Baltimore, MD: Contemporary Poetry, 1944. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 48 pages. Limited to 1000 copies. Volume One of the Distinguished Poets Series of Contemporary Poetry, Mary Owings Miller, editor. Table of contents. Frontispiece. Dust jacket lightly chipped at edges and tanned. READ MORE about PERENNIAL
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Denver, CO: Alan Swallow, (1946). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, fore-edge uncut. 39+(1) pages. Limited to 350 copies. Printed by Carroll Coleman at the Prairie Press. A collection of poetry. READ MORE about TO A FAULTY LOVER
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Denver, CO: Alan Swallow, 1946. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 30, (2) pages. Limited to 250 copies. Printed by Carroll Coleman at the Prairie Press, Iowa City, Iowa. Introduction by Alan Swallow. A collection of poetry. Wrappers tanned, and chipped at top edge, near spine. READ MORE about POEMS FROM SEVERAL WILDERNESSES
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Muscatine, IA: The Prairie Press, 1940. 8vo. cloth. 71+(1) pages. Limited to 250 copies. Table of contents. Designed and printed by Carroll Coleman. A collection of poetry. READ MORE about RENEWAL
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Muscatine, IA: The Prairie Press, 1940. 8vo. cloth. 71+(1) pages. Limited to 250 copies. Table of contents. Designed and printed by Carroll Coleman. A collection of poetry. Light tanning. READ MORE about RENEWAL
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(Norwalk, CT): New Directions, (1945). 12mo. cloth, dust jacket, top edge cut, other edges uncut. 47+(1) pages. Printed by Carroll Coleman at the Prairie Press, Muscatine, Iowa. A collection of poetry Chipping at top edge of dust jacket. Dust jacket also torn along spine. READ MORE about SOME NATURAL THINGS
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(Norwalk, CT): New Directions, (1945). 12mo. cloth, dust jacket, top edge cut, other edges uncut. 47+(1) pages. Printed by Carroll Coleman at the Prairie Press, Muscatine, Iowa. A collection of poetry. READ MORE about SOME NATURAL THINGS
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Muscatine, IA: The Prairie Press, 1942. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 82, (2) pages. Signed by the author on half title. Printed by Carroll Coleman. A collection of poetry. Dust jacket chipped at top edge. READ MORE about DINNER PARTY
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Iowa City, IA: The Prairie Press, (1971). 8vo. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, dust jacket. 72, (2) pages. Designed and printed by Carroll Coleman. Table of contents. A collection of poetry. READ MORE about NEW WORLD ECOLOGUES
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Iowa City, IA: The Prairie Press, 1951. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 33+(1) pages. Foreword by Paul Engle, table of contents listing poets included. A sampling of contemporary poetry by Iowans. Lightly soiled, else near fine. READ MORE about POEMS FROM THE IOWA POETRY WORKSHOP
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(Muscatine, IA: The Prairie Press, 1942. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, fore-edge uncut. (10) pages. Designed and printed by Carroll Coleman of the Prairie Press. A collection of poetry. READ MORE about FOUR POEMS FOR THE NEW YEAR
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New York, NY: Gotham Book Mart, 1943. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. Designed and printed by Carroll Coleman at the Prairie Press, Muscatine, Iowa. A collection of poetry. Lightly tanned around edges. READ MORE about THE VIRGINIA POEMS
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New York, NY: Gotham Book Mart, 1946. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, fore-edge uncut. (20) pages. Printed by Carroll Coleman at the Prairie Press, Iowa City, Iowa. A collection of poetry. Wrappers tanned, and slightly chipped at edges. READ MORE about XII POEMS
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Muscatine, IA: The Prairie Press, 1939. 8vo. cloth, fore-edge uncut. xvi, 131+(1) pages. Edited by Paul Engle. Table of contents, comments and a note by the editor, A collection of poetry and prose. READ MORE about SELECT POETRY AND PROSE
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(Iowa City, IA): The Prairie Press, 1952. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. Designed and printed by Carroll Coleman. Table of contents. A collection of poetry. READ MORE about BRIEF INHERITANCE
