(Brooklyn: Rolling Press), [circa 2005]. First edition. 6 poems by 6 poets; each poem on its own folding card. Cards are blank on outside and on inside have a portrait sketch of the poet by David Alexander opposite a facsimile of the poem in the poet's hand, laid over which..... Item #56072 More
[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
![Item #71924 DEATH SAUNTERING ABOUT; [Poetry card]. Anthony Hecht](https://qbbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/71924.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1660089366)
[Amherst]: Amherst College Library, 1994. First edition. One of 700 copies printed for Friends of the Library. First appearance of poem later collected in FLIGHT AMONG THE TOMBS (Knopf, 1996) in which death saunters about among the crowds at a horse race, "....Among these holiday throngs, a passer-by | Mute..... Item #71924 More
(Hitchin, Hertfordshire): Mandeville, 1983. First UK edition, limited to 450 copies. Although not indicated as such these 10 copies were from Hecht's own collection, presumably sent to him by the publishers. His cycle of poems first appearing in the magazine, Poetry, and published here during his reign as Poet Laureate..... Item #71648 More
New York: Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, 2004. First edition, limited issue. 125 copies of which 25 were bound in cloth. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED TO AWARD-WINNING POET ANTHONY HECHT and wife, "For Helen & Tony/ with the indisputable affection of the speaker, in whatever guise/ Richard/ 2004 NYC." Additionally signed in full..... Item #54269 More
(Rocky Mount, NC): North Carolina Wesleyan College Press, (1994). First edition, limited issue. Number 520 of 750 SIGNED copies, this one INSCRIBED to the Pulitzer Prize winner and Poet Laureate Anthony Hecht and his wife, "For Tony & Helen with love & hope from Reynolds." Fine in original burgundy cloth..... Item #53647 More
San Diego: Harcourt, Brace & Co., (1996). First edition. A Harvest paperback original. INSCRIBED to Pulitzer Prize winner and Poet Laureate Anthony Hecht and wife, "For Tony & Helen: with best wishes, Charlie / Nov 14, 1996 / Strafford, N.H." Fine in pictorial white paperwraps printed in black and red..... Item #53744 More
St. Louis: [Privately printed], 1991. First edition. Rare, privately printed book of poetry published for her friends after she had won the 1991 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for NEAR CHANGES (1990) over Anthony Hecht's THE TRANSPARENT MAN. The final poem in the volume, "Long Stretch Minimalist Sonnet IXX (for Howard),"..... Item #54274 More