Poetry
Litmus Loadstone #11
Salt Lake City, UT: circa 1971. Periodical on newsprint, folded twice (as issued). Measures approximately 20 cm x 28.5 cm closed. Very light wear. Pages browned. Features the poem "The Hairy Hairy Fist, and Love Will Die," by Charles Bukowski, as well as works by Amiri Baraka, Chuck Potts, Philip..... More
Litmus Loadstone #11
Salt Lake City, UT: circa 1971. Periodical on newsprint, folded twice (as issued). Measures approximately 20 cm x 28.5 cm closed. 3" tear to center fold of first two pages, else very light wear. Pages browned. Features the poem "The Hairy Hairy Fist, and Love Will Die," by Charles Bukowski..... More
Random Remarks on a Random World (Reprinted from The Western Humanities Review, Vol. XV, No. 1, Winter, 1961)
Signed association copy. SIGNED. 10-page article stapled in the top left corner. Inscribed by the Canadian experimental poet, novelist, and critic, Earle Birney, to fellow poet Bill Stafford at the head of the article. Birney taught at the University of British Columbia, where he founded and oversaw the first Canadian..... More
The Dress: A Poetic Response
Salt Lake City, UT: Forty-Two Books, LLC, 2020. First edition. Paperback. 11pp. Octavo [21.5cm]. Printed wraps. "What side were you on in 2015? White and gold, or black and blue? What would it look like to study such a debate in another format: words? Color and fashion are at stake..... 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: 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
The Testament of John Davidson
London: Grant Richards, 1908. First edition. Hardcover. 146pp. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] Red cloth over boards. The spine is heavily faded. Many of the pages have small, faint tide marks in the top margins. From the collection of Berkeley book collector and letterpress printer, John Ruyle. The fourth and final installment..... More
The Twenty one Gun Salute
Sedro Woolley: Grey Spider Press, 1999. Limited Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. Tall skinny quarto [27 cm] Blue cloth spine with printed paper over boards. With only minor wear to the extremities. No. 27 of 50 Deluxe copies, printed on heavyweight Zerkall paper, and signed by the poet (in an overall edition..... More
Nature: Poems Old and New
New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. First Mariner Books Edition. Paperback. 240 pp. Octavo [22.5] Multicolored artwork on wraps. From back cover: "What Swenson responds to and values in the world, its essential freedom, is the very quality that is most striking in her as a poet...This is a world looked..... More
A Cage of Spines
New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1958. First edition. Hardcover. 96pp. Octavo [22 cm] Black cloth. Minor rubbing at the spine ends and corners of the boards; previous owner's discreet ink stamp on the front free endpaper. In a dust jacket, with light rubbing and chipping to the extremities. The..... More
Songs for the Doorknobs Who Missed Their Turn
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
Climb Out Your Window and Run With It
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
Whale Song: A Poet's Journey Into Cancer
Salt Lake City, UT: Dream Garden Press, 2007. First Trade Paperback Edition. Paperback. [104pp.] Octavo [21.5 cm.] White illustrated wrappers with titles printed in black on front panel and backstrip. This collection of poems was penned as the author was battling cancer in his Cache Valley home. A poet of..... More
Mine Tailings
Boulder, Utah: 5 Sisters Press, 2019. First edition. Paperback. SIGNED. 79pp. Octavo [22.5cm]. Printed wraps. NEW. David Lee was Utah's first poet laureate, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 2001, and is the subject of the PBS documentary "The Pig Poet." More
May Swenson: Collected Poems
New York: Library of America, 2013. Later printing. Hardcover. 759pp. [22cm]; full green cloth with gold title stamped on the spine. Pictorial dust jacket. New book with no flaws. In celebration of the centenary of May Swenson’s birth, The Library of America presents a one-volume edition of all of the..... More
The Empty Boat
Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press; New Odyssey Series, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 77pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Black cloth over boards. In a dust jacket, with light edge wear. Winner of the 2004 T. S. Eliot Prize. Inscribed by the author on the verso of the half title, and..... More
Chiaroscuro: A Mystery
Salt Lake City, UT: Elik Press, 2005. First Edition, #32/150. Paperback. 35 pp. Octavo. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. SIGNED by the author on the title page. A collection of poems by Utah's former poet laurate Ken W. Brewer. Elik Poetry Series Number Six. More
Small Scenes
Boise, ID: Limberlost Press, 2006. Limited Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED - Small Scenes was letterpress printed during the winter of 2006 in a limited edition of 350 copies. This volume is one of only 50 copies that have been specially bound by hand into cloth and boards, numbered and signed by..... More
Ken Sanders Rare Books Presents Alex Caldiero performing Allen Ginsberg's Howl; 50th Anniversary Celebration
Salt Lake City, UT: Ken Sanders Rare Books, 2005. Limited Edition Poster. Broadside. 10x16 inches, Hand silkscreened in 3 colors. Salt Lake artist Trent Call created an image of a young Ginsberg for the poetry event at Salt Lake City's Main Library commemorating the 50th anniversary of the debut of..... 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
Kinesthesia3a; from Contemplation of the Moulds, Book Two
Salt Lake City, UT: Alissandru (Alex) F. Caldiero, 2014. 1/26. Paperback. Sextodecimo [16.5cm]. Black wraps with ivory cover stamp. Author signature and lettering on recto of back cover. Letter t/z, or 20/26. "Shows the actions of the ... energies decoded by means of ciphers into word formations in some language..... More