Austin: Cold Mountain Press, (1978). 1st edition, simultaneous illustrated paperwraps. Inscribed and signed by Bruchac with his special illustration at his signature, in green ink, on the FEP. Illustrated with drawings by Kahonhes. A collection of forty-nine poems by this popular native American Indian author. Only very gentle edge wear... More about ENTERING ONONDAGA
New York: Harper & Row, (1972). 1st edition, full cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. Specially signed by Kumin on the title page immediately above her printed name. The Pulitzer Prize winning poetry title for 1973, the text includes forty-one poems and seventeen pen-and-ink drawings by Barbara Swan. Swan, Kumin, and... More about UP COUNTRY
Rocky Mount, NC: North Carolina Wesleyan College Press, (1994). 1st edition, original photo-illustrated paperwraps (as issued). Specially inscribed and signed by Ammons on the title page. The inscription reads: "With admiration & deep affection / to Susan Moore / from / Archie Ammons / W-S / 9 April '95" in... More about THE NORTH CAROLINA POEMS
n.p. Stuart Wright, Publisher, (1983). 1st edition, full tan cloth, with out dust jacket (as issued). A lovely early volume of Smith's poems, beautifully illustrated with a frontispiece by Barry Moser. Mild sunning to cloth, else fine. More about GRAY SOLDIERS
Urbana, Chicago: U of Illinois Press, (1979). 1st edition, full tan cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated by Barry Moser, this copy is specially signed by both Smith and Moser on the title page. This collection of poems was one of three finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. An important volume... More about GOSHAWK, ANTELOPE
Columbia, SC: Bostick & Thornley, 1940. 1st edition, full green cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. A large volume (pp. 236) of poems by this southern writer of poetry, fiction and nature study. At the time of publication, the author was Poet Laureate of South Carolina, and the recently retired head... More about RAIN ON THE MARSH
New York: Random House, (1968). 1st edition, full navy blue cloth, w/decorated dj. An inscribed association copy to Rukeyser's close friend and fellow poet, Jane Cooper. The inscription reads: "for Jane with love / and delight and expectancy of / The Weather of Six Mornings -- / Muriel / 1968"... More about THE SPEED OF DARKNESS
London: John Lehmann, (1949). 1st U.K. edition, full orange cloth, with dust jacket. A presentation copy of the author's second book, inscribed to poet Ruth Pitter: "For Ruth Pitter, / with admiration-- / Theodore Roethke" in purple fountain pen ink on the half-title page. The poet Carolyn Kizer wrote, in... More about THE LOST SON
New York: Viking Press, (1966). 1st edition, blue cloth spine, with illustrated dust jacket. A signed presentation copy, in year of publication, inscribed: "For Chris and Bob Mac Donald / from Bernard Waldman / (with Marianne Moore's very best wishes / from a chair in my living room / hoping... More about TELL ME, TELL ME
New York: Viking Press, 1959. 1st edition, cloth, with printed dust jacket. A presentation copy, inscribed to Holly Stevens, the daughter of poet Wallace Stevens. The inscription reads: "Mine originally, Holly, since / it had an unintentional stripe / on the jacket that was there to / stay -- (now... More about O TO BE A DRAGON
n.p., January 8, 1995. original broadside, signed by the poet under his printed name and date. Attractively printed in two color ink (red and black) on fine stock. Framed in black finished wood. Overall size: 7 inches high x 9 inches wide, approx. Not inspected out of frame, but appears... More about ALBA. (Broadside
Cambridge MA: ca. 1957. A small archive of six poems (typed carbon copies) several with corrections/annotations in poet's hand. Richards has additionally signed two of the typed pages. Also including ALS (autograph letter signed) from Dorothea Richards in blue ink, with a sixteen word post script in the poet's hand... More about ARCHIVE OF POEMS AND LETTER
Garden City: Doubleday, 1948. 1st edition, full black cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. Specially signed and inscribed by Roethke in his signature green fountain pen ink. The inscription is to William O'Connor, a distinguished literary critic and English professor who knew and admired Roethke. The inscription reads: "For the William... More about THE LOST SON AND OTHER POEMS
