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
Poetry
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
Selected Poems
London: Cape Goliard, 1968. First edition thus, limited and signed. Hardcover. Small square octavo [20 cm] Pale blue cloth-effect paper over boards with a silver stamped title on the spine. With the clear dustwrapper, illustrated with a black tree design by Ambrosius Gabler. Both the book and the wrapper are..... More
Who's That Pushy Bitch?
Fairfax, CA: Jungle Garden Press, 1980. First edition. Paperback. Very slim octavo [21 cm] Stapled wrappers with a printed title and shoe design on the front wrapper. The fore edges of the covers and pages are cut forming the shape of the back of the high-heeled shoe design on the..... More
Two Variations on a Ground
London: Turret Books, 1967. Limited edition. SIGNED. Thin sextodecimo [19 cm] White wraps, with a rose-colored wrapper. Turret Booklet No. 14. One of 50 copies numbered and signed by the author. Keith Harrison has signed the limitation page with the notations "No. I (written with a capital letter)" and "For..... More
Sun Under Wood
Hopwell, New Jersey: The Ecco Press, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 77pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] 1/4 gray cloth with black paper covered boards and a metallic red ink stamped title on the spine. Very good. The edges of the spine and covers are very lightly rubbed and faded. There is..... More
Devil's Dyke: With Compliment and Satire
London: The Windmill Press, 1936. Joan Hassall. First edition. Hardcover. 123 pp. Octavo. [22 cm]. Blue cloth over boards with gilt title stamped on spine. With original dustjacket, which is exhibiting toning, slight staining, and three [1 cm] tears along edges. Spine cracked. Corners bumped and scuffed, pages toned. From..... More
Poems by Frances Ridley Havergal with a Sketch of Her Life
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1882. Early edition. Hardcover. 455pp. Octavo [18.5 cm] Brown cloth covered boards with gilt stamped titles and decorative designs on the spine and front cover. All edges gilt. There is a contemporary gift inscription on the front flyleaf. The verso of the frontispiece..... More
Fire Shadows: Poems
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001. Inscribed edition. Paperback. SIGNED. 85pp. Thin octavo [23 cm] Illustrated wraps. Fine. Inscribed by Gwen Head on the title page. From the rear cover- "In the fall of 1989, on the eve of her twenty-first birthday, Gwen Head's only daughter, diagnosed years earlier..... More
Complete Lectures on Poetry
Tokyo: The Hokuseido Press, 1934. First edition. Hardcover. 750pp. Octavo [24 cm] Dark green cloth covered boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine. The top edge of the text block has the publisher's black dye. With a dust jacket, and in the original stiff card box. Very good..... More
Four New Poets
San Francisco: Inferno Press, 1957. First edition. Paperback. Includes poetry by Richard Brautigan, Martin Hoberman, Carl Larsen and James M. Singer. 34, [1] pp. Softcover; printed wraps. Minor wear to extremities; spine slightly sunned; light soil to the rear cover. Internally very good. More
Inconsequentia
Buffalo, NY: BlazeVox, 2010. First edition. Paperback. 93pp. Small quarto. Yellow, red, and black illustrated wraps. More
Dispatches from the Fields
Georgetown, CA: Dragon's Teeth Press, 1981. First edition. Paperback. 109pp. Octavo [21 cm] White and black printed wraps. Living Poets' Library Series Volume 26. More
Sub-Rosa: Low-Brow Lyrics
Prairie City, IL: The Decker Press, Publishers, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 78pp. Slim octavo [23 cm] Blue textured cloth over boards with a yellow ink stamped title on the spine and a yellow ink stamped vignette on the front cover. Good condition. The covers are mildly damp stained. The..... More
The Night Parade
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. 84pp. Octavo. Brown cloth over boards. In a dust jacket with moderate rubbing to the panels and sunning to the spine. Edward Hirsch's first book of poem's, For the Sleepwalkers, received the Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American..... More
Wild Gratitude
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. 78pp. Octavo [22 cm] Green cloth over boards. In a dust jacket with moderate toning. Part of the Knopf Poetry series. Edward Hirsch's first book of poem's, For the Sleepwalkers, received the Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American..... More
Wild Gratitude
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. 78pp. Octavo [22 cm] Green cloth over boards. In a dust jacket with moderate toning. Part of the Knopf Poetry series. Edward Hirsch's first book of poem's, For the Sleepwalkers, received the Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American..... More
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
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