Little Ode
Jennifer Melby & Jordan Davies, 1980. First as such. One of 200 copies. Single page. Printed wrappers.
Jennifer Melby & Jordan Davies, 1980. First as such. One of 200 copies. Single page. Printed wrappers.
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1969. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards; acetate wrapper. Number 186 of 200 numbered and signed copies.
New York: Doctor Generosity Press, 1971. 13.5 x 8.5 inches. The Doctor Generosity Press was run out of a tavern in New York City at 73rd and 2nd on the East Side.
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!.....
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.....
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.....
Berkeley, CA: Oyez, 1974. 8vo. [32] pp. Original blue cloth; dust jacket. Slightest shelfwear to jacket. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 39 of 100 copies printed and bound by Graham Mackintosh and signed by Meltzer from an edition of 1,350.
Berkeley, CA: Oyez, 1973. 8vo. [16] pp. Sewn in original plain wrappers. Nearly fine with some faint smudging on covers. FIRST EDITION, one of 250 copies signed by Meltzer. Designed and printed by Graham Mackintosh.
Orono: The National Poetry Foundation / University of Maine, 1986. 8vo. 220 pages. Printed wrappers. First edition, inscribed by Menashe on the half-title. Issued simultaneously in paperback and cloth. "Although Menashe published only a few volumes, he was considered a unique and significant poet by critics such as Donald Davie.....
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.
New York: Nadja, [1984]. 8vo. 12 pages. Laced in original blue printed boards, with the publisher's mailing envelope. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 47 of 150 copies signed by Merrill from an edition of 176. This is the fifteenth publication of the Nadja press. Bronze originally appeared in Grand Street.....
New York: Atheneum, 1982. 8vo. 362, [1] pp. Original cloth; dust jacket. A very good copy with two short tears and one small crease to jacket. FIRST EDITION. Hagstrom & Morgan A44a1.
Brooklyn: Jordan Davies, [1980]. 8vo. 10 pages. Original salmon printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 56 of 200 copies signed by Merrill.
New York: Atheneum, 1985. 8vo. 87, [1] pp. Original cloth; dust jacket. Jacket lightly curled at edges, and with a few blind impressions on front panel, but a bright copy. FIRST EDITION, simultaneously issued in paperback. Hagstrom & Morgan A62a.
Deerfield, MA and Dublin: The Deerfield Press and The Gallery Press, 1982. 8vo. [12] pages. Illustrations by Timothy Engelland. Original cloth; printed dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, one of 300 copies signed by Merrill and hand-colored by the illustrator.
Worcester: Metacom Press, 1982. 8vo. 19, [1] pp. Sewn in original wrappers, printed label on cover. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 57 of 300 copies signed by Merrill from an edition of 326.
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.....
London: Chatto and Windus; The Hogarth Press, [1972]. 8vo. 47pp. Original cloth; dust jacket. Fine in a clipped jacket. FIRST EDITION. Hagstrom & Morgan A27a.
circa early 1990s. Autograph note signed ("Jimmy") to Charles Crawford, n.p., circa early 1990s, in folded printed Christmas card from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 5 x 4 inches, reproduction of the color lithograph by Wiener Wernstätte artist Valerie Petter, ca. 1910, with original envelope with name "Charles" in Merrill's.....
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.
London: Ingpen & Grant, 1928. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Small 8vo. Original black cloth, paper label, uncut; printed dust jacket. First edition, apparently "one of thirteen copies printed by mistake on large paper and uncut" (according to a penciled note possibly by Meyerstein) on the front pastedown. The dedication.....
Chicago: Covici-McGee, 1924. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards, printed paper spine label; printed dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, scarce with jacket.
London: Faber & Faber, 1964. 8vo. 52 pages. Cloth; dust jacket. First edition, printed in an edition of 1,500 copies. Abbott A23.
4to (11 x 8.5 inches). One page. Fair copy transcribed, signed and dated May 3, 1942 by Moore. Moore titles the poem at head, and writes its complete 27-lines in her characteristic neat, sinuous hand. She notes that it was made at the request of Thomas Brumbaugh of Greencastle, PA.....