New York: New Directions, 2004. First edition. Paperback. 101pp. Octavo [20.5cm]. NEW. Paperback. From the back cover: "A romantic and a populist, Jimmy Santiago Baca celebrates nature and creativity in Winter Poems Along the RIo Grande. These poems form an expansive meditation on Baca's spiritual life, punctuated always with his..... More
Salt Lake City: Sugar House Review, 2015. First edition. Paperback. 107 pp. Octavo [22 cm]. More
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
London: Elkin Matthews, 1921. First edition. Paperback. SIGNED. 63pp. Duodecimo [20 cm] Tan and black printed wraps. Good. The rear wrap is partially detached. There are numerous chips in the paper of the spine and along the edges of the wraps. The text block is cracked at p. 25. Inscribed..... More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. 52pp. Octavo [21 cm]. 1/2 black cloth over brown boards. Very good in a very good dust jacket. The boards are just a tiny bit warped. The rear panel of the dust jacket is lightly creased. Freedman A33.b. This is Wendell..... More
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
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
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
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
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
New York: George Braziller, 1964. Ben Shahn. Limited Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. [38pp] Oblong octavo [18 cm by 24 cm] Natural white cloth over boards with the title printed in black on the spine, and the title reproducing Shahn's calligraphy on the front board. Deckled fore edges. Maroon endpapers. Printed on..... More
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
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
Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2016. First edition. Hardcover. 159pp. Octavo. [21.5cm] 1/4 orange paper over white boards. Pictoral dust jacket. Head of spine is bumped. Dust jacket shows wear along edges. This collection of poems provides a virtual syllabus for all of Berry's cultural and agricultural work in concetrated form. More
Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, 1998. reprint. Paperback. 216pp. Octavo. [20.5cm]. Illustrated Wraps. A collection of Berry's poetry, based around his Sunday morning walking meditations where he observed the world through his poetry. This book gathers all of his single works to date, embracing that which is elemental to human life-- beauty..... More