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Muscatine, IA: The Prairie Press, 1943. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (20) pages. Designed and printed by Carroll Coleman. Signed by the author on half title. A collection of poetry. READ MORE about XI POEMS
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Iowa City, IA: The Prairie Press, (1957). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 53, (3) pages. Designed and printed by Carroll Coleman. Table of contents. A collection of poetry. READ MORE about THE TEN MILE RANGE
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Iowa City, IA: The Prairie Press, (1953). 8vo. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, dust jacket. 63+(1) pages. Limited to 1000 copies. Designed and printed by Carroll Coleman. A collection of poetry. Front top inside corner of dust jacket clipped. READ MORE about MORTAL SUMMER
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Iowa City, IA: The Prairie Press, (1953). 8vo. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, dust jacket. 63+(1) pages. Limited to 1000 copies. Designed and printed by Carroll Coleman. A collection of poetry. Fine condition. READ MORE about MORTAL SUMMER
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N.P. privately printed, 1931. 8vo. unbound. 189+(1) pages. Limited to 25 copies, this copy not numbered. Table of contents. A collection of poetry generally ascribed to Thomas, sixth Earl of Harrington. Poems first printed in 1730, and reprinted four times: 1753, 1765, 1767, and 1777. The poet was also author of a treatise on forest trees. Unopened and uncut. READ MORE about POEMS
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N.P. Putah Creek Press, 1977. 16mo. text loosely inserted in stiff paper wrappers, in paper envelope. unpaginated. Limited to 200 numbered copies, signed by author and artist on colophon. Acknowledgments, explanatory notes on the fraxiom form of poetry. Illustration by Herbert L. Kornfeld. Printed by the Doe Press for Putah Creek. READ MORE about 15 FRAXIOMS
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San Francisco: Quad Press, 1995. small 4to. black paper wrappers. not paginated. Printed in an edition limited to 150 numbered copies. Lynn Ridenour designed, illustrated, and printed the book, which was a present to his mother Anna Belle for her eightieth birthday. The production is one any poet would be pleased with. This is the first book of a printer who has since further studied book design and worked at the Windhover Press in Iowa..... READ MORE about INTO THE MORNING DEW
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New York, NY: Red Ozier Press, 1985. 8vo. paper wrappers. (15) pages. Limited to 140 numbered and signed copies printed by hand (Peich, 64). Green variant binding (also issued in gray). This was the third of three love poem chapbooks by the author. Fine copy. READ MORE about IN THE MONTH OF MAY
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New York: The Red Ozier Press, 1981. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (38) pages. Limited to 215 numbered and signed copies (Peich). Wrappers and endsheets by the Tidepool Mill, title page calligraphy by Alice Koeth. A selection of poems inspired by the Paleolithic sexually explicit cave art found in France. Title page printed in light blue and black, titles of the poems printed in light blue. Uncut fore and bottom edges. Fine copy. READ MORE about OUR LADY OF THE THREE PRONGED DEVIL
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(Madison, WI): Red Ozier Press, 1976. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, top edge cut, other edges uncut. (16) pages. Limited to 120 copies (Peich 2). Drawings by Paul Dombrowski. A collection of poetry. READ MORE about WILD NIGHT IRISES
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And Potsherds
Pasadena: Harry Ward Ritchie, 1930. 8vo. stiff paper wrapper. (6), 32+(1) pages. And Potsherds. Limited to and edition of 200 copies. (Anderson, Ritchie & Simon pg 128.) Slim volume of poetry. Wrapper split, detached, and slightly torn and creased on edges. Residue of a paper sticker in top inner corner of bottom wrapper. Still an attractive and readable copy. READ MORE about THE BRIMMING CUP
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Cleveland: Rowfant Club, The, 1967. small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 72 pages. First edition, limited to 199 numbered copies printed by The Prairie Press. First printing of this address that Hodgson made in 1943 in which he recalled the various other poets he had met in his life. Small tear to top edge of the dust jacket, else fine condition. READ MORE about POETS REMEMBERED
