Washington DC: Glad Hag Books, 1979. First edition. [80] pp. Perfect-bound printed wrappers. Some rubbing/shelfwear to covers and creasing to spine, interior clean. Foreword by Joan Nestle. Introduction by Judith Schwarz. Texts by Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, Judy Grahn, and others. The true first edition of Joan Biren's revolutionary.....
![Mitsou. Forty Images by Balthus. Preface by Rainer Maria Rilke. [inscribed with a drawing]....](/pictures/thumb/1963.jpg?v=1614717527)
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1984. First edition thus. Hardcover. First edition thus. 60 pp. Blue printed paper boards, with the dust jacket. Head and tail of spine slightly bumped, else about fine. This edition recreates the original 1921 publication, with the preface by Rilke translated into English.....
![Dessins [first edition, with original drawing bound in]. Jean Cocteau](/pictures/thumb/1962.jpg?v=1614717643)
Paris: Librairie Stock, 1923. First edition. Quarto. [272] pp. Original printed wrappers, glassine. Some minor handling wear, front and rear cover slightly shorter than text block, near fine. Of a total edition of 625 copies, this is one of 100 copies on Madagascar, with an original drawing by Cocteau bound.....
![Americus. Book I. [first edition, signed]. Lawrence Ferlinghetti](/pictures/thumb/1961.jpg?v=1614718043)
New York: New Directions, 2004. First edition. 90 pp. Full black cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, with the dust jacket. Fine copy, signed by Ferlinghetti on the title-page.
![How to Paint Sunlight [first edition, signed]. Lawrence Ferlinghetti](/pictures/thumb/1960.jpg?v=1614718121)
New York: New Directions, 2001. First edition. 94 pp. Blue cloth backstrip over tan paper boards, spine lettered in gilt, with the dust jacket. Fine copy, signed by Ferlinghetti on the title-page. "All I ever wanted to do was paint light on the walls of life."
San Francisco: City Lights/Meridian Press, 2011. First edition. [20] pp. Sewn wrappers with integral printed dust jacket, paste-paper endpapers. One of 250 numbered copies printed, signed by Ferlinghetti. Fine copy. OCLC locates five copies.
Milan: Edizioni Il Ragazzo Innocuo, 2008. First edition. [16] pp. Sewn wrappers with printed dust jacket folded on, as issued. Stain to lower edge of front cover, else fine. One of 99 numbered copies hand printed by Luciano Ragozzino. Two previously unpublished poems (with Italian translation en face, by Damiano.....
Paris: Librairie Stock, 1925. First edition. Folio. [2], 15, [2] leaves, [1] leaf of plates. Original publisher's wrappers, glassine. Title-page bound in, other signatures loose, as issued. Some wear to portfolio spine and browning to glassine and page edges. One of 25 numbered copies on Hollande van Gelder paper, of.....
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 rebacked to style. Fore-edges of front and.....
Paris: Contact Editions/Three Mountains Press, 1925. First edition. 268 pp. Publisher's textured orange wrappers, lettered in black on the front and rear covers and spine. Slight bumping to spine edges, still a just about fine copy of a fragile book, as were all Contact publications. Introduction by Dorothy Dudley...
![The Love Poems of Kenneth Patchen [hardcover issue]. Kenneth Patchen](/pictures/thumb/1953.jpg?v=1613527882)
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1960. First edition. 48 pp. Original publisher's red cloth, lettered in blue on the front board and the spine. One of 300 copies printed of the hardcover issue, advertised by City Lights as a "Gift Edition." Issued as Pocket Poets volume no. 13. Foxing throughout.....
![Sonnets to Duse [first edition, inscribed, with autograph material]. Sara Teasdale](/pictures/thumb/1952.jpg?v=1613527780)
Boston: The Poet Lore Company, 1907. First edition. 44 pp. Original dark gray paper boards, printed labels on front board and spine. Slight rubbing to boards and corners, spine label darkened, near fine. Teasdale's first book, which was published at her parents' expense in an edition of one.....
n.p. 1985. Pencil drawing of D.H. Lawrence, 7 1/4 x 9 inches. Matted and framed, total size 16 x 17 3/4 inches. Fine condition, not examined out of frame. Robinson published a collection of Lawrence's poems, Tortoises, in 1983 through his private Cheloniidae Press. The press also published two exquisite.....
