CAMINO CIELO.
Washington, DC: Orchises, (1997). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 80 pages. First edition. A book of poetry. Presentation from the author on the title page. READ MORE about CAMINO CIELO
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Washington, DC: Orchises, (1997). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 80 pages. First edition. A book of poetry. Presentation from the author on the title page. READ MORE about CAMINO CIELO
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Kansas City, MO: Bk Mk Press, (1998). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. ix, 77 pages. Forward by Philip Levine, biography. Presentation from the author, also a signed letter loosely inserted. A collection of very long poems, relating to angels, faith, and life events. READ MORE about FALL FROM GRACE
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 124322
(Ithaca, New York): Ithaca House, (1985). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (ii) 75, (3) pages. First edition. Presentation from author on title page. Acknowledgements, table of contents, biography. Three chapters of over 20 poems in this poetry book. READ MORE about OTHER LIVES
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 124063
Riverdale-on-Hudson, NY: Sheep Meadow Press, (2004). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (vi), 82 pages. Acknowledgements, table of contents, and a short biography. Presentation from the author on the title page, also a personal note loosely inserted. A collection of poems relating to nature. READ MORE about SKY
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 124303
(Nashville, TN): Vanderbilt University Press, (1986). 8vo. cloth. (vi), 69+(1) pages. First edition. Presentation by the author on title. Table of contents. A.L.s. by the author laid in. Black and white illustrations. READ MORE about DUST LIGHT, LEAVES
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 125010
(Ithaca, NY): Ithaca House, (1980). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (viii), 92 pages. First edition. Signed by author on colophon. Presentation on half title. Table of contents. Listing of errata laid in. A collection of poetry. READ MORE about LAST RITES
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 125058
[Ithaca]: Ithaca House, (1985). small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (vi), 75, (5) pages. First edition, limited to 1000 copies. Signed by the author on the title page. Also with presentation by the author on the half-title "For Jim-- / with all best wishes & hope for our poems / Chris / [indecipherable word] '85". Blurbs by David Wojahn, Sherod Santos. Fine. READ MORE about OTHER LIVES
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 112484
N.P. n.p., 1998. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (12) pages. Limited to 150 numbered copies, signed by author on colophon. Presentation on title by author. A volume in the Salmon Run Pamphlet Series. Cover art by Nadya Brown. A.L.s. by the author laid in. READ MORE about THE POVERTY OF CLOUDS
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 125061
(Tampa, FL): University of Tampa Press, (2010). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (xii), 91+(1) pages. First edition. Presentation by the author on title. Table of contents. List of works of poetry by the publisher follows text. A.L.s. from the author to Peich laid in. READ MORE about ROLLING THE BONES
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 125006
Evanston, IL: Triquarterly Books, Northwestern University Press, (2001). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (x), 74, (4) pages. Presentation by the author on title. Table of contents, biographical sketch of the author. A.L.s. by the author laid in. READ MORE about STAR APOCRYPHA
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 125238
New York: The Ark 15, 1981. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 111, (3) pages. First edition. Grey printed wrappers unevenly faded, otherwise near fine. READ MORE about FROM DOWN TO THE VILLAGE. DRAWINGS BY LOIS EBY. INTRODUCTION BY JOHN HAINES
Price: $7.00 Order nr. 112487
New York: Locus Solus Rare Books, 2003. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 95+(1) pages. Catalogue of the poetical works from the Bullock collection offered by New York bookseller Locus Solus. Frontispiece. Foreword. 1000 entries, arranged alphabetically by poet. Black and white illustrations throughout. READ MORE about THE POETRY LIBRARY OF MARIE BULLOCK
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 108854
London: Longmans, Green, 1894. 12mo. Later full morocco, raised bands, gilt-tooled turn-ins, gilt-stamped lettering on spine, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, slipcase. xxix+(i), 426 pages. A selection of poetry by the first Earl of Lytton (1831-1891), who wrote under the pseudonym Owen Meredith, here arranged chronologically from 1855-1887, and including unpublished works as well. Introduction by Betty Balfour, the author's daughter. Bulwer-Lytton also had a distinguished career as a diplomat, appointed Viceroy of India by..... READ MORE about SELECTED POEMS
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 72662
With a Foreword by Akram Elias, Grand Master of Free and Accepted Masons, Washington, D.C., Editor-in-Chief
New Castle, Delaware and Washington, D.C. Oak Knoll Press & Library of the Supreme Council, 33°, S.J., 2008. 8.5 x 11 inches. hardcover. 240 pages. With a Foreword by Akram Elias, Grand Master of Free and Accepted Masons, Washington, D.C., Editor-in-Chief. First edition. Published shortly before the 250th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns in 2009, this bibliography presents the unparalleled Burnsiana collection held by the Library of the Supreme Council of the Ancient..... READ MORE about BURNSIANA: A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WILLIAM R. SMITH COLLECTION IN THE LIBRARY OF THE SUPREME...