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Sidcot, Somerset, England: The Gruffyground Press, 1931. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, top edge cut, other edges uncut. (16) pages. Limited to 200 copies, signed by the author and illustrator Richard Shirley Smith on colophon. Wood engraving by Smith printed from the original block. A collection of poetry on the subject of insects. Covers bent at edges. READ MORE about BUZZ BUZZ: TEN INSECT POEMS
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N.P. (Miroslav Soukup, 1940). 16mo. paper-covered boards, plastic dust jacket, stiff paper slipcase. not paginated. Edition limited to 100 numbered copies. (Sánka-Bubla 3841) Miroslav Soukoup designed and wrote the introduction for this small book which he published in December of 1940 as the first volume in a series entitled "EX TENEBRIS." The volume contains two poems by Czech journalist and poet Josef Jaroslav Langer (1806-1846): "Ceské Krakovácky" and "Hrabence *** na Památku." The work was..... READ MORE about SMUTNÉ LÁSKY HRANY: CESKÉ KRAKOVÁCKY
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New York: American Printing History Association, 2002. 8vo. cloth. 196 pages. While preparing an exhibition to accompany the 1997 Dartmouth Book Arts Summer Workshop, "Joseph Blumenthal and the Spiral Press," Mr. Cronenwett discovered that there was no standard bibliography of The Spiral Press. Since that time, Mr. Cronenwett has exhaustively researched and examined the holdings of many collections to compile this checklist of more than 600 items. The bibliography lists the press's monographs, pamphlets, exhibition..... READ MORE about THE SPIRAL PRESS (1926-1971), A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL CHECKLIST
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(New Rochelle, NY): James L. Weil, (1988). 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. (6) pages. Limited to 50 copies. Designed by Martino Mardersteig and printed by Stamperia Valdonega, Verona, Italy. Publisher's mark by Jacques Hnizdovsky. READ MORE about ON POETRY
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Maatschappij, Netherlands: A.A.M. Stols, (1937). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 59, (3) pages. Text in Dutch. Explanatory note by the publisher follows text. Woodcut illustrations by V. Stuyvaert. A medieval poetic work. Dust jacket lightly tanned at edges. READ MORE about BEATRIJS: EEN MIDDELEEUWSCHE LEGENDE
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Roslyn, NY: Stone House Press, 1991. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 33 pages. Limited to 260 numbered copies of which this is one of the 130 bound thus and signed by the printer, the author and the artist. With an introduction by William Jay Smith. This is Stone House Press Chapbook 7. Features the poems of James Thomas Flexner, with wood engravings by John De Pol. READ MORE about POEMS OF THE TWENTIES
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Roslyn, NY: Stone House Press, 1991. 8vo. stiff paper-wrappers. 31+(1) pages. Limited to 150 numbered copies signed by the artist, author and the printer of which this is one of the 75 bound thus. (This is Stone House Press Chapbook 6. A brief essay which attempts to define poetry. Illustrated with wood engravings by John De Pol. Signed by Hatch and DePol. READ MORE about THE CURIOUS ACT OF POETRY
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Iowa City, IA: Stone Wall Press, (1961). 8vo. quarter leather, paper covered boards, gilt lettering on spine. 34 pages. Limited to 220 numbered copies. Printed by K.K. Merker at his Stone Wall Press. Near fine condition. READ MORE about FEVER AND CHILLS
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Iowa City, IA: Stone Wall Press, The, (1971). 8vo. cloth, title gilt-stamped on spine, bottom edge uncut. unpaginated. Limited to 240 copies. Table of contents. A collection of poetry. READ MORE about LIVING IN IT
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Iowa City, IA: Stone Wall Press, The, (1971). 8vo. cloth, title gilt-stamped on spine, bottom edge uncut. unpaginated. Limited to 240 copies. Table of contents. A collection of poetry. READ MORE about LIVING IN IT
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(Iowa City, IA): Stone Wall Press, The, (1975). 8vo. cloth, paper spine label, top edge cut, other edges uncut. unpaginated. Limited to 235 copies. Publication credits, table of contents. A collection of poetry. READ MORE about DUES
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Urbana, IL: The Finial Press/The Stone Wall Press, (1971). 12mo. cloth. unpaginated. Limited to 250 copies. A collection of poetry. READ MORE about POIKILOS
