New York: Ecco Press, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. 297pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] 1/4 black paper with light gray paper over boards. The boards are slightly warped, and there is a remainder mark on the bottom edge of the text block. In a dust jacket, with subtle moisture staining along the... More about The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain: New Poems
Sutton West & Santa Barbara: The Paget Press, 1986. First Paget Press paperback printing. Paperback. Slim octavo [21.5 cm] Paper wrappers, with some darkening and foxing to the front wrap. Illustrated by the author. More about The Day It Snowed In L.A.: The Adventures of Clarence Hiram Sweetmeat
New York: Ecco / Harper Collins, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. 298pp. Octavo [24 cm] White paper over boards, with very slight warping to the boards. In a dust jacket, with light edgewear. "Bukowski is one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose, and, many would claim, its most... More about The People Look Like Flowers At Last: New Poems
New York: Ecco / Harper Collins, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. 270pp. Octavo [24 cm] Dark and light brown paper over boards. The spine ends and corners are gently bumped. "Bukowski is one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose, and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated... More about Slouching Toward Nirvana: New Poems
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 2001. Cloth trade edition. Hardcover. 352pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] 1/4 black cloth with illustrated paper over boards. There is a barcode sticker on rear board, and there is a small indentation along the bottom edge of the rear board. These poems were written between 1970... More about The Night Torn Mad With Footsteps: New Poems
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2004. Revised edition. Paperback. 90pp. Octavo [20.5 cm] Printed wraps. From the rear cover- "M.D. Herter Norton's translations were the first to open Rilke's work to the English-speaking world in accurate, sensitive, modern versions free from both embroidery and slavish adherence to rhyme." (Book... More about Letters to a Young Poet
Melbourne, Australia: National Press, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 40 pp. Octavo [23.5 cm]; light brown clother covered boards with gilt spine in illustrated dust jacket. Bumping to spine ends of boards with minor stain on rear board near spine. Dust jacket stained along spine and front cover with various... More about American Civilization
Los Angeles: Sumac Poetry Series, a Center Publications book, 1979. Paperback. SIGNED. 70pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] Tan, black and white illustrated wraps. Some rubbing and wear to outer wraps. Spine sunned. Approx. 2" crease to upper right corner and crease across bottom of outer front wrap. Bumping to head corners... More about Letters to Yesenin and Returning to Earth
New York: Atheneum, 1970. John Gerbino. First edition. Hardcover. 97pp. Small square quarto [24 cm] Blue cloth over boards. In a price-clipped dust jacket, with rubbing, a couple of small closed edge tears, and a shallow loss from the paper at the head of the spine. Illustrated by John Gerbino... More about The Nixon Poems
Portland, OR: Tin House Books, 2019. Allen Crawford. Second edition thus. Hardcover. Octavo [20.5cm]; green cloth illustrated boards, with white title and cover illustration. Walt Whitman's iconic collection of poems, Leaves of Grass, has earned a reputation as a sacred American text. Whitman himself made such comparisons, going so far... More about Whitman Illuminated: Song of Myself
New York: W. W. Norton, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 113 pp. Signed by the poet on the title page. More about The School Among the Ruins; Poems 2000-2004