(circa 1962). Classic black & white photograph of Frost by David Rhinelander, signed and inscribed "Robert Frost / to the Corbins / in friendship" in blue fountain pen ink. The image was used on the dust jacket of IN THE CLEARING (Holt, 1962) and for the pencil drawing for the..... More
Kentville, NS: Gaspereau Press, 2008. 1st edition, limited (1/45) signed, illustrated boards (without dust jacket, as issued). A beautiful publication of this single long poem by Bowling, presented as an accordion fold artist book with illustrations by Jack McMaster. Signed by both Bowling and McMaster on the colophon page, which..... More
Middletown: Wesleyan, (1981). 1st edition, full gray cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. Specially signed by Spires on the title page in black ink. The author's first trade publication, following a limited edition chapbook. The text includes twenty-nine poems in three sections. A fine copy in price-clipped jacket. Uncommon in cloth..... More
Cleveland: Bits Press/Case Western Reserve, (1980). 1st edition, original printed stiff paperwraps (as issued). Specially signed by Spires on the title page in black ink, and with a brief notation on a separate sheet laid in. Published as A Bits Chapbook in an edition limited to 1250 copies, this collection..... More
New York: New American Library, (1968). Paperwraps. 1st edition, long galley uncorrected proof, original wire staple bound, with custom archival box. The celebrated author's first book of poetry, presented here in the first issue uncorrected proof format. Laid in is a signed letter from Stanley Moss, on New American Review..... More
Atlanta and Cambridge: Emory University and Harvard, 2011. Broadside. 1st edition, limited (1/150) numbered, broadside. A single broadside printing two poems. Printed at Bow & Arrow Press, Adams House, Harvard, "on the occasion of the authors' joint reading in celebration of Cave Canem for the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library Reading..... More
Olean, NY: Uroboros Books/Allegany Mountain Press, (1981). Hardcover. 1st edition, limited, numbered and signed, black faux leather, with illustrated dust jacket. An early collection by Ruggieri, issued in a hardbound numbered edition. A collection of fifty-eight poems. Fine, 'as new' condition. More
New York: Knopf, 1994. Hardcover. 1st edition, full brown cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. "Philip Levine's THE BREAD OF TIME is an amalgam of celebration and quest. It celebrates the poets who were his teachers -- particularly John Berryman and Yvor Winters..." (from the jacket notes). A fine copy in..... More
Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, (1980). Original wraps. 1st edition, limited (1/300) signed, original hand-tied paperwraps (as issued). A collection of thirteen prose poems. "Issued in a signed edition of three hundred copies, this chapbook was designed and printed by Sam Hamill and Tree Swenson. The type is Italian Old..... More
New York: CUNY Graduate Center, 1992. Paperback. 1st edition, Number 4 (Winter 1991/Spring 1992), original illustrated paperwraps (as issued). The text includes "Geographies: An Introduction" by the editors Cheryl Fish and Burt Kimmelman, as well as poems by over forty poets. Contributors include: Jerome Rothenberg, Tory Dent, and many others..... More
Aurora: Wells College Press, 2007. Hardcover. 1st edition, limited (1/100), illustrated, fine textured green cloth (without dust jacket, as issued). A beautiful, fine press publication of this single poem by the late Welsh poet and short story writer. Set in Monotype Fournier, with title page lettering by Cheryl Jacobsen. "The..... More
Grindstone City: The Alternative Press, (ca. 1970). 1st edition, illustrated broadside postcard, signed. A rare Torgersen postcard from the series issued by The Alternative Press in the early 1970s when the press was located in Grindstone City, Michigan. The press, co-founded by husband and wife team Ken and Ann Mikolowski..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976. 1st edition, full cloth, with photo illustrated dust jacket. The author's first book. Signed and inscribed: "For Herb, / With endless / respect / & best wishes, / David / New York, 1977" in blue ink on the FEP. The inscription is to Herb Leibowitz, editor..... More
New York: Ecco Press, (1980). 1st edition, uncorrected proof, original yellow printed paperwraps (as issued). A collection of twenty-six poems, arranged in three sections. A collection of fifty-four poems. Gluck is the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and most recently the Nobel Prize in..... More
New York: Ecco Press, (1985). 1st edition, uncorrected proof, original printed blue paperwraps (as issued). A collection of twenty-six poems, arranged in three sections. Gluck is the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and most recently the Nobel Prize in Literature. Fine condition. More
Hopewell: Ecco Press, (1996). 1st edition, uncorrected proof, original glossy illustrated paperwraps (as issued). A collection of forty-six poems, arranged in a book-length sequence. Gluck is the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and most recently the Nobel Prize in Literature. Fine condition. More
Tungsten Press, N. H., 2020. 1st edition, limited (1/12) Roman numbered and signed, orginal hand tied paperwraps, with printed black dust jacket and glassine cover. This nine poem chapbook is handsomely designed by C W Swets and set in Courier and Garamond types using four color ink, on Zerkall Butten..... More
Tungsten Press, N. H., 2020. 1st edition, limited, (1/62) numbered and signed, orginal hand tied paperwraps, with printed white dust jacket and glassine cover. This nine poem chapbook is handsomely designed by C W Swets and set in Courier and Garamond types using four color ink, on Zerkall Butten and..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1977. 1st issue, original photo illustrated paperwraps (as issued). The prospectus for the title, issued as an eight page publication, with photo of Sexton on cover by Arthur Furst and a letter of introduction by Jonathan Galassi on the first page. A seldom encountered piece of Sexton..... More
Woodstock: Overlook Press, (1982). Hardcover. 1st edition, full linen cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. A collection of twelve poems. Fine condition, in complete (not price clipped, with $14.95 sticker price) jacket. More
Woodstock: The Overlook Press, (1977). Hardcover. 1st edition, full brown cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. A collection of twelve poems. This title was reissued/reprinted in 1979. The present copy is the true first edition, with lightly sunned price clipped jacket, small closed tear at foot of jacket spine, else in..... More
Dublin: The Dedalus Press, (1995). 1st edition, limited (1/250) copies, original illustrated stiff paperwraps (as issued). Published as "Dedalus Editions 7" in May, 1995. A collection of eleven poems. Fine condition, appears 'as new'. More
Pawlet VT: The Banyan Press, (1977). 1st edition, limited (1/440) numbered, hand tied printed deckled paperwraps. "Metamorphosis Of 741, by James Merrill, is a section from a still untitled longer poem" (from the colophon). Beautifully printed by Claude Fredericks and David Beeken. A nearly square volume (10 inches high x...... More
(New York): Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (ca. 1977). Glossy black and white photo by Thomas Victor of poet James Wright sitting at his desk, for publicity upon the publication of TO A BLOSSOMING PEAR TREE. Size: 5 inches high x 7 inches wide. Fine condition. More
Edgewood KY: Robert L Barth, 1995. 1st edition, limited (1/200) original illustrated stiff paperwraps. A chapbook of seventeen poems. Laid in is "an Epigrammatist postcard" printing Mezey's "Of the Power of Thought" which appears as the first poem in this chapbook collection. A fine copy in bright condition. More