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$350.00NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1970. First edition, numbered & signed issue. 96 pp. Fine in cloth-covered boards and publisher’s slipcase. No dust jacket, as issued. All edges gilt, marbled endpapers. The spine lettering is only very slightly worn, much less so than normally found. One of 250 numbered copies SIGNED by Berryman. Of these however, Stefanik notes that 30 to 50 were presentation copies. Stefanik A20.i.a.$20.00London: Faber & Faber, 1973. First UK edition. xiv + 254 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Foreword by Saul Bellow.$20.00NY: Farrar Straus Giroux (1973). First edition. xiv + 258 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Six page foreword by Saul Bellow. A novel about alcoholism left unfinished, but only just, as the time of Berryman’s death. Stefanik A24.1.a.$45.00NY: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux (1967). First edition. 120 pp. Very near fine in very near fine dust jacket. This volume collects many of Berryman's short lyrics and brief lyric sequences, excluding of course his two masterpieces, the early HOMAGE TO MISTRESS BRADSTREET and THE DREAM SONGS of middle-to-late career. However, the volume manages to sample a wide range: from his earliest work--THE DISPOSSESSED of 1948--to a much later poem, 'Formal Elegy,' written in memory of JFK.$25.00Isle of Skye, Scotland:Aquila/The Phaeton Press, 1981. 1st edition thus. Near fine in wraps, lightly faded along stapled spine. First separate edition of this essay by Berryman.$12.50NY: Thin Air Video (nd). VHS video tape in the original box. Near fine. Readings by each of the poets, totalling 55 minutes.$20.00Kent: Credences Press (nd). 94 pp w/notes. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover art a collage by Fielding Dawson. Contributions by Robert Duncan, Michael Palmer, William Bronk, Jennifer Dunbar & Edward Dorn, and others.$25.00Milwaukee: Morgan Press (1969). First edition, limited & signed issue. [12 pp]. Near fine in stapled wrappers. One of 25 (of 475) copies SIGNED by Bertolino on the colophon page.$12.50Port Townsend: Copper Canyon (1975). First edition. 54 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. One of 1000 copies.$25.00Port Townsend: Copper Canyon (1975). First edition. 54 pp. Lght bend to lower corner, else fine in printed wrappers. One of 1000 copies. INSCRIBED by Bertolino, “21 July 1975 Cincinnati / for Douglas Blazek / Keeping straight with / what matters / James Bertolino.”$15.00Madison: Ox Head Press, 1969. First edition. [12 pp]. Near fine in sewn wrappers. One of 350 copies. A single poem. Ox Head 8.$20.00Bellingham: Egress Studio Press (2002). First edition. 69. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Dated (8 April 2003). Warmly INSCRIBED by Bertolino on the half-title page.$15.00Madison: Abraxas Press (1969). Second edition, first printing. [16 pp]. Very good plus in stapled wrappers. “An Abraxas Press Facsimile Edition” based on an earlier edition.$20.00Madison: Abraxas Press (1969). Second printing. [16 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Bertolino’s first collection of poems.$45.00Melbourne: Robertson & Mullens, 1943. First edition. 17 pp. Near fine in wrappers and very good plus integral printed dust jacket that is split down about three inches from the crown. Title page vignette by Sergeant Athol Snook, R.A.A.F. War poems.$20.00Toronto: Macmillan, 1962. First edition. 98 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Translated from the original French by Glen Shortliffe.$20.00NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston (nd). Uncorrected proof. 211 pp. Very near fine in printed blue wrappers. Bessie's fifth novel.
$125.00New Hyde Park: University Books (1965). First edition. xxvii + 183 pp w/index. Very near fine in like dust jacket with some shallow edgewear. Introduction by Eve Juster. Besterman considers the history of “seeing beyond the immediate” via transparent or reflective objects.$20.00Rowman and Littlefield: Totowa, 1971. First edition. 609 pp in two volumes. Hard erasure to first leaf, else very near fine in full light green cloth. No dust jackets, as issued. For the pair:$25.00NY: W.W. Norton, 1974. . First American edition. 8vo. Cloth. Near fine in a near fine, price clipped jacket.$300.00London: John Murray (1974). First edition, numbered & signed issue. 62 pp. Fine in full cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Near fine clear unprinted acetate dust jacket with small chips to tips of flap folds. t.e.g. One of 175 numbered copies SIGNED by Betjeman. Young 277 (US ed).$150.00London: Poem-Of-The-Month-Club, 1971. . First edition. Broadside. 11 x 15 inches. Signed by Betjeman. In addition Betjeman has hand corrected two words in the final line of the poem. Fine.$17.50Boston & Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin/Riverside Press, 1959. First US edition. 279 pp. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket with sunned spine and a few short edge-tears. Compiled and with an introduction by Lord Birkenhead.$15.00Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1960. First US edition. 97 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket with tanned spine. Betjeman’s autobiography in verse.$25.00Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1956. First edition. 27 pp. Very near fine in sewn wrappers.$25.00NY: Clarke & Way (1964). First edition. 167 pp. Top edge foxed, else near fine in very good plus dust jacket with wear to crown of spine and dampstaining along bottom edge of rear panel. Original Italian poems with facing English translations by I.L. Salomon. Review slip laid in.$40.00(np): Dolphin Press (2000). First edition. [40 pp]. Bend to lower corner of text block, else near fine in illustrated wrappers. One of 200 numbered copies.$40.00(np): Dolphin Press (2000). First edition. [52 pp]. Short tear and wrinkle to top edge of last leaf, else very near fine in printed wrappers. One of 200 numbered copies.$25.00Seattle & London: University of Washington (1990). First edition. 233 pp w/index. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Review slip and promotional flyer laid in.$35.00Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press (1993). First edition. xiii + 280 pp w/index. Very near fine in full cloth. No dust jacket, as issued.$17.50Menlo Park: Occasional Works, 2006. First edition. 18 pp. Fine in wrappers with printed cover label. Pictorial endpapers, title page printed letterpress. One of 100 copies on Mohawk Superfine paper, hand-bound at the Foolscap Press. In this short essay classicist Charles Rowan Beye pays critical homage to Simone Weil and Rachel Bespaloff, two legendary European intellectuals whose interpretations of Homer's Iliad are a lasting reading of the poem's significance in the context of the horrors of the Second World War.$75.00[San Francisco]: The Print Workshop (1952). First edition, numbered & signed issue. 47 pp. Fine in half-cloth with paper-covered boards and printed spine label. No dust jacket, as issued. Hand-set and printed by David Ruff at the Print Workshop with his color engraving mounted to the front cover (but unfortunately, here lacking). One of 50 numbered copies on Arches paper SIGNED by Beye and Ruff.