New Haven, CT. Yale University Press, 1978. First Edition. Wrappers. 75 pp., small 8vo. Foreword by Richard Hugo; this book was his first selection for the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Signed and dated in the year of publication, and with an autograph letter (c. 87 words) to author Jack.....
Brooklyn, NY: diwan, 1990. First Edition. Cloth. 77 pp., 6 x 9 inches. Frontispiece portrait of the author by Basil King. One of one hundred numbered copies signed by the author, specially bound in full cloth with blind-embossed cover and spine. Issued without dustjacket. As new. David Rattray, who died.....
Oakland, CA: State One, 1985. (35) pp., 8vo. One of 250 copies bound in printed wrappers. Inscribed by the author to fellow poet Alice Notley. White wrappers slighly sunned and soiled, but binding tight and internally as new.
Seattle, WA: Broken Moon Press, 1991. First Edition. Wrappers. 79 pp. Translations from the Sanskrit, with an introduction and bibliography. This copy inscribed by the translator (also one of the directors of the Naropa Institute Writing Program) to Alice Notley and Douglas Oliver. Fine. 8vo.
Oshkosh, WI: sun rise fall down artpress, 1978. First Edition. Unpaginated. 1/270 copies (of a total edition of 300). Inscribed by the author to poet Todd Moore. Wrapper a little rumpled at spine, otherwise fine in stapled wraparound covers. Oblong 32vo.
La Crosse, WI: Juniper Press, 1978. First Edition. [8] pp. Number 5 in "Juniper haiku series." Inscribed by author to poet Todd Moore. Fine in stapled wrappers. 64mo.
La Crosse, WI: Juniper Press, 1980. First Edition. Paperback. [11] pp. 1/200 copies "printed in Caslon." Number 9 in the Juniper "haiku-short poem series." Movingly inscribed in the month of publication to poet Todd Moore: "for Todd/you've helped me/to believe in/my work." Fine in sewn wrappers. 64mo.
New York: Sun, 1975. First Edition. Cloth. 49 pp. 1/26 copies specially bound in cloth, numbered and signed by the poet. Faint tanning of endsheets, and light edgewear to cloth, otherwise a very good, unread copy. 8vo.
Berkeley: Oyez, 1979. First Edition. Sewn in wrappers. [8] pp. 1/250 copies designed and printed by Peter Koch at the Black Stone Press as a New Year's greeting for friends of the author and the press. Inscribed by Robert Hawley, the publisher of Oyez, to a patron of the press.....
Portland, OR: Trace Editions, 1983. First Edition. Sewn in wrappers. 1/75 numbered copies signed by the author, of a total edition of 500. The second publication of Trace Editions. Slight sunning to edges, otherwise fine. 8vo.
Providence, RI: Burning Deck Press, 1987. Wrappers in dustjacket. Unpaginated. Inscribed and signed by the author to Alice Notley. Fine in lightly edgeworn and dustsoiled jacket. 8vo.
N.p. [Published by the author], 1981. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. [12] pp. 1/101 copies privately published in December 1981, apparently as a New Year's greeting. Apparently her first book, it precedes the National Poetry Series volume, Artist and Model, by nine years. This copy has been numbered on the last.....
Davis, CA: University of California Davis Library Associates, 1975. First printing. 3.75 x 8.5 inches. A single 8.5 x 11 inch sheet folded twice to make six pages (three of which are printed), sewn into printed covers. Illustration by Mimi Osborne. Designed, hand-set in Neon Helvetica, and printed on Rusdael.....
Seattle: Mill Mountain Press, 1971. First printing. 56 pp., 6 x 9 inches. Side-stapled and glued into printed card covers. Uncredited frontispiece portrait of the author, and two-color title page illustration, repeated in part on the front cover. The usual sunning to the spine, and three very small discolorations to.....
London: Gollancz, 1971. First U.K. edition. Boards. Inscribed by the author, who has also supplied a photocopy of a manuscript page inadvertently left out of the printed text. The photocopy is folded twice and laid in between pages 96 and 97; the author has written "See missing page" at the.....
New York: Soho Press, 1992. First Edition. Boards. A truly unique copy of the author's acclaimed first book. The book's design features a small drawing of a raven that is used as a graphic device between sections within a chapter (probably based on the image of a raven turning the.....
Portland, OR: Northwest Photography Archive & Oregon State University Press, 2008. First printing. 345 pp., 12 x 12.5 inches. Cloth over boards in printed dust-jacket. With 134 full-page reproductions, and an introduction, epilogue, list of plates, notes, acknowledgments, selected bibliography, and index. From the first printing of five thousand copies.....
Los Angeles: Illuminati, 1988. First Revised edition. Wrappers. 45 pp. A revision of the 1981 edition, with a "slightly different selection and arrangement" of poems. Inscribed by the author to Alice (Notley). Light edgewear to wrappers, otherwise fine. 8vo.
Chatsworth, CA: Sherwood Press, 1981. First Edition. Wrappers. 61 pp. Author's first book, inscribed with a quotation in the year following publication. Wrappers soiled and with small edge stains, and one corner creased. Internally very good. 8vo.
Evanston, IL: Monroe Wheeler, 1921. First Edition. Boards. 1/350 numbered copies of the poet's first book. This copy inscribed to poet and critic Elder Olson. Sunning to spine and edges, wear to crown of spine, light rubbing to spine label, and tanning to endsheets, still a nice copy of this.....
Buffalo, NY: White Pine Press, 1984. First Edition. Stapled wrappers. Four poems chronicling the apex of the seasons, the points midway between equinoxes and solstices, "celebrated by the earliest people." Warmly inscribed by the author. Small nick to foredge of front cover, otherwise very good in bright, clean wrappers. An.....
Madison, WI: Red Ozier Press, 1977. First Edition. Sewn in wrappers. Title page collage by the printer, Steve Miller. 1/170 copies signed by the author. A mint copy. Small square 16mo.
New York: Harper & Row, 1966. First printing. Cloth. 8vo. Signed by the author. Very slight bump to head of spine, in bright, clean dustjacket (by Milton Glaser) with a few little nicks at top edge and crease to front flap.
Portland, OR: Trace Editions, 1983. First Edition. Sewn in wrappers. 1/75 numbered copies signed by the author. The first publication of Trace Editions, with anonymous ink drawings after Henri Michaux. Faintest hint of a crease near foredge of cover (barely perceptible), otherwise a fine copy. Oblong 16mo.
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1970. First Edition. Wrappers. Paperback issue of the author's first trade collection, inscribed to fellow poet and publisher. Wrappers rubbed at edges and with light scratching at top of front cover, but a nice, unread copy. Small 8vo.
