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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1985. First Edition. Printed wraps. Uncorrected Proof in printed blue wraps.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1985. First Edition. Printed wraps. Uncorrected Proof in printed blue wraps.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1980. First Edition. Printed wraps. Uncorrected Proof in orange wraps. Uncommon format for poet's second book.
New York: Harper & Row, (1970). First Edition. Hardcover. Stafford's fourth collection of poems.
New York: Harper & Row, (1970). First Edition. Hardcover. Stafford's fourth collection of poems.
Elgin, IL: Brethren Publishing House, (1947). First Edition. Hardcover. Stafford's scarce first book, not poetry but a collection of fictional accounts based on his own experience in Civilian Public Service camps for religious objectors during the Second World War.
New York: Harper & Row, (1966). First Edition. Hardcover. Presumed first issue with $3.95 price, page listing previous publications at front, page containing printing information at rear, and untrimmed fore-edge. Stafford's third trade publication and first book after his National Book Award winning TRAVELING THROUGH THE DARK.
New York: Harper & Row, (1966). First Edition. Hardcover. Presumed second issue with $4.95 price, no list of previous publications at front, no printing information at rear, and trimmed fore-edge. Stafford's third trade publication and first book after his National Book Award winning TRAVELING THROUGH THE DARK.
Port Townsend, WA: Graywolf Press, (1983). First Edition. Softcover. Scarce Advance Copy in printed wraps of this collection of poems from limited editions 1968-1981.
(Northampton, MA): Deerfield Press, (1978). First Edition. hardcover. Illustrated by Timothy Engelland. One of 250 unnumbered copies SIGNED by the author on the colophon page.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. One of 500 copies in the first binding of checked cloth-backed boards of perhaps the most important first book of poetry of the 20th century. Edelstein A I.a.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. The third issue of Stevens's first book, one of only 715 copies in blue cloth of a total edition of 1500. Perhaps the most important first book of poetry of the 20th century.
Cummington, MA: The Cummington Press, (1943). Second Edition. Hardcover. Yellow cloth-backed gray boards in the scarce tissue dustwrapper. Edelstein A 6.b. One of 330 copies set by hand in Centaur types. This copy SIGNED twice by Stevens, once on the half-title page and again on the title page, quite unusual.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth-backed boards. Edelstein A 11.a.1: 1750 copies of the first printing. SIGNED by the poet on the title page and scarce as such.
Cambridge: The Harvard Advocate, 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. Original red cloth with gilt decoration on the front cover; xiii, [1], 214, [2] pages. Includes poems by Witter Bynner, Bliss Carman, Arthur Davison Ficke, and others, most notably 5 poems by Wallace Stevens (class of '01), an early appearance in print.....
New York: Atheneum, 1970. First Edition. Softcover. Printed wraps. Strand's third book, not published in hardcover. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the poet on the half-title page.
Providence: Burning Deck, (1973). First Edition. Printed wraps. Printed wraps. Copy #349 of only 400 numbered copies, one of Strand's scarcest publications.
Iowa City: Stone Wall Press, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Pulitzer Prize-winning poet's scarce first book, copy #195 of only 225 numbered copies. Apparently issued with a glassine, but not on any of the dozen or so copies we have seen. This copy has a mylar cover on it, but we.....
New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. The less common hardcover issue of Tate's first trade book, the title poem a tribute to his father who was lost during World War II over Germany five months after Tate was born.
[Santa Barbara]: Unicorn Press, 1968. First Edition. One of an unknown edition of this 10" x 16" handsome broadside with a print by Vanden Berg for the title poem of a collection by Tate.
(Brockport, NY): (1975). First Edition. Wraps. Printed stapled wraps. A 7-1/2" x 10" pamphlet published in connection with the April 1975 appearance of the four poets at State University College in Brockport. A poem and photograph for each poet is printed, that of Malanga's being by Diane Arbus. Each poet.....
London: Anthony Froshaug, 1947. Franciszka Themerson. First Edition. Softcover. Slim, stiff wraps with dustwrapper. Dustwrapper cover and frontispiece by Franciszka Themerson. A long poem on physics and metaphysics. Copy #57 of 120 printed. With ink note on limitation/copyright page, likely by Stefan Themerson: "Copy of 1 part ex [?] for.....
Urbana: University of Illinois, (1981). First Edition. Hardcover. Author's second book and winner of the Lamont Prize. A wonderful collection of poems.
(Port Townsend, WA): (Graywolf Press), (1976). First Edition. Softcover. Pictorial dark brown wraps. One of 600 softcover copies out of an edition of 750. INSCRIBED by the poet on the title page: "For William Meredith,/with long-standing admiration/David Wagoner/June '77." Laid in is a TYPED LETTER SIGNED from Wagoner to Meredith.....
Cambridge, MA: The Sans Souci Press, (1968). First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth in dustwrapper; 35 pages. Copy #3 of only 99 SIGNED copies printed at the Ferguson Press on Fabriano Book paper. This copy additionally INSCRIBED, along with small doodles, by the poet on the front endpaper to the National Book.....
Dallas: Pressworks, (1980). Bill Komodore. First Edition. Hardcover. Marbled boards with a black cloth spine. Three mounted color illustrations with acetated guards by Bill Komodore. Copy #72 of 350 numbered copies (of a total edition of 376) SIGNED by the author and the illustrator on the colophon page. Laid in.....