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Iowa City, IA: Stone Wall Press, The and The Seamark Press, 1972. 8vo. cloth, paper spine label, top edge cut, other edges uncut. 61, (3) pages. Limited to 250 copies. Table of contents. Printed on handpress by Kay Amert, Howard Zimmon, and K.K. Merker. A collection of poetry. READ MORE about CARGO
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Iowa City, IA: Stone Wall Press, The and The Seamark Press, 1972. 8vo. cloth, paper spine label, top edge cut, other edges uncut. 61, (3) pages. Limited to 250 copies. Table of contents. Printed on handpress by Kay Amert, Howard Zimmon, and K.K. Merker. A collection of poetry. A tight, bright, and unmarred copy. READ MORE about CARGO
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Iowa City, IA: Stone Wall Press, The, 1969. 12mo. stiff paper wrappers, bottom edge uncut. (ii), 15+(1) pages. Limited to 180 copies. A sequence of verses first published in the Northwest Review. READ MORE about SMALL SONGS
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(London, England): Bernard Stone, (1984). 8vo. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, top edge cut, other edges uncut. 31, (3) pages. Limited to 100 numbered copies, signed by the author. Printed at the September Press, Welliongborough, Northamptonshire. A collection of poetry. Musical score on endpapers. READ MORE about FLUFF
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N.P. Sutton Hoo Press, n.d. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers, top edge cut, other edges uncut. (18) pages. Proof copy, signed by author on colophon. A collection of poetry. A.L.s. from the author to collector Michael Peich laid in. READ MORE about STILL LIGHT: TWELVE POEMS
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N.P. Sutton Hoo Press, n.d. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers, top edge cut, other edges uncut. (18) pages. Limited to 10 numbered copies and signed by the author and by the printer. A collection of poetry. READ MORE about STILL LIGHT: TWELVE POEMS
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New Castle, Delaware and Oxford: Oak Knoll Press and The Bodleian Library, 2010. 6 x 9 inches. Hardcover, dust jacket. 160 pages. Set up in 1968, John Fuller's Sycamore Press published some of the most influential and critically acclaimed writers of the past half-century. Operating from a garage, the press published established authors, such as W. H. Auden, Philip Larkin and Peter Porter, as well as promoting young poets, including James Fenton and Alan Hollinghurst..... READ MORE about JOHN FULLER & THE SYCAMORE PRESS: A BIBLIOGRAPHIC HISTORY
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Paris, France: Edward W. Titus, 1927. large 8vo. paper covered boards. 95 pages. First edition. Illustrated with four engravings by Polia Chentoff. Edward Titus was an expatriate American who located to Paris in 1918 with his wife, the cosmetics entrepreneur Helena Rubinstein. She founded Titus' bookstore, At the Sign of the Black Manikin, and his publishing venture, Black Manikin Press. The press issued important modernist writing, including D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chaterrly's Lover. Manuel Komroff was..... READ MORE about THE VOICE OF FIRE
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DRAWINGS BY ANN MIKOLOWSKI
West Branch, IA: The Toothpaste Press, 1980. tall 8vo. cloth, paper cover label. (32) pages. DRAWINGS BY ANN MIKOLOWSKI. Limited to 1150 copies of which this is one of the 150 numbered copies bound thus and signed by Adam and the illustrator, Ann Mikolowski. (Peich no.47). Handset by Allan Kornblum and Ann Snodgrass. READ MORE about GONE SAILING
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West Branch, IA: The Toothpaste Press, (1983). oblong 32mo. stiff paper wrappers, top edge cut, other edges uncut, paper cover label. (24) pages. Limited to 555 numbered copies, signed by author on half title. Illustrations by the author. A poetic work. READ MORE about RITE FOR THE BEAUTIFICATION OF ALL BEINGS
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N.P. Toothpaste Press for Truck Press, 1978. broadside, 7 1/4 by 4 3/4 inches. Peich 39. Limited to 26 lettered copies signed by author, and 200 unsigned copies. Both are included. A poetic work printed of Japanese handmade paper. READ MORE about IN DEFENSE OF PURE POETRY
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St. Paul, MN: Bookslinger Editions, 1982. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, label on front cover, top edge cut, other edges uncut. unpaginated. Limited to 300 copies; this is one of the 250 unnumbered copies signed by author on half title. Frontispiece and ornamental rose by Gaylord Schanilec. A collection of poetry. Printed by the Toothpaste Press. READ MORE about RESORT
