Like I Say
New York: Totem Press in association with Corinth Books, 1960. First edition. Original Wraps. 45, [1] pp. Stapled printed wrappers, cover illustration by Robert LaVigne. Minor toning to covers, near fine.
New York: Totem Press in association with Corinth Books, 1960. First edition. Original Wraps. 45, [1] pp. Stapled printed wrappers, cover illustration by Robert LaVigne. Minor toning to covers, near fine.
San Francisco: White Rabbit Press, 1958. First edition. Original wrappers. Drawings by Jess Collins. Unpaginated. String-sewn printed wrappers. Text lithographed from Jess' holograph. A remarkably fresh, fine copy of one of the earlier White Rabbit imprints. Johnston A9.
San Francisco: White Rabbit Press, 1958. First edition. [10] pp. String-sewn wrappers. Several ring stains and a burn mark on the front cover, which bleeds through to the next two leaves, very good. Runic cover design and illustration by Robert Duncan. Borregaard's first book, and an early White Rabbit title.....
Willowdale, Ontario: The Piraeus Press, 1978. First edition. Unprinted wrappers with integral dust jacket. [32] pp. One of 300 numbered copies, signed by the poet. Very slight rubbing to top and lower edges, else a fine copy. The debut solo publication by an important Canadian poet; his work is both.....
Philadelphia: Billstein & Sons, 1892. First edition. Gray sewn paper wrappers with attached cover sheet. Two inch closed tear at head of spine, pages partially uncut. Contains various addresses and readings in honor of Whitman, along with several excerpts from his work. Apparently issued in an edition of 750 numbered.....
New York: Angel Hair, 1974. First edition. Original wrappers. First edition, one of 500 copies printed. [10] pp. Stapled wrappers. Cover illustration by Gordon Baldwin. "Transcribed from tape of reading at The Poetry Project, St. Marks Church-in-the-Bowery, New York City, February 13, 1974, and from author's manuscripts." Minor toning to.....
n.p. Samuel Charters, [1968]. First edition. no binding. One of 300 copies printed. Single sheet folded into six panels. Number 11 of Samuel Charters' Portents series. A fine copy with the red tissue band intact.
New York: Pantheon, 1993. First edition thus. Hardcover. Blue cloth, lettered and decorated in silver, with the original glassine dust jacket. 74 pp. Originally published in 1955 as a signed limited edition, this is the first trade edition. Slight rubbing to head of fragile jacket spine, else fine. Signed by.....
Black Mountain, NC: Sad Devil Press/Jargon, 1952. First edition. Single folio sheet folded into sixths, printed by Joel Oppenheimer at Black Mountain College, with four tipped-in plates of drawings by Paul Ellsworth tipped in. As usually seen, the poor adhesive has meant that the plates have come loose from the.....
New York: New Directions, 1946-1958. First edition. Five volumes. Original light gray cloth, lettered in gilt and blocked in various colors, with the dust jackets. All volumes show some mild even toning to the jackets. Book 1 shows some browning to the endpapers, the jacket is slightly chipped at the.....
[New York]: The Living Theatre, 1952. Printed illustrated wrappers, stapled. 16pp. Printed (likely via lino or monotype) on cheap brown paper, text block detached from staples with some chipping at the head of the spine and a small chip at the top front corner. A fragile survival. Program for the inaugural.....
New York: The Ecco Press, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. 60 pp. Gray paper boards over blue cloth backstrip, spine lettered in silver, with the dust jacket. Slight wear to lower edge of jacket, else fine. Wright's eighth collection, and first to be published by a major commercial publisher.
Salem: Charles Seluzicki Fine Books, 1980. First edition. Original Wraps. Fabriano sewn paper wrappers, lettered in blind, Printed at the Meadow Press on French-folded Mulberry paper, woodcut illustrations by Leigh McLellan. One of 285 copies, all signed by Wright and McLellan. Some slight edgewear, else a fine copy.
Roslindale, MA: Pym-Randall Press, 1982. First edition. 54 pp. Full black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, with the dust jacket. One of 400 hardbound copies printed. Fine copy.
Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1995. First edition. Original wrappers. 88 pp. Perfect-bound glossy printed wrappers. Extremely slight bump to top corner, else fine. Uncommon Wright collection.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. A fine copy in a fine jacket, with review slip and glossy photograph of the author laid in.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. First edition. Original wrappers. First edition, uncorrected proof. 75 pp. Original perfect-bound printed wrappers. Some minor handling wear. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
London: Macmillan, 1919. First edition thus, and first trade edition. ix, 115 pp. Blue cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, design by Sturge Moore. Corners and head and tail of spine slightly rubbed, spine gilt dulled, first gathering a bit loose. Browning to preliminary and concluding leaves, and pp. 14-15.....
Portland, ME: The Mosher Press, 1936. First edition. Blue paper boards, title label on front board. An about fine copy in the original publisher's glassine, which is chipped in spots. Inscribed by the translator, Edna Worthley Underwood, on the free front endpaper.
New York: Macmillan, 1937. First edition. 63 pp. Yellow cloth, lettered and blocked in brown, with the dust jacket. Pastedowns browned from binder's glue, endemic to this title, with minor darkening to exterior hinges. Jacket spine a bit browned with slight chipping at head, top corner clipped with new price.....
Zephyrus Image, 1977. First edition. "Gloster City, CA" [i.e. Healdsburg]: Fester Stasis [i.e. Zephyrus Image], 1977. Johnston describes this "truly silly" item: "Folger's is a flip book with a bright red cover imitating the logo on cans of Folger's coffee. The very tenuous connection was that Folger's slogan was 'it's.....
[San Francisco]: Mudra/Zephyrus Image, 1972. Second edition, stated. Stapled printed wrappers with cover design by Michael Myers. Fore-edge a bit creased, some minor surface soiling. Johnston, p. 176.
Prairie City, IL: The Press of James A. Decker, 1946. First edition. Original light-brown cloth, lettered in black on the front board and spine, with the dust jacket. 69, [3] pp. Some soiling to jacket, spine panel tips chipped, fold corners with tears, edges toned. Inscribed by Zukofsky on the.....
[n.p.]: Transitions, 1982. First edition. 96 pp. Perfect-bound printed wrappers. Spine slightly faded, near fine. Contains 63 of Zürn’s anagrammatic poems, with the original German and French translations, along with illustrations and reproductions of her original texts. Preface by Françoise Buisson; commentary and medical documents assembled by J.F. Reverzy;.....