ALEXANDER Literary Firsts & Poetry RARE BOOKS. CATALOGUE FORTY-FIVE: Misc. Literature, mostly Poetry

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1 ALEXANDER Literary Firsts & Poetry RARE BOOKS CATALOGUE FORTY-FIVE: Misc. Literature, mostly Poetry

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3 Catalogue Acker, Kathy. MY MOTHER: DEMONOLOGY. New York: Pantheon, First edition. Uncorrected proof in blue printed wrappers. The usual edgy fction from Acker. Near fne. [6468] $ Ackerman, Diane; w/nancy Steele, and Jody Bolz. POEMS. Ithaca: StoneMarrow Press, First Edition. Illustrated wrappers. Precedes Ackerman's frst regularly published book by three years. Published by poet James Bertolino in an edition of 500; all three poets were Cornell graduates. Inscribed to Burt (Britten), with two spelling corrections to one poem. Quite scarce signed. Burt Britten was a well-known NYC bookseller. Light toning and creasing, but easily very good. [144] $ A i. Greed. New York: Norton, First Edition. Red cloth in dust jacket; small 8vo. The poet's ffth book, briefy inscribed by the poet, signed and dated in Fine in a fne dust jacket. [2434] $ Aiken, Conrad. THE CLERK'S JOURNAL: Being the Diary of a Queer Man; an Undergraduate Poem Together With a Brief Memoir of Harvard, Dean Briggs and T.S. Eliot. New York: The Eakins Press, First edition. Decorated papers and half red cloth; 4to. 26 pp., plus 20 additional pages of facsimile of Aiken's original manuscript written as an undergraduate and here frst published. One of 300 signed and numbered copies printed on Zerkall Butten paper, bound by hand; printed at the press of David Godine. Fine copy in a soiled slipcase with residue of an old price sticker. Else fne, and a wonderful and early production from David Godine. [6773] $ Aiken, Conrad. THE MORNING SONG OF LORD ZERO: Poems Old and New. New York: Oxford University Press, First edition. 130 pp. In teal boards, decorated cover. Toning to the edges, otherwise about fne in like dust jacket (spine-faded, but no chips or tears). [4131] $ Aldington, Richard. IMAGES - OLD AND NEW. Boston: Four Seas, First Edition. Plain boards in green printed dust jacket. 47 pp. The poet's second book. Spine faded and with lightly chipped head and tail, else about fne. Nice copy of a fragile book; protected with removable mylar covers. Kershaw A2. [6978] $50.00

4 7. Ali, Agha Shahid; Dillard, R. H. W. (ed.). THE HOLLINS CRITIC Vol. XLIII, No. 2 "Separation's Geography": Agha Shahid Ali's Scholarship of Evanescence. Hollins College, VA: Hollins University, April First Edition. Stapled self-wraps with drawing of the poet Ali on the front cover. 24 pp. Much of this periodical is devoted to an essay on Agha Shahid Ali by Amy Newman; published after his death. Includes additional work including poems by Carol Ann Davis and Dara Weir. Fine, with original subscriber mailing label. [13651] $ Ammons, A.R. WORLDLY HOPES. New York: Norton, First edition. Black cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 51 pp. Signed by the author on the title page. A fne copy in like dust jacket. [13619] $ Armantrout, Rae. EXTREMITIES. Berkeley: The Figures, First Edition. Original wraps; 8vo. One of 500 copies of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet's frst book. Specially signed by the poet. Minor toning, rubbing and wear. A very good plus copy. [12249] $ Ashbery, John. AND THE STARS WERE SHINING. New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, First Edition. Inscribed by the poet "For Nick [Delbanco] and Elena/ Love. John 2/1/1994". Fine in a fne dust jacket with a hint of toning to verso edges. [7328] $ A s h b e r y, J o h n. AS UMBRELLAS FOLLOW RAIN. Lenox, MA: Qua Books, First Edition. Blue cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. This one of the regular issue specially signed by the author on the title page. (There was a limited edition numbered and signed.) Qua was a short-lived press edited by Michael Gizzi and Craig Watson. Quite scarce signed. Fine in fne dust jacket. [13620] $250.00

5 AlexanderRareBooks.com (919) p Ashbery, John. SUNRISE IN SUBURBIA. New York: The Phoenix Book Shop, First Edition. Sewn card covers in decorated wrappers, with paper label; oblong 12mo. Letter B of 26 copies (of 126 total) signed by the author. Additionally inscribed on the title page "For C. W. Warmly/ John Ashbery/ May 3, 1998". Printed at the Ferguson Press, Cambridge. Fine. [13137] $ Auden, W. H. THREE SONGS FOR ST. CECILIA'S DAY. New York: Privately Printed, First Edition. Blue wrappers sewn with blue cord; 12mo. A Christmas Greeting from Caroline Newton published with Auden's permission. A small printing for an A item and a major poet. Bloomfeld & Mendelson A25. Light wrinkling and very lightly toned, "L-D-7" in ink on front leaf, else near fne. [12021] $ Auden, W. H. & Christopher Isherwood. THE ASCENT OF F6: A Tragedy in Two Acts. New York: Random House, First U.S, edition. Coarse beige cloth with red and gilt stamped cover in dust jacket; 8vo. The U.S. edition is substantially revised; Auden considered this to be the defnitive edition. One of 1500 copies, all printed, and a smaller printing than the Faber which quickly went into a new edition, and reprints. Bloomfeld A12b. A lovely copy with trace of old ink price on ffep, else near fne, in a complete jacket with minor soiling and toning else near fne. [11662] $ Baraka, Imiri. BUSHWACKED: A Counterfeit Presidency for a Fake Democracy. Newark: Unity & Struggle, First Edition. Stapled photographic wrappers; 12mo. 19 pp. Signed by the poet/activist. Essays on the "the good old days" (doesn't it seem!). Fine copy. [13653] $25.00

6 16. Baxter, Charles. CHAMELEON. New York: New Rivers Press, First edition. 8vo. Illustrated card wrappers. Signed by Baxter on the title page. Illus. by Mary Minor. First book by the noted novelist and short story writer. A bit of soiling and rubbing to the extremities, slight darkening of the spine, easily very good. One of 500 copies. Because his frst novel was a decade away his frst two books - both poetry - are uncommon, especially signed. 87 pp. [10375] $ Baxter, Charles. THE SOUTH DAKOTA GUIDEBOOK. New York: New Rivers Press, First edition. Blue cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 86 pp. One of only 200 copies in cloth (there were 400 in paper) of the writer's second book a substantial collection of poems, published by the same publisher as his frst collection, and all more than a decade before his frst fction was published. Signed and dated in 2011 by the poet. Very light wear to ends, still fne in a bright dust jacket with a few small closed tears and a small pencil eraser-sized chip near the spine. Quite scarce signed. [12020] $ Baxter, Charles. WEST OF ELY. New York: New Rivers Press, First edition. Tape-bound paper wrappers. [31 pp.] Two poems by Baxter, also, poems by Alvin Greenberg, C. W. Truesdale, John Knoepfe, Jim Hiner, and Arthur Bradley. Precedes by nearly two years Baxter's frst book which was published by the same press. Lightly creased else easily very good. [11340] $ Beckett, Samuel. POEMS IN ENGLISH. New York: Grove Press, First U.S. Edition. Green cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. Attractive copy in unusually bright, complete (not price-clipped; $2.75) near fne dust jacket with just the lightest edgewear; the top edge of cloth lightly soiled, else fne. [12959] $ Beecher, John. COLLECTED POEMS, New York: Macmillan, First edition. Inscribed: "For Ray Roberts/ The Friendship of John Beecher" and dated April 25, Roberts was Beecher's editor at Macmillan, so an excellent association. Beecher was a descendent of the abolitionist Beechers, and a notable poet/journalists writing about social injustice. A near fne copy in a like dust jacket with a crease on the front fap, and a small closed tear. Cheaply (so called perfect bound) made, thus somewhat uncommon in this condition. [7171] $ Beecher, John. IN EGYPT LAND. Scottsdale: Ramparts, First edition. Red cloth, black printed paper labels. 8vo. 29 pp. One of 100 copies (of 400 total) signed and numbered (copy #1) by the author. Fine copy attractively printed; in the original acetate covers. [10793] $100.00

7 AlexanderRareBooks.com (919) p Beecher, John. PHANTOM CITY. Scottsdale: Ramparts, First edition. Black cloth, blue printed paper labels. 8vo. 33 pp. One of 100 copies (of 400 total) signed and numbered (#30) by the author. Fine copy attractively printed; new acetate covers replacing the original. [10792] $ Berg, Stephen. NOTHING IN THE WORD: Versions of Aztec Poetry. New York: Mushinsha/Grossman, First edition. Quarter cloth in dust jacket; 4to. Hand-bound and printed in Japan, with handmade papers used for the cover and end papers. Five full-page watercolor collages by Samuel Maitin are reproduced in letterpress. The dust jacket is worn: rubbed and chipped, though with no paper loss. Near fne in very good dust jacket. [2530] $ Berge, Carol. SECRETS, GOSSIP & SLANDER. New York: I. Reed Books, First Edition. Trade paperback original; 8vo. 234 pp. A novel published by Ishmael Reed's publishing company. Online sources refer to an academic scandal breaking with the publication of this novel which "for these in the know" was only vaguely disguised nonfction. Regardless, the writer and teacher became an antique dealer in New Mexico where she died in 2006, soon after publication of this book; and did not publish for many years. An easily very good copy, with minor stains and creasing. [13652] $ B e r k s o n, B i l l. THE FAR FLOWERED SHORE. Austin, TX: Cuneiform Press, First Edition. Three volumes in slipcase; 8vo. The Far Flowered Shore notebooks were reproduced as full-color, hardcover, facsimiles by Cuneiform Press. The 2006 and 2010 notebooks covering two trips that Berkson and Connie Lewallen made to Kyoto and Tokyo, are accompanied by a third volume containing a transcript of the text typeset in Bulmer. Housed in a slipcase produced by Craig Jenson at BookLab II, one hundred copies were produced. As new. Hardcover (issued without a dust jacket). [12136] $125.00

