ILLITERATE HEART.
Evanston: Triquarterly Books, (2002). 1st ed, uncorrected proof, original printed yellow paperwraps (as issued.) "Intensely autobiographical poems that explore the foreign and the familiar" (from the rear cover.) Fine. More
Evanston: Triquarterly Books, (2002). 1st ed, uncorrected proof, original printed yellow paperwraps (as issued.) "Intensely autobiographical poems that explore the foreign and the familiar" (from the rear cover.) Fine. More
New Rochelle, NY: Elizabeth Press, (1969). 1st edition, full black cloth, with printed dust jacket. A review copy of the author's third book, with review slip laid in. A collection of fifty poems by this native American Cherokee poet. A bright, fine copy. Uncommon thus. 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
New York: Phoenix Book Shop, 1973. 1st edition, limited (1/100) numbered and signed, hand tied marbled paperwraps (as issued). This publication, issued in chapbook format, is the only limited edition of Bishop's work. The present copy is numbered "87" and signed by Bishop on the colophon page. (MacMahon A11.) Fine condition. More
Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, (1985). 1st edition, full teal green cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. Specially signed by Jane Miller on the title page. "BLACK HOLES, BLACK STOCKINGS explores the physics and probabilities of human relationships, especially those between women. In uniting their two voices, Broumas and Miller create a.... More
New York: William Morrow, (1987). 1st edition, cloth spine, with dust jacket. A review copy with review slip laid-in. Fine in like jacket. More
Middletown: Wesleyan U Press, (1977). 1st edition, full gray cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. A review copy with publisher's review slip laid in. The English critic Alan Young's copy, with additional review slip from The Times Literary Supplement indicating "600 words by June 15" on the face of the slip... More
New York: The Spiral Press, (1954). 1st edition, original illustrated paperwraps (as issued). Published as Frost's Christmas 1954 greeting, with a poem by Frost and wood engravings by Thomas W Nason. The present copy bears the imprint of publisher Henry Holt and Company, with a signature immediately below the imprint... More
New York: Ecco Press/HarperCollins, (2000). 1st edition, full black boards, with illustrated dust jacket. Specially signed by Graham on the title page in black ink. "With SWARM, her first new collection since THE ERRANCY, Pulitzer Prize-winner Jorie Graham has given us a book-length sequence of poems stunning in its sober... More
New York: Ecco Press, (1991). 1st edition, uncorrected proof, original printed white paperwraps (as issued). A proof issue of Graham's fourth volume of verse, the actual copy originally sent to Joyce Carol Oates requesting a review, with a note from Oates enclosed declining to review the book. The note is... More
Princeton University Press, (1980). 1st edition, full brown cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. A review copy, with review slip and publisher's material addressed to poet Sandra McPherson laid in. Additionally with McPherson's signature to the FEP. The manuscript for this collection was selected by David Wagoner for publication in the... More
Bolinas CA: Smithereens Press, (1987). 1st edition, original hand colored illustrated paperwraps. Inscribed association copy by Hollo to fellow poet Carl Rakosi on the title page, and additionally with Rakosi's signature to the FEP. The text is a collection of thirty-three poems. The cover illustration is by Hollo's wife, Jane... More
Tungsten Press, N. H., 2017. 1st edition, limited (1/26) lettered, 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 Hahnemuhle Bugra, with silkscreen two color ink on the dust jacket and title page. The... More
Chicago: Vol XIII, No V, February, 1919. 1st edition, original printed paperwraps. The present issue includes six new poems by Lawrence; and a section of Poems from the Chinese: "Chinese Written Wall Pictures" translated by Amy Lowell and Florence Ayscough. An amazingly bright, fine copy. More
Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh Press, (1985). 1st edition, gold boards, with printed dust jacket. ". . . one of the most original and most highly praised of contemporary American poets . . . a book of love poems and elegies, Levis engages in a process of relentless self-interrogation about his... More
Tungsten Press, N.H., December 2012. 1st edition, limited (1/100) broadside postcard. Designed and printed letter press by C. W. Swets at the Tungsten Press, using Bembo and Folio type and three color ink on fine textured Zerkall stock. One of several poems issued by Tungsten Press in their "poecard series"... More
New York: Norton, (1988). 1st edition, simultaneous paperwraps. Signed on title page: "From Indiana / to DC -- / all good ____ ! / Linda Pastan" in blue ink. A collection of forty-six poems, arranged in five sections. Fine condition. More
El Paso, TX: Service-berry Press, (1978). 1st edition, limited (1/300) numbered, original hand tied paperwraps (as issued.). A collection of five poems by Piccione, and five poems by Burlingame. Only very light, gentle wear to this fine copy. Scarce. More
Chicago: Harriet Monroe, Vol 2, No 4, July, 1913. 1st edition, original printed paperwraps (as issued). An early issue of POETRY magazine, now beyond its centennial year, in beautiful condition. The text includes twelve poems by Lindsay, as well as poetry contributions by Amy Lowell, F.S. Flint, Richard Burton, and... More
New York: New Directions, (1959). 1st edition, full black cloth, with printed dust jacket. Signed "JL File Copy" by the book's publisher, James Laughlin, on the FEP in pencil. Provenance: James Laughlin, Norfolk, Connecticut. A very bright copy, with mild sunning and light soiling to complete (not price clipped) jacket... More
Garden City: Doubleday, 1948. 1st edition, full black cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. Specially signed by Roethke in his signature green fountain pen ink on the FEP. This first printing of the author's second book has become increasingly scarce in fine condition with an attractive dust jacket, and signed. In... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1960. 1st edition, black cloth spine and gray boards, with illustrated dust jacket. Specially signed and inscribed by Sexton to her friend, the artist Barbara Swan, on the half title page. The celebrated author's important first book, seldom found signed. Sexton and Swan were friends from the... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966. 1st edition, full cloth, with illustrated dust jacket (as issued). A unique signed, inscribed, association copy of Sexton's Pulitzer Prize winning third collection of poems. The jacket illustration is by Barbara Swan, Sexton's friend and favored illustrator. The present copy is inscribed to the book's jacket... More
(Concord, NH): William B Ewert, 1984. 1st edition, limited (1/25) numbered and signed, broadside. "This sonnet previously appeared in Targ Editions No. 20. Released for private distribution by William B Ewert, the Publisher. Limited to 400 copies, of which 40 are on special paper" (take from the colophon). The present... More
Alexandria, VA: Railway Station Press, 2007. 1st edition, limited (1/50) numbered and signed, broadside. Handsomely designed and letterpress printed in two color ink by Stuart Bradley. The text of the poem is printed in black ink using 24 pt. Goudy Open type, with a yellow Humpty Dumpty illustration balanced between... More