ALEXANDER & Poetry Literary Firsts RARE BOOKS CATALOGUE THIRTY-EIGHT
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Catalogue 38 1. Ackerman, Diane. WIFE OF LIGHT POEMS. NY: Morrow, 1978. First edition. 64 pp. Quarter cloth in dust jacket; small 8vo. First printing of the poet's second collection. Light foxing at top edges, slightly rubbed dust jacket Excellent copy of an uncommon book issued simultaneously in paper. Near %ne in near %ne dust jacket. [8007] $35.00 2. Aldington, Richard. WAR AND LOVE. Boston: The Four Seas Press, 1919. First edition. 8vo., 94 pp. Mottled brown boards, paper labels. Spine label a bit rubbed and toned, but still bright, crown thumbed, a couple of pages torn, else very good and clean; lacking the scarce dust jacket. The poet's third book, second to be published in the US. The bibliographer does not note two different sized spine labels this the longer at 4 5/16 in. [Kershaw no. 9] [6834] 35.00 Aldington's frst poems along with those of future wife H.D. were the frst to be named "Imagist" by Pound, when he sent them off to Harriet Monroe at Poetry. 3. Aldington, Richard (trans.). GREEK SONGS IN THE MANNER OF ANACREON. Ln: The Egoist Ltd., 1919. First edition. Small 8vo, 36 pp. The Poet's Translation Series (Second Set No. 1). Soiling to covers, spine-toned, crown and tail a bit rounded, still very good. [6833] $50.00 4. Andrews, Bruce. FILM NOIR. Providence: Burning Deck, 1978. Chapbook. Review copy, printed sheet with blurbs and copy laid in. One of 350 numbered copies printed by the Waldrops at their press. By one of the foremost proponents of LANGUAGE poetry. Minor wear, moderate rubbing, else %ne in illustrated (by the author) wrappers. [20 pp.] [7213] $25.00 5. Armitage, Simon. THE DEAD SEA POEMS. Ln: Faber & Faber, 1995. First edition.original wraps; small 8vo. Signed on the title page, with a Waterstone's bookstore bellyband to that effect. The fourth collection from the newly elected Oxford Professor of Poetry, a %ve year posting begun in 1708, and recently held by Geoffrey Hill, Paul Muldoon and Seamus Heaney. Fine in Wraps [440] $40.00 6. Ashbery, John. WAKEFULNESS. NY: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1998. First edition. Review copy with a sheet (reviews from PW, Library Journal) laid in. Fine in a %ne dust jacket. [4176] $25.00 7. Bátki, John. FALLING UPWARDS. Cambridge: Dolphin Editions, 1976. First edition. Enthusiastically inscribed by the poet to fellow poet Kenward Elmslie. 32 pages in pictorial wraps, with many playful illustrations. Near %ne, and a nice association. [9983] $20.00
8. Beckett, Samuel. POEMS IN ENGLISH. NY: Grove Press, 1963. First U.S. Edition. Green cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. Attractive copy in unusually bright, complete (not price-clipped) near %ne dust jacket with just the lightest edgewear; the top edge of cloth lightly soiled, else %ne. [12959] $125.00 9. Bell, Marvin. THESE GREEN- GOING-TO-YELLOW: Poems. NY: Atheneum, 1981. First edition, hardcover issue. Bell's %fth book of poems, a lovely copy affectionately inscribed to a fellow author at Bread Loaf, 1983. Bell taught for 40 years at Iowa's Writers' Workshop. Near %ne, dust jacket faps starting to tone a bit, else %ne.[8359] $40.00 10. Bernard, April. BLACKBIRD BYE BYE. NY: Random House, 1989. First edition. An uncorrected proof copy in yellow printed wrappers of the poet's %rst book. Fine in Wraps. [211] $25.00 11. Berrigan, Ted, et al. Poster for Viridian Gallery poetry readings. New York, 1979. Poster on orange paper (8 1/2 x 11 in.) for the Thursday Evening Poetry Readings at Viridian Gallery in NYC. Listed in the following pairings: Steve Hamilton and Jackson Mac Low; Yuki Hartman and June Jordan; Jim Brodey and Michael Slater; Charles Bernstein and Ted Berrigan; Jamie MacIness and Bob Rosenthal; Charles North and Annabel Levitt; Rose Lesniak and Ed Friedman; Quincy Troupe and Tony Towle and Janine Pommy Vega and Vicky Hudspith. Folded for mailing with Phoenix Book Shop address on the back. One silver dollar-sized closed tear/crease, else very good. [10486] $45.00
AlexanderRareBooks.com (802) 476-0838 p.3 12. Berryman, John. HOMAGE TO MISTRESS BRADSTREET: A poem, with pictures by Ben Shahn. Ln: Faber & Faber, 1959. First edition. An uncorrected proof copy in green mottled wrappers. The %rst of Berryman's selected poems on either shore, and selected by him. Includes 39 poems from THE DISPOSSESSED and 7 from HIS THOUGHT MADE POCKETS..., as well as the title poem and notes. Scarce in this format. The front top corner of the cover has a crease where it has been folded, the paper has age-toned, but there is very little wear; very good. [Stefanik A9.1.a.] [12956] $200.00 13. Berryman, John et al. POETRY: Volume 72, Number 1. Chicago, April 1948. An interesting issue. Five poems from Berryman, his %rst appearance in this magazine, including the title poem of "The Dispossessed". Poems by Richard Eberhart and Malcolm Cowley, and a review of a prose translation of "The Odyssey" by Fitzgerald, with his own verse (well prior to his landmark translation); a long review of Frost's "A Masque of Mercy" by W C Williams, and of Duncan's %rst book by Rukeyser. There is a single page of author photos. Bottom corner creased, the Eberhart photo with paper loss from transfer to opposite page, otherwise very good in printed wrappers. [4737] $25.00 14. Bidart, Frank. THE SACRIFICE. NY: Random House, 1983. First edition. An uncorrected proof copy in orange plain wraps. Poet's third collection, and containing the important long poem "The War of Vaslav Nijinsky". A name in ink on the front cover (by the publisher), covers creased in three areas, and a spot on the spine; the interior is %ne. [232] $50.00 15. Bishop, Elizabeth. All These Cafes Have Lots Of Tourists On Weekends... A Letter to Robie Macauley. NY: Glenn Horowitz, 1987. First Edition. One of 200 copies printed at the Kelly Winterton Press, NY; 12mo. 9 pp. Sewn into brown printed wrappers. Bishop's letter on her cleaning lady, food places and other wonderfully mundane things in Boston. Poly protective cover added. Fine. [12954] $100.00
16. Blaser, Robin. Of Is The Word Love Without The Initial Consonant. Vancouver: Slug Press, 1979. First edition. Poetry broadside (approx. 13 x 11 in.) printed in two colors on beige paper; one of 100 numbered (#22) and signed by the poet. Contemporary broadside number 1. Fine. [10842] $35.00 17. Bly, Robert. The Dead Seal Near McClure's Beach. Rushden, Northhamptonshire, UK: Sceptre Press, 1973. First edition. Original Wraps; chapbook. This is number 6 of 50 copies (of 150 total) signed and numbered, printed in the UK. A crisp %ne copy, with very slight wear to top edge of wrap. [7896] $35.00 18. Bly, Robert. THE LIGHT AROUND THE BODY. NY: Harper & Row, 1967. First edition. Poet's second book, winner of the National Book Award. With a number of anti-vietnam War poems, not surprising as he was instrumental in starting American Writers Against The Vietnam War in 1966. Edges shelf-worn else about %ne in an easily very good, complete dust jacket lightly sunned spine, with wear at the extremities, but no chips or tears. Published simultaneously in trade paper, the hardcover is somewhat dif%cult in collectible condition. [10140] $50.00 19. Bly, Robert. POINT REYES POEMS. Cedarville, CA, U.S.A.: Floating Island Publications, 1989. First Rev. Edition. Sewn illus. wraps; 12mo. Specially signed on the title page by the Author. Foreword by Michael Witt. Slender volume of 25 pages stitched into green wraps with cover illustration by David Lubin. Limited to 2000 copies. Originally published in 1974, here substantially revised. Light wear, fading, else %ne. [7672] $50.00 20. Bly, Robert. The Teeth Mother Naked at Last. San Francisco: City Lights, 1970. First Edition Thus. Illustrated blue and white wrappers;16mo. Number 26 in the Pocket Poets series. One of 5000 copies printed; the %rst printing in book form of this widely read anti-war poem. [Cook p. 69.] Stained covers, interior %ne and tight, but good only. [12949] $30.00 21. Bly, Robert. The Teeth-Mother Naked At Last. Madison: Sixties Press, 1970. Second edition. 12 pp. "folder" printed on a single sheet of yellow paper (%rst edition letterpres printed on green paper). Inscribed on the front cover "For Norman - a sad poem - Robert". Published by Bly's press for the American Writers Against The Vietnam War: "Not to be sold. Printed as a gift to the Resistance by Robert Bly and Lawrence Ferlinghetti." Published later by City Lights. Light soiling and creasing, still close to very good. [Gustafson B13b] [12948 ] $95.00
