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...
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1970). 1st edition, full brown cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. The second in what eventually became three volumes of Frost's biography by Lawrance Thompson. (Pp. 744, including index.) Minimal wear, price clipped jacket, else a fine reference copy.
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...
Tungsten Press, N. H., 2015. 1st edition, limited (1/62) numbered and signed, hand tied white stiff wrappers, with printed dust jacket, and publisher's tissue. A beautiful presentation designed by Wolfram Swets. Set in Bembo and Akzidenz Grotesk type and printed by Joos Wiersinga on Zerkall Butten and Johannot papers. Hand...
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...
San Francisco: Meadow Press, 1980. 1st edition, limited (1/285) signed, original stiff hand tied paperwraps. Wonderful color illustrations, woodcuts by Leigh McLellan, who has also signed the book. French-fold Mulberry paper, printed in yellow, orange, olive, silver, blue, brown and black. Size: 8 inches high x 11 inches wide, approx. A beautiful publication.
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.
Chicago: Modern Poetry Association, November 1955. 1st edition, original printed paperwraps (as issued). A Dylan Thomas featured issue, including five unpublished poems by Thomas, several pages of Thomas' holograph, a photo of Thomas, an "Elegy for Dylan Thomas" by Edith Sitwell, and several other contributions from others. Minimal wear and...
Chicago: Modern Poetry Association, May 1961. 1st edition, original printed paperwraps (as issued). The present issue, Volume 98, Number 2, publishes Creeley's monumental poem, "For Love," for the first time. Minimal wear, fine condition.
Chicago: Modern Poetry Association, January 1964. 1st edition, original printed paperwraps (as issued). Published as Volume 103, Number 4, this issue publishes Anne Sexton's poem "Sylvia's Death" for the first time. Additional original poems by William Carlos Williams, the first poem by John Haines to be published in POETRY, and...
Brockport NY: BOA Editions, 1977. 1st edition, full red cloth, with printed dust jacket. The true first printing, one of only 450 bound in cloth. The author's third collection of poems. Snodgrass won the first $1000 Ingram Merrill Foundation award for poetry in manuscript form, and subsequently the Pulitzer Prize...
Mt. Horeb: Perishable Press, 1973. 1st edition, limited (1/120) press numbered and signed, decorated boards (as issued). In addition to Stafford's signature, the present copy has been specially inscribed and signed by the illustrator. Illustrated with drawings by Michigan artist and printer, Ann Mikolowski (1940-1999), of the Alternative Press. Mikolowski...
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...
Tungsten Press, N. H., 2018. 1st edition, limited (1/26) lettered and signed, broadside. Handsomely designed and printed in three color ink by C W Swets, set in Bembo type on textured card stock. Size: 9 inches wide x 6.25 inches high (approx). Fine, 'as new' condition at the published price.
Tungsten Press, N. H., 2015, 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: 9.75 inches high x 7.5 inches wide. Fine, 'as new' at the published price.
London: Faber and Gwyer, (1928). 1st edition, limited (1/3500) hand tied paperwraps, with printed jacket (as issued). This single poem chapbook is illustrated with a drawing by E McKnight Kauffer. Issued by Faber and Gwyer as "No. 16" in The Ariel Poems series. (Gallup A11a.) Light sunning to jacket, and...
Willimantic CT: Ziesing Brothers, (1981). 1st US edition in English, original illustrated stapled paperwraps (as issued). Five poems in Spanish, with the English translations by Kathleen Ross and Richard Schaaf facing. A fine copy, appears in 'as new' condition.
New York: The Typophiles, (1990). 1st edition, limited (1/600) original hand tied printed paperwraps (as issued). A collection of eight essays written in memory of the printer, Joseph Blumenthal, who founded the Spiral Press and who printed many of Robert Frost's publications. The recollections are from Leonard Baskin, John Dreyfus...
London: Faber and Faber, (1971). 1st edition, full blue cloth, with printed dust jacket. A very bright copy of Plath's poems, published with a Note by Ted Hughes. A lovely copy in complete (not price clipped) dust jacket.
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, (1965). 1st edition, full blue cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. Specially signed by Bishop on the title page. A beautiful copy of the author's third book of poetry, first issued in an edition of only 4000 copies (MacMahon A6), and a designated Finalist for the...
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1969. 1st edition, full white cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. Specially signed by Sexton on the FEP in blue ink. A desirable copy of Sexton's collected LOVE POEMS, signed by the poet following a reading in Boston. Accompanied with a letter from a Newtonville physician (psychiatrist) who...
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...
New York: Harcourt Brace, (1946). 1st edition, full black cloth, with printed dust jacket. Specially inscribed to an editor at the "New York Post" and signed by Lowell on the FEP in black ink. The author's second (and first trade) book, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry...
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...
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1960. 1st edition, black cloth spine and gray boards, with illustrated dust jacket. Specially signed and inscribed by Sexton to her friend, the artist Barbara Swan, on the half title page. The celebrated author's important first book, seldom found signed. Sexton and Swan were friends from the...
