HOPING FOR A HOOPOE: POEMS
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1959. First British edition of the author's first book, entitled "The Carpentered Hen" in the States. Fine in dust jacket. Item #46190 More
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1959. First British edition of the author's first book, entitled "The Carpentered Hen" in the States. Fine in dust jacket. Item #46190 More
(Northampton): Gehenna Press, 1958. First edition. Scarce offering from the Gehenna Press. Prints Leyda's poem about the home of Emily Dickinson in black alternating with lines in red from the house's deed. Wood engraving by Lockwood of Dickinson printed on tissue. Number 102 of a stated 100 copies SIGNED BY..... Item #53657 More
Charles E. Brock. London: Macmillan and Co., 1893. First trade edition, following a limited, large paper issue. Preface by Alfred Ainger and 130 illustrations by Charles E. Brock. Green cloth boards decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt on front and spine, all edges gilt. Boards visible at corners and few..... Item #52646 More
Conway, Arkansas: Seven Oaks Publ. Co., (1994). First edition. Early, or perhaps the first, poetry selection from the writer, author, singer/songwriter, and professional treasure hunter known for his "Buried Treasures of America" series. INSCRIBED TO LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY, "To L.D.--...one who know the words, the language, the joys, the pains..... Item #54260 More
(New York: The Paula Press, 1951). First edition. Three-volume set in what we presume is a supplied slipcase. Blue, red, and green paperwraps (respectively). All are near fine with light edgewear in a plain black slipcase that is structurally sound but rubbed at edges exposing cardboard in few spots... Item #71656 More
Leicester: Tony Savage, 1981. First edition. Number 23 of 100 copies SIGNED BY THE PUBLISHER. Poems by Milligan illustrated with drawings by Graham. 16 pages on light blue handmade paper watermarked with Milligan's signature; handsewn into blue paperwraps stamped in black on front. The title is from the last line..... Item #55229 More
[Amador City: Marlin Beilke / Quintessence Press, 1986]. First edition, first appearance. According to Beilke, although this was the only poem she ended up having printed, it is the second of two (or more) given to him by Edith Greenan Kuster, hence it having been numbered "II" [Broomfield A89]. 8.5..... Item #71916 More
San Francisco / Santa Rosa: Adrian Wilson / Black Sparrow Press, (1984) / 1990. First edition. Two volumes. Everson's unfinished autobiographical verse epic. Includes IN MEDIAS RES, which is a work of art, designed, printed and published by Adrian Wilson in 1984. Number 126 of 226 copies SIGNED BY EVERSON..... Item #71580 More
New York: Bonacio & Saul / Grove Press, 1954. First edition. Author's second book. Fine in near fine dust jacket with light crease to bottom corner front panel. Item #43115 More
Berkeley: Oyez, 1967. First edition, limited issue. Number 158 of 200 numbered copies SIGNED BY EVERSON. Slender quarto maroon cloth boards with spine stamped in gilt and blocked in black; illustrated with single woodcut by poet and illustrator Mary Fabilli (she and Everson were married from 1948 to 1951). This..... Item #55674 More
(Norfolk, Connecticut): New Directions Books, (1956). First edition. His first volume of verse. Includes both first appearances and previously published poems. Near fine in very good or better dust jacket with few tiny nicks and tears and a bit of uneven sunning evident though still altogether bright. Item #54052 More
Penmaen / Black Sparrow Press: Lincoln / Los Angeles, 1974 - 1978. First edition, first printing of each of the volumes except "22," which is a second printing. FOUR OF THE VOLUMES SIGNED by Malanga (all but ROSEBUD are signed). All are in soft cover, with "22," "Devotion," and "This..... Item #55121 More
Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1853. First edition. "Gift book." Large 8vo elaborately gilt-stamped brown leather boards with inset floral title design on both covers; all edges gilt; 314 pp. Illustrated with two chromolithographic (i.e., colored) plates by Christian Schussele -- a presentation plate and an extra illustrated title page..... Item #71563 More
(Amador City: Quintessence Publications, 1981). First edition. Number 4 of 100 numbered copies, per the colophon. Drew's poem printed by Marlan Beilke at his Quintessence press, inscribed beneath the colophon on verso, "For Marlan Beilke, who prints my Irish poem, teaches me ever more about our poet Jeffers, brightens my..... Item #72256 More
New York: Random House, (1991). First edition. INSCRIBED on bookplate affixed opposite the half-title page to Pulitzer Prize winner and Poet Laureate Anthony Hecht, "for Tony, In praise of his poems, and with all good wishes, Diane / 1991." Base of spine a little sunned, otherwise fine in fine dust..... Item #53728 More
Robert S. Robison. New York: Julian Messner, (1941). First edition. Special limited Indiana edition, number 147. SIGNED by Nolan and the illustrator, Robert S. Robinson. Very good in vibrant green cloth binding, a little shelfworn at the spine ends and corners. In a dust jacket that is also very good..... Item #50569 More
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, (1971). First edition. Only 3000 copies printed. This one INSCRIBED BY WARREN in red ink on front endpaper, "To Walter/ all the best/ Red." Walter Sullivan (1924-2006) was an author, critic, longtime Vanderbilt University professor, authority on Southern literature and -- along with Warren -- one..... Item #72078 More
(No-place: Crossroad Health Ministry, 1993). First edition. Paperback original; the only edition, SIGNED BY MASSON on title page. Her first book of poetry. Preceded only by INTERNATIONAL NURSING (1981), non-fiction written while nursing director at the global health initiative, Project Hope. The 17 poems herein arose from Masson's work as..... Item #56041 More
(London: Methuen and Co.), no-date [1919]. First UK edition, preceded by the 1918 U.S. copyright edition. Broadside poem in six stanzas with two on front and remaining four on back. SIGNED BY KIPLING on back beneath the final stanza. 5.5 x 8" stiff cream paper printed in black on both..... Item #54024 More
(London: Methuen and Co.), no-date [1919]. First UK edition, preceded by the 1918 U.S. copyright edition. Broadside poem in six stanzas with two on front and remaining four on back. 5.5 x 8" stiff cream paper printed in black on both sides with exterior double frame rule and interior single..... Item #54121 More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. First edition of her first regularly published book. Uncorrected proof, fine in cream-colored printed wraps. Item #45234 More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1938. First edition. Includes poems of the Civil War as well as a revised version of THE TALL MEN, his second volume of verse. 8vo gray cloth boards stamped in gilt and black; 137 pages. Bright and near fine in very good dust jacket with shallow..... Item #72070 More
Dallas, TX: Kaleidograph Press, (1940). First edition. A Poet Laureate and prize-winning poet herself, Jacobsen's poetry was praised by Nobel Prize-winning poet Joseph Brodsky for its "reserve, stoic timbre, and its high precision." Near fine in very good to near fine dust jacket with shallow chipping to spine ends and..... Item #35635 More
Hardwick: The Four Zoas Press, [1975]. First edition. SIGNED by Carr and numbered "XVI" (16). Limitation unstated but judging from the number of offerings of the book we've seen, there can't have been many copies and not all were signed. Near fine in plain green, unprinted paperwraps. Item #51412 More