The Opening of the Hand
New York: Atheneum, 1983. 8vo. 83, [1] pages. Original cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION.
New York: Atheneum, 1983. 8vo. 83, [1] pages. Original cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION.
New York: New Directions, 1987. 8vo. 184 pp. Original cloth; dust jacket with an image of 'Gyrostasis' by Robert Smithson. A fine copy. FIRST EDITION. An early anthology of the so-called Language Poets, by Sun & Moon Press founder and poet Douglas Messerli.
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.....
New York: Macmillan, 1921. 8vo. 65 pages. Original quarter red cloth, red boards, printed paper label on front cover, gilt-lettered on spine; printed dust jacket. First edition.
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.....
Cincinnati: Elliston Poetry Foundation / University of Cincinnati, [1964]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Facsimile edition. Original green buckram. Number 25 of 500 copies. "I think I must have printed NINE EXPERIMENTS before the Auden POEMS, which I also did in 1928. I gave up printing the latter halfway.....
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1867. 8vo. 172 pages. Publisher's purple cloth, sides with double blind-ruled border, gilt-lettered on front cover and spine. Provenance: D. W. Mandell (contemporary ownership signatures on front free endpaper and flyleaf). First edition, BAL binding C. BAL 21866.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1892. 8vo. vi, 127, [1] pages. Publisher's green cloth, oval title panel on front cover in gilt and black. First edition, with Arnold's signature on card mounted on front free endpaper. Owner's name of Anna H. Davies above his card.
Brooklyn: Jordan Davies, 1979. 8vo. [11] pages. Sewn in original wrappers, printed paper label on cover. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, one of 200 signed copies, printed by Ronald Gordon at the Oliphant Press, from Garamond type on Fabriano papers. Bertholf A53a.
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.
London: Writers Forum, 1987. 4to. [40] pp. Stapled as issued in printed wrappers. Wrappers slightly cockled, otherwise fine. FIRST EDITION of this scarce early Barone work.
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]: The Spiral Press, 1951. 16mo. 8 leaves. Decorations by Leo Manso. Original printed wrappers. First edition, issue for Theodore Amussen, one of 150 copies with his imprint. Crane B23.
London: C. Wittingham for Vernor, Hood and Sharpe, and others, 1810. 8vo. xxx, 315, [1] pp. Frontispiece portrait after Nash by Romney. Contemporary calf, marbled boards, spine gilt, black morocco lettering-piece. Light wear at extremities; frontispiece offset onto title, some light browning. Later edition of 'The Village Curate,' but the.....
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.
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1970. 4to. [32] pp. Original cloth-backed printed boards; acetate jacket. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 76 of 250 copies in boards signed by McClure. Designed and printed by Noel Young and Graham Mackintosh.
New York: The Phoenix Book Shop, 1972. 4to. 20 pages (including blanks). Original printed wrappers, sewn. One of 126 copies, designed and printed by Ronald Gordon at The Oliphant Press. This copy unnumbered and unsigned, out-of-series, and from the printer's personal collection.
Lois Page, 1937. 8.25 x 5.5 inches. 78 pages. Boards. Inscribed by Lois Page on the front free endpaper. First edition.
London: Faber and Faber, [1960]. 8vo. 126 pp. Original red cloth; printed dust jacket. FIRST UK TRADE EDITION. One of 2,290 copies. This was published after the Milan, 1959 signed limited edition and the American edition of the previous year. Gallup A77.
Aloe Editions, 1973. 4to. 8 pages (including blanks). Original dark blue printed wrappers, sewn. Printed from the original manuscript in an edition of seventy-four numbered & twenty-six lettered copies. This copy unnumbered and unsigned, out-of-series, and from the printer's personal collection.
Aloe Editions, 1973. 4to. 8 pages (including blanks). Original dark green printed wrappers, sewn. Printed from the original manuscript in an edition of seventy-four numbered & twenty-six lettered copies. This copy unnumbered and unsigned, out-of-series, and from the printer's personal collection.
New York and London: Columbia University Press, 1970. 8vo. 75 pages. Original black cloth; dust jacket designed by Jasper Johns. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by Towle on the half-title. This won the Frank O'Hara Award, and was Towle's first commercially published book (there were two earlier privately printed volumes).....
Aloe Editions, 1973. 4to. 16 pages (including blanks). Original printed wrappers, sewn. One of 100 copies printed by Ronald Gordon at the Oliphant Press for Aloe Editions. This copy unnumbered and unsigned, out-of-series, and from the printer's personal collection.
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1976. 8vo. [12] pages. Sewn as issued in original printed wrappers on laid paper. First trade edition (there was a limited edition in boards).
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.