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Carrboro, NC: Truck Press, 1976. First Edition. Wrappers. The author's first book, issued in wrappers only. A fine copy, signed. 8vo.
Carrboro, NC: Truck Press, 1976. First Edition. Wrappers. The author's first book, issued in wrappers only. A fine copy, signed. 8vo.
New York: Istituto Italiano di Cultura, 1973. First printing. 78 pp., 8.25 x 11 inches. Plastic comb binding in printed card covers. Illustrated throughout in black-and-white and color. Very light soiling to covers and age-toning to page edges, but still about fine. Uncommon catalogue of an exhibition held at the.....
Seattle: Henry Art Gallery, 2000. First printing. 175 pp., 10 x 12 inches. Printed paper over boards, without dust-jacket, as issued. With essays by Russell Ferguson, Timothy Martin, and curator Conkelten. Illustrated in color and black-and-white throughout. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Henry Art Gallery and the.....
Portland, OR: Abra Ancliffe, 2017. First printing. (46) pp., 8 x 8 inches. Digitally printed, perfect-bound into card covers. Illustrated in color throughout. Published in an edition of 25 numbered copies, signed by the publisher. As new. “Colors, an unbound collection of pastel color studies by Ruth Zinn Becker (1916–2015).....
Walla Walla, WA: Crab Quill Press, 1998. First printing. 16.5 x 7.75 inches; drypoint engraving on Hahnemühle German Etching paper. In fine condition. One of a very small number of hors commerce proofs of images from the very first Crab Quill Press book, A Mischievity of Craneflies: or the Roguery.....
Portland, OR: Prensa de Lagar, 1969. First printing. (25) pp., 8vo. Saddle-stapled into printed wrappers. Designed and published by Carlos Reyes in an edition of 450 copies, of which the first 25 were numbered and signed by the author on the title page; this is number 3 from the signed.....
Tucson, AZ: Chax Press, 2002. First printing. 74 pp., tall narrow 8vo. Light edgewear and a slight bit of curl to the corners, but still a bright, very good copy. New West Classics volume 2, and a Small Press Traffic Best Book of the Year for 2003. Warmly inscribed by.....
Edinburgh: Morning Star Publications, 2000. First printing. (28) pp. 4 x 6.75 inches, saddle-stapled into printed wrappers. Copublished by the Centre for Artists Books, Visual Research Centre, University of Dundee. As new. Twenty-seven brief and witty found poems, with sources noted at the foot of each page; the first is.....
London: Andre Deutsch, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. 48 pp., 8vo. The second book of poems by this leading Israeli poet to appear in English, and an early volume of translations by Stephen Mitchell. A fine copy in lovely, bright dustjacket with just a touch of wear to extremities.
Lincoln, NE: Privately printed, 1976. Wrappers. 60 pp. Inscribed by author, "with thanks for a lot of very friendly interest in another portraitist," and signed "Audrey." Very uncommon; no copies found in OCLC. Wrappers sunned, edgeworn, with a couple of small, faint stains, chips at spine; internally very good. Square.....
Athens: Eleftheros Typos, 1989. First printing. 48 pp., 5.5 x 8 inches. Perfect-bound in printed card covers. Light rubbing to covers and age-toning to page edges, otherwise very good. Corso’s early collection, translated into Greek by Giorgos Mplanas. Scarce; no copies noted in WorldCat.
London: Gogmagog Private Press, 1967. First printing. (24) pp., 4 x 7.75 inches. Patterned paper over boards, with printed spine label, issued without dust-jacket. With three two-color intaglio prints. Designed, illustrated, printed, and bound by the author in an edition of one hundred numbered and signed copies; this is one.....
Garden City: Doubleday, 1972. First printing. (192) pp., 5.25 x 8 inches. Perfect-bound in printed card covers. Designed and photographed by Marshall Henrichs. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white photographs. Toning to edges and slight waviness to pages; light wear to edges of covers and a couple of small closed tears to.....
London: Rapp & Carroll, 1967. First Edition. Boards. Warmly inscribed in May of 1968 (in two colors) on the front endsheet by cotranslator Bly, who also contributes an introduction. Foxing to page edges, otherwise very good in a rubbed and creased dustjacket with closed tears and a small piece missing.....
Los Angeles: Dawson’s Book Shop, 1986. First printing. (12) pp., 11 x 14 inches. 12 unbound leaves of Arches heavyweight paper, printed letterpress in Monotype Janson by Patrick Reagh, and five gelatin silver photographic prints mounted on archival rag boards, all housed in a buckram-covered folding box with printed cover.....
New York: Salient Seedling Press, 1992. First printing. (35) pp., square 8vo. Single signature sewn into marbled covers by Lauren Rowland, with printed front cover label. With two full-page black-and-white reproductions of collages by Katherine Kuehn. One of twenty-six lettered copies signed by the author. As new. Published as a......
Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1938. First Edition. Boards. 1/500 copies beautifully printed in two colors at the University Press, Cambridge, Mass. 111pp. An early New Directions title. Warmly inscribed by the translator--in Latin--and signed and dated January 14, 1938. According to the colophon, the book was printed in January, thus.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. 139 pp., tall 8vo. 1/550 copies, 500 of which were for sale. Five lines from one of the speeches (with the characters' names in the original Greek) have been written out as an inscription on the front endsheet, in an unknown hand. Faint.....
New York: Oxford University Press, 1945. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. 42 pp., small narrow 8vo. The second section of the poet's long poem Trilogy. Light wear to extremities and small bookseller's label on rear pastedown, otherwise a very good copy in a lightly soiled dustjacket tanned at the edges and.....
Northampton, MA: Gehenna Press, 1965. First Edition. Cloth. 69 pp. 1/500 numbered copies. Drawings by Leonard Baskin. Inscribed by the author. Minor bumps to crown and foot of spine, otherwise just about fine in darkened dustjacket with a couple of tiny tears at folds. 8vo.
Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books, 1984. First printing. Wraps. 8vo, 124 pp. Signed by the poet. Wrappers lightly handled, top of fore-edge and top edges of a few pages lightly bumped.
Osaka, Japan: Acetate, 2005. First printing. (106) pp., 4.5 x 5.5 inches. Wire-comb binding, with printed card covers. Trilingual (English, Swedish, & Japanese). Published in a limited edition as acetate005. Preface by Kenjiro Okazaki and introduction by the author; translated, with an afterword, by Takumi Taguchi. Illustrated by Mimi Gross.....
Santa Fe, NM: Radius Books, 2019. First printing. (148) pp., 10.5 x 16.5 inches. Printed paper over boards, without dust-jacket, as issued. Essays by William Fox, Charles Hood, and Leah Ollman. New. The fourth volume in aerial photographer Light's ambitious series of books with Radius, documenting the contemporary West. Shot.....
Portland, OR: Author, 2012. Original work. 4 x 5.25 inches. Unique artist's book, titled, signed, and dated on the spine. Fine condition. Artist Gabriel Liston, whose paintings typically depict an unsentimental view of the world of children's experience, creates these one-of-a-kind "book tiles" by sewing shut copies of cheaply made.....
Portland, OR: Author, 2012. Original work. 4 x 5.25 inches. Unique artist's book, titled, signed, and dated on the spine. Fine condition. Artist Gabriel Liston, whose paintings typically depict an unsentimental view of the world of children's experience, creates these one-of-a-kind "book tiles" by sewing shut copies of cheaply made.....