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
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
New York: The Ecco Press, 1979. 1st edition, Autumn 1979, original illustrated paperwraps (as issued). This issue features a revised version of Justice's title poem of his first book, as well as poems by Garrett Hongo, Dennis Schmitz, Greg Pape, and others. Minimal shelf rubs to covers, and mild sunning..... More
Santa Cruz: Kayak, (1974). 1st edition, original illustrated paperwraps (as issued). Designed by George Hitchcock and printed by Dennis Koran at the Panjandrum Press. A collection of several poems (pp. 40) decorated with illustrations by Hitchcock. Age toning along edges, and two stains to rear cover. Internally fine, appears unopened..... More
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1983. 1st edition, gray cloth spine, with illustrated dust jacket. Specially inscribed to fellow poet, Paul Zimmer, on the half title page. The inscription reads: "April 1 1983 / for Zimmer -- / Thanking the / Lord his U-Haul / brought him to Georgia..... More
Austell, GA: Burnt Hickory Press, (1978). 1st edition, original printed paperwraps (as issued). The author's scarce first book, published in chapbook format. This copy specially signed in black ink on the title page. The text of ten poems includes the title poem of this book, and also the title poem..... More
New York: William Morrow, 1980. 1st edition, blue cloth spine, with illustrated dust jacket. Specially signed by Bottoms on the title page in black ink. A lovely copy of the author's first trade book, preceded only by a chapbook. This title won the Walt Whitman Award in manuscript form in..... More
Tungsten Press, N. H., 2015. 1st edition, limited (1/74) numbered and signed, original hand-tied stiff paperwraps, with printed dust jacket (as issued). The text of these multicolor visual image calligram poems "is set in Vollkorn type and printed by Frank Turenhout and Hans Dessens in August 2015 for Tungsten Press..... More
Tungsten Press, N. H., 2014. 1st edition, limited (1/100) numbered, signed, original hand tied paperwraps, printed white dust jacket, and publisher's glassine jacket (as issued). This handsome hand tied chapbook is set in Bembo type on Zerkall Butten and Johannot, with silkscreen four color ink on the dust jacket and..... More
Tungsten Press, N. H., 2014. 1st edition, limited (1/62) numbered, signed, original hand tied printed paperwraps (as issued). This beautiful chapbook publication of Dean Young's THREE POEMS: EXIT STRATEGIES, HOW TO BUILD A WATERFALL, AND A BLACKBIRD is set in Bembo and Futura types on Zerkall Butten and Lana papers..... More