8 Scarce mimeo signed 26. Berrigan, Ted. A FEELING FOR LEAVING. New York: Frontward Books, First edition. Stapled mimeographed sheets with hand-colored covers (as issued) by Rochelle Kraut. (Frontward Books were published by Bob Rosenthal and Rochelle Kraut.) One of 403 total copies. This copy inscribed "For Bob in NYC/with affection,/ Ted Berrigan/ 16 May 79.". Light wear and toning to the edges, easily very good. [10492] $ Berrigan, Ted. PARIS, FRANCES. Grindstone City, MI: The Alternative Press, [1982]. First edition. Postcard broadside printing an eight-line poem by Berrigan. This copy signed and dated in the year of publication by the poet. From Poetry Postcards Series Two of Ken Mikolowski's press a manila envelope with 10 postcards (not issued signed). Frances according to Alice Notley (in Collected Poems of TB) was Anne Waldman's mother. Printed impression of an airplane in background. This is a fne copy; rare signed. [10531] $ Berrigan, Ted & Anne Waldman. MEMORIAL DAY. New York: Poetry Project, St. Mark's, First edition. Stapled mimeograph w/ light blue front and rear sheets. Signed by both authors. Unknown quantity, but created for a Memorial Day reading at St. Mark's, work on which they collaborated mostly by mail, and "orchestrated [according to Waldman]...with great intentionality (pretty much alternating lines)". Cover by Donna Dennis. Fischer pp Covers a bit toned, else near fne. Not commonly found signed by both authors. [10255] $400.00

9 AlexanderRareBooks.com (919) p Berrigan, Ted & Joe Brainard. MANY HAPPY RETURNS. New York: Corinth Press, First edition. Illustrated wrappers. One of only 50 copies, signed and numbered (#40) by the poet Berrigan and cover artist Brainard. There were 1500 printed, none in hardcover. Designed by Joan Wilentz, wife of the publisher Ted Wilentz. A few small spots on the colophon page, bottom tip of all pages lightly creased, minor wear; easily very good. [10259] $ Berrigan, Ted; Anselm Hollo. VORT #2 Anselm Hollo Ted Berrigan Number. [Silver Springs, MD]: Barry Alpert, First edition. Vol. 1, No. 2. Stapled mimeograph sheets copied on rectos only in brown card covers. 44 pp. Consisting entirely of interviews with Hollo and Berrigan. An interview conducted by Alpert with Ted Berrigan in Chicago and with Hollo in Indiana, both in VORT, using the same general format, lasted for nine issues. Back cover irregularly cut (by the binder), last sheet showing a bit of handling, but easily very good. Clay/Phillips p [10490] $ Berryman, John. BERRYMAN'S SONNETS. New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, First edition. Black cloth in dust jacket; square 8vo. 115 pp. A review copy with review slip laid in. 115 sonnets mostly written and rewritten according to Charles Thornbury the editor of his Collected Poems in 1947, two decades before they were published, about an illicit love affair with "Lise" (his notebook displayed at an exhibit at the University of MN in 1990, is entitled "Sonnets to Chris" and dated May-July 1947). In mostly strict Petrarchian form his diction is distinctly his own. Although these poems are not related to his Dream Songs, there is a prefatory poem in the persona of Mr. Bones. A near fne copy in a near fne dust jacket, lightly age-toned and edgeworn. Stefanik A13.I.a. [1253] $75.00 Cloth issue not recorded by bibliographer 32. Berryman, John. COLUMBIA POETRY New York: Columbia University Press, First Edition. Green cloth with paper spine label; 12mo. 45 pp. Berryman's frst book appearance. His bibliographer notes only stiff blue-green wrappers, but other copies seem to exist that were contemporaneously bound in cloth. Spine label worn; bookplate on ffep, else very good. Stefanik B1 Hardcover (issued without a dust jacket). [13621] $ Berryman, John. THE DISPOSSESSED. New York: Sloane, First edition. Blue cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 103 pp. The poet's frst major collection. Shelfwear else fne in a worn at extremities (small loss at crown) very good and complete (not price-clipped) dust jacket. Stefanik A4. [13624] $200.00

10 34. Berryman, John. HIS THOUGHT MADE POCKETS & THE PLANE BUCKT. Pawlet, Vt.: Claude Fredericks, First Edition. Thin 8vo. Sewn cream wrappers. Number 288 of 500 copies (526 in total), with the original printed envelope. The book was printed and handbound at Fredericks' private press. This was the frst publication or frst book appearance of ten of the eleven poems printed according to his biographer - Stefanik A8.I.a The book is very bright and near fne in sewn wraps, with nonauthorial inscription; with a worn but very good envelope. [13654] $ Berryman, John. HOMAGE TO MISTRESS BRADSTREET. New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, First edition. Illus. boards in dust jacket; small 4to. 57 pp. Berryman's breakthrough book. Edges very lightly shelfworn else fne in a bright and complete (not price-clipped) jacket with minor wear at the foot of the spine. Stefanik A.7.I.a. Lovely copy. [13622] $ Berryman, John. POEMS. Norfolk, CT: New Directions, First edition. Paper-cover boards in dust jacket; 8vo. 25 pp. One of 500 (of 2000 total) in hardcover of Berryman's frst separately published book. Issued in New Directions' Poet of the Month Series in Light fading of the blue-green dust jacket along the extremities, in particular the spine, but still a bright copy with very little edgewear. Easily very good in an easily very good (price-clipped) dust jacket. Stefanik A2. [13623] $ B e r r y m a n, J o h n. TWO DREAM SONGS: Se a s o n ' s Greetings, 1965 Kate and John Berryman. n. p.: Privately printed, First edition. A single folded sheet with two poems printed as a keepsake for friends. With unprinted envelope. The frst publication of "Christ-Song: Carpenter's Son" (Stefanik A12). One of 150 copies. Faint crease at the bottom, but otherwise quite bright and fne. Scarce. [13625] $ Bishop, Elizabeth. GEOGRAPHY III. N e w Y o r k : Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, First edition. Brown cloth, stamped in gilt in dust jacket; 8vo. 50 pp. Fine copy in a fne complete (not price-clipped) dust jacket. One of 7500 copies printed. The poet's last collection published during her lifetime; among the poems the great villanelle "One Art". MacMahon A13. A fne copy in like dust jacket. [13649] $75.00

11 AlexanderRareBooks.com (919) p [Bishop, Elizabeth]; Benton, William (ed.) EXCHANGING HATS: Elizabeth Bishop Paintings. New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, Boards in dust jacket; square 8vo. 112 pp. Introduction and afterword by poet William Benton who organized the frst exhibition of Bishop's paintings. This edition includes 40 paintings in color with descriptions. An attractive production, also issued in paper. Fine in a fne dust jacket. (13701] $ Bly, Robert. THE MORNING GLORY: Another Thing That Will Never be My Friend. Santa Cruz: Kayak Press, First edition. Illustrated wrappers; square 8vo. 35 pp. One of 800 copies printed of this the frst printing. Signed by Robert Bly. Prose poems, illustrated by Tomie de Paola. One of the more successful Kayak publications; later reprinted by Kayak, and even later with additions by Harper & Row. White wrappers darkened a bit at the spine, otherwise fne. [3950] $ Bly, Robert. SLEEPERS JOINING HANDS. New York: Harper & Row, First edition. Cloth-backed boards in dust jacket; large 8vo. 67 pp. Signed by author on the title page. First printing of Bly's third book. Published simultaneously in paperback and often reprinted. Jacket has some soiling and edge wear, and original bookstore price sticker on back. Very good in an about very good dust jacket. Scarce signed. [7696] $ Bly, Robert, et al. POETRY Vol. 181 No. 5. Chicago: Poetry, First edition. Illustrated wrappers. The March 2003 copy of Poetry, signed by Robert Bly at his poem "When I Am With You."; he contributes three poems in this issue. Near fne. [7684] $ Booth, Martin. First Editions. A signifcant collection of frst editions by this distinguished writer all US/UK publications from 1969 through1977. Chapbooks, frst collected book in jacketed cloth, pamphlets and broadsides, and mostly poetry by Martin Booth. PAPER PENNIES and Other Poems (signed - his rare frst book; 1/100); SUPPLICATION TO THE HIMALAYAS. Sceptre Press, 1968 (his second publication, a signed, illustrated broadside limited to 50 copies). IN THE YENAN CAVES. 1969, one of 74 numbered copies. THE BORROWED GULL. 1970, one of 74 numbered. WHITE. 1971, one of 100 numbered. WHITE. 1971, one of 100 numbered. A WINNOWING OF SILENCE. 1971, one of 180 numbered and signed. ONE THE DEATH OF ARCHBISHOP BROIX THE CRYING EMBERS, Fuller D'arch Smith, 1971, frst binding, frst collected. WORDS Broadsheet three, one of 100 numbered. PILGRIMS AND PETITIONS Teller Inscribed to Robert Nye. CORONIS Review copy with prospectus. IN HER HANDS [1973], one of 50 numbered and signed, with inscription to Robert Nye; and regular issue limited of 100. HANDS TWINING GRASSES One of 100 numbered copies; inscribed to Robert Nye. SPAWNING THE OS. 1974, one of 350 numbered copies. YOGH. 1974, on of 100 numbered copies, with added poet's

