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Salt Lake City, UT: Otis Nebula Literary Syndicate, 2010. First edition. Paperback. 85pp. Octavo [23cm]. New collection of poems by Salt Lake City poet. More
Salt Lake City, UT: Otis Nebula Literary Syndicate, 2010. First edition. Paperback. 85pp. Octavo [23cm]. New collection of poems by Salt Lake City poet. More
Utah: Little Zion, 2009. First edition. Paperback. [21.5 cm] Light colored photograph on cover. Pink and white text. More
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1905. Vawter, Will. Reprint. Hardcover. 187pp. Octavo. Evergreen cloth over boards with decorative piece on front board. Corners are lightly bumped. Illustrations accompanying each rhyme. More
Staffordshire, England: Grosseteste Review, 1971. Limited edition. Tall skinny octavo [22 cm] Olive wraps, printed in red, with a red string binding. Number 110 in an edition of 200. John Riley was a poet associated with the British Poetry Revival. Riley founded Grosseteste Press with Tim Longville. More
New York. [69]-96pp. Very slim quarto [31 cm] The front wrap is detached, but present. With "Promise of Peace" by Robinson Jeffers on p. 87. Robinson Jeffers lived in seclusion in a stone house that he built by the ocean, near Carmel, California. He was heavily influenced by Nietzsche's concepts..... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1981. Limited Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 137pp. Octavo [24 cm] Decoratively patterned paper spine with pictorial paper over boards, illustrated with an etching by Mordecai Moreh. Very good, with thin strips of sunning along the edges of the covers. Number 31 in an edition of 50..... More
Salt Lake City, UT: Trash House Publishing, 2018. Preston Zubal; mattherat; prttyxprtty. First edition. Paperback. Octavo [21.5cm]; Wrap colors vary between copies. Japanese stab binding. Black and white illustrations on front wrap. Limited edition number on back wrap / 50. Compiled for the poetry spotlight hosted at the shop on..... More
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1970. Hardcover. 246pp. Octavo [22 cm] Decorative gray and gilt marbled spine and boards. Near fine. The spine and boards show light edge wear. In a very good dust jacket, with fading at the spine, folds, and edges. There is a very short..... More
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1970. Hardcover. 246pp. Octavo [22 cm] Decorative gray and gilt marbled spine and boards. Very good. There is a small letter stamped on the bottom edge of the text block. The spine and boards show light edge wear. In a very good dust..... More
Boise, ID: Limberlost Press, 2005. First Edition. Paperback. This volume has been letterpress printed in an edition of 400 copies, sewn by hand between Thai Chiri endsheets and Rising Stonehenge wrappers. Unpaginated. Cover painting by Greg Keeler. Beautiful craftsmanship typical to the Limberlost Press. More
Los Angeles: What Books Press, 2013. Gronk. First edition. Hardcover. 167pp. Small quarto [24 cm] Gray cloth over boards. With the illustrated dust jacket. Tomorrow You’ll Be One of Us is a humorous tribute to sci fi movies from the 1950s and early 60s. It is a book of poetry..... More
New York: A New Directions Book, 1989. Paperback printing. Paperback. 113 pp. [20 cm] Octavo. INSCRIBED by the author on the half-title page. Illustrated wraps. Very good+ condition. Remainder mark on the bottom edge of the text block. Inscribed by Rothenberg on the half-title page. Inscription reads: "For _____ -..... More
New York: Bloomsbury, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. 149 pp. [21 cm] Fine book in a fine dust jacket. Bluish green cloth with silver stamped titles on the spine. Black and white pictorial dust jacket. From the inside cover: "...one of the most valuable explorations in recent American poetry." -W.S. Merwin..... More
Spokane, WA: Lynx House Press, 2011. Paperback. 54pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Illustrated wraps. More
Salt Lake City, Portland and Honolulu: Otis Nebula Press, 2015. First edition. Paperback. SIGNED. 96pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Pictorial wraps. Signed by Stefene Russell on the half title page. From Otis Nebula Press- "The Possum Codex is the second installment in a Dante-inspired trilogy, following Russell's 2013 chapbook Inferna. Structured..... More
Oxford and London: Printed for D. Prince and J. Cooke; J. F. and C. Rivington, T. Cadell, and T. and J. Egerton, 1789. First edition. 62pp. Slim Quarto [26 cm] Disbound, and housed in detached plain brown paper wraps. Good. There is a contemporary owner's name in the top fore..... More
Salt Lake City, UT: Nihilism Revised, 2019. Second printing. Paperback. 72pp. Octavo [20cm]; illustrated wraps. Poetry collection by Salt Lake City author Devin Sams. More
Nihilism Revised, 2019. First printing. Paperback. 80pp. Slim octavo [20 cm] Pictorial wraps. From the rear cover- "Prepare your bomb-bunkers and captivity-capsules for Devin Sams’ second-wave assault of FLASH-POETRY! Welcome to the golden-age of The American Dream – a voyeuristic study of society with an unblinking eye, throbbing with stress..... More
Boston: Beacon Press, 1997. Second printing. Hardcover. SIGNED. 70pp. Octavo [21 cm] Black cloth over boards. In the dust jacket with minor surface wear. The poet, activist, scholar Sonia Sanchez has been the recipient of many awards and honors, including a National Endowment for the Arts grant and the Peace..... More
Milwaukee and Kenosha: Woodland Pattern Book Center and Light and Dust Books, 1994. Paperback. Thin octavo [23 cm] Stapled white, blue and red illustrated wraps. Very good. The covers are very subtly yellowed and curled. Edward Sanders lives in Woodstock, New York, where he publishes the online Woodstock Journal with..... More
Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2009. First edition. Paperback. 245pp. Octavo [23cm] Paperback. From the publisher: "In this collection, Edward Sanders animates the whole of human history—breathing new life into ancient stories, celebrating artists and activists, telling tales of bohemian escapades, eulogizing friends and politicians, and lamenting the follies that have..... More
Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press, 2009. First edition. Paperback. 260pp. Octavo [23cm] Paperback. From the publisher: This American Book Award-winning collection begins with Edward Sanders famous first Poem from Jail, written in 1961 during his incarceration for disrupting the christening of a nuclear submarine, and covers the twenty tumultuous years..... More
Pocatello, ID: Limberlost Press, 2008. First Edition, 1/350. Paperback. [34pp.] Octavo [26 cm] Eggshell handmade string bound wrappers with Japanese tissue endsheets. Color illustration by author printed on cover. Letterpress edition. New. More
Salt Lake City, UT: 2020. Limited Edition. Broadside. Signed broadside [13" x 19"]. New giclée print. Signed by Ken Sanders, the author of the text. Signed, numbered, and produced by Claire Taylor, creator of the original artwork. Limited edition of 50. From Ken: This is another poem that occurred to..... More