Softcover. Athens, GA, The University of Georgia Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 77 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR TO FELLOW POET JOHN ENGELS. Some scratches on covers. Corners and spine a little worn. Slight wear on rear cover along fore edge. Top corner of first few pages lightly bent/creased. Good, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. Syracuse, NY, Tamarack Editions, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR IN BACK. Cloth and marbled paper-covered boards. Color linoleum-block prints throughout. Very slight fading of some of lettering on spine. Minor staining on spine. A little wear along edges. Nice, 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. UK, Scorpion Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 70 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half title page. Light shelf-wear and sun-fade to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Pawlet, VT, Priscilla Howes Grant, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 27 pages, hardcover. #37 of 126 copies; distributed to friends of the poet. Nickerson was a young poet who died in a motorcycle accident in 1972. Unmarked. Clean and bright; a tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Scribner, Armstrong, and Company, 1st US, 1872, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 282 pages, hardcover. A Hidden Life and Other Poems. Cloth boards with gilt lettering and design. Beveled boards. Slight tears to head of spine. Edgewear and bumping to boards. Rubbing to boards as well, but gilt is still relatively bright. Mild cocking to spine, binding still tight. Slight staining from bleed half title page to prelim page. Previous owner's inscription to prelim page. With tipped-in old timey bookmark. A bright 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.
Softcover. Portland ME, Coyote Love Press, 1st Ltd. Ed., 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Softcover, plain paper wraps with a pictorial dust jacket in two colors on tan stock. 38 pages, SIGNED BY MCDOUGALL on title page, also INSCRIBED on the front fly leaf. Black and white drawings by Gary Buch. Limited to 500 copies of which 25 are signed and numbered. This copy is unnumbered. Promotional flyer laid in.
Hardcover. New York, Harper and Row, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 66 pages, in a bright unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY ORR on the title page. Black and white drawings by Brad Holland. The poet's second book.
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.
Hardcover. New York , Harper & Row, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 64 pages, in a bright unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY ORR on title page. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Otherwise clean, very good.
Hardcover. Garden City NJ, Doubleday & Company , 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 242 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY TRANSLATOR on front flyleaf. Translated by William Meredith. Landmark in the history of French poetry. With an introduction and notes by Francis Steegmuller. Heavy fading to dust jacket spine. Minor rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Slight yellowing and age toning to prelim pages. Age toning to text block edges. A clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. Berkeley, CA, Counterpoint, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy.
Softcover. London, Quartet Encounters, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 163 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 656 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, George Braziller, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 222 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light edgewear to dust jacket and heavy fading on rear. Internally clean. Color illustrations by Hokusai.
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Price: $60.00
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