Now With His Love
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. First edition. 8vo, black cloth. More
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Sparrow 49-60
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1977. First edition. 8vo, unpag.; cloth, with printed label. Collected publication of the then most recent dozen of the publisher's occasional pamphlets, issued here in a limited, autographed edition, nearly every individual pamphlet signed by its author, with the exceptions of Charles Reznikoff and Paul..... More
Brooklyn Manhattan Transit; a Bouquet for Flatbush
New York: Totem Books, (1960). First edition. Wraps. 8vo, unpag. pamphlet; wrappers. More
The Dissolving Fabric
[Palma de Mallorca]: The Divers Press, 1955. First Edition. 8vo, unpag. in wrappers with a cover made of silkscreened newspaper. The poet's first book, and a notoriously fragile publication. The cover design by Dan Rice was screen printed by Arthur Okamura. More
Early Selected y Mas; Poems 1949-1966
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1972. First Edition. 8vo, 129pp; printed wrappers. One of 1500 copies in wrappers. More
In, On, Or About the Premises; Being a Small Book of Poems . . .
New York: Grossman, 1968. First edition. Wraps. 8vo, unpag; original wrappers and clear plastic jacket. One of 3500 softcover copies, this one having been inscribed and signed "Blackburn" on the front flyleaf to Hans Gerth, the emigre sociologist and old friend of Blackburn's from his Madison, Wisconsin days. More
In. On. Or About the Premises; Being a Small Book of Poems
London: Cape Goliard Press, 1968. First edition. Boards. 8vo, unpag., illustrated; original decorated boards. One of 1400 case-bound copies. More
Proensa; From the Provençal of Guillem de Peitau, Arnaut de Mareuill, Raimbautz de Vaqueiras, Sordello, Bernart de Ventadorn, Peire Vidal, Bertran de Born
(Palma de Mallorca): The Divers Press, 1953. First Edition. Small 4to, unpag. in printed stiff French-fold wrappers. A decent copy of Blackburn's first book and the inaugural book of Robert Creeley's Divers Press. The poems are translations from the medieval French troubadours that Blackburn undertook with the encouragement of Ezra..... More
Sing - Song
New York: Caterpillar, (1967). First edition. Wraps. 4to, printed wrappers, stapled. One of 300 multilithed copies. More
From Jordan's Delight
New York: Arrow Editions, (1937). First edition. 8vo, pale blue cloth. The well-known critic's first book of poems, this collection was printed by Walter L. Goodwin Jr. and Bruce Gentry at the Rydal Press in Santa Fe, New Mexico. this copy has been inscribed by Blackmur on the front endpaper..... More
The Good European; and Other Poems
Cummington, Massachusetts: The Cummington Press, 1947. First edition. Cloth-backed boards. 8vo, 39pp; cloth-backed original decorative boards with prined spine label. One of270 numbered copies, out of the total edition of 310. More
The Moth Poem
San Francisco: Open Space, (1964). First edition. Wraps. 8vo, unpag; original wrappers. One of only 300 copies in the edition; the poet's first book. More
Edible Fire
Milwaukee, WI: Morgan Press, 1978. First edition. 4to, unpag.; boards, with printed paper panel, visible through a droplet-shaped cutout in the plain gray dust jacket. One of 500 copies, the entire edition, inscribed on the title page: "To Russell Edson - my favorite outrageous human eyesore petkeeper, Douglas Blazek, Sacramento..... More
Lethal Paper; Stone Chapbook No. 3
Norwich, Ct. The Stone Press, (1974). First Edition. Small 8vo, unpag. chaobook in plain wrappers, stapled, with printed dust jacket. An uncommon collection, here in a nice association copy, inscribed affectionately by Blazek to fellow poet Russell Edson. More
Turkey and the Armenian Atrocities; . . .With an Introduction by Miss Frances E. Willard. . . Profusely Illustrated
NP: [M.J. Coghlan, 1896]. First edition? 8vo, 574pp, folding map; original light green pictorial cloth, stamped in black, red, silver and gilt. Contemporary account of the Hamidian massacres, the precursor to the 1915 Armenian genocide. More
Jumping Out of Bed; . . .Wooodcuts by Wang Hui-Ming.
Barre, Massachusetts: Barre Publishers, 1973. First Edition. Small 4to, unpag.; printed wrappers. An excellent presentation copy, with a lengthy inscription and drawing (a cow leaning against a barn) for fellow poet Russell Edson. In addition, Bly has made a small ink emendation of the text in one of the illustrations..... More
Silence in the Snowy Fields
Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, (1962). First edition. 8vo, 60pp; wrappers. The poet's first collection of poems, inscribed to a fellow poet on the half-title: "For Christopher Middleton, With much admiration - and silence in railway stations - Robert Bly." Loosely inserted is a copy of Bly's 1961 "A Broadsheet..... More
The Teeth Mother Naked at Last
(San Francisco): City Lights Books, (1970). First edition. 12mo, 22pp; wrappers. Signed by Bly, with a doodle, in 1971. Number 26 in the Pocket Poets series. More
The Lion's Tail and Eyes; Poems written out of laziness and silence
Madison, Minnesota: The Sixties Press, 1962. First edition. 8vo, 45pp; blue cloth. Uncommon clothbound issue of the early collection that appeared at about the same time as Bly's first solo collection, Silence in the Snowy Fields. This copy nicely inscribed and signed by Bly on the front flyleaf: "For David..... More
Saramatische Zeit; Gedichte
Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, n.d. (1961). First Edition. Small 8vo, 86pp; illustrated boards. The poet's first book, inscribed -- though not signed -- by Bobrowski: "zum bleibenden Gedächtnis" beneath an ink drawing of a standing figure that occupies the entire upper left quadrant of the title page. The unnamed recipient was..... More
Schattenland Ströme; Gedichte
Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, (1962). First Edition. Small 8vo, 90pp; illustrated boards. Inscribed by Boborowski on the front flyleaf to the poet and translator Christopher Middleton, signed "J.B." Loosely inserted are the publisher's promotional flyer and two pages of Middleton's handwritten notes for a review, apparently for the Times Literary Supplement..... More
Schattenland Ströme; Gedichte
Berlin: Union Verlag, (1963). First East German edition. Small 8vo, 92pp; white linen stamped in blue. Nicely inscribed on the front flyleaf: "Für Christopher Middleton mit herzlichen Wünschen, Johannes Bobrowski , am Tag seines* [*ersten] Besuches in Friesdrichshagen." A nice copy of Bobrowski's second substantial collection. More
Bringing Jazz!
New York: Horace Liveright, 1930. First edition. 8vo, [70]pp; cloth-backed pictorial boards. Poems meant to be set to music by the dissolute denizen of the Greenwich Village scene. More