AlexanderRareBooks.com (802) 476-0838 p.5 22. Boyle, Kay. A Poem For February First 1975: for Jessica Mitford. San Francisco: Quercus, 1975. First Edition. Printed broadside, approx. 23 x 12 inches. Specially signed by the poet with eight revisions in ink as well as three given dates for the revisions through 1978. Revisions include %ve words crossed out, several words added or changed and the last line underlined and noted to be italicized. The subject of the poem is the Attica riots of Sept. 1971, the great black mark on Gov. Rockefeller's record when he called in the National Guard instead of negotiating. The leaf has been rolled and subsequently heavily creased, two corners turned, some toning mostly verso, and though no real wear; still only good.the bibliography lists this as a %rst appearance of the poem, and does not give an edition size, but scarce signed.. Chambers D2. [13020] $50.00 23. Boyle, Kay. TESTAMENT FOR MY STUDENTS: and other poems. Garden City: Doubleday, 1970. First edition. Inscribed by the poet in May 1970, in San Francisco, with corrections on pages 13 and 60, likely in the poet's hand (the same ink is used). A newspaper article by Boyle from 1970, is taped (four pieces) to the rear endpapers. The article is mostly about her writing in particular her radicalism, although it does not mention the 1968 student rally in which she and a number of other professors came to the support of their students at SF State as the rally was being broken up (a photo of that event is reproduced on the back cover of the book). The dust jacket spine has browned; otherwise the copy shows only gentle wear. Very good in very good dust jacket. [247] $65.00 24. Bronk, William. EXEMPLARIES. New Rochelle: James L. Weil, 1994. First edition. String-tied gray wrappers printed in red; 8vo. Seven short poems by Bronk, issued as one of 50 copies, printed by the Kelly- Winterton Press. Issued unsigned. Fine. [12994] $45.00 25. Bronk, William. FOR ALL WE KNOW. New Rochelle: James L. Weil, 1998. First Edition. Sewn blue heavy handmade wrappers; oblong 16mo. Six poems printed in two colors by the Kelly-Winterton Press. Light sunning to uncut edges, else %ne. [12997] $35.00 26. Bronk, William. JOYS AND WONDERS. New Rochelle: James L. Weil, 1997. First edition. String-tied white wrappers printed in red; 8vo. Six short poems by Bronk, one of 50 copies, printed by the Kelly-Winterton Press. Publisher's business card laid in, and inscribed by Weil: " Some more Bronk brevity in Kelly classic... Jim". Fine. [12988] $45.00 27. Bronk, William. Of Poetry. New Rochelle: James L. Weil, 1988. First edition. String-tied wrappers; [5 pp.]. Short poem by Bronk, issued as one of 50 "keepsake copies" printed by Martino Mardersteig, issued unsigned. Fine.. [12976] $35.00
28. Bronk, William. What is Art. New Rochelle: James L. Weil, 1988. First edition. String-tied wrappers; 16 mo. [4 pp.] Short poem by Bronk, issued as one of 50 "keepsake copies" printed by Martino Mardersteig, issued unsigned. Fine. [12979] $35.00 29. Bronk, William; Spencer Brown; Samuel French Morse; Felix Stefanile. FOUR SONNETS BY FOUR FRIENDS. New Rochelle: James L. Weil, 1996. First Separate Printing. Sewn gold printed wrappers; 8vo. Four sonnets in an edition of 50 copies designed by Martino Mardersteig and printed by Stamperia Valdonega. Fine. [13001] $25.00 30. Brooke, Rupert. POEMS. Ln: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1911. First Edition. Navy cloth with paper spine label (issued without a dust jacket); 8vo.; 88 pp. The author's %rst book of poetry and %rst regularly published book. Small loss at corner of pp. 19, label darkened, discrete previous owner's initials and 1911 date on ffep, else %ne and quite exceptional, kept so in early cloth protective jacket and matching gilt lettered slipcase, also %ne. [13010] $750.00 31. Broumas, Olga and T. Begley. SAPPHO'S GYMNASIUM. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1994. First edition. Signed by both poets. Tips bumped, and a small stain affecting the %rst six leaves. Very Good in Wraps. [2524] $25.00 32. Brown, Spencer. Letter to a Young Poet. New Rochelle: James L. Weil, 1986. First Separate Printing. Sewn cream printed wrappers; 8vo. Single poem in an edition of 50 copies designed by Martino Mardersteig and printed by Stamperia Valdonega. Fine. [13003] $25.00 33. Brown, Spencer; Robert Hillyer. APUD LIBROS. New Rochelle: James L. Weil, 1986. First edition. String-tied wrappers; 16mo. [7 pp.] A poem by each poet (previously printed), issued as one of 50 "keepsake copies" printed by Martino Mardersteig, issued unsigned. Fine. [12977] $35.00 34. Burns, Jim. THE FIVE SENSES. Oldham, UK: Incline Press, 1999. First Edition. Cloth-backed marbled papers; small 8vo. Number 191 of 200 copies. Short story. Three engravings printed directly from the blocks by Geri Waddington, and signed by the artist. Beautiful letterpress work. Broadside prospectus laid in, folded for mailing insertion in the book. Slight spine slant else %ne. [12980] $50.00 35. Clarke, Charles Cowden; Leigh Hunt; John Keats et al. The Grasshopper and the Cricket. New Rochelle: James L. Weil, 1992. First edition. String-tied wrappers; 16 mo. [5 pp.] Sonnets on "The Grasshopper and the Cricket" one each by Hunt and Keats, written within the 15 min. time challenge; commentary by Clarke and Woodehouse. Issued as one of 50 "keepsake copies" printed by Martino Mardersteig. Fine. [12981] $45.00 for Keats also see #'s 107 & 108; 116 & 117
AlexanderRareBooks.com (802) 476-0838 p.7 36. Corbett, Bill. SPOKEN IN SLEEP. Henniker, NH: United Artists, 1980. Scarce piece limited to 400 copies. Specially signed on the title page by Corbett. Trevor Wink%eld cover art. 8.5 by 11 inches, stapled; edges toned, else %ne and crisp. [10036] $60.00 37. Corman, Cid. & WITHOUT END: A Book Of Poems. New Rochelle: The Elizabeth Press, [1968]. First Edition. Fine black cloth, spine gold stamped in dust jacket; small 8vo. Near %ne in like dust jacket with no wear light rubbing, crease. [13004] $25.00 38. Coulette, Henri. THE FAMILY GOLDSCHMITT. NY: Scribner, 1971. First Edition. Gold cloth lettered in black in dust jacket; 8vo. 56 pp. Poet's second book. Bookseller stamp (ink) on ffep, else %ne in a near %ne dust jacket with ghost of old sticker. Attractive copy. Zbigniew Herbert quote on back cover; praise from Don Justice on fap. [12972] $15.00 39. Cummins, James. THE WHOLE TRUTH. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1986. First edition. The Iowa Writers School grad's %rst book, a tour de force composed of 24 sestinas in a rather raunchy narrative using characters from Perry Mason all the while quoting Foucault, Whitman and Berryman. Signed on the title page, and inscribed on the ffep "To Mary - with friendship and best wishes, Jim". Jacket blurbs by John Ashbery and Richard Howard. A bit of abrasion to the front pastedowns, otherwise about %ne in a slightly toned else %ne dust jacket. [4279] $50.00 40. DeNiord, Chard. ASLEEP IN THE FIRE. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1990. First edition. First collection, which was issued in a limited number of hardcovers; this is the simultaneous softcover, signed by the author on the title page. Scarce. Deeply American narrative poetry. DeNiord was recently named VT Poet Laureate. Fine. [8014] $45.00 41. Di Prima, Diane. BRASS FURNACE GOING OUT: Song, After an Abortion. Syracuse/Buffalo: Pulpartforms/Intrepid Press, 1975. First Edition. Stapled wrappers. Signed by the poet on the cover. [12 pp.] Printed on newsprint which has browned else %ne. [7157] $65.00 42. Dickey, William. THE DEATH OF JOHN BERRYMAN. [Berkeley]: Hit & Run Press, n. d. First Separate Edition. Illustrated broadside poem with the title and author's signature printed in blue ink; approx. 8 1/2" x 11 ". Letter "Y" of 26 copies signed in pencil by the poet. Fine. [12688] $75.00 43. ANOTHER COPY. Unsigned. Fine. [12491] $25.00
44. Dickey, William. THE EDUCATION OF DESIRE. Hanover: Wesleyan University Press, 1996. First Edition. Black cloth without dust jacket (as issued - also issued in paper); 8vo. 68 pp. Black cloth worn at edges, else %ne. [12975] $50.00 45. Dorn, Edward. THE POET THE PEOPLE THE SPIRIT. Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1976. First edition. Stapled Wrappers. Signed by Edward Dorn on the title page. Transcript from a lecture Dorn gave at The Berkeley Poetry Conference in 1965. A bright crisp copy. Fine. [9270] $45.00 46. Duncan, Robert; Mary Fabilli, Jack Spicer. BERKELEY MISCELLANY NO. 1. Berkeley: Berkeley Miscellany Editions, 1948. First edition. First of two issues of this journal edited by Duncan. Initialed on cover by Duncan, signed on pg. 1 by Duncan. Two holograph notes about the poem (frst publication of "A Description of Venice") by Duncan on the inside cover - approx. 45 words. Poems by Duncan and Spicer and a story by Fabilli. Acidic paper lightly browned, toned at edges; very good in sewn wrappers. Scarce, a rarity signed, especially with interesting bibliographic information about the poem. [10274] $295.00 Both Issues of Poet's First Book 1/100 & 1/250 47. Duncan, Robert. HEAVENLY CITY EARTHLY CITY. Bern Porter, 1947. 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
AlexanderRareBooks.com (802) 476-0838 p.9 %rst 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 %ne. 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"). [Bertholf A1b.] [10277] $1,500.00 48. ANOTHER COPY. One of 250 (of 350 total) in white boards with blue-green dj. Poet's %rst book. Inscribed in full to Berkeley librarian and book dealer Al[l]an Covici on title page. Worn through at head and crown and bottom tips, else %ne and bright in a dust jacket with moderate chipping on lower border, beginning to separate at spine folds, with several tape repairs on verso. Overall about very good, interior %ne. [Bertholf A1a.] [10276] $750.00 49. Duncan, Robert.. MEDIEVAL SCENES 1950 and 1959. Kent, OH: Kent State University Libraries, 1978. Second edition. Blue printed wraps, stapled. 8vo. Originally published in 1950, this edition with original epigraphs not included in the %rst 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 by Duncan to Bertholf's wife Ann[e] "chez Bertholf" with a picture of the author with the Bertholfs at a 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 %ne copy. [10696] $250.00 Variant not listed in Bertholf's very thorough bibliography. One assumes all three noted copies were for personal use, and 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. [Bertholf A3b.] 50. Duncan, Robert. THE TRUTH & LIFE OF MYTH. NY: House of Books, 1968. First edition. Small 8vo. blue cloth, in glassine; no. 26 of 300 numbered and signed copies (total of 326). Fine in original tissue dust jacket which is lightly chipped at edges, but overall essentially as new. [Bertholf A26a.] [12650] $50.00 51. Duncan, Robert. THE YEARS AS CATCHES: First Poems (1939-1946). Berkeley: Oyez, 1966. First edition. Black pictorial boards stamped in silver; large 8vo. One of 170 copies of the hardcover issue (of 200 total). Inscribed by Duncan "in the month of publication" to Alan [Covici]. Publisher's prospectus laid in. Included is a typed (Tls) 2pp.
