Paris: Éditions GLM, 1935. First edition. Unbound folded gatherings laid into publisher’s photographically illustrated wrapper, as issued. Some creasing to the front cover at the spine, as often seen, slight rubbing to head and tail of spine. Interior clean and bright. Housed in a custom chemise and slipcase, with title.....
Paris: Pierre Seghers and Imprimerie Union, 1953. Folded concertina, made up of three sheets assembled and attached to the back with strips of cloth. Original hangers attached to verso. A gorgeous, fine copy, bright and fresh. Eluard wrote the poem during the German occupation of France in 1942; it was.....
Prairie City, IL: The Press of James A. Decker, 1946. First edition. 52 pp. Tan cloth boards, front board and spine lettered in gilt, with the dust jacket. Slight toning to endpapers; jacket has some edgewear and a couple of short closed tears. Housed in a custom clamshell box...
New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1928. First edition. xii, 164 pp. Patterned paper boards over purple cloth backstrip, printed labels on front and spine, with the dust jacket. Some spotting and rubbing to backstrip, interior a little musty. The jacket shows some edgewear and browning, slight soiling to the.....
Paris: Editions du Carrefour, 1930. First edition. 237 pp. Original wrappers. One of 370 copies on vélin pur-fil, of a total edition of 500 copies. Spine a little creased, slight bump to front top and rear lower corners, overall an excellent copy. Illustrated with ten full page heliogravures of photo.....
![Item #2238 Some Time [one of 50 copies, Author's Edition, inscribed]. Louis Zukofsky](/pictures/thumb/2238.jpg?v=1669162556)
Stuttgart: Jonathan Williams, 1956. First edition. Publisher's printed rice-paper wrappers with design by Celia Zukofsky, side-stitched Japanese style, with the original acetate dust jacket and slipcase. One of 50 copies of the Author's Edition, signed by Zukofsky, and further inscribed to art historian Meyer Schapiro. Designed and published by Jonathan.....
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.....
[Lunenberg, VT]: Printed for the Author at the Stinehour Press, 1978. First edition. 80 pp. Beige cloth, printed spine label. One of 80 copies, this copy out-of-series. Some mottling to cloth. Zukofsky's final work, "a culmination to a life in language." Though initially considered impenetrable, Michele J. Leggott's Reading Zukofsky's.....
Paris: Alphonse Lemerre, 1901. First edition. [6], 157, [3] p. Original paper wrappers. Spine reinforced with old tape, cover edges chipped and rubbed; a good copy of a very rare book, particularly in the original wrappers. Renée Vivien's first book, dedicated to N..... [Natalie Clifford Barney], who was its primary.....
Milan: [Stampato nelle Officine de la Grafica Moderna], 1930. First edition. [6], 7-30, [2] pp. Stapled printed wrappers. Some wear to edges, light creasing, overall a very nice copy. Signed by Bunting on the title-page and dated 1976. Laid in a Typed Letter Signed on Bunting’s stationary in an air.....
Paris: Agori, 1973. First edition. Pictorial boards with Fini-designed cats, printed paper label on spine, in publisher’s slipcase with same pattern and printed label. One of 230 numbered copies on Arches (another 20 on Japan and 35 for the author were also produced), signed by Fini on the colophon. Contains.....
Paris: Éditions du Carrefour, 1929. First edition. 17 leaves, [147] leaves of monochrome plates, printed recto only, after Ernst’s collages, each with printed caption. One of 900 copies on vélin teinté, of a total edition of 1003 copies. Original green paper wrappers. Spine faded as often seen, small chip at.....
![Item #2229 Hallelujah Anyway [hand-painted binding]. Kenneth Patchen](/pictures/thumb/2229.jpg?v=1666641688)
New York: New Directions, 1966. First edition. Rebound by Patchen with an original watercolor/gouache binding. Most of Patchen’s special painted bindings were created within numbered editions; this book is a unique copy bearing a particularly lovely painting.
Wichita Falls: 1966. Single sheet serial publication, edited by Jon Bracker. Certainly one of Kooser's earliest appearances, and possibly one of his first solo publications, published three years before his first book, Official Entry Blank. The series is well-represented institutionally but individual issues are scarce, particularly this one by a......
[Portland?]: [K. Dunn?], 1979. First edition. [24] pp. Stapled wrappers. Minor handling wear, near fine. Illustration by Alaina Lara, published as "Arboreal Abomination #1." One of the scarcest items by this Portland author, best known for her novel Geek Love.
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1969. First edition. 57, [8] pp. Quarter burgundy cloth over printed paper boards, printed spine label, original clear acetate jacket. One of a handful of copies specially bound and designated for the author, artist, binder, publisher, and printer, this one marked "Binder's Copy" and signed.....
[New York]: The Grenfell Press, 1993. First edition. [17] pp. Publisher's silver paper boards, lettered in gold on front and spine, chemised in a black paper sleeve. Printed on one side of a strip formed from 9 joined sheets, folded accordion-style and attached to the binding at the back pastedown.....
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.....
London: Faber and Faber, 1958. First separate edition. 22 pp. Sewn wrappers with dust jacket. Slight rubbing to top edge of rear panel with a couple of short closed tears, else fine. Originally conceived as a "meditation for radio" and broadcast on the BBC in 1957, now generally considered as.....
![Item #2220 Descending Figure [first edition]. Louise Glück](/pictures/thumb/2220.jpg?v=1666641890)
New York: The Ecco Press, 1980. First edition. [12], 48, [4] pp. Deep purple cloth boards, spine lettered in silver, with the dust jacket. Very slight edgewear to jacket, small snag on lower rear edge, else fine. The Nobel laureate's third collection.
West Newbury, MA: Frontier Press, 1971. First edition. 65 pp. Black flexible leatherette covers, titled in gilt. Minor cover rubbing, small gift inscription to front endpaper. A philosophically inclined technical manual by the legendary experimental filmmaker. Brakhage calls this a "short book on film technique which could be read by.....
1862. Etching on laid paper, first state. Signed in the plate upper left with an intertwined E and M. 130 x 74 mm. Matted and framed. Some browning to edges of visible paper from mat, print not affected. Not examined outside of frame. This is one of two portraits.....
![Item #2215 Autobiography of Red [first edition]. Anne Carson](/pictures/thumb/2215.jpg?v=1661222585)
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. First edition. 149 pp. Tan and brown paper boards, spine lettered in silver, with the dust jacket. Head and tail of spine rubbed, small nick on top edge of front board. One of Carson's earlier and most beloved works, "a novel in verse." The.....
![Item #2214 Averno [first edition]. Louise Glück](/pictures/thumb/2214.jpg?v=1661222614)
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006. First edition. 76 pp. Gray paper boards, spine lettered in gilt, with the dust jacket. Slight crimp to top edge of rear jacket flap, else a fine copy.
![Item #2213 The Triumph of Achilles [first edition]. Louise Glück](/pictures/thumb/2213.jpg?v=1661222671)
New York: The Ecco Press, 1985. First edition. 60 pp. Gray cloth backstrip over red paper boards, spine lettered in gilt, front board in blind, with the dust jacket. Slight scuff to upper right corner of front jacket panel, a couple of tiny nicks to the top edge of the.....