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
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
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
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
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
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
New York: Harper and Row, 1978. Later printing. Paperback. SIGNED. 58 pp. Octavo [23.5 cm]; illustrated wraps in very good condition with sun-bleached spine and bumped corners. Signed and inscribed "For William" on October 17, 1979 on half title page. More
