine and minor chipping on..... Item #55819 More