Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st , 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY STAFFORD on title-page. Dust jacket spine with light fading.
Hardcover. Northridge, CA, Lord John Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in black. Ltd to 275 copies (#269) SIGNED BY BOTH ERDRICH & DORRIS. No dust-jacket issued. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. New York, The Spiral Press, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 12mo. Printed wrappers. Decorations by Philip Grushkin. First edition of Frost's Christmas poem for the year. INSCRIBED BY FROST on first page: "To Garry Simpson from Robert Frost/At Miami arranging (?) March 4, '57". Light soil to outer wraps, Otherwise very good.
Hardcover. New York, W.W. Norton, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 117 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by Author. Otherwise clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Barry Moser. Clean, tight copy with minor rubbing on edges.
Hardcover. Francestown NH, Golden Quill Press, 1ST, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Dark red faux leather cloth spine with red and white cloth over boards; gilt-stamped spine and cover titles. Red and white dust jacket in mylar cover. A collection of short humorous poems previously published in various magazines. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the front free endpaper:
Softcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press;, reprint, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wrappers, 123 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page and INSCRIBED by him on front fly leaf. Poems inspire our trust, argues James Longenbach in this bracing work, because they don't necessarily ask to be trusted. Theirs is the language of self-questioning--metaphors that turn against themselves, syntax that moves one way because it threatens to move another. Poems resist themselves more strenuously than they are resisted by the cultures receiving them. But the resistance to poetry is quite specifically the wonder of poetry. Considering a wide array of poets, from Virgil and Milton to Dickinson and Gluck, Longenbach suggests that poems convey knowledge only inasmuch as they refuse to be vehicles for the efficient transmission of knowledge. In fact, this self-resistance is the source of the reader's pleasure: we read poetry not to escape difficulty but to embrace it. An astute writer and critic of poems, Longenbach makes his case through a sustained engagement with the language of poetry. Each chapter brings a fresh perspective to a crucial aspect of poetry (line, syntax, figurative language, voice, disjunction) and shows that the power of poetry depends less on meaning than on the way in which it means--on the temporal process we negotiate in the act of reading or writing a poem. Readers and writers who embrace that process, Longenbach asserts, inevitably recoil from the exaggeration of the cultural power of poetry in full awareness that to inflate a poem's claim on our attention is to weaken it.
Fredonia NY, White Pine Press, reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 48 pages. a reprint of Wright's early book considered the most private of his work. The author identified he and his wife Annie as the citizens in the title. Nice copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, Henry Regnery, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers, slightly faded gilt title on spine. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf and dated in 1953. Preface by William Butler Yeats; Epilogue by Oliver St. John Gogarty Frontispiece drawing by Diego Rivera. For more than 20 years, the manuscript of this book, including the preface by Yeats and the epilogue by Gogarty, had been lost. Includes several poems originally published in 'Poetry' under the pseudonyms Wesley Ames, Stanley Blackpool, Everett Owens and John Creigh. 62 pages. No dust jacket.
NY, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, first Printing with code letter "I-C" and "First Edition" printed on copyright page. Paper label on spine, three quarter black cloth with blue paper over boards.
Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 77 pages, clean copy. A collection of poetry by the first African-American woman to be the U.S. Poet Laureate.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with light fading to spine. A collection of 16 poems by Meredith, all based on the fictitious painter Hazard. #66 of 100 copies numbered and SIGNED on a tipped-in prelim page. In addition, also INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the front fly leaf. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt lettering and design on spine and front cover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the front fly leaf. Additionally with a note to the title page stating she has hand-corrected some 20 errors in the printed text, unique thus. An epic poem "on the lives of a young composer-aviator and his intimates and casual acquaintances the accumulated wisdom and lore of the world in which we live." Winner of the Yale Poetry Award. No dust jacket. Mildred Dodge Jeremy Ingalls was an American poet and scholar of Chinese literature. In 1943, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship to work on her major poem, The Thunder Saga of Tahi, this being the result. Spine gilt faded.
Softcover. NY, Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 86 pages. Author's first book. Blurbs by Mark Strand, Robert Pack, John Logan, Michael Benedikt. Stated First Edition, the hardcover was published simultaneously. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Softcover. Manchester UK, Carcanet Press , 1st UK, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 247 pages. SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY DELANTY on the title page. Bringing Greg Delanty's six books together, this book contains poems that draw on an inheritance from the different worlds that Delanty moves in: Ireland and America, Gaelic and English, traditional verse forms and modern colloquial. Clean copy.
Softcover. Athens GA, University of Georgia Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 76 pages, illustrated wraps. SIGNED BY JACKSON on title page.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 110 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a very neat, tight copy.
Hardcover. Montana, Graywolf Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 334 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux , 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 387 pages. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Paris, La Caravelle, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 169 pages, color frontispiece, b&w text illustrations by Andre Margat. INSCRIBED BY ALI-BERT on front fly leaf to American scholar and professor Stephen Freeman, dated 1945. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Limited Editons Club, 1st Thus, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 73 pages. Limited Editions Club. SIGNED ON LAST PAGE BY PHOTOGRAPHER RICHARD MEAD ATWATER BENSON. HAND NUMBERED #794 OF 2000. Bound in silvery gray cloth, with title stamped in dark blue on spine. Slipcase features a blue wave motif on paper, with cloth at top and bottom of case. 2 minor spots of rubbing at left top edge of paper on slipcase. A bright, clean copy.
Softcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co, advanced proof, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 63 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE, advanced reading copy, folded Houghton Mifflin Publishers news release about book included, color illustrated cover. Book in excellent condition.