New York: Random House, 1963. First edition. 50 pp. Original oatmeal cloth lettered in red and black on the spine, with the dust jacket. Spine slightly rolled, some minor dustmarking to cloth. Jacket slightly toned, very minor rubbing to head of spine and a short closed tear to the bottom.....
Paris: José Corti, 1937. First edition. [57] pp. Publisher’s quarter green cloth and illustrated red paper boards. Very minor wear, near fine or better. A major work of Surrealism, incorporating Cahun’s “tableaux photographiques” with Deharme’s poems, which despite the subtitle are decidedly not juvenile: as Martin Parr and Gerry Badger.....
Paris: Contact Editions, 1926. First edition. xvi, 1-179 pp. Original integral marbled printed wrappers, printed label on front cover and spine. Spine a little rolled with some minor creasing, some slight edgewear, but overall a very clean copy of a fragile production, as were all Contact publications. Printed at Dijon.....
Paris: Éditions Surréalistes, 1930. First edition. 72, [6] pp. Original aluminum foil paper wrappers covered by red tissue paper, title printed in black on the cover. Photo-lithographed portrait of Gala, engraved frontispiece and six heliographic plates. One of 135 numbered copies on Arches, of a total edition of 204 copies.....
Dresden: Carl Reissner Verlag, 1932. First German edition. 271 pp. Blue cloth, with the dust jacket. Some slight rubbing to the head and tail of the spine, jacket is slightly chipped at the head of the spine, otherwise in remarkably nice condition. Lili Elbe (1882-1931), born Einar Magnus Andreas.....
Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1927. First edition. [24] pp. Original paper boards, lettered in green. Boards faded with some slight soiling to front cover, the notoriously fragile spine is a bit rubbed but secure, front inner hinge starting. Errata slip tipped in, as issued. Slocum & Cahoon A24.
Flagstaff: The Peccary Press, 1980. First edition thus. ix, 29 pp. Brown paper boards with yellow paper cutout mounted outlined in orange, plain paper dust jacket. Minor handling wear to jacket, volume about fine. One of ten lettered copies printed on Rives Heavyweight (another 150 numbered copies were printed on.....
[Kentfield]: Privately Printed, n.d., c. 1969. First edition. [7] leaves, stapled in upper left corner into red covers. A biographical and critical essay written by Everson to be used for publicity purposes; he used the pseudonym so as not to appear self-aggrandizing. Fine copy. Bartlett & Campo F13.
![Reasons for Moving [first edition, hardcover issue, signed]. Mark Strand](/pictures/thumb/1940.jpg?v=1610516995)
New York: Atheneum, 1968. First edition. 47 pp. Full deep blue cloth, lettered in gilt and blind, with the dust jacket. A fine copy of Strand’s second book, and first trade publication following the limited Stone Wall Press edition of his first book. The hardcover edition is uncommon. Signed by.....
![The Hotel Wentley Poems [first edition, second issue, signed]. John Wieners](/pictures/thumb/1939.jpg?v=1610516940)
San Francisco: Auerhahn Press/Dave Haselwood, 1958. First edition, second issue, unexpurgated. [24 pp]. Stapled wrappers. Some wear, old staining, minor creasing, very good. Grolier Book Shop label on first free endpaper. Cover photo by Jerry Burchard, internal portrait of Wieners by Robert LaVigne. Wieners' first book, signed by him on.....
New York: James F. Carr and Robert A. Wilson, 1964. First edition, wrappers issue. 72 pp. Slight toning to covers, near fine.
London: Gimpel Fils, 1972. First edition. [28] leaves. Stab-stitched with rough cord, stiff board covers. Color reproductions of illustrations with manuscript captions. Boards lightly toned and slightly bowed. Signed on the first sheet by the author.