The Flare of Beginning Is in November
Brooklyn: Jordan Davies, 1980. 8vo. 36 pp. Original printed wrappers. Fine. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 49 of 150 copies signed by Enslin.
A list of 175 titles.
Brooklyn: Jordan Davies, 1980. 8vo. 36 pp. Original printed wrappers. Fine. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 49 of 150 copies signed by Enslin.
N.p. [1970]. 12.5 x 9.5 inches. Inscribed "To Sam with admiration, Larry."
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.
London: David Nutt, 1913. Small, thin 8vo. ix, [3], [1]-50, [2] pages. Original tan printed wrappers (Binding D); cloth folding box. FIRST EDITION, second issue. The author's first book, preceded only by the legendary Twilight [1894] of which only one copy is known. Frost has the distinction of being one.....
N.p. no publisher, 1975. 11 x 8.5 inches. Printed on both sides, laid paper. The poem is from Giovanni's collection "The Women and the Men."
Robert Grayson, 1990. Accordion form, 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 in., printed on translucent paper, 32 panels, printed on rectos only. Second edition, number 5 of 250 copies signed by Grayson from an edition of 276 (there were 26 lettered proofs). Grayson had first published his collection of aphorisms as.....
[New York]: Grenfell Press, 1984. Tall 8vo. Title design drawn by Louisa Chase. Original cloth, printed paper label on spine. FIRST EDITION, number 13 of 115 copies signed by Lauterbach and Chase from an edition of 130.
New York: The Grenfell Press, 1986. 8vo. Sewn in wrappers; dust wrapper with woodcut by Joel Shapiro. FIRST EDITION, number 13 of 150 copies signed by Cole and Shapiro.
Liverpool: University of Liverpool, [1978]. 8vo. 18 pages. Green wrappers. FIRST EDITION of the first Kenneth Allott lecture.
Halifax, Nova Scotia: [Cambridge: Thurston and Torry for] E. G. Fuller, 1857. First edition. 8vo. 237pp. Two lithographed frontispieces by Sarony, Major and Knapp, New York. Contemporary black hard-grained morocco, gilt-lettered on spine, edges gilt. A fine Nova Scotia imprint, from two sisters who had emigrated from Ireland as young.....
London: Faber and Faber, [1963]. 8vo. 46 pages. Illustrated by R. A. Brant. Original blue cloth; pictorial dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. One of 3,000 copies of Hughes' third book for children. Sagar and Tabor A7.
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.....
East Montpelier, VT: Heaven and Earth Publishing, [2005]. Small 8vo. [30] pages. 10 full-page illustrations by Arthur Okamura. Stapled as issued in original printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED WITH A DRAWING BY BLY on the title. Bly's simple abstract sketch evokes a bird, or fish, surrounding the text.....
Palo Alto, CA: Chimera Books, 1981. 14 x 11 inches. On handmade Fabriano paper. One of 150 unsigned from an edition of 150.
New York: Doctor Generosity Press, 1970. 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.
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.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin/The Riverside Press, 1960. 8vo. 83 pages. Original cloth-backed boards; printed dust jacket with photographic portrait of the author by Betty C. Brown on the front cover. FIRST EDITION, first printing of the author's first book.
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.....
Portland, OR: Yes! Press, 1971. 11 x 7 inches. No. 8 in the series from the Yes! Press.
New York and Paris: Juliette Halioua Ltd. and Adrien Maeght Editeur, 1973. Leporello-style accordion-form color lithograph printed by Ateliers Arte, Paris, 73 x 12 inches; 1854 x 305 mm. Folding into original cloth portfolio with color lithograph mounted on cover. A FINE ARTISTS BOOK. The Swiss artist Warja Lavater is.....
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.....
N.p. no publisher, n.d. 18.5 x 7 inches. Printed in colors. Signed by the poet. Presumed first edition.
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1855. 8vo. 316 pages; 12-page publisher's advertisements at end dated November 1855. Original brown blind-blocked publisher's cloth, gilt-lettered on spine; quarter morocco slipcase with chemise. Provenance: S. G. Bogert, New York City (contemporary inscription on front flyleaf). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, first printing, with all of the.....
New York: The Alcestis Press, 1935. 8vo. Original printed wrappers; glassine. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, an unnumbered copy from the edition of 165 signed by Maas. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED in pencil on the front free endpaper to the playwright and poet Jane Dransfield: "To Jane Dransfield / belatedly but no.....