letter addressed in Duncan's hand discussing little magazines to buy in a bookshop catalog and a holograph note by Duncan. Also, three small broadsides circa 1988, after the poet's death, laid in. Near %ne in a near %ne dust jacket, with light wear to top edge. Letter folded but like the envelope %ne. [Bertholf A20b.] [10279] $500.00 52. Edson, Russell. APPEARANCES: Fables and Drawings. Stamford, CT: Thing Press, 1961. First edition. Illustrated stapled wrappers. "...printed on a hand press & hand-set in Caslon & designed by the author". Printed in two colors. Poet's frst book, self-published as were his frst few books. Prose poetry by an original writer who made the "form" his own. Light rubbing to the white card stock covers, staples rusty: very good. [32 pp.] [10587] $35.00 53. Eigner, Larry. AIR THE TREES. LA: Black Sparrow Press, 1968. First edition (Morrow & Cooney 32b). 56 pp. One of a 100 copies signed by the author and artist, in brightly patterned linen with a paper labels. The blue front label has a short tear, but is complete. An attractive production, with Bobbie Creeley's black and white drawings on tissue throughout. Very near %ne. Lacking the acetate dust jacket. [4460] $65.00 54. Elmslie, Kenward. MOTOR DISTURBANCE. NY: Columbia University Press, 1971. First edition; issue in illustrated wraps. Frank O'Hara Foundation. Inscribed to the actress Ruth Ford: "For Ruth---"mystery meers" [from the poem "Girl Machine"]...Love Kenward". With Ford's notes for reading alongside the poem "Girl Machine"; clipped to one leaf is a note to herself about how to read the text when performing: a collaboration seems likely. Bottom of leaves and bottom of back cover, creased, darkened--maybe coffee; but lightly. Neat item, good or better only. [10626] $50.00 55. Engle, Paul (ed.); Donald Justice, Henri Coulette. MIDLAND: Twenty-Fve Years of Fiction and Poetry, selected from the Writing Workshops of the State University of Iowa. NY: Random House, 1961. First Edition. Cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 600 pp. Signed by the editor Paul Engle and additionally Donald Justice with pasted in label signed by prev. owner poet Henri Coulette, both of whom are on the title page: "Assisted by". Review copy with slip laid in. The three poet/editors along with many of the best of their contemporaries (and some forgotten) represented. Top edge bumped else about %ne in a very good lightly spine-toned dust jacket with a few short closed tears mostly at crown. [12967] $50.00 56. Eshleman, Clayton. Bearings. Santa Barbara CA: Capricorn Press, 1971. First edition. Limited to 1000 copies. Includes compliments slip from press, and original advertising slip. Signed by the author on the title page. Near %ne in illustrated wraps. [7905] $25.00
AlexanderRareBooks.com (802) 476-0838 p. 11 57. Eshleman, Clayton. The House of Okumura. Toronto: Weed/fower Press, 1969. First edition. Immaculate copy, chapbook in black wraps. Limited to 500 copies. This copy signed by Eshleman. Fine. [7724] $35.00 58. Eshleman, Clayton. THE LICH GATE. Barrytown NY: Station Hill, 1980. First edition. Lovely letterpress work, fresh, the wraps slightly rubbed. Signed by the author on the title page. [7906] $15.00 59. Eshleman, Clayton. MEXICO NORTH. Tokyo: privately published, 1962. First edition. Japanese stab binding; 8vo.. The poet's %rst book, inscribed by Eshleman to a well-known bookseller, with lines from the book. Laid in is a card from the bookseller giving the book to a wellknown collector. Light wear at corners, else about %ne. [10333] $65.00 60. ANOTHER COPY. Inscribed by Eshleman to Jackson MacLow, with a typed, signed two-paged manuscript/letter from Eshleman entitled "The Light Agenda: for Jackson Mac Low". The letter has wonderful content about the Vietnam War and their academic colleagues. Both are inscribed in Oct. 1967; the letter is inscribed "for Jackson,/from Clayton -/ with light/+love for what/ he wishes./nyc 1967./Oct. Water-stained through most pages along the lower edge, though not affecting the type, else near %ne; the letter lightly toned, stapled, folded once, else %ne. [10899] $150.00 61. Eshleman, Clayton. THE NAME ENCANYONED RIVER. Warwick, RI,: Woodbine Press, 1977. First edition. Brown cloth in dust jacket; small oblong 8vo.. Copy number 97 of 100. Signed by the author. Illustrated by Nora Jaffe. Fine in %ne dust jacket. [7728] $40.00 62. ANOTHER COPY. Of 124 signed cloth copies, this is letter "K", one of 24 lettered and "hors commerce". Light dust to top edge, dust jacket edges very lightly worn; still near %ne. Not to be confused with the Black Sparrow book with the same title (Selected Poems) published nearly a decade later. [12555] $50.00 63. Everson, William; Gary Snyder; Philip Levine; Clayton Eshleman & Jerome Rothenberg. OUT OF THE WEST. Northridge: Lord John Press, 1979. 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. [12525] $65.00 64. Fallon, Peter. WINTER WORK. Dublin: Gallery Press, 1983. First edition. Lovely copy of this collection from the founder of Gallery Press, long publisher of Heaney, Muldoon and other Irish poets. Inscribed "to
with affection and respect, Peter, Deerfeld [MA], May 1, 1983." Fine in %ne dust jacket. Hardcover. [8309] $60.00 65. Feldman, Irving. LEAPING CLEAR. NY: Viking Press, 1970. First edition. The poet's ffth book, inscribed to bookseller Burt Britten and additionally signed on the title page. Back panel jacket reproducing photo of the author by Thomas Victor. Fine in a %ne dust jacket. [3420] $35.00 66. Feldman, Irving. MAGIC PAPERS: And Other Poems. NY: Harper & Row, 1970. First Edition. The poet's third book, inscribed to bookseller Burt Britten and additionally signed on the title page. The purple cloth is bright and %ne; the jacket has some wear and rubbing, the spine faded, still at least very good. With the Rollie McKenna photo of the poet reproduced on the back panel. [3419] $35.00 67. Fenton, James. CHILDREN IN EXILE. Edinburgh: Salamander, 1983. First Edition. Cloth-backed paper-covered boards with paper label in later state acetate dust jacket; tall 8vo. 24 pp. Light shelfwear, else about %ne; acetate with short cut. [12963] $45.00 68. Fenton, James. DEAD SOLDIERS. Oxford: Sycamore Press, 1981. First Edition. Red sewn, printed covers; thin 8vo. Signed and inscribed briejy by the poet to unnamed recipient. Fine.[12962] $65.00 69. Fenton, James. A German Requiem. Edinburgh: The Salamander Press, 1981. Second Printing. Brown wrappers printed in black; 4to. One of 400 copies as with the %rst printing also sewn by Jim Chistie and printed bytom Fenton. Signed by the poet, and scarce thus. Light wear to corners, else %ne. [12952] $50.00 70. Fenton, James. MANILA ENVELOPE with (two broadsides) "Manila Manifesto" and "The Ballad of the Shrieking Man" Quezon City, Philippines: self-published, 1989. First Edition. Glossy wrappers; 4to. One of 1000 copies numbered and signed by the poet. This copy additionally inscribed to noted bookseller. More importantly two scarce broadsides/posters included, designed and printed as was the book by MicroPublish; presumably published about the time of the book, one poem printed in the book. "Manila Manifesto" held at Trinity College, Dublin and The British Library; "The Ballad of the Shrieking Man" in %ve institutions. Book %ne, broadsides folded as issued, with minor creasing; both approx. 36 by 24 inches; in the original illustrated envelope (from MicroPublish) which is worn but complete. [12953] $95.00
AlexanderRareBooks.com (802) 476-0838 p. 13 71. Fenton, James. PUT THOU THY TEARS INTO MY BOTTLE. Oxford: Sycamore, 1969. First Edition. Single sheet folded twice to form 6 pages; thin 8vo. Sycamore Broadsheet 8. Two poems published while the author was still at Oxford. The poet's second "book", his %rst published the prior year was also the %rst book of John Fuller's press. Specially signed, and scarce thus. Very light sunning at the back bottom edge else %ne. Roberts p. 104. [12951] $100.00 72. Fenton, James. TERMINAL MORAINE. Ln: Secker and Warburg, 1972. First Edition. Orange printed wrappers; 8vo. Uncorrected advance proof of the poet's frst regularly published book. About %ne copy and needless to say scarce, likely few produced. [12960] $350.00 73. Ferrarie, Julia & Dan Carr. THE INLET WATERS. [Boston]: The Four Zoas Press, 1978. First edition. Long broadside, approx. 13 x 19 in. with a poem by the printers and publishers of Four Zoas; issued in a signed and numbered edition of 44 copies. Poet Carr a master typographer and his artist partner (now spelled) Ferrari founded Golgonzoola Letter Foundry & Press. Quite scarce. Fine. [10092] $65.00
74. Gioia, Dana. PITY THE BEAUTIFUL. Berkeley: Hit & Run Press, 2012. First edition. Illustrated poetry broadside printed in three colors with decorations on Rives. 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 PITY THE BEAUTIFUL. Fine. [12044] $65.00 75. Gioia, Dana. SEQUOIA: Weldon Kees Issue. Stanford: Stanford University, Spring 1979, Vol. 23, issue 2. First edition. Photographic stapled wrappers; 8vo. 48 pp. Student magazine edited at the time by Ted Gioia (now a noted jazz scholar, Dana Gioia's younger brother). Essays and poems by Lucien Stryk, Donald Justice, W. J. Smith and others; with a long essay and photo (21 pp.) on Weldon Kees by Dana Gioia. (A note on a post-it in Dana Gioia's hand and signed DG, says that it was the frst long essay on Kees, and apologizes for 'all the shortcomings of a pioneering piece ). Includes a short poem "This is How" by Dana Gioia which precedes any collection including his rare Bowery Press book. Extensive errata slip taped in. Small spot of coffee stain on cover, else near %ne in stapled wrappers. [12958] $45.00 76. Goldbarth, Albert. COPROLITES. NY: New Rivers Press, 1973. First edition. 83 pp. Inscribed copy to Burt Britton of the poet's second book, published in the same year as his %rst. One of 600 total copies, this the issue in wrappers. Illustrated throughout by Neil Greenberg. Near %ne in wraps. [5212] $65.00 77. Goldbarth, Albert. THE KITCHEN SINK: New and Selected Poems 1972-2007. St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 2007. First edition. 345 pp. Signed (not inscribed) by the poet with an additional verbal and visual humorous comment. Spine thumbed else %ne copy in like dust jacket. [5539] $55.00 78. Goldbarth, Albert. THE MAILBOX. MN: Red Dragonfy Press, 2007. First Edition. [10 pp.] Signed by Goldbarth on the colophon page. This is one of 10 copies (of 225 copies total) with a postal confrmation label pasted to the colophon (an in-joke as part of the colophon statement). String-tied chapbook letterpress printed on Mohawk Super%ne. Fine copy. [5537] $35.00
