Hardcover. London, Sylvan Press, Ltd. Ed., 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with mild soil. Limited to 1000 copies. 64 pages, In French and English. The author takes on the task of offering readers four of Rimbaud's best-known poems in their original text, facing them with literal transcriptions with notes that make the renderings "documents" rather than poetic translations. In a separate section he offers his own versions, taking into consideration the character of the French language. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2015 , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 249 pages. The last book of poems published during Williams lifetime. Williams won a Pulitzer Prize and two National Book Awards for previous collections. A clean near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket.
Hardcover. Evanston IL, Northwestern University Press, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A portrait of Black America in the nineteenth century. Over the course of two decades, award-winning poet Patricia Smith has amassed a collection of rare nineteenth-century photographs of Black men, women, and children who, in these pages, regard us from the staggering distance of time. Unshuttered is a vessel for the voices of their incendiary and critical era. Smiths searing stanzas and revelatory language imbue the subjects of the photos with dynamism and revived urgency while she explores how her own past of triumphs and losses is linked inextricably to their long-ago lives. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 113 pages, beige canvas boards with salmon cloth spine, wood-grained dust jacket in mylar cover. A collection of poems by American author R. G. Vliet (1929-1984), his first book. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2015 , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 249 pages. The last book of poems published during Williams lifetime. Williams won a Pulitzer Prize and two National Book Awards for previous collections. A clean near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket.
Softcover. Athens GA, University of Georgia Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 75 pages. Galvin's 4th book, his photo on back cover. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Softcover. Trumansburg,NY, self-published, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, yellow wraps, unpaginated. First printing of this early collection of verse by Anderson, also known as a dance critic. Saddle stapled pictorial wraps. A very good copy. Mild toning to wraps' edges. Small name on title page.
Softcover. Carbondale IL, Southern Illinois University Press, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 62 pages. INSCRIBED BY GALVIN on the title page. These poems chronicle the waxing and waning of the seasons from one winter to the next in the area around Egg Island, the dunes near a small seacoast town on the outermost reaches of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Galvin's training as a naturalist and environmental writer is evident as his practiced eye roves the waves, marshes, and forests, finding meaning and beauty in the smallest detail-- bird-watching, rebuilding a woodpile, or the flight of bobwhite quail. Other poems recall the poet's affectionate memories of his deceased wife and the life they shared together, acknowledging grief without veering into the maudlin. Always present beneath the surface is the question of where humans fit into this wild, ever-changing landscape. Mild crease to front cover otherwise a clean, bright copy.
Softcover. Riverdale-on-Hudson NY, The Sheep Meadow Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 115 pages. INSCRIBED BY BARNSTONE on the title page. Barnstone was a distinguished professor emeritus from Indiana University. He was in China during the Cultural Revolution, which is central to this collection. Clean, bight copy.
Softcover. Santa Rose CA, Black Sparrow Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 198 pages. INSCRIBED BY WAKOSKI on the title page to author and teacher Paul Christensen, Clean copy.
Hardcover. London/NewYork, Dent/Dutton, 1st, 1901, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 120 pages, 3-color illustrations throughout by Charles Robinson. Binding is shaken but intact with all of the wonderful plates. The cloth spine has separated from the backstrip and the 3-color decoration on the front cover suffers from rubbing/fading in areas. Small volume, 5" tall, 3 3/4" wide, one in a series titled The Bairn Books.
Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 67 pages in a bright dust jacket featuring a Mark Rothko painting. The poet's first book, especially difficult to find in hardcover in nice condition.
Hardcover. Fort Townsend, WA, Copper Canyon Press, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 205 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end paper, to fellow poet John Engels. Light edgewear to dust jacket, faint foxing to top edge. Clean, tight copy.
NY, Laurel Press, 1st, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan boards with cream cloth spine, 88 pages. #199 of 450 copies. Previous owner's inscription front endpage. Corners lightly bumped, light edgewear. A late-sixteenth-century sonnet cycle written by Edmunde (Edmund) Spenser about his courtship and marriage to Elizabeth Boyle.
Hardcover. Chicago, Big Table, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 60 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Some spotting to black cloth covers. Unclipped dust jacket shows fading to spine and some light soil, rubbing to paper. Scarce in hardcover. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, George G. Harrap, reprint, undated, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, unpaginated, color illustrations by Willy Pogany, previous owner's inscription, foxing, dust jacket age tanned, otherwise clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, The Viking Press, 1st US, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 124 pages. Dust jacket edge wear and crease, minor rubbing, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 355 pages, in a bright unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY SIMIC on the half title page. Also a handwritten postcard from Simic laid in as well as two related newspaper clippings about the book.
Hardcover. Rutland, VT, George A. Tuttle & Company, 1st Edition, 1858, 400 pages. Hardcover. Previous owner's dated (Feb. 10, 1859) signature on front flyleaf (see image). Brown cloth, stamped cover boards with agewear (see image), fraying to top of spine (see image), gilt title on spine and design on front cover board. Tanning from age to pages and edges, no rips, in incredibly good condition for its age.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Very good in an unclipped dust jacket. The scenery of Iceland, the South seas, and the American South, the awakening of first love, and the meaning of speech are some of the topics treated in this collection of poems by the novelist and critic. He is a poet the same way Somerset Maugham is a thinker; the poems are set in dozens of exotic locales and glitter like fireflies against the night of the page. As the title suggests, one exotic locale is pretty much the same as any other for Brad Leithauser, as long as you get mail from it. The messages that come through tell little stories, almost as though they weren't big enough to be used as the raw material for his novels.
