Featured Items
Featured Items
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
THESE MANY ROOMS.
New York / Tribeca: Four Way Books, (2019). 1st edition, original illustrated paperwraps (as issued). A luminous collection of 32 poems, presented in three sections."These Many Rooms is a sequence of elegies that build to an almost unbearable depth of feeling ..." (Chase Twichell, from the rear cover). Bound in..... More
FROM SHARKING OF THE BIRDCAGE. (Broadside.)
Tungsten Press, N. H., 2016, 1st edition, limited (1/74) numbered and signed, broadside. Handsomely designed and printed in three color ink by C W Swets, set in Bembo and Folio type. Size: 6.25 inches high x 9 inches wide. Fine, 'as new' at the published price. More
THE WALLS DO NOT FALL.
London: Oxford University Press, 1944. 1st edition, original stiff tan paperwraps, printed in two color ink (as issued). Specially signed and inscribed in year of publication by H. D. to fellow poet Gordon Bottomley (1874-1948). The inscription includes lines from the text, and reads: "H. D. / to / Gordon..... More
THE BOOK OF MONTHS & OTHER POEMS.
Santa Barbara: Capricorn Press, 1971. 1st edition, original printed and decorated paperwraps (as issued). Handsomely designed and decorated, with an Introduction by David Meltzer. Lightly sunned along spine, else a tight and fine copy. 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
GATHERING THE TRIBES.
New Haven: Yale University Press, (1976). 1st edition, full brown cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. A pristine copy of the author's celebrated first book. Selected as Volume 71 in the Yale Series of Younger Poets. A five page Foreword by Stanley Kunitz, who comments: "Her imagination, animated by a generous..... More
O CHEESE. (Broadside.)
n.p., n.d. 1st edition, broadside. As described in the Kelleher bibliogrphy: "6 x 9 inches; black print on light blue paper. Note: This version includes two extra stanzas not found in the version that appears in KICKING THE LEAVES (Harper & Row, 1978), and OLD AND NEW POEMS (Ticknor and..... More
NOISE IN THE TREES: POEMS AND A MEMOIR.
New York: Vanguard Press, (1974). 1st edition, limited (1/50) numbered and signed, full blue cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. Selected as one of the "Notable Books" of 1974 by the American Library Association, the present offering is one of only fifty copies numbered and signed by Heyen on the colophon..... More
AND SHORT THE SEASON.
New York: Norton, (2013). 1st edition, uncorrected proof, original illustrated glossy paperwraps. The poet's final collection, officially not published until April 7, 2014, two months after she died. The present offering is an uncorrected proof copy, showing "2013" on the copyright page, and with a promotional letter from the publisher..... More
CONNECTING THE DOTS.
New York: Norton, (1996). 1st edition, red cloth spine, with illustrated dust jacket. The author's eleventh collection of new poems. Jacket illustration from a painting by Wolf Kahn. A bright, fine copy in like jacket. More
THE LONG MARRIAGE.
New York: Norton, (2002). 1st edition, boards, with illustrated dust jacket. An advance copy, with publisher's material laid in. The author's thirteenth book of poems. Fine condition. More
NO ART.
Tungsten Press, N. H., 2014. 1st edition, limited (1/62) numbered and signed, white boards, with printed dust jacket and publisher's acetate (as issued). A most handsome design by Tungsten Press, printed by Joos Wiersinga and bound by Wim Kamsteeg. The type is set using Garamond and Future fonts, on Zerkall..... 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
O TO BE A DRAGON.
New York: Viking Press, 1959. 1st edition, cloth, with printed dust jacket. A presentation copy, inscribed to Holly Stevens, the daughter of poet Wallace Stevens. The inscription reads: "Mine originally, Holly, since / it had an unintentional stripe / on the jacket that was there to / stay -- (now..... More
FOLD. (Broadside.)
San Antonio: Gemini Ink, 2001. 1st edition, limited (1/108) numbered and signed, illustrated, broadside. This attractive broadside of Nye's poem was letterpress printed by Rose Harms with an image design by Beck Whitehead. The text and image are printed in black ink on light gray watermarked stock, untrimmed edges, numbered..... More
IS THERE SOMEWHERE WE SHOULDN'T LOOK?
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
THE SNOWFLAKE STAR. (A.M.S., 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
SPRINGING.
New York: Knopf, 2002. 1st edition, black spine and gold boards, with dust jacket. ". . . this life-spanning volume offers the delight of both discovery and re-discovery, as Ponsot tends the unruly garden of her mind with her customary care and passion" (from the jacket). This volume includes poems..... 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
PROVENCA.
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
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
MIDNIGHT SALVAGE: POEMS 1995-1998.
New York: Norton, (1999). 1st edition, full black cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. "These are risky poems, infused with the cruelty of history, the presence of the body, the beauty of the natural world, with human love and longing" (from the jacket flap). A fine copy in like jacket. 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