THE ASCENT
London: The Westminster Press, (1951). First Edition. Wraps. Printed wraps. Copy "V" of 150 printed, SIGNED by the author on the colophon page.
London: The Westminster Press, (1951). First Edition. Wraps. Printed wraps. Copy "V" of 150 printed, SIGNED by the author on the colophon page.
(Madison, MN): The Sixties Press, 1967. First Edition. Softcover. Softcover with dustwrapper. Bilingual edition with both Spanish and English text. SIGNED by Bly on the title page.
Port Townsend: Graywolf Press, (1976). First Edition. Printed wraps. Printed pale blue/gray wraps. Author's uncommon second book, a collection of poems, by the author of the National Book Award-winning novel TREE OF SMOKE and many other fine novels and books of poems. One of only 600 copies printed.
Middletown: Wesleyan University, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Poet's now uncommon first trade book.
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Poet's first trade book, winner of the Lamont Poetry Prize. With the Prize announcement card laid in.
Port Townsend: Graywolf Press, 1984. First Paperback Edition. Softcover. Illustrated wraps. Edited with an introduction by Dana Gioia. Collection of 14 short stories plus a checklist of published short stories by Kees.
Lincoln (NE) and London: University of Nebraska Press, (2002). First Paperback Edition. Softcover. Illustrated wraps. Edited with an introduction by Dana Gioia. Collection of 17 short stories plus a checklist of published short stories by Kees.
New York: Laurence J. Gomme, 1916. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth-backed boards.
Huntington, New York: A Poem A Month Club, 1978. First Edition. Broadside. 11-1/2" x 17". Approximately 500 copies were printed and SIGNED by the poet. The largest Kinnell signature we have seen.
Bloomington: Indiana University, (1961). First Edition. hardcover. Poet's first trade book.
New York: Viking, (1985). First Edition. Hardcover. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the title page to the poet William Meredith and his partner "as we all pray for/a long approach" and dated 1992.
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, (1992). First Edition. Hardcover. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the title page to the poet William Meredith and his partner "in celebration of/our friendship" and dated 1992. Laid in is a 1994 flyer announcing a Kumin reading and addressed to Meredith.
New York: Henry Holt & Co., (1944). First Edition. Hardcover. Author's second book of poems, quite uncommon in a dustwrapper which in this case is very bright with a little edgewear.
New York: New Directions, (1945). First Edition. Hardcover. Poet's first book, printed at the Prairie Press, after a 32-page pamphlet also published by New Directions.
Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915. First Edition. Stiff wraps. Green-gray printed wraps over boards. With poems by H. D., Richard Aldington, Amy Lowell (the editor), D. H. Lawrence, F. S. Flint, and John Gould Fletcher. The second of the four annual anthologies of Imagist poems.
London: John Lehmann, 1947. First Edition. hardcover. Publisher's yellow boards with black lettering to front board.
London: The Hogarth Press, (1944). First Edition. hardcover. Publisher's light yellow boards with green lettering on the spine. Lee's first book, a slim volume of verse, part of The New Hogarth Library. Poet Douglas Newton's ownership signature dated 29 November 1946 at the bottom of the front endpaper.
London: Poem of the Month Club, 1971. First Edition. An 11" x 15" broadside SIGNED by the poet.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Author's first novel, having previously published a successful book of poetry.
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1969. First Edition. Wraps. Decorated beige wraps. Copy #48 of 300 numbered and SIGNED copies. There were also 150 trade copies in boards and 250 unsigned in wraps.
n.p. Unicorn Press, (1970). First Edition. Hardcover. One of 450 copies bound in black sail-cloth. Contains the first publication in a book of "They Feed They Lion." This copy SIGNED by the poet on the half-title page.
Port Townsend: Graywolf Press, (1979). First Edition. Hardcover. One of only 220 numbered copies SIGNED by the poet. The only clothbound edition of this winner of the American Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, published after the trade paperback.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. INSCRIBED "for Elizabeth, with hope" and SIGNED by the poet on the half-title page.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED by the poet on the title page.
Los Angeles: Arundel Press, 1994. First Edition. Printed wraps. One of only 105 numbered copies SIGNED by the poet in pencil on the colophon page.