New York: The Dial Press, 1924. 8vo. 120 pages. Original black half cloth, black boards, printed paper spine label, with an additional label mounted on rear pastedown. FIRST EDITION, first impression of Moore's second book of poetry, but the first published with her approval. The book won the Dial Award.....
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1947. 8vo. 55 pages. Original tan cloth; printed dust jacket. Provenance: James Radcliffe Squires (bookplate, inscription from the author). FIRST EDITION of Wilbur's first book of poetry, published in an edition of 750 copies. INSCRIBED by Wilbur on the front free endpaper to fellow American.....
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1969. 8vo. 216 pages. Original blue cloth, gilt-lettered on spine; printed dust jacket designed by Roxanne Cumming. FIRST EDITION, first printing. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on the division title for the first work: "Jean Doreski, regards from Elizabeth Bishop / Harvard, December 4th, 1970." This.....
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: Oxford University Press, 1966. 8vo. 57 pages. Original aquamarine cloth; printed dust jacket. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION of Heaney's first commercially published book. One of 1,000 copies, using sheets from the UK edition published in the same year by Faber & Faber. An auspicious debut, not only did the.....
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1911. 8vo. viii, 87, [1] pages. Publisher's blue cloth, printed paper spine label. FIRST EDITION, one of 500 copies of Brooke's first collection of poetry, published when he was only 23 years old. The book was issued without a jacket. With his second book, 1914 and.....
Salem, OR: Charles Seluzicki, 1980. Oblong (4.75 x 5.75 inches; 121 x 145 mm). [20] leaves. One plate by Kathleen Gray Schallock. Original plain grey wrappers, deckle edges preserved; publisher's stiff card envelope lined with silver. A fine copy. FIRST EDITION, number 12 of 250 copies signed with initials by.....
New York: Merloyd Lawrence Book / Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, 1982. 8vo. xiii, 225 pages. Illustrated by Jacques Hnizdovsky. Original cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, first printing. INSCRIBED by Smith on the front free endpaper and with a two-page note by Smith on folded card, to a correspondent who.....
Marseille: Sud poésie, 1990. Text in French translated from the English by Sonja Haussmann. 8vo. 93, [1] pages. Illustrated by Sonja Haussmann. Printed wrappers. French translation, INSCRIBED by Smith and Haussmann on the title-page.
Brooklyn: Nimbus Books, 1987. Folded sheet (8.5 x 5.5 inches). FIRST EDITION, one of 250 copies, signed at the foot of each poem by the authors: "Goofy's Brush with Despair" (Wieder) and "Goofy Plays Second Fiddle in the Family Quartet" (Shapiro). Designed by Andrea Korotky.
New York: The Poets Press, 1965. 8vo. [16] pages. Printed wrappers with a cover drawing by Brett Rohmer. FIRST EDITION.
London: Faber and Faber, 1954. 8vo (8.5 x 5.5 inches). 4 pages. Two illustrations by David Jones. Sewn as issued in printed wrappers; publisher's envelope. FIRST EDITION, published in the new series of Ariel Poems. Gallup A66a.
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1959. Folded sheet (35 x 7.5 inches; folding to 7.5 x 6 inches). FIRST EDITION of Kaufman's first "book": a folded sheet containing the text of 'The Abomunist Manifesto,' which was first published serially in John Kelly's magazine 'Beatitude.'.
Eugene, OR: Toad Press, [1969]. 8vo (8.5 x 5.5 inches). 55, [1] pages. Stapled in original pictorial wrappers with a photo of Snyder, his wife Masa Uehara, and the Japanese poet Nanao Sakaki. FIRST EDITION, one of 500 copies. Snyder edited this special issue that includes his own work, as.....
New York: I. Rice Pereira, 1969. 8vo (9.25 x 6 inches). 82, [2] pages. Printed wrappers. Second edition, taking the sheets of the first edition with the colophon crossed out by hand and with manuscript note "second edition." A major figure in the development of modernism in the United States.....
Yellow Springs: Kahoe & Spieth, 1927. 8vo. 50 pages. Cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by the poet on the front free endpaper and dated Oct. 11, 1927. The publisher Walter Kahoe's copy, with his bookplate.
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1994. 8vo. 100 pages. Cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by Ashbery on the title-page. This was Ashbery's sixteenth collection of poems.
New York: Catchword Papers, 1994. 8vo. 35 pages. Cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by Ginsberg and Koch, and by the moderator Ron Padgett, on the title-page. The limitation states that there were 60 numbered copies signed by the poets, "as well as additional clothbound copies and in wrappers." This.....
Dublin: William Porter, 1802. 12mo. 62 pages. Two engraved plates. Contemporary Irish binding, full mottled calf, gilt flortiate roll on sides. Scarce Dublin edition, published the same year as the London and New York editions.
Edinburgh: Sands, Murray and Cochran for A. Kincaid and A. Donaldson, 1755. 12mo. cxv, 321, [21] pages. Contemporary calf. To this edition is added a critque of the poem by Addison and a preface, "in which are inserted cahracters of the several Poems wrote by Milton." ESTC T170403.
London: Jacob Tonson, 1721. 12mo. [60], 345, [2] pages. Engraved frontispiece by van der Gucht, engraved head- and tail-pieces. Contemporary gilt-ruled calf. Second edition, after the first of 1713. ESTC T124904.
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1971. 8vo. 128 pages. Printed wrappers. WITH EXTENSIVE MANUSCRIPT ADDITIONS BY EBBE BORREGAARD. The poet's "27 Songs" appears on pages 33 to 51. He makes several small corrections to the text, and adds a full four-page holograph continuation of the poem in red ink on.....
West Branch, IA: The Toothpaste Press, 1982. 12mo. [10] pages. Original cloth-backed marbled boards, printed paper spine label. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 163 of 200 copies signed by Creeley from an edition of 2,200. Designed and printed by Alan Kornblum. Printed on Strathmore Grandee. Bound by Constance Sayre at.....