New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1976. First edition. Paperback. Tall bound yellow wrappers printed in black. 162 pp. This is the uncommon uncorrected proof copy. Some hand-soiling to covers. Internally clean and well-bound. Very good overall condition. More
London: Peter Russell, 1951. First edition thus. Paperback. Slender stapled pamphlet. 16 pp. Originally published at Rapallo in 1944. This translation is by John Drummond. Some offset to the front cover, else a very good example. First UK edition. More
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865. Later printing. Cloth. Small decorated cloth covered volume of poetry by Lowell. First published in 1848, this is the stated ninth printing. 33 pp. Clean and still well-bound in decorated blind rule. Small tear to the front endpaper. More
Fayetteville: Lost Roads, 2000. First edition. Paperback. Trade paperbound volume. What would be a fine copy except that someone has made several small ink notations in the margins. Sold in as-is condition. A selection of short poems by Brigham. Edited by C. D. Wright. An oddly uncommon volume... More
Forli: Nuovo Ruolo, 1980. First edition. Paperback. Stapled wrappers. An unpaginated volume of poems by Ermini in Italian. Afterword (also in Italian by Alberto Cappi. A clean very good example. Uncommon volume with only three listings found in WorldCat. More
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1983. First edition. Cloth. Clothbound volume in dustwrapper. 187 pp. Stated first edition. With 124 color photographs. Cage continues his work with mesostics (poems with words written down the middle). A handsome near fine clothbound copy in price-intact dustwrapper. Wrapper has a faint crease to..... More
Buffalo: White Pine Press, 2001. First edition. Paperback. Trade paperbound original volume of poems. 59 pp. Prose poems by Johnson. This collection was the winner of the 2001 James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets. A near fine copy. INSCRIBED by the poet on the title page... More
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 67 pp. The author's fourth collection of poems. Book and dustwrapper in near fine condition. This is a Review Copy with publisher's review slip and detailed promotional literature for this title laid in. Scarce as a review copy... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998. First American edition. Hardcover. Tall octavo. First American edition. 444 pp. A handsome near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Poems by the Nobel Prize Winner. More
Chapel Hill: The Carolina Wren Press, 1980. First edition. Paperback. Trade paperbound original volume of poems by Reddy with a photograph of the author by Roderick Rolle. 54 pp. A near fine copy in photo-illustrated bound wrappers. Book includes a two-page promotional press release for the publication of this volume..... More
Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1986. First edition. Paperback. 8vo. 389 pp. Stated first edition of this uncommon compendium of poems by Clark. A very good paperbound copy in thick printed wrappers. Rear cover blurb by Lydia Davis. Recommended. More
New York: New Directions, 1987. First edition. Cloth. Clothbound 8vo in dustwrapper. 86 pp. Prose poems by Waldrop. Faint erasure mark to the first blank endpaper else a sound very good plus copy in dustwrapper. Rear cover blurbs by Robert Creeley, Lyn Hejinian and Barbara Guest... More
No Place: Students of Decay, 2011. First edition. Paperback. Wide sewn wrappers. A poetry chapbook by Gizzi printed in 2011. Includes a beautiful frontispiece by his friend Robert Seydel. Fine condition. No limitation specified, but Gizzi has labeled this Copy F and SIGNED it on the rear endpaper. Quite scarce..... More
No Place: Privately Printed, No date. First edition. Paperback. Trade paperbound original book of poems. 87 pp. Includes several color photographs. A fine example of the poet's second collection. Book is not dated anywhere, but the author has INSCRIBED this copy and dated it in 2011... More
Chicago: The Davis Company, 1991. First edition. Paperback. Wide paperbound volume. 20 pp, printed on rectos only. Poems by the African American author of many books of poems for both adults and children. Fine condition. A surprisingly uncommon title. More
New York: Totem / Corinth, 1961. First edition. Paperback. 8vo. Stapled wrappers with cover illustration by Gilbert Sorrentino. A volume of early poems by Ginsberg with an introduction by William Carlos Williams. 47 pp. Pages tanned with age. Stray handwriting on front cover. Toning to edges of covers. A good..... More
New York: Penguin Books, 2007. First edition. Paperback. Trade paperbound original volume of poems by Notley. 131 pp. A fine copy. This copy has been SIGNED by Notley on the half-title page. A book not often found signed. More
Hartford: Trinity College, 1969. First edition. Paperback. Small paper quarto. Introduction by John William Pye. 44 pp. A useful reference work on the poet. Light wear to edges. A sound very good copy in tall stapled wrappers. More
New York: Paragon House, 1988. First edition. Paperback. Trade paperbound book. The simultaneous first paper edition. 230 pp. Collects selected works by these major European literary figures. Edited, translated and introduced by Clayton Eshleman who has INSCRIBED this copy to fellow poet Kenneth Irby. A near fine copy... More
New York: Harper & Row, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Hardbound octavo in dustwrapper. 213 pp. Stated first edition with complete number row on the copyright page. A handsome near fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Providence: Burning Deck, 1989. First edition. Paperback. Trade paperbound original volume of poems. 62 pp. First trade edition. A near fine copy in bound wrappers. This is only one of fifty hand-numbered and SIGNED copies. More
Providence: Burning Deck, 1991. First edition. Paperback. Trade paperbound original volume of poems. 63 pp. First trade edition. A near fine copy in bound wrappers with cover drawing by Jean Lowe. This is only one of fifty hand-numbered and SIGNED copies. More
Plainfield, VT: North Atlantic Books, 1976. First edition. Paperback. 8vo. 99 pp plus notes at rear. A clean very good plus copy in bound illustrated wrappers. More
Eugene, OR: Toad Press, 1967. First edition. Paperback. Stapled illustrated wrappers. A 10 pp poetry chapbook forming the first book of poems by Warsh. Published by Bill Thomas at Toad Press in 1967. Cover etching by Martha Rockwell. A very good copy wih some light offsett to the rear cover..... More
