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Carrboro, NC: Truck Press, 1976. First Edition. Wrappers. The author's first book, issued in wrappers only. A fine copy, signed. 8vo.
Carrboro, NC: Truck Press, 1976. First Edition. Wrappers. The author's first book, issued in wrappers only. A fine copy, signed. 8vo.
London, Ontario: Brick Books, 1994. First printing. 96 pp., 5.5 x 8.75 inches. Sewn signatures in printed wrappers. This copy warmly inscribed by the author, with an additional hand-written message on a post-it note. A fine copy, essentially as new.
San Francisco and Washington D.C. Dryad Press, 1976. First printing. 67 pp., 6 x 9.25 inches. Perfect bound in printed wrappers. Signed on the title page, and warmly inscribed to a friend and fellow poet on the facing page.
London: Marlborough Fine Art, 1983. First printing. 39 pp., 8.25 x 11.5 inches. Perfect-bound in printed wrappers. Illustrated with thirty full-page black-&-white reproductions of paintings, plus color frontispiece. Inscribed and signed by the artist. Light rubbing to wrappers; otherwise fine. Painter Frank Auerbach — along with Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud.....
Albuquerque, NM: Lords of Language, 1993. First printing. 57 pp., 6 x 9 inches. Perfect bound in printed wrappers. This copy warmly inscribed by the author.
Garden City, NY: Dial Press/Doubleday, 1984. First printing. 227 pp., 8vo. Quarter-cloth and paper over boards in illustrated dust-jacket. Slight impression to top edge of first two leaves from paperclip, otherwise very good in a lightly soiled jacket. Bausch's third novel, with a typed note laid in, dated in the.....
New York: Atheneum, 1969. First printing. 82 pp., 5.25 x 8.5 inches. Perfect bound in printed wrappers, printed letterpress. Lamont Poetry Selection for 1969. This copy warmly inscribed by the author. Horizontal scrape to front cover, and light edgewear, otherwise very good.
West Stockbridge, MA: Hard Press, 1998. First printing. 221 pp., 6 x 9 inches. Perfect-bound in printed card covers. Inscribed by the author. Mild creases to lower corner of first blank page and back cover, otherwise essentially as new. The first edition of the author’s influential debut novel, which was.....
Albuquerque, NM: Deposed Innocence Press, 1986. First printing. (54) pp., 7 x 9 inches. Perfect bound in printed wrappers. Edition of 500 copies, of which 26 were lettered and signed by the author. This copy warmly inscribed by the author.
Berkeley: The Figures, 1976. First printing. 59 pp., 5.5 x 7.25 inches. Perfect bound in printed wrappers. With prints by Allen Schiller. Edition of 500 copies, of which 26 were lettered and signed by the author. This copy warmly inscribed by the author.
Elmwood Park, IL: Potes & Poets Press, 1989. First Edition. Paperback. 93 pp., 8vo. Warmly inscribed by the author to Alice (Notley). Fine.
Emeryville, CA: Effie's Press, 1979. First printing. 37 pp., 6.25 x 8.25 inches. Sewn signatures in printed wrappers. Printed letterpress in an edition of 700 copies. This copy warmly inscribed by the author to a fellow poet in the year of publication.
New York: Roof, 1986. Second printing. 79 pp., 6 x 9 inches. Perfect bound in printed wrappers. Light edgewear, otherwise as new. This copy inscribed by the author.
Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1987. First printing. 179 pp., 5 x 7.5 inches. Perfect bound in printed wrappers. Very slight curl to covers, otherwise essentially as new. This copy inscribed by the author.
New York: I. Reed Books, 1979. First printing. 53 pp., 5.5 x 8.5 inches. Perfect bound in printed wrappers. An early title. This copy warmly inscribed by the author, shortly after publication, to a fellow poet. Mild bump to crown of spine, otherwise very good.
Boise, ID: Ahsahta Press, 1985. First printing. 56 pp., 6 x 8.75 inches. Perfect bound in printed wrappers. This copy signed by the author. Very slight wear to corners of cover, otherwise essentially as new. Author's first book.
New York: Henry Holt, 1991. First printing. 65 pp., 5.5 x 8.25 inches. Perfect bound in printed wrappers. This copy signed by the author. A fine copy, nearly as new.
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1971. First Edition. Paperback. (62) pp., Small 8vo. Signed by the author. Spine slightly slanted in the binding process; despite that a virtually fine, unread copy.
New York: Red Ozier Press, 1980. First Thus. Paperback. (12) pp., narrow 8vo. One of 2000 copies of this "first facsimile edition," printed from proofs of the limited edition. This copy inscribed by the author to Alan Brilliant and Teo Savory, publishers of Unicorn Press, "as a New Years present.....
N.p. Privately printed, 1969. First Edition. Stapled wrappers. [6] pp. English versions by Bly of the great nineteenth-century Japanese poet Issa, published in a very small edition as a gift. Inscribed by Bly to Teo Savory and Alan Brilliant of the Unicorn Press, who published Bly often through the late.....
Princeton, NJ: Automobile Quarterly Publications, 1984. First printing. 280 pp., 17.5 x 11.5 inches. Full leather over boards with cover and spine stamped in gold, all edges gilt, in folding leather-covered case. “An Automobile Quarterly Commemorative Marque Book” Edition of 2500 numbered copies, signed by the author. Illustrated throughout, with.....
Corrales, NM: Tooth of Time, 1990. Stapled wrappers. One of 222 copies numbered and signed by the author (no. 177). Unpaginated. Fine. 8vo.
Tucson, AZ: Chax Press, 2002. First printing. 74 pp., tall narrow 8vo. Light edgewear and a slight bit of curl to the corners, but still a bright, very good copy. New West Classics volume 2, and a Small Press Traffic Best Book of the Year for 2003. Warmly inscribed by.....
Muscatine, IA: Prairie Press, 1941. First Edition. Sewn in wrappers. 1/250 copies.Cheever 40. Gratefully inscribed by the author to the printer/publisher, Carroll Coleman; about the nicest association possible for this title. Light creasing and sunning to oversized wrappers, otherwise very good. 8vo.
Espanola, NM: Tres Chicas, 2006. First printing. Paperback. 87 pp., 8vo. Signed by the author.