![Lord Weary's Castle [second edition with Pulitzer wraparound band]. Robert Lowell](/images/noimage.png)
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1946. Second edition. Hardcover. Second edition, with textual changes, of Lowell's first trade book, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1947. A very good or better copy in black cloth, with some rubbing at the head of the spine, in a very good jacket.....
Easthampton, MA: Adastra Press, 1993. First edition thus. Original Wraps. Orignal printed wrappers. 68 pp. First published in 1990 by Houghton Mifflin. A fine copy, signed by the author on the title-page.
![Eat the Worm [first edition, inscribed]. Michael Madsen](/pictures/thumb/1816.jpg?v=1608704449)
New York: Vantage Press, 1995. First edition. 63 pp. Perfect-bound glossy wrappers. Bit of surface wear, minor crease to front cover. Lengthily inscribed by Madsen in verse on the half-title, dated in 1997. An early collection of Bukowski-esque poems by the actor perhaps best known for ensuring that "Stuck in.....
New York: The Olympia Press, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. First edition of the first novel by this important African-American poet. 203 pp. Blue cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, with dust jacket. The jacket is somewhat rubbed with some wear at the head and foot of the spine. The hardcover.....
![The Captain Lands in Paradise [first edition]. Sarah Manguso](/pictures/thumb/986.jpg?v=1608704728)
Farmington, ME: Alice James Books, 2002. First edition. Original Wraps. First edition of Manguso's first book. 55 pp. Original printed glossy wrappers. A fine copy.
Paris: Baudoin Lebon, 1998. First edition. Original Wraps. First edition. Printed perfect-bound wrappers. Published on the occasion of an exhibition at Galerie Baudoin Lebon in Paris June 3-July 4, 1998. Profusely illustrated with photographs and drawings. Scarce.
Normal: Dalkey Archive Press, 1993. First edition. Original wrappers. 94 pp. Original perfect-bound wrappers. Minor edgewear, slight smokiness, near fine. Better known as an innovative novelist, Markson also wrote poems throughout his career.
Colorado Springs: Jones Alley Fine Press, 1996. First edition. Original Wraps. First edition of the third book of poems by the acclaimed author of Ludlow. 30 pp. Original printed wraps. A fine copy, signed by Mason on the title-page.
![The New Tourism [first edition, signed]. Harry Mathews](/pictures/thumb/1135.jpg?v=1608705244)
Key West: Sand Paper Press, 2010. First edition. Original Wraps. First edition. 56 pp. Original printed wrappers. A collection of poems by the enigmatic and important avant-garde writer, the first American member of the Oulipo. A fine copy, signed by Mathews on the half-title.
![The New Tourism [first edition]. Harry Mathews](/pictures/thumb/1136.jpg?v=1608705337)
Key West: Sand Paper Press, 2010. First edition. Original Wraps. First edition. 56 pp. Original printed wrappers. A collection of poems by the enigmatic and important avant-garde writer, the first American member of the Oulipo. A fine copy.
Providence: Burning Deck, 1974. First edition. Original Wraps. First edition, one of 350 numbered copies printed. Original stapled wraps with dust jacket. [24] pp. A fine copy of an uncommon Mathews title.
![Mainline to the Heart [first edition, boards issue]. Clive Matson](/pictures/thumb/1618.jpg?v=1608705440)
New York: Poets Press, 1966. First edition. String-sewn and bound into full red cloth, lettered in gilt on the front board. Introduction by John Wieners. Drawings by Erin Matson. Minor darkening to the spine, else fine. Matson's first book, signed on the half-title. According to Peter Howard’s penciled notes within.....
Lenox, MA: Angel Hair Books, 1978. First edition. Original Wraps. First edition, one of 750 copies printed. Perfect-bound illustrated wrappers with front cover design by Joe Brainard and photograph of the author by Lewis Warsh on the back cover. Slight soiling to rear cover, else a fine copy.
New York: Qohéleth Press, 1960. First edition. Original Wraps. 28 pp. Stapled wraps. Some wear to covers, sunning at spine, evidence of label removal on front cover, but overall a very good copy. Scarce first book by Mayhall (1918-2009) who was active in New York's bohemian circles for many years.....
Cambridge: Barbara Matteau Editions, 1995. First edition. Original wrappers. 53 pp. Perfect-bound printed wrappers. Fine copy of the poet's first book, signed on the half-title.
Lawrence, KS: Tansy/Wakarusa Press, 1972. no binding. Single sheet broadside, folded twice as issued. One fold slightly off-center, else a fine copy.
![Hymns to St. Geryon and Other Poems [first edition, signed]. Michael McClure](/pictures/thumb/1110.jpg?v=1608705835)
San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1959. First edition. Original Wraps. First edition. 54 pp. Printed perfect-bound wrappers. Designed by Dave Haselwood, handset and printed letterpress at the Auerhahn Press. Some spotting to fore-edge, else a fine copy. Signed by McClure on the title-page.
New York: Poets Press, [1968]. First edition. Original Wraps. Stapled pictorial wrappers. [12] pp. One of 150 numbered copies, signed by the author. Fine copy.
New York: [Phoenix Bookshop], 1980. First edition. Original Wraps. [8] pp. Stapled wrappers. Christmas greeting from the legendary bookseller, recounting a visit to Michael McClure in San Francisco in the 1960s. First issue. Wilson has written on the inside front cover, "The unissued, suppressed (because of poor inking, broken type.....
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.
![Notes on 94th Street [first edition]. D. H. Melhem, Diana Helen](/pictures/thumb/638.jpg?v=1608705975)
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.....
San Francisco: Donald & Alice Schenker, n.d. [1957]. First edition. Original Wraps. Stapled wrappers with tape-bound spine. One of 470 copies, of a total edition of 500. A bit of rubbing to covers, but overall a near fine copy. Meltzer's first book.
New York: October House, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Gray paper boards, spine lettered in gilt, with the dust jacket. Slight mark from paper-clip to top edge of jacket front panel, slight rubbing to jacket lower corners, else fine. 88 pp. Menashe's first book to be published in the United States.....
![To Open [first edition, inscribed]. Samuel Menashe](/pictures/thumb/552.jpg?v=1608706377)
New York: Viking Press, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. 118 pp. A beautiful copy, fine in a fine jacket. Winner of the first Neglected Masters Award from the Poetry Foundation, Menashe, whom Dana Gioia has called "a serious poet of singular talent, power, and originality," received acclaim later in.....
![The Open Sea and Other Poems [inscribed to Merwin]. William Meredith](/pictures/thumb/1461.jpg?v=1608706438)
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. 62 pp. Deep blue cloth, lettered in gilt and silver, with the dust jacket. Minor dulling to gilt, small old stain at foot of spine; jacket spine torn and crinkled at head, affecting the author's first name, but complete. Inscribed on.....