Old Lyme: Florence Griswold Museum, (2006). 1st edition, original illustrated stiff paperwraps (as issued.) Signed by author. Sub-titled "Connecticut Landscapes Through the Eyes of Venture Smith", this volume is a collection of "Poems by Marilyn Nelson inspired by the slave narrative of Venture Smith and paired with American paintings from..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1982. 1st edition, boards, w/printed dj. Inscribed in year of publication to fellow poet and close friend, Ralph Mills. The inscription reads: "For Helen & Ralph / Love, / John / March 4, '82" in black ink on the title page. "This new volume contains forty-four poems..... More
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, (1960). 1st edition, full gray cloth, with printed dust jacket. Inscribed to Nims' good friend and fellow poet, Ralph Mills. The inscription reads: "For Ralph & Helen, / Thanking them for / Tante belle cose, & / wishing them the / same. Affectionately, /..... More
San Antonio: Gemini Ink, 2001. 1st edition, limited (1/108) numbered and signed, illustrated, broadside. This attractive broadside of Nye's poem was letterpress printed by Rose Harms with an image design by Beck Whitehead. The text and image are printed in black ink on light gray watermarked stock, untrimmed edges, numbered..... More
Tungsten Press, N. H., 2015. 1st edition, limited (1/26) lettered and signed, broadside, with publisher's wrap. Handsomely designed by C. W. Swets, and printed in three color ink by Frank Turenhout using Times and Folio types on Zerkall paper. The special publisher's wrap for this lettered edition is Neenah Columns..... More
Tungsten Press, N. H., 2015. 1st edition, limited (1/100) numbered and signed, broadside, with publisher's wrap. Handsomely designed by C. W. Swets, and printed in three color ink by Frank Turenhout using Times and Folio types on Zerkall paper. The special publisher's wrap for this numbered edition is Gmund Kaschmir..... More
Tungsten Press, N. H., (2016). 1st edition, limited (1/62) signed and numbered, chapbook. This single poem by the 2014 Newdigate Prize winning author is presented as a long format (13 inches high x 6.5 inches wide) broadside. Set in Baskerville type and printed by Frank Turenhout for Tungsten Press on..... More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1974. 1st edition, limited (1/200) numbered and signed, with publisher's acetate dust jacket (as issued). Laid in is a copy of # MAGAZINE (April 1980) with contributions by Owens, Robert Kelly, and others. Trace of sunning to bright yellow boards, small nick & tear to..... 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
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
Binghamton, NY: Geryon Press/Bellevue Press, 1975. 1st edition, limited (1/65) signed, broadside. Printed by Stuary McCarty II at the Geryon Press in black ink on bright red pebbled paper. The present offering has been professionally shrink wrapped on acid free foam core. Broadside size: 12 inches high x 8 inches..... More
Lincoln, MA: The Penmaen Press, 1978. 1st edition, limited (1/100) numbered and signed, full blue cloth with publisher's blue cloth slipcase. Additionally laid in is a woodcut, signed and numbered by McCurdy. Both the additional woodcut and the book are numbered 62/100. The colophon page is signed by six of..... More
Dorset, VT: Tupelo Press, (2005). 1st edition, original paperwraps. A signed copy of the author's first book, selected in manuscript form as the Winner of the Tupelo Press Judge's Prize in Poetry. Rear cover review by Campbell McGrath, who served as the judge. "EVERYONE COMING TOWARD YOU speaks with a...... More
n.p., n.d. (circa 1946). original manuscript in the author's hand, signed "by Sylvia" below the title, on white ruled paper (10.5 inches high x 8 inches wide.) This poem, from Plath's juvenilia canon, is recorded by title only in the "Uncollected Juvenilia" list of THE COLLECTED POEMS - SYLVIA PLATH..... More
New York: Ecco Press, (1977). 1st edition, full brown cloth, w/dj. This title was published as Volume 10 in The American Poetry Series by Ecco Press, and also the winner of the William Carlos Williams Award, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. The present book is..... More
Port Townsend: Graywolf Press, 1977. 1st edition, limited (1/640) original smythe-sewn illustrated paperwraps. An association copy, inscribed by Poulin in year of publication to fellow poet/critic Ralph Mills. The inscription reads: "for Ralph Mills, / these tiny epiphanies, / with my best, / Al / May 26, 1977 / Brockport..... 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
Syracuse, NY: DWC/Boxcar Press, 2007. 1st edition, limited (1/50) numbered and signed, broadside. Printed in silver ink on flat black stock, and signed by Pratt in silver ink. Appropriately decorated with an abstract illustration suggestive of broken glass. Overall size: 14 inches high x 11 inches wide. Offered in fine..... More
Fremont: Sumac Press, (1973). Hardcover. 1st edition, limited (1/100) numbered and signed, full black cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. A collection of the author's "somapoetics" in sections, including a glossary and the author's "somalogue" as introduction to the volume. The text also includes a preface by the poet Robert Kelly..... More
Fremont: Sumac Press, (1973). Hardcover. 1st edition, limited (1/100) numbered and signed, full black cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. A collection of the author's "somapoetics" in sections, including a glossary and the author's "somalogue" as introduction to the volume. The text also includes a preface by the poet Robert Kelly..... More
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
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, (1968). 1st edition, full red cloth, with decorated dust jacket. A collection of forty poems, following the author's first book, X-RAYS. Specially signed by the author in red ink on the title page. A fine copy with minimal wear to jacket. More
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
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
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