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 96673
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1977. small 8vo. cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. (vi), 62 pages. First edition. Review copy with slip laid in. Blurbs by Archibald MacLeish, Christina Stead, Karl Shapiro, etc. Fine in dust jacket. READ MORE about MIRAGES, TRAVEL NOTES IN THE PROMISED LAND, A PUBLIC POEM
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 112492
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1978. 8vo. cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. viii, (ii), 82 pages. First edition. Author's first solo book. Blurb by X. J. Kennedy. The author was a Pew Fellowships in the Arts Discipline Winner in Poetry 1994/95. Fine in fine dust jacket. READ MORE about STANDING WATCH
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 112496
[Princeton]: Princeton University Press, [1988]. small 4to. tape spine, stiff paper wrappers, paper cover label. x, 77 pages. Proof copy (not so designated). Large quarto format. Blurb by Richard Howard. In the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets. Lower corner lightly bumped, otherwise fine in plain wrappers, with publisher's printed label on the front wrapper. READ MORE about THE WAY DOWN
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 112497
London: Abelard-Schuman, 1966. 8vo. cloth, gilt titles, dust jacket. 32 pages. First edition. A collection of poems of the leading English-speaking poets in the Republic of South Africa at the time. Table of contents. An introduction by William Plomer and illustrations by John Lawrence. Black and white illustrations. Edgewear and very light soiling on the dust-jacket. READ MORE about SOUTH OF THE ZAMBESI, POEMS FROM SOUTH AFRICA
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 114570
Westcliffe, CO: Music Mountain Press, (1999). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 74,(3) pages. First edition. Presentation from the author on the half-title and also signed on the title page. This copy includes two letters from the author loosely inserted and a price list. A collection of poems with references to Colorado and western living. READ MORE about RED COLT CANYON
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 124678
London, England: John Murray, 1816. 12mo. original cloth, title and volume gilt-stamped on spine. viii, 9-222 pages. Volume III of a four-volume work. Table of contents. Includes The Corsair and Lara. Dedication by the poet to Thomas Moore. With notes on both works. Covers rubbed and scuffed at edges and along spine. Front pastedown torn. Scattered foxing on endpapers and throughout text. READ MORE about THE WORKS OF THE RIGHT HONORABLE LORD BYRON
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 120480
Pisa, Italy: Caratteri de Fratelli Amoretti, 1815. folio. quarter leather, marblie paper-covered boards. xxx, 228 pages. Text in Italian. Works of the Roman poet Catallus (84-54 B.C.), edited by Tommaso Puccini. Dedicated to Ferdinand III, Archduke of Austria and Grand Duke of Tuscany. Translated from the Latin by Puccini. Index. Rubbed and scuffed at edges. READ MORE about POESIE
Price: $450.00 Order nr. 133808
Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, (1996). small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (xvi), 60, (4) pages. First edition. Presentation by the author on the title-page to fellow poet Gregory Orr "Greg Orr, / With respect for your fine poems! / Marcus Cafagna". Author's first book. Blurbs by Edward Hirsch, Jim Daniels. Selected by Yusef Komunyakaa as one of five volumes published in 1996 in the National Poetry Series. Fine. READ MORE about THE BROKEN WORLD, POEMS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 112503
Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, (1996). small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (xvi), 60, (4) pages. First edition. Presentation on the title-page to a fellow poet "For Alicia Ostriker, / In admiration of your fine poems! / Marcus Cafagna". Blurbs by Edward Hirsch, Jim Daniels. Author's first book. Introductory statement by Yusef Komunyakaa. Fine. READ MORE about THE BROKEN WORLD, POEMS
Price: $16.00 Order nr. 112504
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. small 8vo. paptterned paper covered boards, paper cover label. (xii), 69+(1) pages. First edition. Author's first book. Presentation by the author on the front free endpaper "To my darling cousins Biddy & Mark / from Marion (Clinch Calkins) / and Mark". The words ""and Mark"" apparently in a different hand. Original decorated paper boards, printed paper label on the front cover. Spine lightly rubbed, bookseller's label on the rear..... READ MORE about POEMS
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 112505
