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If It Would All Please Hurry
First Edition
Amherst: Shanachie Press. Printed at Oxbow Press, 1980. Loose sheets laid into a clam-shell box. 10 engravings , six are full-page with tissue guards. A beautiful production. ISBN: 281AIB1048129.
Signed by the author and illustrator on colophon page. Limited edition, #XXIII/XXV. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine box with paper label on front.
Book ID: 263093More details Price: $1,800.00 -
In the Cemetery High Above Shillington: A Poem
First Edition
Concord, NH: William B. Ewert, 1995. [10] pages. Relief Engravings by Barry Moser printed directly from blocks. Limited to an edition of 150 copies signed by both Updike and Moser. This is one of 50 printed on Rives lightweight paper and handcased in boards. ISBN: B003XEROOK.
First edition (first printing). A fine hardcover copy; no dust jacket, as issued. Signed by both the author and the illustrator.
Book ID: 209552More details Price: $350.00 -
Fertilizing the Continent
Northridge: The Santa Susana Press, 1976. 5-3/4 by 8 inches. A short poem, printed on a single page. Published in an edition of only 12 copies. ISBN: 281AIB1041635.
Marbled paper over boards with blue cloth spine with gold lettering. A touch of wear to the spine corners else a fine hardcover copy; no dust jacket, as issued. Signed and dated by Oates on the title page. An unnumbered copy. This was publisher Herb Yellin's copy and is marked "Presentation Copy" on the colophon page.
Book ID: 209408More details Price: $350.00 -
Original Poems, and a Play
First Edition
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown, 1815. [iv], 156, [15] pages of subscribers, errata, and a terminal blank leaf. The play is Clara; or, The Nuns of Charity: A Tragic Play, in Five Acts. The poems include a section of Irish Ballads, "in the dialect spoken by the lower classes of people in the northern parts of Ireland." If you believe the Internet, Nooth was an Irish poet. This is most likely incorrect--she is probably the daughter of James and Elizabeth Nooth, born April 15, 1788, in England. As a young woman, she had some success as a writer, publishing this book and a novel the following year. Some of her poems were published in French translation. Lady Shelley (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley?) was one of the subscribers to this book. ISBN: 281AIB1030028.
First edition (first printing). A very good or better copy in the original publisher's boards. Spine label chipped, affecting the word Poems. Despite the large number of subscribers, an uncommon book. [JSP01]
Book ID: 136685More details Price: $350.00 -
Love & Fame
First Edition
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1970. 96 pages. One of a limited edition of 250 copies. All edges gilt with marbled endpapers. ISBN: 281AIB1034524.
First edition (first printing). Black ink on spine a bit worn, thus near fine; in the publisher's original acetate dust jacket with a crease down the rear cover, thus near fine. Signed by the author on the limitation pages. This copy unnumbered. Minor wear to slipcase.
Book ID: 158624More details Price: $312.50 -
A Boy's Will
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1915. 63 pages. About 5-1/4 by 7-8/4 inches. The first book of poetry by the 4-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize. ISBN: B000J50OJ8.
Second printing, with "and" corrected on page 14. White endpapers. A very good copy. Light bump to one corner wear to spine ends. Spine gilt darkened. Light spotting on title page. No dust jacket. [JSP02]
Book ID: 162854More details Price: $312.50 -
Spoor: volume one, number one
First Edition
Aberdeen, Washington: Ten Crow Press, 1980. Contains 12 poems, 4 signed monotypes by Cain, 14 woodcut or lino-cut illustrations. In addition to Cain's work there is a poem by William Brown from 'The Way to the Uncle Sam Hotel.' The work is letterpress printed on domestic etching paper and hand-sewn into lenox covers. Oblong 13 x 10 inches. ISBN: 281AIB1048716.
First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in white decorated sewn wrappers (paperback). Slight scuffing on rear from sliding in and out of envelope. In original cardboard mailing envelope from the Ten Crow Press.
Book ID: 263945More details Price: $300.00 -
Rhymes By Two Friends
First Edition
Fort Scott, KS: M. L. Izor & Son, 1893. 230 pages. One of 500 copies. ISBN: B006OCW3FS.
First edition (first printing). Light wear to spine ends, else a near fine copy. Inscribed by Paine in 1894.
Book ID: 94516More details Price: $250.00 -
Cedarhome: Poems
First Edition
Brockport, NY: BOA Editions, 1977. 37 pages. New Poets of America series, selected by Snodgrass. Sutter is a well-known Minnesota poet and this is his first book. One of 700 copies, 400 in wrappers, 300 in cloth. ISBN: 9780918526038.
First edition (first printing). A fine copy (some discoloration from glue on the verso of the endpapers) in a fine dust jacket. This is the most deluxe limitation, one of ten copies numbered with uppercase Roman numerals. This copy is signed on the title page by Sutter and at the end of the foreword by Snodgrass. Opposite the first poem, Sutter has handwritten the poem "How to Dream Up an Answer."
Book ID: 95844More details Price: $250.00 -
Give Me Back My Rags
First Edition
Portland, OR: Trace Editions, 1985. 18 leaves (two blank), printed rectos (one side) only, except for a copyright statement on the back (verso) of the title leaf. Laid into a folding cover. Limited to 600 copies. Popa was a noted Serbian poet. Simic, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, was born in Belgrade, Serbia, and grew up in Chicago. ISBN: B002SM315E.
First edition (first printing). Fine sheets laid into a near fine folder with minor edgewear. This is one of 26 lettered copies signed by Simic and Popa, with a handwritten poem by Simic written out on a blank leaf. In this case, Simic has copied out and signed his 16-line poem, "Pyramids Are Towns / for Vasko" Your humble cataloguer made a half-hearted attempt to find this poem in one of Simic's published collections, but did not locate a printed version.
