Hardcover. New York, Century Co., 1st, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 87 pages, illustrated in color and line by John Wolcott Adams. Lavender cloth with 4-color decoration. Decorated endpapers. A clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, New Directions, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 179 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket that is lightly chipped and price-clipped. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. France, L'Hartmattan, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 167 pages, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Text in French and English.
Softcover. Minneapolis, Coffee House Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated, number 100 of 300 copies SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ARTIST, Susan Nees in the rear. Sewn into handmade heavy paper wrappers. Also inscribed on the half title page.
Softcover. New York , Bouwerie Editions, 1st Ltd. Ed., 1970, Book: Very Good, Folded signature laid into gray wrappers with Bouwerie blindstamped on the front wrap. Text and wrappers rubberstamped by William Katz, and contains a color photograph by Katz of "Mary"s Fancy." This copy is designated 47 of 100 and is signed by Creeley. Clean, bright copy in folded brown wrapping paper with a label sticker and the title stamped in black, limitation lettered in blue ink.
Hardcover. Hopewell NJ, Ecco Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 99 pages, green boards with beige cloth spine. Bright dust jacket that has a small price clip that still shows $22.95 price.
Hardcover. New York , Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 115 pages, black cloth covers in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with minor edgewear to extremities. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise clean, very good.
Hardcover. New York , Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 96 pages, black cloth covers in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with minor edgewear to extremities. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise clean, very good.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 2nd pr., 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 431 pages, with unopened CD in back. SIGNED BY HALL on title page. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket, clean copy.
Hardcover. New York , New Directions, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 1214 pages, unread copy in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Edited by Peter Glassgold.
Hardcover. New York , Random House , 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 65 pages, black cloth covers, in an unclipped dust jacket that has light fading to spine.. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise clean, very good.
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 [# 64]. A fine copy in fine, unprinted acetate dust jacket. Octavo, cloth spine, paper-covered boards, 73 pages.
Hardcover. Boston, James R. Osgood & Co., reprint, 1872, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, embossed blue cloth with gilt stamping, 107 pages. Text edges stained red, title page in red and black. Previous owner's inscription on blank prelim page. Bright, tight copy.
Softcover. New York , Poetry East, 1st Ltd. Ed., 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. A collection of poems by Orr with an introduction by Stanley Kunitz. Copy 15 of 35 signed from a total edition of 175. A very near fine copy in stapled wrappers. SIGNED BY BOTH ORR AND KUNITZ on the limitation page. Poetry East Chapbook No. 2. Clean copy with just a trace of fading to pale blue wraps.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 75 pages, in a bright unclipped dust jacket with $4.50 price. Top edge stained red. Stated First Printing on copyright page. INSCRIBED BY KINNELL on the title page: "For Ed, - in the Folkway - Galway Kinnell January 24, 1991". Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 57 pages, in a bright unclipped dust jacket. Complete number line on copyright page. SIGNED BY KINNELL on the title page. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, George Braziller, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 61 pages, in an unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY SIMIC on the half title page. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Portland ME, Thomas B. Mosher, 1st, 1896, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, half leather over marbled boards, 99 pages. "This First Edition on Van Gelder paper consists of 925 copies." Same date on title page and copyright page. Burton first published his famous poem in 1880, having written it twenty-seven years before, and posed as the translator and friend of a ficticious Arab writer. Covers with light edgewear, the top of the spine has a small nick to the leather. Otherwise very good.
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. New York, Penguin, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 101 pages. Minor shelf-wear to pictorial dust jacket, else like new.
Softcover. New York, Jay Street, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 119 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT FLY LEAF. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Light wear to edges and pine, slight stain to for-edge, else a very neat, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Dutton, 1st , 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 155 pages. A very clean, tight copy in a bright dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 127 pages. A very clean, tight copy. A prize-winning Irish poet's third collection of verse again brings his simultaneously witty and deeply profound insights into all aspects of modern life, sacred and profane, and includes a sequence of thirty sonnets set in a Paris restaurant.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, April 18, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 479 pages. Light smudges to bottom and fore-edge. Else a very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Middletown, Conn., Wesleyan, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with slight odor. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR to literary critic and historian Roger Shattuck. 93 pages. A very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Port Townsend, Wash., Copper Canyon Press, 2nd Printing, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 96 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very slight dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, a spotless and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 178 pages. Light wear to cover and dust jacket. Inside is very bright and clean. A tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 48 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Minor edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 99 pages, illustrated dust jacket with minor edge wear and closed tear on top spine edge, otherwise, internally clean and tight.
Softcover. Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 224 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR to fellow poet John Engels on title page. Light edgewear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy.
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.
Softcover. Copper Canyon Press, reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 417 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR to fellow poet John Engels on front end paper. Two dog-eared pages. light edgewear to wrappers. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Ecco, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 153 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page to fellow poet John Engels. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket. Clean, 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, W W Norton, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 175 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. US, Knopf, 1st, 2010-03-09, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 237 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. US, University of Massachusetts , 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 268 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. MN, Graywolf Press, 1st, 1992-02-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 99 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1st, 2010-10-06, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 75 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on half title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 1st, 1985-10-30, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 80 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
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.
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Used & Rare Poetry Books
Browse a rotating selection of used, rare and out-of-print poetry, spanning modern American verse, anthologies and scholarly studies. Coverage moves between twentieth-century voices, experimental work and regional collections, with the occasional bilingual or Spanish-language title. You will find collected and uncollected editions, small-press printings and author-signed copies gathered from private collections.
Recent listings include David Bottoms' In a U-Haul North of Damascus, Yvor Winters' Primitivism and Decadence: A Study of American Experimental Poetry, Richard Eberhart's The Long Reach: New & Uncollected Poems, and Ernesto Cardenal's Oracion por Marilyn Monroe. Regional volumes such as Poets and Poetry of Vermont and Theodore Weiss's collected poems round out the shelf.
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