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West Branch, IA: The Toothpaste Press, 1981. 8vo. cloth, paper spine label, fore-edge uncut. 47+(1) pages. Limited to 100 numbered copies, signed by author on colophon (Peich 61). Acknowledgments, table of contents. Illustrations by the author. READ MORE about ASPARAGUS, ASPARAGUS, AH SWEET ASPARAGUS
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West Branch, IA: The Toothpaste Press, 1979. 8vo. cloth. (58) pages. First edition, limited to 1100 copies of which this is one of 100 numbered copies bound thus and signed by the author (Peich/ The Toothpaste Press: a checklist #44). Printed in Bulmer type. Designed and printed by Allan Kornblum. Title page and cover "Q" from a wood engraving by Al Buck. Prospectus loosely inserted. Fine. READ MORE about QUICKSAND THROUGH THE HOURGLASS, POEMS AND DRAWINGS
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West Branch, IA: The Toothpaste Press, 1981. 8vo. cloth, paper cover label. unpaginated. Limited to 150 numbered copies, signed by author on colophon (Peich 56). Table of contents. A collection of poetry, each work numbered. READ MORE about DROLES DE JOURNAL
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N.P. Walker Art Center, 1982. broadside (10 by 7 1/2 inches). Limited to 150 numbered copies, signed by author. A poetic work. Printed at Toothpaste Press. READ MORE about TRAVELOG
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West Branch, IA: The Toothpaste Press, 1977. 8vo. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, paper spine label. 53+(1) pages. Limited to 50 numbered copies, signed by author on colophon (Peich 33). Acknowledgments, table of contents. Two sets of poems, New York City and Iowa City. Covers lightly scuffed. READ MORE about THE NIGHT WE STOOD UP FOR OUR RIGHTS POEMS 1969-1975
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Ann Arbor: Thomas Press, n.d. (1982?). small 4to. paper-covered boards, strip (3.25 x 23 in.) wrapped around cover, paper-covered slipcase. (38) pages, with 6 additional pages in the brochure and 19 additional leaves of woodcuts. Limited to 1,000 copies. Facsimile edition of the original 1920 edition (itself limited to 150 copies) of two groupings of Dadaist poetry by T. Tzara (1896-1963), generally regarded as the founder of the Dada movement, with 19 woodcuts by the..... READ MORE about CINEMA CALENDRIER DU COEUR ABSTRAIT - MAISONS
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Wellington, New Zealand: Wai-te-ata Press, 1975. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. Works of poet and short story writed Kevin Ireland (b. 1933) in Auckland, New Zealand. Wai-te-ata is the press of Victoria University in Wellington founded in 1962 by D.F. McKenzie. Original printed wrappers designed by Santuzza Cali. READ MORE about A GRAMMAR OF DREAMS
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Wellington, New Zealand: Wai-te-ata Press, 1977. 8vo. plain stiff paper wrappers, dust jacket. (vi), 29+(1) pages. Translated from Latin Propertius Monobiblos. Foreword by the translator discusses the process of translation. Published by the press at Victorian University, Wellington. Dust jacket slightly bumped at head of the backstrip. READ MORE about PROPERTIAN ELEGIES
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New Rochelle, NY: James L. Weil, 1998. oblong 32mo. stiff paper wrappers, top edge cut, other edges uncut. (10) pages. Limited to 50 copies. Printed at the Kelly-Winterton Press. A collection of poetry. Business card with presentation laid in. READ MORE about FOR ALL WE KNOW
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(Shaker Heights, OH: The Wind and Harlot Press, 1973). 16mo. stiff paper wrappers, top edge cut, other edges uncut. (ii), 24, (4) pages. Limited to 60 numbered copies, signed by printer Robert Baris on colophon. An ode written by Spenser to his bride in 1594, first published the following year. READ MORE about EPITHALAMION
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Iowa City: Windhover Press, The, (1984). 8vo. cloth, paper-covered front board, paper spine label. not paginated. (Berger p. 82-83) Limited to 230 copies, only 220 of the 230 copies printed for sale. The advertising piece says, "The poem, written in ten parts, is visionary & narrative like an epic; what distinguishes it, though, is the rich lyricism of its language, and a compressed form, combining the quiet observations & subtle turns of haiku and the..... READ MORE about MEMOIRS OF AN ISMARIC SPEAR