12 inscription. BREVITIES (Cid Corman's design at Elizabeth Press). [1974], one of 300 copies; inscribed to Robert Nye. RIDER AND HORSE THE KNOTTING SEQUENCE. [1977]. THE EARTH MAN DREAMS OF A TURNED SOD. [1978], one of 50 signed and numbered; and one of 150 numbered (of 200). THE DYING. [1978], one of 50 numbered and signed. WINTER'S NIGHT [1979], one of 50 numbered and signed; additional issue sent as holiday greeting. DECADAL: Ten Years of Sceptre Press. [1979]. Edited by Booth, one of 300 copies; specially signed. CALLING WITH OWLS. [1979], one of 100 numbered and signed. THE DEVIL'S WINE Full leather, one of 50 copies, signed. MARTIN BOOTH: Bedfordshire Writer. CONVERSATIONS WITH A CAPTOR by Jean Overton Fuller [1973], forward by Booth, with his inscription to Robert Nye. MAKING A SUCCESS OF A SMALL PRESS. np/nd. Most published in the UK, some US. With FOUR TYPED LETTERS SIGNED AND ONE TYPED POSTCARD SIGNED to author Robert Nye dated from Dec. 1973, to March Good publishing, writing content having to do with reviewing, sending books off to London publishers, needing a job, paying the printer, suggesting a book of "porn-ography", etc. Nye, like Booth a prolifc novelist and poet, was the poetry editor of The Scotsman and there are references made to it. In general all near fne in near fne dust jackets when called for. [5211] $1, Booth began Sceptre Press in A prize-winning poet, late in his productive career he became a best-selling and critically acclaimed novelist and writer of nonfction. His press published many of the best British poets, and eventually US poets throughout the 70's. Many of these copies inscribed to Robert Nye his contemporary and fellow British poet and publisher. 34 items in total, including letters, ranging from very good to fne, mostly fne. Nearly impossible collection to put together today. [We have many Sceptre Press titles in stock] 44. Booth, Martin. A VERY PRIVATE GENTLEMAN. London: Century, First Edition. Blue cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. The acidic paper browning as usual else fne in a very near fne dust jacket with residue of tape on back panel. Essentially as new other than aging. Made into the George Clooney 2010 vehicle THE AMERICAN. Fine in near fne dust jacket. [13044] $ Bukowski, Charles & Neeli Cherry [ C h e r k o v s k i ] ( e d i t o r s ). LAUGH LITERARY AND MAN THE HUMPING GUNS Vol. 1, No. 1. Los Angeles: Laugh Literary, First Edition. Yellow stapled wrappers; small 8vo. 32 pp. First of this short-lived (three issues) journal. Contributors include besides BUK, Harold Norse, Steve Richmond, Doug Blazek, Tom Kryss, Jack Micheline and Jerome Rothenberg, among others. Staples tarnished, lightly soiled, but very good. [13627] $100.00

13 AlexanderRareBooks.com (919) p Cage, John. X Writings '70 - '82. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, First Edition. Black cloth in dust jacket; small 4to. Embossed stamp of poet Lewis Turco on title page. Light soiling to edges, else fne in a near fne dust jacket. [13042] $ Callahan, Bob, Illustrated by Okamura, Arthur. WINTER POLES. n. p. ; Hipparchia Press, First edition. Original sewn wraps; silkscreen cover. One of 200 copies. Crisp, elegant, 10 pages of poetry stitched into stiff wraps. Cover design by Arthur Okamura. Fine. [7726] $ Carruth, Hayden. SCRAMBLED EGGS & WHISKEY: Poems Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, First Edition. Blue cloth-backed boards in dust jacket; large 8vo. 101 pp. First printing with full number line (winner of the National Book Award, this volume was reprinted, and the author for really the frst time in his life achieved a certain notoriety.) Inscribed by the poet: "To Peg - Thanks" and signed in full in his usual scrawl. Although he was briefy editor of POETRY, and was one of the fnest critics of his era, he mostly lived apart from the poetry world teaching at Syracuse and living mostly in upstate NY and VT. A fne copy in like dust jacket, and scarce signed. [13628] $ [Carruth, Hayden.] IN THE ACT/ SENECA REVIEW Issue. XX, No. 1: Essays on the Poetry of Hayden Carruth. Geneva, NY: Hobart & William Smith, First Edition. Photographic wrappers; small 8vo. 151pp including notes on contributors. Signed by the Poet and author Hayden Carruth on the title page. Twentieth Anniversary Special Edition of the Seneca Review. Fine. [9429] $ Clampitt, Amy. THE KINGFISHER. New York: Knopf, First Edition. Green cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 149 pp. This copy inscribed by the poet rather poetically: "For Alfred -- Swan brother/ discovered with delight/ and hope of many more/ exchanges out past/ the realm of prose/ Amy/ February, 8, 1983". Alfred is the poet Alfred Corn who would review Clampitt's next book for the New York Times. He also held the Amy Clampitt Residency established by her husband after her death. A nice association copy of the poet's third and frst regularly published book. Knopf Poetry Series no. 9. Published simultaneously in trade paper, this hardcover issue sold quickly, many going to libraries. It has never been common. A fne copy in a very near fne dust jacket.[13718] $275.00

14 50. Colum, Padraic. WILD EARTH: A Book of Verse. Dublin: Maunsel & Co., First Edition. Linen-backed boards; 16mo. Inscribed on the half-title by the poet in 1937, with a previous owner's name and "Christmas 1907 (the publication month was December)" above. 39 pp. A few light pencil marks, light foxing at the extremities, separating at half-title, but about very good. Lacking rare dust jacket. The poet's frst book, which went into a new edition in 1909, and was expanded in later years. Quite scarce in the marketplace, and rare signed. [11911] $ A key fgure in the Irish Literary Revival unlike, Joyce, Yeats and others Colum spent many years in the US. 51. Corman, Cid. THE DESCENT FROM DAIMONJI. Kyoto, Japan: Origin Press, First Edition. Sewn Japanese-style, with paper label; 8vo. Inscribed to poet Ted Enslin. Enslin and Corman were long-time friends. A dusty, soiled at bottom, else very good copy. [12433] $ Crane, Hart. SEVEN LYRICS. Cambridge: The Ibex Press, First edition. Square 8vo. stitched brown printed wrappers. No. 144 of 250 copies (50 of which were hors commerce). Illustration signed by the artist in pencil. Crane destroyed most of his juvenilia; these rare examples of work from his teens are from the Crane collection at Columbia. Fine. [10819] $ Crane, Hart; Maxwell Bodenheim et al.; Joseph Kling (ed.) A PAGAN ANTHOLOGY. New York: Pagan, [1918]. First Edition. Cloth-backed boards with printed paper label; 8vo. 92 pp. Although the poems in this collection and others had appeared as early as 1916 in magazines, this marks the frst book appearance by Hart Crane. The poems are "October-November" and "Fear"; his frst book was not published for eight more years. Maxwell Bodenheim, Joseph Kling (the editor), both friends of Crane, and others also represented. Crane was an associate editor at PAGAN for a brief period. Both hinges starting, tips worn through, acidic paper unevenly browning, still good, and quite uncommon in the trade (in removable archival covers). Schwartz p. 2. [12636] $ Crane, Hart et al.; Joseph Kling (ed.) A SECOND PAGAN ANTHOLOGY. New York: Pagan, [1919]. First Edition. Cloth-backed boards with printed paper label; 8vo. 88 pp. Contains an early poem by Hart Crane, "Forgetfulness". Crane was an associate editor at PAGAN for a brief period. Both hinges cracked, trace foxing, else clean and good, and quite uncommon in the trade. [12658] $ Cummings, E. E. TOM. New York: Arrow Editions, First Edition. Very good in silver stamped reddish-brown cloth in the scarce dust jacket, which is neatly detached at spine edge, but otherwise complete save for chips at the spine and one front corner, and an inch long piece missing along the

15 AlexanderRareBooks.com (919) p.13 spine. Frontispiece color illustration by Ben Shahn. Cummings' ballet libretto based upon UNCLE TOM'S CABIN, but never performed. One of 1500 printed; the dust jacket of thin tan paper printed in red is quite fragile and subsequently scarce. Very good in good dust jacket. [6281] $ Derricotte, Toi. THE BLACK NOTEBOOKS: An Interior Journey. New York: Norton, First edition. I First paperback edition. Signed by the author on the title page. Some edgewear to wraps, but a very good copy. [7841] $ Di Piero, W. S. THE FIRST HOUR. Omaha: Abattoir Editions, First printing of the author's third book. Light brown cloth with paper label, issued without a dust jacket. One of 200 copies printed by Harry Duncan (Cummington Press) on a Vandercook cylinder press on Frankfurt paper. As New. (In added removable protective archival covers.) [12111] $30.00 Di Piero won the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize in One of our most distinguished poets and teachers, he is well-known for his translations. 58. Dickey, James. POEMS Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, First edition. Green cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 299 pp. Beautiful association copy of the frst printing. Full page presentation---"in the kingdom of the imagination"---to Stuart Wright, bibliographer and publisher of the Palaemon Press which issued a number of JD's titles; signed with his Hancock-like fourish. Selected from the poet's frst four collections, and including some new poems that amount to "in effect, a new book in themselves" (from the from fap). Light foxing to fore and top edges and dust jacket verso, else very good, with minor wear to jacket edges. [10619] $ Dickey, Washington DC: illustrated wrappers. Consultant. Signed [11614] J a me s. SPINNING THE CRYSTAL BALL. Library of Congress, First edition. Stapled 22 pp. Lib. of Congress lecture delivered while JD was by Dickey. Staples lightly tarnished, else about fne. $ Dickey, James. THE SUSPECT IN POETRY. Madison: Sixties Press, First Edition. Gray cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 120 pp. Uncommon hardcover issue of this collection of essays and reviews of the poet's contemporaries. Offsetting to the end papers (as usual) else fne in a foxed, but only lightly worn dust jacket. [10190] $ Dickey, James. EXCHANGES. Bloomfeld Hills, MI: Bruccoli-Clark, First edition. Hand-tied mustard jacket over card covers. One of 200 signed and numbered copies printed by Leonard F. Bahr on