AlexanderRareBooks.com (802) 476-0838 p. 15 79. Goldbarth, Albert. MARRIAGE, AND OTHER SCIENCE FICTIONS. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1994. First edition. Uncorrected proof in 8 1/2 x 11 in. format. Stiff, printed, pink paper wrappers with a rigid plastic binder. Nearly illegibly stamped "1st proof" on title page. Scarce early version of the book generally intended for review purposes. Near %ne. [7069] $25.00 80. Goldbarth, Albert. OPTICKS: or, a Treatise... NY: Seven Woods Press,, 1974. First Edition. Lovely copy of the poet's second and uncommon book, signed by the poet on the title page. Very near %ne in wrappers with only faint rubbing. [5536] $40.00 81. Goldbarth, Albert. UNDER COVER. Crete NB: Best Cellar Press, 1973. First edition. Original Wraps. Slight sunning of edges, still a lovely letterpress item. His %rst collection. Very Good. [7884] $20.00 Goldbarth is the only poet to win of The National Book Critics Circle Award twice. Prolifc, wide-ranging in subject and sometimes accused of prolixity, having spent most of his career in Wichita KS, he has been unfairly ignored by the Coastal Establishment. 82. Grossman, Allen. THE WOMAN ON THE BRIDGE OVER THE CHICAGO. NY: New Directions, 1979. First edition. Review copy with slip and newsletter laid in. An early recipient of the MacArthur Fellowships (aka Genius Awards), he has been nominated for the NBCC Award, and was awarded the Bollingen Prize in 2009. Grossman died in 2014. Somewhat scarce as it was published simultaneously in hardcover and soft, especially scarce as a review copy. Only the lightest wear. Near %ne in near %ne dust jacket. [539] $25.00 83. Gunn, Thom. FIGHTING TERMS. Ln: Faber, 1962. First Thus. Blue cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 39 pp. The poet's frst book reissued with revisions. Light shelfwear and endpapers lightly offset, else %ne in a complete dust jacket with a few short closed tears and minor wear with sunned extremities. [Hagstrom A2d.] [12961] $45.00 84. Hacker, Marilyn. PRESENTATION PIECE. NY: Viking, 1974. First edition. Poet's %rst regularly published book; the Lamont Poetry Selection for 1973 and National Book Award winner for 1975. Beginning with this book Hacker has proven to be as adept as any contemporary poet in the classic forms. The Lamont card laid in. Near %ne in like dust jacket. [790] $50.00 85. ANOTHER COPY. An uncorrected proof copy in orange and black wrappers. Lightly worn at the edges, a small stain on the bottom edge, the pub date inked in (as is common) and an unfortunate (not so common) inked in price (10c) on the front cover, else about %ne. Scarce. [789] $125.00
86. Hagedorn, Jessica. DANGEROUS MUSIC. San Francisco: Momo's Press, 1975. First edition, issue with cancel (new page glued in); card covers with photographic jacket. The %rst book (Four Young Women, McGraw Hill preceding) by this writer nominated for a National Book Award for the novel DOGEATERS. She has been a commentator for the NPR magazine, "Crossroads," and was the lead singer and lyricist for the "Gangster Choir" band out of San Francisco for many years. There was, also, a hardcover printing (25 copies). Very Near Fine.[1875] $35.00 87. Haines, John. NEW POEMS, 1980-88. Ashland: Story Line Press, 1990. First edition, cloth issue. Signed on the title page by the author. With a long introduction by Dana Gioia. The dust jacket has the Western States 1990 Book Award Sticker. Near %ne blue cloth in a rubbed, and worn at edges, else very good dust jacket. Uncommon signed. [8515] $50.00 88. Hall, Donald. THE UNSAYABLE SAID. [Port Townsend, WA]: Copper Canyon Press, [1993]. First Separate Edition. Broadside printed in two colors; approx. 7 1/2 x 11 inches. Printed in pink, green and black on peach paper with deckled lower edge; "From an essay published by Copper Canyon Press, publisher of poetry for twenty years." Published for the 20th anniversary; not to be confused for the chapbook published nearly simultaneously. This copy is signed by the poet. Fine, and as with many ephemeral items scarce. [10970] $65.00 89. Harris, Marguerite. SIGNALS. NY: The Cymric Press, N.d.. First Edition. Illustrated stapled wrappers; tall 8vo. Unpaginated. A collection of aphorisms and the like from the mostly literary great compiled by Harris. This copy inscribed to the poet Ted [Enslin]. Staples rusty, spine edge soiled, else very good. A good association as both authors corresponded prodigiously, and with each other. Harris' papers are mostly held at Syracuse, Enslin's at Buffalo. [12260] $50.00 90. Harvey, Francis. IN THE LIGHT ON THE STONES. Dublin: Gallery Press, 1978. First edition. 38 pp. Irish poet's %rst collection. Signed hardcover, limited to 250 copies. Fine black cloth in a spine-faded else %ne dust jacket, publisher price sticker on fap. [5561] $50.00 91. Heaney, Seamus. THE HAW LANTERN. NY: Farrar, Straus, 1987. First U.S. Edition. Red cloth with black and gold spine lettering, in original publisher's slipcase. 51 pp. Number 104 of 250 signed copies. Fine in a %ne slipcase; (issued without a dust jacket). [13012] $400.00 92. Heaney, Seamus (trans.) Sophocles. THE BURIAL AT THEBES. Ln: Faber & Faber, 2004. First Edition. Cloth-backed papercovered boards in matching slipcase. 56 pp. Number 188 of 250 (260 total) signed copies. Sophocles' Antigone translated by the Nobel Prize-winner. Fine copy in a %ne slipcase; (issued without a dust jacket). [13013] $500.00
AlexanderRareBooks.com (802) 476-0838 p. 17 93. Herbert, Zbigniew. THE KING OF THE ANTS: Mythological Essays. NY: The Ecco Press, 1999. First Edition. Prose posthumously published, translated from the Polish by the Carpenters. Fine in %ne dust jacket. [12968] $25.00 94. Herbert, Zbigniew. STILL LIFE WITH A BRIDLE: Essays and Apocryphas. NY: The Ecco Press, 1991. First Edition. Review copy with slip laid in. Prose translated from the Polish by the Carpenters. Fine in %ne dust jacket. [12969] $35.00 95. Herbert, Zbigniew; Stanislaw Baranzak. A FUGITIVE FROM UTOPIA: The Poetry of Zbigniew Herbert. Cambridge: Harvard, 1987. First Edition. Blue cloth in jacket; 8vo. According to the fap the %rst book on the poet in English. Near %ne in like dust jacket. [12974] $25.00 96. Hilbert, Ernest. AGAINST THE ART OF WAR. Upper Montclair, NJ: Temporary Culture, 2013. First edition. Fine press, limited edition from Henry Wessells' press of Ernest Hilbert's poem "Against the Art of War" and Wessells' poem "Wars End". Hand-bound paste paper boards, letterpress printed by David Wolfe on 300 FSM Somerset, which is mouldmade and 100% cotton. With three tipped-in aquatint etchings by Judith Clute each signed and lettered (and one in black and white after the colophon also titled and signed). Limited to 26 lettered copies (this is "M") and fve numbered (not-for-sale) all signed by the poets. At the published price. As New. [11744] $450.00 Wessells is known for his fne press books especially of science fction. Clute a Canadian living in London has exhibited all over Europe and North America. The poem by Hilbert was commissioned for this book. 97. Hilbert, Ernest. AIM YOUR ARROWS AT THE SUN. NY: LATR Editions, 2009. First edition. Poetry chapbook, hand-sewn in letterpress covers. Signed by the author. Intro. by Adam Kirsch. One of only 45 frst issue copies, all sold at the launch reading at Melville House in Brooklyn. Of the 250 copies printed, 205 were destroyed when the author pointed out that Kirsch's name was misspelled; the reprint of 205 correctly spells his name. Scarce, especially signed. [10110] $100.00 98. Hilbert, Ernest. ALL OF YOU ON THIS GOOD EARTH. Pasadena: Red Hen Press, 2013. First edition. Printed wrappers; 8vo. The poet's second collection of sonnets from this excellent small press. Highly recommended. Fine in Wraps. [11741] $20.00
99. Hilbert, Ernest. SIXTY SONNETS. LA: Red Hen Press,, 2009. First edition. 93 pp. Signed by the poet, and with his distinctive chop in blue ink. The poet's %rst book (preceded by a broadside) a collection of sonnets, mostly iambic, mostly in an abcabcdefdefgg rhyme scheme. Like Berryman before him he modernizes the sonnet, not by turning it into free verse, but rather with fresh subjects, wording and humor. A wonderful debut by the editor of Contemporary Poetry Review, and himself a well-known antiquarian bookseller. As New in glossy wrappers. [7031] $25.00 100. Hilbert, Ernest and Yezzi, David. TWO RANGES [VERTICAL}. Philadelphia: Nemean Lion Press, 21013. First Edition. Squat oblong quarto, cobalt blue cloth boards, concertina paper column. 14pp. Measures 7 by 5 ½ inches on shelf, 36 inches fully extended. Signed limitededition chapbook featuring two alpine poems, one each by David Yezzi and Ernest Hilbert, on opposite facings of the vertically extendable concertina paper column, one of only sixteen total copies signed by both authors, only twelve for sale (two authors and two artists proofs, hors série); [from publisher's copy]. Artwork by Melissa Moffa and Jennifer Mercer. As new. Hardcover (issued without a dust jacket). [12133] $65.00 101. Hoagland, Tony. DONKEY GOSPEL. Saint Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 1998. First Edition. Signed on the title page by the Poet Tony Hoagland. Winner of the 1997 James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets. Fine in %ne dust jacket. Hardcover. [9174] $75.00 102. Hoagland, Tony. "The Loneliest Job in the World" [Broadside]. Berkeley: Hit & Run, 2011. 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 75 copies (25 going to the author). A lovely production: black lettering with the publisher logo embossed, on blue and white illustrated heavy paper. Fine. [11939] $35.00 103. ANOTHER COPY. One of 25 signed by the poet. Fine. [12689] $65.00 The poem is from the 2010 collection UNINCORPORATED PERSONS IN THE LATE HONDA DYNASTY. One of my favorite Hoagland poems. 104. Hughes, Ted. THE BURNING OF THE BROTHEL. London: Turret Books, 1966. First Edition. Large sewn pamphlet in dark blue thin printed dust wrapper; Thin 8vo. One of 225 copies printed (an additional 75 were numbered and signed). This copy about %ne, with faint wrinkling of the wrappers. (Sagar & Tabor A9). An attractive edition. (The bibliographer notes copies in red and purple, we have seen copies in two distinct shades of blue - this the darker.) Near %ne. [12909] $50.00
