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.....
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.....
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.
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.....
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.....
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.....
London: Fulcrum Press, 1969. First Edition. Cloth. Almost imperceptible slant to spine, otherwise about fine in very good dustjacket. Small 8vo.
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.
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.....
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.....
(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.....
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.
Toronto: Weed/flower Press, 1968. Stapled wrappers. Unpaginated. Note by Edward Dorn. Minor wear to wrappers including small area of tiny pinpricks near head of spine. 8vo.
Aptos, CA: Piggy Bank Press, 1996. First edition. Pamphlet. A single folded page, printed on both sides.
Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1978. First Edition. Wrappers. 117 pp. With a preface by the editors. Fifty-five poems by twenty-seven poets, primarily from the post-1965 generation little known in English, but including a few (now) well-known figures such as Herbert, Rozewicz, and Szymborska. The editors worked closely on.....
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Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books, 1984. First printing. Wraps. 8vo, 124 pp. Signed by the poet. Wrappers lightly handled, top of fore-edge and top edges of a few pages lightly bumped.
New York: New Directions, 1990. Wraps. Narrow 8vo, 60 pp.
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1955. First Edition. Stapled wrappers. 34 pp. A volume in the monthly Bibliographical Series of Supplements to "British Book News," published for the British Council and the National Book League. An engaging study of one poet by another. With select bibliography. Small piece torn from.....
London: Softly Loudly Books, 1971. First Edition. Stapled wrappers. 14 pp. Softly Loudly No. 2, with artwork by Andrew Eden. 1/300 copies; this copy inscribed by the author, and with two holograph corrections in his hand in the first two lines of the poem. Very small piece missing from top.....
Brunswick, ME: Coyote Books, 2004. First printing. (28) pp., small 8vo. Saddle-stapled into plain wrappers, in printed dust-jacket. As new. A long poem on politics, dedicated to Ed Dorn, and taking its title from a line in Piero Heliczer's poem "carillon booty." From a stash of the publisher's last copies.....
South Harpswell, ME: Blackberry, 1986. First printing. (13) pp., 8vo. Photocopy pages saddle-stapled into offset card covers. Printed from the author's handwritten text and drawings, with eleven photographs by Roland Scholz. As new. Stefan Hyner is a poet, editor, and translator who works as a cabinet maker in Rohrhof, Germany.....
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1970. First printing. Wraps. 8vo, 78 pp. Edition of 600 in wrappers. Spine and wrapper edges sunned.