16 Strathmore Grandee using a C&P Craftsman press. This copy specially numbered "O" at the colophon. Signed by Dickey, with his initials at the "O", where there is a faint pink discoloring. Additionally inscribed on the frst/half-title leaf to Stuart Wright, and signed with considerably more fourish than on the colophon. Some soiling and creasing, about very good, but a wonderful association copy. Wright was the publisher of Palaemon Press specializing in Southern poets including Dickey; a professor, he was, also, the bibliographer of Randall Jarrell among others. Bruccoli A18.1. [11612] $ Dickey, William. MAKING LOVE. [Berkeley]: Hit & Run Press, n. d.. First Separate Printing. Illustrated poetry broadside, approx. 7 1/4" x 10 3/4". One of 40 numbered copies signed by the poet. Attractive letterpress edition by Larry Rafferty at his press. Fine. [13697] $ Dickinson, Emily. "A Bird Came Down the Walk" New York: Poet's Guild, n. d. (after 1924). First Separate Edition. A single sheet, printed on both sides, and measuring 4 5/8 by 7 3/8 inches. One of two of Dickinson's poems printed as "The Unbound Anthology", and like the Frost and others in this series quite uncommon. Not in Myerson. Toned paper, but Fine. [3642] $ D i c k i n s o n, E m i l y. "Before You Thought of Spring" New York: Poet's Guild, n. d. (after 1924). First Separate Edition. A single sheet, printed on both sides, and measuring 4 5/8 by 7 3/8 inches. Retitled in some volumes as "The Bluebird". One of two of Dickinson's poems printed as "The Unbound Anthology". Not in Myerson. Toned paper, but Fine. [3641] $ Doctorow, E.L. BILLY BATHGATE. New York: Random House, First edition. An uncorrected proof in yellow printed wrappers of this novel, winner of The National Book Critics Circle Award (his second) and the Pen/Faulkner (awarded by his peers). An important proof as it was revised before publication. Laid in are two pages substituting for pages A few marks and a light crease to one corner, still about fne. [1349] $ Doctorow, E.L. CITY OF GOD. New York: Random House, First edition. An advanced uncorrected proof in the usual RH "blue and whites" with a reproduction of the dust jacket bound in; signed by the author. A somewhat controversial novel, and not at the time his best-

17 AlexanderRareBooks.com (919) p.15 received critically (e.g. neither A.O. Scott or the tough Michiko Kakutani of the NY Times felt that it was successful). Still some have found his "scissors and paste" narrative effective. One could view the main character Everett as Edgar Doctorow's alter ago, his version of Roth's Nathan Zuckerman; the narrative is essentially Everett's notebook describing his meetings with among others the Episcopalian priest Tom Pemberton, and the rabbi he lusts for Sarah Blumenthal, as well as his notes on Sarah's father, a Holocaust survivor, notes on music, Einstein, Wittgenstein and other historical and created fgures. Much of what one expects from Doctorow is here, especially New York City, but set in 1999, he seems to be saying that our times are as confusing as his narrative, as religion... How prophetic he was. RH "blue and whites" are relatively scarce compared to most ARC's and proofs from other large publishers, and signed quite so. Bottom rear tip bumped, spine with lateral creases; but a tight clean copy. [1261] $ Doctorow, E.L. LOON LAKE. New York: Random House, First edition. A special edition "for presentation to the friends of the author and the publisher". Varying from the trade issue in that it is bound in black rather than brown boards and issued without a jacket. This copy specially signed by the author on the presentation page and dated October 10, 1980 (this was at the New England Booksellers Trade Show). Substantially scarcer than the trade, and less common than the signed limited edition. Small bump to top edge, still fne and never read. [1351] $ Doctorow, E.L. LOON LAKE. New York: Random House, First edition. Signed, limited edition. Number 110 of 350 copies signed by the author. Blue cloth in publisher's paper over board slipcase. Fine copy in like slipcase. [5293] $ Dorn, Edward. GUNSLINGER II. London: Black Sparrow Press, First edition. Fine copy of vol. 2, lacking the acetate jacket. One of 250 copies numbered and signed: "Edward Dorn San Cristobal 14 June 69". Attractively printed by Noel Young for the press, bound in black backed brown cloth with large paper label on front and label on spine. Fine. [3655] $ Dubie, Norman. POPHAM OF THE NEW SONG: And Other Poems. Port Townsend, WA: Graywolf Press, First Edition. String-tied printed wrappers; 8vo. 21pp. Number 26 of 26 numbered and signed copies (225 total). The poet's second regularly published book, a collection of poems issued as Volume One Number Two of "Twelve Poems," a poetry quarterly. Letterpress printed. A fne copy. Signed by Dubie on the limitation page, quite uncommon. [12533] $ An early book from the press (founded in 1974) which beginning with chapbooks has become one of the foremost publishers of poetry.

18 71. Duncan, Robert. BENDING THE BOW. New York: New Directions, First edition. Green cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 137 pp; notes. Inscribed "For Alan, March 1968": an exceptional copy on which Duncan has drawn a Bow and two arrows on the title page incorporating the title and his name. Top edge of text block moderately foxed, else quite fne in a fne dust jacket. Primary issue was in paperback; scarce signed. Bertholf A29a. [10278] $ After this book Duncan announced he would not publish a new collection for 15 years. A promise he kept, although there were several small press titles in the meantime. 72. Duncan, Robert. THE FIRST DECADE: Selected Poems London: Fulcrum, First Edition. Brown cloth in dust jacket; tall 8vo. 136 pp. Limited edition, number 137 of 150 copies, printed on fawn Glastonbury antique laid paper, signed by the author. With a long statement from the poet on the dust jacket faps. No comparable US edition, and his frst book to be published in the UK. The dust jacket is clipped as on all copies to distinguish it from the trade edition. A fne copy of a well-made book. Fine in fne dust jacket. [4205] $ Duncan, Robert. HEAVENLY CITY EARTHLY CITY. [Berkeley]: Bern Porter, First edition. One of 100 copies in dark yellow-green cloth, signed at colophon by Duncan and Mary Fabilli (artist), with two poems in Duncan's hand (not in the regular issue of 250). Poet's frst book. Additionally inscribed on title page to Allan Covici, Berkeley librarian and noted book dealer. Very light fading and wear to extremities, mild offset to endpapers, spine gilt faded ("DUNCAN" mostly gone), else quite fne. Lacking the dust jacket which was not distributed with most copies (the bibliographer located three). The colophon in Duncan's hand reads: "This is one of 100 copies..."; not numbered, so a variant not noted by the bibliographer or "hors commerce" (some copies eliminate "This is"). This issue seems even more rare than the limitation might suggest; one of the most important frst books of 20th C poetry. Bertholf A1b. [10277] $1, Duncan, Robert. LETTERS. Highland, NC: Jonathan Williams, First printing of 510 numbered copies, this is no. 175 of 450 printed on Arches in plain white wrappers in a marbled dust jacket, with thin paper spine label. Drawings by the author. Specially signed and dated on the free end paper. Also included: two holograph, initialed notes and a Tls in envelope all by RD. Fine copy in slightly worn along the top and bottom overlapping edges, fragile, marbled paper wrappers. [66 pp.] Despite the title a collection of poems, lovingly and elegantly produced. Excellent copy, very scarce signed. Bertholf A9a. [10272] $ Printed by Claude Fredericks (Banyan Press) in Pawlet, VT.

19 AlexanderRareBooks.com (919) p Duncan, Robert. MEDEA AT KOLCHIS/THE MAIDEN HEAD. Berkeley: Oyez, First Edition. Illustrated wrappers; 8vo. Signed by the author. One of 500 (28 of which were issued in cloth and signed) but surprisingly uncommon especially signed. A play originally performed at Black Mountain College in A few small faint stains on the ffep, some transfer of ink from Duncan's signature opposite title page. Still about very good. Bertholf A16a. [12592] $ Duncan, Robert MEDIEVAL SCENES 1950 and Kent, OH: Kent State University Libraries, Second edition. Blue printed wraps, stapled. 8vo. Originally published in 1950, this edition with original epigraphs not included in the frst printed edition, with other revisions; preface by the author, and an afterword by Robert Bertholf. Of 624 copies, the colophon notes 126 lettered and numbered copies signed by the author. This copy inscribed to Bertholf's wife Ann[e] "chez Bertholf" with an original picture of the author with the Bertholfs at their (presumably) dinner table. One of three such copies according to notes on an envelope by Robert Bertholf, then curator at Kent State Library and Duncan's bibliographer and literary executor. An about fne copy; and a unique one at that. [10696] $ The issue of three not listed in Bertholf's very thorough bibliography. One assumes all three were for personal use; they otherwise conform to the regular issue which was stapled, all signed copies including the additional eight "hors commerce" copies (which had a different photograph pasted in) were sewn. See Bertholf A3b. 76. Duncan, Robert. SELECTED POEMS. San Francisco: City Lights, First issue binding. Inscribed (signed "RD") for Allan Covici (Univ. of California librarian), with a note on the inside front fap explaining how this issue had been withdrawn because it was supposed to be bound in sewn signatures (not stapled as this copy is). Also included, a personal note from RD on 3x4 paper. A solidly very good copy; not commonly found signed. Good association and of solid bibliographic interest. [10270] $ Dylan, Bob. SING OUT! Vol. 12, No. 4. New York: Sing Out Inc., Oct.-Nov First edition. Stapled wraps; small 8vo. 68 pp. The Bob Dylan issue with a photo of Dylan on the cover, three songs: "Blowin' In The Wind"; "Letter To Woody"; "Ballad Of Donald White", and brief notes on them by Dylan. An appreciation of Dylan by Gil Turner (he was the frst person to perform "Blowin' in the Wind", reportedly on the night Dylan wrote it, and with the New World Singers the frst to record it). Photos of Dylan by Joe Alper and John Cohen, and a full-page adv. for his frst album. Also, a piece on The Joe Hill Memorial, many songs by Guthrie and others, and "How to Make Your Own Banjo". Spine lightly worn, back cover edge toned, still near fne, and scarce in this condition. [13720] $95.00

