Collected Poems
New York: The Devin-Adair Company, [1964]. 8vo. xvi, 202 pages. Frontispiece portrait of Kavanagh. Original two-toned cloth; printed dust jacket. First American edition.
New York: The Devin-Adair Company, [1964]. 8vo. xvi, 202 pages. Frontispiece portrait of Kavanagh. Original two-toned cloth; printed dust jacket. First American edition.
New York: William Evarts Benjamin, 1885. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Small 8vo. Original white parchment spine and lemon glazed boards, unopened. First edition, limited to 250 copies numbered and signed (with initials) by Benjamin (this is no. 95). The first separate bibliography of an American author, compiled by Beverly.....
Paris: [Printed by Grou-Radenez] for Serje Mendjisky, 1964. Folio (14.5 x 11 inches). 35 plates. Text and plates laid loose as issued in printed cream wrappers; velvet chemise and slipcase. Copy number 282 from an unnumbered edition.
[Brookston, IN]: Triangular Press, 1981. 8vo (6 12 x 5 1/2 in.). Collage illustrations by Barbara Tetenbaum. Original printed wrappers. Number 73 of 100 copies, signed on the dedication leaf. Further inscribed to William Lipton in 2005 by Barnstone on the front flyleaf.
London: Faber and Faber, [1934]. 8vo. 86 pages. Original printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION. One of 1,000 copies in wrappers from an edition of 2,000 (the remaining copies were issued in boards). Gallup A26a.
Loughcrew, Old Caste, County Meath: Gallery Books, 1993. 8vo. 42 pages. Original black cloth; printed dust jacket. First edition, one of 925 copies from an edition of 1000. Brandes & Durkan A55a (1000 total copies printed in cloth).
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.
Knotting, Bedfordshire: Christopher Skelton for Sceptre Press, 1979. Square 8vo. 4 pages. Stapled in original printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 46 of 100 copies signed by Hughes from an edition of 450. The colophon states that Hughes retained 50 of the signed copies for himself. With errata slip.....
Knotting, Bedfordshire: Christopher Skelton for Sceptre Press, 1977. Square 8vo. [8] pages. Sewn in original printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 7 of 100 copies signed by Hughes from an edition of 450. The colophon states that Hughes retained 50 of the signed copies for himself. Sagar and Tabor.....
Anchorage, AK: Salmon Run Press, 1995. 8vo. [8] pages. Sewn in original pictorial wrappers with a photograph by H. Jagerbauer. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 9 of 100 copies signed by Kinnell. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on the half-title to Dartmouth President James Freedman. The poem originally appeared in the.....
Hessle: The Marvell Press / Listen Records: The Poet's Voice Series, [1965]. Broadside (13 x 8 inches). A fine copy, with three manuscript corrections presumably by the publisher. Scarce advance subscription form, complete with blank entry form at bottom. "This new recording has benefited from being made away from the.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. 8vo. 339 pages. Original blue cloth; dust jacket. First edition. Presentation copy, signed by Merrill on the title-page (crossing out his printed name) and inscribed: "For Joe McCrindle generous friend of the Yale Review with the editor's compliments and every good wish from the.....
New York: Viking Press, 1954. 8vo. x, 342 pages. Cloth; acetate wrapper; slipcase. First edition, limited issue, number 220 of 400 copies signed by Moore (300 were for sale). Abbott A11.a1a.
New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1998. 8vo. Original boards; pictorial dust jacket. First edition, signed by the Nobel Prize-winning poet on a front flyleaf.
London: Edward Moxon & Co, 1859. 8vo (17 x 10.5 cm). 261 pages. Half-title, 8-page advertisements at front. Original brown blind-embossed cloth. FIRST EDITION, first issue without publisher's imprint on verso of title. Without question, one of the best-known epic narrative poems in the English language. Sterling 924; Tinker 2077.....
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866. 8vo (17.8 x 11.2 cm). 52 pages. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Whittier by H. W. Smith after a photograph by Hawes (foxed), with tissue guard. Publisher's purple cloth, gilt-titled on front cover and spine. Provenance: Edward S. Marsh (engraved bookplate by W. F. Hopson). FIRST.....
Salisbury, CT: The Cantina Press, [1938]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 12mo (5 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches). Printed on tissue, on one side only of leaves. Original plain salmon wrappers; in a quarter morocco folding case. Scarce and fragile bookseller's catalogue of 28 first editions of T. S. Eliot's.....
Chicago: The Yellow Press, 1976. 8vo. 132 pages. Original blue cloth; printed dust jacket. First edition. Signed by Ted Berrigan and dated July 1980 on the front free endpaper. He has also made a correction (crossed out a word) in the final poem of his, "Boulder," on p. 9. The.....
[New York]: The Spiral Press, 1949. Oblong 16mo. 8 leaves. Original printed wrappers. First separate edition, issue for Doris Flowers, one of 150 copies with her imprint. Crane B21.
London: Faber & Faber, [1992]. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards and wrappers. Together in a cloth slipcase. Number 164 of 250 copies signed by Hughes from an edition of 280.
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1918. 8vo. [8] pages. Stapled as issued in printed wrappers; green cloth chemise and slipcase. First edition of this poem, printed for copyright purposes. Ricvhardson A312; Stewart 461.
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1919. 8vo. [8] pages. Stapled as issued in printed wrappers; green cloth chemise and slipcase. First edition of this poem, printed for copyright purposes in an edition of 70 copies. Richardson A318; Stewart 528.
Santa Barbara: Unicorn Press, 1971. 8vo. 12 leaves. Photographic illustrations. Original printed wrappers. Small bump at foot of spine. FIRST EDITION, one of 550 copies in wrappers (there were also 200 casebound and 50 signed/numbered copies). PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED by Levine to fellow poet Michael Waters: "For Michael Waters with.....
Cleveland: Zero Edition, 1968. 11 x 8.5 inches. 28 pages. Cover design by Barb O'Connelly. Side-stapled mimeo sheets bound into illustrated wrappers. First edition. One of 500 copies. Lowell A42; Taylor & Horvath B-14.
Cummington, MA: The Cummington Press, 1949. 8vo. 102, [1]pp. Original leather-backed boards. Spine worn, FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 115 of 140 copies from an edition of 245. Printed by Wightman Williams, who cut the woodblocks, and Harry Duncan, who set the type.