New York: Ecco Press / HarperCollins, (2004). 1st edition, uncorrected proof, original illustrated paperwraps (as issued). A collection of over 100 poems, bound in the uncommon "uncorrected proof" format. Fine condition. Scarce, thus. More
Amherst: Verse Press, (2002). 1st edition, full black cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. This volume is Tate's "first collection of stories . . . short-shorts or sudden fiction" (from the jacket notes). A bright, fine copy. More
New York: Ecco Press / HarperCollins, (2001). 1st edition, boards, with illustrated dust jacket (as issued). This long (pp. 175) collection of well over 100 poems by the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winning poet, James Tate. The title poem itself is worth the price of the book. A...... More
Hunter College: Nov 8, 1962. Six original black and white glossy photographs (10 inches high X 8 inches wide) of Robert Frost, as he "received at Hunter College on November 8, 1962 the Edward MacDowell Medal for his 'Outstanding Contribution to Poetry'. These photographs were taken that evening by Michael..... More
New Rochelle: The Elizabeth Press, (1975). 1st edition, limited (1/250) simultaneous paperwraps. A review copy, with review slip laid in. Beautifully designed by Martino Mardersteig and printed from Times type on Magnani rag paper by Stamperia Valdonega in Verona. Light sunning to blue wraps, else fine. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998. 1st edition, cloth spine, with printed dust jacket. This title "is the last word from one of the most pensive and delicious of all our poets, the book William Matthews completed shortly before his death, just after his fifty-fifth birthday, in November 1997" (from the jacket..... More
New York: Random House, (1999). 1st edition, boards, with illustrated dust jacket. A collection of 53 poems, including the long (pp. 8) title poem. Strong jacket review by Billy Collins. Fine condition. More
Kaneohe, HI: Tinfish Press, (2005). 1st edition, original printed paperwraps (as issued). This title won the 2005 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. A fine copy. More
Penguin Poets, (2001). 1st edition, uncorrected proof, original illustrated glossy paperwraps (as issued). An early "Advance Uncorrected Proofs" copy of this large (pp. 253) collection of Lauterbach's poetry. "A Penguin Poets Original." This title "brings together selections of each of her first five collections, as well as an exhilarating group..... More
Chicago: Seymour, Daughaday and Company, August, 1915. 1st edition, Vol VI, No V, original printed paperwraps (as issued). The celebrated photographer, Imogen Cunningham's copy, with her ownership stamp to the free end page. Additionally, a ghost of her signature is visable on the front cover. The issue includes several poems..... More
Ewert, 1997. 1st edition, limited ("artist's proof") signed, illustrated broadside. Calligraphy and illustration by artist R.P. Hale. The present copy is the "Artist's proof" copy, so noted on colophon in Hale's hand, and signed by Hale. (Not signed by Hall.) Issued in a total edition of 450 copies. Overall size..... More
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, (1998). 1st edition, boards, with illustrated dust jacket. "August Kleinzahler makes lyric sense of urban grit and neon" (Guy Davenport, from the jacket notes). A collection of thirty-four poems. A stunning author's photograph on the jacket flap by Star Black. Fine condition. More
New York: Norton, (1989). 1st edition, full cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. The author's fourteenth book. "Dubie's art of poetry . . . is vividly particular, and the sudden details in each poem trap us into his arresting visions" (from the jacket). A very bright copy in like jacket. Fine..... More
Washington DC: The Word Works, (2021). 1st edition, original illustrated paperwraps (as issued). Specially signed by Kearney on the title page. This title won the 2020 Washington Prize (in manuscript). "These surprising poems bring together the parallel but discreet worlds of human beings and birds . . . Kearney gives..... More
(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
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
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
