Featured Items
Featured Items
A LOOK ROUND THE ESTATE.
New York: Harcourt, (1968). 1st US edition, black cloth spine, with printed dust jacket. A collection of thirty-five poems by this popular British author. Minimal wear to the jacket, else fine. 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
APRIL GALLEONS.
New York: Viking, (1987). 1st edition, cloth spine, with illustrated dust jacket. The author's twelfth collection of poems, which has been reprinted many times. Offered here is the original first edition in bright, fine condition. More
THE LANCE & RITA POEMS.
Columbia, MO: Soundpost / Sutton Hoo, 1994. 1st edition, original light green hand tied paperwraps (as issued). Specially signed by Brown on the title page. A delightful collection of twenty poems, published in chapbook format. Fine condition. More
THE DARKER FACE OF THE EARTH.
Brownsville: Story Line Press, 1994. 1st edition, uncorrected proof, original white printed paperwraps (as issued). Specially signed by Dove on the title page of the original issue. A verse play in fourteen scenes, the present offering is for both the original issue of the author's verse play in the uncorrected..... More
CONVERSATIONS WITH MAYA ANGELOU.
Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1989. 1st edition, full black cloth, with photo-illustrated dust jacket (as issued). This popular publication is quite scarce in the cloth issue. The present offering is presented 'as new' in the publisher's shrink wrap. Fine. More
DONALD HALL: A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL CHECKLIST.
Easthampton: Warwick Press, 2000. 1st edition, limited (1/50) signed, bound in silk boards. Compiled by Jack Kelleher, who also wrote the introduction. This excellent reference includes a foreword by Richard Wilbur, and elucidating commentary by Hall. Signed by Hall, Kelleher, and specially signed by the book's designer/printer Carol Blinn on..... More
ROBERT HAYDEN: COLLECTED POEMS.
New York: Liveright/Norton, (2013). 1st edition, uncorrected proof, original glossy illustrated paperwraps. "An exquisite body of work celebrating the centennial of one of the most important African-American poets of the twentieth century" (from the rear cover notes). The text includes an Index of Titles and an Index of First Lines..... More
POETRY: A MAGAZINE OF VERSE.
Chicago: Poetry, Vol XLVIII, No VI, September, 1936. 1st edition, original printed paperwraps (as issued). This issue features a group of poems by Jacobsen titled "This Is the Hour", comprising "Winter Castle", "The Passionate Place", and "Non Sum Dignus". There are also poems by Marya Zaturenska, Leslie Cross, and others..... More
BLOOD FOR A STRANGER.
New York: Harcourt Brace, (1942). 1st edition, full red cloth, with printed dust jacket. The author's monumental first solo book. (Wright A1.) Published in an edition of only 1700 copies, the present volume shows gentle wear and sunning to the jacket. On the inside pastedown is a small printed bookseller's..... More
SLOW SPRING.
Tungsten Press, N. H, (2015). 1st edition, limited (1/26) lettered and signed, hand tied stiff white paperwraps, with printed dust jacket (as issued). A most handsome chapbook of six poems, set in Bembo and Folio fonts on Zerkall Butten, with fine Lana green dust jacket. Printed by Hans Dessens and..... More
SLOW SPRING.
Tungsten Press, N. H, (2015). 1st edition, limited (1/100) numbered and signed, hand tied stiff white paperwraps, with printed dust jacket (as issued). A most handsome chapbook of six poems, set in Bembo and Folio fonts on Zerkall Butten, with fine Lana blue dust jacket. Printed by Hans Dessens and..... More
SONG.
Brockport, NY: BOA Editions, 1995. Hardcover. 1st edition, full brown cloth, with dust jacket. The poet's second book, the manuscript of which won the Lamont Poetry Prize for 1994, selected by Jorie Graham, Richard Kenney and David St. John. A fine copy in 'as new' condition, with the Lamont card..... More
MISE EN ABYME.
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
FIVE POEMS.
Tungsten Press, N. H., 2018. 1st edition, limited (1/62) numbered, signed, original hand tied paperwraps, and printed white dust jacket (as issued). This beautiful chapbook publication of five poems by Massey is set in Bembo and Futura fonts on Zerkall Butten and Restauro papers, with three color ink on the..... More
SELECTED POEMS: 1946-1985.
New York: Knopf, 1992. Paperback original. 1st edition, uncorrected proof, stiff printed paperwraps (as issued). A large (pp 339) selection of Merrill's poetry, offered in the uncommon uncorrected proof format. Very light shelf rubs, else fine. More
PEOPLE ON THE STREETS.
Washington DC: People on the Streets, Inc, (1970). Glossy pictorial cover. 1st edition, original photo-illustrated glossy paperwraps (as issued). "Some people who like people and think they ought to get together and communicate have just published a shiny and beautiful magazine packed with poetry and photos" (Phil Casey) begins an..... More
EVENING.
Tungsten Press, N. H., 2015. 1st edition, limited (1/26) lettered and signed, broadside, with publisher's wrap. Handsomely designed by C. W. Swets, and printed in three color ink by Frank Turenhout using Times and Folio types on Zerkall paper. The special publisher's wrap for this lettered edition is Neenah Columns..... 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
THE LOST SON AND OTHER POEMS.
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
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
ARCHIVE OF MANUSCRIPT DRAFTS, LETTERS, AND PROOF COPIES OF THE RAISING OF LAZARUS and THE TOY THRONE.
Massachusetts and Holland: Tungsten Press, circa 2014-2015. A complete and comprehensive archive surrounding the publications of two poetry chapbooks from the Tungsten Press of The Netherlands: THE RAISING OF LAZARUS (2014) and THE TOY THRONE (2015), the latter of which represents the author's last and final publication during his lifetime..... More