CALENDAR YEAR.
Riverdale-on-Hudson: Sheep Meadow Press, (1996). 1st edition, full blue cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. Inscribed and signed by Agoos on the title page. A fine copy in like jacket.
Signed Books
SEEING FOR YOU.
Pittsford: State Street Press, 1981. 1st edition, limited (1/400) paperwraps, with illustrated dust jacket (as issued). Specially signed and inscribed by Allardt. Published as volume #6 in the State Street Press Chapbooks series. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Fine.
FIMBUL-WINTER.
New York: Four Way Books, 2010. 1st edition, original illustrated paperwraps (as issued). A specially signed copy of the author's second book. The text includes thirty-six poems. The title won the 2010 Grub Street National Book Prize for poetry. Fine, 'as new' condition.
GOODBYE, MAGPIE.
Boise: Floating Ink Books, 1995. 1st edition, full green cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. Specially signed by Ardinger on the title page. Decorated with a linocut by Linda Wolfe. " . . . a collection of poems about traveling, the loss and renewal of place, the renewal of love, the...
WHO KNOWS WHAT CONSTITUTES A LIFE.
Calais, VT: Z Press, 1999. 1st edition, limited (1/26) lettered and signed, original hand-tied blue paperwraps, with pale green French-fold jacket and printed paper label (as issued). This single poem chapbook is specially illustrated with an original seven-color linoleum cut frontispiece by artist Elizabeth Murray. Signed in ink by Ashbery...
THRILLER SUITE.
Tungsten Press, N. H., (2018). 1st edition, limited (1/26) lettered and signed, hand-tied chapbook, with printed dust jacket. Handsomely designed by C. W. Swets, and printed in two color ink by Joos Wiersinga using Bembo types on Zerkall Butten paper. The dust jacket for this lettered edition is Johannot, and...
THRILLER SUITE.
Tungsten Press, N. H., (2018). 1st edition, limited (1/100) numbered and signed, hand-tied chapbook, with printed dust jacket. Handsomely designed by C. W. Swets, and printed in two color ink by Joos Wiersinga using Bembo types on Zerkall Butten paper. The dust jacket for this numbered edition is Zerkall Restauro...
MADONNA OF THE CELLO.
Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, (1961). 1st edition, full gray cloth, w/illustrated dj. The author's first book, inscribed "Dear Mary and Jack Dant / Welcome aboard my book on its / shakedown cruise -- / Robert Bagg" in blue ink on the FEP. Three moderate stains to jacket, else minimal wear.
ARDOR: THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN, VOLUME 2.
Port Townsend: Copper Canyon, (1997). 1st edition, original illustrated paperwraps (as issued.) "Extending the reach of his groundbreaking BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (Copper Canyon Press, 1994), Marvin Bell's stunning new poems address and redefine--and ultimately embrace--aging, entropy, abundance, error, comedy, and horror in the active life" (from the rear...
A PROBABLE VOLUME OF DREAMS.
New York: Atheneum, 1969. 1st edition, original glossy paperwraps (as issued.) The author's first trade book, selected as The Lamont Poetry Selection for 1969, for which there were no cloth bindings issued. Specially signed by Bell on the title page. Otherwise appears unopened, a bright fine copy.
AH, FIRENZE!
Ithaca: Clandestine Press, (1999). 1st edition, limited (1/100) numbered and signed, original Florentine paperwraps. Printed in several color inks, and bound using a variety of Florentine papers selected by the author in Florence, Italy. A fine copy. Scarce.
BARE BONES.
Edgewood, KY: Barth, 1995. 1st edition, limited (1/100) original printed paperwraps (as issued.) Specially signed by Bennett on the title page, and with an Epigrammatist postcard of the title poem laid in. A bright fine copy of this now scarce chapbook.
EXAMINED LIFE: EPIGRAMS.
Louisville: Scienter Press, (2006). 1st edition, limited (1/100) original printed paperwraps (as issued.) The present copy is specially signed by Bennett on the title page in black ink. A small collection of fifty-eight epigrams, published in chapbook format. The colophon notes: "This book was laid out on a laptop PC...