20 BROADSIDE frst published Dylan in the same year, and also published "Blowin in the Wind", but this is a very early appearance of Dylan in print, and a fairly substantial one (seven pages, plus the adv.). Turner's was the frst substantive article about the boy wonder and future Nobelist. In 1963 numerous versions of "Blowin in the Wind" would be recorded. 78. Eberhart, Richard. A BRAVERY OF EARTH. London: Jonathan Cape, First edition. Coarse blue and white cloth, in dust jacket; large 12mo. 128 pp. Poet's frst book, frst published in the UK, the US edition used UK sheets. Errata slip tipped in as called for, additionally a bookplate signed by the author and a Cape promotional postcard laid in. Only the faintest wear, as fresh and fne a copy as one is likely to fnd, slight inevitable offset on endpapers, in like complete (not price-clipped) dust jacket, with small tear at fold. Wright A1a. [13655] $ Eggers, Dave (ed.). MCSWEENEY'S TWENTY-FIVE. San Francisco: McSweeney's, First Edition. Decorated boards (issued without a dust jacket); square 8vo. 198 pp. Signed by Steven Millhauser at his contribution the story "Tower". Fine. [13696] $ Eggers, Dave (ed.). MCSWEENEY'S THIRTY-TWO. San Francisco: McSweeney's, First Edition. Decorated boards (issued without a dust jacket); small 4to. 258 pp. Signed by both Chris Adrian and Anthony Doerr at their contributions, short stories. Tips tapped else about fne. [13695] $ Eggers, Dave (ed.). THE BETTER OF MCSWEENEY'S: Vol. One - Issues San Francisco: McSweeney's, First Edition. Illustrated wrappers; 8vo. 361 pp. The best stories from the frst ten issues of the magazine. Includes a listing of all published stores alphabetical by author. This copy signed by contributor Dan Choan. Near fne with wear at corners of spine. [13693] $ Eggers, Dave. A HOLOGRAM FOR THE KING. San Francisco: McSweeney's, First Edition. Bronze embossed cloth; 8vo. 312 pp. Signed (not inscribed to anyone) copy. Fine unread novel issued without a dust jacket; archival mylar cover added. [13690] $45.00

21 AlexanderRareBooks.com (919) p Eliot, T. S. ASH WEDNESDAY: Six Poems. London: Faber & Faber, First Trade edition (after a signed, limited edition of 600 copies) in original brown cloth, gilt stamped, t.e.g., in dust jacket; small 8vo. One of 2000 copies. Small stain and two small areas of glue (?) stains in a bright complete (not price-clipped) dust jacket with wear at corners, closed tear at fap and 1/2' loss at crown. Name and early date on ffep. Overall easily very good, and a better than usual copy. Gallup A15b. [12029] $ E l m s l i e, K e n w a r d. MISSISSIPPI REVIEW 2 2 / 2 3 Winter/Spring Hattiesburg, MISS: Center for Writers, First edition. Illustrated wrappers; 8vo. 191pp. This copy signed by Kenward Elmslie at his contribution the play excerpt "Three Scenes from City Junket" (pp ). Elmslie postcard with Joe Brainard (his partner) graphics (and humor) laid in. Journal has a few spots on front, and spine is browned. Interior fresh and clean, and Elmslie's signature is bold and clear. Good +. [8308] $ Elmslie, Kenward. THE ORCHID STORIES. New York: Doubleday/ Paris Review Editions, First Edition. Cloth in dust jacket; small 8vo. 247 pp. Wonderfully inscribed by Elmslie to actress Ruth [Ford]. Mostly stories by the always surprising writer of songs, plays, libretti, and poetry. Fine copy in a rubbed, but easily very good rubbed dust jacket. Cover art by Joe Brainard. Nice association, and a scarce book signed. [10075] $95.00 Ford was the sister of poet Charles Henri Ford and held an apartment at The Dakota in NYC where for over two decades her literary salon attracted he likes of Faulkner (a friend from Mississippi), Leonard Bernstein and many from the poetry world. 86. Elmslie, Kenward. POSTCARDS ON PARADE. Flint, MI: Bamberger Books, First Edition. Illustrated wrappers; 8vo. 138 pp. Inscribed humorously by Elmslie to friends and dated 9/18/94. A lovely copy of the regular issue of 800 copies (26 were lettered and signed). Framed as the lyrics to a musical, entertaining and lively. Fine. [8263] $ Elmslie, Kenward; Jack Beeson. THE SWEET BYE AND BYE: An Opera. New York: Boosey & Hawkes, First edition. Tall illustrated stapled wrappers. 86 pp. Cover by Joe Brainard. Inscribed by Elmslie "For Jim 'Oh I'm happy on this day of days.'", and signed in full. Libretto by Elmslie; the second collaboration with the composer Jack Beeson. Elmslie is probably best known as a librettist though as a poet, partner of Joe Brainard, and publisher of Z Press a central New York School fgure. Spine toned, top edge (leaking to only the top of some pages) and back cover with a few coffee stains but still about very good. Very scarce, especially signed. [10510] $200.00

22 88. Elmslie, Kenward. CYBERSPACE. New York: Granary Books, First edition. Illustrated wrappers; square 8vo. From the master of camp and irony and fun; 23 color illustrations and covers and design by Trevor Winkfeld. Specially signed by Elmslie on the title page. (There was a signed lettered edition of 26 signed by both artist and author.) Fresh bright copy. A common book, but scarce signed; the limited edition seems to have vanished from the marketplace. Fine. [10035] $ Eshleman, Clayton. NORA'S ROAR. Boulder: Rodent Press, First Edition. Cloth with pictorial label pasted on; 4to. 31 pp. One of 35 copies handbound in cloth with an original holograph poem by Eshleman ("Cross Section"). Not technically signed, but the poem in the poet's hand. In memory of Nora Jaffe, with her artwork throughout, including the cover. Fine and lovely production (issued without a dust jacket). [12578] $75.00 Publisher Herb Yellin's copies specially bound in calf 90. Everson, William. THE WALDPORT POEMS. Waldport: Untide Press, [1944]. First Edition. Later full calf binding, lettered in gilt on front, marbled end papers; 8vo. Inscribed by Everson to Herb Yellin, publisher and proprietor of the Lord John Press on the half title in Published, in 1944, as was his collection WAR ELEGIES, at Waldport a camp for conscientious objectors; WAR ELEGIES [see item below] was specially rebound in calf using the original sheets and sold by The Lord John Press: 1 of 30 copies only, numbered and signed by the author. This copy of THE WALDPORT POEMS was evidently rebound at about the same time for the publisher in matching calf, with the same gilt design and font. Quite likely unique, I fnd no evidence of an issue for sale; done to match the companion title (item #91). Wrappers not retained when rebound, else other than some aging fne. [12703] $ Everson, William. WAR ELEGIES. Waldport: Untide Press, First printed edition. Leather-covered boards, gilt titling, with marbled papers; 8vo. Number "1" of 30 numbered copies using the original printed sheets; signed by Everson on the limitation page. Ads "War Elegy V" to the original mimeographed production from the previous year; printed at Camp Angel the conscientious objectors camp where Everson, Nomland, Glen Coffeld, Adrian Wilson, Kenneth Patchen and others spent WW 2, and were at the beginning of the San Francisco Renaissance. 975 copies printed, these 30 bound (likely) circa Hand-set in Goudy Light Oldstyle and Futura types and printed on Linweave Early American. Illustrated by Kemper Nomland, Jr. Leather boards have minor edgewear mostly at spine ends, else about fne. [12512] $350.00

23 AlexanderRareBooks.com (919) p Everson, William; Gary Snyder; Philip Levine; Clayton Eshleman & Jerome Rothenberg. OUT OF THE WEST. Northridge: Lord John Press, First edition. Cloth-backed boards, issued without dust wrapper. Large 8vo. One of 350 copies, signed by all fve poets. Fine, tight unused copy, and an attractive book. As new. [12525] $65.00 [We have numerous copies by all fve Western Authors in stock, many signed, and/or scarce.] 93. Fagin, Larry. LANDSCAPE. New York: Angel Hair, First edition. Small square format chapbook with illustrations (and cover art) by George Schneeman and caption/poem by Fagin. [8 pp.] One of a limited number of hors commerce copies signed by the author; instead of a number, a subscriber's name (Burt, likely Burt Britton). There were 500 trade copies issued; and 26 signed by Schneeman and Fagin, and ten numbered hors commerce copies. Subscriber's or additional copies not mentioned on the colophon. Angel Hair books were published by Anne Waldman and Lew Warsh. Lightly toned at extremities, else fne in stapled wrappers. [7316] $ Fenton, James. THE MEMORY OF WAR. Edinburgh: Salamander Press, First issue. Red cloth, gilt spine lettering in dust jacket; large 8vo. One of "the frst 600 copies issued between June and September 1982" (of 3000 eventually printed) with a stanza missing on page 27. Includes the errata sheet/pamphlet and a solicitation piece from The Poetry Book Society. A fne copy in like dust jacket. [13632] $ Fenton, James. TERMINAL MORAINE. London: Secker and Warburg, First Edition. Brown cloth in dust jacket; small 8vo. 63 pp. A fne copy of the poet's frst regularly published book. Issued simultaneously in paper, the cloth edition is scarce especially in a fne complete (not price-clipped) bright dust jacket. [13630] $ ANOTHER COPY. First Edition. Wrappers issue of the poet's frst book; 8vo. 63 pp. Signed by the poet on the title page. Covers rubbed, but still near fne and scarce signed. [13631] $ Frost, Robert. A BOY'S WILL. Boston: Henry Holt and Co., First U.S. Edition. Second printing. Blue fne linen with gilt lettering, white endpapers; small 8vo. Signed by the poet on the title page. The frst regularly published book by one of the great fgures in American Literature of the 20th Century. A total of 750 copies printed in two printings and various states. Wear at corners, with rust remains of old paper clip on the front end paper and two preliminary leaves; still clean with no foxing and very good, lacking the dust jacket (the frst issue in glassine). Crane A2.1. [13710] $1,000.00