[London]: Chatto and Windus/The Hogarth Press, 1972. small 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 40 pages. First edition. Close tear along top edge of jacket front cover. READ MORE about BARE WIRES
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 112506
London: Edward Moxon, 1839. 8vo. leather, gilt stamps on covers and spine, all edges gilt. viii, 56 pages. Lovely binding, by Webb of Liverpool, showing the coat-of-arms in gilt for the Liverpool Collegiate Institution on both boards. This was a prize book presented by this institution for Leonard McCoy Christmas, 1843 per the label on the front pastedown. A collection of poems by Thomas Campbell. Foxing on front and back blank pages, the first past..... READ MORE about THE POETICAL WORKS OF THOMAS CAMPBELL
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 98238
Toronto: The Ryerson Press, 1958. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xi, 99 pages. First edition. Text in French and English. Includes Charpentier, Dumont, Filion, Garneau, Garneau, Giguere, Grandbois, Hebert, Lapointe, Lasnier, Legris, and Oueiliete, GInk inscription on the front free endpaper, cover lightly spotted. Otherwise very good in soiled, chipped, archivally reinforced dust jacket. READ MORE about TWELVE MODERN FRENCH CANADIAN POETS. TRANSLATED BY G. R. ROY
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 112310
New York: Harcourt Brace & World, (1964). small 8vo. cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. (x), 70 pages. First edition. Presentation in 1964 by the author on the half-title "For Dan Wolfe". Blurb by Hiram Haydn. Bumped at the foot of the spine, otherwise fine in price-clipped, lightly soiled white dust jacket. READ MORE about TO BUILD A FIRE. RECENT POEMS AND A PROSE PIECE
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 112509
N.P. Ohio State University Press, (1968). 8vo. cloth-backed decorated paper covered boards, dust jacket. 106 pages. First edition. Fine in very lightly chipped dust jacket. READ MORE about WATCH US PASS
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 112510
Port Townsend, WA: Dragon Gate, (1981). small 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 66, (4) pages. First edition. Blurbs by Dave Smith, William Meredith. Fine in a lightly rubbed dust jacket shorter than the book and with a light paperclip mark on the front panel. READ MORE about RUNNING LIGHTS, POEMS
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 112512
New York: Henry Holt, (1945). small 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (vi), 12 pages. Second printing. Presentation by the author on the front free endpaper, Sept. 1945. Jacket is chipped, internally reinforced dust jacket with the price inked out on the front flap. READ MORE about TAPS IS NOT ENOUGH
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 112513
Chicago: Swallow Press, (1973). small 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. viii, 60 pages. First edition, copyright deposit copy. One of two copies submitted by the publisher for copyright purposes. This copy not selected for the Library's collections. Copyright Office and Library of Congress surplus duplicate stamps. Fine in lightly chipped dust jacket. READ MORE about THE ANGLED ROAD
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 112515
New York: Harper & Row, (1966). 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. viii, 62, (2) pages. First edition, wrappered. Presentation by the author on the half-title "For Tom-- / collegian & friend / Warren". Covers rubbed. READ MORE about TOWARD MONTEBELLO
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 112516
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1898. 8vo. pictorial cloth. 120 pages. First edition. Frontispiece loose but present. Spine lightly sunned. Minor shelfwear. Shaken. From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted. READ MORE about FABLES FOR THE FRIVOLOUS (WITH APOLOGIES TO LA FONTAINE
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 135408
[Denver]: Alan Swallow, 1962. 12mo. cloth, dust jacket. 56 pages. First edition. Review copy with slip loosely inserted. Author's first book. Fine in dust jacket with one short closed tear. READ MORE about A TOUCH OF RECOGNITION
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 112523
(Scottsdale, AZ: Star Cloud Press, 2008). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (xiv), 92 pages. First edition. With full page presentation from author on title page. Acknowledgements, table of contents, notes, short biography. A collection of poems from a woman's point of view. READ MORE about AFTER THE FIRST WORLD
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 124499