AlexanderRareBooks.com (802) 476-0838 p. 19 105. Hughes, Ted. FOUR TALES TOLD BY AN IDIOT. Knotting: Sceptre Press, 1979. First edition. Thin 12mo. [4 pp.] One of 350 numbered copies (total edition 450). Errata slip laid in. Very lightly spinefaded else %ne in stapled wrappers. [Sagar & Tabor A63.] [4429 $35.00 106. Hughes, Ted. A SOLSTICE. Knotting: Sceptre Press, 1978. First Edition. Thin 12mo. [12 pp.] One of 250 of 350 total. Marked Hors commerce, presumably one of ten copies retained according to the bibliographers by publisher the writer Martin Booth. Very good in stapled mustard wrappers. [Sagar & Tabor A55.] [6914] $35.00 107. Hunt, Leigh; John Keats; Percy B. Shelley; Richard Woodhouse. THE NILE. New Rochelle: James L. Weil, 1992. Sewn brown wrappers; thin 8vo. Poems resulting from a challenge: according to a note by Woodhouse, Keats and Shelley %nished their sonnets within the given 15 minutes. Issued as one of 50 copies, designed by Martino Mardersteig and printed by Stamperia Valdonega. Very light sunning to extremities else %ne. [12999] $35.00 108. Hunt, Leigh; John Keats; Richard Woodhouse. THE LAUREL CROWN. New Rochelle: James L. Weil, 1992. First Edition. Sewn tan wrappers; thin 8vo. Poems resulting from Keats' wearing of a Laurel wreath through dinner (of such silly matter can the great make "glories"). Issued as one of 50 copies, designed by Martino Mardersteig and printed by Stamperia Valdonega. Very light sunning to extremities else %ne. [12998] $35.00 109. Jess [Collins]; Robert Duncan. TRANSLATIONS SALVAGES PASTE-UPS. Dallas: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1977. First edition. Stapled, illustrated covers; 4to. Exhibition catalogue, Robert Murdoch, curator, fully illustrated with two in color. Biography and exhibitions listed. An essay "An Art of Wondering" by Duncan. [Bertholf B86.] Fine copy in wraps. [11756] $35.00 110. Joly, Greg. Stone Dance. Jamaica, VT: Bull Thistle, [1990]. First Edition. Single printed sheet sewn into illus. covers; 8vo. One of 10 copies created as a birthday card, with title, birthday inscription, colophon all in publisher/author Joly's hand, and signed by him. Fine and rare item from this important contemporary %ne press. No copies listed on WorldCat. [12989] $100.00 111. Jollimore, Troy. TROUT QUINTET. Berkeley: Hit & Run, 2015. First Separate Printing. Sewn illustrated French-fold wrappers; 8vo. One of 74 numbered copies. A poem of %ve parts from Jollimore's National Book Critic Circle Award-winning volume TOM THOMSON IN PURGATORY as originally published in PLOUGHSHARES. Trout drawing by Loran Parker. Printed
by Lisa Rappoport at Littoral Press in Richmond, CA on Zerkall Frankfort cream paper. As new. [13018] $15.00 112. ANOTHER COPY. One of 26 lettered copies, signed by the author. Printed by Lisa Rappoport at Littoral Press in Richmond, CA on St. Armand Canal paper, with covers of St. Armand Colours and Hahnemuhle Bugra Butten fyleaves. As new. [13017] $40.00 113. Justice, Donald. THE SUMMER ANNIVERSARIES. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1960. First Edition. Gray cloth in dust jacket. Poet's frst book and winner of the Lamont Prize for 1959. Justice would go on to win most of the major awards, and was a distinguished teacher at the Iowa Writers Workshop. Very good or better in a heavily spine-toned (not price-clipped) dust jacket with few small chips and loss at the crown and foot. Still reasonable copy of an uncommon book in the cloth issue. "The Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets/1960" in unknown hand in ink on front fy. [10176] $35.00 Also see #55 114. Kaneko, Lonny. COMING HOME FROM CAMP. Waldron Island, WA: Brooding Heron, 1986. First Edition. Sewn red Fabriano wrappers; square 8vo. One of 300 copies (26 were in boards and lettered) printed in two colors. Spine lightly faded, else about %ne. [12992] $15.00 115. Kaufman, Bob. SECOND APRIL. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1959. First edition. A very early work by this poet, folded broadside, accordian style. Kaufman's %rst book. Very clean copy, no tears, just a hint of toning to covers else %ne. Very tiny Lilly Library, Indiana University small label on rear cover, no other markings. [9605] $40.00 116. Keats, John. TEN SONNETS. New Rochelle: James L. Weil, 1995. First Thus. Gray printed wrappers with French faps; 16mo. Ten great sonnets in an edition of 200 copies designed by Martino Mardersteig and printed by Stamperia Valdonega, marking the bicentennial of the poet's birth. This one of 100 "hors de commerce" Prospectus/bookseller's (Joshua Heller rare Books) announcement laid in. Fine, and uncommon in the trade given the relatively large limitation. Originally issued at $100. Fine. [13000] $75.00
AlexanderRareBooks.com (802) 476-0838 p. 21 117. Keats, John. To Alisa Rock Poems 1992-1995. Jamaica, NY: Kelly-Winterton Press, 1995. First Edition. Sewn gray wrappers printed in red; 8vo. One of 50 "keepsake copies" printed at the Kelly-Winterton on the occasion of the poet's bicentennial. Fine. [12996] $35.00 118. Kennedy, X. J. GROWING INTO LOVE. Garden City: Doubleday, 1969. First Edition. 96 pp. Laid in is a typed signed letter TLS of some 100 words on his stationary dated Feb. 20, 1970, to Louis Untermeyer, beginning in a characteristically light and humorous note: "It was large of you to notice my notice". About %ne in very near %ne dust jacket with mild tanning. Several spots of glue to ffep and correspondingly to the letter, which is folded in thirds else %ne. Near %ne in near %ne dust jacket. [5408] $45.00 119. Kicknosway, Faye. BUTCHER SCRAPS (waves Fve). Shepherd, MI: waves, 1982. First edition. Early work by the California poet, 30 pages stapled into pictorial wraps. Inscribed by Kicknosway "Susan, changes bring it clear", and dated 5/6/85. Susan's initialed attractive book stamp, light edgewear, else only minor bump to rear bottom corner of wrap. Very good in stapled wraps. [8043] $15.00 120. Kicknosway, Faye. POEM TREE. n. p. : Red Hanrahan Press, 1973. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. This copy has some shelf rubbing, especially to edges, but is tight and clean. With drawings by the poet. Very good. [8490] $20.00 121. Kinnell, Galway. The Burn. Anchorage: Salmon Run Press, 1995. First edition thus. A single poem. The ninth pamphlet in the Salmon Run Pamphlet Series I. One of 100 numbered copies signed by the author. Fine in thin photographic wrappers. Scarce. [4377] $25.00 122. Kinnell, Galway. THE MIND. Concord: Ewert, 1984. First edition. A single poem. One of 36 numbered copies signed by Kinnell out of 136 total copies printed. Illustration by Jane Hamor. Calligraphy by Adele V. Sanborn. Printed for friends of the author and publisher for Christmas. Fine in sewn wrappers. [4376] $35.00 123. Lawrence, D. H. AMORES. NY: Huebsch, 1916. First American edition. Coarse brown cloth stamped in gold; t. e. g.; small 8vo. Lawrence's second (and then shocking) volume of poems published in the same year as the UK edition, with minor variations. Rubbed, lightly bumped edges, contemporary name and date in ink on fep; light soiling but clean tight and very good; lacking scarce dust jacket. [11667] $65.00
124. Levertov, Denise. CONVERSATION IN MOSCOW. n.p.: Hovey Street Press,, 1973. First edition. Red stapled card covers in printed wrapper; thin 8vo. Written and produced as a wedding gift to friends. Near-%ne condition. Number 39 of 200 signed and numbered, from a press run of 1000 total. Designed by Judy Katz. Calligraphy by Peggy Johnstone. [7886] $45.00 125. Levertov, Denise. PIG DREAMS: Scenes from the Life of Sylvia. Vermont: Countryman Press, 1981. First edition. One of 150 numbered copies ( + 26 lettered) in printed clamshell box, signed by the author and illustrator. Levertov's charming poems accompany Lliebe Coolidge's pastels, presenting the life of Sylvia, a wonderful pig living at the time in Vermont. Top edge (spine) bumped, mostly affecting box, and slightly the dust jacket. else quite %ne. [10315] $45.00 126. Levine, Philip, Orlando Patterson and Norman Rush. EARTH, WIND, AND WRITERS. Washington DC: The Library of Congress, 1992. First edition. Talks presented during national book week 1992 by the winners of the 1991 National Book Awards. Residue from a sticker on the reverse, otherwise %ne. Twelve pages from Levine on his beginning years as a poet, interesting biographical content. Near %ne in wraps. [1372] $20.00 127. Liddy, James. MOON AND STAR MOMENTS. NY: At- Swim Press, 1982. First edition. Blue wrappers printed in silver on front cover; 16mo. Calligraphy, design and illustrations by Malachi Mccormick (now of Stone Street Press). "this %rst printing is limited to 300 copies."signed with a brief inscription (no name) by the author in pencil. Fine. [12947] $50.00 128. Liddy, james. Versheet 3: Homage to Patrick Kavanagh. Dublin: New Writers' Press, 1971. First edition. Single sheet folded and pasted into a blue paper folder; tall 8vo. Inscribed and signed "to, with all the nostalgia of former poet lives, James Liddy". One of a stated 500 copies, but uncommon, especially signed. Laid in photocopy of a Liddy poem with a brief notation also signed by the poet. Light creasing at edges, else about %ne. [12950] $50.00 129. Logue, Christopher. I Shall Vote Labour. Ln: Turret Books, 1966. First Edition. Poetry broadside, approx. 22 x 17 inches. Printed in black, designed, and printed by Goliard Press. This one of 100 copies signed and numbered by the poet, a total of 1000 printed. A famous political poem of the 60's in support of Harold Wilson's Labour Government and published in the party's TRIBUNE magazine, although it was not likely what they were looking for when requesting support from prominent Labour Party artists and intellectuals. This copy has been rolled and has many creases, but otherwise with little wear. Copies of the edition have become scarce, signed copies very much so. [13019] $300.00
AlexanderRareBooks.com (802) 476-0838 p. 23 130. Logue, Christopher. MIXED RUSHES. Ln: John Roberts Press, 1974. First edition. [12 pp.] Blue sewn paper wrappers with paper label. Christmas greeting. The author has dated, but not signed: "Salut! c. 25.12. '74". Light fading and soiling, at least very good. [4719] $20.00 131. Logue, Christopher. SINGLES. Ln: John Roberts Press, December 1973. First edition. [11pp.] Blue paper wrappers with paper label. Christmas greeting. The author has inscribed this copy on Christmas Day 1973. Touch of fading to the edges, otherwise %ne. [4720] $45.00
