Grinnell: Green Linden Press, (2020). 1st edition, 1st printing, original illustrated paperwraps (as issued). This "masterful crown of sonnets" is published in the Green Linden Chapbook Series, designed by Christopher Nelson, with cover photo art by Maria Zavate. Each of the fifteen sonnets has an individual strength to stand alone..... More
Aurora: Wells College Press, 2002. 1st edition, limited (1/50) signed, broadside. Overall size: 24 inches high x 13.5 inches wide. Very handsomely designed and printed by Terrence Chouinard at Wells College Press, on 'mouldmade Zerkall Book Wove' paper using types cast by the printer. Professionally shrink wrapped on acid free..... More
Aurora: Wells College Press, 2006. 1st edition, limited (1/50) signed, broadside. Femininely designed and printed in two color ink on delicately pink washed textured paper, with deckled upper edge. Each individual letter pressed broadside is hand washed, making each copy unique. An appropriately attractive presentation of a fine poem by..... More
New York: Braziller/Persea Books, (2017). 1st edition, blue boards, with illustrated dust jacket (as issued). Specially signed by the author on title page in black ink. The text is "An Adoptee's Search for Her Birth Mother" written and presented as "A Novel in Poems and Journal Entries" by this talented..... More
Tungsten Press, N. H., (2019). 1st edition, limited (1/74) numbered, signed, original hand tied paperwraps, printed white dust jacket with glassine (as issued). The text of these nineteen prose poems is set in Bembo and Futura types, printed on Zerkall Butten and Zerkall Restauro papers. A beautiful chapbook, handsomely designed..... More
Santa Cruz: Kayak Books, (1975). 1st ed, original illustrated paperwraps (as issued.) Specially inscribed and signed by the author on the half-title page. Published in an edition of 1000 copies. Very light shelf wear, else fine. More
New York: Forkroads Press, (1994). 1st ed, paperwraps. Signed by author on half-title page. A fine copy, appears 'as new.'. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1980. 1st edition, cloth spine, with printed dust jacket. Specially signed and dated by Kinnell in year of publication. "MORTAL ACTS, MORTAL WORDS is abundant but not careless, surprisingly funny and full of laughter in the small poems, risky and moving in the family poems, and finally..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1982. 1st edition, tan cloth spine, with illustrated dust jacket (as issued). Specially and boldly signed by Kinnell on the red end paper in black fountain pen ink. This title won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for poetry. Only gentle, minimal wear to..... More
Tungsten Press, N. H., 2014. 1st edition, limited (1/12) Roman numbered and signed, original hand tied white stiff wraps, with printed dust jacket, and publisher's tissue (as issued). Printed in four color ink using Bembo and Futura fonts by Joos Wiersinga on Zerkall Butten and Gampi Torinoko papers. Bound by..... More
Tungsten Press, N. H., 2014. 1st edition, limited (1/62) numbered and signed, original hand tied white stiff wraps, with printed dust jacket, and publisher's tissue (as issued). Printed in four color ink using Bembo and Futura fonts by Joos Wiersinga on Zerkall Butten and Zerkall Restauro papers. Bound by Hans..... More
London: J M Dent, (1974). 1st edition, original printed stiff paperwraps (as issued.) A presentation copy, inscribed and signed by Knowles on the half title page in blue ink. Fine condition. More
Santa Barbara, CA: Great Granny Press, 1976. 1st edition, broadside. Specially signed by Kooser in black ink immediately below his printed name. Issued as Great Granny's No 1, edited by M. Truman Cooper. The first issue in the Great Granny postcard broadside series. Printed in two color ink on textured..... More
Exeter: Shearsman Books, (2010). 1st edition, original glossy illustrated paperwraps. Specially signed by the author on the title page in red ink. A new book by Nancy Kuhl that is very inventive and full of energy. "Taking place within a lunar month . . . this collection of poems, fragments..... More
Exeter, UK: Shearsman Books Ltd, (2007). 1st edition, original illustrated paperwraps (as issued.) The author's first book, specially signed on the title page in blue ink. "Nancy Kuhl's THE WIFE OF THE LEFT HAND is an amazing, subtle demonstration of the ways in which domestic containment rubs up against the..... More
New York: Viking, (1985). 1st edition, black cloth spine and boards, with illustrated dust jacket. A review copy, with presentation inscription by the author: "for Doris, who / joins me in a / steep climb / with love & admiration-- / Maxine Kumin / 2 May 86" on the half-title..... More
New York: Harper & Row, (1972). Hardcover. 1st edition, full cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. Specially signed by both Kumin and Swan on the half title page in black ink. This was the Pulitzer Prize winning poetry title for 1973, the text includes forty-one poems by Kumin and seventeen pen-and-ink..... More
Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh Press, (1976). 1st edition, gray boards, with illustrated dust jacket. Published as An International Poetry Forum Selection title, the present association copy is inscribed by both the author and the translator to "Sam" Hazo, founder and director of the International Poetry Forum in Pittsburgh. Lapointe's inscription..... More
Tungsten Press, N. H., 2017. 1st edition, limited (1/100) numbered, signed, original hand tied paperwraps, printed black dust jacket (as issued). This handsome hand tied chapbook is set in Bembo type on Zerkall Butten and Lana, with silkscreen two color ink on the dust jacket and title page. The author's..... More
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, (1963). 1st edition, full tan decorated cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. Inscribed by Layton to his wife and daughter, signed and dated upon publication. The inscription reads: "For Betty and Naomi, / With love, / Irving / Montreal, Que. / January 28, 1963" in black fountain..... More
Princeton NJ: Princeton U Press, (1990). 1st edition, full blue cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. A presentation copy to fellow poet, inscribed: "For Richard Tillinghast / on a memorable occasion / with all good wishes / David Lehman / 1/26/03" in blue ink on the half title page. Published in..... More
New York: Knopf, 1986. 1st edition, full red cloth, w/decorated dj. A signed copy of the author's second trade publication of poetry. "Brad Leithauser writes of the delights of nature, the astonishments and beauties of Japan, and the essence of all that endures" (from the jacket comments.) An engraved "compliments..... More
Ashland, OR: Story Line Press, (2001). 1st edition, original illustrated paperwraps (as issued). Specially signed by Lennon on the title page, and additionally inscribed on the half title page. Publicity material from The Philadelphia Inquirer laid in. Uncommon signed. Fine condition. More
Tungsten Press, N. H., 2014. 1st edition, limited (1/62) numbered and signed, white boards, with printed dust jacket and publisher's acetate (as issued). A most handsome design by Tungsten Press, printed by Joos Wiersinga and bound by Wim Kamsteeg. The type is set using Garamond and Future fonts, on Zerkall..... More