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. Santa Cruz CA, Kayak Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, tan wrappers with paper label on front, 48 pages. Pictures by Douglas McClellan. An uncommon experimental work, 1000 copies printed.
Hardcover. London, Frederick Warne and Co, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in black. 76 pages, seven color plates & numerous b/w illustrations by L. Leslie Brooke. No date, probably 1950s. Small ownership stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Softcover. Lewiston ID, Confluence Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. This chapbook is clean and unmarked in very good condition. Unpaginated. Limited edition of 500 copies.
Softcover. Langley WA, Spring Valley Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 72 pages. One of 1,100 copies. Publisher's leaflet laid in. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st Ltd, 1886, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Illustrated by George Wharton Edwards and F. Hopkinson Smith. SIGNED BY HOLMES, EDWARDS and SMITH on a tipped in leaf stating it's limited to 100 signed copies. 50 pages (3pp). Top edge gilt. Frontispiece portrait of Holmes, 27 full-page illustrations (as called for). Oliver Wendall Holmes was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court and acting Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. He is considered one of the finest jurists to have sat on the bench.
Hardcover. London/NY, Ernest Nister/ EP Dutton, 1st thus, 1895, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 4 1/2 X 5 3/4", decorated boards with white cloth spine, 48 pages. The Laurel Wreath Series. Translated by Lord Lytton, Four color plates by J. Ayton Symington. Cover faded, fore-edge with light foxing, otherwise clean, tight.
Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 275 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Color illustrations by Corinne Malvern. Appears to be 5th printing with "E" on last page. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Charlestown MA, Printed and Sold By Samuel Etheridge, Revised Ed., 1810, Book: Very Good, Hardcovers, two volumes complete, 432 and 448 pages. bound in 3/4 calf, with red leather spine labels intact, bindings tight. New corrected edition. A collection of biographical studies on the life of important poets in the cannon of English literature, including: Cowley, Milton, Blackmore, Granville, Somerville, Thomson, Mallet, and Lyttelton. Written by Samuel Johnson, an English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. With the original advertisement to the first edition. originally published in 1779-81. Light edgewear to covers, mild water stain to first 4 pages of Vol. 2, otherwise clean, mild foxing, very good set overall.
Hardcover. NY, Pellegrini & Cudahy, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a mildly soiled dust jacket with tanning to spine,name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Softcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 203 pages. A bold, pioneering, "free-souled" and long-rare classic of concrete poetry published by Doubleday and Company in 1970. One of a tiny handful of books of concrete poetry published in America by a major publishing house. Sadly, the book was given little support and was not promoted, and it has long been out of print. However, it remains a cherished item for fans of poetry due to its unique composition, and difficult but rewarding poetics. Forcing the reader to straddle the line between reading and viewing, the book features visual poems that predate the experiments of the Language poets, including words that are exploded into their individual letters, and columns of text that ride the edge of the page. Clean, bright copy of the paperback edition.
Hardcover. Minneapolis MN, Milkweed Editions , 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY JAMES on the title page. Winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, The Milk Hours is an elegant debut that searches widely to ask what it means to exist in a state of loss. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Archipelago Books, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 79 pages. The first full flowering of Chinese poetry occurred in the illustrious T'ang Dynasty, and at the beginning of this renaissance stands Meng Hao-jan (689-740 c.e.), esteemed elder to a long line of China's greatest poets. Deeply influenced by Ch'an (Zen) Buddhism, Meng was the first to make poetry from the Ch'an insight that deep understanding lies beyond words. The result was a strikingly distilled language that opened new inner depths, non-verbal insights, and outright enigma. This made Meng Hao-jan China's first master of the short imagistic landscape poem that came to typify ancient Chinese poetry. And as a lifelong intimacy with mountains dominates Meng's work, such innovative poetics made him a preeminent figure in the wilderness (literally rivers-and-mountains) tradition, and that tradition is the very heart of Chinese poetry. This is the first English translation devoted to the work of Meng Hao-jan. Meng's poetic descendents revered the wisdom he cultivated as a mountain recluse, and now we too can witness the sagacity they considered almost indistinguishable from that of rivers and mountains themselves. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. NY, Grove Press , 1st pbk., 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 pages. Originally published in 1960 by Grove Press, this is a subsequent edition, issued as a paperbound original. Wrappers lightly toned, clean copy.
