The Flower Master
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982. First edition. Paperback. First edition of the Irish poet's first book, only issued in wrappers. A bit of age-toning to wraps, Oxford price sticker on rear cover, overall a near fine copy.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982. First edition. Paperback. First edition of the Irish poet's first book, only issued in wrappers. A bit of age-toning to wraps, Oxford price sticker on rear cover, overall a near fine copy.
New York: The Poet's Press, 1972. First edition. Original Wraps. First edition of Melhem's first book (preceding by seven years the second edition published by Dovetail Press). Noted as the first poetry book in English by an Arab American woman. Original printed stapled wraps. 66 pp. Some slight surface wear.....
Oxford and Tehran: The Amate Press, 1976. First edition. vi, 40 pp. Stapled printed wrappers. Some minor cover wear and toning. One of 350 numbered copies. Mirrlees is best known for her 1926 fantasy tale Lud-in-the-Mist and the modernist poem Paris, published by the Hogarth Press in 1919. Much.....
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1947. First edition. 145 pp. Light blue paper boards, lettered and blocked in black, with the dust jacket. Minor toning to board edges, jacket shows some minor rubbing to extremities. Edited by Grant Code, with a foreword by W.H. Auden, the first volume he selected.....
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.
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.....
[Easthampton]: Pennyroyal Press, 1975. First edition. [36] leaves, unbound as issued, laid into a chemise housed in a clamshell box. A couple of small minor scuffs to box, contents fine. One of forty copies printed. Six wood engravings by Anne O’Connor with texts “freely edited from the 1871.....
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.
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.
Paris: Hours Press, n.d. [1930]. First edition. 50, [3] pp. Decorative paper boards over brown leather backstrip, spine lettered in gilt. Touch of rubbing to head and tail of spine and corners, else fine. One of 200 numbered copies, signed by the author. Cover photomontage designs by Len Lye.....
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.....
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.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. 248 pp. Yellow boards over orange backstrip, spine lettered in silver. Near fine with some very slight rubbing to the head and tail of the spine of the book and the jacket. The debut collection of an important young writer.
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.....
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.....
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.....
[New York?]: 1977. Broadside. 11 x 17 inches. Text by Patti in response to WNEW refusing to broadcast her New Year's Eve concert at the Palladium. Originally published in the Yipster Times, March-April 1977, here printed as a stand-alone broadside, with a photograph by Lyzzy [sic] Mercier. Heavily crinkled 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.