New York: Wm. H. Wise & Co. First edition. Hardcover. Edited and originally published by Thomas B. Mosher, Portland, Maine. 12mos. Twenty-one volumes including index, (index dated 1925). A complete, matching set. Original, blue half-leather, top edges are gilt. Minor wear to all volumes with top edges of boards slightly..... More
Hartford: S. Andrus and Son, 1838. Hardcover. 252pp. Octavo [19.5 cm] Embossed brown cloth covered boards with a decorative gilt stamped spine, and a decorative vase stamped in gilt on the front board. Good only. The spine and areas of the boards are faded and heavily rubbed. Rolled spine. There..... More
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
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
New York: QWERTYUIOPress, 1968. First edition. Paperback. Issue # 3 of "City." Slim quarto [36 cm] Pictorial wraps. Legal sheets stapled at the head. Rear wrap toned and nearly detached. Helen Adam was a well known participant in the San Francisco Renaissance, influencing such poets as Jack Spicer and Robert..... More
Salt Lake City: Sugar House Review, 2016. First edition. Paperback. 107 pp. Octavo [22 cm]. 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
Counterpoint Press, 2011. Later printing. Paperback. 199pp. Octavo [21 cm]. Illustrated wraps. In this volume, American Senior Zen Roshi Robert Aitken gives new insight into Haiku by poetic masters Basho, Issa, Buson, and Shiki. In presenting themes from Haiku and from Zen literature, Aitken illuminates the relationship between the two..... 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. First edition. Paperback. Letter press edition. Handmade string bound wraps with decorative end sheets. Printed simultaneously with the hardbound edition. SIGNED by author. Limberlost Press is small fine press in Idaho. 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
Monterey, KY: Larkspur Press, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 36pp. Octavo [21 cm]. Red cloth with a paper label on the backstrip. This edition limited to 500 copies. Signed by Berry on the title page. Commentary by Wendell Berry. Beautifully designed and printed by Leslie Shane and Gray Zeitz at..... More
Salt Lake City, UT: Published by the author, 2010. First edition. Paperback. Fragile Constuctions is the fourth anthology of work to come from members of a writing workshop at the Utah Independent Living Center in Salt Lake City. The workshop, open to anyone with disabilities, began in June, 2001, under..... 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
Hailey, ID: Gypsy Scrivenver Press, 1984. First edition. Paperback. SIGNED. Thin octavo [21 cm] Stapled tan and black illustrated wraps. Very good condition. There are several small stains on the title page, else the pages are clean. Illustrated. Number 22 of 100 copies. Signed by Richard Ardinger on the limitation..... 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
Richmond, CA: Omnidawn, 2007. First edition. Paperback. 120pp. Octavo [23cm] Paperback. From the publisher: In the archives offers a lyrically rich, emotionally compelling cycle of poems that explores the alienation and longing we feel as we face the increased mechanization and frightening militarization of our present moment. In these formally..... More
New York: New Directions, 1989. Later printing. Paperback. 126pp. Octavo [20.5cm]. NEW. Paperback. From the back cover: "Black Mesa Poems is rooted in the AMerican Southwest, the setting of Jimmy Santiago Baca's highly acclaimed long narrative poem 'Martin and Meditations on the South Valley.'' The individual poems of Black Mesa..... More
New York: New Directions, 1990. Later printing. Paperback. 86pp. Octavo [20.5cm]. NEW. Paperback. From the back cover: "A new, expanded edition of Baca's best-selling first book of poetry. A number of poems from early, now unavailable chapbooks have also been included so that the reader can at last have an..... More
New York: New Directions, 1987. Later printing. Paperback. 104pp. Octavo [20.5cm]. NEW. Paperback. From the back cover: "Fiercely moving, the two long narrative poems of Martin & Meditations on the South Valley revolve around the semi-autobiographical figure of Martin, a mestizo or 'detribalized Apache.' Abandoned as a child and a...... More
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