OVERNIGHT IN THE GUEST HOUSE OF THE MYSTIC
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1984. First Edition. Paperback; narrow 8vo. 51 pp. In illustrated wrappers. Extremely fine. More
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1984. First Edition. Paperback; narrow 8vo. 51 pp. In illustrated wrappers. Extremely fine. More
New York: St Martin's Press, 1975. First Edition. Blue cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 81 pp. Poet's second collection; he was a professor at The University of Bridgeport. Fine in a fine dust jacket. 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
New York: Hastings House, 1949. First Edition. Blue cloth, gold lettering; 8vo. 1348 pp. Pp. 72-80 is an essay covering the entirety of the history of American Literature written by Weldon Kees. A guidebook for the entire US. An easily very good copy lacking the dust jacket. More
Provincetown: Provincetown Arts Press, 1993. First edition. Signed by Author. Provincetown Poets Volume I, issued in blue wraps with pasted paper label; small 8vo. 68 pages. Limited to 850. Very good condition, spine lightly sunned. Narrative poems of work and landscape, with frontispiece by his wife Susan Baker. His first..... More
Location not stated: Privately published, 1946. First Edition. Tall octavo (24cm); light brown cloth, linen grain, stamped in gilt; 91pp. Boards slightly toned and worn; trivial soiling and rubbing to extremities. Light soil throughout textblock; author inscription on ffep, dated 1946. Very Good overall. Arthur Alvin was well known in..... More
New York: [Las Americas Publishing Company], 1963. First Edition. Born in the Bolivian Andes, the author Primo Castrillo emigrated to the United States in the 1920s where he made a career as a New York City architect. Nevertheless, he never ceased to write poetry, publishing numerous Spanish-language collections over the..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace, and World, 1968. First American Edition. Small octavo. Cloth-backed patterned paper boards; dustjacket; 49pp. Near Fine in lightly rubbed dustwrapper, unclipped but with price crossed out in ink and shadow from a remainder price sticker on inside front flap; Very Good. More
New York: Norton, 1975. First edition. First printing. A lovely copy, with the front flap clipped at the bottom as usual, not affecting price, and only a tiny spot of binding glue affecting the binding. More
New York: Norton, 1975. First edition. First printing. A lovely copy, with the front flap clipped at the bottom as usual, not affecting price, and only a tiny spot of glue affecting the binding. SIGNED By the poet on the title page. Light spotting to the top edge, else fine..... More
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
New York: Norton, 1983. First edition. An uncorrected proof in orange wraps with prices written in on cover (a price correction made on the first page), in what looks like the same hand (i.e. the publisher) the word "poetry" is written on the cover; pub date written in with pencil..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1977. Second Printing. Octavo (22cm); navy blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xii,292pp. Inscribed by Ammons on the half-title page: "For Julian Mason / all good wishes ever / from Archie Ammons / 10 May 86 / Old Salem."..... More
New York: Norton, 1982. First edition. Black cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 51 pp. This book has a signature which I do not believe is genuine, otherwise a fine copy. A fine copy in like dust jacket, as new. More
Madison, WI: Quixote, N.d. First Edition. Side-stapled illus. wrappers; 4to. 37 pp. Includes James Tate, “Breathing”, “A Guide to the Stone Age” and “Contagion”; Robert Francis; Cathleen Quirk; Joseph Langland; Amorosi; Paul Jenkins; Donald Junkins. Very good, covers toned, light wear. Four WorldCat listings. More
Bubbling Waters [Wixom, MI]: Labadie Shop, 1922. Edition Not Stated. Possibly unrecorded state of this collection of anarchist poetry, all other copies we have encountered, including in OCLC, listed at 64pp. Labadie, noted labor organizer and collector of anarchist ephemera, opened his tramp printing concern outside Detroit "principally for love,"..... More
Bubbling Waters [Wixom, MI]: Labadie Shop, 1922. Edition Not Stated. Labadie, noted labor organizer and collector of anarchist ephemera, opened his tramp printing concern outside Detroit "principally for love," prices of the works depending on what the customer could pay. Consequently Labadie expanded his enterprise to include job printing in..... More
San Francisco: Night Horn Press, Spring 1983. First Edition. Robert Anbian is a poet, musician, writer, journalist based in SF long involved in the political and artistic underground. Stapled illustrated wrappers; Folio. 48 pp. A literary and graphic magazine published from 1978-82. Cover collage by Paul Kwan. Poems by Juan..... More
N.p. Riverrun Press, 1986. First Edition. Signed on the title page by Jane McDill Anderson: "Love, Jane". Unpaginated in very good condition. More
Rochester, NY: Lillies & Schoolteachers, 1983. First Thus. Sewn printed wrappers; small 8vo. [12pp.] One of 100 copies, the first publication of the press of Dale Davis and Candace Lorimer. Attractively printed from Bodoni types on J. Whatman paper. Brief essay by Anderson on literary criticism orginally published in 1914..... More
Chicago: Margaret C. Anderson, 1915. First Edition. Contents include poetry and short works by Ben Hecht, Mitchell Dawson, Alexander S. Kaun, Burt Harris, Ellen Key, Witter Bynner, and others. Slim octavo (25.5cm); original taupe wrappers printed in black, with printed title label mounted to front cover; 48pp. Trivial wear to..... More
San Francisco: Margaret C. Anderson, 1916. First Edition. Contents include poetry and short works by Amy Lowell, Sherwood Anderson, Richard Hunt, Roscoe Brink, Harriet Dean, Florence Kiper Frank, Shipwith Cannell, Edgard Lee Masters, Mark Turbyfill, Padraic Colum, Mitchell Dawson, Rollo Peters, Mary Aldis, and John Gould Fletcher. Slim octavo (24.5cm);..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1925. First Edition. First printing. Regular issue, of 1000 numbered copies (this is no.853). There was a simultaneous deluxe issue of 25 signed copies. Small octavo; paper-covered boards, with printed spine and cover labels; 72pp. Mild toning and soil to covers, else a tight, Near..... More
New York: Unmuzzled Ox, February, 1972. First Edition. Stapled illustrated; small 8vo. 88 pp. With cover, logo and illustrations by R. Crumb, a long interview with James Wright, poems/letters by Ginsberg, Burroughs, Bly, Norse, Seidman, Piercy, Bukowski, Wakoski and others. "Wright" in pencil on front cover; a bit soiled, but..... More
New York: Unmuzzled Ox, Summer 1972. First Edition. Stapled illustrated; small 8vo. 57 pp. With cover by Laurie Anderson. Interview with W. H. Auden; poems by Denise Levertov, Clark Coolidge, Thomas McGrath, Ted Enslin, John Giorno, Ron Padgett, Margaret Atwood, and others. Spine sunned, else very good. More