[Oxford]: Carcanet Press, 1971. 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), 34 pages. First edition. Author's first collection of verse. One of 600 copies. Fine in printed wrappers. READ MORE about MOORINGS
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 112526
New York: Center for Book Arts, 2013. 7 x 10 inches. paperback. 25 pages. The manuscript for this book won the 2013 Poetry Chapbook Competition at The Center for Book Arts. The judges were Sharon Dolin and Harryette Mullen. Each poem was inspired by a line from A.C. Balwin's 1853 compendium The Traveler's Vade Mecum, a list of over 8,000 phrases to be referenced by number, creating a code for conversation over long distances. Set..... READ MORE about NONE IN THE SAME ROOM: POEMS FROM THE TRAVELER'S VADE MECUM
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 122530
New York: Center for Book Arts, 2016. 7.5" x 7/5" stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. I Have a Teacher was the 2016 Poetry Chapbook winner and was published as a limited-edition, letterpress-printed, and hand-bound chapbook created by artist Ed Rayher of Swamp Press and illustrated by Barbara Henry. READ MORE about I HAVE A TEACHER
Price: $150.00 Order nr. 130164
New York: Center for Book Arts, 2015. 6.75 x 9.75 inches. paperback. 29 pages. The manuscript for this book won the 2015 Poetry Chapbook Competition of The Center for Book Arts, judged by Sharon Dolin and Cornelius Eady. This chapbook was printed on Cordenons' Wild text and St. Armand Canal's Denim cover using Pastonchi and Della Robbia types cast in the heat of our sunflower summer. All press work and binding by Swamp Press. Edition..... READ MORE about LATE-NIGHT TALKS WITH MEN I THINK I TRUST
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 127058
New York: Center for Book Arts, 2015. 9.5 x 4 inches. paperback. unpaginated. This book was printed and bound in an edition of 100 in honor of the 2015 Center for Book Arts Chapbook Competition, for which Cornelius Eady was a judge. Cornelius Eady was designed, printed, and bound by Amber McMillan of Post Editions. READ MORE about CORNELIUS EADY: A SHORT COLLECTION
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 127322
New York: Center for Book Arts, 2011. 6 x 8.5 inches. handmade soft-cover binding. 16 pages. Kimiko Hahn was judge of the 2011 Poetry Chapbook Competition. Produced in a limited edition of 100 copies. Includes two sections entitled "Boxes with Respect to Millay" and "Boxes with Respect to Moore." A uniquely-structured book, with the pages being a mix of Thai Mulberry and Durotone Butcher papers, and several taking the form of a windowed box containing..... READ MORE about BOXES WITH RESPECT
Price: $350.00 Order nr. 107516
New York: Center for Book Arts, 2012. 5.5 x 8 inches. paper boards with a printed transparent film wrapper. 12 pages. Phillis Levin was judge of the Center for Book Arts 2012 Poetry Chapbook Competition. Includes four poems entitled "To an Ash on a Crackling Log," "Tabula Rasa," "Anne Frank's High Heels," and Lenten Song." Produced in a limited edition of 100 copies. Letterpress printed by Delphi Basilicato at the Center for Book Arts on..... READ MORE about TABULA RASA
Price: $60.00 Order nr. 112253
New York: Center for Book Arts, 2013. 6.75 x 6.75 inches closed, folds out to 13.5 x 6.75 inches. paperback. 8 pages. Broken Glish by Harryette Mullen, judge of The Center for Book Arts 2013 Poetry Chapbook Competition, was designed and letterpress printed by Delphi Basilicato in the summer of 2013 at The Center for Book Arts. The type is Garamond, the cover paper is Plike, and the text block is printed on Magnani Velata..... READ MORE about BROKEN GLISH
Price: $250.00 Order nr. 122529
New York, NY: Center for Book Arts, 2016. 6.25 x 7 inches. cloth. unpaginated. Five Poems was designed as a 5-sided book on the occasion of The Center for Book Arts 2016 chapbook, to which Mary Ruefle was a judge. The hand-set type families are Consort and Bernhard. Images are from collographs, paper is Colorplan, binding is Sewn-boards. Concept, press work and binding by Ana Paula Cordeiro at The Center for Book Arts, New York..... READ MORE about FIVE POEMS
Price: $200.00 Order nr. 129164
New York: Center for Book Arts, 2014. 7.75 x 10.5 inches. paperback pamphlet. 8 pages. This untitled collection of poetry by David St. John, judge of the 2014 Center for Book Arts Chapbook Competition, contains the poems "The One Who Should Write My Elegy Is Dead," Where He Came Down," and "The Way It Is." It was designed by Amber McMillan of Post Editions and produced in an edition of 100. The text was hand-set..... READ MORE about UNTITLED
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 123947
