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[London: Ferry Press, 1966]. Pictorial wrappers. First edition. One of 350 copies. Wrappers lightly edge-tanned and soiled, but a good copy.
[London: Ferry Press, 1966]. Pictorial wrappers. First edition. One of 350 copies. Wrappers lightly edge-tanned and soiled, but a good copy.
[Np. nd]. Large quarto broadside (34 x 20 cm). Printed in black within border of typographic decorations in blue. Very minor creases, otherwise about fine. First printing in this format, executed on fine handmade paper. An uncommon broadside: OCLC locates only five examples spread over three entries, only one of.....
New York: Brooks-Bryce Foundation, [ 1927]. Small octavo. Red paper boards, printed label. Boards a bit edgeworn and sunned at spine, but about very good. First edition. Agee's first appearance in a book, as winner of the third prize while an 18 year-old student at Phillips Exeter Academy. His essay.....
Boston. nd. but ca. 1970s-1980s. 43 leaves. Quarto. Original and carbon typescripts, lightly corrected and occasionally revised in type and manuscript. Secured individually with paperclips (rusty), but very good. A sequence of essays and reviews by Clarissa Lorenz Aiken (d. 16 May 1992), second wife (1930-37) of poet and novelist.....
Norfolk: New Directions / Poets of the Year, [ 1944]. Plain wrappers. First edition, wrapper issue. Faint ownership stamp in blind on half title, otherwise fine in dust jacket. Only 1000 of the 2500 copies appeared in wrappers in this case.
Philadelphia: Temple University Libraries / Special Collections Dept. 1973. 28,[2]pp. Printed wrapper. First edition. One of 450 copies for private distribution. Reference collection bookplate of John Howell books, edges a trace tanned, but very good or better.
Draguignan: The Melissa Press, 1962. Printed wrappers. First printing under Count Potocki's imprint. Fine.
Swinford: Fantasy Poets No. 32, 1956. Printed wrappers. First edition of the author's first book. Inscribed and signed by the author. Faintly dusty, very good.
Swinford: Fantasy Poets No. 32, 1956. Printed wrappers. First edition of the author's first book. Faintly soiled, very good.
Tucson: Chax Press, 1986. Sewn printed wrappers. First edition. One of 160 copies, signed by the author. Fine.
New Haven: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 2006. Narrow octavo broadside (9.25 x 4"; 23.5 x 10 cm). Typographic decorations. Fine. A separate printing of this poem first collected in AMERICAN SUBLIME (2005). A keepsake broadside quite handsomely printed in four colors on the occasion of a Beinecke exhibition.....
[ Swinford, Oxford: The Fantasy Press, 1952]. Stapled printed wrappers. First edition. One of ca. three hundred copies, issued as #15 of the series. Wrappers lightly soiled and creased, but very good.
Houston: The Author, 1936. [52]pp. Small octavo. Bradbound decorated wrappers. Spine somewhat tanned and frayed, light use, but internally very good or better. First edition of this amateur effort, "written 1925 to 1935 [and] Edited, Printed, Bound & Marketed..." by the author. Dewson evidently had access to a deep case.....
[Swinford, Oxford: The Fantasy Press, 1954]. Stapled printed wrappers. First edition. One of ca. three hundred copies, issued as #22 of the series. Wrappers somewhat tanned and soiled, but a good copy of Amis's 3rd book of poems.
[New York: An American Place, December 1932]. [4]pp. Large octavo folded leaflet. First edition, issued as IT MUST BE SAID I:2. About fine.
Aldington: Hand and Flower Press, 1951. Printed wrappers. First edition (Poems in Pamphlet VI). Inscribed by the author in 1953. Very good.
[Ranches of Taos: Motive Book Shop, 1950]. Printed wrapper over stiff wrapper. First edition of the poet's first book. Trace of tanning to white wrapper, else about fine.
[New York]: Angel Hair Books, [1971]. Small octavo. Stiff pictorial wrappers. First edition, ordinary issue. One of 464 copies, of 500. Very faint moisture wrinkle to lower edge of rear wrapper, otherwise near fine.
[New York]: Angel Hair Books, [1971]. Small octavo. Stiff pictorial wrappers. Illustrations. First edition. One of 500 copies. Fine.
[N.p.]: 1949. Small folio broadside (32 x 23.5 cm). Printed in red, black and shades of blue. Paper clip impression in lower edge a few corner creases, very good. First printing in this format, illustrated and printed by Angelo in an edition of 500 copies for distribution as a holiday.....
London: Printed in the Year, 1709. 8pp. Modern cloth and boards. Browned, with some marginal nicks and small chips, and a few discolorations in lower third. Just a good, intact copy. One of two editions noted in Foxon, this being one of the copies with 'some' as the last word.....
[No Place, no date, but ca 1970s]. Quarto. Stapled pictorial wrappers. Mechanically reproduced typescript. Illustrations. Mild dust tanning at edges of upper wrapper, small nick to top edge of lower wrapper, otherwise very good to near fine. First edition of this uncommon and important New York anthology, limited to 100.....
Palo Alto: Pacific Books, 1963. Cloth. A very good copy in faintly sunned and rubbed dust jacket. First edition. A number of contributors to this year's selection have signed this copy at their contributions, including Dickey, Hall, Kumin, Meredith, Stafford, Swenson, Summers, and Ghiselin. Other contributors (not signed) include Everson.....
Palo Alto: Pacific Books, 1964. Cloth. A very good copy in faintly edgeworn and rubbed metallic finish jacket with a few small chips and tears. First edition. A number of contributors to this year's selection have signed this copy at their contributions, including Booth, Moss, Nemerov, Wagoner, M. William, and.....
Palo Alto: Pacific Books, 1968. Cloth. A very good copy in faintly sunned and rubbed, price-clipped foil-finish dust jacket. First edition. A number of contributors to this year's selection have signed this copy at their contributions, including A. Hecht, Merrill, Moss, Shapiro, Stafford, Wilbur, and Wallace. Other contributors (unsigned) include.....