Book ID: 96273More details Price: $250.00 -
Pins for Wings
First Edition
New York: The Sunrise Turn, Inc, 1920. 32 pages. Caricatures by Ivan Opffer and William Saphier. Morgan is the pen name of Harold Witter Bynner. Limited edition, 1/2000. ISBN: 281AIB1031733.
First edition (first printing). Very good in illustrated brown wrappers (paperback). Wrappers are chipped at edges.
Book ID: 142985More details Price: $218.75 -
A Set
First Edition
Lawrence, Kansas: Tansy Press, 1983. Six sheets, 17.5 x 14 inches, title page, 4 pages of poems, limitation sheet. Irby (1936-2015) was professor of English at the University of Kansas. In November, 2011, a colloquium was held at the University in honor of his work and 75th birthday. ISBN: 281AIB1050128.
Signed by the author on limitation page, #25/50 signed and numbered copies. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in blue wrappers (paperback) with title, author and publisher in red ink. Slight creasing to cover and sheets.
Book ID: 266378More details Price: $200.00 -
Spring Anti-War Games 1971
Washington, DC: (n.p.), 1971. Broadside poster, 11 by 17 inches. A poem published in the form of a poster for a May Day protest in Washington, DC, May 1 through 7, 1971. The first separate appearance of this poem, which ran in Quicksilver Times, March 17, 1971; it was later collected in Ginsberg Verbatim. Uncommon. Morgan, The Works of Allen Ginsberg, AA16. Two copies on OCLC (Northwestern, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill). ISBN: 281AIB1014451.
Printed with purple ink on light blue paper. Light, uneven toning, mostly at the top half; four horizontal creases from folding.
Book ID: 66862More details Price: $200.00 -
Moods and Memories: Poems
First Edition
New York: G. P. Putnam, 1892. 310 pages. 4-1/4 by 6-1/2 inches. The sixth book by the Louisville, Kentucky poet (1865-1914). His 1913 poem Waste Land has been identified by scholars as an inspiration to T. S. Eliot's poem The Waste Land. ISBN: 281AIB1048121.
First edition (first printing). Green cloth stamped in gold with gilt top edge. A very good hardcover copy; no dust jacket. Association copy; inscribed by the author to writer and poet James Whitcomb Riley with a poem of seven lines and the salutation "from his friend and brother-in-arms /Madison Cawein / May 12, 1892." BAL 2992.
Book ID: 263088More details Price: $200.00 -
Caterpillar: A Magazine of the Leaf, A Gathering of the Tribes. Complete set Nos. 1-20 (in 17 volumes)
First Edition
First edition (first printing). Very good copies in illustrated wrappers (paperback). Mild surface soiling. Some spines are tanned.
Book ID: 266451More details Price: $200.00 -
The Golden Whales of California and Other Rhymes in the American anguage
First Edition
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1920. 181 pages. ISBN: B009P83L0Y.
First edition (first printing). Light edge wear and minor toning to endpapers thus a near fine copy in a scarce dust jacket with some loss to the spine ends affecting text at the foot, neat handwritten titles of author's other works on rear panel. Signed by the author on the title page and dated perhaps in a separate hand in the year of publication.
Book ID: 262368More details Price: $200.00 -
Grenstone Poems: A Sequence
First Edition
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1917. 307 pages. 5-5/8 by 8-1/4 inches. With cover illustration and frontispiece by Spencer Baird Nichols. Bynner (1881-1968) was an American poet and playwright who moved with other writers and luminaries of his day, including D. H. Lawrence, Aldus Huxley, Ansel Adams, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg and Kahlil Gibran. ISBN: 281AIB1046008.
First edition (first printing). Black cloth with color illustration on front cover, and color frontispiece with tissue guard. Some edge wear thus a near fine copy in a dust jacket with several tears to the die-cut window that frames the cover illustration; tears are repaired on the verso with scotch tape. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Scarce in the jacket. A nice copy despite the condition issues.
Book ID: 243503More details Price: $200.00 -
The Serpent in the Wilderness
First Edition
New York: Sheldon Dick, 1933. 91 pages. 8-1/4 by 11-1/2 inches. Poems by the author of the Spoon River Anthology. Masters won the Robert Frost Medal issued by the Poetry Society of America in 1942. ISBN: B000FSOWD8.
First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a very good publisher's original glassine dust jacket has three very short tears at the corners. In a very good original box with paper label on cover, and worn edges including two closed tears. Signed by the author on the limitation page. One of 84 copies published with a manuscript page. [JSP01]
Book ID: 123563More details Price: $200.00 -
Blooms of the Berry
First Edition
Louisville: John P. Morton and Company, 1887. 202 pages. Jillson Rare Kentucky Books p. 157. ISBN: 281AIB1050628.
First edition (first printing). Near fine copy in blue cloth with bright gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Decorated endpapers. Some browning beginning at page edges. Mild edge wear. Bottom spine edge rolled. No dust jacket. Scarce. WorldCat locates 1 copy.
Book ID: 267281More details Price: $200.00 -
Richmond: A Dramatic Poem
First Edition
New York: Samuel French, 1934. 55 pages. Barrett H. Clark was a Canadian author. ISBN: 281AIB1048050.
Inscribed by the author on title page : "For Barrett H. Clark with warmest regards of Edgar Lee Masters November 2 -1934." First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in printed blue wrappers (paperback).Spine is tanned. Scarce title signed by author.
Book ID: 262968More details Price: $200.00