San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1961. First American Edition. Paperback. 100pp. Sextodecimo [16 cm] in wraps. Light creasing and wear to lightly toned wraps; front matter almost completely disbound. Preceded by the Villiers Press edition (London) Seven line publisher's statement on rear panel. Cook pgs. 42-43. Dowden pgs. 8-9. Pocket..... More
Boise, ID: Limberlost Press, 1994. First edition, 1/100. Hardcover. [11pp]. Octavo. Red cloth with large paper label on front board, and a small paper label on backstrip. Illustrated. Fine. Letterpress poetry edition. SIGNED by the author on the limitation page. This edition was produced for a special conference at Naropa..... More
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1982. Fifth Printing. Paperback. SIGNED. Sextodecimo [15.5cm]. 144pp. Light wear and rubbing to black and white wraps, crease at spine. Signed and inscribed by Ginsberg on title page. More
New York and London: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. 141pp. Quarto [26 cm] in boards with gilt spine title and gilt device on front board. Light shelfwear to jacket. From the jacket: "Illuminated Poems is the collaboration between two visionaries of different generations: Allen Ginsberg, the Quintessential..... More
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1970. First edition. Hardcover. 125pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Light blue cloth covered boards with a black ink stamped title on the spine. Near fine. The dust jacket is in very good condition. Slightly soiled, rubbed, and darkened. The edges are lightly chipped, and..... More
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Salt Lake City: Sugar House Review, 2013. First edition. Paperback. 107 pp. Octavo [22 cm]. More
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
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
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
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