New York: Center for Book Arts, 2014. 7 x 10 inches. paperback. 28 pages. The manuscript for this book won the 2014 Poetry Chapbook Competition at The Center for Book Arts, judged by Sharon Dolin and David St. John. The book includes the poems "It is Beautiful," "Let Me Blindfold You," "Edge," "Black Iris," "Blind Date," "White Gold," "You," "Sublimation," "Ritalin," "They Must Have Crawled in There to Get Warm," "Domestic Shorthair," "Sometimes a Cat..... READ MORE about EDGE
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 123946
A Selective Bibliography 1960-1970
Troy NY: Whitson Publishing Company, 1975. 8vo. cloth. (iv), x, (ii), 134 pages. A Selective Bibliography 1960-1970. Compiled by Dorothy Jorstad, Lorene Linder, Donald Phillips, and Jean Porter. Contains sections on: advertizing, art, education, fiction, films, group communication, mass media, music poetry, speech communication, and theatre. Author index. READ MORE about CREATIVITY IN THE COMMUNICATIVE ARTS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 97505
New York: Duffield and Company, 1930. small 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. ix, 94 pages. First edition, author's first book.Cloth seriously faded along the edges, otherwise very good in soiled dust jacket missing pieces and with closed tears. READ MORE about OUTSIDE OF THE WORLD
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 112530
New York, NY: Grafton Press, The, 1903. 8vo. white vellum covered boards, gilt on covers and spine, gilt top fore-edge. 300 pages. Yuletide Edition, one of 500 numbered copies. A collection of toasts crisp and well buttered. A book of poetry. Front hinge starting, else very good. From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted. READ MORE about WAES HAEL: A COLLECTION OF TOASTS CRISP AND WELL BUTTERED/BEING, FOR THE MOST PART, BUBBLES...
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 135409
Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press, (1967). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (viii), xliv, 144 pages. Review copy. A supplement to Dudley D. Griffith's Bibliography of Chaucer, 1908-53. Jacket chipped. READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CHAUCER 1954-1963
Price: $9.00 Order nr. 1761
(1967). small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), 147, (3) pages. The entire issue of the LIBRARY QUARTERLY, Volume 37, Number 1. A collection of interesting papers read at the conference. Acquisition note on front cover. READ MORE about A CRITICAL APPROACH TO CHILDREN'S LITERATURE, THE THIRTY-FIRST ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE GRADUATE...
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 97114
[Peterborough, England: Paul Green, 1986]. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 25, (3) pages. First edition. Author born in Malawi, moved to the U.S. 350 copies printed. Near fine in printed wrappers. READ MORE about NIGHTWATCHER, NIGHTSONG
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 112538
New York: Anchor Books, 1989. 8vol. sitff paper wrappers. (x), 255 pages. "Uncorrected Manuscript" stamped on the back wrapper. In this form there is a photo cut of the dust jacket pasted to the front wrapper. No printing on the backstrip. Differs from the later "uncorrected proof." Fine in blue printed wrappers. READ MORE about UNDER 35, THE NEW GENERATION OF AMERICAN POETS
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 112546
New York: Anchor Books, 1989. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (xii), 238 pages. First edition, uncorrected proof. Blurbs by a number of poets. "Trade paperback original" sticker pasted to the front wrapper. Front wrapper with a crease, otherwise fine in printed wrappers. READ MORE about UNDER 35, THE NEW GENERATION OF AMERICAN POETS
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 112547
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1998). 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. x, 104 pages. First edition, uncorrected proof. Review sheet and information sheet laid in. Corners of front wrapper lightly creased, otherwise fine in printed wrappers. READ MORE about THE CREATION OF THE NIGHT SKY, POEMS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 112539
[New York]: Viking, 1998. 8vo. cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. xi, 99 pages. First edition. Blurbs by Jim Carroll, James Merrill, Anthony Hecht, Madison Smartt Bell, Howard Moss. Mark on the fore-edge, otherwise fine in dust jacket. READ MORE about DESPERATE CHARACTERS, A NOVELLA IN VERSE & OTHER POEMS
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 112540
[New York]: Viking, 1998. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xi, (iii), 99 pages. First edition, unrevised and unpublished proofs. Fine in printed wrappers. READ MORE about DESPERATE CHARACTERS, A NOVELLA IN VERSE & OTHER POEMS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 112541
