The Open Look
New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1969. First edition. Cloth. Inscribed by Photographer. Front & Rear dj flaps stapled to rear flyleaf.
New Arrivals
Jesus Out to Sea; and Other Stories
London: Orion, 2008. First edition. Cloth. 8vo. 241pp. Cloth. First Edition. Signed by James Lee Burke on bookplate. Short Stories. Fine copy in fine dj. Collectible.
Transfer
Rochester, NY: BOA Editions, 2011. First edition. Wraps. 8vol 128pp. Wraps. First Paperback Edition.
Paterson Book Five
New York: New Directions, 1958. First edition. Cloth. 8vo. Unpaginated. First Edition. Very Good copy in good jacket. Jacket has light soil. some minor closed tears. One small chip to upper righthand corner of back panel of dj. Some pencil sketches on rear flyleaf. One stanza has been circled.
Tish No. 1-19
Vancouver, BC: Talonbooks, 1975. First edition. Wraps. 8vo. 431pp. Wraps. Covers has several creases. Edges shows wear. Interior clean, tight. TISH was a Canadian poetry newsletter founded by student-poets at the University of British Columbia in 1961. The publication was edited by a number of Vancouver poets until 1969. The.....
Transport to Summer
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947. First edition. Cloth. 12mo., 148pp. First Edition. Green paper over boards. Some scattered white spots on rear cover (white out?). Some light soil to covers.Corners worn, some board exposed.
A Range of Poems
London: Fulcrum Press, 1966. First edition. Cloth. 8vo., 164pp. First Edition, First Issue with correction (erratum) sticker afixed to the colophon page at rear of the volume. Brown cloth lettered in gilt. Brown wrapping paper dust jacket with Snyder's boldly lettered calligraphy title in black. Photograph of the author facing.....
Things
Chester, NY: Heaven Bone Press, 1991. First edition. Staplebound wraps. Small 4to. 39pp. Paperback. Illustrated with photos and other images. Experimental poetry. A very good copy in stapled photo-illustrated wrappers. Enclosed in custom plastic envelope. Uncommon.
New Collected Poems
New York: New Directions, 2002. First edition. Cloth. 8vo., 433pp. Illus. b&w photos. Edited by Michael Davidson. Preface and notes by Eliot Weinberger.
From This Condensery; The Complete Writing of Lorine Niedecker
Highlands, NC: Jargon Society, 1985. First Edition. Cloth. Large 8vo.,336pp. + The Jargon Society, Penland, North Carolina, 1985. 336pp + 2pp. list of Subscribers + xxxiv prelims, including Introduction by the Editor. Limited edition of 2500 copies. Tan cloth covered boards with black title plate on spine. Brown and yellow.....
Encaustic; Materials and Methods
New York: Lear, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 64pp. Illus. color plates. Very Good in Good Dj. Jacket is unclipped w/oil stain and several chips and minor tears. One small stain on interior otherwise clean, tight copy. Rare historic overview of encaustic painting and technical information. Iindividual formulas, methods and.....
Uzzano Double Issue Numbers 6&7
Mount Carroll, IL: Uzzano, 1977. First edition. Perfectbound Wraps. 4to. 89pp. Perfectbound Wraps. Small Press Journal. Contributors include Thomas McGrath, Kirk Robertson, Lyn Lifshin, Sharon Olds, Art Cuehlo, Joseph Naropa, William Witherup, V.B Price, Jody Aliesan, Tom Montag and others.
Road/House 6; Spring 1976
Belvidere, IL: Road/House Press, 1976. First edition. Staplebound wraps. 12mo. 40pp. Staplebound wraps. Bi-annual small press journal edited by poet Todd Moore. Contributors include Ivan Arguelles, Robert Schuler, Ronald Koertge, D.Clinton, Errol Miller, Rex L. Veeder, George A. Freek, Vajda, Jeanine Crockett, Robert Matte Jr., Guy R. Beining, Bruce Severy.....
Nanao or Never; Nanao Sakaki Walks Earth A
Nobleboro, ME: Blackberry Books, 2000. First edition. Illus. Wraps. 8vo. 244pp. Illus, b&w photos and drawings. Signed by Nanao, John Brandi, Rabbit, C.S. Merrill, Anne Mc Naughton, and publisher Gary Lawless.
Communion; Poems 1976-1998
Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press. 3rd Printing. Wraps. 8vo. 236pp. Wraps. INSCRIBED BY ST. JOHN ON THE TITLEPAGE.
Joy! Praise!; Jerome Rothenberg at 60
Encinitas, CA: TA'Will Books, 1991. First edition. Wraps. A collection of poems and essays celebrating poet Jerome Rothenberg's 60th birthday. Light crease at upper righthand corner. Contributors include: David Antin, Rae Armantrout, Charles Bernstein, Julien Blaine, Edmond Chibeau, Bob Cobbing, Michael Davidson, George Economou, Barbara Einzig, Clayton Eshleman, Allen Fisher.....
Sonnets and Odes Translated from the Italian of Petrarch; With the Original Text and Some Account of His Life. A New Edition
London: J. Miller, 1808. Reprint. Half Leather over Marbled Covered Boards. 12mo. xxiii +111pp. Hardcover. Very Good. Half leather binding over marbled paper covered boards. Corners bumped with boards exposed and paper chipped from board edges - covers a little rubbed and toned - foxing to titlepage. Book ow/ clean.....
Water I Slip Into at Night
Mexico City: 1967. First Edition. Wraps. Small 8vo. 56pp. Wraps. First Edion. #51/1500 Inscribed by Margaret Randall to poet Jerome Rothenberg.
Outside Time
Bearsville, NY: Retort, 1948. First Edition. Burlap over boards. 21/500 copies handset by Dachine Rainer and printed on a Gordon upright (foot pedal) by Holley Cantine. Handbound in cardboard covered with burlap cloth. Cloth is beginning to shred at edges. Damp stains along bottom of pages. Warm personal inscription to.....
The Pisan Cantos
New York: New Directions, 1948. First edition/second printing. Cloth. 8vo, 118pp. Black cloth with silver lettering. VG. Verey Good dj with minor chipping at top/bottom of spine. second printing of Pound's most important later work, and the most moving portion of his long poem-in-progress, written while in a prison camp.....
The Pisan Cantos
New York: New Directions, 1948. First edition. Cloth. 8vo, 118pp. Black cloth with silver lettering. VG. Lacking the dustwrapper. The four sections of the dj (chipped) are laid in. Light dampstains at bottom of front/rear covers. First edition of Pound's most important later work, and the most moving portion of.....
To Frighten A Storm
Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1976. First edition. Paperback Perfect Binding. 8vol 37pp. 1/000 copies printed. Paperback Perfect binding. Early publication from Copper Canyon Press. One of the scarcer titles from this press.
Totem Poles
Vancouver & Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre, 1990. First edition. Cloth. 4to. 192pp. Illus. drawings 113 accessible Totem Poles, maps. Writing for the popular audience in her clear, lively prose, Hilary Stewart portrays the hstorical and cultural background of totem poles, the types and purposes of poles, and he tools and.....
Constable; Library of Great Painters
New York: Abrams, 1978. First edition. Cloth. Large 4to.168pp. Illus. 57 handtipped color plates and many b&w illustrations. Includes a section of Constable's drawings and prints, notes, a biographical outline, a selected bibliography and an index. Fine in an unclipped dj.
An Autobiography
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1985. First edition. Cloth. 4to. 400pp. Illus. 277 b&w Photographs. Finsihed just prior to his death. First edition in Fine clipped dj.