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Hong Kong: Liu Publishers, 1960. First edition. Original Wraps. Japanese-style string-tied wrappers with printed cover label. Wrappers foxed, edges a bit chipped. A collection of poetical works by the author of Zen Flesh, Zen Bones.
Hong Kong: Liu Publishers, 1960. First edition. Original Wraps. Japanese-style string-tied wrappers with printed cover label. Wrappers foxed, edges a bit chipped. A collection of poetical works by the author of Zen Flesh, Zen Bones.
Prairie City, IL: The Decker Press, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. 117 pp. Light green paper-covered boards over brown cloth backstrip, spine lettered in silver and front board lettered in brown. Corners heavily rubbed, minor general edgewear. An uncommon Rexroth book- although 500 copies were slated to be published, far less.....
San Francisco: Twowindows Press, 1970. First edition. Original Wraps. [12 pp]. Red printed wrappers, sewn. One of 300 copies, of a total edition of 350. Extremely slight sunning to spine, still a fine copy.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1930. First edition. 171, [1] pp. Oatmeal cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and blind on the rear board, with the dust jacket. Slight rubbing to head and tail of spine, some scattered foxing to cloth. Bookplate to front pastedown. Jacket shows some minor soiling, spine.....
Deyá, Majorca: The Seizin Press, 1935. First edition. Single sheet of cream laid paper, folded twice, unbound, to form [8] pp. [1], title-page, [2], blank, [3-6], text, [7-8], blank. Top edge cut. Some edgewear and minor browning and spotting. A poem which later became part II of "Disclaimer.....
New York: Adelphi Company, n.d. [1926]. First American edition. 77 pp. Paper boards, printed label on front cover. Boards faded at extremities, corners a little rubbed, slight rubbing to spine exposing webbing. Interior clean with slight glue staining to gutter of preliminaries, bookplate on front pastedown. Riding’s first book.....
Los Angeles: The Dragon Press of George William Shaw/Wagon & Star Publishers, 1962. First edition. Original wrappers. 35 pp, printed on rectos only. String-tied textured paper wrappers, printed in black and red. One of one hundred copies, set into type and printed by George William Shaw at Lennox High School.....
London: Secker & Warburg, 1957. First edition. Hardcover. Green cloth, lettered in silver on the spine, with the dust jacket. 200 pp. Cloth a bit stained at heel of spine, jacket price-clipped with some light chipping to the head of the spine and some foxing to the rear panel. McLeod.....
Bretenoux, France: Braad Press, 1977. First edition. Original Wraps. First edition, one of 300 copies. Perfect-bound wrappers with printed dust jacket. Four woodcut illustrations laid in, as issued.
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., 1944. First edition. Hardcover. First edition of Rukeyser's fourth book of verse. Near fine in a near fine jacket, slightly chipped at the head and foot of spine, else clean and bright. Review copy, with slip laid in.
Fairfax, CA: Taylor Street Press, 1983. First edition. 64 pp. Original printed wrappers. Kay Ryan was U.S. Poet Laureate from 2008 to 2010, won the Pulitzer Prize in 2011 for her new and selected poems The Best of It, and in September 2011 was named a MacArthur Fellow. Her first.....
New York: Grove Press, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. 84 pp. Paper-covered boards, spine lettered in black, with the dust jacket. Extremely slight wear to the head of the spine and top front corner, else a fine copy. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. The uncommon hardcover issue.....
New York: Grove Press, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. 64 pp. Yellow paper boards over blue cloth backstrip, spine lettered in gilt, with the dust jacket. Head and tail of spine a bit bumped, slight edgewear to jacket. Kay Ryan was U.S. Poet Laureate from 2008 to 2010, won the Pulitzer.....
Providence: Copper Beech Press, 1994. First edition. Original Wraps. First edition of Ryan's third book. 64 pp. Glossy printed wraps, a paperback original. Some evidence of pencil erasures throughout, slight smudge over price on rear cover, else a fine copy. Kay Ryan was U.S. Poet Laureate from 2008 to 2010.....
Providence: Copper Beech Press, 1994. First edition. Original Wraps. First edition of Ryan's third book. 64 pp. Glossy printed wraps, a paperback original. Slight surface wear to covers, else a fine copy. Kay Ryan was U.S. Poet Laureate from 2008 to 2010, won the Pulitzer Prize in 2011 for her.....
Boston: Da Capo Press, 2011. First edition. 424 pp. Blue boards over red backstrip, spine lettered in white, with the dust jacket. Slightest rubbing to jacket corners, else fine. Review slip laid in. Signed by Sanders on the front free endpaper. An indispensable history of the scene, by one of.....
New York: Tibor de Nagy Editions, 1966. First edition. Original wrappers. 27 pp. Perfect-bound paper wrappers. Slight toning and cover wear, overall near fine. Schuyler's first book of poems, published in an edition of 300 copies.
New York: Adventures in Poetry, 1972. First edition. Original Wraps. First edition, one of 300 copies printed. Side-stapled wrappers. Cover and illustrations by Fairfield Porter. Minor wear and soiling to the covers, especially the rear cover.
Nördlingen: Verlegt bei Franz Greno, 1988. First edition. 98, [6] pp. Dark green cloth, lettered and ruled in black on the front board and the spine, with the dust jacket. Slightest of rubbing to the jacket corners, near fine or better. Photographs by Thomas Becker. Sebald's first non-academic publication, three.....
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008. First edition. One of 500 copies printed, signed by Seidel on the half-title. 55 pp. Matte black perfect-bound wrappers, stamped in silver on the front cover. Very minor handling wear, near fine or better. Seidel's signature is very rare. As Jonathan.....
London: Oxford University Press, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. 94 pp. Black boards, spine lettered in gilt, with the dust jacket. Slight foxing to rear endpapers, else about fine. Selections from Sexton's first two books, with no equivalent American edition published.
Oxford: B.H. Blackwell, 1918. First edition. 50, [2] pp. Tan wrappers, printed label on front cover and spine. Edgewear, particularly to yapped fore-edges, heavy tone lines to both front and rear covers. Leaves completely unopened. The first book of poems (of two in her lifetime) by a poet on.....
Bowling Green: Doones Press, 1973. First edition. Original Wraps. First edition. [32] leaves, printed on rectos only. Side-stapled wrappers, cover by Elisabeth Brandfass. Slight surface wear and rubbing to corners, near fine. A high-order association copy of an early Silliman publication, inscribed on the title-page "for Jackson [Mac Low] /.....
San Francisco: Kayak, 1969. First edition. Original Wraps. First edition of Simic's second book, with prints by George Hitchcock. One of one thousand copies printed by Hitchcock at his Kayak Press. 60 pp. Printed wraps, as issued. Some extremely slight toning to the spine, else fine.
Dorset: Words Press, 1988. First edition. Original wrappers. One of 75 copies signed and numbered by the author, of a total edition of 200 copies. [8] pp. Stapled wrappers with printed label on front cover. Sunned at spine, near fine.