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$2,000.00[Madison]: Perishable Press (1966). First edition. [16 pp]. Fine in full cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to the front panel. One of 50 (of 70) copies on paper made by hand from linen and cotton rags. Though not called for, INITIALED by Duncan on the title page. A Perishable highspot. Bertholf A21a. Hamady 6.
$1,250.00Santa Barbara: Capricorn Press, 1980. First edition, numbered & signed issue. 34 pp. Fine in full cloth with printed cover and spine labels. One of 50 numbered copies SIGNED by Ehrlich. Her first book, a collection of poems. Accompanying this copy are two holograph postcards from Ehrlich to Noel Young, both from the late 80s, regarding a later book of hers from the press, WYOMING.
$200.00NY: Kulchur Press (1969). First trade paperback printing. Small 4to. 176 pp. Very faint tanning along spine, else fine in illustrated wrappers. Poems with cover art and internal drawings by Brainard. INSCRIBED by Elmslie on the half-title page, either “white guy” or “white goy” Kenward Elmslie, and SIGNED by Brainard on the title page.
$450.00Fayetteville: Lost Roads, 1979. First edition. 46 pp. Near fine in printed wrappers; a trade paperback original. SIGNED by Gilchrist on the title page. Her first book, a collection of poems. Lost Roads 14.
$125.00[Iowa City]: Windhover Press (1982). First edition. [20 pp]. Very near fine in wrappers with printed spine. Linoleum cut frontis by Thomas Kovacs. One of 225 copies on Windhover paper. Gioia’s second book. Acknowledgment slip present. Hagstrom & Morgan A2. Berger 78.$500.00Princeton: Princeton University Press (1983). First edition. 83 pp. Between pages 20-21, short crack in the binding at top edge (a production flaw), else very near fine in like dust jacket. Dated (1993) and SIGNED by Graham on the title page.$350.00Princeton: Princeton University Press (1983). First edition. 83 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket that is almost imperceptibly toned at spine and extrems. A bright copy of Graham’s second collection.$450.00Princeton: Princeton University Press (1980). First edition. 67 pp w/notes. Fine in fine dust jacket with a tiny closed tear to rear flap-fold. Review slip laid in. Graham’s first book.$300.00London: Sheed and Ward, 1931. First edition. 37 pp. Small sticker scar inside rear cover, light rubbing to front panel. In all, near fine in printed wrappers, lacking the glassine. One of 200 copies printed by René Hague and Eric Gill.
$350.00Asheville: The Captain’s Bookshelf, 1994. First edition, signed hors commerce issue. [10 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine dust jacket with pasted-on cover label. Tipped-on illustration by Janice La Motta as a frontis. One of 30 numbered copies issued hors commerce SIGNED by Gregg, Gilbert, and La Motta.
$200.00Trenton: Eleutherian Printers (1981). First edition, numbered issue. [20 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. Original Spanish poems with facing English translation by Reginald Gibbons. The conclusion of FINAL, the fifth and last series of AIRE NUESTRO. One of 50 (of 76) numbered copies on Rives paper.$450.00Trenton: Eleutherian Printers (1981). First edition, lettered issue [20 pp]. Short tears to base and crown of spine, else near fine in sewn wrappers. Original Spanish poems with facing English translation by Reginald Gibbons. The conclusion of FINAL, the fifth and last series of AIRE NUESTRO. One of 26 lettered copies. Dated (Silver Spring/ 1981) and INSCRIBED by Gibbons on the front free endpaper to friends.$250.00Swinford: Fantasy Press (1953). First edition. [4 pp]. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. Six poems, produced in an edition of fewer than 300 copies. Gunn’s first book. Hagstrom & Bixby A1a.$350.00Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press (1970). First edition. 88 pp. Very faint foxing to top edge, else near fine in very near fine dust jacket. Harper’s first collection of poems. Less common in hardcover. Review slip laid in.
