![From Room to Room [first edition]. Jane Kenyon](/pictures/thumb/1107.jpg?v=1608702685)
Cambridge: Alice James Books, 1978. First edition. Original Wraps. First edition of Kenyon's first book. 59 pp. Original printed wrappers. Minor toning and spotting to wrappers, spine a bit faded. Price slightly blacked out on rear panel. Overall a very good or better copy of the debut of an important.....
![Scattered Poems [first edition]. Jack Kerouac](/images/noimage.png)
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1971. First edition. Original wrappers. 76 pp. Photographically illustrated perfect-bound wrappers. Some browning and rubbing to covers. Pocket Poets number 28. The first printing is uncommon. Cook, Pocket Poets, pp. 72-73.
New York: Totem Press, 1960. First edition. Original wrappers. First edition, first issue (illustration printed in purple). [20] pp. Stapled wrappers. Some browning and spotting to covers. Uncommon in the first issue. Charters A11.
Amsterdam: A.A. Balkema, 1945. First edition thus. Original Wraps. Sewn signatures in marbled wrappers, printed label on front cover. Edges a bit rubbed, especially at the spine, minor abrasions to lower edge of front cover. Gorgeously printed by Enschede for Balkema during the Occupation.
Wilmington, DE: The Wilmington Poetry Society, 1946. First edition. Original Wraps. Stapled wrappers. 15 pp. An offprint from Two Appearances by Alison Kimball and Susan Sharp Adams, winner of the Third Biennial Book Award from The Wilmington Poetry Society. A copy of the cover illustration by Andrew Wyeth is mounted.....
Brooklyn: Release Press, 1977. First edition. Original Wraps. 56 pp. Original printed wrappers. One of 1000 copies printed. Fine copy.
New York: Vehicle Editions, 1979. First edition. Large quarto. Perfect-bound printed wrappers, lettered and decorated in metallic red. One of 1000 copies in wrappers, of a total edition of 1500. Uncommon volume of typewriter art by an artist and poet known for his collaborations with Robert Wilson and Philip Glass.....
San Francisco: Four Seasons Foundation, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. 33 pp. Printed paper covered boards, cloth backstrip, spine lettered in gilt. Of a total edition of 1000 copies, this is one of 26 specially bound numbered copies signed by Koller. Writing 10.
Santa Barbara: Great Granny Press, 1976. First edition. no binding. Postcard poem, printed letterpress as Great Granny's No. 1; edited by M. Truman Cooper. A fairly early Kooser publication. Fine copy.
San Luis Obispo: Solo Press, 1974. First edition. Original wrappers. 79 pp. Perfect-bound printed wrappers. Some minor handling wear and couple of stray pen marks to front cover. An early collection by the future poet laureate.
Paris: Editions Musica, 1941. First edition. Original Wraps. Printed perfect-bound wrappers. One of one hundred numbered copies. Some age-toning, spine a bit chipped at the lower edge. Scarce, WorldCat only locates one copy, at the Université d'Angers.
San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1962. First trade edition. Original wrappers. Second edition, i.e. first trade edition, one of 1250 copies, following a hardbound edition of fifty copies. Perfect-bound printed wrappers. Cover collage by Bruce Conner. Some handling wear, slight foxing. Johnston, Auerhahn, 18.
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1967. First edition. Original Wraps. First edition. 100 pp. Original printed wrappers. Spine slightly browned with some minor toning to covers, else fine. Pocket Poets Series Number Twenty. Cook 57-58.
Amsterdam: Uitgeverij de Arbeiderspers, 1983. First edition. Original Wraps. Original perfect-bound printed wrappers. 84 pp. A collection of Larkin's verse, selected from The Less Deceived, The Whitsun Weddings, and High Windows, translated into Dutch by J. Eijkelboom, with the English text en face. A fine copy. WorldCat shows only one.....
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1974. First American edition. 42 pp. Black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, with the dust jacket. Slightest rubbing to head and tail of the spine, else about fine. Larkin's last collection published in his lifetime, including "Annus Mirabilis" and "This Be the Verse." 2421.....
![Stolen & Contaminated Poems [inscribed]. James Laughlin](/pictures/thumb/1063.jpg?v=1608703507)
[Isla Vista, CA]: Turkey Press, 1985. Original Wraps. Photo-offset edition following the letterpress edition. Printed perfect-bound wrappers. 48 pp. A couple of stray marks to covers, else fine. Inscribed by Laughlin to Joanna and Michael McClure "for Joanna + Michael from J."
New York: Spring Street Press, 1975. First edition. Original wrappers. Oblong stapled wrappers. [12] leaves, printed on rectos only. Title and publication information rubber-stamped on front cover and inside cover, respectively. One of 100 numbered copies, signed by Lauterbach, and additionally inscribed by her, dated April 1975. Slight edgewear to.....
Tuscaloosa: INK-A! Press, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, one of 50 copies printed, signed by the author. Bound signatures sewn into cloth boards, printed label on spine, cassette (!) laid in integral traycase. An early production of the press, nicely printed on hand-dyed paper, with several illustrations and fold-outs.....
Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2010. First edition. Original Wraps. First edition of Lerner's third book of poems. 66 pp. Glossy printed wraps, no hardcover edition as issued. Slight bump to top edge of front cover, else a fine copy. Lerner's novel Leaving the Atocha Station received wide critical.....
San Francisco: City Lights Pocket Bookshop, 1957. First edition. 32 pp. Stapled wrappers with wraparound band pasted on. Some minor toning to label, overall a beautiful, fresh copy of the sixth book in the Pocket Poets Series, fairly uncommon in the first printing. 500 copies were printed. Wilson A2. Cook.....
![On the Edge [first edition, review copy]. Philip Levine](/pictures/thumb/1706.jpg?v=1608703931)
Iowa City: Stone Wall Press, 1963. First edition. 62 pp. Gray paper wrappers with printed cover and spine label. Minor edgewear, spine a bit sunned. Advance review copy of Levine's first book. Although not called for, this copy is signed by Levine. The edition was published in a run of.....
Portland/Denver/Omaha: Octopus Books, 2012. First edition. Original wrappers. 87 pp. Perfect-bound printed wrappers. Slight handling wear to covers and lower edge, near fine or better. The first book by an acclaimed young poet and memoirist, author of "Rape Joke" and Priestdaddy.
Northwood: Scorpion Press, 1960. First edition. Original Wraps. Stapled printed wrappers. 32 pp. Spine a bit chipped and chipped at bottom edge, some minor surface wear. Songs written in collaboration with Lindsay Anderson, Charles Fox and Oscar Lewenstein for Harry Cookson's play The Lily-White Boys.
New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1993. First edition. Original wrappers. Uncorrected proof. [10], 38 pp. Original printed wrappers, with publisher's label on front cover. Single folded sheet of Norton bound galley information laid in. Minor shelfwear, near fine. Lorde's last book, published the year after her death, from cancer.....
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1946. First edition. Hardcover. First edition of Lowell's first trade book, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1947, when Lowell was only thirty. A very good copy in somewhat dusty cloth, with some rubbing at the head and foot of the spine and toning.....