Voyage Home: Poems
Paris: Two Cities, 1960. Paperback. 47pp. Octavo [21 cm] in wraps. Light soiling and wear to wraps; interior is clean and toned. Author's first book. More
Poetry
A History of Kindness
Salt Lake City, UT: Torrey House Press, 2020. Kathleen Metcalf. First edition. Paperback. Octavo [23cm, 15cm]. Orange illustrated wraps. Linda Hogan is a Pulitzer Prize Finalist. "Hogan's poetry has always been a medicine of sorts." -Joy Harjo, US Poet Laureate. "There is no one like Linda Hogan. I read her..... More
Town & Country Matters: Erotica & Satirica
Boston: David R. Godine, 1972. Hardcover. 69pp. Thin quarto [26 cm] Bright red cloth covered boards with printed paper title labels on the spine and front cover. Near fine. Light edge wear to the spine and covers. There is a minor stain on the front cover. In a very good..... More
Isadora and Other Poems
Writers Forum, 1967. Paperback. Twenty-fourmo [15 cm] Stapled light and dark blue printed wraps. Very good. Large areas of the rear wrap are heavily browned. Mini Book Two. Printed by Ted Kavanagh at the Wooden Shoe. More
My Name Is Rod Magnet
Baltimore: Broadsheet, 1979. 28 centimeters tall. White folded broadsheet, printed in red and black. Near fine. 700 copies of this poem were printed by Stephen Wiest, Ltd. at the mill in Dickeyville, Maryland. Anselm Hollo was influenced by the beat poets, and wrote over forty books of poetry. Notes on..... More
Death Drag: Selected Poems 1948-1979
Pocatello, Idaho: The Limberlost Press, 1979. Paperback. 57pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Stapled light gray and red printed wraps. Very good. The spine is mildly faded. These "fragmentary records" were made over a period of 30 years. Death Drag comprises numbers 7 and 8 of The Limberlost Review. More
A Shropshire Lad
London: The Richards Press Ltd, 1930. Later printing. Leather bound. 95pp. Sextodecimo [18 cm] With an elegant binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in light brown leather with a gilt tooled spine, red and green leather spine labels, and triple-ruled gilt stamped borders on the covers. All edges gilt. Gilt turn-ins..... More
The Europe of Trusts
New York: New Directions, 1990. Reprint. Paperback. 218pp. Octavo [22.5cm] Paperback. Pictorial Wraps. NEW. From the back cover: " The Europe of Trusts contains three brilliant, long-unavailable books which Susan Howe first published in the early 1980s: The Liberties; Pythagorean Science; and Defenestration of Prague. These are the landmark books--following..... More
The Midnight
New York: New Directions, 2003. Second printing. Paperback. 178pp. Octavo [22.5cm] Paperback. Pictorial Wraps. NEW. From the back cover: "In The Midnight's amply illustrated five sections, three of poetry and two of prose, we find--swirling around the poet's mother--ghosts, family photographs, whispers, interjections, bed hangings, unfinished lace, the fly-leaves of..... More
Pierce-Arrow
New York: New Directions, 1999. Second printing. Paperback. 144pp. Octavo [22.5cm] Paperback. Pictorial Wraps. NEW. From the back cover: "Pierce-Arrow, Susan Howe's newest book of poems, takes as its point of departure the figure of Charles S. Pierce, the allusive nineteenth-century philosopher-scientist and founder of prgmatism, a man always on..... More
Salt River Anthology
Monterey, KY: Larkspur Press, 2014. Later printing. Paperback. 39pp. Duodecimo [18.3cm]. Printed wraps featuring an illustration on the cover. Orange and black lettering. A series of poems in the style of a triolet - a single stanza poem of eight lines with a rhyme scheme of ABaAaBAB; the first, fourth..... More
Kiss My Lips
New York: Andrea Doria Books, 1979. Limited Edition. Paperback. Slim quarto [28 cm] Stapled black and white pictorial wraps, with a cover design by Rochelle Kraut. Very good condition. The wraps are a bit age-toned. Published at Poetry Project, St. Mark's Church In-the-Bowery, New York City in an edition of..... More
Dancing in Your Mother's Skin
Chicago: Tia Chucha Press, 1991. Paperback. 67pp. 19x23cm. Blue cover with photograph. More
Dancing in Your Mother's Skin
Chicago: Tia Chucha Press, 1991. Paperback. 67pp. 19x23cm. Blue cover with photograph. SIGNED by author on title page. More
Be Angry at the Sun
New York: Random House, 1941. First edition. Hardcover. 156pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Black cloth with gilt stamped titles on the spine and front cover, and the publisher's gilt stamped device on the front cover. Bottom fore-edge corners of the pages subtly dampstained; endpapers slightly darkened in areas. In the dust..... More
Cawdor
Práce, Praha: 1979. Josef Liesler. First edition thus. Hardcover. 174pp. Quarto [30 cm] Black cloth over boards with gilt and blind stamped titles on the spine and front cover. Very good. The covers are a bit warped, and the edges of the spine and covers are lightly rubbed and bumped..... More
Dear Judas
New York: Horace Liveright, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. 129pp. Octavo [21 cm] 1/4 black cloth with plum-colored paper over boards and gilt lettering on the backstrip and front board. Publisher's black top stain. Fore and bottom edges deckled. There is a subtle dampstain at the foot of the spine. In..... More
Roan Stallion, Tamar, and Other Poems
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1925. Fifth edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 253pp. Octavo [21 cm] 1/4 black cloth with grayish-purple paper over boards. The front endpaper is darkened (publisher's glue stain) along the hinge. In the dust jacket, with periodic small closed and open tears in the edges. The spine of..... More
The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers
New York: Random House, 1938. First edition. Hardcover. 622pp. Large octavo [24 cm] Light brown cloth covered boards with a paper title label on the spine. Publisher's brown topstain. With a photographic representation of the author by Edward Weston at the front. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. In the..... More
Solstice: And Other Poems by Robinson Jeffers
New York: Random House, 1935. First trade edition. Hardcover. 151pp. Octavo [21cm]; Evergreen cloth over boards with title stamped in gilt on spine and front board. Deckle edges. Spine and extremities mildly sunned. Lacking dust jacket. A compilation which features the acclaimed title poem, the epic poem "At the Birth..... More
Thurso's Landing and Other Poems
New York: Liveright, Inc., Publishers, 1932. First trade edition. Hardcover. 147pp. Octavo [21 cm] 1/4 black cloth with rose-colored paper over boards and a decorative gilt stamped vignette bordered by the title on the front board. Title stamped in slightly faded gilt on the backstrip. There are a few trivial..... More
The Stanford Players announce a Summer Subscription Series. 4 Plays You will want to see! Cyrano De Bergerac by Edmond Rostand...The Cretan Woman by Robinson Jeffers. Artists-in-Residence, Marian Seldes and Douglas Watson, in the leading roles and Theodore Marcuse as director... Camino Real by Tennessee Williams... Lysistrata by Aristophanes
Circa 1955. Broadside. Broadside printed in red and black. 8 1/2" wide x 11" tall. Very good, with age-toning, a light horizontal fold through the center, and a 3/4" closed tear in the center, partially obscuring the last letter in Robinson Jeffers' first name. The flyer states that The Cretan..... More
Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, Volume XL, Number III, June, 1932
Chicago, IL: 1932. Original edition. Paperback. 119-178pp. Slim octavo [21 cm] Orange and black printed wraps. Very good. The wraps are just a little discolored, and the edges of the wraps are creased, and have multiple short chips and closed tears. Features a review by Rolfe Humphries, titled "Two Books..... More