The Leer
London: Branch Redd, 1976. First edition. Pamphlet. 8 pp, stapled in stiff wrappers. Text yellowed at extremities; covers slightly faded along spine.
Poetry
One Hundred Poems from the Palatine Anthology in English Paraphrase
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.....
The Elderly Battlefield Nurse
Albuquerque, NM: Road Runner Press, 1968. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Very good in lightly creased and soiled wrappers. 8vo.
The Half-Thoughts, the Distances of Pain
New York: Prospero Pamphlets, 1947. First Edition. Paperback. [10] pp. 1/420 copies, designed and with a drawing by Dmitri Petrov. Small blank price sticker over printed price on rear cover, and one folded edge uncut, otherwise very good in lightly soiled wrappers. Square 16mo.
William Faulkner Lives & Dies in Camelot: Poems
Ashland, KY: Bullhead, 1995. First Edition. Bullhead Pamphlet Series #1. [18] pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. 32mo.
Angel
New York: n.p., 1978. First printing. 23 pp., 5.5 x 8.5 inches. Cover photo by Peter Van Riper; Multiplex hologram (pictured in the cover photo) by Lloyd Cross; inside photos by Babette Mangolte. Saddle-stapled into printed card covers. Covers lightly scuffed and soiled, and very mildly creased; internally about fine.....
Roaring Fork Passage: Poems
Mount Carroll, IL: Uzzano Press, 1977. Stapled wrappers. Uzzano #5. Unpaginated. A fine copy of this early (first?) book by poet Foss, later editor of Tyuonyi magazine and professor at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe. 8vo.
21 and Over
Fallon, NV: Duck Down Press, 1982. First Edition. Stapled wrappers. [22] pp. Drawings by Jim McCormick. A poetic meditation on the game of "21." The illustrations are "random images derived from the cover drawing, their selection and placement generated by random drops of a card." Edition of 500 copies. As.....
Iron Wind
Surrey, B.C. Sono Nis Press, 1971. First Edition. Wrappers. 28 pp. First book (poems) by this author of numerous books of poetry and nonfiction, most of which revolve around the arid regions of the Western United States. A very nice, unread copy. 8vo.
leaving elko
Santa Fe, NM: Press Exit, 1993. First Edition. Paperback. (17) pp., narrow 8vo. Two poetic sequences, "leaving elko" and "mountains of the moon." Edition of 200 copies. As new.
Monody
Woodinville, WA: Laughing Bear Press, 1977. First Edition. Stapled wrappers. 62 pp. Illustrated. Issued as Laughing Bear #4 (Vol. 2 No. 1). A minimalist poetic sequence inspired by the landscape of the ancient Lake Lahontan (the present Great Basin desert). With illustrations from Israel Russell's 1885 Geological History of Lake.....
One Wave Standing
Albuquerque, NM: La Alameda Press, 1998. First Edition. Paperback. 64 pp. An autobiographical series of poems, in various formats (both traditional and experimental). Beautifully designed by the publisher, J.B. Bryan. Small square 8vo.
Reliquaire
Fallon, NV: Duck Down Press, 1987. First Edition. Stapled wrappers. [25] pp. Drawings by James C. McCormick. An unusual collaboration between author and artist: the poems by Fox were written (and typeset) as "frames" around a series of pen-and-ink drawings by McCormick. Edition of 500 copies. As new. 4to.
Time by Distance
Fallon, NV: Duck Down Press, 1985. First Edition. Wrappers. 61 pp. Poems written during two treks in the Himalaya (near Everest), illustrated with details from maps of the areas traveled. Edition of 500 copies. Faint trace of sunning at edges, othewise fine. 8vo.
Stars Seen Then
Milwaukee, WI: Partly Press, 2020. First printing. (38) pp., 4.5 x 6.5 inches. Perfect-bound in printed card covers. A book of poems, with five full-page reproductions of drawing by Sarah G. Luther. New. Partly Press was established in 2018 by the Lynden Sculpture Garden, to extend their mission of offering.....
Collected Poems 1947-1980 (inscribed)
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.....
The Rune
New York: Hard Press, 1978. First printing. (4) pp., 4.25 x 5.5 inches. Offset lithography on cardstock. As new. A pair of postcards, the first of which prints the text of the poem, in three stanzas and dated “Jan 17-22, 1977”, and the second featuring a musical setting of the.....
LONG HAIR magazine, Volume 1 Number 1
London: Lovebooks Ltd., 1965. First printing. 80 pp., 6.5 x 8 inches. Perfect-bound in printed card covers. Edited by Barry Miles, with Ted Berrigan as New York editor. Minor toning and creasing to covers; title written neatly on unprinted spine, otherwise a very good, sound copy. An incredible transatlantic assemblage.....
Antologia
Buenos Aires: Ediciones del Mediodia, 1969. First Thus. Wrappers. 109 pp., Spanish text. Poems from Empty Mirrors (sic), Howl, Kaddish, Reality Sandwiches, and Planet News, selected, translated, and prefaced by Covian. Edgewear, small bookseller's label inside front cover, and slight offsetting to back cover, otherwise a very good, unread copy.....
The Black Dog of Cornelius Agrippa
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.
Waiting for My Time
Duluth, MN: Suburban Wilderness Press, 1986. Single sheet folded once, in printed wrappers. Fine.
Ararat
New York: Ecco Press, 1990. First printing. 6.25 x 9.25 inches, 68 pp. Quarter-cloth and paper over boards in printed dust-jacket. Mild dent and almost imperceptible tear to cloth at crown of spine, otherwise very fine in a lightly rubbed near fine jacket. 2020 Nobel prize winner Glück’s fifth book.....
Meadowlands
Hopewell, NJ: Ecco Press, 1996. First printing. 6.25 x 9.25 inches, 61 pp. Quarter-cloth and paper over boards in printed dust-jacket. Mild bumps to lower corners of boards, otherwise very good in a lightly rubbed, very good jacket.
Raw Hands and Bagging
Huntington Bay, NY: Watermark Press, 1978. First Edition. Sewn in wrappers. 30 pp. Poems by this well-known papermaker and book artist, published to coincide with an exhibition of her work at the Heckscher Museum, entitled Living Papers. Cover and book design by the author. This is 1/50 copies in handmade.....
Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1980. First printing. Wraps. Wide 8vo, 867pp. One wrapper corner very lightly bumped.