poetry

Hardcover. Indianapolis, IN, Bobbs-Merrill Company, 2nd, 1917, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Cover boards show moderate wear to edges with damaged spine. Bumped corners. Illustrations by Fanny Cory.

Hardcover. NY, Ecco Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. (American Poetry Series; Volume 13). The author's first published collection of poetry. small closed tear to dust jacket, clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2nd pr., 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 414 pages, b&w illustrations. Very good, clean, in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket. World famous at twenty-four, brilliant and reckless, hard-living and scandalous, Stephen Crane wrote The Red Badge of Courage before he ever experienced war first-hand. So true was his portrait of a young man who runs from his first confrontation with battle that Civil War veterans argued about whose regiment Crane had been in. Considered by H.G. Wells as "beyond dispute, the best writer of our generation," Crane was also famous in his time as an unforgettable personality, an Adonis with tawny hair and gray-blue eyes that Willa Cather described as "full of luster and changing lights." A lover of women and truth at any cost, Crane, in his short life, paid dearly for both. He alienated the New York police when he testified against a policeman on behalf of a prostitute falsely accused of soliciting, forcing him to live the rest of his short life as an expatriate in England. Reporting on the Spanish American War, Crane described the Rough Riders blundering into a trap after arriving in Cuba, infuriating Roosevelt. He died tragically young, leaving behind a handful of fine short stories, including The Open Boat and The Blue Hotel, along with war reporting, novels, and poetry.

Hardcover. NY, Ives Washburn, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 43 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black & white illust. by Erik Blegvad. Dust jacket price clipped.

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 99 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Blue cover boards with light soiling on front, spine and rear. Light edgewear. Front end papers have small previous owner's sticker on bottom and light residue mid end paper. Tight copy.

San Francisco, West-Lewis Publishing, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. The author's lyrical tribute to New York City in free verse. INSCRIBED BY CONRAD on front fly leaf to publisher Paul Erikkson and his wife.

Hardcover. London, Peter Owen , 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 256 pages. An acclaimed and most unusual biography of Baudelaire, showing him ensnared by his passions for poetry, prostitutes, and drugs.A crucial link between romanticism and modernism, Charles Baudelaire is a pivotal figure in European literature and thought. His influence on modern poetry is immense. In the English language, where his literary reputation is less well known, it is his link with drug culture that gives him contemporary resonance. It is commonly known that Baudelaire used opium. Many writers have described him as being addicted to the drug, but none of his biographers, Frank Hilton argues, has fully understood the effect of opiate addiction on the personality and, in the case of Baudelaire, the extent to which it damaged his life and work. In this original contribution to Baudelaire studies Hilton contends that the drug is at the root of all Baudelaire's problems and in particular--something that constantly tormented him--his chronic inability to apply himself to any prolonged creative work. Unquestionably, there is significantly more to Baudelaire than his opium addiction. But a proper awareness of what it did to the poet helps to illuminate those puzzling aspects of his life and behavior that were not previously understood. Written with the general reader in mind, Baudelaire in Chains will give those who know little or nothing about him a comprehensive picture of his life. To those who know a great deal it will present him in an unexpected light.

Hardcover. NY/London, Overlook Duckworth, 2nd pr., 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 93 pages, illustrated throughout in color by Ronald Searle. Light wear o pictorial dust jacket with small tear to lower edge of spine. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Brooklyn, NY, PowerHouse Books, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 96 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout. "It was my fate to be aligned with the Beats because of my propensity for drugs, anger, and poetry. Since they were second generation, without the same sense of immortal obsession such as the like of Kerouac and Ginsberg, they had a distinct need to be documented. Perhaps that is why they tolerated me. We were not a happy marriage and got our divorce in Mexico City. The pictures, made in 1958 and 1959, come from MacDougal Street in New York City all the way down to Mexico, and on the road in America." --Larry Fink

Hardcover. NY, Walker and Co., 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth, b&w illustrations by Laura Lydecker. Short essays interspersed with poetry. No dust jacket.

Softcover. NY, Penguin Books, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 78 pages. Clean, like new.

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.

Softcover. NY, New Directions, 1st pbk, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 140 pages. Clean copy.

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.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 9th pr., 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 213 pages. INSCRIBED BY HEANEY and dated 20 April 2004 on the front fly leaf. Bright, clean copy in an unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 115 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket with light foxing and some browning, light edgewear. light fading to cover board top edges. Tight copy.

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.

Softcover. Palo Alto CA, Pacific Books, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 134 pages. Contains 78 poems of 71 poets. The 25th annual volume published in the Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards series. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Manchester, VT, Hudson Hills, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 163 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Color illustrations throughout.

Hardcover. San Francisco, CA, Chronicle Books , 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Vivid color illustrations throughout. In great shape, clean inside and out. "Lyrical text and illustrations featuring Chinese characters and paper collage introduce the beauty and richness of China."

Softcover. Mt. Vernon NY, Italian American Writers Association, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 118 pages. INSCRIBED BY PERICONI on the title page. Limited to 1000 copies. A bibliography of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by and about Italian Americans. Mild tanning to wraps, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 2nd, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginations. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Ed Young. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 2nd pr., 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.Color illustrations by Ed Young.

London, Faber & Faber, 1st , 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 198 pages. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Clean.