24 98. Gilbert, Jack. MONOLITHOS. New York: Knopf, First edition. Black cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 93 pp. Inscribed on the title page: "For Mark/ WITH AFFECTION/ Jack Gilbert 1992". The "M" nicely decorated (as an initial letter - and for the record the "Mark" in this case is not me). A fne copy of this legendary collection, his second, and published nearly twenty years after his frst book. Both collections were nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. A fne copy in a fne dust jacket. [13610] $ Gilbert, Jack G.; Annie Dillard (intro. & bookplate). SONG OF THE LINE. Durham, NC: Horse & Buggy Press, First Edition. Burgundy cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 111 pp. Poetry by North Carolina poet Gilbert with drawings by Henryk Fantazos, and signed by both. With the bookplate of Annie Dillard who contributes an introduction. All three were neighbors in Hillsborough, NC. Fine copy in like dust jacket. [13634] $ Gioia, Dana. Pity The Beautiful. Berkeley: Hit & Run Press, First edition. Illustrated poetry broadside printed in three colors with decorations on Rives by Larry Rafferty at his press. Approx. 7 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches. One of 25 copies signed by the poet (of 100 copies total, 25 to the author) created for the publication party for Mr. Gioia's most book of poems PITY THE BEAUTIFUL. As new. [13707] $ Gluck, Louise. "Solstice". Berkeley: Hit & Run Press, First Separate Printing. Illustrated Broadside, 9 x 13 in. One of only 25 signed by the poet from 100 total, of which 25 went to the author. Designed by Colored Horse Studios, Ukiah, CA; printed by Larry Rafferty on a Vandercook SP-15 proof press; artwork by Stephanie Sanchez.The poem is from the author's collection THE SEVEN AGES. Fine. [13706] $ Gunn, Thom. THE EXPLORERS. Bow, Crediton, Devon: Richard Gilbertson, First Edition. Olive green sewn wrappers; thin 4to. 17 pp. Number 27 of 36, signed and dated 12 April, This issue distinguished by a manuscript poem: two unpaged leaves in which the poem "The Sand Man" - not previously published - appears in the poet's hand. (Numbers were "ordinary" issue.) signed at the colophon by the author. Near fne and quite scarce. Hagstrom & Bixby A10c. [13636] $ Gunn, Thom. JACK STRAW'S CASTLE. New York: Frank Hallman, First Edition. Oatmeal linen in dust jacket; 12mo. One of 100 copies numbered and signed by the author at the colophon. Hagstrom A22b. Top edge a bit discolored else fne in a fne bright dust jacket. [13635] $100.00

25 AlexanderRareBooks.com (919) p Gunn, Thom. THE MISSED BEAT. Sidcot, UK: The Gruffyground Press, First Edition. Wrappers issue, one of 170 copies on Okawara paper for the Gruffyground Press, in Fabriano Ingres covers. Title page wood engraving printed from the original block by Simon Brett. Printed at the Janus Press by Claire van Vliet who retained 50 copies which were hardbound. Signed by Gunn and Brett. A lovely production and fne in sewn wrappers. [13657] $ Gunn, Thom; Ted Hughes; Karl Miller (ed.). POETRY FROM CAMBRIDGE Oxford: Fantasy Press, First Edition. Blue paper covers stapled into blue lettered wrappers; 12mo. 44 pp. Three poems by Hughes including "The Jaguar", comprising his frst appearance in book form; and six by Gunn, as well as work by Peter Redgrove and others. 299 printed in two issues evidently indistinguishable from each other. The spine toned, the last leaf lightly foxed, but easily very good. Hagstrom & Bixby B3; Sagar & Tabor B1. [13656] $ Hacker, Marilyn. THE TERRIBLE CHILDREN. n.p. : Privately Printed, First Edition. Mimeograph, photographic cover; small 4to. [4] 26 pp. Published by Hacker's husband at the time the writer Samuel Delaney, and preceding her frst book by seven years. Fewer than half of the seventeen poems made it into SEPARATIONS. Quite scarce in the marketplace. This copy worn with a front cover tear of about 1 1/2 inches, lightly toned, thus a good or better. [13717] $350.00

26 107. Hall, Donald. TO THE LOUD WIND. Cambridge: The Harvard Advocate, First Edition. Plain card covers with printed blue dust jacket; 8vo. 26 pp. Signed by Hall on the title page. Volume 1, Number 1 of the Pegasus Publication Series. Extremities lightly toned, back cover rubbed, but very good. The poet's frst book published in the US. Kelleher A5. [13611] $ [Hall, Donald]; Braham, Jeanne. THE LIGHT WITHIN THE LIGHT: Portraits Of Donald Hall, Richard Wilbur, Maxine Kumin & Stanley Kunitz. Jaffrey: David Godine, First edition. Quarter cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. Signed on the title page by Illustrator Barry Moser. Also specially signed by Maxine Kumin and Donald Hall under their portraits. A gorgeous Godine production in as new condition. Fine in fne dust jacket. [9513] $ Hass, Robert. "Stanzas for a Sierra Morning". Berkeley: Hit & Run Press, First Separate Printing. Illustrated Broadside, 9 x 13 in. One of only 25 signed by the poet of 100 total, of which 25 went to the author. Designed by Colored Horse Studios, Ukiah, CA; printed on Magnani Pescia by Larry Rafferty on a Vandercook SP-15 proof press; artwork by Stephanie Sanchez. First Published in the June 17, 2016 issue of the NY Times Magazine. Fine. [13705] $ Heaney, Seamus; Ted Hughes et al. TENFOLD Poems for Frances Horovitz. N.p.: Martin Booth, First Edition. Gray stapled wrappers; chapbook published on behalf of the Frances Horovitz Beneft "to coincide with a reading given by the contributors at the Colston Hall, Bristol in October 30th, 1983". Contributors included Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes as well as Anne Stevenson, Gillian Clarke, P.J. Kavanagh, Charles Tomlinson, Peter Redgrove, D.M. Thomas and others.1/500. Fine copy. Brandes b63. [13638] $ Herbert, Zbigniew. ELEGY FOR THE DEPARTURE And Other Poems. New York: The Ecco Press, First edition. Hardcover in dust jacket; 8vo. 132 pp. Translated by the Carpenters. Heavy weight blurbs on the back cover: Brodsky, Heaney, Milosz, Alvarez, Hirsch and Dobyns. Fine copy in a fne dust jacket. [13658] $ Herbert, Zbigniew. MR. COGITO Poems. New York: The Ecco Press, First American edition. 62 pp. Trans. by the Carpenters. Fine, clearly unused copy, in a like dust jacket designed by Chip Kidd. Very nice, and one of the great volumes of contemporary poetry. [13659] $75.00

27 AlexanderRareBooks.com 113. H o a g l a n d, T o n y. "The Loneliest Job in the World". Berkeley: Hit & Run, First Separate Edition. Broadside poem printed by Larry Rafferty on BFK Rives using his Vandercook SP-15 proof press. 8 1/2 x 11 in. One of 25 signed by the poet (of 75 total, of which 25 went to the author). A lovely production: black lettering with the publisher logo embossed on blue and white illustrated heavy paper. Fine. [13704] $65.00 (919) p H u g h e s, T e d. THE MARTYRDOM OF BISHOP FARRAR. D e v o n : R i c h a r d Gilbertson, First Separate Edition. Second Printing "corrected". Stapled illustrated wrappers; thin 4to. One of 88 copies (#58) signed and dated by the author (of 100 total). The frst printing was withdrawn (although sold), but except the author's own copy likely never issued signed. According to the bibliographers and evidence online this second signed printing is far more scarce than the frst printing. Very near fne copy. Sagar & Tabor A21a.2 [13612] $ [For other Hughes items see #'s 105 & 110] 115. H u g o, R i ch ar d. THE LADY IN KICKING HORSE RESERVOIR. New York: Norton, First Edition. Burgundy cloth, gilt spine lettering in dust jacket; 8vo. 79 pp. Fine copy in a very near fne dust jacket with trace wear at spine. Issued simultaneously in paper, the cloth issue is not common. [13661] $ Hugo, Richard. ROAD ENDS AT TAHOLA. Pittsburgh: Slow Loris Press, First edition. 28 pp. First publication in book form for a number of the poems. Number 17 of 64 copies signed by the poet and handsewn into wrappers (most of the edition of 1000 total copies issued in stapled wrappers). With rare advance promotional card with the poem "Brief History" sent to D. Simmons, Chicago, laid in. Trace wear and age-toning at extremities, but easily very good. [13660] $ Hugo, Richard. RUN OF JACKS. Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota Press, First Edition. Patterned boards in matching dust jacket; small 8vo. 72 pp. The poet's frst book. Very good copy, bottom edges worn, else tight and bright, in a very good worn at corners, complete (not price-clipped) dust jacket. [13639] $150.00

28 118. Jarrell, Randall. SEVEN-LEAGUE CRUTCHES. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., First edition. Black cloth, gilt spine, in dust jacket; 8vo, 94 pp. Briefy inscribed "To Sara from Randall". Sara was Sara Starr Wolff a friend of the Jarrells. Four pages offset from a now departed newsprint clipping, else very good in a very good dust jacket, spine faded and worn at corners. Wright A4. [13640] $ Jarrell, Randall. THE WOMAN AT THE WASHINGTON ZOO Poems & Translations. New York: Atheneum, First edition. Dark blue-black cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 65 pp. Front fy tear repaired, else fne copy in an easily very good jacket with light wear at the edges, spine slightly sunned, but complete and bright. [13641] $ Kees, Weldon. THE FALL OF THE MAGICIANS Poems. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, First Edition. Beige-green cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 55 pp. Signed by Kees on the title page. Very scarce signed edition of the author's second book and frst by a major publisher. A fne copy in a near fne dust jacket with minor wear at extremities. An exceptional copy. [13615] $ Kees, Weldon. POEMS San Francisco: Adrian Wilson, First Edition. Cloth-backed decorative boards, paper spine label, wraparound printed band (issued without a dust jacket); large 8vo. Essential collection of Kees work, handsomely presented by San Francisco's Adrian Wilson. Wraparound band with blurbs by Vincent McHugh, Malcolm Cowley, Allen Tate & William Poster. Light wear to wraparound label with stain to front panel, light wear to boards with some rubbing to extremities, interior fne; easily very good. [13616] $ ANOTHER COPY. A few light pencil notes by an astute reader; the name J. Gill in ink on the end paper. Extremities worn, about very good; lacking wrap around band. [13642] $ Kees, Weldon; William Saroyan et al. THE STATE OF THE NATION: 11 Interpretations By Saroyan, Neiman, Kees, Levin, Blair, Joseph, with Nine Interludes By Robert Lowry. Cincinnati: Little Man Press, First Edition. Stapled red wrappers printed in dark red and blue, embellished with three silver stars; 8vo. 98 pp. One of 99 copies signed by the contributors: William Saroyan, Robert Lowry, Weldon Kees, Gilbert Neiman, Arthur Blair, J. Calder Joseph, and Alvin Levin. Original prospectus folded in. Anthology of poetry and prose. Kees' signature is especially scarce, and this is an early publication three years prior to his frst book. Spine faded, else very good. [13614] $ Kees was one of the most accomplished poets of his generation, and as well a serious painter, jazz and movie critic. It is presumed that he jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge at the age of 41.