FUNNY SIGNALS.
Kanona, NY: FootHills Publishing, (2003). 1st edition, original hand stitched illustrated paperwraps (as issued.) Specially signed by Bennett on the title page. Includes all of the poems from Bennett's out-of-print collection, TO BE A HERON (1989) and a twenty-eight page section of new poems. A new copy, offered at the...
GARRETMAN.
FootHills Publishing, (1999). 1st edition, hand-tied illustrated paperwraps (as issued). "Hearthstone effects escape through Garretman. Garretman dreams of what never could be. The two grapple and contend, except when one is absent; then, the other is inconsolable" (from the rear cover). A playful series of poems presented in a chapbook...
GRIEF AND LOVE.
Kanona: FootHills Pub, (2004). 1st edition, original hand-tied printed paperwraps (as issued.) These twenty-one poems, published in three sections in a chapbook format, celebrate the "grief and love" the author knew through his mother. "There is courage, steadfastness, and humor; there is even, at times, a kind of tragic joy"...
THE HOLDING STONE.
Georgetown KY: Finishing Line Press, (2010). 1st edition, original illustrated stiff paperwraps, with black ribbon binding. Specially signed by Bennett on the title page. A wonderful collection of thirty-one poems in the classic Bennett style, short on words, long on image, with tight lyric structure. Offered in fine, 'as new' condition.
I NEVER DANCED WITH MARY BETH.
Bath, NY: FootHills Publishing, (1991). 1st edition, original illustrated stiff paperwraps (as issued.) This chapbook is specially signed by Bennett on the title page in blue ink. The text of the chapbook consists of twenty-nine poems. Fine condition.
IT'S HARD TO GET THE ANGLE RIGHT.
Maryville, MO: GreenTower Press, (1997). 1st edition, original hand tied decorated stiff paperwraps (as issued.) "A Chapbook of Villanelles" specially signed by Bruce Bennett on the title page. The rear jacket review by X. J. Kennedy states (in part): ". . . Bennett's villanelles are masterly. Deft, witty, and feelingful...
JUST ANOTHER DAY IN JUST OUR TOWN; Poems New and Selected, 2000-2016.
Washington DC: Orchises Press, 2017. 1st edition, original glossy illustrated paperwraps (as issued). Specially signed "Bruce Bennett" on the title page. A generous collection (pp. 214) of poems by the ever popular Bruce Bennett, Professor Emeritus at Wells College in Aurora, New York. A fine copy, offered 'as new' at...
SOMETHING LIKE KARMA.
Ithaca: Clandestine Press, (2009). 1st edition, limited (1/500) original illustrated yellow paperwraps (as issued.) A sequence of thirty-eight short poems. Specially signed by Bennett on the title page. Offered in fine, 'as new' condition.
SWIMMING IN A WATERING CAN.
Kanona NY: FootHills, (2014). 1st edition, original illustrated hand tied paperwraps. The present copy specially signed by Bennett on the title page. A nice collection of twenty-one poems, presented in chapbook format, by the long-time poet in residence of Wells College. Offered here in 'as new' condition, at the published price.
TO BE A HERON.
Bath, NY: Foothills Publishing, (1989). 1st edition, original glossy illustrated paperwraps (as issued.) Specially signed by Bennett on the title page, this chapbook consists of thirty short poems. Fine.
VISITATION: A SEQUENCE OF SONNETS.
Kanona, NY: FootHills Publishings, (2009). 1st edition, original hand tied illustrated paperwraps (as issued.) A sequence of twenty-eight sonnets, illustrated with Edvard Munch's painting "Ashes" on the cover. A fine collection, specially signed by Bennett on the title page in black ink. Offered in 'as new' condition.
THE WITHER'D SEDGE.
Georgetown KY: Finishing Line Press, (2014). 1st edition, original illustrated paperwraps. The present copy specially signed by Bennett on the title page. A collection of twenty-seven poems, published in two sections. A fine collection, worth twice the price. Offered here 'as new' at the published price.