Contra Mortem (signed)
Johnson, VT: Crow's Mark, 1967. Limited edition. Sewn in Wraps. 12mo, 33 pp. Edition of 250 copies. This copy numbered (142) and signed by the author. With errata slip. Some edgewear and sunning to wrappers.
Johnson, VT: Crow's Mark, 1967. Limited edition. Sewn in Wraps. 12mo, 33 pp. Edition of 250 copies. This copy numbered (142) and signed by the author. With errata slip. Some edgewear and sunning to wrappers.
New York: Viking, 1977. First Edition. Boards. A Richard Seaver Book. Signed by author and translator (who were married at about the time that this book appeared in English). Very fine in like jacket. 8vo.
Berkeley: Oyez, 1970. First Edition. Stapled wrappers. [8] pp. 1/250 copies designed and printed by Graham Mackintosh for friends of the poet and press. This copy inscribed by the author. Faint offsetting to front endsheet, and rumpling of foredge of oversized wrappers, otherwise very good. Small square 8vo.
N.p. (Berkeley): Oyez, 1977. First Edition. Sewn in wrappers. [6] pp. 1/250 copies designed and printed by Don Gray for friends of the author and the press. Signed by publisher Bob Hawley and his wife Dorothy. Faintest traces of soiling to wrapper, otherwise fine. Small 8vo.
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.....
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.....
New York: New Directions, 1979. First Edition. 121 pp., 5.25 x 8 inches. Perfect-bound in printed card covers. A minuscule bit of curling to the covers, otherwise about fine. Inscribed warmly by the author to a friend and fellow poet.
London: Turret Books, 1972. Sewn wrappers in dustjacket. One of 100 copies numbered and signed by the author (no. 83). 11 pp. Corners of wrappers lightly bumped, and a faint hint of sunning to spine, otherwise Fine. 8vo.
Bournemouth, England: Hapt, 1970. First Edition. Mimeographed sheets. 1/250 copies, illustrated. Four 13.5" x 17" sheets folded once to make a 16-page unbound pamphlet ("Hapt free-print"). Poems from "Earth Incantations (Homage to Ezra Pound)": the title poem (in two parts) and "Victory! The Dancers." With an explanatory epilogue to the.....
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.....
(San Francisco): (Cranium Press), 1970. First Edition. Sewn in wrappers. (7) pp. Designed and printed by Clifford Burke. Of an edition of 250, this is one of 50 copies on Tovil mouldmade paper, numbered and signed by the author. About fine. Tall 8vo.
Colorado Springs, CO: The Press at Colorado College, 2017. First printing. (50) pp., 6 x 7.5 inches. Printed cloth over boards, without dust-jacket, as issued. One of forty copies for sale, out of an edition of fifty numbered and signed copies. Text printed letterpress from photopolymer plates, with images from.....
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.....
London: Marion Boyars, 1979. First Edition. Wrappers. An advance copy of this novel describing travels in Mexico, arranged alphabetically in the format of a dictionary. With a typed letter (c. 150 words), signed, discussing the nature of the novel, the distribution, and brunches at Bradleys in New York, where the.....
New York: Harper & Row, 1984. First printing. Cloth. 8vo, 837 pp. Inscribed by Ginsberg, "May 17, 1985 / AH / Mac Millan Theater". Bottom corner of front board very lightly bumped, hint of dustsoiling to page edges, otherwise Fine. Light edgewear to jacket including a couple of tiny nicks.....
Browns Mills, NJ: Ptolemy/The Browns Mills Review, 1983. First printing. Stapled wrappers. 9 pp. Light handling to wrappers only. Inscribed by the author. 8vo.
San Lorenzo, CA: Shameless Hussy Press, 1971. Later Printing. Stapled sheets. Second printing (1973) of the author's first book of poems; signed on the title page. Trace of sticker removal to front cover, and very small tear at top of spine, otherwise very good in lightly soiled wrappers. 8vo.
San Lorenzo, CA: Shameless Hussy Press, 1974. First Edition. Stapled wrappers. First printing of the author's third book and first book of prose, consisting of six short stories. Signed on the title page. Trace of sticker removal to front cover, otherwise very good in lightly soiled wrappers. 8vo.
London: Trigram Books, 1972. First Edition. Cloth. With ten photographs by Pip Benveniste. 1/100 numbered copies signed by the poet and the photographer, of a total edition of 300. About fine in dustjacket. 4to.
Garden City: Doubleday, 1962. First printing. Cloth. Review copy with publisher's slip. 8vo, 95 pp. X. J. Kennedy's copy, with his name and note on front free endpaper and annotations to text. Light handling to boards, jacket a bit sunned with two tiny tears to rear panel.
New York: Random House, 1986. First printing. 71 pp., 8vo. Hall's eighth book of poems, wrappers issue, inscribed by the author to a fellow poet in the year of publication. Two small tears to the base of the spine, otherwise the covers are bright and unmarked; internally fine.
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.
Portland, OR: Breitenbush Books, 1987. First Edition. Cloth. 84 pp. A pristine copy in like jacket, inscribed by the author in the year of publication to a close friend and colleague. 8vo.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1983. First Edition. Wrappers. Author's second book of poems. Inscribed in the year of publication to a close friend; a neighbor at the "beloved resort" that is the subject of the long poem that gives the book its title, and who was "the first person to read.....
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1970. First printing. 88 pp., 5.75 x 8.25 inches. Cloth in printed dust-jacket. The first book by this celebrated African-American poet. Signed on the half-title page, “A Love Supreme / Michael S. Harper.” A fine copy, in a near fine jacket with some light rubbing.....