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Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2005. First edition. Original Wraps. Uncorrected proof copy. Original printed wrappers. 134 pp. Small bump to lower corner, still a just about fine copy.
Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2005. First edition. Original Wraps. Uncorrected proof copy. Original printed wrappers. 134 pp. Small bump to lower corner, still a just about fine copy.
Bologna: Edizioni della Lanterna, 1960. First edition. Original Wraps. Red printed wrappers. [56] pp. One of 550 copies printed. Head of spine very slightly bumped, else a fine copy. Text in Italian with English translations of the poems by Lowell.
Sudbury, MA: Water Row Press, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, one of 3000 copies printed. 111 pp. Original printed boards, no jacket as issued. Thurston Moore's first major collection of poems, song lyrics, memoirs, observations, old photographs, &c. Very slight spotting to page edges, and extremely minor handling wear.....
New York: Printed for Marshall Ayres Best, 1927. First edition. 24 pp. Parchment backstrip over paper boards, front board lettered and decorated in gilt. Top edge gilt. Some minor surface wear, near fine. One of twelve numbered copies printed for private distribution, this is number 8. Morrison was a longtime.....
Dublin, Ireland/Old Deerfield, MA: The Deerfield Press/The Gallery Press, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, one of 300 copies printed. Hand-colored woodcut by Timothy Engelland. Printed by Harold McGrath at the Hampshire Typothetae, in Hatfield, Massachusetts, and bound by hand at Antiquarian Bookcrafts, Ltd., in Dublin. Signed by Muldoon on.....
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1947. First edition. 145 pp. Light blue paper boards, lettered and blocked in black, with the dust jacket. Minor toning to board edges, jacket shows some minor rubbing to extremities. Edited by Grant Code, with a foreword by W.H. Auden, the first volume he selected.....
New York: Henry Holt, 1947. First edition. Hardcover. First edition of Nemerov's first book. 71 pp. Black cloth, spine gilt, with the dust jacket. Lower corner bumped, jacket has some minor toning and slight rubbing at the head of the spine.
Boone Tolliver Press, 1977. First edition. Original Wraps. First edition, self-published, of this collection of poems and song lyrics by the noted composer, singer, balladeer, and collector of traditional songs. Original printed wraps. Text printed letterpress. Some surface wear to exterior of wraps, interior clean and tight.
Portland: Breitenbush Publications, 1980. First edition. 61 pp. Perfect-bound printed wrappers. Some surface wear, lower rear corner slightly creased. Prices blacked out on rear cover. The first full-length collection by an acclaimed poet.
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1964. First edition. 74 pp. Perfect-bound printed wrappers. Pocket Poets Series 19. Slight edgewear, spine slightly darkened, a couple of small stray ink marks to front cover; a bright near fine or better copy. A much-loved modern classic. Smith A8. Cook, Pocket Poets, 55-56. Smith.....
Millerton, NY: SADEV, 1998. First edition. [23] pp. Sewn wrappers with attached dust jacket, front cover lettered in gilt. Frontispiece portrait. One of 250 copies printed for private distribution at the Stamperia Valdonega, Verona. O'More’s elegy to his wife, Lorea Honeycutt O'More (1936-1997). O'More is the enigmatic figure best known.....
Cleveland: Mother/Asphodel, 1966. First edition thus. Original Wraps. First printing of this reissue, originally published by the Objectivist Press in 1934. Slight edgewear, else fine in printed wrappers with attached dust jacket.
Karlsruhe / Baden / Highlands: Jonathan Williams, 1953. First edition. 131 pp. Unprinted perfect-bound wrappers with dust jacket. Jacket spine browned with some toning and minor chipping to head and tail, some browning to endpapers offset from jacket. Jargon 6. Morgan A21a.
New York: New Directions, 1966. First edition. Rebound by Patchen with an original watercolor/gouache binding. Most of Patchen’s special painted bindings were created within numbered editions; this book is a unique copy bearing a particularly lovely painting.
Highlands, NC: Jonathan Williams, 1958. First edition. Original Wraps. First edition. Illustrated stiff card wraps. One of 325 copies in the regular issue. Slight foxing to top edge. Morgan A28d.
Boston: William J. Margolis, 1961. First edition. [36] pp. Stapled printed wrappers. Covers toned with some minor soiling. Only issue of this little magazine. Contains a six-page reproduction of Patchen's picture-poems, along with work by Stuart Z. Perkoff (on Aleister Crowley), James Boyer May, and others. See Semina Culture, p......
San Francisco: [Auerhahn Press], 1961. First edition. [8] pp. Paper wrappers, sewn with red yarn. Folded once, some minor handling wear. Program for an event held January 29, 1961, at the Marines' Memorial Theatre, to raise funds for treatments of Patchen's illness. Readings by Rexroth, McClure, Broughton, Jonathan Williams, Whalen.....
Mexico: Poesie et Révolution, 1945. First edition. [32] pp. Original printed wrappers. Acidic paper browned, some minor handling wear. One of 1000 copies on bouffant.
Torrance, CA: Hors Commerce Press, 1965. First edition. Original Wraps. First edition of Perret's second book, one of 200 copies printed. Introduction by Alan Sillitoe. [27] pp. Original stapled wrappers. Scattered foxing to covers and preliminaries, corners a bit creased. An unsung poet who died young, Perret was just beginning.....
Berkeley: Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities, University of California, 1994. First edition. Original wrappers. 52 pp. Perfect-bound printed wrappers. Covers slightly rubbed, near fine. A discussion between the poet and the artist about their collaborative process while working an edition of Dante's Inferno, published as Occasional Paper no.....
London: Cecil Palmer, 1920. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. 56 pp. Stiff boards with black paper jacket affixed, as issued, printed label on front board. Front board slightly bowed, spine slightly sunned, minor foxing to preliminaries. The first book by this undersung British poet (1897-1992), who wrote in traditional meter.....
Verona: Privately Printed by Gabriel Rummonds, 1971. First edition. Tan paper boards, lettered in red on the front board, publisher's cardboard slipcase. Slipcase shows some minor handling wear, book fine. One of 80 numbered copies, signed by the authors. Ten poems in Italian, French, English, and Latin by Max [Paolo].....
Surrey: The Sceptre Press, 1971. Original wrappers. [12] pp. Stapled printed wrappers. One of 150 numbered copies. Fine copy. A poem written by Plath in the early 1950s, when she was a student at Smith College.
San Francisco: Dave Haselwood, 1966. First edition. Original Wraps. [48] pp. Printed stapled wrappers. Very slight rubbing to spine, else a fine, fresh copy. Introduction by Allen Ginsberg. The first book by one of the more unsung members of the Beat Generation, the publisher of Cherry Valley Editions and the.....
Kent: Kent State University Libraries, 1971. First edition. Thirteen broadsides and a title sheet housed in a printed paper folder. 500 copies printed. All broadsides near fine, folder has a bit of creasing to top corner. Poems by John Ashbery, James Bertolino, Gwendolyn Brooks, Denise Levertov, Steven Osterlund, and Gary.....