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Iowa City: Windhover Press, The, 1987. short 4to. cloth, paper spine label. 47+(1) pages. Limited to 200 copies. (Berger p. 88). Printed on Rives Light paper, using Spectrum and Spectrum Italic types. Woodcut preceding the title page in brown and red by Roxanne Sexauer. Inscribed by the author. READ MORE about BLOOD HARVEST
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Iowa City: Windhover Press, The, 1987. short 4to. cloth, paper spine label. 47+(1) pages. Limited to 200 copies. (Berger p. 88). Printed on Rives Light paper, using Spectrum and Spectrum Italic types. Woodcut preceding the title page in brown and red by Roxanne Sexauer. Signed by the author. READ MORE about BLOOD HARVEST
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Iowa City, IA: Windhover Press, The, (1979). 4to. cloth, top edge cut, other edges uncut. unpaginated. Limited to 200 copies, signed by the author on colophon. Additionally, this copy is inscribed by the author as well. Quotes by Saul Bellow precede text, acknowledgments follow. Fine condition. READ MORE about IN A FUGITIVE SEASON
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Poems
(Iowa City: Windhover Press, The University of Iowa, 1981). 16mo. cloth, paper-covered upper board. unpaginated. Poems. Limited to 165 copies, although the colophon claims 220, printed at The Windhover Press. (Berger p. 69). Poems and an epitaph of four famous historical figures: Hideki Tojo, the prime minister of Japan during World War II; Sir Walter Raleigh, the famous explorer and writer; Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japanese general during World War II; and Chidiock Tichborne, who attempted to..... READ MORE about FOR THE OCCASION OF DEATH
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Iowa City, IA: Windhover Press, The, (1985). 4to. stiff paper wrappers, top edge cut, other edges uncut. (12) pages. Limited to 240 copies. Signed by the author on half title. A work of poetry. READ MORE about THE DECONSTRUCTED MAN
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Iowa City, IA: Windhover Press, The, 1991. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, fore-edge uncut. unpaginated. Limited to 200 copies. Table of contents. Linocuts by Nora Koch. A collection of poetry. Fine condition. READ MORE about CAPITAL: EIGHT POEMS
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Iowa City, IA: Windhover Press, The, 1974. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, top edge cut, other edges uncut. unpaginated. Limited to 150 copies. Preface by Michael J. Bruccoli. A tight, bright, and unmarred copy. READ MORE about A CUB TELLS HIS STORY
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Iowa City: Windhover Press, (1983). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. not paginated. Limited to 225 copies. Hand-printed from handset Bembo types on Rives Heavy paper. Slesinger's poetry is in the form of dictionary definitions. "All other text--actual dictionary entries fitting alphabetically in the correct order--is blind stamped; the blind-stamped defined word appears clearly, but the definition is overprinted three times...to make the entries essentially illegible" (Berger p. 81). READ MORE about WITH SOME JUSTIFICATION
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Iowa City: Windhover Press, (1983). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. not paginated. Limited to 225 copies. Hand-printed from handset Bembo types on Rives Heavy paper. Slesinger's poetry is in the form of dictionary definitions. "All other text--actual dictionary entries fitting alphabetically in the correct order--is blind stamped; the blind-stamped defined word appears clearly, but the definition is overprinted three times...to make the entries essentially illegible" (Berger p. 81). Bound upside down, but fine condition. READ MORE about WITH SOME JUSTIFICATION
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Iowa City, IA: Windhover Press, The, (1995). small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. Limited to 350 copies. Introduction and notes by D.H. Woodward. Sixteen pencil sketches of Vassar College by Stevens. Lacking the paper label on the front cover. READ MORE about VASSAR VIEWED VERACIOUSLY
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N.P. Windhover Press, The, 1989. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, some edges slightly deckled. (12) pages. First edition, limited to 175 numbered copies. Four intriguing poems by James Tate. Includes The condemned Man, Bewitched, City at Night, and A Complicated and Petty Set of Procedures in a Single Room. Set in Palatino and printed on a Washington hand press on Johannot paper. Bound in beige handmade paper. Fine copy. READ MORE about BEWITCHED, FOUR POEMS (PIRATED IN A WAY) FROM THE WORKS OF JAMES TATE
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