THE OLDEST MAP WITH THE NAME AMERICA.
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
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POETA EN SAN FRANCISCO.
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
IF IN TIME: SELECTED POEMS 1975-2000.
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
POETRY: A Magazine of Verse.
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
ON NEW CANADA ROAD. (Broadside.)
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
GREEN SEES THINGS IN WAVES.
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
GROOM FALCONER.
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
ALL MORNING THE CROWS.
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
PHOTOGRAPH.
(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
GLOBE.
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
BOARDWALK.
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
FIRSTBORN.
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
THE POETESS.
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
THE BREAD OF TIME: TOWARD AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
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
POETRY NEW YORK.
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
A BLADE OF GRASS.
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
THE DOOR TO THE MOON.
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
HUSH.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976. 1st edition, full cloth, with photo illustrated dust jacket. The author's first book. Signed and inscribed: "For Herb, / With endless / respect / & best wishes, / David / New York, 1977" in blue ink on the FEP. The inscription is to Herb Leibowitz, editor..... More
DESCENDING FIGURE.
New York: Ecco Press, (1980). 1st edition, uncorrected proof, original yellow printed paperwraps (as issued). A collection of twenty-six poems, arranged in three sections. A collection of fifty-four poems. Gluck is the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and most recently the Nobel Prize in..... More
THE TRIUMPH OF ACHILLES.
New York: Ecco Press, (1985). 1st edition, uncorrected proof, original printed blue paperwraps (as issued). A collection of twenty-six poems, arranged in three sections. Gluck is the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and most recently the Nobel Prize in Literature. Fine condition. More
MEADOWLANDS
Hopewell: Ecco Press, (1996). 1st edition, uncorrected proof, original glossy illustrated paperwraps (as issued). A collection of forty-six poems, arranged in a book-length sequence. Gluck is the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and most recently the Nobel Prize in Literature. Fine condition. More
NOTICE.
Tungsten Press, N. H., 2020. 1st edition, limited (1/12) Roman numbered and signed, orginal hand tied paperwraps, with printed black dust jacket and glassine cover. This nine poem chapbook is handsomely designed by C W Swets and set in Courier and Garamond types using four color ink, on Zerkall Butten..... More
NOTICE.
Tungsten Press, N. H., 2020. 1st edition, limited, (1/62) numbered and signed, orginal hand tied paperwraps, with printed white dust jacket and glassine cover. This nine poem chapbook is handsomely designed by C W Swets and set in Courier and Garamond types using four color ink, on Zerkall Butten and..... More
A SELF-PORTRAIT IN LETTERS. (Prospectus.)
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1977. 1st issue, original photo illustrated paperwraps (as issued). The prospectus for the title, issued as an eight page publication, with photo of Sexton on cover by Arthur Furst and a letter of introduction by Jonathan Galassi on the first page. A seldom encountered piece of Sexton..... More
THE BOOK OF FORTUNE.
Woodstock: Overlook Press, (1982). Hardcover. 1st edition, full linen cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. A collection of twelve poems. Fine condition, in complete (not price clipped, with $14.95 sticker price) jacket. More