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
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THE NORTH CAROLINA POEMS.
Rocky Mount, NC: North Carolina Wesleyan College Press, (1994). 1st edition, original photo-illustrated paperwraps (as issued). Specially inscribed and signed by Ammons on the title page. The inscription reads: "With admiration & deep affection / to Susan Moore / from / Archie Ammons / W-S / 9 April '95" in..... More
NOT ONLY THAT.
New Rochelle, NY: Elizabeth Press, (1967). 1st edition, full black cloth, with printed dust jacket. A lovely copy of the author's second book. A collection of thirty-two poems by this native American Cherokee poet. A bright, fine copy. Uncommon thus. Scarce. More
THRILLER SUITE.
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
THE SEVENTIES.
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
ARMORED HEARTS: SELECTED AND NEW POEMS.
Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, (1995). 1st edition, full cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. The poetry in this volume "offers the power of idiomatic narrative at its naked best" (from the jacket notes). A bright, fine copy, appears in 'as new' condition. More
THE REASON WHY THE CLOSET-MAN IS NEVER SAD.
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
FROM THE BERKELEY HILLS.
New York: Harper & Row, (1969). 1st edition, full cloth, with dust jacket. A presentation copy to author Zan Knudson, inscribed: "For Zan at a delightful conference with best wishes George P. Elliott August 1976" on the FEP. Very light wear to jacket, else fine. More
SO IT HAPPENS. (Typescript, signed.)
No place, no date. an original typed (from typewriter) copy of Feldman's poem, "So It Happens" on 11 inch x 8.5 inch fine watermarked paper, signed by Feldman on lower right corner in black ink. Two folds for mailing, else fine. More
THE END OF SPACE.
Portland: Tavern Books, (2012). 1st edition, limited (1/4) numbered and signed, original white hand tied paperwraps, with illustrated dust jacket (as issued). A prose poetry essay published in ten parts. The present offering is one of four copies devised as the "Space Sticker Edition" on the colophon page, stickered, numbered..... More
GEORGE BELLOWS: AUTUMN BROOK. (Broadside.)
Rochester NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 2003. 1st edition, signed, broadside. Published as The New Visions Programs Park Avenue Broadside Series No 2. The abstract illustration of Bellows' bovine is attractively accomplished using seven colors in addition to the black ink for the text. A color image of this broadside is..... More
WINTER STARS.
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
OUT OF THE COLD: DRAWINGS AND POEMS FOR CHRISTMAS.
Northern Ireland: Abbey Press, (1999). Hardcover. 1st edition, limited (1/500) numbered and signed, full black cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. A collection of fourteen poems by this highly praised Irish lyric poet, illustrated with fourteen drawings specifically for each poem by the author's daughter, Sarah Longley. This limited edition is..... More
THE INNER ROOM.
New York: Knopf, 1988. 1st edition, full purple cloth, with dust jacket. A collection of thirty-eight poems, arranged in five sections. An uncommonly fine copy in bright jacket. More
NIGHTS AND DAYS.
New York: Atheneum, 1966. 1st edition, full cloth, w/dj. Merrill's fourth volume of poetry, and the winner of the National Book Award for Poetry in 1967. This volume includes Merrill's long poems, "The Thousand and Second Night" and "From the Cupola," along with sixteen other poems. Light sunning to spine..... More
THE SNOWFLAKE STAR. (autograph manuscript)
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
POETRY: A MAGAZINE OF VERSE.
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
THRONES 96-109 DE LOS CANTARES.
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
MORNING NOTES TO A NIGHTTIME DIARY.
(Cleveland): Bits Press, (1979). 1st edition, original printed stiff paperwraps (as issued). Published as A Bits Chapbook. Very light wear and sunning to edges of covers, else fine. More
THE LONG MEADOW.
Saint Paul: Graywolf Press, (2004). 1st edition, green boards, with illustrated dust jacket. Selected (in manuscript form) as the 2003 James Laughlin Award Recipient, by judges Mary Jo Bang, Thom Gunn, and Campbell McGrath. "First Graywolf Printing, 2004" so noted on copyright page. Copies of the award announcement laid-in. A...... More
A SELF-PORTRAIT IN LETTERS. (Prospectus.)
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1977. 1st issue, original photo illustrated paperwraps (as issued). The prospectus for the title, issued as an eight page publication, with photo of Sexton on cover by Arthur Furst and a letter of introduction by Jonathan Galassi on the first page. A seldom encountered piece of Sexton..... More
POETRY.
Chicago: Modern Poetry Association, Vol 106, No 1-2, April-May, 1965. 1st edition, original green printed paperwraps (as issued). A special "Double Issue" featuring "Work in Progress, Long Poems, Sequences" by some of the leading poets of the 1960s. Contributors include: Wendell Berry, Hayden Carruth, Robert Creeley, Galway Kinnell, Denise Levertov..... More
TOMBOYS.
Tungsten Press, N. H., 2015. 1st edition, limited (1/74) numbered and signed, original hand-tied stiff paperwraps, with printed dust jacket (as issued). The text of these multicolor visual image calligram poems "is set in Vollkorn type and printed by Frank Turenhout and Hans Dessens in August 2015 for Tungsten Press..... More
THE DOOR TO THE MOON.
Grindstone City: The Alternative Press, (ca. 1970). 1st edition, illustrated broadside postcard, signed. A rare Torgersen postcard from the series issued by The Alternative Press in the early 1970s when the press was located in Grindstone City, Michigan. The press, co-founded by husband and wife team Ken and Ann Mikolowski..... More
THE GRAVE OF THE RIGHT HAND.
Middletown: Wesleyan U Press, (1970). 1st edition, full gray cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. A signed copy of the author's first book-length collection of poems. "A steely elegance and precision of style characterize these poems and momentarily mask a readiness for surrealistic flights . . ." (from the jacket notes)..... More
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