132. Lowell, Robert et al. Poems. Ln: Poetry Book Society, 1960. First edition. Prints Lowell's great poem "For The Union Dead" four years before the frst book publication. Includes poems by Padric Fallon, William Stafford (2), Laurence Clark, Robert Lowell, Thomas Kinsella, and Charles Tomlinson. Issued for members of the Poetry Book Society for Christmas. Near %ne in self wraps. [4206] $35.00 133. McClatchy, J.D. SCENES FROM ANOTHER LIFE: Poems. NY: Braziller, 1981. First edition. Poet's %rst book, in near-%ne condition. Warmly inscribed "Sandy" as he is known to friends, and dated 13.IV.83. Trade paperback original, (no hardcover issue in US). Spine toned, light edgewear, very good. Scarce signed. [8791] $50.00 134. Meredith, William. THE CHEER. NY: Knopf, 1980. First edition. For Meredith, no where near as proli%c as most of his contemporaries, a rather substantial collection. He would win the Pulitzer Prize for his next collection published in 1987. Fine in %ne dust jacket. [930] $20.00 135. Meredith, William. EARTH WALK: New and Selected Poems. NY: knopf, 1970. First edition. This copy signed in a poststroke hand (after 1983, printed). A substantial collection, with new poems. Fine in a very near %ne dust jacket. [10817] $45.00 136. Meredith, William. THE OPEN SEA. NY: Knopf, 1958. First edition. Inscribed by the poet on the ffep in 1960 in New London where he taught. One minor change in text to a poem; although it is dif%cult to tell whether it is in the poet's hand. Fine in a lightly worn and sunned, but complete dust jacket. [4326] $40.00 Meredith won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and served as Consultant to the Librarian of Congress. 137. Mezey, Robert. SELECTED TRANSLATIONS: 1960-1980. Kalamazoo: Westigan Review Press, 1981. First edition. Gold stamped cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 95 pp. Letter "Q" of 26 hardbound copies (of 500, mostly in paper) signed by the translator. Signed twice, at colophon and title page. Translations by Mezey of Uri Zvi Greenberg, Catullus, Jacques Prevert, Manuel Montalban, Baudelaire, and others. Near %ne in near %ne dust jacket. [12970] $50.00 138. Mezey, Robert. WHITE BLOSSOMS. West Branch, iowa: Cummington Press, 1965. First edition. Pale green silk patterened wrapers; 12mo. Inscribed by the poet to poet/professor Marvin Bell. Mezey's second book, one of 520 copies, beautifully printed. Uncommon signed, and a nice association copy between two contemporaries. Spine toned, light wear; %ne interior. [12955] $95.00
AlexanderRareBooks.com (802) 476-0838 p. 25 139. Moore, Marianne. EIGHT POEMS. NY: The Museum of Modern Art, 1962. First edition thus. Cloth-backed gray/brown paper over boards in slipcase, with paper label; 4to. Published by MOMA under the direction of Monroe Wheeler. Number 138 of 195 copies all signed by Ms. Moore and Robert Andrew Parker. Moore's poems in holograph; Parker's ten drawings all colored by hand. Addendum slip laid in. Poems include "The Fish"; "He Digesteth Harde Yron" and "Nevertheless". A nice pairing of Moore and Parker: both interested in the natural world. Lovely production. Fine. Hardcover (issued without a dust jacket). [12941] $850.00 140. Morgan, Edwin. GRENDEL. Glasgow: The Mariscar Press, 1982. First edition. Limited to 300 copies, a folded card printed at Arran Gallery Press on Heritage Book White and hand set. A poem by Morgan with an illustration on the front cover by Peter Harrison. Fine. [3709] $45.00 141. Morgan, Edwin. SIESTA OF A HUNGARIAN SNAKE. N.p.: Jargon, 1971. First printing. Published as Jargon 65 by Jonathan Williams and printed at the Finial Press. It consists of a single sheet of %ne paper folded in quarters with a broadside tipped in. An attractive if very brief line of concrete poetry by this important Scottish poet. Light foxing otherwise about %ne. [3708] $45.00 142. Morgan, Edwin. TWELVE SONGS. West Linton: The Castlelaw Press, 1970. First printing. One of 400 copies (of 500) on Guard Bridge Trident paper hand-set in 12 point Baskerville & printed by Alex. M. Frizzell. A chapbook of mostly traditional poetry. Very Good with light toning and creasing to the edges of the olive wrappers. [3711] $20.00 143. Mort, Valzhyn. FACTORY OF TEARS. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2008. First edition. Trade paperback original in tall illustrated wrappers; small 8vo. 116 pp. Signed in Cyrillic by the Belarusian poet who now lives in the US. Translated by pulitzer prizewinner Franz Wright and his wife Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright. English facing Belarusian. Winner of a Lannan award. A few tiny spots (ink?) on foreedge, else %ne. [11352] $45.00 144. [Waniek] Nelson, Marilyn. MAGNIFICAT: Poems. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1994. First edition. Signed as Marilyn Nelson on the title page; she reverted to her maiden name on subsequent volumes. 56 pages. Uncommon title and uncommon signed. Nelson's fourth collection. Fine in very good or better dust jacket. [9620] $45.00
145. Nemerov, Howard. GUIDE TO THE RUINS. NY: Random House, 1950. First edition. 54 pp. Blue cloth-backed decorated boards. Signed by the poet on the half-title page. Nemerov's second collection, third book. Lightly worn boards, nice dark blue topstain, in a frayed and lightly chipped and spine-toned dust jacket, not price-clipped. [6781] $50.00 146. O'Hara, Frank. SECOND AVENUE. NY: Totem Press, 1960. First edition. Black & white illus. Stapled wrappers. Larry Rivers cover. Residue of old price sticker on front cover, mild toning, about very good. [11678] $65.00 147. Olson, Charles. CALL ME ISHMAEL. Ln: Jonathan Cape, 1967. First UK edition. An uncorrected proof in green patterned wrappers of this edition of Olson's frst book, edited by Nathaniel Tarn. Originally rejected by T. S. Eliot for publication due to wartime limitations, it would not be published in the UK until this edition 20 years later. Cape Editions 2: a study of Melville. Pub date in ink on spine, "Mr. Howard" in ink on the front cover, "Miles" on inside, otherwise %ne. [4375] $50.00 148. Olson, Charles. MAYAN LETTERS. Ln: Jonathan Cape, 1968. First UK edition. An uncorrected proof in green patterned wrappers of this edition of Creeley's selections of letters from Olson to Creeley. Cape editions 17, edited by Nathaniel Tarn. Fine. [4195] $35.00 149. Orlowsky, Dzvinia. BURYING DOLLS. MA: Minatoby, 1992. First edition. Inscribed on the title page by the poet; additionally signed and numbered by Orlowsky. This is copy 105 of a limited edition of 200. Scarce. Fine in wrappers. [9506] $35.00 150. Orlowsky, Dzvinia. CONVERTIBLE NIGHT, FLURRY OF STONES. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2008. First edition; original trade paper. Signed on the title page by the poet with full signature. Fine [10604] $16.00 Best known for her translations from Ukranian, she is one of the founders of Four Way Books. 151. Orr, Gregory. SALT WINGS. N.p.: Four Zoas, 1980. First edition. Poetry East, Four Zoas, Night Horse. 36 pp. Near %ne in sewn wrappers. Introduction by Stanley Kunitz. One of 112 (of 175) numbered copies on Ragston paper. Spine faded else %ne. [9501] $50.00 152. Padgett, Ron & Clark Coolidge. SUPERNATURAL OVERTONES. Great Barrington, MA: The Fgures, 1990. First edition. Very near %ne in side-stapled, printed wrappers. BrieJy inscribed "from Ron to " by Padgett. One of 500 copies in illustrated wrappers. The Figures known primarily for publishing language poets: this publication an
AlexanderRareBooks.com (802) 476-0838 p. 27 interesting juxtaposition on every page of Padgett's humorous brief "narratives" and Coolidge's word play. Terri%c nonsense. A surprisingly uncommon book. Near %ne. [10211] $45.00 153. Patchen, Kenneth. POEMSCAPES [Jargon 11]. Highland, NC: Jonathan Williams, 1958. First edition. 8vo. Pictorial French fold wraps. Long Henry Miller quote on the back cover: "Patchen is now and will remain one of the outstanding %gures in American letters". In 1958 he was a primary infuence on the Beats. Very good. [10535] $35.00 154. Peacock, Molly. RAW HEAVEN. NY: Random House, 1984. First edition. An uncorrected proof copy in blue printed wrappers. Random House stated on front cover; two copyright pages one for Vintage one for RH (the book was published simultaneously in HC and TP). An odd proof with nearly half the pages blank, but still including all of the poems of the published edition. Fine. [1002] $40.00 Three Poetry Project Posters
155. Poster for Poetry Project poetry readings at St. Mark's. New York: n. p., n. d. (1976?). Large colorful poster on white printed in black and red. (13 x 19 in.) by Tom B, for readings and workshops at St. Mark's Church in NYC. John Ashbery reading with Kenneth Koch; Joel Oppenheimer, Harry Lewis, Art Lange, Rose Lesniak among others, with workshops by Alice Notley, Bill Zavatsky and others. Very strong ("superhero") graphic. Folded in quarters for mailing, else about %ne. Phoenix Book Shop address on verso. [10487] $150.00 156. Poster for Poetry Project poetry readings at St. Mark's. New York: n. p., 1976. Large colorful poster on white printed in black and orange. (10 x 16 in.) by R. P. S., for readings and workshops at St. Mark's Church in NYC. Workshops with Ted Berrigan; readings with Bruce Andrews & Michael Newman; Bob Holman & Bob Rosenthal; and Paul Brown & Terry Swanson. Folded once for mailing, staple holes used for mailing, light wear and handling to edges, but otherwise about %ne. Phoenix Book Shop address on verso. [10488] $150.00 157. Poster for Poetry Project poetry readings at St. Mark's. TOTALLY GREAT POETRY. New York: n. p., circa 1980. Large black and white poster (17 x 23 in.) for readings and workshops at St. Mark's Church in NYC. Readings with Gary Indiana, Sokhi Wagner (%lmmaker), Tom Weigel, Dennis Cooper, Alice Notley, Brad Gooch, Richard Hell and Jackson Mac Low among others. Folded twice for mailing, short tears and creasing at edges, but otherwise about %ne. Phoenix Book Shop address on verso. [10489] $45.00 See cover for poster detail