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (x), 92 pages. First edition, uncorrected proof. Author's first book. Fine in printed wrappers. READ MORE about ON TOUR WITH RITA, POEMS
Price: $22.50 Order nr. 112542
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. small 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xii, 110, (4) pages. First edition. Author's first book. Blurb by Anthony Hecht. Fine in lightly chipped and soiled dust jacket with short closed tears. READ MORE about ON TOUR WITH RITA, POEMS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 112543
N.P. Viking-Penguin Books, 1986. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xii, 81 pages. First edition, unrevised and unpublished proofs. Fine in printed wrappers. READ MORE about A SHORT HISTORY OF THE ISLAND OF BUTTERFLIES
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 112544
New York: Fine Editions Press, 1943. small 8vo. paper covered boards, paper cover and spine labels, dust jacket. 75, (3) pages. First edition. One of 550 copies. Fine in lightly rubbed dust jacket. READ MORE about A TIME TO SPEAK, POEMS
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 112549
Woodstock, NY: Hawks Publishing, 2004. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 78 pages. Collection of poems. Translated from the Korean by Wolhee Choe and Robert E. Hawks. Frontispiece and illustrations in text by Wonsook Kim. READ MORE about WINDFLOWER
Price: $85.00 Order nr. 125041
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (xii), 82, (4) pages. First edition, uncorrected proof. Publisher's information sheet stapled to the inside front wrapper. Fine in printed wrappers with light crease at the right edge of the front wrapper. READ MORE about ARCHAIC FIGURE, POEMS
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 112552
New York: Simon and Schuster, )1970). small 8vo. paper covered boards, dust jacket. 64 pages. First edition. Author's first book. Blurb by A.J.M. Smith. Fine in lightly rubbed white dust jacket with a 1/4 inch closed tear at the foot of the rear panel. READ MORE about EAST BY SOUTHWEST, POEMS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 112556
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1973. small 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. viii, (ii), 69 pages. First edition. Blurb by Richard Howard. Brown mark at the foot of the backstrip of cloth, otherwise fine in dust jacket. READ MORE about WEST OF THE AMERICAN DREAM, VISIONS OF AN ALIEN LANDSCAPE
Price: $11.00 Order nr. 112557
London: Enitharmon Press, 1974. small 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 45 pages. First edition. Bound in rose cloth and printed on white paper. One of 500 copies. Fine in lightly rubbed and soiled dust jacket with two short closed tears on the back panel. READ MORE about THE HEARING HEART
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 112560
N.P. Turkey Press, 1981. 12mo. colored paper covered boards, clear acetate dust jacket. (14) pages. One of 150 copies. Signed by the author on the title-page. Title-page drawing by Tom Clark. Fine. READ MORE about NINE SONGS
Price: $85.00 Order nr. 112562
Richmond: John Knox Press, 1968. small 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 79 pages. First American edition. Blurbs by Chad Walsh, Tom Driver. Introduction by Charles Causley. Fine in lightly rubbed dust jacket. READ MORE about THE MAP OF CLAY
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 112564
London: The Bibliographical Society, 1967. 8vo. cloth. 54 pages. First edition. Distributed for the Bibliographical Society. READ MORE about JOHN CLEVELAND (1613-1658) A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HIS POEMS
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 60369
London: The Bibliographical Society, 1967. 8vo. cloth. 54 pages. First edition. READ MORE about JOHN CLEVELAND (1613-1658) A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HIS POEMS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 1791
Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1997. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (xiv), 68 pages. First edition. Fine in dust jacket. Blurbs by Jorie Graham, Michael Palmer, John Ashbery, Jane Miller. Winner of the 1996 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets. READ MORE about MADONNA ANNO DOMINI, POEMS
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 112571
Being The Titles of Books, Pamphlets and Broadsides by Poets born or residing in Vermont, Including also A few items not by Vermonters but of Vermont interest. Volume one A-K