29 AlexanderRareBooks.com (919) p Kinnell, Galway. THE AVENUE BEARING THE INITIAL OF CHRIST INTO THE WORLD Poems Boston: Houghton Miffin, First edition. Uncorrected proof in original green printed paper wraps. Specially signed by Kinnell on the title page with fountain pen, and with the publisher's Advance Uncorrected Proof slip laid in. Includes selections from FIRST POEMS , WHAT A KINGDOM IT WAS, and FLOWER HERDING ON MOUNT MONADNOCK. The text (177 pp.) also includes a two page Preface by the author. Uncommon in uncorrected proof state, and especially so signed. A fne copy. [11384] $ Kinnell, Galway. THE BOOK OF NIGHTMARES. Boston: Houghton Miffin, First edition. Cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 75 pp. Signed (not inscribed to anyone) on the front free end paper. The top tips bumped, else fne in a complete (not price-clipped) dust jacket with faded spine and moderate wear along the extremities. Published simultaneously in wrappers, the hardcover is not common especially signed. [13663] $ Kinnell, Galway. FLOWER HERDING ON MOUNT MONADNOCK. Boston: Houghton Miffin, First edition. Clothbacked boards in dust jacket; 8vo. 58 pp. Author's second book of poems. Signed by the poet on the title page. An easily very good copy in a toned at extremities complete (not price-clipped) jacket with minor wear. [13662] $ Kinnell, Galway. WHAT A KINGDOM IT WAS. Boston: Houghton Miffin, First edition. Cloth-backed boards; 8vo. 83 pp. Signed in full by the author and inscribed briefy "To Mary", all in blue ink on the title page. A correction made by the author on p. 83. The poet's frst collection. Near fne in a creased top edge but very good and complete dust jacket. [13664] $ Krementz, Jill. THE WRITER'S DESK. New York: Random House, First Edition. Cloth-backed boards in dust jacket; square 8vo. 111 pp. Photographs of 54 writers at their desks. Signed by three subjects: Richard Ford, Edwidge Danticat and Cathlene Schine. Introduction by John Updike, great photos and quotes about writing, work habits and writing spaces of many heavyweights including the photographer's husband Kurt Vonnegut. Incidentally, most include wonderful photos of their writing instruments: mostly typewriters and early computers/word processors. Some rubbing to the back jacket cover else fne. [13692] $ Kumin, Maxine. HALFWAY. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, First Edition. Cloth-backed boards; large 12mo. 106 pp. The poet's frst book. This copy signed by her on the title page. Fine copy in a

30 very lightly worn near fne dust jacket. Quite a lovely copy and uncommon signed (not inscribed to anyone). [13665] $ Kumin, Maxine. THE PRIVILEGE. New York: Harper & Row, First Edition. Green illustrated boards in matching dust jacket; large 12mo. 82 pp. Signed copy of the poet's second collection of poems. Somewhat uncommon in hardcover, issued also in paper. A seemingly never read fne copy in a slightly sunned at the folds and spine, slightly thumbed, else fne and complete dust jacket. Lovely copy, scarce signed in this issue. [13666] $ Kunitz, Stanley. PASSING THROUGH: The Later Poems New and Selected. New York: Norton, First edition. Tan cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 175 pp. Signed and inscribed, "For _ & _ / Affectionately,/ Stanley Kunitz", on the title page. Fine in a lightly spine-faded else fne dust jacket (design by Tree Swenson) with the NBA winner sticker. [13667] $ Larkin, Philip. HIGH WINDOWS. New York: Faber & Faber, First U.K. Edition. Pale gray cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 42 pp. Some of Larkin's most famous poems including "This Be The Verse" and "Annus Mirabilis", with his wry comments on family, sex and aging. Dusty top edge, small stain on fy, in a very good (not price-clipped) dust jacket with small loss at crown. [13643] $ Larkin, Philip; Ian Davie (ed.). OXFORD POETRY Oxford: Basil Blackwell, First Edition. Green wrappers with pasted on label; 12mo. 64 pp. Anthology with three poems by Larkin; his frst appearance in a book. One of 500 copies. Among the other 28 contributors John Heath-Stubbs, Roy Porter, and Michael Hamburger. Bloomfeld B1. Label lightly foxed, interior quite clean and tight, and overall with little wear and easily very good. [13644] $ Lowell, Robert. FOR THE UNION DEAD. New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, First edition. Green cloth in dust jacket; small 8vo. 72 pp. The title poem continues to be one of Lowell's most anthologized poems. The volume was nominated for the National Book Award. A fne copy in a near fne lightly worn at corners dust jacket, bright and complete (not price-clipped). [13668] $100.00

31 AlexanderRareBooks.com (919) p Lowell, Robert. FOR THE UNION DEAD. London: Faber & Faber, First U.K. Edition. Navy cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 72 pp. Edgeworn, slight offset to endpapers, else near fne in an evenly toned only lightly worn complete dust jacket. Same contents as the US edition, in an all type jacket (Faber used the wonderful Albion display typeface for jackets of this era for most poetry titles), which varies dramatically from the US. The title poem was frst printed in England four years earlier. A lovely collector's copy. [13669] $ Lowell, Robert. IMITATIONS. New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, First edition. Black cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. Signed by the poet on the front free end paper. About fne in a worn at crown and tail lightly soiled else very good dust jacket. [13645] $ Lowell, Robert. LAND OF UNLIKENESS. Cummington: Cummington Press, First edition. 8vo. Original blue paper boards with red stamping, in unprinted tissue jacket. One of 224 copies (of 250 total) printed. Introduction by Allen Tate. Title page woodcut by Gustav Wolf. Sunned at extremities, top tips lightly bumped, else about fne in a lightly toned dust jacket with some loss at spine, else very good. Attractive copy of the great poet's frst book, a keystone of modern poetry, and rare in jacket. [13617] $3,500.00

32 138. McClatchy, J.D. TWENTY QUESTIONS. New York: Columbia, First Edition. 200 pp. Signed by the poet on the title page. Linked essays on poetry, issued at about the same time as his fourth collection TEN COMMANDMENTS, both with Chip Kidd (his husband) designed dust jackets. Fine in fne dust jacket. [5614] $ Menashe, Samuel, with foreword by Kathleen Raine. THE MANY NAMED BELOVED. London: Victor Gollancz, First edition. Pale green cloth with gilt spine titling in dust jacket; 8vo. 95 pp. Poet's frst book, with foreword by Kathleen Raine. This copy is signed by the poet on the title page. Laid in a single sheet of ruled paper with 6 poems in the poet's hand, signed by the poet and dated "July 20, 1967". The poems which fll one side only are titled "The Bare Tree": "These poems are in memory of my mother who once said to me, 'When one sees the tree in leaf one thinks the beauty of the tree is in its leaves, and then one sees the bare tree.'" Light wear to the edges but near fne in a dust jacket with two short closed tears at the crown, the pale green faded at the edges, but easily very good. Menashe was given Poetry Magazine's frst "Neglected Poet Award", resulting in publication in The Library of America. Scarce signed, his books are scarce period; it was a common practice of Menashe to send poems in his letters to his friends. [13689] $125.00

33 AlexanderRareBooks.com (919) p Merwin, W. S. UNFRAMED ORIGINALS. New York: Atheneum, First Edition. Blue cloth, green topstain, in dust jacket; large 8vo. Signed by the poet on the title page. Six autobiographical pieces recalling his childhood. Issued simultaneously in paper, quite uncommon in cloth; scarce signed. A lightly sunned else near fne copy in age-toned back panel, but else near fne dust jacket. [13699] $ Merwin, W. S. THE DRUNK IN THE FURNACE. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, First UK edition. Blue boards in dust jacket; small 8vo. 64 pp. Signed by the poet on the title page. The poet's fourth collection, second published in the UK. Also, the frst hardcover as it was published in trade paper only in the US. A very good copy, with a bookseller ticket on the rear paste-down in a complete and unworn but foxed and spinetoned very good dust jacket. An attractive copy of an uncommon book. [13671] $ Merwin, W. S. MARY. Brooklyn: Jordan Davies, First edition. Red cloth-backed foral paper-covered boards; small 4to. 39 pp. Fine bright copy of this beautifully bound and printed edition of a short story that appeared in Antaeus; no. 34 of 175. Signed and numbered by the poet on the colophon page. Printed by Nadja, bound printed paper over cloth by Twelfth Night Boundary. Fine. Hardcover (issued without a dust jacket). [13670] $ M i l l a y, E d n a S t. V i n c e n t. SECOND APRIL. New York: Mitchell Kennerley, First Edition. Original black cloth; small 8vo., gilt lettering, with dust jacket and glassine protector enclosed in a folding chemise and matching cloth slipcase with gold embossed leather label. As fne a copy as one can imagine of the poet's second regularly published book. The dust jacket usually found faded if not lacking is here without wear and robin's egg blue, the tissue lightly worn at edges. The elaborate protective case is likely nearly contemporary, and near fne. Yost 9. [13711] $ [see front cover for the dust jacket, which is much brighter/bluer than pictured]