$750.00New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1973. First edition. xvii + 73 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a touch of foxing to the bottom edges. Foreword by Stanley Kunitz. SIGNED by Hass on the title page. His first book. Yale Series of Younger Poets #58.
$1,250.00London: Faber and Faber (1969). First edition. 56 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a tiny closed tear to the bottom edge of the rear panel. Brandes & Durkan A5.
$2,000.00London: Faber and Faber (1972). Uncorrected proof. 80 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. As this title was published first as a trade paperback, proofs for this early collection of poems are uncommon at best. See Brandes & Durkan A8.$350.00London: Deutsch (1959). First edition. 59 pp. Shadow of a removed inked ownership name to the front free endpaper, else near fine in near fine dust jacket with light edgewear and light tanning to spine. Hill’s first trade title, preceded by an earlier pamphlet.
$200.00Oxford: Sycamore Press (1982). First edition. [8 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. A single five-part long poem. Hollinghurst’s first chapbook, preceded by the small 1965 broadsheet, “Isherwood is at Santa Monica.”$1,250.00London: Faber and Faber (1970). First edition. 80 pp. Faint foxing along top edge, else fine in fine dust jacket. A major work by Hughes. Sagar A25.a.i.$1,250.00NY: Harper & Brothers (1957). First US edition. 52 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket that is slightly misfolded. SIGNED by Hughes on the title page. Sagar & Tabor A1b.$1,500.00London: Faber and Faber (1957). First edition. 59 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. His first book.$500.00NY: Harcourt, Brace (1942). First edition. 82 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a short closed tear to the top edge of the front panel. Jarrell’s first book.$300.00NY: Harcourt, Brace and Company (1951). First edition. 94 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Jarrell’s fourth collection.
$250.00San Francisco: Gelber, Lilienthal, 1926. First edition. Single sheet folded once to make four pages. Very near fine, with a tiny chip to a lower corner. Issued as Vol 1, No. 7 of “Lights and Shadows from The Lantern.” A short prose statement by Jeffers, one of only a few published prose works by him. INSCRIBED by Jeffers along the bottom edge of the front cover, “For Samuel Heiman. /Cordially, Robinson Jeffers.”
$750.00Pasadena: Flame Press, 1930. Second edition, first printing. 3 pp. Covers lightly rumpled, else very good plus in sewn wrappers. One of 110 numbered copies printed by Harry Ward Ritchie. The first edition but for 15 copies was destroyed due to typographic errors. Alberts 63. Broomfield A11b.
$150.00Saint Paul: Graywolf Press (1986). First edition. 85 pp. Small bump and wear along fore-edge, else near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. SIGNED by Kenyon on the title page, and additionally dated (November 22, 1986) and INSCRIBED on the half-title page.
$150.00NY: Film Culture (1964). First edition. 4to. 91 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. Kunstler published two books in 1964, LENS is widely-cited as being his first.
$750.00Berkeley: Oyez, 1966. First edition, numbered & signed issue. 65 pp. Fine in full cloth with gilt stamping to spine. No dust jacket, as issued. Designed and printed by Graham Mackintosh. One of 50 numbered copies SIGNED by Lamantia. Introductory note by Parker Tyler who, along with Charles Henri Ford “discovered” Lamantia and published his work in VIEW in 1943.
$250.00[San Francisco]: White Rabbit (1958). First edition. [8 pp]. Small stain to lower front corner, else very near fine in illustrated wrappers with light tanning along spine. Cover art and two internal drawings by Jess. Levertov’s third book. Wilson A3.
$400.00Santa Barbara: Unicorn Press (1971). First edition, numbered & signed issue. [22 pp]. One signature opened a little roughly, else unopened. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 50 numbered copies SIGNED by Levine.
$250.00San Francisco: Arion Press, 1987. First edition, deluxe limited issue. 91 pp. Fine in full cloth. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 120 copies on Rives paper. Tipped-on opposite the title page is an original portrait etching of Hoyem by Jim Dine, SIGNED by Dine in pencil beneath the image. Additionally, this copy is SIGNED by Hoyem on the half-title page.