Tungsten Press, N. H., (2018). 1st edition, limited (1/26) lettered 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 lettered edition is Johannot, and...
Athens GA: U of Georgia Press, (1989). 1st edition, full black cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. A handsomely designed book by Betty McDaniel, and edited by Bin Ramke as part of The Contemporary Poetry Series at the University of Georgia Press. The tasteful jacket illustration is by Tim Blalock. Bright...
Tungsten Press, N. H., 2016. 1st edition, limited (1/100) numbered and signed, hand tied white stiff wrappers, with two color printed dust jacket, and publisher's tissue. A beautiful presentation designed by Wolfram Swets. Set in Janson type, hand bound and printed by Frank Turenhout and Hans Dessens on Zerkall Butten...
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...
Merrick NY: Cross-Cultural, 1982. 1st edition, original illustrated paperwraps (as issued). Published as Chapbook 32, this collection of eight poems is presented in the author's native (Cheyenne) language, with the English translation facing. The present copy is from the original issue, the text was reissued in 1992. A fine copy.
Alton, England: Prospero Poets, 1995. 1st edition, limited numbered & signed, glossy paper accordion fold into illustrated boards, with illustrated & signed broadside. This delightful poem, appropriately and profusely illustrated by Christopher Battye, is presented here in both book format and as a broadside. Both the book and the broadside...
London: Rainbow Press, 1971. 1st edition, limited (1/150) numbered and signed, full calf binding, TEG, in publisher's cloth slipcase. The present offering is designated number "77" and signed by Hughes on the colophon, and additionally inscribed and signed by Baskin immediately below Baskin's frontispiece drawing. The inscription reads: "For Sandy...
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...
New York: Braziller/Persea Books, (2017). 1st edition, blue boards, with illustrated dust jacket (as issued). Specially signed by the author on title page in black ink. The text is "An Adoptee's Search for Her Birth Mother" written and presented as "A Novel in Poems and Journal Entries" by this talented...
New York: Atheneum, 1976. 1st edition, full gray cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. A "Compliments of the Author" copy with slip laid in. This title won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1977. A bright, fine copy in like jacket.
New York: Atheneum, 1978. 1st edition, full maroon cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. This title won the National Book Award for the author, which was his first volume published after winning the Pulitzer Prize for DIVINE COMEDIES. Both volumes went on to form major pieces of his highly acclaimed THE...
New York: Atheneum, 1975. 1st edition, full blue cloth, with dust jacket. A presentation copy, inscribed in year of publication: "For --, with all good wishes, Howard Moss, August, 1975" on the second FEP. At the time of publication, the author was ". . . the poetry editor of 'The...
New York: Holt Rinehart Winston, (1969). 1st edition, full green cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. A beautiful copy of this author's first book, in bright crisp dust jacket. Ostriker, who is also a visual artist, made the woodcut for the dust jacket illustration. Uncommon in this condition.
Tungsten Press, N. H., (2016). 1st edition, limited (1/62) signed and numbered, chapbook. This single poem by the 2014 Newdigate Prize winning author is presented as a long format (13 inches high x 6.5 inches wide) broadside. Set in Baskerville type and printed by Frank Turenhout for Tungsten Press on...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
London: Faber and Faber, (1950). 1st English edition, full black cloth with gold lettering on spine, with printed dust jacket. (Gallup A61b.) A presentation copy, inscribed by T. S. Eliot upon publication, to Elisabeth Jungmann (Lady Beerbohm). Eliot was the editor of the present volume, as well as the publisher...
New York: Norton, (1993). 1st edition, uncorrected proof, original printed paperwraps. A large collection (pp. 426) of poems, including a three page Foreward by the author. Publisher's material laid-in. Minimal shelf wear, fine.
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...
Concord NH: William B Ewert, 1989. 1st edition, limited (1/36) numbered and signed, broadside. A handsomely designed broadside, the entire text in calligraphy by R. P. Hale. The present offering is one of only thirty-six copies printed on special paper and signed by the author and calligrapher. There were an...
Norfolk CT: New Directions, (1943). 1st edition, original printed purple paperwraps (as issued). Specially inscribed and signed by Dylan Thomas on the half title page. The inscription reads: "for Elmer Borklund / from / Dylan Thomas. / Chicago 1950," in black fountain pen ink. Elmer Borklund was a Chicago based...
New York: Harper & Row, (1974). 1st edition, green boards, w/illustrated dj. The author's second book of poetry. A fine copy, in price clipped jacket with gentle wear primarily to the jacket edges.
