INCANTATIONS From HERON LAKE.
San Francisco: Courtney and Judd, (1988). 1st edition. INSCRIBED PRESENTATION copy. 144 pp. 8vo. 8-1/4" x 5-1/4". Green paper covers printed in white. More
Literature
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GREEN In The BODY.
Pittsburgh: Slow Loris Press, 1979. 1st Printing. 55, [7] pp. 8vo. 9" x 6". Printed off-white paper covers. More
URIEN'S VOYAGE. A Semi-Autobiographical Novel.; Translated and with an Introduction and Notes by Wade Baskin.
New York: The Citadel Press, 1964. 1st pb edition. 94, [2 (blank)] pp. 8vo. Blue, black & green paper covers. More
The GOD Of YOTTO. The Lost City. A Hopi Indian Story.
Elgin, Illinois: Published by David C. Cook Publishing Company, (1928). 1st Edition. 128 pp. Illustrated with drawings by H. Hartke Houy. 12mo. 7-3/8" x 4-3/4" Original publisher's pale blue cloth binding with dark blue stamping. No dust jacket. The author a Baptist missionary, so unsurprisingly, the story involves the triumph..... More
The TOKEN And ATLANTIC SOUVENIR. A Christmas and New Year's Present.
Boston: Otis, Broaders, and Company, 1839. 1st printing thus (American Imprints 58908; Faxon, p. 71; Thompson, p. 158). viii, 294, [4] pp. Illustrated with 8 (of 10) plates. 12mo. Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt stamping. AEG. Cf. Thompson, AMERICAN LITERARY ANNUALS, pp. 65-73 for a history of this..... More
A DIRECTION In The MIDDLE Of The AIR. Some Poems.
Vancouver: Blew Ointment Press - Fleye Press, (1968). 1st Printing. Unpaginated, though 24 pp. Front cover design by David W [presumed Wagner]. Rear cover graphics by Greg Simpson. 8-1/2" x 7". Printed paper covers, stapled. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More
The MAN WHO SHOOK HANDS
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1978. 1st PB Edition. 118, [2] pp. 8vo. Black paper covers, printed in white. More
The ART Of LITERARY RESEARCH.
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., (1963). 1st Edition. x, [2], 276 pp (including Index). 8vo. Red cloth binding with gilt stamping to spine. Photographic eps. Dust jacket. More
The ABSENT MAN; A Farce.; As It is Acted by His Majestry's Servants, at the Theatre Royal, in Drury - Lane.
London: Printed for William Griffin, in Catherine Street, in the Strand, 1768. 1st Printing. [8] 36 pp. T.p. printer's ornament. 8vo. 7-15/16" x 4-7/8". Disbound, now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More
CLIMB To The HIGH COUNTRY. Poems.
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., (1978). 1st pb edition. 61, [3 (blank)] pp. 8vo. White glossy paper covers printed in blue & black. More
PRIZE POEMS. 1913 • 1929
New York: Charles Boni Paper Books, 1930. 1st Edition. 245, [5] pp. Crown 8vo. Linen cloth hardcover with black stamping, printed paper title label to spine, front board graphic design by Rockwell Kent. Pictorial eps. No dust jacket. More
LIVING SCOTTISH POETS. The Augustan Books of Poetry.
London: Ernest Benn Ltd., Bouverie House, Fleet Street, [1931]. 1st Printing. vi, 7 - 30 pp. 8vo. 8-5/8" x 5-1/2". White paper covers, printed in black, stapled. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More
The SORROWS Of COLD STONE. Poems 1940 - 50.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, (1951). 1st Printing. ix, [3], 109, [1 (blank)] pp. Illustrated with collaborative wash drawings by Theodoros Stamos. 8vo. Grey cloth spine over pictorial paper-wrapped boards. Dust jacket, which replicates binding graphic. More
PRIVATE PAPERS.; Introduction by Witter Bynner.
New York: Duell Sloane and Pearce, (1944). First Edition. xi, 3, 38 pp. 8vo. Black cloth binding. Light brown dust jacket printed in red & white. More
CYCLE For MOTHER CABRINI
(n. p.): Cloud Marauder Press, (1971). 2nd Printing. 750 cc. Unpaginated. Illustrated with woodcuts by James Brunot. 8vo. 9" x 5-15/16". Pale blue paper covers printed in black & dark blue. More
COUNTRY WOMEN'S POETRY
Albion, CA: Country Women, (1975). 1st Printing. 128 pp. Illustrated with drawings and from photographs 8vo. 8" x 5-1/4". Yellow paper covers printed in brown. More
STONES And The SEA and Other Poems.
New Orleans: Published by the New Orleans Poetry Journal, 1956. 1st pb printing. 47, [1 (blank)] pp. 8vo. 8-3/4" x 5-3/4". Printed paper covers, stapled. Dust jacket, with design by Warren Dennis. Jacket front flap with bio of the author. More
& EVERYBODY Is A CHILDREN
San Lorenzo, California: Shameless Hussy Press, (1974). 1st Printing. Unpaginated, though 12 pages. Illustrated with drawings & from b/w photographs. 8vo. 8-1/2" x 5-1/2". Printed green card stock covers, stapled. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More
The POEMS Of GENE DERWOOD; With a Memoir by Joseph Bennett.
New York: Clarke & Way, Inc., 1955. 1st edition thus. 80 pp. Mostly unopened. Frontispiece photographic image of Derwood. 8vo. Blue-black cloth binding. Yellow dust jacket. More
TRIANGLE DREAM And Other Poems
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, (1969). 1st edition. ARC, with slip laid-in. 95, [1] pp. 8vo. Linen cloth binding. Green dust jacket. More
CORROSIVE SUBLIMATE
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1971. 1st pb edition. 67, [5] pp. B/w photographic image of the author at rear. 9" x 6". Off white paper covers printed in black, with a multi-color abstract graphic to front cover. More
AMERICAN POET For JULY 1943. Volume III. Number 4.; The First All-Servicemen's Issue.
Brooklyn: Brooklyn Press, 335 Adams St, 1943. 1st Printing. 24 pp. 8vo. Red, white & blue paper covers, stapled, printed in black. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More
A CHOICE Of BROWNING'S VERSE.; Selected with an Introduction by Edward Lucie-Smith.
London: Faber and Faber, 24 Russell Square, 1967. 1st edition thus. SIGNED PRESENTATION copy from the editor. 166 pp. 8vo. Blue cloth binding with gilt stamped spine lettering. White dust jacket. More
YOUNG MAN'S LETTER.
Trumansburg, N.Y. NEW / BOOKS, (1967). 1st Printing. 38 ll, printed french-fold. 8-5/8" x 5-1/2" Grey paper covers, with front cover printed with large graphic of a young man. Original price sticker to rear cover. Author's first book. More
A CHECK LIST Of ENGLISH PROSE FICTION. 1700 - 1739.
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1960. 1st edition. x, 154 pp (including Index). 8vo. Gunmetal blue cloth binding. Printed buff paper dust jacket. More