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n.p. Tarasque Press, 1968. First edition. [20] pp. Stapled wrappers with printed dust jacket. Slight foxing to jacket, slight creasing to spine. Drawings by Robert Frame. Murray 3.27.
n.p. Tarasque Press, 1968. First edition. [20] pp. Stapled wrappers with printed dust jacket. Slight foxing to jacket, slight creasing to spine. Drawings by Robert Frame. Murray 3.27.
[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;.....
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.....
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.....
Paris: [Les Presses du Montparnasse], 1923. First edition. [57] pp. Printed wrappers. Inevitable toning to leaves, else a fine copy of a fragile production. 180 copies were printed; this one of the 100 copies on vergé, unnumbered and unsigned. Frontispiece by Max Ernst, drypoint on chine, mounted, signed in.....
Paris: Éditions Cahiers d’Art, 1947. First edition. [48] pp. Plain wrappers with attached dust jacket. Some toning to cover extremities, minor handling wear, near fine. One of 500 numbered copies, although Eluard noted that only 258 copies were printed due to a lack of paper. Eluard’s poignant tribute to.....
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.....
Key West: no publisher, 1986. First edition. One of one hundred copies printed (none of which were for sale). Single sheet, folded and laid into an unprinted green wrapper. Inscribed by Merrill on the title-page to Richard Howard. Fine copy. Hagstrom and Morgan A64.
London: Faber and Faber, 1974. First edition. 42 pp. Light blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, with the dust jacket. The last published collection of Larkin's verse to be published in his lifetime. 42 pp. Slight sunning to board edges, else fine. Bloomfield A10a. 6142 copies were printed.
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.
[Mt. Horeb]: The Perishable Press, 1966. Broadside. 8 1/4 x 11 inches. Slight softening to upper left corner, else fine. One of eighty-five copies, printed on variegated papers handmade from rags by Walter Hamady for Joel and Helen Oppenheimer on the occasion of their marriage, 6 June 1966.....
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.....
Guernsey: The Toucan Press, 1967. First edition. 8 pp. Printed stapled wrappers. Minor toning, staples slightly rusty. One of one hundred copies printed. Transcript of the fascinating case Mrs Thomas brought (and lost) regarding her husband’s manuscript, heard in the Supreme Court of Judicature, Chancery Court V, 8-12 March, 1966.....
Concord: William B. Ewert, 1987. First edition thus. Sewn wrappers. One of 136 copies, this copy signed by Carver and inscribed by the publisher on the colophon. A single poem. Fine copy.
Concord: William B. Ewert, 1986. First edition. Printed boards over cloth backstrip, printed spine label mounted. Of a total edition of 136 copies, this is one of 36 copies in boards, this copy unnumbered and inscribed by the publisher, and additionally signed by Carver. A collection of 10 poems, none.....
Concord: William B. Ewert, 1984. Single sheet, folded. One of 186 copies issued by Ewert for private distribution. Fine copy.
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: 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.....