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 about ILLITERATE HEART
Urbana: U of Illinois, Autumn, 1960. 1st edition, original printed paperwraps (as issued.) This issue includes Ammon's poem "Canto 13," as well as contributions by Anthony Ostroff, David Ray, Robert Pack, and others. A fine copy. More about ACCENT: A QUARTERLY OF NEW LITERATURE
Madison: Seventies Press, No, 1, Spring 1972. 1st edition, original printed paperwraps (as issued). Includes three sections of Rilke's "Sonnets of Orpheus," and poems by Federico Garcia Lorca, Vallejo, Neruda, Greg Orr, Bill Knott, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, and many others. A chock-full issue in fine condition. More about THE SEVENTIES
Madison: Sixties Press, No 9, Spring, 1967. 1st ed, original printed paperwraps (as issued). This issue includes poems by James Wright, Gary Snyder, Louis Simpson, and others. The editor also includes a section: Homage To Miguel Hernandez; and his editorial "The Collapse of James Dickey." Wear to wraps includes a.... More about THE SIXTIES
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 personal imprint of Howard Cady, an editor and executive at Henry Holt and Company... More about FROM A MILKWEED POD
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 about MOVABLE ISLANDS
Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, (1997). 1st edition, uncorrected proof, original green printed paperwraps (as issued.) Fine condition. More about AT THE END OF THIS SUMMER
London: Paul Breman, 1962. 1st edition, limited (1/250) numbered, original white paperwraps, with printed dust jacket. A review copy, with signed review slip from the publisher. The note on the review slip reads: "I hope this can change / your mind about the / colour of american poets .... More about A BALLAD OF REMEMBRANCE
New York: New Directions, Harcourt, Macmillan, and Knopf, 1940, 1948, 1951, 1953, 1965. A family archive of five Randall Jarrell books. All are first editions, cloth, with jackets. Four are inscribed by Jarrell to his Uncle Howell and Aunt Elise. One is inscribed by Jarrell's wife Mary (four days after... More about ARCHIVE OF FIVE BOOKS
New York: Harcourt Brace, (1993). 1st edition, green cloth spine, with illustrated dust jacket. The author's second full collection of poetry, with jacket remarks by James Merrill and Richard Wilbur. A bright, fine copy in 'as new' condition. More about THOSE I GUARD
New York: Harcourt Brace, (1946). 1st edition, full black cloth, with printed dust jacket. Specially inscribed to an editor at the "New York Post" and signed by Lowell on the FEP in black ink. The author's second (and first trade) book, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry... More about LORD WEARY'S CASTLE
Tungsten Press, N. H, (2014). 1st edition, limited (1/12) Roman numbered, signed, original hand tied paperwraps, and printed black dust jacket (as issued). This beautiful chapbook publication of Massey's long poem is set in Baskerville and Folio fonts on Zerkall Butten and Cartiera Magnani Butten papers, with silkscreen four color... More about AN INTERIM
Tungsten Press, N. H., 2015, 1st edition, limited (1/33) numbered and signed, broadside. Handsomely designed and printed in three color ink by C W Swets, set in Bembo type on textured card stock. Size: 9 inches high x 6.25 inches wide (approx). Fine, 'as new' condition at the published price. More about LATE MARCH. (Broadside
Tungsten Press, N. H., 2018. 1st edition, limited (1/26) lettered and signed, broadside. Handsomely designed and printed in three color ink by C W Swets, set in Bembo type on textured card stock. Size: 9 inches wide x 6.25 inches high (approx). Fine, 'as new' condition at the published price. More about NASHAWANNUCK. (Broadside
Nadja, (1987). 1st edition, limited (1/74) numbered and signed, hand tied paperwraps, with printed dust jacket. This prose piece of several pages "was set in Bembo types and printed on T. H. Saunders paper in an edition of 74 numbered copies during the autumn of 1987" (from the colophon). The... More about JAPAN: PROSE OF DEPARTURE
Brockport: State Street Press, 1991. 1st edition, original paperwraps, with illustrated dust jacket (as issued). This chapbook of twenty-three prose style poems has been edited by Judith Kitchen, and published by her State Street Press. From the Author's Note: "I think of these pieces as being simple paragraphs rather than... More about MINT
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, (2011). 1st edition, uncorrected proof, original glossy black and white paperwraps (as issued). A large (over pp. 200) selection of poems by this former U.S. poet laureate. Fine condition. More about SELECTED POEMS
n.p., n.d, (circa 1946). original manuscript in the author's hand, signed "by Sylvia" below the title, on white ruled paper (10.5 inches high x 8 inches wide.) This poem, from Plath's juvenilia canon, is recorded by title only in the "Uncollected Juvenilia" list of THE COLLECTED POEMS - SYLVIA PLATH... More about THE SNOWFLAKE STAR. (A.M.S., manuscript
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 about POETRY: A MAGAZINE OF VERSE
Boston: Small, Maynard, (1910). 1st edition (second impression), tan paper boards stamped in green, with tan dust jacket printed in green. "Title-page, collation, and size as in first impression . . . Published probably early in 1917" (Gallup A6b). "PROVENCA is the first American Edition of his work, and contains... More about PROVENCA
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 about THRONES 96-109 DE LOS CANTARES
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 about THE LOST SON AND OTHER POEMS
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 about TO BEDLAM AND PART WAY BACK
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1980. 1st edition, blue cloth spine, illustrated boards, with publisher's acetate jacket (as issued). The present offering is a presentation copy, inscribed "For Judy Minty -- / in friendship and in poetry" and signed by Wakoski using her trademark flower illustration. The text of this... More about CAP OF DARKNESS
Chicago: Modern Poetry Association, January 1964. 1st edition, original printed paperwraps (as issued). Published as Volume 103, Number 4, this issue publishes Anne Sexton's poem "Sylvia's Death" for the first time. Additional original poems by William Carlos Williams, the first poem by John Haines to be published in POETRY, and... More about POETRY