Pasadena: Ward Ritchie, 1929. 1st edition, limited (1/80) numbered, printed folded broadside (as issued). Only 80 copies printed by Ward Ritchie at Frank Wiggins Trade School in Los Angeles while Ritchie was a student there, at the age of twenty-four. MIDSUMMER is listed in THE WARD RITCHIE PRESS AND ANDERSON..... More

San Francisco: McSweeney's, (2014). 1st edition, uncorrected proof, illustrated paperwraps (as issued). A collection of ten poems (pp. 61) offered here in the uncommon "Uncorrected Proof" state, with publication sheet laid in. Fine condition. More

Riverdale-on-Hudson: Sheep Meadow Press, (1996). 1st edition, full blue cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. Inscribed and signed by Agoos on the title page. A fine copy in like jacket. More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1979. 1st edition, cloth spine, with dust jacket. The author's second book, which won the 1978 Lamont Poetry Selection in manuscript form. Light, gentle shelf rubs to cream background of jacket, else a fine copy. Increasingly uncommon in fine condition. More

Pittsford: State Street Press, 1981. 1st edition, limited (1/400) paperwraps, with illustrated dust jacket (as issued). Specially signed and inscribed by Allardt. Published as volume #6 in the State Street Press Chapbooks series. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Fine. More

Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, (1979). 1st edition, full gray cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. This Cuban born poet's first book. "Alonso writes in the tradition of Afro-American and Caribbean poetry" (from the jacket notes). Very gentle shelf rubs to jacket, else fine. More

New York: Norton, (1975). 1st edition, full black cloth, with dust jacket. A nice bright copy in like jacket of the author's eleventh book of poetry. Fine. More

Tungsten Press, N. H., (2019). 1st edition, limited (1/26) lettered, signed, original hand tied paperwraps, and printed white dust jacket (as issued). This long (pp. 12) poem is beautifully presented in classic Tungsten Press style, designed by C. W. Swets and set in Cambria type in March 2019. Printed on..... More

New Rochelle, NY: Elizabeth Press, (1973). 1st edition, limited (1/400) boards, with publisher's simple slipcase. A collection of twenty-eight poems by this native American Indian author, who was an enrolled member of the Overhill Band of the Cherokee Nation. Handsomely designed by Martino Mardersteig and printed from Dante type on..... More

New York: Knopf, 2002. 1st edition, uncorrected proof, original printed paperwraps (as issued). Publisher's material laid in. "A highly orignal poetry debut . . . Exquisitely paced, full of delicate banter, Visits from the Seventh is a passionate and philosophically profound collection of poems" (from the publisher's comments). The author's..... More

Tungsten Press, N. H., (2018). 1st edition, limited (1/100) numbered and signed, hand-tied chapbook, with printed dust jacket. Handsomely designed by C. W. Swets, and printed in two color ink by Joos Wiersinga using Bembo types on Zerkall Butten paper. The dust jacket for this numbered edition is Zerkall Restauro..... More

Athens GA: U of Georgia Press, (1989). 1st edition, full black cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. A handsomely designed book by Betty McDaniel, and edited by Bin Ramke as part of The Contemporary Poetry Series at the University of Georgia Press. The tasteful jacket illustration is by Tim Blalock. Bright..... More