Hardcover. Tonawonda NY, KCP Poetry, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with black cloth spine, 44 pages illustrated in color by Jorisch. Visions in Poetry is an innovative and award-winning series of classic poems re-interpreted for today's readers by outstanding contemporary artists in distinctively beautiful editions. The sixth Visions in Poetry book is The Owl and the Pussycat, a nonsense poem by Edward Lear, brilliantly illustrated by Stephane Jorisch. The artist's vision begins in a segregated world where different species never mix and everyone hides behind a mask. Against this backdrop an aristocratic owl from Owl Heights and a bohemian pussycat from the other side of the tracks find each other. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY , Atheneum, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 141 pages. A Spanish/English bilingual edition of this influential poet. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Lee & Low Books, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. This dazzling collection of poetry celebrates the beauty of African-American culture. Written by 20 inner-city children, these moving and powerful poems represent little-heard and often overlooked voices. Color illustrations by Gregory Christie. Bookplate on inside front cover otherwise clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Delta, reprint, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 108 pages, selected poetry by the author, 1957-1968. Published as "Writing 20"; original price $1.95 on front wrap; cover photo by Edmund Shea (black-and-white photo of a barefoot woman sitting amid some rubble). Inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Softcover. NY, Stone Street Press, 1st , 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, green paper wrappers with illustrated label on front. SIGNED BY MCCORMICK on (C) page Lino cut Illustrations, calligraphy & translation by McCormick. Clean, bright 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.
 "The Hurricane Lamp by: Anderson, Jack")
 "The Intussusception of Miss Mary America by: Harmon, William")
 "The Jumblies and Other Nonsense Verses by: Edward Lear")
 "The King of Childhood: A Sequence by: Goedicke, Patricia")
 "The Language of Bone by: Driscoll, Jack")
 "The Last Leaf (LIMITED TO 100 SIGNED COPIES) by: Holmes, Oliver Wendell")
 "The Lay of the Bell by: Friedrich Von Schiller")
 "The Letters of John Wilmot Earl of Rochester by: John Wilmot; Jeremy Treglown (editor)")
 "The Little Golden Book of Poetry by: Reed, Mary (editor) Illustrator: Malvern, Corinne")
 "The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets; with Critical Observations on Their Works (2 Volumes) by: Johnson, Samuel")
 "The Lonely Tower: Studies in the Poetry of W. B. Yeats by: Henn, T. R.")
 "The Look of Things: Poems by: Cole, Henri")
 "The Making of a Poem by: Spender, Stephen")
 "The Matrix: Poems, 1960-1970 by: Pritchard, Norman H.")
 "The Milk Hours: Poems (SIGNED COPY) by: John James")
 "The Mountain Poems of Meng Hao-Jan by: Meng Hao-jan, / David Hinton (Translator)")
 "The Never Wife by: Cynthia Hogue")
 "The Opening of the Field by: Robert Duncan")
 "The Owl and the Pussycat by: Edward Lear/Stephane Jorisch")
 "The Owl's Insomnia by: Alberti, Rafael and Strand, Mark (translator, editor)")
 "The Palm of My Heart: Poetry by African American Children by: Davida Adedjouma / Gregory Christie ((llust.)")
 "The Pill Versus The Spinghill Mine Disaster by: Richard Brautigan")
 "The Pleasures of Irish Nature Poetry 9th C.-18thC. (SIGNED COPY) by: Malachi McCormick")
 "The Poem of Empedocles: A text and translation with an introduction - Revised Edition by: Inwood, Brad (Empedocles)")