An Elegy
New York: Editions of the Tibor de Nagy Gallery, 1951. First edition. Original Wraps. One of only 500 copies printed. Drawings by Rene Bouche. [16] pp. A near fine copy in stapled wrappers, as issued, with some minor edgewear. Scarce.
New York: Editions of the Tibor de Nagy Gallery, 1951. First edition. Original Wraps. One of only 500 copies printed. Drawings by Rene Bouche. [16] pp. A near fine copy in stapled wrappers, as issued, with some minor edgewear. Scarce.
New York: Grove Press, 1956. First edition. Original Wraps. A paperback original (there was also a hardcover edition of fifteen copies published with an original drawing by Larry Rivers). 61 pp. Erratum slip pasted in on inside front cover. Tiny hole on lower corner of front cover and half-title, else.....
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1987. First edition. First edition of the first book by the well-regarded author of The Liars' Club. The jacket is price-clipped, else fine. The hardcover edition is uncommon.
London: Gordon Fraser, 1979. First edition. 136 pp. Blue cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, with the dust jacket. Slight sticker ghost on the front free endpaper, else about fine. Profusely illustrated with images from Kauffer's posters, book illustrations, theatre design, along with a checklist of Kauffer's published work.....
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1959. First edition. Single sheet, folded into sixths, with front cover serving as title-page. Small old mark on upper corner of front cover, else about fine. The first book by the enigmatic African-American Beat affiliate, published September 1959 in an edition of 1000 copies, predating.....
Iowa City: Stone Wall Press, 1960. First edition. 140 pp. Edited and with a preface by Donald Justice. Quarter Oasis leather over Japanese paper-covered boards, spine lettered in gilt, and front board lettered in blind. One of 180 copies on Rives Light, of a total edition of 200 copies. Some.....
San Francisco: The Colt Press, 1943. First edition. 48 pp. Green cloth spine over green decorated paper boards, printed spine label, no dust jacket as issued. Lower corners and spine slightly rubbed, near fine. Neat bookplate on front pastedown of C.G. Wallis, poet and translator. Kees' first book, published in.....
New York: Kelly-Winterton Press, 1982. First edition thus. Original Wraps. One of 99 copies printed. Translated by Richmond Lattimore. Attached string-sewn wrappers with printed label on front cover. Slight foxing to edges, else a fine copy. Three copies in WorldCat.
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.
London: Faber and Faber, 1991. First English language edition. 318 pp. Perfect-bound printed wrappers. Some handling wear, spine a little creased and rubbed at the head and tail. Pages browning a bit. Foreword by Stanley Kubrick, introduction by Kieślowski. The screenplays for ten hour-long films by one of the great.....
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.....
New York: New Directions, 1998. First English language edition. 118 pp. Gray boards over black cloth backstrip, spine lettered in gilt, with the dust jacket. Translated by Michael Henry Heim, who has signed this copy on the title-page. Fine copy.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989. First English language edition. 199 pp. Rose paper boards over black cloth backstrip, spine lettered in silver, with the dust jacket. Some minor toning to jacket, top and fore-edges slightly foxed. Translated by Michael Henry Heim, who has signed this copy on the.....
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990. First English language edition. 274 pp. Tan paper boards over black cloth backstrip, spine lettered in red, with the dust jacket. Fine copy.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978. First English language edition. 135 pp. Dark gray paper boards over black cloth backstrip, spine lettered in red, with the dust jacket. Some minor handling wear to jacket, still about fine.
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.
Wichita Falls: 1966. Single sheet serial publication, edited by Jon Bracker. Certainly one of Kooser's earliest appearances, and possibly one of his first solo publications, published three years before his first book, Official Entry Blank. The series is well-represented institutionally but individual issues are scarce, particularly this one by a......
Denver: The Ally Press, 1975. First edition, limited issue. [8] pp. Sewn printed wrappers, French flaps. Some toning to spine, else a fine copy. One of 50 signed and numbered copies, of a total edition of 200. An early publication by the future U.S. poet laureate. Laid in is a......
New York: New Directions, 2011. First edition thus. 40 pp. Printed stapled wrappers. Text block a little warped with a bit of a bend to the top half. Full color illustrations by Max Neumann.
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.
1957. Original Wraps. Stapled printed wrappers. The first issue of Kurtzman's legendary and short-lived satirical magazine, which he launched with an assortment of writers and artists from Mad magazine, of which Kurtzman was the founding editor. Robert Crumb has noted his indebtedness to Humbug's elaborate cover designs, which are clearly.....
San Francisco: The Four Seasons Foundation, 1970. First edition. [12], 45, [6], pp. Gray paste-paper boards over green cloth backstrip, lettered and ruled in gilt. Slightest rubbing to corners, else fine. One of fifty numbered copies in boards, signed by the author. The uncommon limited edition of this collection.....
San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1962. 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.