Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1960. Hardcover. 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..... 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
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 and signed, 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..... More
Tungsten Press, N. H., 2019. 1st edition, limited (1/12) Roman numbered and signed, 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..... 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). Hardcover. 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 by Kumin and seventeen pen-and-ink..... 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
Portland: Charles Seluzicki, 2010. 1st edition, limited (1/100) signed, illustrated broadside. The present offering is from the Oyster Suite series of broadsides, printed by Paper Crane Press in Half Moon Bay, California, illustrated and published by Charles Seluzicki. Size: 11 inches high x 8.5 inches wide. Signed by Dickman in..... More
Washington DC: People on the Streets, Inc, (1970). Glossy pictorial cover. 1st edition, original photo-illustrated glossy paperwraps (as issued). "Some people who like people and think they ought to get together and communicate have just published a shiny and beautiful magazine packed with poetry and photos" (Phil Casey) begins an..... More
Chicago: Modern Poetry Association, February, 1967. 1st edition, Vol 109, No 5, original illustrated paperwraps, (as issued). The present issue includes seven poems by Creeley that later appeared in his popular volume, WORDS (Scribner, 1967). The issue also includes poems by Harrison, May Swenson, Stephen Sandy, Keith Wilson, and others..... More
Chicago: Modern Poetry Association, August 1966. 1st edition, Vol 108, No 5, original red printed paperwraps (as issued). The first appearance of Carroll Arnett in POETRY Magazine with three poems. Other contributors include Josephine Miles, Josephine Jacobsen, and others. The present copy is bright and fine, appears in 'as new'..... More
Urbana: Accent, Spring, 1952. 1st edition, Volume XII, Number 2, original printed paperwraps (as issued). Preceding Merwin's first book publication, this seven section poem is among Merwin's earliest appearances. The present copy shows only minimal wear, primarily to front cover. Uncommon thus. More
Chicago: Modern Poetry Association, September 1964. 1st edition, Vol 104, No 6, original printed tan paperwraps (as issued). This issue publishes six new poems by Merwin, eight new poems by Bly, and additional poems by Philip Levine, A. R. Ammons, Jean Garrigue. Minimal wear to this clean, near fine copy..... More
Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, (1999). 1st edition, uncorrected proof, red printed paperwraps (as issued). "His poems, grounded in the contemporary South, are scorched by a human history of violence . . . He is able to draw out powerful emotions with the simplest of suggestions . . ."..... More
Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, (1995). 1st edition, full cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. The poetry in this volume "offers the power of idiomatic narrative at its naked best" (from the jacket notes). A bright, fine copy, appears in 'as new' condition. More
New York: Ecco Press, (1989). Hardcover. 1st edition, black cloth spine, with illustrated dust jacket. The author's fifth collection of poems, "Rooted in his early experiences as a child in rural Ohio and Virginia. . ." (from the jacket). A bright, fine copy. More
New York: Norton, (2007). 1st edition, uncorrected proof, original printed paperwraps (as issued). A lovely copy of Plumly's collection (pp 96) of poems that was a finalist for the National Book Award in poetry. Publisher's material laid-in. A bright, fine copy. More
Saint Paul: Graywolf Press, (2004). 1st edition, green boards, with illustrated dust jacket. Selected (in manuscript form) as the 2003 James Laughlin Award Recipient, by judges Mary Jo Bang, Thom Gunn, and Campbell McGrath. "First Graywolf Printing, 2004" so noted on copyright page. Copies of the award announcement laid-in. A...... More
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, (1989). 1st edition, full black cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. The author's first book, a collection of prose poems. Strong jacket reviews by John Ashbery, James McMichael, and W. S. Merwin. A bright, fine copy in like dust jacket. More
