Williamstown: Aug 3, 1995. Original manuscript (ALS) of single poem, signed Lawrence Raab below the poem, with original mailing envelope. Size: 11 inches high x 8.5 inches wide, white paper, black ink. Two folds for mailing, else clean and fine, with original mailing envelope. Unique. More
Berkeley: Jan 10, 1997. Original manuscript (ALS) of single poem, along with a typed letter on white letterhead stationery, signed by Milosz and enclosed in original mailing envelope. Two pages total. Size: 11 inches high x 8.5 inches wide, poem written in blue ink. Two folds for mailing, else clean..... More
n.p. n.d. Original manuscript (ALS) of single short poem, signed by Merrill below the poem, with original mailing envelope. Size: 4 inches high x 6 inches wide, white index card, blue ink. Clean and fine, with original oversized mailing envelope. Unique. More
Stonington: Oct 24, 1994. Original manuscript (ALS) of single poem, signed and dated by McClatchy below the poem, with original mailing envelope. Size: 11 inches high x 8.5 inches wide, white watermark paper, black ink. Two folds for mailing, else clean and fine, with original mailing envelope. Unique. More
Urbana: Oct 1994. Original manuscript (ALS) of single poem, along with a letter in the poet's hand written on white stationery, signed by Kelly and enclosed in original mailing envelope. Two pages total. Size: 11 inches high x 8.5 inches wide, and 8.5 inches high x 5.5 inches wide, black..... More
New York, Houston: Dec 12, 1993. Original manuscript (ALS) of single poem, signed by Howard at his printed name, with original mailing envelope. Howard provides a handwritten text. Size: 11 inches high x 8.5 inches wide, white onion skin letterhead paper, black ink. Two folds for mailing, else clean and..... More
Buffalo: July 19, 1993. Original manuscript (ALS) of single poem, signed and dated by Creeley, in original mailing envelope. Creeley notes "My 'favorite poem' / for today at least!" Size: 11 inches high x 8.5 inches wide, white watermark paper, black ink. Two folds for mailing, else clean and fine..... More
New York: September 13, 1995. Original manuscript (ALS) of single poem, signed and dated by Ashbery, in original mailing envelope. Size: 11 inches high x 8.5 inches wide, buff watermark letterhead stationery, black ink. Two folds for mailing, else clean and fine, with original mailing envelope. Unique. More
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1989). 1st edition, full gray cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. The author's eleventh and final book, a collection of fifty poems. Fine in complete (not price clipped) jacket. More
New York: Viking, (1987). 1st edition, cloth spine, with illustrated dust jacket. The author's twelfth collection of poems, which has been reprinted many times. Offered here is the original first edition in bright, fine condition. More
New York: Viking, (1987). 1st edition, cloth spine, with illustrated dust jacket. The author's twelfth collection of poems, which has been reprinted many times. Prior owner's name on pastedown. Offered here is the original first edition in bright, fine condition. More
Kensington: Hit & Run Press, n.d. 1st edition, limited (1/50) signed, illustrated, broadside. Printed on Rives BFK white paper, illustrated with artwork by Davis Te Selle. Size: 13 inches high x 9 inches wide, approximate, two deckle edges untrimmed, two edges trimmed. Fine. More
Kensington: Hit & Run Press, n.d. 1st edition, limited (1/50) signed, illustrated, broadside. Printed on custom-made abaca/cotton paper, illustrated with artwork by Davis Te Selle. Size: 13 inches high x 9.25 inches wide, approximate, deckle edges untrimmed. Fine. More
New York: W W Norton & Company, (2018). 1st edition, uncorrected proof/advance reading copy, original illustrated paperwraps (as issued). The author's tenth collection of poems. A collection of eighty poems, in four sections. Fine. More
New York: W W Norton & Company, (2019). 1st US edition, uncorrected proof/advance reading copy, original printed paperwraps (as issued). The title poem was originally published in The New Yorker Magazine, November 10, 2014. Scarce in this uncorrected proof format. Fine. More
New York: W W Norton & Company, (2018). 1st edition, uncorrected proof/advance reading copy, original printed paperwraps (as issued). A collection of twenty new poems, in addition to a broad selection of poems from her five earlier books. This uncorrected proof copy is copyright 2018, the trade issue was released..... More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1971). 1st edition, full red cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. The author's first book of poems. Strong jacket reviews by Mark Strand, Robert Pack, John Logan, and Michael Benedikt. A fine copy in like (not price clipped) jacket. More
New York: Harper & Row, (1972). 1st US edition, gray cloth spine, with illustrated dust jacket. The first printing, with complete number run on bottom of page 64. The text includes an introductory note by Ted Hughes, twenty-four poems by Plath, and a verse play "Three Women: A Poem for..... More
Tungsten Press, N. H., (2019). 1st edition, limited (1/74) numbered, signed, original hand tied paperwraps, printed white dust jacket with glassine (as issued). The text of these nineteen prose poems is set in Bembo and Futura types, printed on Zerkall Butten and Zerkall Restauro papers. A beautiful chapbook, handsomely designed..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, (1985). 1st edition, original paperwraps. Published as Yale Studies in English, 193. "This is one of the most important studies of Williams that I have read over the past decade" (from the rear cover comments). Light sunning to spine, else fine. More
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, (1973). 1st edition, full black/orange cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. A review copy with review slip laid in, and specially signed by Wright on the second FEP in black ink. The author states: "TWO CITIZENS is an expression of my patriotism, of my love and..... More
Norfolk: New Directions, 1937. 1st edition, full white cloth, with printed dust jacket. "Ezra Pound has called William Carlos Williams 'the first prose writer in America, the best prose writer who now gets into print' "(from the jacket comments). The WHITE MULE is a novel by the author who is..... 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
New York: The Dial Press, 1976. 1st edition, burgundy boards, with illustrated dust jacket. Stated "First printing" on copyright page. "In THE DEVIL FINDS WORK, Baldwin turns his everperceptive eye to American film, offering us insights into the very nature of our society -- its history, its culture, its people"..... More
New York: The Dial Press, 1968. 1st edition, full white cloth, with printed dust jacket. Stated "First printing, 1968" on copyright page. A novel by this celebrated poet and author. Minimal sunning to jacket spine, else complete (not price clipped) and fine. More