Pittsford: State Street Press, 1981. 1st edition, limited (1/400) paperwraps, with illustrated dust jacket (as issued). Specially signed and inscribed by Allardt. Published as volume #6 in the State Street Press Chapbooks series. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Fine. More
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
New Yord: Atheneum, 1980. 1st edition, limited (1/750), full cloth, with dust jacket The author's third collection of poems, the entire edition of which was limited to 750 copies (so stated on the jacket flap). Prior owner's name neatly printed on FEP, else a bright fine copy in like jacket..... More
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
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
New York: Vanguard Press, (1984). 1st edition, limited (1/26) lettered and signed, full green cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. Specially inscribed to fellow poet Karl Shapiro on the second FEP. The inscription reads: "For Sophie & Karl Shapiro / with thanks -- and so / glad to see you /..... More
New York: Harcourt Brace, (1942). 1st edition, full red cloth, with printed dust jacket. The celebrated author's monumental first book, specially signed by Jarrell in ink on the second FEP. Published in an edition of only 1700 copies (Wright A1), seldom are examples found in bright condition. Typically the inferior..... More
New York: Four Way Books, (2009). 1st edition, original illustrated paperwraps (as issued). Specially signed by Kearney on the title page in blue ink, the present offering is the author's third book of poetry. Following her debut book, AN UNKINDNESS OF RAVENS (BOA, 2001), and THE SECRET OF ME: A...... More
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..... More
Tungsten Press, N. H., 2017. 1st edition, limited (1/100) numbered, signed, original hand tied paperwraps, printed black dust jacket (as issued). This handsome hand tied chapbook is set in Bembo type on Zerkall Butten and Lana, with silkscreen two color ink on the dust jacket and title page. The author's..... More
Kalamazoo, MI: New Issues Press, (1996). 1st edition, limited (1/50) numbered and signed, full blue cloth, with out dust jacket (as issued). Prospectus laid in. A full page Foreword by Jack Driscoll introduces this collection of thirty-nine poems, published in two sections. A bright, fine copy in 'as new' condition..... More
Tungsten Press, N. H., 2018. 1st edition, limited (1/12) Roman 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 Johannot papers, with three color ink on..... More
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1973). 1st edition, full brown cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. A collection of "occasional" poetry. Jacket wear includes two closed tears and rubs, else near fine. More
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
New York: Knopf, 1988. 1st edition, uncorrected proof, original printed stiff paperwraps (as issued). Very little wear to this fine copy. More
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
New York: Knopf, 1998. 1st edition, maroon cloth spine, with illustrated dust jacket. A collection of over fifty poems, arranged in four sections. Fine condition. More
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
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
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
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..... More
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, (1997). 1st edition, original illustrated paperwraps. This volume of poems is specially inscribed and signed by Soto in year of publication on the title page. A bright, fine copy showing no wear. More
Iowa City: Windhover Press, (1995). 1st edition, limited (1/350) original sewn heavy paperwraps (as issued). A collection of sixteen pencil drawings of Vassar by Wallace Stevens, with an introduction by D. H. Woodward. A very handsome publication, offered in 'as new' condition, at the published price. More
n.p. (Brooklyn): Monk Books, n.d. (2011). 1st edition, limited (1/200) original illustrated paperwraps (as issued). Specially signed by Strand in black ink. A beautiful eight inch square chapbook of prose poems and color collage illustrations by Mark Strand. Very scarce. Fine condition. More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1966). 1st edition, full brown cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. The first in what eventually became three volumes of Frost's biography by Lawrance Thompson. (Pp. 641, including index.) "The first volume of this critical and interpretive biography, reflecting Thompson's intimate knowledge of the poet's..... More