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1961. 1st edition, full yellow/tan cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. Signed by Roethke on the title page. Roethke's well loved collection of poems for all ages, "a joyous book of sense and nonsense verse" beautifully illustrated by Robert Leydenfrost. The present offering is one of only... More about I AM! SAYS THE LAMB
London: Paul Breman, 1962. 1st edition, limited (1/250) numbered, original white paperwraps, with printed dust jacket. A review copy, with signed review slip from the publisher. The note on the review slip reads: "I hope this can change / your mind about the / colour of american poets .... More about A BALLAD OF REMEMBRANCE
New York: Henry Holt, (1936). 1st edition, limited (1/803) numbered and signed, full coarse tan linen cloth and brown morocco leather label to spine, with publisher's original slipcase. (Crane A21.) Frost won the Pulitzer Prize with this title in 1937. As stated in the Crane bibliography: "The limited edition actually... More about A FURTHER RANGE
New York: Center for Book Arts, 2006. 1st edition, limited (1/100) signed, original hand tied paperwraps, with publisher's slipcase (as issued). A chapbook of four poems, handsomely designed and printed by Amber McMillan using Centaur letterpress on Zerkall Book paper. A lovely presentation of Goldbarth's poems and fine press book... More about THE BOOK
Brockport: State Street Press, 1991. 1st edition, original paperwraps, with illustrated dust jacket (as issued). This chapbook of twenty-three prose style poems has been edited by Judith Kitchen, and published by her State Street Press. From the Author's Note: "I think of these pieces as being simple paragraphs rather than... More about MINT
Brockport: State Street Press, 1988. 1st edition, original paperwraps, with illustrated dust jacket. Specially signed by Eady, and inscribed "To Tom / NYC / April '00" on the title page. This early Eady collection of twenty-three poems was published as a State Street Press Chapbook. A bright fine copy. More about BOOM BOOM BOOM
Hopewell, NJ: The Ecco Press, (1995). 1st edition (2nd printing), cloth spine, with illustrated dust jacket. A presentation copy, inscribed to fellow poet Barbara Jordan. The inscription reads: "for Barbara / with admiration, / & affection-- / Jorie (1998)" in black ink on the title page. The copyright page denotes... More about THE DREAM OF THE UNIFIED FIELD: SELECTED POEMS
Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University/The Press of Appletree Alley, 1988. 1st edition, limited (1/150) numbered and signed, cloth spine, patterned boards, with out dust jacket (as issued). Illustrated with wood engravings by John DePol, who also designed the patterned boards for the covers. The text is divided into three sections, including... More about TRAVELING AT HOME
New York / Tribeca: Four Way Books, (2019). 1st edition, original illustrated paperwraps (as issued). A luminous collection of 32 poems, presented in three sections."These Many Rooms is a sequence of elegies that build to an almost unbearable depth of feeling ..." (Chase Twichell, from the rear cover). Bound in... More about THESE MANY ROOMS
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1970). 1st edition, full brown cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. The second in what eventually became three volumes of Frost's biography by Lawrance Thompson. (Pp. 744, including index.) Minimal wear, price clipped jacket, else a fine reference copy. More about ROBERT FROST: THE YEARS OF TRIUMPH, 1915-1938
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1966). 1st edition, full brown cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. The first in what eventually became three volumes of Frost's biography by Lawrance Thompson. (Pp. 641, including index.) "The first volume of this critical and interpretive biography, reflecting Thompson's intimate knowledge of the poet's... More about ROBERT FROST: THE EARLY YEARS, 1874-1915
Tungsten Press, N. H., 2015. 1st edition, limited (1/62) 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 and printed by Joos Wiersinga on Zerkall Butten and Johannot papers. Hand... More about THE TOY THRONE