Berkeley: Oannes, 1963. First edition. First edition, one of 500 numbered copies printed. Stiff wrappers with attached printed dust jacket. Printed on textured brown paper. 110 pp. A two-act ballad opera set in San Francisco in 1906. Slightest rubbing to head of spine, still a fine copy.
Somerville: Firefly Press, 1985. First edition thus. Bilingual edition, translated by Nicholas Fersen. First edition of these translations. [32] pp. String-sewn printed wrappers. One of 250 copies printed. Some sunning to spine, near fine. An uncommon edition, OCLC locates three copies (West Point, Lilly, Williams).
Berkeley: Atelos, 1998. First edition. First edition, one of 1,000 copies printed, of this memoir by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. A fine copy in wrappers, as issued, with a slight bit of shelfwear at the bottom edge. Signed by Armantrout on the title-page.
![Item #2092 Tide [one of 50 copies]. Silvia Bächli, text, ill. Jamaica Kincaid](https://trioletrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2092.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1633998007)
New York: Peter Freeman, Inc., 2011. First edition. [96] pp. Printed paper boards. A book of drawings by Swiss artist Silvia Bächli with text by Jamaica Kincaid. Of a total edition of 1000 copies, this is one of 50 numbered copies, signed by Bächli and Kincaid. Fine copy.
London: Faber and Faber, 1997. First edition. Original Wraps. 160 pp. Glossy printed wrappers, a paperback original. Lower front corner very slightly rubbed, still a just about fine copy. An early Carson appearance in book form.
[Portland?]: [K. Dunn?], 1979. First edition. [24] pp. Stapled wrappers. Minor handling wear, near fine. Illustration by Alaina Lara, published as "Arboreal Abomination #1." One of the scarcest items by this Portland author, best known for her novel Geek Love.
n.p. 1912. First edition. Hardcover. 78 pp. Burgundy cloth, lettered in gilt on the front board and spine. Printed for private distribution at The Riverside Press, H.O. Houghton & Co., Cambridge, Mass. Slight surface wear to boards, bookplate on Japanese paper mounted to front pastedown has offset a bit to.....
![Item #983 Pharaoh, Pharaoh [first edition]. Claudia Emerson Andrews](https://trioletrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/983.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1608692650)
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1997. First edition. First edition, wrappers issue, of the first book by this acclaimed poet, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 2006. 58 pp. Printed glossy wrappers. A fine copy.
New York: John Lane Company, 1921. First edition. 118 pp. Deep brown polished cloth backstrip over light brown paper boards, with the dust jacket. Slight rubbing to the head of the jacket spine, minor offsetting to endpapers, else a remarkably fresh and bright copy, jacket edges trimmed a little close.....
London: Covent Garden Press, 1972. First edition. Original Wraps. Number Three of the Covent Garden Essays, one of 100 copies (of a total edition of 600) signed and numbered by the author. 22 pp. Printed stapled wraps. Slightly sunned at spine, else a fine copy.
New York: Kulchur Foundation, 1983. First edition. 126 pp. Perfect-bound printed wrappers. Very minor surface wear, two small sticker ghosts on rear panel, near fine. A fairly early publication by an important poet.
Pawlet, VT: The Banyan Press, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. Full blue cloth, printed paper label on the spine. 40 pp. Slight rubbing to spine label, near fine overall. One of 250 numbered copies of Howes' first book. Attractive publication announcement laid in.
New York: New American Library, 1974. Glossy folder with "Erica Jong" sticker on front cover. Minor browning to folder, a few acidic sheets within. Contains the following materials: stapled pamphlet, "Free Preview Chapter of Fear of Flying," signed by Jong on the front cover; glossy 5x7 photograph of the author;.....
Los Angeles: Cloverfield Press, 2005. Second printing. Original Wraps. First edition, second printing, stated. Embossed on the title-page with the Cloverfield Press mark, and hand numbered (no. 1368). Stapled wraps, as issued, with letterpress-printed dust jacket and endpapers. Illustration by Emma Hedditch. Although not called for, this copy is signed.....
![Item #861 Abacus [first edition]. Mary Karr](https://trioletrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/861.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1608702146)
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.
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: 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.....
Paris: Thames & Hudson, 2000. First French edition. 224 pp. Full black cloth, lettered in silver on the spine and blind on the front board, with the dust jacket. A translation of Caws' Dora Maar: With and Without Picasso, translated by Christian-Martin Diebold. Profusely illustrated with black and white and.....
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.....
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1985. First American edition. 216 pp. Full gray cloth, spine lettered in gilt, with the dust jacket. Slight rubbing to head of jacket spine, some slight yellowing to jacket extremities. Jacket price-clipped. A lavishly illustrated monograph on the great photographer. Laid in is an.....
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.....
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.....
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: Twowindows Press, 1970. First edition. Original Wraps. [12 pp]. Red printed wrappers, sewn. One of 300 copies, of a total edition of 350. Extremely slight sunning to spine, still a fine copy.
![Item #1965 [The Second Leaf]. Laura Riding](https://trioletrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1965.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1615340694)
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.....