Poetry
To What Strangers, What Welcome: A Sequence of Short Poems
Denver: Alan Swallow, 1964. First edition. Paperback. Slim sextodecimo [19 cm] Olive green Fabriano wraps, with a string binding. Fifteen short poems. Printed by Alan Swallow and designed by Theo Jung in an edition of 1000 copies. More
The Dress: A Poetic Response
Salt Lake City, UT: Forty-Two Books, LLC, 2020. First edition. Paperback. 11pp. Octavo [21.5cm]. Printed wraps. "What side were you on in 2015? White and gold, or black and blue? What would it look like to study such a debate in another format: words? Color and fashion are at stake..... More
The Testament of John Davidson
London: Grant Richards, 1908. First edition. Hardcover. 146pp. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] Red cloth over boards. The spine is heavily faded. Many of the pages have small, faint tide marks in the top margins. From the collection of Berkeley book collector and letterpress printer, John Ruyle. The fourth and final installment..... More
It's Cold: 52 Cold Thought Poems of Abelardo
Salt Lake City, UT: Barrio Publications, 1974. Paperback. Octavo [22 cm] Black and white illustrated wraps. Very good. The covers have mild overall rubbing and soiling, and are ever so slightly stained. There is a small chip in the paper at the head of the spine. There are a couple..... More
black seeds on a white dish
Exeter: Shearsman Books, 2010. First edition. Paperback. 94pp. Octavo [23cm] Paperback. From the publisher: The poems in black seeds on a white dish spring from the search for what is generated and discovered when loss and desire occupy the same space. But lamentation is not the primary focus—by destabilizing everything..... More
Carl Sandburg: A Study in Personality and Background
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1941. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 210pp. Octavo [22 cm] Rebound in tan cloth with black cloth gilt stamped title label on the spine. New endsheets and flyleaves. Good only. The edges of the text block are stained. The pages are browned, and lightly rippled..... More
Drowning with Others
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1965. Third printing. Paperback. SIGNED. 96pp. Octavo [20 cm] Blue and white illustrated wraps. With subtle toning and soiling to the spine and rear wrap. James Dickey won the National Book Award in 1966 for Buckdancer's Choice. This copy is inscribed by James Dickey on..... More
The Essential Emily Dickinson: Poems
New York: Ecco, 2016. Second edition; later printing. Paperback. 83pp. Duodecimo [18 cm]. White illustrated wraps. The essential poems of Emily Dickinson selected and introduced by Joyce Carol Oates. More
Holy the Firm
New York: Harper & Row, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. 76pp. Octavo [21 cm] 1/4 brown cloth and tan paper over boards with the title stamped in brown on backstrip. Foxing to edges. Dust jacket is price clipped. A prose poem set in the mind of Annie Dillard. More
PERSONA: Image/Mirror Image
NP: The Iggith Wigdorf, 1969. First edition. 18 leaves printed on rectos only. Oblong [8.5 x 5.5]; beige printed wraps, side-stapled. Wrappers show some mild rubbing, minor wear to rear spine edge, else near fine. Rear wrap is printed in the mirror image of the front wrap. Inscribed on the..... More
The Mayfield Deer
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1941. Landeck, Armin. Reprint. Hardcover. 271pp. Octavo. Sage cloth over boards with title stamped in black on spine and front board. Decorative piece on front board. Deckle edges. Some chipping to head of dust jacket. More
Minor Poems of Michael Drayton
Oxford: Claendon Press, 1907. Hardcover. Small octavo, 259 pp. with notes. Hardbound in white paper boards, blindstamped decoration. Some dust and discoloration. Some lightly pencilled notes to margin. More
Moods Cadenced and Declaimed
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1926. Limited edition. SIGNED. 328pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] 3/4 black cloth with decorative paper covered boards, a gilt stamped brown leather title label on the spine, and gilt stamped decorative patterns on the spine and covers. Deckled edges. In a black paper covered slipcase, with..... More
Invisible Shores
Utah: Red Butte Press, 2017. Crane Giamo, Allison Milham, Hailey Rabdau, Marnie Powers-Torrey, Amy Thompson, Emily Tipps, Paperback. 8pp. Sextodecimo [15.25cm]; illustrated accordion fold, with four doublesided panels held closed by a paper band, includes an informative card describing the book. From included descriptive card: Danielle Dubrasky's "Invisible Shores" was..... More
Invisible Shores (Deluxe Edition)
Utah: Red Butte Press, 2017. Crane Giamo, Allison Milham, Hailey Rabdau, Marnie Powers-Torrey, Amy Thompson, Emily Tipps, Paperback. 8pp. Sextodecimo [15.25cm]; illustrated accordion fold, with four doublesided panels in a small slipcase, with a cd recording of the Orchestra of Sourthern Utah performing Valley of Enchantment composed by Mark Dal..... More
Poets of Today
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. 179pp. Octavo [22 cm] Black cloth with title printed on front board and backstrip. Very good/Very good. Includes a critical introduction by John Hall Wheelock. Volume contains 'Poems and Translations' by Harry Duncan, 'Samurai and Serpent Poems' by Murray Noss, 'Another..... More
Poets of Today
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. 179pp. Octavo [22 cm] Black cloth with title gilt stamped on front board and backstrip, and an orange ink stamped design on the front board. Near fine. The extremities are very gently bumped and rubbed. Bookseller's small label on the rear..... More
Poets of Today
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. 179pp. Octavo [22 cm] Black cloth with title gilt stamped on front board and backstrip, and an orange ink stamped design on the front board. Very good. The extremities are gently bumped and rubbed. The cloth on the boards has several..... More
The Ikons and Other Poems
London: Faber and Faber, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 48pp. Octavo [22 cm] Blue cloth covered boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine. Very good. The edges of the covers are very gently rubbed, bumped and faded. There are several faint smudges on the front flyleaf. The dust..... More
The Man in the Green Chair
South Brunswick and New York: A. S. Barnes and Company, 1977. Hardcover. SIGNED. 71pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Light gray cloth-effect paper over boards with a white ink stamped title on the spine. The book is in near fine condition. In a very good dust jacket, with subtle age-toning and rubbing..... More
A Further Harvest
London: Enitharmon Press, 1985. Limited edition. Hardcover. 40pp. Slim octavo [22 cm] Forest green cloth-effect paper over boards with the title stamped in gilt on the spine. The book is in near fine condition. In a very good dust jacket, with light staining. One of an edition limited to 250..... More
Four Quartets
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc, 1943. First edition in book form. 39pp. Octavo [22 cm] Black cloth with a gilt stamped title on the spine (title faded). Stamped 'Review Copy' on the front endpaper. Gilt on spine faded. Previous owner's name on the front free endpaper. Neat pencil..... More
A|MUSE|D - FRAG/LE AN/MALS
Wolves & Rabbits; Hale Mark Seely, 2022. First edition. Unpaginaged. Quarto. Pictorial paper. Local poetry publication containing the work of two poets. Their poetry collections start from opposite covers. SIGNED by both poets on their respective title pages. More
From the Berkeley Hills
New York, Evanston, and London: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. 123pp. Octavo [21 cm] Slate cloth covered boards with gilt and metallic pink stamping on the spine, and the publisher's device stamped in metallic pink on the front cover. Near fine condition. In a very good dust..... More