Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1986. Oblong folio (8½ x 13 inches). 391 pages on 195 leaves, each leaf containing two pages of the text. Xeroxed proof with printer's registration marks and incorporating an earlier editorial reader's occasional notes. Comb binding with drab wrappers. One short tear to front.....
Boston: S. G. Goodrich and Co., 1829. Three volumes, 8vo (19.9 x 12 cm). Original muslin-backed boards, printed paper spine labels, uncut. Provenance: Samuel Wagner (contemporary ownership signatures on flyleaves). FIRST EDITION of the first comprehensive anthology of American poetry, euphemistically called "Goodrich's Kettle of Poetry." This important and thorough.....
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1951. 8vo. 85 pages. Original salmon boards; printed dust jacket. FIRST EDITION of Rich's first commercially published book, issued in an edition of 551 copies as volume 48 of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, edited by W. H. Auden, the judge that year. PRESENTATION.....
New York: Academy of American Poets, 2004. 7 x 7 inches. Seven bifolia, comprising title/colophon and six poems, each with portrait of the poet facing a reproduction of their manuscript poem, with printed poem on translucent paper inserted. Laid loose as issued in glazed paper printed portfolio. First edition, one.....
