The Drowned River
Easthampton, MA: Adastra Press, 1993. First edition thus. Original Wraps. Orignal printed wrappers. 68 pp. First published in 1990 by Houghton Mifflin. A fine copy, signed by the author on the title-page.
Easthampton, MA: Adastra Press, 1993. First edition thus. Original Wraps. Orignal printed wrappers. 68 pp. First published in 1990 by Houghton Mifflin. A fine copy, signed by the author on the title-page.
New York: Vantage Press, 1995. First edition. 63 pp. Perfect-bound glossy wrappers. Bit of surface wear, minor crease to front cover. Lengthily inscribed by Madsen in verse on the half-title, dated in 1997. An early collection of Bukowski-esque poems by the actor perhaps best known for ensuring that "Stuck in.....
Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 2002. First edition. Original wrappers. 186 pp. Original glossy perfect-bound printed wrappers. Fine copy. A major collection by the oracular master, signed on the half-title.
Key West: Sand Paper Press, 2010. First edition. Original Wraps. First edition. 56 pp. Original printed wrappers. A collection of poems by the enigmatic and important avant-garde writer, the first American member of the Oulipo. A fine copy, signed by Mathews on the half-title.
New York: Poets Press, 1966. First edition. String-sewn and bound into full red cloth, lettered in gilt on the front board. Introduction by John Wieners. Drawings by Erin Matson. Minor darkening to the spine, else fine. Matson's first book, signed on the half-title. According to Peter Howard’s penciled notes within.....
n.p. 1981. First edition. Side-stapled wrappers. Slight rubbing to corners, near fine. An edition of 75 numbered copies, signed by both poets. Cover art uncredited but likely by Mayer.
Cambridge: Barbara Matteau Editions, 1995. First edition. Original wrappers. 53 pp. Perfect-bound printed wrappers. Fine copy of the poet's first book, signed on the half-title.
New York: The Pierrepont Press, 1969. First edition. Acrylic hinged box with printed label, containing fabric bag with drawstring and 28 printed cards. One of 300 copies, numbered and signed. There were also 26 lettered and 4 hors commerce copies. The box shows some slight rubbing on the top but.....
New York: Poets Press, [1968]. First edition. Original Wraps. Stapled pictorial wrappers. [12] pp. One of 150 numbered copies, signed by the author. Fine copy.
Lexington, KY: Gnomon Press, 1970. First edition. Brown cloth boards, paper spine label lettered in black, photograph mounted on front board. According to Jonathan Williams, from whose collection this copy came, one of fifteen copies bound in boards, signed by Meatyard on the half-title and by Wendell Berry at his.....
New York: Viking Press, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. 118 pp. A beautiful copy, fine in a fine jacket. Winner of the first Neglected Masters Award from the Poetry Foundation, Menashe, whom Dana Gioia has called "a serious poet of singular talent, power, and originality," received acclaim later in.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. 62 pp. Deep blue cloth, lettered in gilt and silver, with the dust jacket. Minor dulling to gilt, small old stain at foot of spine; jacket spine torn and crinkled at head, affecting the author's first name, but complete. Inscribed on.....
Key West: no publisher, 1986. First edition. One of one hundred copies printed (none of which were for sale). Single sheet, folded and laid into an unprinted green wrapper. Inscribed by Merrill on the title-page to Richard Howard. Fine copy. Hagstrom and Morgan A64.
Dublin, Ireland/Old Deerfield, MA: The Deerfield Press/The Gallery Press, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, one of 300 copies printed. Hand-colored woodcut by Timothy Engelland. Printed by Harold McGrath at the Hampshire Typothetae, in Hatfield, Massachusetts, and bound by hand at Antiquarian Bookcrafts, Ltd., in Dublin. Signed by Merrill on.....
New York: Lustrum Press, 1984. First edition. Original Wraps. First edition of this typically beautiful and emotional photographic tone-poem. 64 pp. Original glossy printed wrappers, as issued. Lower front corner of cover very slightly bumped, else a just about fine copy. Inscribed by Michals on the half-title, "wake up!"
Sudbury, MA: Water Row Press, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, one of 3000 copies printed. 111 pp. Original printed boards, no jacket as issued. Thurston Moore's first major collection of poems, song lyrics, memoirs, observations, old photographs, &c. Very slight spotting to page edges, and extremely minor handling wear.....
Dublin, Ireland/Old Deerfield, MA: The Deerfield Press/The Gallery Press, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, one of 300 copies printed. Hand-colored woodcut by Timothy Engelland. Printed by Harold McGrath at the Hampshire Typothetae, in Hatfield, Massachusetts, and bound by hand at Antiquarian Bookcrafts, Ltd., in Dublin. Signed by Muldoon on.....
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2000. First edition. 311 pp. Black boards, lettered and decorated in silver, with the dust jacket. Fine copy, signed and dated (30.5.00) by Ondaatje on the title-page.
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2007. First edition. 276 pp. Black boards, spine lettered in copper, with the dust jacket. Fine copy, signed by Ondaatje on the title-page.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. First American edition. 276 pp. Tan patterned boards over tan paper backstrip, spine lettered in gilt with decoration in blind on the front board, with the dust jacket. Fine copy, signed and dated by Ondaatje in the month of publication on the title-page.
Basel: Edition Fanel, 1981. First edition. [16] leaves, folded once. Unbound leaves, laid into a chemise, housed in publisher’s slipcase, as issued. Fine copy. One of 200 numbered copies, signed by Oppenheim. Sixteen poems, written between 1933 and 1957, accompanied by fifteen color serigraphs on embossed sheets, one with.....
Verona: Privately Printed by Gabriel Rummonds, 1971. First edition. Tan paper boards, lettered in red on the front board, publisher's cardboard slipcase. Slipcase shows some minor handling wear, book fine. One of 80 numbered copies, signed by the authors. Ten poems in Italian, French, English, and Latin by Max [Paolo].....
New York: James Laughlin/New Directions, 1958. First edition thus. 76 pp. Brown paper boards lettered in gilt on the front board and the spine, with the publisher's slipcase with printed label. One of 200 numbered copies, signed by Pound. Gallup A75.
New York: New Directions, 1969. First edition. 41 pp. Red cloth boards, printed paper label on the spine, in publisher's slipcase with label. One of 310 copies printed, signed by Pound. Gallup A91c.
[New York]: New Directions, 1967. First edition. [11] leaves. Blue paper boards over tan linen backstrip, printed paper label on spine. Introductory note by Noel Stock. One of 110 copies, printed by Robert Grabhorn and Andrew Hoyem in San Francisco, all signed by the author. Gallup A90. Fine copy.