AlexanderRareBooks.com (802) 476-0838 p. 29 158. Purdy, James. AN OYSTER IS A WEALTHY BEAST. [San Francisco]: Black Sparrow Press, 1967. First edition. [38 pp.] Number 175 of 250 copies in white sewn wrappers, and signed by the author. Consists of one short story " a scrap of paper", and eleven poems. Light soiling, yapped edges lightly creased, residue of old price sticker, else %ne. [6802] $45.00 159. Raine, Kathleen. THE PRESENCE: Poems 1984/87. [Ipswich, UK]: Golgonooza, 1987. First edition. Lovely fresh copy of Raine's tenth collection. Scarce in the U.S. Fine in %ne dust jacket. [8844] $50.00 160. Ramke, bin. THE LANGUAGE STUDENT. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1986. First edition. The poet's third book in the uncommon hardcover issue (published simultaneously in paper). Signed by the poet. Near %ne in near %ne dust jacket. [2421] $45.00 161. Rueffe, Mary. LIFE WITHOUT SPEAKING. Tuscaloosa, AL, 1987. First edition. Orange cloth printed in black; 8vo. The poet's scarce second book, also issued in paper. This an ex-libris copy with withdrawn stamp and stamp of a California institution on front endpaper; two stickers from said institution on cover; and stamp on top edge. Issued with out dust jacket. Minor wear and except the ex-lib stamping an easily very good copy of a dif%cult to obtain title. Very good - ex-lib. [12957] $125.00 162. Ryan, Kay. "Spiderweb". Berkeley: Hit & Run, 2011. First separate printing. Broadside poem printed by Larry Rafferty on Stonehenge pearl gray using his Vandercook SP-15 proof press. 7 x 11 in. One of 100 copies (25 going 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. [12245] $35.00 Ryan served two terms as Poet Laureate and won the Pulitzer Prize for her collection THE BEST OF IT. Known for her short, concise poems, biting wit, and surprising rhymes the wonderful poem "Spiderweb" is ideal for a broadside. 163. Sassoon, Siegfried. THE HEART'S JOURNEY. NY: Crosby Gaige, 1927. First Edition. Blue boards, silk spine, paper label; tall 8vo. 28 pp. One of 599 copies signed by the author on the title-page. Typography by Bruce Rogers, and distributed in the US by Random House. Bottom edge lightly worn, old bookseller ticket on rear end paper partially torn, attractive stamp-sized and discrete bookplate of Albert Sperisen on front end paper, easily very good in a worn at corners very good dust jacket. [13011] $450.00 Albert Sperisen was the longtime librarian for the Book Club of California, and a noted authority on typography.
164. Sassoon, Siegfried. THE WAR POEMS. Ln: Heinemann, 1919. First Edition. Red cloth with paper and spine labels; small 8vo. 95 pp. Of the 64 poems, 12 published for the %rst time. Spine faded, spine label darkened and rubbed, spine ends worn, prev. owner's name and date in ink; else very good; interior quite bright and clean; lacking dust jacket. [13009] $250.00 165. Schuyler, James. EARLY IN '71. Berkeley: The Figures, 1982. First edition. Small chapbook in pale blue stapled wrappers. One of 500 copies. This copy inscribed by the author "for Bill/ from Jimmy/ who admires his talents -/ Sept'85/ Chelsea Hotel". Extremities faded, faint stain and small spots; interior clean, and very little wear. Brief prose/diary pieces from Jan. to May 1971. Important press publishing NY School and LANGUAGE poets. Uncommon and quite scarce signed by Schuyler. [10457] $200.00 166. Schuyler, James. FIREPROOF FLOORS OF WITLEY COURT ENGLISH SONGS AND DANCES BY JAMES SCHUYLER. West Burke, VT: Janus Press, 1976. First edition. Orange wrappers with silver moon decoration, printed in two colors with double-page cut-out endpapers; 8vo. One of 150 copies. "...Designed, handset in Monotype Times Roman, printed, torn, cut, and bound by Claire Van Vliet at the Janus Press on and of Kozu, Fabriano and
AlexanderRareBooks.com (802) 476-0838 p. 31 Canson paper. The endpapers are the topiary gardens of Levens Hall, Westmorland, England. This is copy no 85." Back cover lightly sunned along the front edge, else %ne, unopened. [12944] $1,200.00 Claire Van Vliet's work has been heavily collected for over 50 years, well before she won an early MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant in 1989, with many institutions subscribing. This title particularly elusive in the trade. 167. Seidel, Frederick. GOING FAST. NY: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1998. First edition. 103 pp. Uncorrected proof copy in beige printed wrappers. Fine. [5591] ` $25.00 168. Seidman, Hugh. BLOOD LORD. NY: Doubleday, 1974. First edition. The second collection by this poet; his collected poems were published in 1995. This copy inscribed to bookseller (The Strand) Burt Britten, with a drawing of books and a book worm. The dust jacket is darkened and lightly worn around the edges, otherwise a near %ne copy. [136] $45.00 169. Shapiro, Karl. The Alphabet. New Rochelle: James L. Weil, 1988. First separate printing. String-tied wrappers; 8vo. Single poem by Shapiro taken from his New & Selected, issued as one of 75 copies, designed by Martino Mardersteig and printed by Stamperia Valdonega. Issued unsigned. Fine. [12983] $25.00 170. Simic, Charles. THE CHICKEN WITHOUT A HEAD: A New Version. Portland: Trace Editions, 1983. Second Trace edition. This was the second book published by Trace, and is stitched into brick-colored wraps. There were 500 copies issued, of which 75 were numbered and signed. This is one of the 425 unnumbered copies specially signed by Simic at the colophon. Very slight softening of corner tips of wrap, otherwise fawless and both lovely and entertaining. [8038] $35.00 Association Copy 1/100 total copies 171. Simic, Charles. THEY FORAGE AT NIGHT. NY: Nadja, 1980. First edition. Grey wrappers. One of 74 numbered copies signed by Simic. (There were an additional 26 lettered copies reserved by the publisher.) Inscribed in 1981 to Mark Strand (and his wife Jules). Simic signs himself "with love/ The Zinfndel Kid". Nice copy attractively printed on handmade paper. Fine. [11139] $250.00 A wonderful association copy between two of the most honored poets of their generation: Pulitzer Prizes, Stevens Prizes, MacArthur Awards and Poet Laureates.
172. Simpson, Louis. NORTH OF JAMAICA. NY: Harper & Row, 1972. First edition. Cloth-backed paper-covered boards in dust jacket; 8vo. 285 pp. Signed by the author. Autobiography of the Jamaican-born, Columbia educated, WW2 veteran, Pulitzer Prize-winner. Exceptional copy with minor wrinkle to back cover else %ne. Fine in near %ne dust jacket. [12966] $50.00 173. Smith, Dave. IN DARK, SUDDEN WITH LIGHT. Athens, OH: Croissant Pamphlets, 1976. First edition. 12 pages, sewn into light green wraps that have a bit of fading along spine and edges. Crisp copy, signed by the author on the title page. Loving and vivid narrative poetry from one of our %nest Southern writers. Near %ne. [8848] $35.00 174. Smith, William Jay. POEMS. NY: Banyan, 1947. First Edition. One of 500 numbered copies. Poet's frst book, and a notable small press. Linen-backed, patterned paper-covered boards. A very good copy with moderate wear to edges and some soiling; lacking fragile glassine jacket. [6950] $25.00 175. ANOTHER COPY. Number 201 of 500 copies. Inscribed by the poet to publisher William Ewert. A very good copy, one bottom edge worn through about one inch, otherwise with little wear in a chipped and fragile very good original glassine jacket. [12614] $100.00 176. Smith, William Jay. A ROSE FOR KATHERINE ANNE PORTER. NY: Albondocani Press, 1970. First edition. [8 pp.] One of 180 copies numbered and signed by the poet. Printed by William Ferguson in Cambridge; Issued as Albondocani Press Publication Number 9. Stapled in patterned wrappers, with a paper label. Faint stain to front, and a short tear at crown, otherwise about %ne. [4513] $20.00 177. Sorrentino, Gilbert. BLACK AND WHITE. NY: Totem Press, 1964. First Edition. Staple illustrated covers; 8vo. The author's second collection preceding the novels for which he is best known. One of the major experimental writers of prose and poetry of his generation. Staples corroded, usual toning to extremities, else very good. [12991] $10.00 178. Stallings, A[licia]. E[lsbeth]. Watching the Vulture at the Road Kill. Berkeley: Hit & Run, 2013. First separate printing. Poetry broadside (approx. 7 3/4 x 12 in.) printed in two colors on BFK Rives gray paper. One of 20 numbered copies signed by the author; of the 100 total copies, 25 went to the author, the remaining 55 unsigned. Printed on a Vandercook No. 4 Proof Press at Colored Horse Studios in Ukiah, CA. The poem is from the poet's %rst regularly published book ARCHAIC SMILE. Stallings is a winner of a MacArthur "genius" Award. Fine, and a lovely production from Larry Rafferty's press. [12687] $65.00
AlexanderRareBooks.com (802) 476-0838 p. 33 179. Stefanile, Felix. To Answer Robert Frost (For Spencer Brown). New Rochelle: James L. Weil, 1989. First Separate Printing. Sewn gray printed wrappers; 8vo. Single poem (answering Frost: "what to make of a diminished thing? ) in an edition of 50 "keepsake copies" printed by Kelly- Winterton Press. Fine. [13002] $25.00 180. Stern, Gerald. LUCKY LIFE: Poems. Boston: Houghton Miffin, 1977. First Edition. Black cloth spine stamped in gold, in dust jacket; 8vo. 88 pp. The 1977 Lamont Poetry Selection. Embossed stamp on ffep, else %ne in %ne dust jacket, one corner nicked. [12964] $25.00 181. Stern, Gerald. REJOICINGS: Selected Poems. Fredericton, N. B. Canada: Fiddlehead Poetry Books, 1973. First edition. One of a stated 500 copies in mustard wrappers published the year after his %rst book (from Cummington Press); 8vo. 44pp. Quite uncommon in the marketplace despite the stated printing; republished in 1984 in the US. His next book would be selected for the Lamont Poetry Prize for best %rst book; among his many awards are the National Book Award, Wallace Stevens Award and Ruth Lilly Prize. This copy briejy inscribed in 1994, and additionally signed. Light wear at corners, but still about %ne. A wonderful copy. [12965] $100.00 182. Stillinger, Jack. Keats and Me. New Rochelle: James L. Weil, 1986. First Edition. String-tied orange wrappers; 8vo. Single poem by Stillinger, issued as one of 50 copies, designed by Martino Mardersteig and printed by Stamperia Valdonega. Stillinger a Keats scholar. Fine. [12984] $35.00 183. Stock, F. Bjornson. Apology to the Man Whose Left Hand Curved. Jamaica, VT: Bull Thistle, 1992. First Edition. Single printed sheet sewn into decorated covers; 8vo. Single poem, letterpress printed; announcement for the poet's collection DRAWING WATER on back cover, so presumably a prospectus. Two copies listed on WorldCat. Fine. [12990] $25.00 184. Strand, Mark; Jorie Graham. THE LIVES OF THE POEMS: Twelve Drawings on Canvas. East Hampton: Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, 2005. First Edition. Gray printed wrappers with French faps; oblong, small 4to. 25 pp. One of 450 (of 500 total) copies of the regular edition; introduction by Jorie Graham (7 pp.). 12 full-page illustrations of the drawings. Lovely production by Jerry Kelly. Fine. [11887] $30.00 Strand trained as an artist as an undergrad at Yale, studying with Joseph Albers.
