Blantyre, Malawi: Hetherwick Press Ltd., 1971. Third (1972) Printing. Anthology published by the Writers Group in the University of Malawi, collecting 39 poems by 19 contributors, including Josephine Kaphwiyo, Nellie C. Chirwa, Scopas Gorinwa, Innocent Banda, and John A. Mapanje, et al. Slim octavo (20.75cm); printed sheets, hand-sewn into yellow..... More
Yaoundé [Cameroon]: Editions Cle, 1969. First Edition. 12mo (17.75cm.); original white and green pictorial wrappers by Philippe Ouassa; 106pp. Fine. Cameroonian poetry, text entirely in French. More
![Above the Land [Inscribed]. Julie AGOOS, James MERRILL, poems, foreword](/images/noimage.png)
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987. First Edition. The winning volume in the 1986 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition. First Printing. Octavo (24.25cm); dark green cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xiv,71,[10]pp. Signed by the author on the title page, and inscribed directly beneath: "For Phil..... More
![Text in Yiddish] Mi-ma'amakim: Lider un Sonetn / Des Profondeurs de l'Abime: Poêmes et Sonnets....](/pictures/medium/43760.jpg?v=1554848364)
[Paris: "Di Goldene Pave" 1953]. First Edition. Octavo (25cm.); publisher's cream printed card wrappers; 165pp. Light shelf wear, tiny chip at top edge of upper cover, errata slip laid in with subsequent offsetting, else Very Good and sound. Text entirely in Yiddish. Poetry collection by the Polish-born Israeli author. More
![Among the Lost People [Inscribed]. Conrad AIKEN](/pictures/medium/21235.jpg?v=1529353302)
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); original cloth in decorative blue-grey price-clipped dust jacket, grey topstain; [10],292pp. Considerable tape reinforcement to jacket verso mostly unnoticeable to exterior, spine rather toned, else a Very Good, sound copy in the scarce dust jacket. Warmly inscribed and signed by..... More
New York: Duell, Sloan, and Pearce, 1947. First Edition. Aiken's narrative poem about William Blackstone of Boston, Massachusetts. First Printing. Octavo; tan cloth, with titles stamped in blue on spine; dustjacket; 32, [4]pp. Some offsetting from flaps onto endpapers, else Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped, with hint of..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1963. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); original embossed boards in green pictorial price-clipped dust jacket printed in blue; [6],130pp. Residue from previously removed label to upper jacket cover, spine a bit faded, a few shallow chips to extremities, else Near Fine in About Very Good jacket..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916. First Edition. Octavo (20cm.); original limp drab boards, spine lettered in black; green-grey pictorial dust jacket; [10],90,[2]pp. Jacket spine entirely perished, flap folds tender, especially that of upper flap; About Very Good in exceedingly fragile, incomplete dust jacket. Forms part of the New Poetry Series..... More
![Thee: A Poem [Limited Edition, Signed]. Conrad AIKEN, Leonard BASKIN, poem, illustrations](/pictures/medium/39693.jpg?v=1532038801)
New York: George Braziller, 1967. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 100 numbered copies signed by the illustrator, this being copy no.24. Octavo (25.75cm); sage green paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in black; publisher's original illustrated paper-covered slipcase; [24]pp; illus. Additionally signed by Aiken on the half-title page. Fine in..... More
DeRidder, LA: Energy BlackSouth Press, [1976]. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (21cm.); original tan printed staplebound wrappers; unpaged. Fine. Errata slip laid in. Hoo-Doo Chapbookseries, no. 1 of a projected 13 volumes. African-American author's first poetry collection, published by Amos Zu-Bolton's Energy BlackSouth Press. More
![Utter Lies [Limited Edition]. Harvey ALBERT](/pictures/medium/39978.jpg?v=1554155936)
[Grenada, MS]: Salt-Works Press, [1983]. First Edition. `. Limited to 300 copies. Octavo (22.5cm.); publisher's red pictorial stitched wrappers; unpaginated. Fine condition. More
![Exile and Other Poems [Limited Edition]. Richard ALDINGTON](/pictures/medium/34578.jpg?v=1529353777)
Boston: Four Seas Company, 1924. First American Edition. Limited to 200 copies. Slim octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's boards, yellow printed label mounted to upper cover, white dust jacket lettered in light green; 61pp. Jacket a bit dust-soiled and toned along extremities, some general edge wear including tiny closed tears and one..... More
