Busy Being Born
San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, 1974. First edition. Paperback. 93pp. Octavo [20.5 cm] Pink and purple illustrated wraps. Political activist poet Todd Gitlin was an early president of Students for a Democratic Society. More
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Snap Box
London: Trigram Press, 1972. Limited edition. Hardcover. Sextodecimo [16 cm] Red cloth over boards titled in silver on the spine, and with a silver stamped airplane and ship vignette on the front cover. Light blue pages printed in dark blue. Very good. The covers are warped. Number 91 of in..... More
Snap Box
London: Trigram Press, 1972. Limited edition. Hardcover. Sextodecimo [16 cm] Red cloth over boards titled in silver on the spine, and with a silver stamped airplane and ship vignette on the front cover. Light blue pages printed in dark blue. Very good. The covers are mildly warped. Number 82 of..... More
Befo' De War: Echoes in Negro Dialect
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1888. First edition. Hardcover. 131pp. Duodecimo [18.5 cm] 1/4 brown cloth with decorative cloth covered boards, a gilt stamped title on the spine, and a brown ink stamped title on the front cover. Decorative endsheets. Good. The extremities are mildly darkened, rubbed and stained. The..... More
The Errancy
Hopewell, NJ: The Ecco Press, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 112pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] 1/4 blue cloth with decorative white paper covered boards and a gilt stamped title on the spine. Very good. The covers are just a tiny bit concave. The edges of the spine and covers are very..... More
Never: Poems
New York: Ecco / HarperCollins, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 112pp. Small quarto [24.5 cm] 1/4 blue paper with white paper covered boards. Fine / Fine. Jorie Graham's collection of poetry, The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994, won the Pulitzer Prize. More
New Poems
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968. First edition in English. Hardcover. SIGNED. 85pp. Octavo [21 cm] in boards over cloth spine. Very light edgewear to price-clipped jacket; slight bump to front board at top, else boards are crisp and unworn. Signed by Grass on half-title. Günter Grass was awarded..... More
The Green-Sailed Vessel: Poems
Hatfield: Privately Printed at The Stellar Press, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Signed and numbered by the author in black ink on the copyright/limitation page. This is copy #210. 41 pp. Octavo [26 cm]; full mustard colored cloth with gold stamping to spine. Orange dust jacket with title and author printed..... More
Robert Graves: Collected Poems
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1961. First American edition. Hardcover. 358pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Light gray and red cloth covered boards with silver stamped titles. Very good. Ex-library, with only a library donation label on the front pastedown. Else, extremely clean. The dust jacket is in very good condition..... More
Alamo and Other Verses
Florence, NM; London, UK: Edward McQueen Gray; A. & F. Denny, 1898. First edition. Hardcover. 165pp. Duodecimo [18 cm] Red cloth over boards with gilt stamped titles on the backstrip and front board. Top edge gilt. The spine is sunned, and the spine ends and corners are dinged. There are..... More
An Elegy in A Country Churchyard and Odes on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitude, A Distant Prospect of Eton College, and the Bard
New York: Effingham Maynard & Co. Booklet. Paperback. 42pp. Thin sixteenmo. Stapled tan and black printed wraps. Good. The covers and pages are lightly moisture stained. Page 9 is slightly soiled. There is occasional marginalia in pencil throughout the pages. The corners of the pages are lightly bumped. Perhaps as..... More
The Poems of Thomas Gray. With Critical Notes, A Life of the Author, And an Essay on His Poetry, By the Rev. John Mitford
London: Printed for White, Cochrane, and Co, 1814. First "Mitford" edition. Leather bound. [clxxxiv]; 271pp. Octavo [22 cm] Brown speckled leather with a gilt tooled spine, a gilt stamped red leather spine label, and double gilt ruled borders on the covers. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. With an engraved frontispiece..... More
Wind: Four Letters to Melinda Mueller
Portland, OR: Breakwater Press, 1980. Limited edition. Paperback. Thin octavo [25 cm] Stapled grayish blue printed wraps. Near fine condition. Copy 185 of 300. The paper is Strathmore Pastelle. The handset type is Bembo. More
Of Una Jeffers
The Ward Ritchie Press, 1939. Fletcher Martin. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 67pp. Octavo [22 cm] Blue cloth over boards with silver lettering and decorative stamping. Deckled fore edges. With a frontispiece photograph of Una Jeffers by Johan Hagemeyer. Very good. Faded at the spine and along the edges of the covers..... More
Sugar House Review #9; Volume 5/Issue 2: Fall/Winter 2013
Salt Lake City: Sugar House Review, 2013. First edition. Paperback. 107 pp. Octavo [22 cm]. More
Winter Journeys
Bradford, England: Rivelin Press, 1984. First edition, limited. Paperback. 35pp. Slender octavo [21.5 cm] Saddle-stitched blue wraps with a pictorial dust wrapper. One in an edition limited to 500. More
Bathing in the River of Ashes; Poems
Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1999. First printing. Paperback. 55pp. 22x14cm. Shaun Griffin is a poet of impassioned engagement- in the common joys and suffering of the human experience, in the natural world, in the complexity of language and the poet's exacting craft. His vision embraces the vast possibilities of..... More
Snowmelt; Poems
Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1994. First printing. Paperback. 72pp. Octavo. Blue covers. "Like the Nevada deserts and mountains that shape and inform his sensibility, Shaun Griffin writes poems that are spare and direct, uncluttered by literary flourish or inflated self-regard. His is a struggle not merely to tell the..... More
Woodsmoke, Wind, and the Peregrine; Poems
Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2008. First printing. Paperback. 60pp. Octavo. Brown covers. "The lovely and loving reverie of a man raptly engaged with his external world these poems of wing and song and flight cross the invisible boundary between reality and dreamscape. They waft into the realm of interior..... More
The Sink
San Lorenzo, CA: Shameless Hussy Press, 1974. First printing. Paperback. 47pp. Octavo [22 cm] Saddle-stitched white and black pictorial wraps. The wraps are toned, the front wrap has a small sticker stain, and the rear wrap has a small moisture stain. There is a brief gift inscription on the verso..... More
Verse of the New West
Caldwell, ID: The Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1931. Glen H. Spurgeon. First Edition, 1/100. Leather bound. 102pp. Octavo [19.5 cm] Grained green leather with gilt titles on front board and backstrip. Near fine. De Luxe Limited Edition. Signed and numbered by the author on the limitation page. Prospectus and signed photograph..... More
What Counts
Boise, ID: Limberlost Press, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Letterpress poetry edition. One of twenty-six limited signed and lettered editions. Limberlost Press is a fine press and bindery out of Idaho. Since 1986 they have issued forty-one completely handmade letterpress editions. More
The Practical Heart
New York: Knopf, 1993. Advance excerpt, limited edition. Paperback. SIGNED. 80pp. Octavo [23 cm] White and red printed wraps. Very good. Very light soiling to the extremities. Signed by Gurganus on the first blank page. From the title page- "One of four novellas from a new collection, "The Practical Heart,"..... More
H. D.: Selected Poems
New York: A New Directions Book. Eleventh printing. Paperback. 198pp. Octavo [20 cm] Illustrated wraps. More