Fremont, MI: Sumac Press, 1968-1971. 1st editions, original glossy paperwraps (as issued). A complete set of SUMAC magazine, edited and published by Dan Gerber and Jim Harrison. This complete set of ten issues, bound as nine volumes to accommodate the "double issue" of Winter/Spring 1970, includes original poems from some... More about SUMAC
Santa Cruz: Kayak, 1973. 1st edition, original illustrated paperwraps (as issued). Specially signed by Hall at his contribution (p.65) in black ink. The volume has additional poetry contributions from James Tate, Stephen Dobyns, Anne Sexton, and many others. An excellent example of the editor/publisher George Hitchcock's unique poetry journal of... More about "Mouth" in KAYAK 31
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1982. 1st edition, tan cloth spine, with illustrated dust jacket (as issued). Specially and boldly signed by Kinnell on the red end paper in black fountain pen ink. This title won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for poetry. Only gentle, minimal wear to... More about SELECTED POEMS
Calais VT: Z Press, 2000. 1st edition, limited (1/200), original plain paperwraps, with gray 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 about THINKING
Santa Cruz: Kayak Books, (1971). 1st edition, original illustrated paperwraps (as issued). Specially inscribed and signed: "For Helen -- /Amphibiously, / John Haag" on the dedication page. Designed by George Hitchcock using many illustrations from the sea. Haag (1926-2008) studied with Theodore Roethke and James Wright at the University of... More about THE BRINE-BREATHER
Syracuse: Syracuse University, Fall 1996. 1st edition, original illustrated paperwraps (as issued). An early issue of this longstanding literary journal. Identified as "Fall 1996" on the title page, and "Winter 1996-97" on the spine. The present issue includes poems by Goldbarth, Knott, LaFemina, Larry Levis, Bruce Weigl, Brigit Pegeen Kelly... More about SALT HILL JOURNAL: THREE
New York: Henry Holt, (1947). 1st edition, full green cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. An association copy, with the attractive Rockwell Kent designed bookplate of Frederick Adams, Jr., on the pastedown. Adams was a friend of Frost, and accompanied him on his historic diplomatic visit to Russia which resulted in... More about STEEPLE BUSH
New York: Henry Holt, (1942). 1st edition, full blue cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. An association copy, with the attractive Rockwell Kent designed bookplate of Frederick Adams, Jr., on the pastedown. Adams was a friend of Frost, and accompanied him on his historic diplomatic visit to Russia which resulted in... More about A WITNESS TREE
New York: Henry Holt, (1934). 1st edition, thus, full tan decorated cloth boards, with dust jacket. (Crane A2.2) "With the issue of this new edition, Robert Frost's first volume of poetry is made available in a format to satisy the most discriminating. The book has been redesigned, the text has... More about A BOY'S WILL
Pasadena: The Untide Press, 1948. 1st edition, original illustrated paperwraps (as issued). Cover illustration by Lee Mullican. A combination of poetry and prose, published by The Untide Press, edited and printed by William Eshelman, Tom Polk Miller, Kemper Nomland, Jr., and Kermit Sheets. The Untide Press was founded in 1943... More about THE ILLITERATI (Number 5
Tungsten Press, N. H., (2019). 1st edition, limited (1/26) lettered, signed, original hand tied paperwraps, and printed white dust jacket (as issued). This long (pp. 12) poem is beautifully presented in classic Tungsten Press style, designed by C. W. Swets and set in Cambria type in March 2019. Printed on... More about THE BRINK
Easthampton MA: Warwick Press, 1996. 1st edition, limited (1/75) signed, cloth spine and boards, without dust jacket (as issued). This small, fine press edition of Hall's prose poem, published in twenty-two sections with illustrations. The colophon page notes: "Seventy-five copies of RIC'S PROGRESS were designed, printed by letterpress & handbound... More about RIC'S PROGRESS
Tungsten Press, N. H., (2019). 1st edition, limited (1/100) numbered, signed, original hand tied paperwraps, and printed white dust jacket (as issued). This long (pp. 12) poem is beautifully presented in classic Tungsten Press style, designed by C. W. Swets and set in Cambria type in March 2019. Printed on... More about THE BRINK
New York: New Directions, (1984). 1st edition, full green cloth, with photo-illustrated dust jacket. A rather long collection (pp. 231) of poems, from this eminent poet who won the Bollingen Prize (1962), the Pulitzer Prize (1966), the National Book Award (1977) among many other prizes. A fine copy in like jacket. More about THE LONG REACH: NEW & UNCOLLECTED POEMS 1948-1984
New York: Norton, (1996). 1st edition, red cloth spine, with illustrated dust jacket. The author's eleventh collection of new poems. Jacket illustration from a painting by Wolf Kahn. A bright, fine copy in like jacket. More about CONNECTING THE DOTS
New York: Norton, (1992). 1st edition, simultaneous paperwraps. A presentation copy, inscribed to fellow poet Paul Zimmer on the title page. The inscription reads: "for Paul with affection & admiration / Maxine Kumin / 1 May 93" in black ink. A nice association copy in fine condition. More about LOOKING FOR LUCK
New York: Norton, (2002). 1st edition, boards, with illustrated dust jacket. An advance copy, with publisher's material laid in. The author's thirteenth book of poems. Fine condition. More about THE LONG MARRIAGE
New York: Viking, (1985). 1st edition, black cloth spine and boards, with illustrated dust jacket. A review copy, with presentation inscription by the author: "for Doris, who / joins me in a / steep climb / with love & admiration-- / Maxine Kumin / 2 May 86" on the half-title... More about THE LONG APPROACH
Massachusetts and Holland: Tungsten Press, circa 2014-2015. A complete and comprehensive archive surrounding the publications of two poetry chapbooks from the Tungsten Press of The Netherlands: THE RAISING OF LAZARUS (2014) and THE TOY THRONE (2015), the latter of which represents the author's last and final publication during his lifetime... More about ARCHIVE OF MANUSCRIPT DRAFTS, LETTERS, AND PROOF COPIES OF THE RAISING OF LAZARUS and THE TOY THRONE
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
New York: Random House, (1968). 1st edition, full navy blue cloth, with decorated dust jacket. 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... More about THE SPEED OF DARKNESS
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