London, England: J.M. Dent and Co. (at Aldine House), 1905. Casa Guidi Arts and Crafts”, rather hastily stamped at an angle crossing over one of the horizontal blind rules. Sixth Edition. Leather-bound. Small octavo, 4" x 6", 366 p., Handcrafted leather cover with title and cover design imprinted in black..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1850. Leather-bound. Large Octavo, 9.8 in. x 6.4 in., pp. 829. Illustrated with tissue-guarded frontispiece and seven other tissue-guarded steel-engraved plates. Beveled leather boards with heavy frame and decoartion ruled in blind with gilt title to front and back. Gilt title and five raised..... More
London, England: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1903. Hugh Thomson. Limited Edition. Leatherbound. 12mo, 7 in. x 4.5 in., pp. xv, [1], 125, [3] (advertising). Fifty-five beautifully hand-colored illustrations; tissue-guard to frontispiece. Limited edition #84 of only 250 copies issued with Hugh Thomson's hand-coloured illustrations. Burgundy morocco boards with..... More
Self-published by Katherine Dunn, 1979. Staplebound Chapbook. Staplebound wrappers. 8.5 in. x 5.5 in. Unpaginated (twelve leaves). "Arboreal Abomination #1" printed to rear cover. Inscribed and signed by the author on verso of cover page. Light rubbing to covers. Age-toning to pages. Katherine Dunn's scarcest titles. Worldcat shows only 4..... More
New York: New American Library, 1968. Stated First Printing. Hardcover. First book of poems by this major American poet, published when she was twenty-four years old. SIGNED review copy with publisher's slip laid in. Grey, cloth-covered boards, with navy-blue lettering to spine. Very light rubbing to extremities, two ever-so-slightly nudged..... More
New York: The John Day Company, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 5.75 x 8.75 in., pp. 102. SIgned by author on title page. Black cloth boards with white title to spine. Rubbing to extremities. Age-toning to endpapers. Rubbing, small creases, and several small closed tears to edges of dustjacket. 2..... More
Portland, OR: Tavern Books, 2014. STATED FIRST PRINTING. Hardcover. Octavo, in silver cloth boards. Lovely and wild collection of poems composed over five decades by the former editor of Kayak, a poetry journal which "enjoyed an illustrious twenty-year run (1964-1984)" Dustjacket has done a creditable effort at protecting the book..... More
Boston, Mass: Ticknor and Fields, 1859. Hardcover. Octavo, 7 1/2in x 5 1/4in. pp. viii, 2-312. Original brown cloth, decorative blindstamping to front and rear boards, double ruled. Gilt spine title. Moderate chipping to top and bottom spine. Dark brown pastedowns and free endpapers. Small clipping of a poem concerning..... More
Chicago, IL: The Bookfellows, 1922. Marjorie Dixon. Paperback. Stringbound, with lovely cover illustration by Marjorie Dixon. 8 1/2 in. x 5 5/8 in. One of 350 copies on Old Stratford paper. Lettering by Will Ransom. "Printing by Luther A. Brewer...All done in the month of April nineteen hundred twenty-two." Sixteen..... More
Los Angeles, California: Black Sparrow Press, 1967. Softcover. Numbered limited edition (#237 out of 300) sewn in beige paper wrappers, signed by the author on the colophon page (at rear). Designed and printed by Saul & Lillian Marks at the Plantin Press, Los Angeles for the Black Sparrow Press. Light..... More
Los Angeles, California: Center Publications, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto, 5.6 x 8.75 in., Unpaginated. Number 188/300, Inscribed by author on half title page. Ivory boards with black title to spine. Light rubbing to dustjacket. Yellow Dog Journal is a collection in the Sumac Poetry Series. This book has two..... More
San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1961. Mary Hamilton. First Edition. Hardcover. NOTE: 9 original ink drawings penned in this book by previous owner, a Mary Hamilton, (8 below the text of poems, one to to the rear endpaper). A few stray ink markings to bottom edge. One of only..... More
