New York: Harper & Row, [1973]. 8vo. 172 pages. Purple and black cloth; printed dust jacket. First U.S. edition. Translated by George Kline and with a foreword by W. H. Auden, "After reading Professor Kline's translations, I have no hesitation in declaring that, in Russian, Joseph Brodsky must be a......
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1970. 4to. [32] pages. Original cloth-backed printed boards; acetate jacket. First edition, limited issue, number 126 of 250 copies in boards signed by McClure. Designed and printed by Noel Young and Graham Mackintosh.
London: Faber and Faber, 1934. 8vo. 69 pages. Black cloth; printed dust jacket. Second edition. Signed by Spender of the half-title.
San Francisco: Coyote's Journal, 1966. 10.5 x 8.5 inches. Printed wrappers. First edition of these doodles and reproductions of Whalen's calligraphic poems. "I write everything with a fountain pen that must be coaxed and warmed before it will work properly. The following pages were written more for the pen's benefit.....
New York: LINES, 1966. 11 x 8.5 inches. Mimeographed. 26 leaves. Printed on rectos only. Stapled in wrappers, typographic cover design by Perrault. First edition. Introduction by John Ashbery: "The first person singular occurs throughout these poems, like a key signature in music, but the poems are not meant as.....
New York: June 1979. First edition. 4to. [32] pages. Self-wrappers, stapled. Contains contributions by Nick Piombino, Jerome Rothenberg, Bob Perelman, Lynne Dreyer, Michael Lally, Clark Coolidge, Alan Davies, Jackson MacLow, Lyn Hejinian, Robert Grenier, Madeleine Burnside, Steve Bensn, Milli Graffi, Robert Kelly, David Bromige, Bruce Andrews, Charles Bernstein, and Stanley.....
New York: Macmillan, 1923. Tall 8vo. 191 pages. Original cloth-backed boards, black labels on spine and front cover; publisher's slipcase with paper labels. First edition, limited issue, number 32 of 750 copies signed by Robinson.
New York: Random House, [1954]. 8vo. 90 pages. Original pale green cloth; printed dust jacket. First edition of Williams's late lyrical masterwork, collecting five-years of work. The Desert Music shows William's continued evolution of the variable foot, his triadic "step-down-line" developed in the 1940s (particularly in Paterson). He based the.....
London: Faber and Faber, 1941. 8vo. 80 pages. Red printed boards; printed dust jacket. First edition.
Buffalo: State University at Buffalo, December 1982. Folding card, 8. 5 x 5.5 inches. Green paper. One of 2000 copies, signed beneath the colophon on rear. This is number four of the second series of Christmas broadsides published under the auspices of the Friends of the University Libraries.
Buffalo, NY: Intrepid Press / PulpArtForms Unltd. 1975. 11 x 8.5 inches. [16] pages. "Fertile Donation Box", rear wrapper with ads and half-tone portrait of the author. Illustrated wrappers, stapled, showing a sculpture by Suzanne Benton. Presumed first edition. This is The Beau Fleuve Series no. 9. "In 1960, aged.....
Henniker, NH: United Artists, 1980. 11 x 8.5 inches. 17 leaves, text printed on rectos and versos, following plain blue preliminary leaf. Stapled in wrappers, front cover illustrated by Trevor Winkfield. First edition, one of 400 copies.
New York: Nalanda University Press, 1980. Two works, mimeographed and bound dos-à-dos. [32] and [43] leaves, printed on rectos only. Stapled in stiff card covers with illustrations by Alice Notley. First edition, letter "C" of 26 lettered copies signed by New York School aligned poets Savage and Notley from the.....
New York: Adventures in Poetry. 11 x 8.5 inches. Ten mimeographed leaves, on rectos only. Stapled in wrappers, front cover with full-bleed photographic reproduction of an aerial view of a Belgrade street. First edition, one of 500 copies. O'Hara's letter to Joe LeSueur is printed here posthumously at the St.....
Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1901. 8vo. 306 pages, [4] ads, 32-page ads. Original cloth, lettered in black on front cover, in gilt on spine. First edition of the fourth and last of the Galsworthy novels written under the "Sinjohn" pseudonym. One of 1050 copies printed. With bookplate of C. H. St John.....
London: Oxford University Press, 1967. 8vo. 86 pages. Brown cloth; yellow printed dust jacket. First edition of Brathwaite's first book. Born in Barbados, Brathwaite was educated at Cambridge and returned to the West Indies to teach at Ghana.
New York: Exposition Press, 1955. 8vo. 64 pages. Green cloth; printed dust jacket. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "To Joe, One who believes. 1956. From us Jim & Poca." Scarce book by this African American poet and educator originally from Talladega, Alabama.
San Francisco: Centaur Press, 1950. 8vo. 83, [1] pages. Illustrated by Lee Mullican. Black cloth; printed dust jacket. First edition, one of 500 copies printed by Kermit Sheets. Signed by Broughton on a front flyleaf.
New York: W. W. Norton, 1979. 8vo. ix, [1], 161 pages. Printed wrappers. First edition, first printing, paperback issue. Presentation copy, inscribed in a shaky hand on the half-title: "For Stephanie Pazienza chi ha pazienza sempre con affetto Dick Hugo."
Boston: J. B. Millet Company, [1897-98]. 10 volumes, folio (398 x 295 mm). 10 color collotype frontispieces of flowers by Kazumasa Ogawa, 30 hand-colored albumen photographs by Tamamura Kozaburo mounted with printed tissue guards, numerous halftone photographic illustrations. Original silk printed in color and gilt over beveled boards in varying.....
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1965. 8vo. 570 pages. Original black cloth; printed dust jacket designed by Günter Grass. First American edition. Translated by Ralph Manheim. This is the third and last volume of Grass's Danzig trilogy (the others are The Tin Drum and Cat and Mouse). It consists.....
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1984. 8vo. 252 pages. Original black cloth; printed dust jacket with an illustration by Eddi Gornall. First edition of the co-winner of the 1985 World Fantasy Award (it tied with Barry Hughart's 'Bridge of Birds'). "One of the strangest, most beautiful and most compelling fantasies I......
London: Printed for W. Cavil, T. Martin, T. French, and J. Wren, 1795. 12mo (138 x 83 mm). Frontispiece in vol. 1, 8 other engraved plates. Contemporart tree calf, smooth spines gilt-ruled, a green morocco letteringpiece with Pope's name, and a circular red morocco piece bearing the volume's number. Provenance.....
Amsterdam: Jean Janson, 1632. 16mo (109 x 51 mm). [64], 767, [24] pages. Engraved title, portrait on verso. Contemporary vellum, yapp-edges.
Prague: Galerie D, 1967. Original portfolio containing one Poster A2 and 38 (of 40?) duotone plates. In fine condition.
