Mean Rufus Throw Down
Fredonia: The Basilisk Press, 1973. First edition. Original Wraps. Original printed wrappers, one of 600 copies printed. 71 pp. Dave Smith's second book. A near fine copy, signed on the title-page by the author.
Fredonia: The Basilisk Press, 1973. First edition. Original Wraps. Original printed wrappers, one of 600 copies printed. 71 pp. Dave Smith's second book. A near fine copy, signed on the title-page by the author.
Boston: Privately Printed [Merrymount Press], 1923. First edition. [4], 5-11, [1] pp. String-sewn printed wrappers. Some handling wear, spine beginning to split slightly at head and tail. One of one hundred copies printed by D.B. Updike. Mary Byers Smith was the co-founder of the Hampshire Bookshop in Northampton, Massachusetts, and.....
Saint Paul: Graywolf Press, 2003. First edition. 85 pp. Publisher's printed wrappers. Very slight rubbing to top corners, else a fine copy. The first book by an important poet: she served as U.S. Poet Laureate from 2017-2019 and her 2011 collection Life on Mars won the Pulitzer Prize.
Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2011. First edition. 75 pp. Perfect-bound printed wrappers. Very slight edgewear, else fine. The breakthrough third book by the future U.S. poet laureate, winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, one of 1500 copies printed. Snodgrass's important first book, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Red cloth with some very slight sunning at top edge, in a jacket with a bit of edgewear and a tiny chip at the head.....
Detroit: Wayne State University Library, 1960. First edition. Original Wraps. First edition of this early bibliographical work, issued in conjunction with an exhibition of Snodgrass' works at the Wayne State University Library in 1960. Stapled printed wrappers. 32 pp. One of 250 copies printed. Spine rubbed with some heavy scuffing.....
Washington, DC: Counterpoint, 1996. First edition. 166 pp. Deep green paper boards over red cloth backstrip, spine and front board lettered in gilt, with the dust jacket. Extremely slight rubbing to head of jacket spine, else fine. Signed by Snyder on the half-title.
Iowa City: The Windhover Press, 1969. First edition. 50 pp. Burgundy cloth, lettered in gilt on the front board and spine. No dust jacket, as issued. Spine a bit faded, as usually seen, else fine. One of 280 numbered copies, signed by the author. One of Snyder's most beautiful and.....
Highlands, NC: Jonathan Williams, 1960. First edition. Original Wraps. First edition of Sorrentino's first book. [48 pp]. Stapled wrappers with dust jacket. Collage and frontispiece drawing by Fielding Dawson, introduction by Joel Oppenheimer. Slight wear to edges and spine of jacket.
Austin: Humanities Research Center, 1959. First edition. Original Wraps. One of 200 copies printed, this copy unnumbered. 26 pp. Stapled printed wrappers. Slight wear to wrappers, else fine. A preliminary bibliography, compiled by Warren Roberts.
Stinson Beach, CA: Enkidu Surrogate, 1959. First edition. [16] pp. Printed stapled wrappers. One of 750 copies. Illustrated by Jess, one of a handful of titles issued by him and Robert Duncan under their Enkidu Surrogate imprint, distributed by White Rabbit. Slight sticker ghost to inside front cover, else fine.....
San Francisco: Auerhahn Society, 1962. First edition. 109, [3] pp. Perfect-bound printed wrappers, lettered in black and decorated in blue. Lithographs by Fran Herndon. Spine a little creased and slightly browned. One of 750 copies in wrappers. Johnston, Auerhahn, 21.
London: Aloes Books, 1971. [16] pp. Stapled wrappers. Very slight rubbing to spine, else fine. Originally published by White Rabbit Press in 1963 as "Lament for the Makers." Contains the poems "Dover Beach," "The Birds," "The Birth of Venus," "Lament for the Makers," and "Postscript." Uncommon.
San Francisco: White Rabbit Press, 1965. First edition. 66 pp. Original printed wrappers. Spicer's last book to be published in his lifetime (published June 10, Spicer died August 17). Some toning to cover extremities, minor spotting to lower corner of front cover. Johnston, White Rabbit, A30.
Berkeley: Arif, 1971. First edition. Original wrappers. First edition, one of 500 copies printed. [28] pp. Sewn wrappers. Printed letterpress in three colors. Original letterpress card announcement laid in. Slight toning; fine copy.
Victoria, B.C. Soft Press, 1973. First edition. Original wrappers. One of 300 numbered copies, signed by Stafford and the illustrator, Nancy Craig. Side-stapled oblong wrappers, taped spine. Lower corner very slightly bumped, else fine.
New York: Harper & Row, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. 81 pp. Printed paper-covered boards, with the dust jacket. Very slight darkening to board edges, very slight rubbing to head of spine and top edge of jacket, else about fine.
n.p. (Tucson): Ironwood Press, 1978. First edition. Photographically illustrated perfect-bound wrappers. 55 pp. A posthumous collection from the legendary poet. Stanford's poems appeared widely in many journals, but all of his books were published by small presses and consequently have become very scarce. In the decades since his death his.....
Seattle: Mill Mountain Press, 1975. First edition. Perfect-bound printed wrappers. 28, [4] pp. Two illustrations by Ginny Crouch Stanford. The fourth book by the great doomed poet. Always scarce, Stanford's Mill Mountain books have become quite rare and dear in the wake of the publication of his collected poems What.....
Fayetteville & London: University of Arkansas Press, 1991. First Edition. xv, 111 pp. Cloth boards, spine lettered in gilt, with the dust jacket. Edited, with an introduction by Leon Stokesbury. New in publisher's shrinkwrap.
Fayetteville: Lost Roads Publishing Company, 1979. 59, [4] pp. Printed perfect-bound wrappers. Lower rear corner slightly bumped, minor foxing to edges. Cover silk-screened by David Hurley. Second edition of Stanford's first book, originally published in 1971. Contains an unpaginated four-page afterword (uncredited, attributed to C.D. Wright), with a short colophon.....
1964. Original Wraps. Whole number 1, December 1964, apparently the only issue published. Side-stapled wrappers. Includes a reprint of Aleister Crowley's essay "The Soldier and the Hunchback," an excerpt from Robert Duncan's "The H.D. Book" and others.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931. Second edition. 152 pp. Blue paper boards over smooth black cloth spine with printed paper label mounted, with the dust jacket. Slight fading to board edges, jacket toned on verso and extremities, spine browned, small snag on rear panel of jacket at top edge.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. First edition. 182, [2] pp. Blue cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, front board decorated in blind, with the dust jacket. Some rubbing to head and tail of the spine, corners a little bumped; jacket shows some edgewear with minor chipping at the.....
New York: Atheneum, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. 48 pp. Full green cloth lettered in gilt and blind, with the dust jacket. Top edge slightly sun-faded, jacket shows a bit of edgewear with a couple of short closed tears.