Some Deaths
Highlands, NC: Jonathan Williams [Jargon 32], 1964. 8vo. 109 pages. Pictorial wrappers. First edition, one of 1500 copies printed.
New Arrivals
The Week the Dirigible Game
Pittsburgh and London: Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1976. 8vo. 66 pages. Pictorial wrappers. First edition, paperback issue, of the poet's first book. Presentation copy, inscribed by Meek to the poet John Allman and his wife Eileen on the half-title: "For Jack and Eileen, with love, Jay. June 15, 1976)," below which.....
Passing Duration
Providence: Burning Deck, 1991. 8vo. 62, [2] pages. Printed wrappers. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by Rodefer to a fellow poet on the half-title, 7/91. One of 1000 copies designed by Rosemarie Waldrop (there was also an issue of 50 number and signed copies.
A Bibliography of Louis Zukofsky
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1969. 8vo. 52, [3] pages. Quarter tan linen, ochre boards, printed paper label on spine; acetate dust wrapper. First edition, one of 300 copies signed by Celia and Louis Zukofsky (this is no. 126). Designed by Barbara Martin, bound by Earle Gray.
The Maharajah's Son
Lenox, MA / New York: Angel Hair Books, 1977. Tall 8vo. Original pictorial wrappers, the cover design by Rosemary Mayer. First edition, printed in Berkeley, CA at the West Coast Print Center, and limited to 1000 copies. The text comprises Warsh's "Letters", 1960-65.
Calls
Catskill, NY: Lunar Chandelier Collective, 2018. 8vo. 322 pages. Printed wrappers. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed to another poet on the title-page by Kelly. This is the fifth and final volume in a cycle of long poems, collectively forming The Island Cycle.
Criteria
[Oakland]: O Books, 1998. 8vo. 79, [1] pages. Printed wrappers. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by the poet on the half-title to two other poets and signed "Boss Hog." A scarce early collection of poetry by this important American cultural theorist, literary critic, and feminist scholar. " Sianne Ngai's writings.....
All the Whiskey in Heaven. Selected Poems
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2010. 8vo. 300 pages. Black boards; printed dust jacket. First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, inscribed by Bernstein on the title-page at the Zinc Bar, NYC, 3/28/2010.
Collected Poems; Edited by Paul Keegan
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003. 8vo. 1195 pages. Plain tan printed wrappers. Uncorrected proof of the first American edition, stated "Not For Sale," and noting tentative publication date of November 2003.
The Host. Selected Poems 1965-1990
St. Louis: Time Being Books, 1994. 8vo. 185 pages. Green cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, inscribed by Heyem on the title-page to the poet John Allman: "For the fire in you, John – with admiration and in friendship – Bill / Brockport / 1994 /.....
Windows
Pittsburg, PA: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1994. 8vo. 63 pages. Pictorial wrappers. First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, inscribed by Meek to the poet John Allman and his wife Eileen on the half-title: "January 24, 1994. To Jack and Eileen – These travelogues, for all the years our lives have.....
Pairs. New Poems
New York: Penguin, 1994. ix, [3], 78, [5] pages. Printed wrappers. First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, inscribed to the poet John Allman on the half-title: "For John Allman - in admiration of the arc of his work. From an earliest snowplow poem to the latest fiction – Philip. Castine.....
The Collected Poems
Wakefield, RI & London: Moyer Bell, 1994. 8vo. xxxi, 574 pages. Printed wrappers; dust jacket. First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, inscribed by James Laughlin on the half-title: "For Jack from J / all 2 1/2 lbs of it." The recipient was the poet John Allman.
Good Lives
Moorehead, MN: Moorehead State University, 1996. 8vo (21cm). [4], 34 pages. Grey wrappers with a photograph by Wayne Gudmundson, stapled. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title to the poet John Allman: "For Jack – Among fields of amber grain, these crop circles recently found yesterday!.....
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
New York: The Viking Press, 1975. 8.5 x 6 inches. 81 pages. Quarter cloth; dust jacket. First edition, first printing of this superb Pulitzer Prize winning collection.
Humility, Concentration & Gusto. A Profile of Marianne Moore
Brooklyn: Pratt Ad Lib Press, 1960. 4to. 21 pages. Woodcut illustrations by Richard Bennett. Printed wrappers. Number 264 of 300 copies. Produced under the supervision of Fritz Eichenberg at Pratt in celebration of Moore receiving the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters in 1959.
Tell me, tell me
New York: Viking Press, 1966. 8vo. 57 pages. Quarter cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition, first impression. Abbott A30.1.
The Fables of La Fontaine
New York: Viking Press, 1954. 8vo. x, 342 pages. Cloth; printed dust jacket. First trade edition, presentation copy, inscribed by Marianne Moore: "M.M. from M M with love / Dear Margaret, I I hope I am right in feeling that you would care to have this. Diffidantly, Marianne." Moore has.....
O To Be a Dragon
New York: Viking Press, 1959. 8vo. 37 pages. Original two-toned cloth; dust jacket. First edition, first impression. Signed by Moore on the front free endpaper, and dated Sept. 17, 1959 [the date of publication] on the copyright page. Abbott A17.1.
The Pangolin and Other Verse
London: Brendin Publishing Company, 1936. 8vo. Illustrated by George Plank. Decorated paper over boards. First edition, one of 120 copies. Abbott.
The Complete Poems of Marianne Moore
New York: Macmillan Company / Viking Press, 1967. 8vo. xiv, 305 pages. Cloth; dust jacket; blue cloth chemise and slipcase. First edition. Abbott A32.a1.
The Arctic Ox
London: Faber & Faber, 1964. 8vo. 52 pages. Cloth; dust jacket. First edition, printed in an edition of 1,500 copies. Abbott A23.
Letters from the Ford Motor Company
New York: [The Spiral Press for] The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1958. 8vo. Wood engraved plate by Leonard Baskin. Original gilt-lettered cloth-backed boards; original slipcase. FIRST EDITION, one of 550 copies. Abbott A16.
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Marriage. [Manikin number 3]
New York: Monroe Wheeler, 1923. 8vo. [20] pages. Original printed wrappers, stapled. First edition, Monroe Wheeler estimated that 200 copies were printed, mostly for presentation. Laid-in: Glenway Westcott, "Miss Moore's Observations," folded two-leaf review of Moore's 'Poems' (present in all copies examined by Abbott). Abbott A2.
The Buck in the Snow
New York and London: Harper Brothers, 1928. 8vo. vi, 69, [1] pages. Cloth, printed paper spine label; dust jacket (unclipped, $2.00 price present). First edition.