A Village Life
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009. First edition. 72 pp. Gray paper boards, spine lettered in silver, with the dust jacket. Review slip laid in. Fine copy.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009. First edition. 72 pp. Gray paper boards, spine lettered in silver, with the dust jacket. Review slip laid in. Fine copy.
New York: The Ecco Press, 1996. First edition. 62 pp. Black cloth backstrip over white paper boards, spine lettered in gilt with Ecco device in blind on front board, with the dust jacket. Fine copy.
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 spotting to rear board and a small stain to the top edge of the front board, gift inscription on front.....
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.....
[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.....
Chicago: Third World Press, 1968. First edition. 32 pp. Glossy printed stapled wrappers. Cover by Jef Donaldson, author photo on rear cover by Robert Sengstacke. Minor shelfwear, slight sticker ghost to rear panel. Ebon Dooley, born Leo Thomas Hale, was a poet and community activist and for many years owned.....
Berkeley: Rose Books, 1989. First edition. [30] pp. Glossy stapled wrappers with photo portrait of Jonas on the front cover. An uncommon posthumous collection by an underrated African-American poet. Jonas' collection Love, the Poem, and the Sea was the first book published by White Rabbit Press in 1957. Minor handling.....
New York: Lapp Princess Press/Printed Matter, 1979. First edition. Single sheet, folded accordion-style, tipped into a printed wrapper. Six portraits by Close in various mediums. Minor handling wear, near fine.
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: 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.....
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.....
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.
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."
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.....
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.....
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.
San Francisco: Kevin Killian, 1985. First edition. 115 pp. Perfect-bound printed wrappers. Epic issue of Killian's journal, dedicated to Wieners with tributes, interview, essays, photographs, and new and previously unpublished work by Wieners himself. Near fine.