Questions of Travel
New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, (1965). First edition. 8vo, blue cloth. One of 4000 copies printed. McMahon A6. More
Poetry
Collected Poems: 1923-53
New York: Noonday Press, (1954). First edition. Cloth. 8vo, yellow cloth. Inscribed by Bogan on the title page for Lee Anderson, dated 1 February 1960. In addition, Bogan has made holograph corrections to two pages, changing a letter in one instance and a word in the other. More
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Scraps of Verses; [cover title]
Washington, D.C. Howard University Press, n.d. (ca. 1923). First Edition. 8vo, unpag. chapbook in printed wrappers, stapled. The first and apparently only book by Bolton, a 1923 graduate of Howard University, comprising twelve poems. After graduating from Howard, Bolton went on to publish and edit a newspaper, The Florida Sentinel..... More
At Terror Street and Agony Way
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1968. First edition. Wraps. 8vo, 89pp; original wrappers, with printed white label on front to correct misprint in the title. One of only 800 copies in wrappers; there were also 75 hardbound copies with an original Bukowski drawing. This was Bukowski's first book with the..... More
Poems Written Before Jumping Out of an 8 Story Window
Berkeley/Glendale: Litmus/Poetry X Change, n.d. (1968). First edition. 8vo, [16] unpag.; original printed illlustrated wrappers. One of an unknown but small number of copies in the edition, a mimeo pamphlet in glossy wraps. More
The Hunting of the Snark; An Agony in Eight Fits. With Nine Illustrations by Henry Holiday
London: Macmillan and Co., 1876. First Edition. 8vo, 83pp; original pictorial cream cloth, a.e.g., coated black endpapers. A presentable copy of Carroll's great nonsense poem, distinguished by the presence of the rare pamphlet "An Easter Greeting to Every Child Who Loves 'Alice'" tipped to the front endpaper. More
The Village:; A Poem. In Two Books. . .
London: J. Dodsley, 1788. First Edition. 4to, [4] 38pp; bound in full contemporary limp vellum, gilt title on front board and double rules front and rear; white moire endpapers. The most important early work of Crabbe, which was significantly revised by Samuel Johnson. Crabbe became a significant bridge between Johnson's..... More
Forms of Distance.; Translated by David Hinton.
(New York): New Directions, (1994). First American edition. Cloth. 8vo, 87pp; violet cloth. A bilingual selection of poems by one of the major poetic voices to emerge from China in the post-Tiananmen Square era, inscribed and signed by the poet on the half title for fellow poet Quincy Troupe; signed..... More
Tribunals; Passages 31 - 35
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1970. First edition. Cloth-backed boards. Small 4to, 24pp; cloth-backed decorative boards. One of 250 numbered, hardbound copies signed by Duncan. Pamphlet of facsimiles of the poet's manuscript present in rear pocket, as issued. More
Brotherhood of Men
Pawlet, Vermont: Banyan Press, (1949). First edition. Wraps. 8vo, 11pp; original wrappers, saddle-stitched. One of 200 numbered copies, signed by Eberhart; there were also 26 lettered copies hors commerce. More
An Herb Basket
Cummington, Massachusetts: The Cummington Press, 1950. First edition. Wraps. 8vo, unpag.; pamphlet in decorative wrappers, saddle-stitched. One of only 150 copies, the entire edition. More
Brother Stones
Kyoto: Caterpillar, 1968. First edition. Cloth. 8vo, loose pages in folding cloth chemise with Japanese bone-closures. One of 250 copies, printed on Japanese mulberry paper; title page and six color woodcuts by William Paden. More
A Witness Tree
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1942. First edition. 8vo, cloth-backed decorative boards. The limited issue, one of 735 numbered copies signed by Frost, designed and printed by the Spiral Press. More
Poems 1943-1949.
Cummington, Massachusetts: The Cummington Press, (1949). First edition. Wraps. 12mo, 42pp; original unprinted laid-paper wrappers with printed spine label. One of 250 copies, the entire edition, handprinted by Harry Duncan and Wightman Williams, one of the less common of Cummington publications. More
Love Poems; With 8 Drawings by Marc Chagall.
(New York): Hemispheres, (1947). First edition. 8vo, printed wrappers. One of 600 numbered copies in the regular issue (there were an additional 40 signed copies on Velin). This copy bears a presentation inscription, signed by both Golls with their names intertwined, to Marie Bullock, the great patron of American poetry..... More
Chansons de France; Dessin de Fernand Leger.
(New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1940). First edition. 8vo, printed wrappers, sewn. One of 700 numbered copies on Chippendale Offset paper, the entire edition. A Presentation copy, inscribed by Goll on the inside front wrapper to the American patron of poetry, Marie Bullock. Part of the series called Poet's Messages..... More
Letters to Yesenin
Fremont, Michigan: The Sumac Press, (1973). First edition. Wraps. 8vo, 62pp; wrappers. One of 1000 coies in the softcover issue, this one with a presentation inscription over much of the half-title page, signed by Harrison, to poet and playwright Norman Rosten: "Dear Norman Rosten, Here is that book I promised..... More
Autograph postcard signed; "M.H.," to Gottfried Bermann, November 3, 1931
Konigsberg. -. Two sides of a plain postcard, approx. 4 X 5-3/4 in. Manfred Hausmann (1898-1986), popular and prolific writer, tells his editor at S. Fischer Verlag about a successful reading in Königsberg, and asks his opinion of a manuscript he'd recommended that a friend submit to Fischer for consideration..... More
The Autumn Garden
New York: Kermit Bloomgarden, 1950-51]. Wraps. 4to, 125 mimeograph pages, bound with two brass fasteners in printed wrappers of the Hart Stenographic Bureau. Original rehearsal script from the first production of Hellman's three-act play, produced at New York's Coronet Theatre by Kermit Bloomgarden and directed by Harold Clurman. The play..... More
A Penetential Primer
Cummington, Massachusetts: The Cummington Press, 1945. First edition. Wraps. 8vo, unpag.; original wrappers and printed wraparound label. One of 330 copies, the entire edition. More
The Fatigue; c.A.V.C. DCCLXXXIV TANTVS LABOR NON SIT CASSVS
(Cambridge: Rampant Lions Press), 1965. First edition. 8vo, wrappers. One of 298 numbered copies in the edition, entirely hors commerce, prepared in celebration of Jone's seventieth birthday. With the original prospectus laid in. More
Thoughts Occasioned by the Most Insignficant of All Human Events
Concord, New Hampshire: William B. Ewert, 1982. First edition. Boards, with cloth spine. 8vo, [10]pp; original boards. One of 36 copies bound in boards (26 lettered and 10 ad personam), signed by Kinnell; another 150 copies were issued in wrappers. More
The Mills of the Kavanaughs
New York: Harcourt, Brace, (1951). First edition. 8vo, black cloth. With an early, legible, signature by Lowell on the front flyleaf. The poet's second trade publication. More