Montpelier: Vermont Historical Society, 1942. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (iv), 242 pages. Being The Titles of Books, Pamphlets and Broadsides by Poets born or residing in Vermont, Including also A few items not by Vermonters but of Vermont interest. Volume one A-K. Volume one, listing Vermont poets A-K. All published. With biographical information for each poet. Boards are faded at the edges. Dust jacket is tanned and chipped at the edges. READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHY OF VERMONT POETS AND GAZETTEER OF VERMONT POETS
Price: $85.00 Order nr. 104539
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xvii, 93 pages. First edition, uncorrected page proof. The author's name is misspelled "Roseanne" on the front wrapper and the title-page. The "e" in both places has been lined through in ink, presumably by the publisher. Title written in ink on the bottom edge. Fine in lightly soiled printed wrappers. READ MORE about TRAFFIC, WITH GHOSTS. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY WILLIAM STAFFORD
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 112576
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984. small 8vo. cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. xvii, 93 pages. First edition. Blurbs by Annie Dillard, Louis D. Rubin, Jr., Myra Sklarew, Julia Randall. Fine. READ MORE about TRAFFIC, WITH GHOSTS. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY WILLIAM STAFFORD
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 112577
[London]: Turret Books, 1967. 12mo. stiff paper wrappers, dust jacket. 16 pages. First edition. One of 150 copies. Fine. READ MORE about BLOOD TIES
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 112578
[London]: Turret Books, 1967. 12mo. stiff paper wrappers, dust jacket. 16 pages. Of 150 copies, one of 50 numbered, signed copies. Author's first book. Fine. READ MORE about BLOOD TIES
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 112580
[Toronto]: The Coach House Press, 1978. square 12mo. stiff pictorial paper wrappers. 85 pages. First edition. One of 1,000 copies. Canadian author. Lightly rubbed black printed wrappers. READ MORE about TERRIFIC AT BOTH ENDS
Price: $8.00 Order nr. 112585
New York, NY: D. Appleton and Company, 1854. 8vo. original embossed leather, five raised bands on spine, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. xxiv, 388 pages. Advertisement, preface to this edition, table of contents, endnotes. Frontispiece portrait of Coleridge. Covers lightly rubbed and scuffed near edges. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. Foxing on frontispiece. READ MORE about THE POETICAL WORKS OF SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 128664
Bear, De: John P. Reid, June 1996. 4to. self paper wrappers stapled in left hand corner. 10 pages. Volume 5, Number 3. Articles on Hockessin, a listing of all the Papers of the Historical Society, information on fiction, poetry and slavery in Delaware and an article on Dudley Lunt's book on Delaware lawyers. READ MORE about COLLECTING DELAWARE BOOKS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 68663
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, (1989). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. viii, 53, (3) pages. First edition, wrappered. Presentation by the author on the title-page "For Joan & Hope, / A pleasure to meet you in Columbia [?], and look forward to seeing you again. / Best / Michael Collier / March 26, 1995". Blurbs by Linda Pastan, Norman Dubie. Fine. READ MORE about THE FOLDED HEART
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 112588
Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, 1995. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xii, 61 pages. First edition, wrappered. Presentation by the author on the title-page "Sandy / Good luck in Phoenix? / Best wishes, / Michael / May 21, 1995". Blurbs by Edward Hirsch, Elizabeth Spires, Tom Sleigh, Garrett Hongo. Fine. READ MORE about THE NEIGHBOR
Price: $24.00 Order nr. 112590
June-July, 1959 William Collins
N.P. n.p., 1959. large 8vo. self paper wrappers. 14 pages. June-July, 1959 William Collins. A bibliography of biographical material on William Collins and various works and pictures by him. Published 200 years after his death, this bibliography includes primarily early works since most of his later material was destroyed by his sister immediately after his death. Pencil markings in text. Light shelf wear. READ MORE about WINCHESTER COLLEGE LIBRARY
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 87330
London, UK: Printed by J. M'Creery, for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1815. large 12mo. full leather, four raised bands, gilt on spine. 128 pages. Extra pictorial title. Sixth edition. Text decorated with wood cuts. Spine separated, yet present. A lovely little book. READ MORE about BROAD GRINS; COMPRISING, WITH NEW ADDITIONAL TALES IN VERSE, THOSE FORMERLY PUBLISHED UNDER THE...
