And The Stars Were Shining
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.
Poetry Books
Can You Hear, Bird (Inscribed)
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.
Can You Hear, Bird (Inscribed)
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.
Girls on the Run (Inscribed)
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.
Selected Poems
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.
Some Trees
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...
Sunrise In Suburbia
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.
The Tennis Court Oath (Signed)
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.
Wakefulness (Inscribed)
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...
Poem and Portrait
Charleston: Parchment Gallery Graphics, 1997. First Edition. Paperback. A collage of a typed poem by Ashbery and a superimposed portrait of the poet by Larry Rivers. One sheet laid into a pale blue paper folder with paper label affixed to front cover. Near fine condition. SIGNED by both poet and...
Us Dead Talk Love
Long Island City: MOMA PS1, 2013. First edition. Paperback. 8vo. Stapled illustrated wrappers. A book published to coincide with a 2013 exhibition at MOMA PS1. An unpaginated volume of experimental writings. Fine condition.
The Journals of Susanna Moodie
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997. First edition thus. Hardcover. Quarto in cardboard slipcase. First edition thus with memoir and drawings by Charles Pachter. Foreword by David Staines. The original text was written in 1980. Quarter navy cloth spine over illustrated boards. Book comes with a decorated hard paper slipcase. Book is...
The Orators; An English Study (Galley Sheets)
London: Faber and Faber, 1966. Third edition. Loose Sheets. 8vo. Loose galley sheets for the third edition of Auden's first major work. Very good condition. 102 pp.
Sue
Oxford: Sycamore Press, 1977. First Edition. Paperback. First edition. A single sheet of paper, folded twice to form a thin booklet containing this one poem entitled "Sue". Near fine copy. Published as Sycamore Broadsheet 23.
The Auerhahn Press Catalog 1962
San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1962. First edition. Paperback. 12mo. A very good copy in decorated stapled wrappers. Includes information on recently published poetry books including Destroyed Works by Philip Lamantia, Gold / Fish Signatures by Paul reps and more.
Ground Work Selected Poems and Essays 1970-1979
London: Faber, 1990. First U.K. Edition. Hardcover. A fine first UK edition (not issued in the US) of this collection of poems and essays. Fine price intact dustwrapper.
Unearth
Weston, CT: Living Hand, 1974. First Edition. Paperback. First edition of the poet and novelist's first book. Published as Living Hand 3. Unpaginated. Some typical light fade to edges of covers. Neat prior owner name. Overall, a handsome very good copy of the poet's debut.
Wall Writing
Berkeley: The Figures, 1976. First edition. Paperback. Small paperbound volume. 61 pp. One of 500 copies comprising the first trade edition. An early collection of poems by Auster. Cover art by David Reed. The first few pages show a bit of rust remnants from an old paperclip that had formerly...
Fragments From Cold (Inscribed)
Brewster: Parenthese, 1977. First edition. Paperback. Stapled wrappers. A poetry chapbook from early in Auster's writing career. Poems by Auster intersperced with sublime drawings by Norman Bluhm who also designed the wraparound covers. A near fine example. This copy has been enigmatically INSCRIBED by Auster "For David - Preparations for...
Fits and Starts Selected Poems
Berkeley: Living Hand, 1973. First Edition. Paperback. First edition of this poetry collection translated by Auster. A fine copy. Published as Living Hand 2.
Malta The New Poetry
Malta: Klabb Kotba Maltin, 1971. First Edition. Paperback. First edition of this collection of Maltese poetry. A very good trade paperback book. This copy INSCRIBED by Daniel Massa in 1972.
Points / Counterpoints
Santa Fe: Fact-Simile, 2010. Reprint. Paperback. Special limited edition reprint of Baker's 1970/73 volume of poems. This is copy 4 of only 100 hand-numbered copies printed here in simple tape-bound wrappers with paper label afixed to the front cover. A fine example.
The Mutant Daughter
New York: Buffalo Press, 1975. First edition. Paperback. 4to. Early book of poems by Ball. A very good copy in side-stapled wrappers. Cover art by Manual. No limitation stated.
Kenward Elmslie A Bibliographical Profile (Signed by William C. Bamberger)
Flint: Bamberger Books, 1993. First edition. Paperback. Trade paperbound book. 151 pp. A useful bibliography of the works of poet Kenward Elmslie. Near fine copy in bound wrappers. This copy SIGNED by the compiler.
Rain Poems
New York: A Theo Publication, 1967. First edition. Paperback. 8vo. Scarce book of poems by Banker. Tiny date stamp to front endpaper. Covers lightly soiled with age. Cover art by the poet. Very good overall in side-stapled wrappers.