Pocatello, ID: Dark Child Press, Circa 1982. Paperback. 175pp. Quarto [27.5 cm] Yellow and black illustrated wraps. Very good. The front cover has a small dark stain, and numerous very small light stains. Spine slightly damp stained. The rear wrap is barely perceptibly sun faded. There are several small light..... More
Ephemera. This lot includes: 1) Offprint of "The Descent." folded to make 4 pages. Reprinted from The Southern Review, Vol. V, N.S., Spring 1969, No. 2. Inscribed by author to Ruth L. Holberg. Massachusetts author Ruth Langland Holberg (1889-1984) wrote a number of children's books, two cookbooks, and several poems..... More
Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2019. First edition. Paperback. 111pp. Octavo [22.8 cm]. Illustrated taupe wraps. Hard Damage works to relentlessly interrogate the self and its shortcomings. In lyric and documentary poems and essayistic fragments, Aria Aber explores the historical and personal implications of Afghan American relations. Drawing on..... More
Salt Lake City: Sugar House Review, 2016. First edition. Paperback. 107 pp. Octavo [22 cm]. More
Whittier, California: Happy Valley Publishers, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 57 pp. Octavo. [23.5 cm]. Burgundy leather over boards with gilt stamped title on front board and spine. Inscription on the front free end paper reads, "_____, It's a pleasure to meet you. I hope you enjoy this book as..... More
Boise, ID: Limberlost Press, 1997. First edition. Paperback. Letter press poetry edition. Handmade string bound wraps with decorative end sheets. Limberlost Press is a fine press and bindery out of Idaho. Since 1986 they have issued forty-one completely handmade lettered press editions. More
Pocatello, ID: Blue Scarab Press, 2003. First edition, 1/100. Paperback. [12pp.] Octavo [21 cm] Tan stappled wrappers. Fine. This volume is forth in a series of chapbooks featuring Southeast Idaho writers under the Pocatello Blend title. More
New York: W.W. Norton, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. 137pp. [21.5 cm] New. Hardcover. In No Surrender, her final collection, Ai returns again to the form of the dramatic monologue for which she is best known. Haunting, flinty, and full of characteristic dark humor, these poems display the "raw power, jagged..... 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
St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 2005. Paperback. 93 pp. Octavo. Illustrated covers with black spine. In her fourth remarkable collection, Elizabeth Alexander voices the outcries, dreams, and histories of an African American tradition that goes back to the rebellion on the slave schooner Amistad and to the artists' canvases of..... More
Boise, ID: Limberlost Press, 2005. First edition. Wraps. Slim octavo [26 cm] Letterpress edition. Hand-set type. 850 copies were printed, 750 of which were bound in wraps as the trade edition. Hand-stitched wraps beautifully printed in blue and black over a light blue Magnani Pescia cover stock with a cover..... More
Boise, ID: Limberlost Press, 1998. Limited Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. Unpaginated. Octavo [24cm]. Black cloth over boards, with a large illustrated paper label on the front board and a small paper label on spine. Spine is a bit rolled. Beautiful salmon pink Thai Chiri endsheets. Head of spine lightly bumped. Mild..... More
Boise: Limberlost Press, 1996. First printing. Paperback. Thin octavo [24 cm] Printed pictorial wraps. Hand-stitched. Very good condition. The covers are ever so slightly soiled. There are also 5 or so very tiny stains on the covers. 1/500 letterpressed copies. The author's first volume of poetry issued by this lovely..... More
Boise, ID: Limberlost Press, 2005. First edition, 1/100 bound in cloth and boards (This copy is #65). Hardcover. SIGNED. Slim octavo [26 cm] Black cloth with large paper label on front board, and a paper title label on the backstrip. Letterpress edition. The front board is faded along the top..... More
Boise, ID: Limberlost Press, 1998. First edition, 1/100. Hardcover. [22pp.] Octavo [24 cm] Black cloth with large illustrated paper label on front board, and a small paper label on backstrip. Letterpress edition. Fine. Signed by the author and the artist on the limitation page. Collection of eleven poems. Another attractive..... More
Maplewood, NJ: Waterfront Press, 1984. First edition. Paperback. SIGNED. 95pp. Octavo. Illustrated wraps. Rubbing and mild soiling to wraps. Inscribed by Lynne Alvarez on the title page. An early publication from the poet and playwright. More
Boise, ID: Limberlost Press, 1998. First edition. Paperback. Letter press edition. Handmade string bound wraps with decorative end sheets. Limberlost Press is a fine press and bindery out of Idaho. Since 1986 they have issued many completely handmade letterpress editions. More
Coconut Books, 2012. First edition. Paperback. 74pp. Slim octavo [23 cm] Orange, white and black pictorial wraps. Hanna Andrews is co-founder of the feminist poetry press Switchback Books. More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1871. Later printing. Hardcover. 897pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Rebound. Recent endpapers and flyleaves. On spine in gilt: "Anthon's Homer." A couple of pages with tiny ink stains in the bottom margins. Brief markings in pen on several pages. Numbers in pagination routinely effaced (usually..... More
Story, WY: Dooryard Press, 1986. Limited Edition. Very slim duodecimo [21 cm] Gray wraps, printed in red and black on the front wrap, with a red string-tie binding. Near fine, with light bumping to the edges of the wraps. One of 145 copies letterpressed at the conclusion of the author's..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. 83pp. Octavo [22cm]; quarter royal blue cloth and slate gray paper over boards, title printed in green on the spine. In the original pictorial dust jacket. Previous owner's name (a noted Pacific Northwest poet and collector) is neatly written in ink..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1987. First Houghton Mifflin paperback edition. Paperback. SIGNED. 147pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] Illustrated wraps, with multiple very faint indented dot-sized marks in the front wrap. An enduring collection from one of Canada's most celebrated contemporary writers. Signed by Margaret Atwood on the half title page. More
London: Turret Books, 1967. Limited Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 47pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Bright green cloth. In the dust jacket. More
Salt Lake City: Sugar House Review, 2015. First edition. Paperback. 107 pp. Octavo [22 cm]. More