Hardcover. NY, Columbia University Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 248 pages. Clean copy.
Softcover. Los Angeles, Augustan Reprint Society, reprint, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 64 pages, facsimile reprint of a pamphlet, an early feminist document in the form of a poem with a 14 page introduction by Gae Holladay. Clean copy.
Softcover. Los Angeles, Augustan Reprint Society, reprint, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Facsimile reprint of 17th century (1754) edition; stapled wraps; 44 pages with a 12 page introduction by Jocelyn Harris.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1933, Hardcover, black cloth stamped with gilt title and design, 68 pages. Gilt lettering on spine with light fading. This is the first printing with 1933 on title page and First Edition stated on copyright page. Illustrated with seven drawings on glossy stock by Gibran and two facsimile manuscript pages, all present and intact. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, mild wear to covers, faint foxing to endpapers, otherwise clean.
Softcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 139 pages. How does a poet repeatedly make art over a lifetime out of an arbitrary assignment of fate? By asking this question of the work of four American poets--two men of the postwar generation, two young women writing today--Helen Vendler suggests a fruitful way of looking at a poet's career and a new way of understanding poetic strategies as both mastery of forms and forms of mastery. Fate hands every poet certain unavoidable "givens." Of the poets Vendler studies, Robert Lowell sprang from a family famous in American and especially New England history; John Berryman found himself an alcoholic manic-depressive; Rita Dove was born black; Jorie Graham grew up trilingual, with three words for every object. In Vendler's readings, we see how these poets return again and again to the problems set out by their givens, and how each invents complex ways, both thematic and formal, of making poetry out of fate. Clean copy.
Hardcover. St Paul MN, Graywolf Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 62 pages. INSCRIBED/SIGNED BY THE POET on the front fly leaf. The poems discuss a journey across the ocean, a veterans' cemetery, money, an abandoned collection of dolls, and a man who escapes from his prison cell to commit a murder. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Ginn and Co., reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with black lettering on cover. A bright reprint of the book originally printed in 1921. Color frontis and b&w drawings throughout by Herford. Clean copy.
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.
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