Region of Unlikeness
New York: Ecco Press, 1991. First printing. Boards. Wide 8vo, 130 pp. Slight sunning to edges of jacket.
Poetry
Via Urbana
Denver: Alan Swallow, 1963. First printing. 63 pp., small square 8vo. Cover design by Lynn Meiners. Slight tanning to edges, barely noticeable splay at front edge of boards, and invisible repair to crown of spine; still very good in decorated paper over boards, in a near very good jacket, darkened.....
Throwing Glass at Brick Houses
(Dover, Delaware): (Bottle of Smoke Press), (2006). First printing. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. Small broadside, printed letterpress on textured cover stock. A fine copy, inscribed by the author. Included in Bottle 4, the fourth collection of broadsides issued by Bottle of Smoke, this is likely from overrun copies provided to.....
Dear Sky
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.
Let Them Be Said
Oakland/Berkeley: Mama's Press/Black Widow Publications, 1973. First Edition. Stapled sheets. 57 pp., illustrated. A near fine copy of the author's second book of poems, with just slight rubbing and creasing of wrappers near staples. 8vo.
Beasthoods
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.
Poems (The Location of Things, Archaics, The Open Skies)
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.
Jack Straw's Castle
New York: Frank Hallman, 1975. First Edition. Stapled wrappers in dustjacket. 1/400 copies. Faint sunning to spine, otherwise very good. 16mo.
Graffiti
New York: Macmillan, 1959. First Edition. Wrappers. Published in paper only. Faint tanning to page edges, otherwise very good in lightly scuffed and soiled wrappers. 8vo.
Hippolytus Temporizes. A Play in Three Acts
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.....
Tribute to the Angels
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.....
Eight Northwest Poets
Portland, OR: Portland Art Museum, 1959. First printing. 10.5 x 4.25 inches (folded). Eight pamphlets, each printed on both sides of a large sheet, folded to make eight pages. Printed by Litho Art in Portland, in an unspecified edition, on the occasion of the Northwest Poetry Meetings held at the.....
The Happy Man
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.
Between Wars and Other Poems
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.
Some Speculations Around George Oppen's Parousia
San Francisco: Michael Cross, 2009. First printing. 10.25 x 4 inches, broadside printed letterpress on metallic silver cardstock in a small edition, the text of the poem printed over an illustration of two rough iron nails. Published on the occasion of a reading tour of the Pacific NW by the.....
Blue Moves
Port Townsend, WA: Rainshadow Tapes, 1986. First Edition. Audiocassette. Audio tape, recorded May 30, 1986 in the First Baptist Church of Port Townsend. Poems from the books Fatal Pleasure and The Nootka Rose; featuring the author with Paul Herder, piano, and Michael Phillips, bass. Rainshadow tapes were produced by Sam.....
The Nootka Rose
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.
Resort and Other Poems
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.....
Dear John, Dear Coltrane
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.....
Ottawa Poems
Kitchener, Ontario: Weed/flower Press, 1966. First printing. 36 pp., square 8vo. Stapled into printed wrappers. Cover by Barbara Caruso. Light edgewear and mild bump to lower front corner, otherwise fine.
Field Work
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979. First American edition. Cloth. 8vo, 65 pp. Spine and edges of boards faded. Jacket sunned with minor wear at edges including small closed tears at head and heel of spine and folds.
Ahani: Indigenous American Poetry
Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University, 2007. First printing. 349 pp., 5.5 x 8.5 inches. Perfect-bound in printed card covers. Issued as the Winter 2007 issue of To Topos: Poetry International, published by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature at OSU. As new. An extraordinary multilingual anthology, with seventy-six contributors.....
Chartings
Tucson, AZ: Chax Press, 2000. First printing. (30) pp., 11.25 x 13.5 inches. Poems printed letterpress on handmade mulberry paper, torn and adhered to Tiara paper printed with wood type letters and numbers in dispersed patterns, with additional hand markings on the pages. Handbound in Moriki papers over boards in.....
The 4 Questions Arcane
(San Francisco): Sore Dove Press, 2016. First printing. 11 x 17 inches. Offset lithographic broadside on grey-green cardstock. One of thirty-four numbered and signed copies. A tiny strip of sunning to top edge, and minuscule bump to one corner, otherwise fine. Published in December 2016 “in memory of Leonard Cohen.....
The Genocide by Inches
Berkeley: Moe’s Books, 2003. First printing. 8.5 x 11 inches. Broadside printed on the occasion of the author’s reading at Moe’s on December 15, 2003. As new. Uncommon; WorldCat finds only one copy, at UC Davis.