Hardcover. Mrs. Clayton M. Richardson, 1st thus, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 77 pages, line illustrations throughout and gilt title on cover. Minor corner and edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight. Poems reprinted from popular children's publications along with the drawings that accompanied them.
Hardcover. Port Townsend WA, Graywolf Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 86 pages, in a bright unclipped dust jacket. Limited to only 150 in hardcover. B&W frontispiece drawing by Laura Battle.
Softcover. New York, New Directions, 1st paperback, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 231 pages. Softcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Wrapper in good shape, has a touch of tanning. A small bit of foxing to top edge, otherwise clean inside and out. Binding tight, in great condition for its age.
Softcover. New York, Knopf, Uncorrected proof wraps, 1994, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in light gray wrappers, an uncorrected proof. SIGNED BY HIRSCH on title page.
Hardcover. US, Faber and Faber, 1st, 2006-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 76 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, VIKING PRESS, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 75 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED TO BRET BRITTON WHO WAS THE BOOK BUYER AT THE STRAND IN NEW YORK. Tight copy, with only light edge wwear to cover and dust jacket.
Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st, N.D., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 224 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. White lightly soiled covers with blue and silver lettering. Light foxing on piliminary pages. Featuring stories and poems by the likes of J.M. Barrie, Algernon Blackwood, and Rudyard Kipling, & illustrations by Walt Disney Studio, Paul Bloomfield, A.P. Payne, Sylvia Salisbury, A.H. Watson, H.S. Foxwell, etc, this book was printed as part of a charitable drive for the Princess Elizabeth (now Queen Elizabeth II) of York Hospital For Children
Softcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 166 pages. INSCRIBED BY ROBERTS on the title page. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket 81 pages. SIGNED BY KINNELL on front fly leaf. Kinnell's twelfth book of poetry.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons , 1st, 1879, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, olive green cloth with gilt fern and black lettering on cover, beveled edges, 178 pages. Mild foxing to some pages. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, E. P. Dutton & Co., reprint, 1885, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Embossed flexible leather covers with a string binding. Gilt script lettering on front. B&w frontispiece and many b&w engravinge throughout, 94 pages. Nice clean copy of this unusual binding.
Hardcover. NY, B.W. Huebsch, Revised Ed., 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth with a spine labe.l William Ellery Leonard (1876-1944) was an American poet, playwright, translator and literary scholar. Over his career, Leonard wrote numerous volumes of poetry, this being his most well-known work. It is a cycle of 250 sonnets about his tragic first marriage, which ended with his wife's suicide. Revised from the 1922 privately printed edition with "four scattered verbal changes and . four new stanzas in Part III." Spine label rubbed. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Galleon Press, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in gilt, 317 pages. Collects three longer poems from both Pushkin and Lermontov, as translated to English and with a forward by Jacob Krup. With twelve interpretive illustrations by Herbert Fouts. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Otherwise a clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st thus, 1885, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers stamped in black and gilt, beveled boards, 89 pages, all edges gilt. Printed on heavy glossy stock. The frontispiece is an etching of Holmes by S.A. Schoff with a tissue guard. There are many wonderful illustrations throughout the book by 20 artists, including Howard Pyle, W.L. Tayor and W. Smedley. CLEAN COPY.
Softcover. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 334 pages. This revised edition of The Poem of Empedocles (1992) integrates substantial new material from a recently discovered papyrus and published by A. Martin and O. Primavesi. The papyrus contains evidence of over seventy lines or part lines of poetry, of which more than fifty are both new and usable. The integration of this material into the previously known fragments has significant impact on our understanding of Empedocles, one of the most influential philosophers and poets of antiquity. Name on front fly leaf otherwise a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY STRAND on the title page. Clean, like new.
Softcover. Berkeley CA, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 144 pages. Middle issue of this great book-format review edited by Barrett Watten and Lyn Hejinian. Clean, unmarked copy. Contributors include Jackson Mac Low, Lydia Davis, Bruce Andrews, Fanny Howe, Johanna Drucker, Bob Perelman, Jed Rasula, Rae Armantrout, Michael Davidson, Kit Robinson, Peter Seaton, Beverly Dahlen, Stephen Ratcliffe, Norman Fischer, George Lakoff, Paul Hoover, Larry Price, Claire Phillips, Andrew Ross, Michael Amnasan, and Watten.
Softcover. Tucson AZ, Grilled Flowers Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, includes critical essays by Louis Gallo and Alan Ziegler, an interview by Naomi Shihab, and a preface and portfolio of 18 new poems by Benedikt. 75 pages. INSCRIBED BY BENEDIKT on title page. Also signed on copyright page in red. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in lightly worn wrappers. Mailer's only poetry book, $1.95 price on rear cover, small name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. Published simultaneously with the hard cover edition.
Softcover. San Diego, Junction Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 220 pages. A veteran of the New York avant-garde still best remembered for her rebellious '60s play Futz, Owens resurrects the painter Leonardo da Vinci; two of his models, Flora and Mona (Lisa); his student Salia; and Luca, his teacher. Luca is given the poem's near-omniscient "I"; the piece as a whole is less concerned with the biographical Leonardo than with the physical, social and emotional circumstances of representative creation and the elaboration of sexual expression in portraits. To this end there are many descriptions of women's bodies that are spat back at the reader-as-observer in colloquial bursts. INSCRIBED BY OWENS on the half-title page. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, William Heinemann, 1st thus, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 116 pages, illustrated with 4 color and 12 b&w plates by G.D. Armour. Green cloth covers with brown lettering and design, gilt lettering on spine. The green dust jacket is worn, chipped with a small hole at the edge of the spine. SIGNED & HANDWRITTEN LETTER BY AUTHOR tipped inside cover, also ANOTHER SIGNED NOTE W/ENVELOPE laid in.
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