A VERY PARTICULAR HILL
Edinburgh: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1963. First Edition. Illustrated wraps over stapled card covers; oblong 8vo. Illustrations by Alexander McNeish. Near fine. More
Edinburgh: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1963. First Edition. Illustrated wraps over stapled card covers; oblong 8vo. Illustrations by Alexander McNeish. Near fine. More
San Francisco: n.p., 1960. First Thus. 28 pp. Small pamphlet. Pirated edition of his poems. This issue with 50 cents printed on the otherwise blank back cover. Staples tarnished, otherwise fine in stapled wrappers. More
Buffalo: Friends of the University Libraries, December 1982. First edition. Single sheet folded. Christmas card with an original poem of three four line stanzas; one of 2000 published with 50 numbered and signed. This copy not numbered, but signed twice below the poem and on the back panel. Not otherwise..... More
Berkeley CA: Berkeley Poets' Workshop, 1974. First edition. Signed by Author. Stapled illustrated wrappers; 8vo. 32 pp. Signed on the title page by the Author. Ostriker's second collection. Extemities toned, else a lovely copy. Very good. More
Cleveland. Zero Edition, 1976. Second Zero Edition; "an offense fund reprint." [40 pp.] Cover photos by Mark Kaufman. Green mimeographed sheets staple bound into pictorial covers. The first edition published as mimeographed 8 1/2 x 11 sheets was published in 1968. One nick on back cover, else fine. More
Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1968. First edition. Original wrappers; small 8vo. The poet's signed "With the Compliments of" card laid in. The third collection by this important critic and professor of poetry maybe best known for his Book Of Forms, published in the same year and still in print..... More
New York: Knopf, 1998. First edition. The tail of the jacket has a short tear and about 1/2" is crushed (not the binding) (in removable protective archival cover). More
Buffalo: Frontier Press, 1964. First Edition. Paperback in photographic glossy wraps. Single issue; square 8vo; 70 pp. Quarterly review, this summer 1964 issue with a photo of Olson on the cover and work from Olson, Robert Creeley, LeRoi Jones, and others. Interior clean but toned; wraps are sturdy but with..... More
London: Anvil press, 1968. First Edition. Stapled illustrated wrappers; 8vo. 20 pp. Chapbook of poems, one of 200 printed copies, supposedly numbered; this copy not numbered, nor one of the 50 signed issues. The poet's first book. Very good. More
[New York]: Knopf, [1990s]. First Edition. Postcard from Knopf Poetry’s Poems to Go! Series. 4” x 6” loose/unbound glossy postcard. With a photo of the poet and the poem on the front. Fine. More
[New York]: Knopf, [1990s]. First Edition. Van Duyn was an Iowa poet who won the Pulitzer Prize and served as the first female U.S. poet laureate. Postcard from Knopf Poetry’s Poems to Go! Series. 4” x 6” loose/unbound glossy postcard. With a photo of the poet and the poem on..... More
[New York]: Knopf, 1997. First Edition. Postcard from Knopf Poetry’s Poems to Go! Series. 4” x 6” loose/unbound glossy postcard. With a photo of the poet and the poem on the front. Fine. More
[New York]: Knopf, [1990s]. First Edition. Postcard from Knopf Poetry’s Poems to Go! Series. 4” x 6” loose/unbound glossy postcard. With a photo of the poet and the poem on the front. Fine. More
Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1990. First Canadian Edition. Blue cloth covered boards in photographic jacket. Some toning to endpapers. Clean text throughout. Crisp and clean dj. Near fine/fine. More
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1980. First Edition. Green cloth covered boards in photographic dust jacket. 8.5" x 9.5"; 72 pages. Photographs by Lynn Swigart, interview by Paul Sherman, and foreword by George Butterick. Dust jacket not price clipped; in protective mylar cover. Some wear to boards; rubbing to..... More
[Austin]: Cuneiform Press, 2011. First Edition. Photographic card covers; 4to. 90 pp. w/ index. First edition. Foreword by Basil King and introduction by Kyle Schlesinger. Clean and unmarked text. Minor rubbing to bottom tip and corner, else fine. More
Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1986. First U.S. Edition. Uncorrected proof in blue printed wrappers (there was an issue in white wrappers); 8vo. 441 pp. A novel by the author of A VERY PRIVATE GENTLEMAN made into the George Clooney vehicle THE AMERICAN. Booth was a prolific writer of nonfiction, fiction..... More
Chicago: The Modern Poetry Association, July 1982. First Edition. Stapled printed wrappers; small 8vo. pp. 187-247. Signed by Mary Karr who contributes five poems. Solid issue with Stafford, McPherson, Dave Smith, Ed Hirsch, Sadoff and Barry Yourgrau (first appearance) among others. Spine sunned, lightly worn, easily very good. More
Oxford, UK and Charleston, SC: Verse, 1985. First Edition. Stapled yellow wrappers; small 8vo. 53 pp. Poetry magazine with UK & US editors; this copy signed by two contributors: Galway Kinnell and Robert Pinsky. A. R. Ammons, Christopher Middleton, Douglas Dunn, Elizabeth Spires and others, with reviews and editor Henry..... More
Santa Barbara: Little Square Review, Spring-Summer 1972. First Edition. Card covers stapled into blue printed wrappers; square 12mo. 48 pp. Signed by Robert Pinsky at his contribution of seven poems which precede his first collection (although not a work of criticism). The final issue, and seemingly amongst scarcest, certainly signed..... More
Santa Barbara: Little Square Review, Spring-Summer 1972. First Edition. Card covers stapled into blue printed wrappers; square 12mo. 48 pp. Signed by Robert Pinsky at his contribution of seven poems which precede his first collection (although not a work of criticism). This copy additionally inscribed (it seems likely to a...... More
[New York]: Apology, 2013, 2015. First Edition. Illustrated wrappers; 8vo. Two volumes (of four published to date); both signed by contributor Eileen Myles. A hip somewhat edgy mag, with literature (besides Myles, Reverdy, Richard Kern, Sam Gross and Will Oldham), interviews (Jackie Collins and George Will), essays, reportage, humor, photography..... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1976. First Edition. Single sheet folded twice to thin 4to. A keepsake from Arion Press printed in two colors with a poem in Italian translated by Hoyem. One hundred copies "For the Friends of the Poets at the Arion Press - Con Amore". Covers with some..... More
N.P. Half-Ass Press, Circa 1970. First Edition. Stapled illustrated wrappers; 53 pp. Edited by George Dicaprio and Brad Stark. Staples rusty, minor soiling, good or better. More