Hardcover. New York , Farrar Straus & Giroux , 1st US, 1987-09-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 51 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light shelf-wear to price clipped dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, Brace and company, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 111 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrations by Gary Kelley. Stiker on rear dust jacket. otherwise clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London/Boston, Foulis Books/Le Roy Phillips, 1st thus, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, gray cardboard covers with black lettering. Features 8 tipped-in color plates on gray pages by Frank Brangwyn, each with a tissue guard. Dust jacket present but chipped with half of spine gone. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise a clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Lee and Shepard, 1st, 1894, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, original attractive olive cloth with a garland of leaves and flowers in gilt on the front cover. All edges gilt. Oblong llustrated book with poems by Dorr and full page illustrations in charcoal of the Rutland, Vermont area by Zulma Delacy Steele. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st , 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wrappers. SIGNED and dated 2002 by this Nobel Prize winner for literature in 1992 on the front fly leaf. With 26 full-page reproductions of Walcott's paintings. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Inc, 2nd pr., 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 86 pages. SIGNED BY SIMIC on the title page. Stated First Edition with letter line starting with B. A very nice copy of this book of poems from the acclaimed author who went on to win the Pulitzer Prize.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar & Rinehart, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black boards, gilt titles to spine (faded) and gilt vignette to front board. 81 pages, decorations by Charles Child. New poems by Benet just after his Pulitzer winning John Brown's Body. Inside, as new, with no prior owner marks, and no stains or browning.
Softcover. Fredonia NY, White Pine Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 254 pages. SIGNED BY ST. JOHN at the 2000 Breadloaf Writers Conference. Essays and reviews by poet David St. John of collections of verse by poets including Marvin Bell, Charles Wright, Donald Hall, Randall Jarrell, Pablo Neruda, Donald Justice, Mark Strand, Jorie Graham et al, followed by six interviews with David St. John (in various journals).
Softcover. Burlington VT, Rumble Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 28 pages, plain stiff white paper wraps, outer layer of light purple rice paper with title label pasted on front, pages tied with string at spine, hand printed by Bruce Conklin, #82/400 copies, poems of self-awareness published in celebration of Sarton's eightieth birthday, Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Available Press/Ballantine, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 191 pages. Last Words is the first major collection of poems by a Milwaukee poet born soon after World War II who reached maturity during the late 1960s. It contains his highly acclaimed epic "Factory,"described by Allen Ginsberg as "a definitely powerful epic by one of Whitman's 'poets and orators to come.'" Antler was born in Milwaukee and grew up in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. He "worked his way through college" in various factories. As John Muir left the University of Wisconsin at Madison for "the University of the Wilderness" in 1863, Antler left the Milwaukee campus for the same destination in 1973. Besides factories, he has explored wildernesses in Upper Peninsula Michigan, Minnesota, Ontario, Colorado, and California. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Four Way Books, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 66 pages. These poems map out a topography where global movements of diaspora and war live alongside personal reckonings: a house's foreclosure, parents' divorce, the indelible night spent drunk with a best friend "[lying] down inside a chronic row of corn." Here, her father's voice "is the stray dog barking / at the snow, believing the little strawberries grow wilder / against a field." In these pages, she points to Russia and Poland and Germany, saying, "It was / another time. My people / another time. The synagogues burn decades / of new snow." The brilliance of this collection illuminates the relationship between memory and language; "another time" means different, back then, gone and lost to us, and it means over and over, always, again. With this linguistic dexterity and lyrical tenderness, Hoffman's work bridges private and public histories, reminding us of the years cloaked in shadows and the years when there was light. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a chipped dust jacket. Blue cloth. Previous owner's inscription on title page, otherwise clean
Softcover. Madison WI, Seventies Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Softcover with a dust jacket, 74 pages. A collection of poetry by Rolf Jacobsen, a Norwegian poet, considered to be one of the first modernist writers in Norway. Poems in English and Norwegian. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Santa Barbara CA, Black Sparrow Press, 1st thus, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, With a new Preface by the Author. Hardcover, numbered and signed issue, limited to 300 numbered hardcover copies, SIGNED BY PAUL BOWLES [# 65]. A fine copy in fine, unprinted acetate dust jacket. Octavo, cloth spine, paper-covered boards, 73 pages.
Hardcover. US, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 1996-04-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 61 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Remainder dot to bottom edge, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 448 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Includes CD of author reading book.
Hardcover. London, Macmillan, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 99 pages. Previous owners inscription on front endpaper. Full color and black & white illustrations by Donald Maxwell. Cloth covers rubbed along spine edges and corners. Pages clean and unmarked.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 83 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON HALF TITLE PAGE. Previous owners name and address on front endpaper. Dust jacket with light wear along edges, darkening to paper. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Garden City, NY, Doubleday, Page and Co. , 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 71 pages, illustrated end papers, copyright page and title page, color frontispiece. Color plates at pages 22 and 49. Light edge wear, small tears to dust jacket; protected by mylar cover. Foxing to top edge. Else a very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Reeves and Turner, 1st, 1891, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 196 pages. Red cloth with gilt lettering to front and spine. No dust jacket issued. Sun-fade to front cover and spine. Previous owner's bookplate and inscription on front end paper.
Hardcover. NY, Arrow Editions, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 146 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Light foxing to edges. Dust jacket with darkening, chipping along edges. Jacket now protected with clear plastic cover.
Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover with fair dust jacket. Illustrated with woodcuts by Clare Leighton. Dj with large chunks gone, edgewear, tanning.
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