Surfings: Selected Poems
Berthoud, CO: Howling Dog, 2005. First edition. Wraps in Dust Jacket. 8vo, 135 pp. Signed by author. Jacket lightly bumped at crown and corners.
Berthoud, CO: Howling Dog, 2005. First edition. Wraps in Dust Jacket. 8vo, 135 pp. Signed by author. Jacket lightly bumped at crown and corners.
Pennsylvania State University, 1991. Cloth. 8vo, 376 pp. Light edgewear to jacket.
Farrar Straus & Cudahy, 1955. First edition. Cloth. 8vo, 235 pp. Small dampstain at heel of spine, light soiling to page edges. Jacket stained, faded, edgeworn.
New York: Scribners, 1920. Cloth. 8vo, 434 pp., 511 pp. Spines faded; covers handled, rubbed at edges and lightly soiled, corners of boards lightly bumped; foxing to page edges, endpapers and first and last few leaves.
Yale University Press, 1998. First edition. Cloth. 8vo, 326 pp. Autobiography.
New York: Random House, 1989. First edition. Boards. 8vo, 380 pp. Spine very slightly cocked, remainder stripe on top edge. Jacket lightly handled and edgeworn.
New York: New Directions, 1944. First American edition. Boards. 8vo, 234 pp., b/w plates. Spine cocked and faded, head and heel of spine and corners of boards bumped with corners splitting, covers sunned and stained, foxing to covers and page edges, margins of plates foxed, light discoloration to endpapers, front.....
University of Chicago, 1949. First printing. Cloth. 8vo, 369 pp. Spine cocked and sunned, covers and page edges sunned and dusty.
Dublin: Commedia, 1973. First edition. Boards. Out of series, from an edition of 1000 numbered copies (of 1026 total). 8vo, 50 pp. Designated as "a special copy" and inscribed and signed by the editor to poet Keith Wilson. A signed, handwritten letter to Wilson from Platt is laid in. Spine.....
New York: Harper Collins, 2003. First edition. Boards. 8vo, 540 pp. Slight shelf slant to spine.
Light and Dust / Atticus, 1992. First edition. Wraps. 8vo, pp. unnumbered. Visual texts. Light edge and corner wear to wrappers, light foxing to wrappers and page edges.
White Pine Press, 1995. Reprint. Paperback. 46 pp.
New York: Putnams, 1953. First printing thus. Cloth. 8vo, 308 pp., illus. Novel of frontier life originally published in 1839. Page edges tanned and dusty, previous owner name on front free endpaper, otherwise Fine. Jacket sunned and edgeworn with some scuffing and insect damage to spine panel.
Sheep Meadow Press, 1993. Wraps. 8vo, 241 pp.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1960. First edition. Cloth. 8vo, 246 pp. Columns from the Santa Fe New Mexican. Covers slightly sunned, top edge dusty, page edges tanned. Jacket has a couple of tiny chips at head of spine panel and folds.
New York: Emma Lazarus Federation of Jewish WOmen's Clubs, 1978. Fourth Revised & Enlarged Edition. Paperback in DJ. 8vo, 110 pp. Top edge lightly foxed, jacket lightly rubbed.
Tulsa, OK: Cardinal, 1982. First edition. Wraps. Square 8vo, pp. unnumbered, illus. Spine and wrapper edges faded, corners bumped.
Indiana University, 1976. Later printing. Paperback. 12mo, 253 pp. Spine darkened, page edges foxed, interior clean and unmarked.
New York: New Directions, 1979. First edition. Wraps. 8vo, 142 pp. Esssays by and interviews with Levertov, and essays on Levertov by Ralph Mills, Victor Contoski, Hayden Carruth, David Ignatow, et al. Wrappers sunned, spine edges rubbed, foxing to wrappers and page edges.
Desert Hot Springs, CA: Event Horizon, 1995. First edition. Wraps. 8vo, 67 pp. Unsigned presentation copy with TLS from Lifshin to poet Todd Moore laid in.
the author, (1992). Wraps. 8vo, 84 pp. Includes Introduction by Babineau, genealogical chart and will of Pierre Arsennaux. Spine sunned.
New York: Mayflower, (1979). First American edition. Cloth. Square 4to, 213 pp., a few color illus., b/w throughout. Head and heel of spine and corners of boards lightly bumped, bottom edge remainder marked (stipple), previous owner blind stamp. Jacket a bit sunned, handled, edgeworn.
Cambridge: Deighton Bell, 1908. Cloth. 12mo, 193 pp., frontis. Spine cocked, with wear at head and heel, covers rubbed and a bit darkened, corners of boards lighlty bumped, pages tanned, previous owner name, underlining and notes in text, notes to rear free endpaper.
Barrytown, NY: Station Hill Press, 2001. First edition. Wraps. 8vo, 108 pp. Wrappers beginning to curl stlightly at fore-edges and corners, otherwise Fine.
San Francisco: City Lights, 1962. First printing. Wraps. Pocket Poets Seventeen. 24mo, 79 pp. Ex-lib. stamped CANCELLED and with stamps marked out on top, fore- and bottom edges and title page. Small stains to last few pages.