Chicago: Modern Poetry Association, (1954). 1st edition, original printed paperwraps (as issued). A handsome reference and presentation of poems in manuscript form, as presented to the editors of POETRY Magazine. In addition to Frost and Eliot, the poets include James Joyce, Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and others..... More
Chicago: Poetry Magazine, April 1940. 1st edition, Vol LVI, No 1, original printed paperwraps (as issued). In addition to these two poems by Hughes, the present issue features poems by Elder Olson, Josephine Jacobsen, and others. There is also a review of Kenneth Patchen's early books by Amos N. Wilder..... More
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1983. 1st edition, gray cloth spine, with illustrated dust jacket. Specially inscribed to fellow poet, Paul Zimmer, on the half title page. The inscription reads: "April 1 1983 / for Zimmer -- / Thanking the / Lord his U-Haul / brought him to Georgia..... More
Austell, GA: Burnt Hickory Press, (1978). 1st edition, original printed paperwraps (as issued). The author's scarce first book, published in chapbook format. This copy specially signed in black ink on the title page. The text of ten poems includes the title poem of this book, and also the title poem..... More
New York: William Morrow, 1980. 1st edition, blue cloth spine, with illustrated dust jacket. Specially signed by Bottoms on the title page in black ink. A lovely copy of the author's first trade book, preceded only by a chapbook. This title won the Walt Whitman Award in manuscript form in..... More
Kentville, NS: Gaspereau Press, 2010. original illustrated stiff glossy paperwraps, with illustrated dust jacket. This book lover's novel by poet Tim Bowling, "Being an Adventure through Twentieth-Century American Poetry, Mid-life & Bibliomania Sparked by the Coincidental Discovery of a Book of Poems by Wallace Stevens, signed by Weldon Kees, &..... More
New York: Noonday Press, (1954). 1st edition, full yellow cloth, with dust jacket. A presentation copy signed by Bogan in year of publication: "Louise Bogan 27 April 1954 For Lee Weber" on the FEP. This title was a finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry for 1955. An attractively..... More
Tungsten Press, N. H., 2015. 1st edition, limited (1/74) numbered and signed, original hand-tied stiff paperwraps, with printed dust jacket (as issued). The text of these multicolor visual image calligram poems "is set in Vollkorn type and printed by Frank Turenhout and Hans Dessens in August 2015 for Tungsten Press..... More
Calais VT: Z Press, 1999. 1st edition, limited (1/200), original plain paperwraps, with green dust jacket (as issued). A handsome design by Kenward Elmslie and C. W. Swets, and printed by The Grenfell Press. A fine copy in 'as new' condition. More
Tungsten Press, N. H., 2015. 1st edition, limited (1/12) Roman 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, printed by Joos Wiersinga on Zerkall Butten, and using for the..... More
Tungsten Press, N. H., 2014. 1st edition, limited (1/100) numbered, signed, original hand tied paperwraps, printed white dust jacket, and publisher's glassine jacket (as issued). This handsome hand tied chapbook is set in Bembo type on Zerkall Butten and Johannot, with silkscreen four color ink on the dust jacket and..... 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: The Spiral Press, 1953. 1st edition, original decorated paperwraps (as issued). Published as the Frost Holiday Greeting at Christmas 1953, with a poem by Frost and decorations by Philip Grushkin. (Crane B25.) The present copy bears the "Marguerite & Fred Melcher" imprint (1/175). Fine condition. More
San Francisco: Kayak, (1969). 1st edition, original illustrated paperwraps (as issued). Specially signed by Simic on the title page in black ink. The author's second book. Designed and printed by George Hitchcock, using a variety of papers, and who also supplied the illustrations. Issued in an edition of only 1000..... 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
New York: Knopf, 1941. 1st edition, limited (1/1000) numbered, full blue cloth, with dust jacket. Roethke's first solo book publication, specially signed by Roethke in his characteristic green fountain pen ink on the title page. The present copy is hand numbered "600" on the colophon page. The book has internal..... 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: Knopf, 1969. 1st edition, full tan cloth, with dust jacket. "These cantos form both a joke on the antique genre of the long poem and an attempt to write one . . . " (from the jacket comments). A nice copy in like jacket. Fine. More
The Elizabeth Press, (1976). 1st edition, limited (1/300) original French fold stiff paperwraps (as issued). Beautifully printed from Times type on Magnani rag paper by Stamperia Valdonega in Verona, Italy. Designed by Martino Mardersteig. A sequence of poems by this native American poet, and one of his most elusive titles..... More
New Rochelle, NY: Elizabeth Press, (1967). 1st edition, full black cloth, with printed dust jacket. A lovely copy of the author's second book. A collection of thirty-two poems by this native American Cherokee poet. A bright, fine copy. Uncommon thus. Scarce. More
London: Faber & Faber, (1973). 1st UK edition, full light 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. The inscription reads "For my friend / For almost as long as / this..... More
London: Faber & Faber, (1973). 1st UK edition, full tan 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
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
n.p. n.p., 1976. 1st edition, limited (1/300) numbered, signed, broadside. "This poem is here printed for the first time in a broadside edition of three hundred copies, of which this is number 299." Size: 11 inches high x 8.5 inches wide. Black ink on white stock. Fine condition. More
