First US trade paperback printing. Small 4to. 191 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Fully-illustrated with b&w photographs.
$35

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.”
$200

First edition. [4 pp]. Very good plus in sewn wrappers with light wear and shallow chipping to extrems. Front cover art, two vignettes, and design by Wyndham Lewis. One of the first modernist poems on the Great War.
$850

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.”
$250

First edition, deluxe issue. 4to. 33 pp w/notes. Fine in full cloth with printed cover and spine labels. No dust jacket, as issued. Edited by Robert J. Brophy, with his introduction. One of 50 (from an edition of 250) numbered copies on Gutenberg paper. Printed letterpress by Patrick Reagh. A selection of over twenty previously unpublished poems by Jeffers, dating from his earliest writings.
$250

First edition. Fourteen 20 ½ x 14 ½ inch lithographic portraits from life by Montreal artist Morton Rosengarten, each paired with a poem by the respective subject: Margaret Atwood, Earle Birney, Leonard Cohen, Ralph Gustafson, Irving Layton, John Newlove, Alden Nowlan, Michael Ondaatje, P.K. Page, Al Purdy, F.R. Scott, A.J.M. Smith, and Phyllis Webb. Each portrait sheet is numbered and SIGNED by Rosengarten, each broadside SIGNED by the poet, with the exception of Smith, who died during production. The whole housed, together with the title page, Jones’ introduction, the artist’s preface, and the colophon, in a black paper-lined buckram folding box, with the title silkscreened to the upper cover. A few spots of foxing to title and preface sheets, else all elements fine. One of 100 (of 130) numbered copies. A sumptuous Canadian livre d’artiste. Original prospectus accompanies.
$3500

First edition, publisher’s copy. 123 pp. Very near fine in coarse cloth-covered boards with printed spine label. Near fine acetate dust jacket with a touch of wear at crown and a short tear to base of rear panel. Designated “Publisher’s Copy” on the colophon page and SIGNED by Kelly. Additionally INSCRIBED by Kelly on the front free endpaper, “for John & Barbara / Martin, / this book that takes / twelve months and miles / to sign / with love, / Robert.”
$250

First edition. 43 pp. Some foxing to endpapers, else near fine in near fine dust jacket with light wear to crown of spine and top edge. Bookplate of poet Leonard Clark inside front board. Review slip laid in. Novelist King’s first published work was a collection of poems written when he was sixteen; this is his second book of verse.
$250

First edition. Oblong 32 mo. [16 pp]. Toning to front and rear covers, else near fine in stapled wrappers. Eight poems, with Kooser’s own illustrations. An attempt to “more completely convey that vision of the great plains introduced in [his first book] OFFICIAL ENTRY BLANK.” This copy is additionally dated (3/6/73) and INSCRIBED by Kooser to a fellow poet.
$200

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.
$400

First edition. 184 pp w/notes. Fine in fine dust jacket. Bienek, Busch, Corman, Duncan, Edson, Rexroth, Roditi, Snyder, and others presented.
$20

First edition, numbered issue. 62 pp. Small stain on front cover, else fine in textured wrappers. One of 300 numbered copies on Arches paper. INSCRIBED by Logue on the front free endpaper, “Dear James / you bought mine and gave me yours / so you sign mine and I’ll sign yours / and that will make us equally unequal / mine / Christopher.” Logue’s first book. Ramsden A1b.
$200

First edition. 53 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Longley on the title page. Laid into this copy is the Christmas 1979 issue of The Poetry Book Society Bulletin (No. 103) featuring a contribution by Longley.
$75

First edition. 4to. 34 pp. Covers lightly rubbed, else very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Illustrated. Computer graphics, computer-aided design, concrete poetry, computer art.
$75

First edition, lettered & signed issue. [20 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and integral dust jacket with printed paper cover label. Printed at the Ferguson Press, Cambridge, MA. One of 26 lettered copies on Fabriano paper SIGNED by McClure.
$125

First edition. 96 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. McNamee’s first book, a novella and three stories.
$40

First edition. 50 pp. Touch of offsetting to first blank leaf, else fine in very near fine dust jacket with some uneven toning to the rear cover. Foreword by Archibald MacLeish. Volume XLII in the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Meredith’s first book, containing a number of war poems drawn from his experience as a Navy flyer. SIGNED by MacLeish at the conclusion of his introduction.
$450

First edition. 72 pp. Very near fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine. Lacks original unprinted glassine dust jacket. Dated (1980) and INSCRIBED by Merrill to his longtime editor at Atheneum Harry Ford and his wife Kathleen, “For Harry + Kathleen / — who will share the fate of / Paolo + Francesca if they / read further than this page / James.” Merrill’s first book, published by his father when James was sixteen.
$3500

First edition. 377 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Companion to THE SEVEN STOREY MOUNTAIN, detailing the daily life of a monk.
$75

First edition. [66 pp]. Fine in sewn limp yellow silk wrappers. The original Italian with facing English translations by Lawrence Kart, who also contributes foreword. One of 300 numbered copies SIGNED by Montale and Kart.
$300