San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1961. First American Edition. Paperback. 100pp. Sextodecimo [16 cm] in wraps. Light creasing and wear to lightly toned wraps; front matter almost completely disbound. Preceded by the Villiers Press edition (London) Seven line publisher's statement on rear panel. Cook pgs. 42-43. Dowden pgs. 8-9. Pocket..... More
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1982. Fifth Printing. Paperback. SIGNED. Sextodecimo [15.5cm]. 144pp. Light wear and rubbing to black and white wraps, crease at spine. Signed and inscribed by Ginsberg on title page. More
New York and London: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. DOUBLE SIGNED. 141pp. Quarto [26 cm] in boards with gilt spine title and gilt device on front board. Light shelfwear to jacket. Security sticker to reverse of jacket. From the jacket: "Illuminated Poems is the collaboration between two..... More
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1970. First edition. Hardcover. 125pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Light blue cloth covered boards with a black ink stamped title on the spine. Near fine. The dust jacket is in very good condition. Slightly soiled, rubbed, and darkened. The edges are lightly chipped, and..... More
London: Trigram Press, 1972. Limited edition. Hardcover. Sextodecimo [16 cm] Red cloth over boards titled in silver on the spine, and with a silver stamped airplane and ship vignette on the front cover. Light blue pages printed in dark blue. Very good. The covers are warped. Number 91 of in..... More
London: Trigram Press, 1972. Limited edition. Hardcover. Sextodecimo [16 cm] Red cloth over boards titled in silver on the spine, and with a silver stamped airplane and ship vignette on the front cover. Light blue pages printed in dark blue. Very good. The covers are mildly warped. Number 82 of..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1888. First edition. Hardcover. 131pp. Duodecimo [18.5 cm] 1/4 brown cloth with decorative cloth covered boards, a gilt stamped title on the spine, and a brown ink stamped title on the front cover. Decorative endsheets. Good. The extremities are mildly darkened, rubbed and stained. The..... More
New York: Viking, 2021. First edition. Hardcover. 228pp. Octavo [21.5]. Blue boards with title stamped in gilt on spine and front cover. Amanda Gorman is the youngest presidential inaugural poet in US history. This is her first published collection of poetry. More
Hopewell, NJ: The Ecco Press, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 112pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] 1/4 blue cloth with decorative white paper covered boards and a gilt stamped title on the spine. Very good. The covers are just a tiny bit concave. The edges of the spine and covers are very..... More
New York: Ecco / HarperCollins, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 112pp. Small quarto [24.5 cm] 1/4 blue paper with white paper covered boards. Fine / Fine. Jorie Graham's collection of poetry, The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994, won the Pulitzer Prize. More
London: The Hogarth Press, 1942. 1942. Hardcover. Green cloth over boards. Original dust jacket in fine condition, price clipped. Previous owner's incription in pen on front free end paper. Ex libris stamp on back free end paper. "These three small books are published under a single cover for economy and..... More
New York: Effingham Maynard & Co. Booklet. Paperback. 42pp. Thin sixteenmo. Stapled tan and black printed wraps. Good. The covers and pages are lightly moisture stained. Page 9 is slightly soiled. There is occasional marginalia in pencil throughout the pages. The corners of the pages are lightly bumped. Perhaps as..... More
Portland, OR: Breakwater Press, 1980. Limited edition. Paperback. Thin octavo [25 cm] Stapled grayish blue printed wraps. Near fine condition. Copy 185 of 300. The paper is Strathmore Pastelle. The handset type is Bembo. More
Monterey, KY: Larkspur Press, 1980. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Approx.65pp (unpaginated). Duodecimo [18.4cm]. Yellow-brown cloth over boards with black stamped lettering. Printed textured dust jacket, primarily dark yellow-brown with black lettering. Hand-numbered limited edition, 683/750. A collection of poems written from 1968 to 1977 that are tied to the environment that..... More
Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1994. First printing. Paperback. 72pp. Octavo. Blue covers. "Like the Nevada deserts and mountains that shape and inform his sensibility, Shaun Griffin writes poems that are spare and direct, uncluttered by literary flourish or inflated self-regard. His is a struggle not merely to tell the..... More
Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2008. First printing. Paperback. 60pp. Octavo. Brown covers. "The lovely and loving reverie of a man raptly engaged with his external world these poems of wing and song and flight cross the invisible boundary between reality and dreamscape. They waft into the realm of interior..... More
San Lorenzo, CA: Shameless Hussy Press, 1974. First printing. Paperback. 47pp. Octavo [22 cm] Saddle-stitched white and black pictorial wraps. The wraps are toned, the front wrap has a small sticker stain, and the rear wrap has a small moisture stain. There is a brief gift inscription on the verso..... More
Caldwell, ID: The Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1931. Glen H. Spurgeon. First Edition, 1/100. Leather bound. 102pp. Octavo [19.5 cm] Grained green leather with gilt titles on front board and backstrip. Near fine. De Luxe Limited Edition. Signed and numbered by the author on the limitation page. Prospectus and signed photograph..... More
Boise, ID: Limberlost Press, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Letterpress poetry edition. One of twenty-six limited signed and lettered editions. Limberlost Press is a fine press and bindery out of Idaho. Since 1986 they have issued forty-one completely handmade letterpress editions. More
New York: Knopf, 1993. Advance excerpt, limited edition. Paperback. SIGNED. 80pp. Octavo [23 cm] White and red printed wraps. Very good. Very light soiling to the extremities. Signed by Gurganus on the first blank page. From the title page- "One of four novellas from a new collection, "The Practical Heart,"..... More
London: Cape Goliard, 1968. First edition thus, limited and signed. Hardcover. Small square octavo [20 cm] Pale blue cloth-effect paper over boards with a silver stamped title on the spine. With the clear dustwrapper, illustrated with a black tree design by Ambrosius Gabler. Both the book and the wrapper are..... More
Fairfax, CA: Jungle Garden Press, 1980. First edition. Paperback. Very slim octavo [21 cm] Stapled wrappers with a printed title and shoe design on the front wrapper. The fore edges of the covers and pages are cut forming the shape of the back of the high-heeled shoe design on the..... More
London: Turret Books, 1967. Limited edition. SIGNED. Thin sextodecimo [19 cm] White wraps, with a rose-colored wrapper. Turret Booklet No. 14. One of 50 copies numbered and signed by the author. Keith Harrison has signed the limitation page with the notations "No. I (written with a capital letter)" and "For..... More
