Dublin: The Dedalus Press, (1995). 1st edition, limited (1/250) copies, original illustrated stiff paperwraps (as issued). Published as "Dedalus Editions 7" in May, 1995. A collection of eleven poems. Fine condition, appears 'as new'. More
Pawlet VT: The Banyan Press, (1977). 1st edition, limited (1/440) numbered, hand tied printed deckled paperwraps. "Metamorphosis Of 741, by James Merrill, is a section from a still untitled longer poem" (from the colophon). Beautifully printed by Claude Fredericks and David Beeken. A nearly square volume (10 inches high x...... More
(New York): Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (ca. 1977). Glossy black and white photo by Thomas Victor of poet James Wright sitting at his desk, for publicity upon the publication of TO A BLOSSOMING PEAR TREE. Size: 5 inches high x 7 inches wide. Fine condition. More
Denver: Copper Canyon Press, (1973). 1st edition, original illustrated paperwraps, with illustrated dust jacket. The "second book Copper Canyon published" (per handwritten card by Tree Swenson laid in). Illustrated with drawings by Tina Wolfe, the author's sister. A collection of thirteen poems. OCLC states 500 copies printed, ten copies bound..... More
Edgewood KY: Robert L Barth, 1995. 1st edition, limited (1/200) original illustrated stiff paperwraps. A chapbook of seventeen poems. Laid in is "an Epigrammatist postcard" printing Mezey's "Of the Power of Thought" which appears as the first poem in this chapbook collection. A fine copy in bright condition. 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
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
London: Jonathan Cape, (1948). 1st edition, Uncorrected Proof, original gray green paperwraps (as issued). The present volume combines the complete text of Frost's A MASQUE OF REASON, A MASQUE OF MERCY, and STEEPLE BUSH representing the "First English Edition" of all three titles. There was no US equivalent. (Crane A34.)..... More
London: Faber and Faber, (1950). 1st English edition, full black cloth with gold lettering on spine, with printed dust jacket. (Gallup A61b.) A presentation copy, inscribed by T. S. Eliot upon publication, to Elisabeth Jungmann (Lady Beerbohm). Eliot was the editor of the present volume, as well as the publisher..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1955. 1st edition, full blue cloth, with dust jacket. The author's second volume of poetry, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1956. There were only 2000 copies published in the first printing (MacMahon A2). Printed by The Riverside Press in Cambridge, the present copy has The Grolier..... More
London: David Nutt, 1913. 1st edition, full bronze pebbled cloth, without dust jacket (as issued). Specially signed by Frost on the half-title page in fountain pen ink. The celebrated author's first commercially published book, presented here in the very rare first binding of which "no more than 350 copies were..... 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
New York: William Sloane, (1948). 1st edition, full cloth, with dust jacket. Specially signed by Berryman. An advance publication presentation copy to Berryman's girl friend (Beryl Eeman) and inscribed: "B. imperishably John, Princeton, 27 Apr 1948 won't you send me one word?" in fountain pen ink on the FEP. Additionally..... More
Tungsten Press, N. H., 2019. 1st edition, limited, (1/62) numbered, orginal hand tied paperwraps, with printed white dust jacket and glassine cover. This single poem chapbook is handsomely designed by C W Swets and set in Baskerville type on Zerkall Buetten and Johannot papers. A fine copy, offered in 'as..... More
Tungsten Press, N. H., 2019. 1st edition, limited, (1/12) Roman numbered, orginal hand tied paperwraps, with printed black dust jacket and glassine cover. This single poem chapbook is handsomely designed by C W Swets and set in Baskerville type on Zerkall Buetten and Torinoko papers. A fine copy, offered in..... More
Grinnell: Green Linden Press, (2020). 1st edition, 1st printing, original illustrated paperwraps (as issued). This "masterful crown of sonnets" is published in the Green Linden Chapbook Series, designed by Christopher Nelson, with cover photo art by Maria Zavate. Each of the fifteen sonnets has an individual strength to stand alone..... More
New York: Harper & Row, (1972). 1st edition, full cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. Specially signed by both Kumin and Swan on the half title page in black ink. This was the Pulitzer Prize winning poetry title for 1973, the text includes forty-one poems and seventeen pen-and-ink drawings by Barbara..... More
Santa Barbara: Unicorn Press, 1971. 1st edition, limited (1/375) numbered and signed, hand-tied stiff paperwraps (as issued). Beautifully printed by the Grace Hoper Press, with three-color ink on the title page. Size: 10.5 inches high x 7 inches wide. A lovely publication of an early Merwin collection in fine condition..... More
London: Agenda, (1990). 1st edition, original glossy stiff white paperwraps (as issued). Specially signed by poet Michael Hamburger on the title page. The issue features poems by Hamburger, Glyn Maxwell, W.S. Milne, and many others. Also included are "Translations from Lorca" by David Gascoyne. A bright fine copy. More
Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, (1982). 1st edition, original printed hand tied stiff paperwraps (as issued). The text of this chapbook is a single poem. "October Frost is printed from hand set Bembo type on Gutenberg Laid paper & hand sewn in wrappers in late October 1982" (from the colophon)..... More
Port Townsend: Kah Tai Alliance/Copper Canyon, (1979). Second printing, gold illustrated stiff paperwraps. Illustrated with woodblock prints by poet/artist Michael Corr. Designed and originally printed at Copper Canyon Press by Sam Hamill. "This second printing is photo-offset from the letterpress proofs" (from the colophon). A fine copy. More
Salt-Works Press, 1983. 1st edition, limited (1/500) broadside. Issued as a Christmas keepsake for Joanne and Joseph Dermont. Two color ink. Overall size: 8 inches high x 5 inches wide. This poem was later issued (1985) by Aralia Press in a different format. The present offering is the first separate..... More
New York: The Ecco Press, (1989). 1st edition, rust cloth spine, with illustrated dust jacket. "The painting of Balthus, enigmatic, poetic, and controversial, is both deeply traditional and radically modern . . . These notes are not an orderly argument by an art critic but a progression of responses, more..... More
Woodstock: The Overlook Press, (1977). 1st edition, full brown cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. A collection of twelve poems. This title was reissued/reprinted in 1979. The present copy is the true first edition, with price clipped jacket, in fine condition. More