North Beach, San Francisco: Beatitude Press, 1976. First edition. Paperback. SIGNED.36 pp. Octavo. [21 cm]. Blue illustrated wraps. Spine toned. Neeli Cherkovski reflects on time, place, and self while living in North Beach, San Francisco in this signed copy of his poetry collection. More
Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2015. Paperback. 68pp. Octavo [22cm]; color photo-illustrated wraps. “Christina Hutchins combines a pitch-perfect and precise lyricism with a postmodern sensibility of language’s materiality. . . . If the poetry’s music tethers these poems internally, what holds them together in theme and subject is the..... More
McKinleyville, CA: Fithian Press, 2012. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. 75 pp. [23 cm]; yellow and blue illustrated wraps. "Here, hauntingly expressed, are the turning points in a life that began in war-torn Vietnam. This is the story of a refugee family who settled in California, bringing with them their nightmares..... More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1896. First edition. Hardcover. 333pp. Octavo [20 cm] Dark red cloth covered boards with gilt stamped titles and borders on the spine and front cover. Good. The covers are very subtly stained. There are numerous small areas of abrasion on the spine and covers. The..... More
New York: Seven Woods Press, 1979. First edition. Paperback. 31pp. Very slim octavo [21 cm] Saddle-stitched yellow and black printed wraps, with only minor soiling to the wraps. A chapbook of math poems. More
Salt Lake City: Sugar House Review, 2014. First edition. Paperback. 161 pp. Octavo [22 cm]. More
Philadelphia: Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co., 1845. Complete in one volume. Leather bound. 546pp. Large octavo [23 cm] Full brown leather. Marbled edges and endsheets. Good. The leather covers are rubbed and chipped, particularly at the extremities. The front cover is cracked along the joint. The leather of the spine is..... More
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1965. First edition. Paperback. 83pp. Octavo [20.5 cm] White and red illustrated wrappers. Very good. Lower right corner of cover is creased. Inscribed by the author to the award-winning poet, May Swenson. Inscription reads: "for May Swenson / clare-eyed city seer / Tram / 74..... More
High Wycomb, England: Moonbird, 1974. First edition. Paperback. SIGNED. 35pp. Slim octavo [21 cm] Stapled pictorial wraps, with moderate toning. Inscribed by the Cook to a fellow poet on the epigraph page: "To_____, from a poet across the bay, Geoffrey Cook." More
Sheffield: West House Books, 2000. Paperback. 95pp. Octavo [21cm]. Light blue wraps with dark blue printing on the front cover. Signed with an inscription by the author on the title page. Martin Corless-Smith is the author of English Fragments: A Brief History of the Soul, Swallows, Nota, Complete Travels, and..... More
New York: Fence Books, 2010. First edition. Paperback. 152pp. Octavo [20.5cm]. Light multicolored wraps with an illustration on the front cover. Signed with an inscription by the author on the title page. Martin Corless-Smith is the author of English Fragments: A Brief History of the Soul, Swallows, Nota, Complete Travels..... More
New York: Penguin Random House, 2022. First edition. Paperback. 64pp. Octavo. [21.5cm] Illustrated wraps. "A groundbreaking collection about Afropioneerism past and present from Pushcart Prize-nominated poet and New York Times bestselling author Rio Cortez From a visionary writer praised for her captivating work on Black history and experience comes a...... More
Hertfordshire, England: Priapus Press, 1976. Limited edition. Slender octavo [21 cm] Sewn stiff yellow card wraps, with gentle bumping to the foot of the spine. One of 100 unsigned copies. More
New York: Fence Books, 2006. First edition. Paperback. 80pp. Collection of Poety. SIGNED by AUTHOR. More
Albuquerque, NM: Living Batch Bookstore, 1993. First edition. Saddle-Stitch. 4pp. Oblong Trigesimo-Secundo [11cm x 14cm]; gray and black paper wraps. Text is printed on one side of a piece of folded, uncut paper to make four readable pages. This is a single, four page poem printed on occasion of Robert..... More
Salt Lake City, UT: Elik Press, 2020. First edition. paperback. 113pp. Octavo. [23cm]. Illustrated wraps. Contains poems dating back to 1980. Themes include time, imagination, and introspection. Includes contribution by Jim Jones regarding author's process and poetry. More
Milano [Milan]: All' Insegna Del Pesce D'Oro, 1958. Bilingual text. Paperback. 68pp. Twenty-fourmo [12 cm] Tan, yellow and black printed wraps. Very good. The covers are very lightly soiled. The edges of the covers are gently bumped. Copy number 450 of 1000. Pagine Di Letterature Straniere Antiche E Moderne. During..... More
Denver: Alan Swallow, 1964. First edition. Paperback. Slim sextodecimo [19 cm] Olive green Fabriano wraps, with a string binding. Fifteen short poems. Printed by Alan Swallow and designed by Theo Jung in an edition of 1000 copies. More
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
Iowa City: The Seamark Press, 1981. Limited Edition. Paperback. Very slender octavo [22 cm] Sewn green wrappers. Handset in Meridien type and printed on Rives paper. Very good, with light creasing to the edges of the wrappers, and very minor sunning near the fold of the spine. Poems of Idaho..... More
New York: Penguin Random House, [2022]. Deluxe edition, fifteenth printing. Paperback. 677 pp. Octavo. Illustrated wraps with gilt stamped titles. "An epic masterpiece and a foundational work of the Western canon, The Divine Comedy describes Dante’s descent into Hell with Virgil as his guide; his ascent of Mount Purgatory and..... More
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
Salt Lake City, UT: Barrio Publications, 1974. Paperback. Octavo [22 cm] Black and white illustrated wraps. Very good. The covers have mild overall rubbing and soiling, and are ever so slightly stained. There is a small chip in the paper at the head of the spine. There are a couple..... More