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
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
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
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
Tungsten Press, N. H., 2018. 1st edition, limited (1/62) numbered, signed, original hand tied paperwraps, and printed white dust jacket (as issued). This beautiful chapbook publication of five poems by Massey is set in Bembo and Futura fonts on Zerkall Butten and Restauro papers, with three color ink on the... More about FIVE POEMS
n.p. (Brooklyn): Monk Books, n.d. (2011). 1st edition, limited (1/200) original illustrated paperwraps (as issued). Specially signed by Strand in black ink. A beautiful eight inch square chapbook of prose poems and color collage illustrations by Mark Strand. Very scarce. Fine condition. More about MYSTERY AND SOLITUDE IN TOPEKA
Chicago: Modern Poetry Association, May 1961. 1st edition, original printed paperwraps (as issued). The present issue, Volume 98, Number 2, publishes Creeley's monumental poem, "For Love," for the first time. Minimal wear, fine condition. More about POETRY
Chicago: Modern Poetry Association, January 1964. 1st edition, original printed paperwraps (as issued). Published as Volume 103, Number 4, this issue publishes Anne Sexton's poem "Sylvia's Death" for the first time. Additional original poems by William Carlos Williams, the first poem by John Haines to be published in POETRY, and... More about POETRY
Brockport NY: BOA Editions, 1977. 1st edition, full red cloth, with printed dust jacket. The true first printing, one of only 450 bound in cloth. The author's third collection of poems. Snodgrass won the first $1000 Ingram Merrill Foundation award for poetry in manuscript form, and subsequently the Pulitzer Prize... More about THE FUHRER BUNKER
Mt. Horeb: Perishable Press, 1973. 1st edition, limited (1/120) press numbered and signed, decorated boards (as issued). In addition to Stafford's signature, the present copy has been specially inscribed and signed by the illustrator. Illustrated with drawings by Michigan artist and printer, Ann Mikolowski (1940-1999), of the Alternative Press. Mikolowski... More about THAT OTHER ALONE
Tungsten Press, N. H., 2018. 1st edition, limited (1/12) Roman numbered, signed, original hand tied paperwraps, and printed white dust jacket (as issued). This beautiful chapbook publication of five poems by Massey is set in Bembo and Futura fonts on Zerkall Butten and Johannot papers, with three color ink on... More about FIVE POEMS
Tungsten Press, N. H., 2018. 1st edition, limited (1/26) lettered and signed, broadside. Handsomely designed and printed in three color ink by C W Swets, set in Bembo type on textured card stock. Size: 9 inches wide x 6.25 inches high (approx). Fine, 'as new' condition at the published price. More about NASHAWANNUCK. (Broadside
Tungsten Press, N. H., 2015, 1st edition, limited (1/74) numbered and signed, broadside. Handsomely designed and printed in three color ink by C W Swets, set in Bembo and Folio type. Size: 9.75 inches high x 7.5 inches wide. Fine, 'as new' at the published price. More about I HOPE I'M LOUD WHEN I'M DEAD. (Broadside
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, (1965). 1st edition, full blue cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. Specially signed by Bishop on the title page. A beautiful copy of the author's third book of poetry, first issued in an edition of only 4000 copies (MacMahon A6), and a designated Finalist for the... More about QUESTIONS OF TRAVEL
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1969. 1st edition, full white cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. Specially signed by Sexton on the FEP in blue ink. A desirable copy of Sexton's collected LOVE POEMS, signed by the poet following a reading in Boston. Accompanied with a letter from a Newtonville physician (psychiatrist) who... More about LOVE POEMS
Garden City: Doubleday, 1948. 1st edition, full black cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. Specially signed by Roethke in his signature green fountain pen ink on the FEP. This first printing of the author's second book has become increasingly scarce in fine condition with an attractive dust jacket, and signed. In... More about THE LOST SON AND OTHER POEMS
New York: Harcourt Brace, (1946). 1st edition, full black cloth, with printed dust jacket. Specially inscribed to an editor at the "New York Post" and signed by Lowell on the FEP in black ink. The author's second (and first trade) book, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry... More about LORD WEARY'S CASTLE
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 about LIVE OR DIE
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 about TO BEDLAM AND PART WAY BACK