The Shell in Silk
Salt Lake City, UT: Utah State Poetry Society, 1996. Hardcover. 66pp. Octavo. 1/4 black cloth with gray paper over boards. Title stamped in gilt on spine. Gift inscription on front free endsheet. More
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Dark Music
Salt Lake City, UT: Elik Press, 2012. First edition. Paperback. 81pp. [19cm] Paperback. New. Pictorial wraps. "Luminous, Delicate as the dust on the butterly's wings & graceful as its flight, Gordon Ball so fluently unwinds the silken spools of memory." - John Tytell "All is not lost as long as..... More
Coyote Wind
Salt Lake City, UT: Elik Press, 2018. First edition. Paperback. 67pp. Octavo [20cm]. Illustrated wraps. Collection of poetry from author Dyana Basist featuring theme of coyote. Includes haiku style poems. More
Flowers of Evil. Fleurs du Mal. In Pattern and Prose
New York: Privately printed for The Sylvan Press, 1947. Limited Edition (limitation not stated). Hardcover. 142pp. Quarto [26 cm] Light brown paper over boards, decoratively stamped in dark brown ink on the front board. With thin losses from the spine ends and light rubbing to the extremities. Initials in pen..... More
Translating Baudelaire
Exeter, UK: University of Exeter Press, 2000. Paperback. 287pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] in wraps; creasing to front wrap lower corner; interior is clean and bright. From the rear wrap: "This book is the record of an apprenticeship in translating Baudelaire, and in translating poetry more generally. Re-assessing the translator's task..... More
Sugar House Review #3; Volume 2/Issue 2: Fall/Winter 2010
Salt Lake City: Sugar House Review, 2010. First edition. Paperback. 92 pp. Octavo [22 cm]. Third issue of new Salt Lake City-based literary journal. Issue features poems by: Dan Beachy-Quick, Steven Cramer, Jim Peterson, and Donald Revell among others. More
The Moon Cracks Open; A Field Guide to Birds and Other Poems
Saginaw, MI: Heal the Earth Press, 2008. First edition. Paperback. 66pp. Octavo [21.5cm] Paperback. SIGNED by the author on the title page. From the publisher: "The Moon Cracks Open contains 49 poems, 20 of which form the Field Guide: a series of species-specific poems honoring the various birds that have..... More
Wake the Unicorn
Utah: Utah State Poetry Society, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED 58pp. Octavo. Nacy cloth over boards. Both signed and inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. Inscription reads, "I never thought I'd be here with all my friends. You are an important one." This title won the 1983..... More
The Falconer of God and Other Poems
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1914. First edition. Hardcover. 121pp. Octavo [21 cm] 1/4 parchment vellum with brown paper over boards. The extremities are a bit dinged. In a dust jacket, with toning, and periodic small closed and open tears in the edges. This copy is inscribed by the author's..... More
Green Soldiers
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. 63pp. Octavo [21 cm] Rust colored cloth over boards with a gilt stamped title on the backstrip. Very good, with marginal rubbing at the spine ends and corners of the covers. In a near fine dust jacket, with a...... More
The Sonosopher: Alex Caldiero in Life...in Sound
Salt Lake City, UT: Dream Garden Press/OHO Media, 2012. DVD. DVD. 61-minute feature film with over 30 minutes of deleted scenes and extras. Professionally pressed and printed DVD disc, housed in a standard clear DVD case. Full color photographic layout. 20-page saddle-stitched booklet insert containing artwork and an unpublished essay..... More
Clearing
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 52pp. Octavo [21 cm] 1/2 black cloth with brown paper over boards. Freedman A33.b. A sequence of poems about the land. This is Wendell Berry's sixth volume of poetry. Signed by Wendell Berry, with the date "4/15/07," on the title..... More
Entries:; Poems
Washington, D. C. Counterpoint, 1997. 5th Printing. Paperback. 80 pp. 20.5 cm. Wraps in two-tone red and gray spine and illustrated covers. New book with no flaws. Berry's "aching prose and strong sense of place . . . [put him] in the pantheon of Southern writers. This is an important..... More
Findings
The Prairie Press, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 63pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] 1/4 brown cloth with decorative paper over boards. Title in gilt on the spine. Minor foxing to top and fore-edge of text block. Boards and pages are clean and bright. Dust jacket has light sunning to spine and..... More
Given: New Poems
Washington, D.C. Shoemaker Hoard, 2005. Bound Galley. Paperback. 162pp. Small octavo [20.5 cm] Illustrated wraps. With a Xeroxed note from the publisher, calling this a first pass galley, tucked in. From the rear wrap- "Author of over forty books of fiction, poetry, and essays, WENDELL BERRY has farmed a hillside..... More
Given: New Poems
Washington, D.C. Shoemaker Hoard, 2005. Bound Galley. Paperback. 162pp. Small octavo [20.5 cm] Illustrated wraps. Very minor crease to the top fore-edge corner of the front wrap. With a Xeroxed note from the publisher, calling this a first pass galley, tucked in. From the rear wrap- "Author of over forty..... More
Given:; Poems
Berkeley: Counterpoint/Shoemaker Hoard, 2006. Second printing. Paperback. 152pp. 20 cm. Multicolored wrappers with brown backstrip. Includes bibliographical references and index. New book with no flaws. "For five decades, Wendell Berry has been a poet of great clarity and purpose, a writer whose imagination is grounded by the pastures of his..... More
Leavings: Poems; Poems
Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, 2009. Reprint. Paperback. 132pp. [20 cm]; illustrated wraps. From the publisher: "Berry’s themes are reflections of his life: friends, family, the farm, the nature around us as well as within. He speaks strongly for himself and sometimes for the lost heart of the country. As he has..... More
The Mad Farmer Poems
Berkeley: Counterpoint LLC, 2014. Later printing. Paperback. 40pp. Octavo [21cm]; illustrated wraps. "During the otherwise quiet course of his life as a poet, Wendell Berry has become 'mad' at what contemporary society has made of its land, its communities, and its past. This anger reaches its peak in the poems..... More
Poem XXI from Sabbaths
Printed for Black Swan Books by Larkspur Press, 2013. Limited edition. Broadside. SIGNED. Broadside measuring 10 x 14". Printed in black. 73 of only 100 copies. Signed by Kentucky writer and environmentalist Wendell Berry in pencil. "Poet, novelist, and environmentalist Wendell Berry lives in Port Royal, Kentucky near his birthplace..... More
Sabbaths 1987
Monterey, Kentucky: Larkspur Press, 1991. Limited Edition. Paperback. 13pp. Octavo [25cm]. Tan Fabriano Ingres Heavyweight paper wraps. Handset in Eric Gill's Joanna type & printed on a handfed C&P. Though limited, this copy has not been hand numbered. More
Sabbaths 2002
Monterey, KY: Larkspur Press, 2004. Bates, Wesley. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. Unpaginated. Sextodecimo [16.5cm] 1/4 gray cloth with decorative paper over boards. With the dust jacket. Number 98 in an edition of 100 copies printed on Magnani Velata paper and handbound by Carolyn Whitesel. Attractive fine press edition of poems..... More
A Small Porch
Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2016. First edition. Paperback. 153pp. Octavo. [21cm] Illustrated Wraps. A collection of Sabbath poems from 2014 and 2015 combined with 'The Presence of Nature in the Natural World: A Long Conversation'. More