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... More
London: Faber, (1931). 1st edition, original hand-tied paperwraps, with illustrated jacket (as issued). Illustrated with drawings by E. McKnight Kauffer, and beautifully printed at The Curwen Press. Published as The Ariel Poems, No. 35, in an edition of only 2000 copies. (Gallup A19a.) A lovely copy of a potentially fragile... More
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. More
New York: American Committee for Cultural Freedom, 1961. 1st edition, original printed paperwraps (as issued). Published as Volume XXVIII, Number 5-6, this all-star cast includes six poems by Anne Sexton, and more poems by John Ashbery, Elizabeth Bishop, Randall Jarrell, and Adrienne Rich. A nice, clean, bright copy in fine condition. More
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... More
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. More
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... More
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... 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 "206" on the colophon page. The book is fine... More
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... More
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... More
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... More
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... More
New York: Henry Holt, (1936). 1st edition, full red linen cloth, with dust jacket. The true first trade edition of Frost's Pulitzer Prize winning title, following the limited edition, with "First Printing" so noted on copyright page. (Crane A21.1) A presentation copy, inscribed "Robert Frost / to / J. Richard... More
New York: Knopf, (1989). 1st edition, broadside. Designed by Lorraine Louie, the text of the poem is printed in black ink, with orange, purple, and gray designs on heavy buff paper. A photo of the author by Jerry Bauer. The poem is from the poet's collection UNFINISHED PAINTING (Knopf, 1989)... More
New Haven: Yale University/The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 1985. 1st edition, limited (1/500) copies, original hand tied paperwraps (as issued). Published by The Beinecke Library as a keepsake in commemoration of the author's 100th birthday. The text reproduces a letter (including the envelope) from Ezra Pound to Viola... More
London: Press of Eric & Joan Stevens, 1980. 1st edition, limited (1/150) numbered, hand tied plain paperwraps, with printed dust jacket. The present copy is hand numbered "16" on the colophon page, which further notes "This edition, the first in book form, is limited to 150 numbered copies. It is... More
Mt. Horeb, WI: The Perishable Press, ca. 1981. 1st and only edition, single sheet broadside. The prospectus announces the forthcoming publication of Wakoski's volume of "9 poems about food & eating . . . 12 wonderful illustrations to go along by Ellen Lanyon." The present prospectus prints one of the... More
(Portland, Maine): The Southworth Press, 1932. 1st edition, thus, the only edition being a reprint from THE NEW ENGLAND QUARTERLY, Volume V, Number 2, 1932, original green paperwraps (as issued). A brief introduction by the editors, Margaret Higginson Barney and Frederic Ives Carpenter. Very minimal wear to this fine copy. Uncommon. 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
Montpelier VT: The Vermont Historical Society, 1963. 1st edition, original illustrated paperwraps (as issued). Published as Volume 14, Number 7, March 1963. The text includes four articles about Frost. A single fold for mailing, and browning rubs to rear cover, else near fine. An unusual piece of Frost ephemera. More
Concord NH: New Hampshire Historical Society, 1967. 1st edition, original illustrated paperwraps (as issued). Published as Vol XXII, No 2, Summer 1967. The text of this issue is Thompson's article on Frost (pp. 3-26) including several black and white photos of Frost. The text also includes two other New Hampshire... More
New York: Spiral Press, (1939). 1st edition, original dark blue hand-tied illustrated paperwraps (as issued). Published as a Holiday Greeting with a poem by Frost, and illustrated with decorations by Fritz Eichenberg. (Crane B7.) The present copy has the Blumenthal imprint (1/150) and is in fine condition. Joseph Blumenthal was... More
New York: Norton, (n.d., 2016). 1st edition, uncorrected proof copy, printed paperwraps (as issued). This early proof copy lacks the Foreword by Pablo Conrad, and also lacks the Introduction by Claudia Rankine. The text of the present issue (pp. 1171) includes the Contents section, and the poems. A heavy volume... More
New York: Norton, (1969). 1st edition, full black cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. A review copy, with review slip laid in. The author's fifth book of poetry. Very minimal wear to jacket edges, else fine. More