Boise: Floating Ink Books, 1995. 1st edition, full green cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. Specially signed by Ardinger on the title page. Decorated with a linocut by Linda Wolfe. " . . . a collection of poems about traveling, the loss and renewal of place, the renewal of love, the..... More
Rochester, NY: BOA Editions, 1999. 1st edition, uncorrected proof, stiff printed paperwraps (as issued). The Isabella Gardner Poetry Award for 1999. Very gentle wear. Fine. More
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, (1988). 1st edition, full black cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. "TO URANIA is the third collection of Joseph Brodsky's poetry to be published in the United States. It includes poems from various periods in Mr. Brodsky's career, translated from the Russian or originally composed in..... More
Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, (1979). 1st edition, limited (1/150) signed, cloth spine and decorated boards, with out dust jacket (as issued). Beautifully designed and printed by the team of Tree Swenson and Sam Hamill. A lovely copy. Fine. More
New York: Four Way Books, (2002). 1st edition, original illustrated glossy paperwraps (as issued). The author's second full-length collection of poems, following RETURN OF THE PRODIGALS (Four Way Books, 1999). Strong advance reviews from Stephen Dunn and Maura Stanton on the rear cover. This copy specially signed by Brown on..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, (1948). 1st edition, Uncorrected Proof, original gray green paperwraps (as issued). The present volume combines the complete text of Frost's A MASQUE OF REASON, A MASQUE OF MERCY, and STEEPLE BUSH representing the "First English Edition" of all three titles. There was no US equivalent. (Crane A34.)..... More
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, (2019). 1st edition, limited (1/5) numbered and signed, original illustrated paperwraps (as issued). Issued as the "clockface edition" with an original illustration drawn, numbered, and signed by Goldbarth on the title page. A collection of thirty poems, presented in four sections (pp. 94). Published in..... More
San Francisco: Kayak Books, (1968). 1st edition, original patterned paperwraps (as issued). Attractively illustrated with color drawings by Jean Varda. Edited by fellow poet, Paul Zweig, who also wrote the two page Foreword. The poems in this volume are new translations by Robert Bly, George Hitchcock, Galway Kinnell, and Paul..... More
New York: Ecco Press, (1989). 1st edition, uncorrected proof, original printed paperwraps (as issued). A lovely copy of the author's third volume of verse, preceded by FIELD GUIDE and PRAISE. Proof copies of this title are seldom seen. Fine condition. More
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
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, (1968). 1st edition, full tan cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. A collection of sixty poems, including an Index of Titles and an Index of First Lines. Pages toned from aging, else a fine copy in like (price clipped) jacket. More
London: Faber & Faber, (1973). 1st UK edition, full dark gray linen cloth with gold embossed lettering to spine, with illustrated dust jacket. Inscribed by Lowell to his close friend and fellow author, J. F. Powers and Powers' wife, Betty. The inscription reads "For Jim and Betty / with love..... More
Tungsten Press, N. H., 2013. 1st edition, limited (1/62) numbered and signed, illustrated stiff printed paperwraps, with envelope (as issued). This single poem is printed using Baskerville and Folio types on Cartiera Magnani Pescia and Neenah Columns papers, in a total press run of 74 signed copies. The paper is..... More
Omaha: Abattoir Editions/University of Nebraska, 1983. 1st edition, limited (1/290) hand swen original printed paperwraps (as issued). Handsomely designed and "printed by Harry Duncan from Joanna and Perpetua types on Goyu paper and sewed into covers by Alison Wilson" (from the colophon). The present offering is designated number "119" in..... 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
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
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
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
Tungsten Press, N. H., 2016. 1st edition, limited (1/33) numbered and signed, broadside. Handsomely printed by C W Swets in three color ink using Bembo type, May, 2016. The poem was originally published by The New Yorker on November 16, 2015. Size: 9 inches high x 6.25 inches wide. Fine..... More
New York: HarperCollins, (2004). 1st edition, boards, with illustrated dust jacket. A "With the compliments of The Author" card laid in. "David St. John is among the most innovative and accomplished poets writing today. In crafting THE FACE, a daring book-length sequence of poems, he has created a highly original..... More
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..... More
New York: Random House, (1981). 1st edition, limited (1/250) numbered & signed, navy blue cloth with acetate jacket and publisher's slipcase. A very bright, fine copy, appears 'as new' condition. More
Norfolk: New Directions, 1937. Hardcover. 1st edition, full white cloth, with printed dust jacket. "Ezra Pound has called William Carlos Williams 'the first prose writer in America, the best prose writer who now gets into print' "(from the jacket comments). The WHITE MULE is a novel by the author who..... More
Tungsten Press, N. H., 2014. 1st edition, limited (1/62) numbered, signed, original hand tied printed paperwraps (as issued). This beautiful chapbook publication of Dean Young's THREE POEMS: EXIT STRATEGIES, HOW TO BUILD A WATERFALL, AND A BLACKBIRD is set in Bembo and Futura types on Zerkall Butten and Lana papers..... More
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, (2000). 1st US edition, uncorrected proof, original printed green paperwraps (as issued). "A wry, meditative memoir of a poet's coming-of-age in communist Poland." Fine condition. More