New York: Independent Curators International, 2007. First edition. Paperback. 4to. 112 pp catalog of a 2007-08 traveling exhibition. Fine condition in bound pictorial wrappers. With a prologue by John Ashbery and an essay by Lisa Jarnot. Beautiful and substantial catalog.
New York: Adventures in Poetry, 2000. First Edition. Paperback. One of 500 unnumbered copies. A fine copy in sewn illustrated wrappers. An attractive production.
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Ashbery's sixteenth collection. A near fine example in white boards in very good dustwrapper. 100 pp. Nice copy overall.
Lenox: Qua Books, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Number 99 of 100 special copies SIGNED by both Ashbery and Tom Burckhardt who provided the cover artwork. A fine copy in fine glossy illustrated dustwrapper.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 175 pp. A substantial collection of poems by the author of the Tennis Court Oath. A near fine copy in dustwrapper. This copy has been affectionately INSCRIBED by Ashbery to a fellow poet and dated in 1996.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 175 pp. A substantial collection of shorter poems by the author of The Tennis Court Oath. A fine copy in dustwrapper. INSCRIBED by Ashbery and dated in 1996.
New York: Alfred Knopf, 1991. First edition. Cloth. Large square 8vo. A collection of poems by the author of Some Trees and Rivers and Mountains. This copy nicely INSCRIBED to a friend and fellow poet and dated in year of publication. Thin line of sunning at top of book else...
New York: Farrar, Straus, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 54 pp. A long single poem by Ashbery. A fine hardbound copy in very good price-intact dustwrapper. This copy has been INSCRIBED by the poet and dated in 2000.
Iowa City: Empyrean Press, 2004. First edition. Loose Sheets. Large single sheet of Rives BKF paper from Parisine Plus and Syntax types. Fine condition. A single poem by Ashbery with illustration by an unstated artist. Broadside measures approx. 11 x 18" wide. SIGNED by Ashbery beneath the illustration. One of...
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition of this collection of essays on the poetics of John Clare, Thomas Lowell Beddoes, Raymond Roussel, John Wheelwright, Laura Riding and David Schubert. A near fine book in near fine price intact dustwrapper. Light age spotting to top edge.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1967. First U.K. Edition. Hardcover. First UK edition. Second issue. A pleasing near fine copy in near fine price-intact dustwrapper.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition of the New York School poet's first regularly published book and winner of the 1956 Yale Series of Younger Poet's award. A fine copy in lightly used dustwrapper. This copy INSCRIBED to artist R. B. Kitaj (and with Kitaj's...
New York: Phoenix Bookshop, 1968. First Edition. Paperback. Fine first edition in decorated string tied wrappers. Letter K of 26 SIGNED copies. A New York School of poetry rarity. Signed by Author.
Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1968. Third edition. Cloth. 8vo. Stated third printing of the author's fourth book. A collection of poems. Clothbound book has a bit of light staining near top of front panel. Otherwise a sharp clean copy in clipped dustwrapper. SIGNED by Ashbery and uncommon thus.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. A fine copy in dustwrapper. This copy very nicely INSCRIBED by Ashbery to a fellow poet and dated in year of publication. Also, laid in to this copy is an Announcement Card from FSG and Tibor De Nagy Gallery...
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000. First edition. Paperback. Bound yellow wrappers printed in black. The uncorrected proof copy of Ashbery's twentieth collection of poems. 134 pp. With a brief signed typed letter from Elisabeth Sifton to the book's recipient asking if he would be interested in reviewing the...
Lebanon, IN: Pioneer Printing, 1957. First Edition. Paperback. Scarce piece of New York historical ephemera. A very good copy in decorated blue wrappers. Includes a poem by John Lawrence Ashbery "Pultneyville in Winter". For the Ashbery completist.
New York: General Theological Seminary, 1975. First edition. Loose Sheets. Single 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of paper. A poetry reading announcement flyer for readings by John Ashbery and Douglas Crase at the General Theological Seminary in New York on January 9, 1975. Illustrator unknown. A sinple flyer that looks...
New York: Dia Center For The Arts, 2001. First Edition. Paperback. Two broadside poems laid into paper folder. The American by Ashbery and Thinking by Creeley. Corner crease. A very good example of these scarce broadsides housed in a printed paper folder.
New York: Art News, 1968. First Edition. Paperback. January 1968 issue of this superlative magazine devoted to fine arts. Edited by Thomas B. Hess. A very good copy in tall stapled glossy wrappers. This, a special issue devoted to primitive art. Also includes a touching article by John Ashbery about Frank O'Hara.
Lausanne: S. E. L. A., 1964. First edition. Paperback. Complete set of twelve issues of this important literary magazine edited by John Ashbery and others. Several of the first six issues in original cello wrappers. Condition is uniformly bright and clean. A very good plus to near fine set. Contributions...
Paris: S.E.L.A., 1964. First edition. Paperback. Fifth issue of this distinguished international review of literature and poetry. Edited by John Ashbery and others. A very good copy in bound printed wrappers. With original delicate cello wrapper still present (with some expected small chips to edges).
New York: Dia, 1993. First edition. Paperback. Tall narrow wrappers. Part of the Dia Center for the Arts Readings in Contemporary Poetry series. Three separate (4.75 x 11") broadsides laid into a printed folder. Prepared for the October 5, 1993 reading by these two poets and introduced by Harry Mathews...
New York: Cooper Union School of Architecture, 1979. First edition. Paperback. Two tall paperbound quartos in plain unprinted dustwrappers held in printed hard slipcase. 118 and 37 pp, respectively. The results of a program at the Cooper Union School for Architecture in 1979 that brought together a poet, a novelist...
Spain: Locus Solus, 1961. First edition. Paperback. Small 8vo paperbound format. The first four issues of this magazine devoted to the New York School poets including Frank O'Hara, Barbara Guest, Fairfield Porter, Edwin Denby and more. Issue II is a special issue of collaborations and includes such notables as William...