185. Tabb, John Bannister (Emily Dickinson). John Bannister Tabb on Emily Dickinson. NY: Seven Gables Bookshop, 1950. First edition. Gray printed, stapled wrappers; 4to. 4 pp. Foreword by Thomas H. Johnson. Consists of a two-page facsimile of a holograph letter from Tabb to Frederick M. Hopkins discussing his work and Dickinson's. Created as a Christmas card for 1950. 500 copies printed at the Spiral Press. Reportedly suppressed because it was feared that some readers might infer from the title an allusion to a sexual relationship between these poets. Light toning to the edges, else %ne. [11789] $20.00 186. Tate, James. LAND OF LITTLE STICKS. Worcester: Metacom Press, 1981. First edition. Number 24 of 300 copies in wrappers, signed as called for on the colophon by Tate. Designed, printed and hand-sewn by Nancy King and William Ferguson into Ingres Antique wrappers. A %ne small press: publishers of Updike, Beattie, Carver, Merrill among others. A %ne copy with prospectus (including books by Updike, Wright, Heyen and Beattie) laid in. [3702] $65.00 187. ANOTHER COPY. One of 26 lettered copies (this is letter "P") bound in cloth (an additional 300 copies in wrappers) and designated not for sale. Signed as called for on the colophon by Tate. Designed, printed and bound by Nancy King and William Ferguson in quarter cloth, decorated boards, in an acetate dust jacket. Light shelf wear to the bottom edges, otherwise %ne in %ne dust jacket. [3503] $300.00 188. Tate, James. SHROUD OF THE GNOME. NY: The Ecco Press, 1997. First edition. Signed by the poet on the title page. The %rst binding with two free end papers prior to the half-title. Fine in %ne dust jacket. [3512] $40.00 189. Tate, James, et al. MANHATTAN REVIEW 1(3), 1967. NY: Manhattan Review, 1967. First edition. This little journal began as "a little magazine of emerging poetry and %ction," but after this issue became %ction only. Contains two "issues" (both are marked Vol Won No Three), printed "dos a dos" and stapled into wraps illustrated by Harry Moss. Contains early work by Pultizer Prize-winning poet James Tate, published before his %rst book was in print. Tate has signed this at his poem, "Miss Cho Composes in the Cafeteria." Plus Work By Lyn Lifshin, Leo Connellan, and others. Crisp, although staples are rusty and have begun to bleed into paper. A unique piece. [7984] $35.00 190. Van Duyn, Mona. NEAR CHANGES. NY: Knopf, 1990. First Edition. Cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. Van Duyn, previously winner of the National Book Award, The Bollingen Prize as well as the Ruth Lilly Prize, won the Pulitzer Prize for this collection. Fine in a lightly age-toned dust jacket, else %ne dust jacket. [6083] $35.00
AlexanderRareBooks.com (802) 476-0838 p. 35 MacArthur Genius Grant recipient 2015 191. Voigt, Ellen Bryant. LOTUS FLOWERS: Poems. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon Univ. Press, 2000. Originally published by Norton. Signed by the author on the title page. A lovely copy in illus. wraps. Fine. [8136] $25.00 192. Voigt, Ellen Bryant. SHADOW OF HEAVEN: Poems. NY: Norton, 2002. First edition. Inscribed by poet Ellen Bryant Voigt on the title page to poet Laurie Sheck. Both poets were Pulitzer Prize %nalists, nice association copy. This book was a National Book Award Finalist. Tail of spine bumped, else %ne in %ne dust jacket. [9203] $25.00 193. Voigt, Ellen Bryant. TWO TREES: Poems. NY: Norton, 1994. First edition. Cloth in dust jacket. Relatively scarce hardcover edition of Voigt's fourth collection, which explores "musical variations" on her poems. Signed by the author on the title page. Fine in %ne dust jacket. [8134] $75.00 194. Wakoski, Diane. TRILOGY: Coins & CofFns: Discrepancies and Apparitions; The George Washington Poems. NY: Doubleday, 1974. First edition, simultaneous paperback issue. Inscribed by poet Diane Wakoski to poet Will Inman at the Bisbee Poetry Festival in 1980. Very Good. [9310] $25.00 195. Warsh, Lewis. INFORMATION FROM THE SURFACE OF VENUS, Poems 1976-1982. NY: United Artists Books, 1987. First edition, paperback. Fine. Includes errata slip. Long narrative poems. Fine. [7922] $20.00 196. Warsh, Lewis. Long Distance. Ln: Ferry Press, 1971. First edition, softcover issue. Collages by George Schneeman. Edges of wrap a bit worn, interior bright and fresh. Very Good. [8262] $25.00 197. Weil, James L. BILL'S SHAKER CHAIR. Jamaica, NY: Kelly-Winterton Press, 1995. First Edition. Tan printed wrappers; thin 8vo. One of 65 printed at the Kelly-Winteron Press. Six poems including the title poem. This copy especially signed and inscribed at the colophon to another small press publisher and poet. Fine. [12995] $65.00 198. Weil, James L. BEDROCK AND STONES. New Rochelle: James L. Weil, 1989. First edition. Japanese stab binding; tall 16mo. Two short poems by Weil, issued as one of 75 copies, printed by the Kelly-Winterton Press. Issued unsigned, this copy specially inscribed in pencil at the colophon and signed "Jim". Fine save slightly bumped corner. [12982] $35.00
199. Wieners, John. INVITATION. Santa Barbara, CA: Unicorn Press, [1970]. Three accordion-folded pages of verse plus colophon, pasted into hard boards covered with textured brown paper; pasted label. #29 of 200; signed by Wieners; Lepper p. 425. Designed by Allan Brilliant. Not dated, but issued in 1970. Fine. [9937] $45.00 200. ANOTHER COPY. : One of 300 copies tipped into paper wrappers This copy specially signed on the cover by Wieners below his name, with "Main Street" below the title and "Buffalo, NY" to the side. Very good copy. [10464] $25.00 201. Wieners, John. YOUTH. Phoenix Press: The Phoenix Book Shop, 1970. First edition. Oblong; 16mo.; handsewn decorated wraps with paper label. One of 100 copies signed by the poet and numbered. Printed at The Ferguson Press (Jim Ferguson) in Cambridge, published by Bob Wilson, two of the most important publishers/booksellers of avant garde poetry on the East Coast in the 70's. Fine. [10461] $45.00 202 Winters, Yvor. THE GIANT WEAPON. Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1943. First edition. 8vo. Paper-covered boards in printed dust wrapper. Printed by the Golden Eagle Press. Lightly worn jacket (not pricedclipped) with one closed tear on the back panel; lightly toned paper. Very good and uncommon in the hardcover issue. [10717] $50.00 203. Wright, James. THE GREEN WALL. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1957. First edition. Original boards in dust jacket; 8vo. Review copy with reviewer's slip laid in. Prior owner's name in blue pencil. At the end of Auden's introduction quoting lines from Wright someone has written (in pencil) the %nal quatrain in reverse, and commented interestingly: "note the hovering image of the turn-ed worm". At any rate other than these marks in pencil, and some light edgewear a lovely copy of one of the most important %rst books of poetry of the second half of the 20th C. As a review copy - scarce. Near %ne in near %ne dust jacket. [1237] $600.00 204. Wright, James. THIS JOURNEY. NY: Random House, 1982. First Edition. The uncommon cloth issue of this book posthumously published which was in manuscript at the time of the poet's death in 1980. Simultaneously issued in paper, the hardcover generally went to libraries. Boards fared but otherwise %ne. Near %ne in near %ne dust jacket. [3528] $40.00 205. Zagajewski, Adam. R Says. Berkeley: Hit & Run Press, 2015. 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 10 signed by the poet. Fine. [13005] $50.00
206. ANOTHER COPY. 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 10 signed by the poet. The shipment by the author of the signed copies was damaged in transit. This copy with a darkened corner with some loss, thus very good. [13007] $50.00 207. Zagajewski, Adam. WITHOUT END: New and Selected Poems. NY: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2002. First edition. An uncorrected proof copy in blue wrappers with printed publicity sheet laid in. C. K. Williams is among the four translators. Fine. [4316] $20.00 Zagajewski was born in Poland and is generally regarded as the greatest 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