New York: Harper & Row, (1972). 1st US edition, gray cloth spine, with illustrated dust jacket. The first printing, with complete number run on bottom of page 64. The text includes an introductory note by Ted Hughes, twenty-four poems by Plath, and a verse play "Three Women: A Poem for..... More
Tungsten Press, N. H., (2019). 1st edition, limited (1/74) numbered, signed, original hand tied paperwraps, printed white dust jacket with glassine (as issued). The text of these nineteen prose poems is set in Bembo and Futura types, printed on Zerkall Butten and Zerkall Restauro papers. A beautiful chapbook, handsomely designed..... More
New York: Pantheon Books, (1955). 1st edition, limited (1/750) numbered and signed, full illustrated black cloth, with publisher's decorated slipcase. Beautifully designed and printed by Joseph Blumenthal at The Spiral Press, this lovely publication is boldly signed by Alexander Calder and Richard Wilbur on the colophon page. An excellent copy..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, (1985). 1st edition, original paperwraps. Published as Yale Studies in English, 193. "This is one of the most important studies of Williams that I have read over the past decade" (from the rear cover comments). Light sunning to spine, else fine. More
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, (1973). 1st edition, full black/orange cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. A review copy with review slip laid in, and specially signed by Wright on the second FEP in black ink. The author states: "TWO CITIZENS is an expression of my patriotism, of my love and..... More
Norfolk: New Directions, 1937. 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 is..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1971. 1st edition, limited (1/500) signed, full red cloth, AEG, with original publisher's glassine, and publisher's slipcase. The first printing of Sexton's monumental fifth book of poetry, published at the height of her career. Kurt Vonnegut provided the four page Foreword to this collection. A beautiful presentation..... More
New York: The Dial Press, 1976. 1st edition, burgundy boards, with illustrated dust jacket. Stated "First printing" on copyright page. "In THE DEVIL FINDS WORK, Baldwin turns his everperceptive eye to American film, offering us insights into the very nature of our society -- its history, its culture, its people"..... More
New York: The Dial Press, 1968. 1st edition, full white cloth, with printed dust jacket. Stated "First printing, 1968" on copyright page. A novel by this celebrated poet and author. Minimal sunning to jacket spine, else complete (not price clipped) and fine. More
New York: The Ecco Press, 1979. 1st edition, Autumn 1979, original illustrated paperwraps (as issued). This issue features a revised version of Justice's title poem of his first book, as well as poems by Garrett Hongo, Dennis Schmitz, Greg Pape, and others. Minimal shelf rubs to covers, and mild sunning..... More
Santa Cruz: Kayak, (1974). 1st edition, original illustrated paperwraps (as issued). Designed by George Hitchcock and printed by Dennis Koran at the Panjandrum Press. A collection of several poems (pp. 40) decorated with illustrations by Hitchcock. Age toning along edges, and two stains to rear cover. Internally fine, appears unopened..... 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
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
