DREAM OF DYING.
Port Townsend: Greywolf Press, (1980). First edition. AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. Fine in paperwraps. Item #2077 More
Port Townsend: Greywolf Press, (1980). First edition. AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. Fine in paperwraps. Item #2077 More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1908) [circa 1929]. Later printing. Illustrated with color frontispiece by N. C. Wyeth, "Hiawatha's Fishing," drawings in the margins by Remington, and with the full-plate Remington illustrations from the 1890 edition reduced to head pieces for bordered plates with text. In dust jacket with MAXFIELD PARRISH illustration..... Item #71765 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
(Greenfield Center / Cuttack, India): (Greenfield Review Press) / Chandrabhaga Society, (1980 & 1982). First edition of each. Prints the 12-part epic poem considered to be his best. Winner of India’s prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award -- the first English-language book of poetry to receive the award. TWO VOLUMES: the true..... Item #72135 More
New York: Putnam's Sons, (1962). First edition of this "run of poems, short poems, very short poems, and turns of prose." Fine in very good to near fine dust jacket with light foxing to front flap, few inconspicuous tears (one internally repaired with small piece of tape), and spine ends..... Item #49444 More
Black Sparrow Press: Los Angeles, 1974 - 1976. First edition, first printing of DEVOTION. "22," is a second printing. Whole issues of Sparrow 22 and 48, respectively. Both in stapled wraps. A fine set. Item #55124 More
Black Sparrow Press: Los Angeles, 1974 - 1978. First edition, first printing of each of the volumes except "22," which is a second printing. Whole issues of Sparrow 22, 48 and 66, respectively, and each in stapled wraps. A fine set. Item #55123 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
Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press, 2017. First edition. Printout of brief email correspondence with collector Allen Mears laid in. Manning speaks of his upcoming reading at the local library ("Across from our library is a run-down auto parts shop. A perfect setting.") and acknowledges that the drawing of a...... Item #55951 More
New York: Doubleday & McClure, 1899. Clothbound, first edition thus. The author's first book. It initially appeared as a 4-page supplement to the San Francisco Examiner, then as paperwraps edition. This is the second edition but the first clothbound edition. First issue with "fruitless" p.35:6 (versus "milkless"). Very good or..... Item #54436 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
[Silver Spring, MD]: (Sage Femme Press, 2022). First edition, a paperback original. Masson's fourth book of poems inspired by her work as a registered nurse and family caregiver and, in the opening section -- "Letters from My Grandmother" -- memories of her grandmother "written in a white heat when I...... Item #71854 More
[Silver Spring, MD]: (Sage Femme Press, 2022). First edition, a paperback original. SIGNED BY MASSON. Her fourth book of poems inspired by her work as a registered nurse and family caregiver and, in the opening section -- "Letters from My Grandmother" -- memories of her grandmother "written in a white..... Item #71856 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
London: Hogarth Press, 1943. First edition. Very good with small stamp on front pastedown; in dust jacket with spine and edges darkened, splitting on folds and one inch-long chip. Item #39754 More
Norfolk: New Directions, (1941). First edition. In the New Directions "Poet of the Month" series. Fine in plain, stiff paperwraps in dust jacket. There was also a small simultaneous edition in boards. Item #33714 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
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
London: J. J. Chidley, 1844. First of this edition. Includes PARADISE LOST, PARADISE REGAINED, Sonnets, Odes, et al. Engraved frontis portrait of Milton. In unsigned binding of three-quarter black leather over blue pebbled cloth boards with six gilt-ruled spine panels, one with gilt-lettered blue-leather label ("Milton"); marbled endpapers and all..... Item #54569 More
(Chicago: Poetry, 1925). First edition. Poems “from Modern Poets of Fourteen Nations from Mexico to Chile," selected and translated by Lee. Includes poetry by Alfonsina Storni, Leopoldo Lugones, Gabriela Mistral, Jose Asuncion Silva, Ruben Dario, Jose Santos Chocano, Luis Pales Matos, Julio Herrera Reissig, Juana de Ilbarbourou, et al. 8vo..... Item #72127 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: Viking Press, 1961. First edition, second impression omitting printer's name and adding "Printed in the U.S.A." as last line on copyright page. In dark gray paper boards with medium gray cloth spine stamped in black (vs the reddish-orange cloth with gold spine lettering of the first impression/printing). Includes..... Item #53636 More
London: Unicorn, 1899. First edition. AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. Minor edge wear but still very good in original green cloth with gilt lettering. Item #2181 More