Somerville: The Barn Dream Press, 1971. First edition. Cloth. Wide clothbound 8vo. Unpaginated volume of poems by the author of Auto-Necrophelia. This is copy A of 26 lettered clothbound copies. Each of these special copies included a personalized INSCRIPTION from Knott. This copy includes a wonderful passage from Knott to...
New York: Weatherhill, 1975. First edition. Cloth. Clothbound quarto in dustwrapper. Stated first edition. 259 pp. Illustrated in color. A candid appraisal of the state of netsuke collecting and the market. A handsome copy in decorated brown cloth binding in near fine unclipped dustwrapper. Quite handsome.
New Havne: Yale University Press, 2007. First edition. Cloth. Wide clothbound quarto in dustwrapper. Masterful 287 pp monograph on the New Yorker Magazine illustrator. A very goodclothbound copy in dustwrapper. Introduction by poet Charles Simic. Profusely illustrated in both color and black and white. Several pages of text have some...
New York: Aperture, 1994. Reprint. Paperback. Wide paperbound quarto. Later printing. 95 pp. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Introduction by Elizabeth Beverly and with an afterword by A. D. Coleman. A near fine copy. Briefly INSCRIBED by Sturges on the half-title page.
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. Small hardbound quarto. 198 pp. Includes a suite of black and white photographs in the center of the book. A near fine copy in dustwrapper. According to the front flap " ... Vechten was perhaps the most recognized white patron of the...
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. First edition stated of the author's third book, a novel. A most handsome copy in fine price-intact dustwrapper. Uncommon in such nice condition.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. First UK edition. A 396 pp novel by the South African novelist. A handsome near fine copy in price-intact dustwrapper. Lovely copy.
New York and Boulder: Fiction Collective, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 205 pp. A novel which won the Western States Book Award for Fiction in 1986. A fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED by the author. African American Literature. Rear cover blurbs by Toni Morrison, Ntozake Shange, Charles Johnson and Jerome Klinkowitz.
New York: Pantheon Books, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 145 pp novel by the author of The Enchanted. Spotting to boards. A good copy in dustwrapper. $2.75 price on front flap. Folded Pantheon Books News sheet laid in includes a detailed description of the book. Review Copy.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1961. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 352 pp. A novel by the author of A High Wind in Jamaica. Quarter black cloth over blue boards. A sound very good copy in price-intact dustwrapper. SIGNED by the author on the blank page placed prior to the title page.
Boston: David R Godine, 1986. First edition. Cloth. Cloth 4to. 190 pp. Illustrated in both color and black and white. Stated first edition. A handsome near fine copy in dustwrapper. "A paean to those counterfeit waterfowl and to the men who make them". With over 150 photographs of which 100 are in color.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 505 pp. An indepth account of the legendary golfer's triumphs and competition highlights. Carefully read once, perhaps, else a fine copy in dustwrapper. SIGNED by Nicklaus on the front endpaper.
New York: Winchester Press, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Small 4to. Quarter magenta cloth over boards. 344 pp. A study of angling literature structured around the twelve giants who have most dramatically influenced the development of its techniques: Berners, Walton, Cotton, Ronalds, Stewart, Norris, Halford, Gordon, Skues, Mottram, Hewitt and Jennings...
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. Hardbound book containing one colour image and numerous visual poems in the form of numbers. Fine condition in pale blue boards printed in darker blue. Issued without wrapper. Unpaginated. Typography by Colin Sackett. Scarce title with only seven copies found...
No Place: O Books, 1988. First edition. Loose Sheets. First edition. Scarce collection of poems written on loose sheets and laid into a printed laminated black folding box. Introduction by Leslie Scalapino. Contents in fine condition. Box shows wear along the edges.
La Jolla: Laurence McGilvery, 1973. First Thus. Hardcover. 4to. First edition thus in thick buckram binding. New introduction by di Prima. Contains the complete 37 issues of Floating Bear. Mimeograph revolution poetry newsletter. Fine condition. 578 pp. Uncommon.
Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 871 pp. Edited by Michael Rothenberg. Foreword by Gary Snyder. Essay by Leslie Scalapino. Massive compendium including all of the poet's poems. A fine copy in dustwrapper. San Francisco Renaissance. A large and heavy volume.
Berkeley: Tuumba Press, 1980. First edition. Paperback. First edition of this poetry chapbook. Slight toning to edges. A very good plus copy in stapled wrappers. One of 450 copies. Edited by Lyn Hejinian.
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine first limited hardcover in fine acetate jacket of this novel by Guest, a woman known better for her poetry. New York School. #105 of 226 specially SIGNED copies.
Zurich: Scalo, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong hardbound quarto. 160 pp. No text other tha the title and copyright pages. The remainder of the book contains full-page color photographs of female shoppers. A near fine copy in dustwrapper.
New York: Harper and Row, 1977. First American edition. Cloth. Tall 8vo in dustwrapper. 200 pp. A single long poem in the form of a fable Quarter cloth covers in very good condition. The price-intact dustwrapper is clean and unmarked. Stated First U.S. Edition. This copy comes from the library...
New York: Harper and Row, 1972. First American edition. Cloth. Tall 8vo in dustwrapper. 111 pp. A collection of 67 poems selected by Hughes for this volume with six drawings by Leonard Baskin. Two-tone cloth covers in very good condition. The price-intact dustwrapper is toned at edges and has a....
New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1969. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Stated first printing. 140 pp. Includes Offending The Audience, Self-Accusation and Kaspar. Translated by Michael Roloff. A very good copy in lightly used price-intact dustwrapper.
Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1993. Second printing. Paperback. Tall, thick trade paperbound volume. 336 pp. A single opus by Waldman. Second printing. A very good copy with age spotting to the page edges (not affecting the interiors of the pages). This copy has been nicely INSCRIBED by Waldman to fellow...
Mount Kisko, NY: Haybarn Editions, 2008. First edition. Loose Sheets. Artist / Poet collaoration. Gorgeous fine press edition with texts by Jabes, translations by Rosmarie Waldrop and five original prints by Ed Colker. The texts, typeset in Palatino, were printed letterpress by Bradley Hutchinson and the lithographs were printed by...