London. Printed for T. Toodward, at the Half Moon over-against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet; Charles Davis in Pater-noster-row, and W. Bowyer, 1731. First London Edition (2nd actual). Leather-bound. Octavo. 3/4 leather with marbled paper sides. Spine heavily chipped. Both front and rear covers detached (but present). Clean copy. 7-1/2..... More
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New York: Published by Charles Reznikoff, 1927. Limited, numbered, signed edition. Hardcover. Limited edition of 375 copies with this numbered 235 in ink. Signed by Reznikoff in ink on the third free endpaper and dated June, 1975. Small octavo. Green cloth with spine titles in gilt in plain brown dust..... More
New York: Doubleday and Company, 1948. Charles Seide. Second Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. Black cloth-covered boards. First printing of the second book of one of one of the most beloved of American poets, who died of a heart attack at age 55. who went on to win -- six years after..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1936. Second Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 8 1/2" x 5 3/4." pp. [xiii], 286. Blue publisher's cloth. Corners mildly bumped, some fading to spine. Minor shelf wear. Signed Carl Sandburg to half title. Pencil annotations to last three pages; all else very clean and bright..... More
Boston, Mass: Printed for and Sold by W. Spotswood and C.P. Wayne, 1798. Fourth American Edition. Pamphlet. 6 7/8 x 4. duodecimo. Stitched and disbound. Light foxing throughout. Edgewear to final page. According to Rare Book Hub, a copy of this Monody in separate published form, has not come up..... More
Philadelphia, PA (& London): J.B. Lippincott Company, 1910. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Navy blue, cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering, and gilt vignette of sun emanating from a lighthouse beneath a sky of clouds. Top edge gilt, fore-edge and tail untrimmed. Moderate rubbing to extremities, and a bit of staining to..... More
New York: North Point Press, 1999. Seventh Printing. Softcover. Softcover, 8 in. x 5.4 in., pp. 114. Signed by the author on the title page. Only sign of wear is a single ink stamp to verso of rear cover: "Withdrawn from University of Oregon Library" Gary Snyder (born May 8..... More
Athens, GA: Croissant & Company, 1978. Limited Edition. Pamphlet. Gray paperbound pamphlet (Croissant Pamphlets No. 9), 8/5 in. x 5.5 in. Unpaginated (nine leaves). Limited edition, signed by the author on colophon page. #114/426 numbered copies, with Nos. 1-176 signed. Black title and double-line design to front. Light tanning to..... More
London, England: John Lane, 1928. Harry Clarke. Hardcover. Octavo, 9.6 in. x 6.1 in., pp. xxx, [4], 217. Illustrated with frontis and nine other tissue-guarded engravings, and many line drawn "decorations", by Harry Clarke. Dark blue cloth boards with gilt title and Harry Clarke drawing to front and to spine..... More
Boston, Mass. Copeland and Day, 1897. Second Edition. Hardcover. 12mo, 5.5 in. x 4.2 in., pp. xi, [1], 187. Second Edition (like the First) limited to 500 copies. Contemporary white cloth boards with gilt vertical stripe design to boards and gilt title to front and spine. Bottom edge untrimmed. Rubbing..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth-covered boards with black and white design to front board and white lettering to spine. Vierick won the Pulitzer Prize for this first book of his poems (he had previously written history, politics, literary criticism), Terror and Decorum, in..... More
Mt Horeb, Wisconsin: The Perishable Press Limited, 1981. Limited edition. Hardcover. Quarto, 11.25 in. x 7.25 in., unpaginated (twenty interior leaves). Limited edition: 198/225. Poetic inscription and signed in ink by poet on fourth leaf. Handmade mauve paper covers over tan leather spine, with title embossed in blind to spine..... More
New York: 37 Ink/Atria Books, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 6.5 x 9.5 in., pp. xxvi + 259, Designer white paper boards over white cloth spine. title in gold to spine. Signed by author on 4 x 5 inch bookplate, printed with "Alice Walker, Taking the Arrow Out of the..... More
