![Item #1008 The Image and the Law [first edition]. Howard Nemerov](/pictures/thumb/1008.jpg?v=1608707749)
New York: Henry Holt, 1947. First edition. Hardcover. First edition of Nemerov's first book. 71 pp. Black cloth, spine gilt, with the dust jacket. Lower corner bumped, jacket has some minor toning and slight rubbing at the head of the spine.
Boone Tolliver Press, 1977. First edition. Original Wraps. First edition, self-published, of this collection of poems and song lyrics by the noted composer, singer, balladeer, and collector of traditional songs. Original printed wraps. Text printed letterpress. Some surface wear to exterior of wraps, interior clean and tight.
Portland: Breitenbush Publications, 1980. First edition. 61 pp. Perfect-bound printed wrappers. Some surface wear, lower rear corner slightly creased. Prices blacked out on rear cover. The first full-length collection by an acclaimed poet.
![Item #2135 Lunch Poems [first edition]. Frank O'Hara](/pictures/thumb/2135.jpg?v=1645047516)
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1964. First edition. 74 pp. Perfect-bound printed wrappers. Pocket Poets Series 19. Slight edgewear, spine slightly darkened, a couple of small stray ink marks to front cover; a bright near fine or better copy. A much-loved modern classic. Smith A8. Cook, Pocket Poets, 55-56. Smith.....
Millerton, NY: SADEV, 1998. First edition. [23] pp. Sewn wrappers with attached dust jacket, front cover lettered in gilt. Frontispiece portrait. One of 250 copies printed for private distribution at the Stamperia Valdonega, Verona. O'More’s elegy to his wife, Lorea Honeycutt O'More (1936-1997). O'More is the enigmatic figure best known.....
![Item #1845 Sacrificial Bone Inscriptions [together with:] David Waxman. Delighting All Who Pay....](/pictures/thumb/1845.jpg?v=1608708125)
Millerton, NY: SADEV, 1987. First edition. Black cloth over quarter vellum, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, acetate jacket, in slipcase. Top edge gilt. Of a total edition of 750 copies, this is one of the deluxe edition of 150 numbered copies signed by the author. Beautifully printed at the.....
Cleveland: Mother/Asphodel, 1966. First edition thus. Original Wraps. First printing of this reissue, originally published by the Objectivist Press in 1934. Slight edgewear, else fine in printed wrappers with attached dust jacket.
New York: Sun, 1976. First edition. Original Wraps. First edition, the simultaneous wrappers issue. 104 pp. Very slight surface wear to the back cover, else a fine copy. Signed by Padgett on the title-page.
Karlsruhe / Baden / Highlands: Jonathan Williams, 1953. First edition. 131 pp. Unprinted perfect-bound wrappers with dust jacket. Jacket spine browned with some toning and minor chipping to head and tail, some browning to endpapers offset from jacket. Jargon 6. Morgan A21a.
[Palo Alto?]: Kenneth Patchen, n.d. [1962]. A total of 14 cards with envelopes in two separate, original packaging, unopened. Cards: 8 x 5 inches. In a letter to another bookseller Miriam Patchen described these two series as "... seven different, never-before-published 'Picture-poems' on a variety of colored and not colored.....
Highlands, NC: Jonathan Williams, 1958. First edition. Original Wraps. First edition. Illustrated stiff card wraps. One of 325 copies in the regular issue. Slight foxing to top edge. Morgan A28d.
Torrance, CA: Hors Commerce Press, 1965. First edition. Original Wraps. First edition of Perret's second book, one of 200 copies printed. Introduction by Alan Sillitoe. [27] pp. Original stapled wrappers. Scattered foxing to covers and preliminaries, corners a bit creased. An unsung poet who died young, Perret was just beginning.....
Kansas City: Helicon Nine Editions/Midwest Center for the Literary Arts, Inc., 1994. First edition. [12] pp. String-sewn wrappers. Cover a little rubbed. One of 250 copies. A single poem, preceding the collection of the same name published the following year. Rare, OCLC locates three copies.
Berkeley: Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities, University of California, 1994. First edition. Original wrappers. 52 pp. Perfect-bound printed wrappers. Covers slightly rubbed, near fine. A discussion between the poet and the artist about their collaborative process while working an edition of Dante's Inferno, published as Occasional Paper no.....
London: Cecil Palmer, 1920. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. 56 pp. Stiff boards with black paper jacket affixed, as issued, printed label on front board. Front board slightly bowed, spine slightly sunned, minor foxing to preliminaries. The first book by this undersung British poet (1897-1992), who wrote in traditional meter.....
Surrey: The Sceptre Press, 1971. Original wrappers. [12] pp. Stapled printed wrappers. One of 150 numbered copies. Fine copy. A poem written by Plath in the early 1950s, when she was a student at Smith College.
London: Faber and Faber, 1971. First edition. 55 pp. Blue cloth, spine lettered in silver, with the dust jacket. Poetry Book Society promotional flyer laid in. An exceptionally fine copy, bright and fresh.
San Francisco: Dave Haselwood, 1966. First edition. Original Wraps. [48] pp. Printed stapled wrappers. Very slight rubbing to spine, else a fine, fresh copy. Introduction by Allen Ginsberg. The first book by one of the more unsung members of the Beat Generation, the publisher of Cherry Valley Editions and the.....
Kent: Kent State University Libraries, 1971. First edition. Thirteen broadsides and a title sheet housed in a printed paper folder. 500 copies printed. All broadsides near fine, folder has a bit of creasing to top corner. Poems by John Ashbery, James Bertolino, Gwendolyn Brooks, Denise Levertov, Steven Osterlund, and Gary.....
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1934. First American edition. 197 pp. Green cloth boards, lettered in black on the spine, with the dust jacket. Jacket spine and extremities browned, short closed tear with corresponding crease to top edge of rear panel, but overall quite clean. Gallup A35b (1016 copies printed).....
New York: Nadja, 1980. First edition. Original Wraps. First edition. [5] pp. of text, printed on the rectos only. Sewn printed wrappers. A fine copy. Of 226 copies printed, one of 26 lettered copies, this copy letter "I." Originally written to Louis Untermeyer in a letter of 1930 "in order.....
New York: The Fuck You Press, 1967. First edition. [14] leaves. Side-stapled wrappers, front cover illustration by Joe Brainard. Some toning to extremities, else a fine copy, with a bit of offsetting from the printing process to the front cover and verso of front cover. One of 300 numbered copies.....
London: Elkin Mathews, 1913. First collected edition. 52, 64, [4] pp. Brown paper boards lettered in gold on the front cover and spine. Gallup notes that "not more than 500 copies issued." The book consists of first edition sheets of the two earlier books with a new half-title and title-leaf.....
London: Elkin Mathews, 1915. First edition of Pound's enormously important collection of "translations," drawn from the notebooks of Ernest Fenollosa. Eliot shrewdly noted that Pound was "the inventor of Chinese poetry for our time." Pound's interpretations "altered the feel of the language and set the pattern of cadence for modern.....
Rotterdam: Cold Turkey Press, 1975. First edition. One of 250 numbered copies printed of the first edition, published October 1975 (there was a later edition published two months afterward). Glossy printed wrappers with black cloth spine. Edited by William Levy. Addendum sheet laid in, as issued. Lower corner bumped, some.....