Boston: The Four Seas Co., 1919. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm). Decorated paper-covered boards with printed paper title labels; dustjacket; 94pp. A tight, unworn copy, very Near Fine. In original printed dustwrapper, complete and just lightly soiled and worn, but with old kraft-paper reinforcements to verso. Presumed later issue jacket, with..... More
Boston: The Four Seas Co., 1919. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm). Decorated paper-covered boards with printed paper title labels; dustjacket; 94pp. 1" x 1/4" coffee-colored stain to margin front free endpaper (and extending very faintly onto half-title); else a tight, clean and attractive copy. In original printed dustwrapper, complete and just..... More
Houston: Arte Público Press, 1980. First Edition. First printing. Octavo; pictorial card wrappers (softcover); 76pp. Inscribed by Algarín on half-title, to Mark: "To listen is to reveal what words intend, to read is to lift off the page what words sound and how they hit emotions," signed, undated. Covers slightly..... More
Detroit: Broadside Press, 1972. First Edition. The author's fifth book, a collection of spiritual and Afro-centric poems. Alhamisi was a prominent voice in the Black Arts Movement, guest editing publications like Black Dialogue and the Journal of Black Poetry, and a poet whose use of Islamic iconography and Muslim themes..... More
Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1967. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound card wrappers; 25pp. Trivial external wear; a Near Fine copy. Chapbook of revolutionary poems by the prominent New Zealand communist author and sinophile. More
N.p. S.i., 1967. Early edition of this epic poem by the Denver poet, activist, and former professional boxer. Originally self-published in mimeographed format in 1967, Gonazles's epic poem was a major inspiration to the Chicano movement, providing them with both a sense of nationalism and identity. The text is complimented..... More
New York: Monthly Review Press, 1973. First Edition. First published collection by this important Puerto Rican poet, including the title poem "Puerto Rican Obituary" - Pietri's best-known work, and something of an anthem for the Nuyorican Poetry movement. Pietri (1944-2004) was a co-founder, with Miguel Piñero and Miguel Algarín, of..... More
![Collected Poems, 1951-1971 [Signed Bookplate Laid In]. A. R. AMMONS](/pictures/medium/22036.jpg?v=1529353333)
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, [1972]. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); original cloth in photographically illustrated dust jacket; xvii,[3],396pp. About Fine. Signed bookplate laid in. Collection for which Ammons would be awarded his first National Book Award for Poetry. More
![Diversifications: Poems [Signed Bookplate Laid In]. A. R. AMMONS](/pictures/medium/22026.jpg?v=1529353332)
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, [1975]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original cloth in pictorial dust jacket; xii,[2],98pp. About Fine. Signed bookplate laid in. Poetry collection by the winner of the 1973 National Book Award for Poetry for his Collected Poems. More
![Sphere: The Form of a Motion [Signed Bookplate Laid In]. A. R. AMMONS](/pictures/medium/22035.jpg?v=1529353333)
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, [1974]. First Edition. Octavo (22.75cm.); original cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 79pp. Top textblock edge foxed, else About Fine. Signed bookplate laid in. Long poem by the winner of the 1973 National Book Award for Poetry for his Collected Poems. More
![Uplands: New Poems [Signed Bookplate Laid In]. A. R. AMMONS](/pictures/medium/22024.jpg?v=1529353332)
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, [1970]. First Edition. Octavo (21.75cm.); original cloth in photographically illustrated dust jacket; x,[2],68pp. Jacket extremities a bit rubbed, tiny tears to spine foot. Fine in Very Good or better jacket. Signed bookplate laid in. The author would win the National Book Award for Poetry..... More
Tuscon, AZ: The Match! n.d. but ca.1970's. Vietnam-era poetry broadside, printing the second and third stanza's of Charles W. Wood's much-anthologized anti-war poem "I Guess I Won't Enlist," which first appeared in the June, 1916 issue of The Masses. Printed by Fred Woodworth, long-time editor of the Anarchist journal The..... More
[Red Wing, MN]: Red Dragonfly Press, 2002. First Edition. Limited to 100 hand-printed copies. 12mo (17.5cm.); publisher's decorative side-stitched self-wrappers printed in brown and black. Fine condition. Keepsake printed on the occasion of a poetry reading at the Anderson Center in Red Wing, Minnesota, featuring authors Freya Manfred, John Calvin..... More