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 135022
Toronto, Canada: McClelland and Stewart, (1967). small 8vo. paper covered boards, dust jacket. 127 pages. First edition. Canadian poet. A small gouge at the bottom of the front cover, jacket is price-clipped, rubbed and chipped. Text paper is toned. READ MORE about ABRACADABRA
Price: $8.00 Order nr. 112591
(Meriden, CT: The Columbiad Club, 1958). 16mo. stiff paper wrappers, bottom edge uncut. (4) pages. Limited to 40 numbered copies. Columbiad Club Keepsake No. 62. Foreword. A Valentine's poem. READ MORE about VALENTYN
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 128529
Bogota: (Instituto Caro Y Cuervo), 1966. 8vo. cloth. xii, 514, (2) pages. First edition. Part VI of the Serie Bibliografica by the Instituto Caro Y Cuervo. An extensive study of the many poetic anthologies by Colombian authors. Followed by a bibliography of nearly four-hundred entries. Index. Ex-library copy with markings. Corners bumped. READ MORE about LAS ANTOLOGIAS POETICAS DE COLOMBIA, ESTUDIO Y BIBLIOGRAFIA
Price: $55.00 Order nr. 77848
Bogota: Instituto Caro Y Cuervo, 1971. small 8vo. cloth. xxviii, 486, (2) pages. First edition. Part IX of the Serie Bibliografica by the Instituto Caro Y Cuervo. Bibliography of Colombian poetry from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Ex-library copy with markings. READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAFIA DE LA POESIA COLOMBIANA
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 77849
(Banjul, Gambia): Baro-Ueli Publications, 1981. tall 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), 27+(1) pages. First edition. The author was born in the farming community of Dippakunda, near Banjul, the capital of The Gambia. Spine faded. READ MORE about GREAT WRINKLES UP THE SKY'S SLEEVE, THE POEMS OF SWAEBOU CONATEH, VOLUME 1
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[New York]: The Macmillan Company, 1970. small 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 60 pages. First American edition. Scottish poet. Printed in Great Britain. Published in England as Stoats in the sunlight. Extremities lightly rubbed, jacket price-clipped. READ MORE about AMBUSH AND OTHER POEMS
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 112595
San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1985). small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (xiv), 150 pages. First edition, uncorrected proof. Reviewer's notes in pencil and ink on the verso of the rear endpaper, otherwise fine in printed wrappers. The proof lacks the foreword included in the published book. READ MORE about THE CLEAR BLUE LOBSTER-WATER COUNTRY, A TRILOGY
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 112596
London: Oxford University Press, 1968. 8vo. decorated paper covered boards, dust jacket. vii, 46 pages. First edition. Signed by the author o n the title-page. Ink inscription (not by the author) on the front free endpaper, lightly bumped at the foot of the spine, lightly soiled and chipped dust jacket. READ MORE about KON IN SPRINGTIME, POEMS
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London: Oxford University Press, 1968. 8vo. decorated paper covered boards, dust jacket. vii, 46 pages. First edition. Signed by the author on the title-page. Jacket slightly chipped. READ MORE about KON IN SPRINGTIME, POEMS
Price: $7.00 Order nr. 119901
[London]: Macmillan, 1969. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 64 pages. First edition. Review copy with review slip and compliments slip laid in. Dust jacket with a few small chips. READ MORE about ARIAS FROM A LOVE OPERA AND OTHER POEMS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 112602
[New York]: The Macmillan Company, 1969. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 64 pages. First American edition. Book-plate on the front pastedown, rubbed dust jacket. READ MORE about ARIAS FROM A LOVE OPERA AND OTHER POEMS
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Washington: Library of Congress, 1987. tall 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. v, (iii), 44 pages. First edition. Fiftieth anniversary celebration of the Consultantship in Poetry. Program for the evening's readings laid in. Contains a photograph of and poem by all of the consultants serving from 1937-1987. Fine. READ MORE about CONSULTANTS' REUNION 1987, A KEEPSAKE ANTHOLOGY
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 112606
Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, (1969). 8vo. cloth. xxiv, 395 pages. Reprint of the 1919 edition. Contains chapters on Pliny, The Art of Editing, etc. READ MORE about MORE LITERARY RECREATIONS
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(Huntington, NY): Water Mark Press, 1981. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, colored glassine wrapper. 61, (3) pages. First edition. Book of poetry. Art (in color) by Coco Gordon and foreword by Charles Fishman. Handmade transparent wrapper chipped along edges. READ MORE about THE LAST MAGICIAN
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New York: Viking Press, 1984. 8vo. cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. (xii), 107 pages. First edition. Blurb by James Merrill. Fine. READ MORE about NOTES FROM A CHILD OF PARADISE
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 112618
Washington: Counterpoint, (1997). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (viii), 100, (2) pages. First edition, uncorrected bound galleys. Fine. READ MORE about PRESENT
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 112619