34 144. Olds, Sharon. "His Stillness". Berkeley: Hit & Run Press, First Separate Printing. Illus. broadside, approximately 9 x 14 inches. One of 25 numbered and signed copies of 100 total (25 to the author, 50 unsigned). Printed on Stonehenge white with a Vandercook No. 4 Proof Press with a small design. From the poet's collection FATHER. Fine. [13219] $ Pinsky, Robert. Samurai Song. Berkeley, CA: Hit & Run Press, First Separate Printing. Illustrated broadside (9 x 13 in.) with a single poem by Robert Pinsky from his collection JERSEY RAIN, Illustration of a raku teacup by Davis Te Selle. Printed on a Vandercook 4 on Rives BFK White. Designed by Colored Horse Studio, Ukiah, CA. One of 25 copies signed by the poet, with 25 to the author and 50 not signed. Fine. [13703] $ Ro eth k e, T he od or e. THE WAKING. New York: Doubleday, First edition. Blue cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 120 pp. Poet's fourth book which includes selections from his previous three and new poems. Among the new poems "The Waking", arguably his best known. Very good with only light shelfwear, pages creased, in an unclipped, good or better complete dust jacket with wear at folds, dampstain around the spine head and some loss on the back panel. Still collectible copy of an uncommon and important collection winner of the Pulitzer Prize. [13672] $ Ryan, Kay. "Spiderweb". Berkeley: Hit & Run, First separate printing. Broadside printed by Larry Rafferty on Stonehenge Pearl Gray using his Vandercook SP-15 proof press. 7 x 11 in. One of 25 signed by the poet (of 100 total, of which 25 went to the author). A lovely production: gray and claret lettering with the publisher logo embossed on heavy paper embossed with a spider web design. Fine. [13088] $125.00

35 AlexanderRareBooks.com (919) p Sexton, Anne. LIVE OR DIE. Boston: Houghton Miffin, First Edition. Brown and gray cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 90 pp. Poet's fourth book, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Very near fne, top stain unfaded, in near fne price-clipped dust jacket. An attractive copy of an important book. [13673] $ Sexton, Anne. TO BEDLAM AND PART WAY BACK. Boston: Houghton Miffin, First edition. Cloth-backed boards in dust jacket, red topstain. 8vo. 67 pp. Poet's frst book. Near fne copy in bright very good complete (not price-clipped) dust jacket with a few short tears and small loss at ends. [13674] $ Small, David. STITCHES A Memoir. New York: Norton, First Edition. Illustrated boards in dust jacket; Square 8vo. 329 pp. Signed by the writer. A fne unread copy in a fne dust jacket without the NBA sticker. [13698] $35.00 Rare F&G's 151. Stafford, William. ALLEGIANCES. New York: Harper & Row, First Edition. Advanced folded and gathered galley sheets, printed recto only; proofs intended primarily for in-house use, therefore rarely seen in the marketplace. One short tear else fne. Rare. [13675] $ S t a f f o r d, William. ALLEGIANCES: New Poems. New York: Harper & Row, First Edition. Decorated boards in dust jacket; small 8vo. 82 pp. Briefy inscribed and signed "Bill Stafford" on the title page. The poet's fourth collection. A very good copy with edgewear in a very good worn at folds with small loss. [13676] $ S t a f f o r d, W i l l i a m. THE RESCUED YEAR. N e w Y o r k : Harper & Row, First Edition. Presumed frst issue dust jacket with $3.95 price on the front fap, the foreedge is in t h e t r i m m e d s e c o n d s t a t e. Briefy inscribed and signed in Nov by the poet. A collection of poems, his frst following his 1963 National Book Award for Poetry. The third volume of verse form the long time professor at Portland's Lewis & Clark College. Light spotting to the top edge, else fne in and especially fne dust Jacket. [13677] $100.00

36 154. Stafford, William. TRAVELING THROUGH THE DARK. New York: Harper & Row, First Edition. Presumed later printing in dust jacket; no "frst edition" statement; code Decorated paper over boards in dust jacket; large 12mo. 94 pp. Signed by the poet on the title page. Lovely copy of the poet's second book, the title poem arguably his most famous. A near fne copy, deckle edge, the boards slightly askew, small bump to bottom edge, in a fne dust jacket (not price-clipped, $3.50), an early copy without the added National Book Award sticker. [13679] $ Stafford, William and Marvin Bell. SEGUES: A Correspondence in Poetry. Boston: Godine, First Edition. Beige cloth with gold embossed lettering in publisher's slipcase; 8vo. 52 pp. Limited issue: number 49 of 150 copies signed by both authors. Fine copy in a fne slipcase, and a lovely production. [13678] $ Stevens, Wallace. HARMONIUM. New York: Knopf, Second Edition, third binding. Navy cloth-backed blue paper-covered boards, spine label; 8vo. 151 pp. This edition differs from the frst with three poems dropped and fourteen added copies printed in four bindings. Edelstein A.1.b. One of the keystones of modern poetry, the extremities modestly toned, but tight and easily very good; lacking the scarce dust jacket. [13613] $ Tomine, Adrian. 32 STORIES: The Complete OPTIC NERVE Mini-Comics. Montreal: Drawn & Quarterly, First Edition. Eight booklets (approx. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches), stapled replicating the seven comics that comprise the frst self-published by Tomine as well as an eighth booklet of original illustrations, photos and an introduction by the author. Housed in a cardboard box, specially signed by the author. Tomine is known both for his cartoons and for his New Yorker covers. Fine copy, scarce signed. [13691] $ Whiteman, Bruce (trans.); Gaius Valerius Catullus. LXXXV CV Two poems in Five Essays. N.p.: Lyceum Press, First Edition. Red wrappers with printed label; 12 mo.translations of Catullus. Number 4 of 200 numbered and signed (by Whiteman) copies; attractively printed and bound by Wm Erik Voss at the press.lightly wrinkled edge, but still Fine. [12267] $ Wieners, John; [LeRoi Jones]. THE HOTEL WENTLEY POEMS. San Francisco: The Auerhahn Press/ Dave Haselwood, First edition. First issue. Square stapled wraps. Inscribed "To Leroi [Jones]/ With Love, John Wieners/ ". Wieners has inked in the offending word. Wear to the extremities, short crease to the back cover, a few (food?) stains, else about very good. An exceptional association copy of Wieners' frst book (and frst book of the press) published when he was 24, signed to another leading poet then closely associated as was Wieners with the

37 AlexanderRareBooks.com (919) p.35 Beat and Black Mountain poets. LeRoi Jones frst book was published the year before this book; shortly after with the assassinations of Kennedy and King, Jones had become radicalized and eventually changed his name to Amiri Baraka. Very good -. [10459] $ Wilbur, Richard. THE BEAUTIFUL CHANGES. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, First Edition. Original light green cloth w/ dark green lettering in dust jacket; large 12mo. 55 pp. The poet's frst book, only 750 copies issued; reissued at a later date by Harcourt Brace, who bought Reynal in This copy signed and inscribed on the ffep "for / With thanks for his kind gift/.../richard Wilbur/ Cummington/ 27 February 2012". The dust jacket faps and endpapers with old cello tape, residue from removed bookplate, else very good, in a worn and price-clipped good dust jacket. [13682] $ Wilbur, Richard. CEREMONY And Other Poem. New York: Harcourt Brace, First edition. Pale green cloth in dust jacket; large 12mo. 55 pp. The poet's second book, signed by him on the title page. Near fne with light offset on the rear free endpaper from laid in magazine clipping about RW, in a spine-sunned, else near fne dust jacket with trace wear and rubbing. A much nicer than usual copy, and additionally signed. [13681] $ Wilbur, Richard. THINGS OF THIS WORLD. New York: Harcourt Brace, First Edition. Pale blue-green cloth in dust jacket; small 8vo. 50 pp. Inscribed by the poet to Arthur Cowan and signed and dated in the year of publication. The poet's third collection, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award. Includes arguably Wilbur's most famous poem: "Love Calls Us to the Things of This World". A bit soiled else very good copy in an edgeworn very good (not price-clipped) dust jacket with the NBA winner sticker. [13646] $ Wright, James. THE GREEN WALL. New Haven: Yale University Press, First edition. Patterned boards in dust jacket; large 12mo. 93 pp. Volume 53 of the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Foreword by W. H. Auden. One of the most important frst books of poetry of the second half of the 20th C. A very good copy in a worn at edges complete (not price-clipped) about very good dust jacket. A very presentable copy. [13683] $ Wright, James. TWO CITIZENS. New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, First Edition. Black and red cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 59 pp. Inscribed by the poet to critic Alfred Kazin; signed "Jim Wright". Wright's sixth collection includes "The Old WPA Swimming Pool in Martin's Ferry, Ohio". This book followed his Pulitzer Prize-winning COLLECTED POEMS. Near fne in a near fne (not price-clipped) dust jacket,

38 lightly soiled with only a hint of toning to the spine. A lovely copy, and a nice association, Kazin being one of the fnest critics of poetry and much else of the era. [13647] $ Zagajewski, Adam. R Says. Berkeley: Hit & Run Press, First Separate Printing. Illustrated broadside, 9 x 12 inches, of an Adam Zagajewski poem translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh, with an illustration by Roberto Chavez. Printed on Rives BFK Gray with a Vandercook SP-15 proof press. One of approximately 50 printed with two rats in a brown wash (there is another version with "cartoon" rats), with ten going to the author; this one of only 20 signed by the poet. This is a Fine copy. [13708] $ Zagajewski, Adam. R Says. Berkeley: Hit & Run Press, First Separate Printing. Illustrated broadside, 9 x 12 inches, of an Adam Zagajewski poem translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh, with an illustration by Roberto Chavez. Printed on Rives BFK Gray with a Vandercook SP-15 proof press. One of approximately 50 printed with three rats drawn in gray line (there is another version with two rats in a brown wash), with ten going to the author; this one of 20 total signed and numbered by the poet. A fne copy. (Some of this issue were damaged in transit from Poland; this copy is quite fne.) [13709] $50.00 Zagajewski was born in Poland and is generally regarded as the great Polish poet of his generation, following in the line of his predecessors Szymborska, Milosz and Herbert. He like Milosz has spent much of his life teaching in he US, although he writes in Polish, Clare Cavanagh being his primary translator. THE END