Swallow the Lake
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1970. First Edition. Cloth. A few pages roughly opened on bottom edge, and a few uncut, otherwise a very good copy of an early title, lacking the jacket. Small square 8vo.
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1970. First Edition. Cloth. A few pages roughly opened on bottom edge, and a few uncut, otherwise a very good copy of an early title, lacking the jacket. Small square 8vo.
Tucson, AZ: Ironwood Press, 1981. First Edition. Stapled wrappers. [14] pp. As new; uncommon. 8vo.
Yonkers, NY: Alicat Bookshop Press, 1949. First Edition. Stapled wrappers. 1/1000 copies published as Outcast Chapbook No. XVI. Slight tanning to endsheets, otherwise a near fine copy. 8vo.
New York: Pequod Press, 1979. First printing. 15) pp., 5.75 x 8.5 inches. Stapled into printed card covers. Introduction by Allen Ginsberg, and illustration by James Kearns. “Handset in Lydian Medium 10 point by R’lene Howell Dahlberg at the Pequod Press, November 1979.” Covers toned at the edges from age.....
Port Charlotte, FL: Runaway Spoon, 1989. First Edition. Stapled wrappers. Unpaginated. Visual/Concrete. Introduction by Lloyd Dunn. Very good in lightly sunned and edgeworn wrappers. 32mo.
New York: Boss Books, 1982. Stapled wrappers. One of 300 numbered copies (no. 169). Unpaginated. Inscribed by the author to Alice (Notley), Anselm and Edmund (Berrigan). Wrappers edgeworn, otherwise fine. 8vo.
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1968. First Edition. Sewn in wrappers. 11 pp. Morrow and Cooney 38. 1/233 numbered and signed copies in wrappers, from a total edition of 313, designed and printed by Saul and Lilian Marks at the Plantin Press. Wrappers soiled along edges and with a couple.....
Los Angeles: Green Integer, 2004. First printing. Paperback. 16mo, 83 pp. Winner of the Gertrude Stein Poetry Award for 2004. As new.
Los Angeles: Green Integer, 2001. First printing. Wraps. 8vo, 193 pp. Selections from the work of Anna Akhmatovva, Oswald de Andrade, Ece Ayhan, Gottfriied Benn, Lucian Blaga, Jorge Carrera Andrade, Blaise Cendrars, Forugh Farrokhazad, Pedro Garcia Cabrera, Barbara Guest, Nikolai Gumilev, Peter Huchel, Vicente Huidobro, Maruyama Kaoru, Pablo Neruda, Cees.....
Berkeley: Turtle Island Foundation, 1976. First printing. 178 pp., 5.75 x 8.75 inches. Printed papers over boards in printed dust-jacket. Designed and printed by Clifford Burke at Cranium Press, from Linotype setting by Holbrook Teter. Very mild bumps at foot and crown of spine, otherwise a fine copy in a......
Northwood Narrow, NH: 1973. Wrappers. 89 pp., illus. Includes two poems by Metcalf, an interview, and a Bibliography. Wrappers lightly edgeworn and dustsoiled. 8vo.
n.p. n.p., n.d. First edition thus. 7.75 x 10.75 inches. Small broadside, printed on cardstock, featuring a poem and a digitally manipulated image combining a photograph of the author and, presumably, one of his paintings. As new. Though undated, this broadside clearly has a memorial/posthumous feel; Micheline died in 1998.....
University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005. First printing. 468 pp., 8vo. With a preface, note on sources, introduction, references, and index. Quarter-cloth and paper over boards in photo-illustrated dust-jacket. As new.
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1871. First U.S. edition. 5 x 7 inches, 299 pp. Printed cloth over boards. Hinges cracked, cloth mottled, wear and small losses to crown and foot of spine; a good copy only. With folded check laid in (see comments following). The check laid into this copy of.....
Coyote's Journal, 1966. First printing. Wraps. Wide 12mo, 26 pp. Very light edgewear to wrappers, page edges a bit sunned.
First Edition. San Francisco: Greenlight, n.d. [ca. 1980]. Sewn wrappers in dustjacket. One of 300 offset copies (of an edition of 400 total). Interesting format, with text printed on large foldout sheet. Wrappers lightly dustsoiled and edgeworn; internally fine. Square 8vo.
Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1971. First Edition. Cloth. 186 pp. Prose poems translated by G. Singh. Mild bump to one corner, otherwise a fine copy in a good plus, price-clipped and faded dustjacket. Small square 8vo.
New York: Viking, 1956. First Edition. Boards. Light shelfwear, otherwise a very nice copy in an evenly darkened jacket with a few small chips and closed tears. 8vo.
New York: Macmillan, 1944. First printing. Cloth. 16mo. First printing, second state, with errata slip. Gift inscription and previous owner's name, in chipped jacket with triangular piece missing from top of back panel.
New York: Viking, 1966. First Edition. Boards. Faint corner bumps and light edgewear, otherwise very good in a good plus, price-clipped dustjacket with small closed tears and creases at edges and a very small loss at top of spine fold. 8vo.
New York: Kraushaar Galleries. First Edition. Folded card. N.d. (1963). Single sheet folded to make four pages; an exhibition announcement, with one black-and-white reproduction, a list of works, and a one-page text by Miss Moore. Paper slightly tanned at edges, and very lightly scuffed, otherwise very good, and quite uncommon.....
Philadelphia, PA: Rosenbach Foundation, 1977. Stapled Wrappers. 24 pp. Reproductions of items from the poet's archives (a drawing, a letter, photographs), notes on bibliography, on the sources of a poem, queries, responses, a checklist, announcements. Fine. Small square 8vo.
Emory, VA: Iron Mountain Press, 1981. First Edition. Wrappers in dustjacket. One of 350 numbered copies (no. 184). Signed by the author on title page, and nicely inscribed by him on halftitle in the year after publication. Front of wrapper lightly bumped at heel of fore-edge, otherwise fine, in lightly.....
Southampton, England: Torque Press, 1984. Stapled wrappers. Unpaginated. Wrappers sunned at spine, otherwise fine. Uncommon. 8vo.
San Francisco: Nova Broadcast Press, 1969. First Edition. [21] pp., 4.75 x 8.75 inches. Saddle-stapled into printed card covers. Number 6 in the Nova Broadcast pamphlet series, featuring concrete and found poems and graphics, including a "shockumentary" in the form of a comic strip. Light weart to covers, otherwise very.....