Poems in the Porch
London: S.P.C.K., 1954. Piper, John. First edition. Staplebound Wraps. 8vo, pages unnumbered. Wrappers a bit dustsoiled, edgeworn; very light foxing to a few pages. Ephemera.
London: S.P.C.K., 1954. Piper, John. First edition. Staplebound Wraps. 8vo, pages unnumbered. Wrappers a bit dustsoiled, edgeworn; very light foxing to a few pages. Ephemera.
London: John Murray, 1960. First edition. Cloth. 8vo, 111 pp., chapter head decorations. Small nick to rear spine edge, top edge dusty, gift inscription. Jacket lightly dustsoiled, with small area of insect damage at head of spine panel.
San Francisco: Print Workshop, 1955. First edition. Boards. 8vo, 79 pp. Edition limited to 31 copies (this is no. 26), signed by the author and by printer David Ruff, who also did the cover illustration. Boards edgeworn, with superficial insect damage affecting rear board and one corner of front board;.....
Manchester: Carcanet, 1997. First edition. Wraps. 8vo, 149 pp. Light edge and corner wear to wrappers only.
New York: Exposition, 1948. Cloth. 8vo, 91 pp. Inscribed (in rhyme) and signed by the poet. Wear to edges of boards, a couple of ink spots to rear board, page edges tanned. Jacket has chipping and piece missing from rear panel.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1973. First edition. Wraps. 8vo, 64 pp.Inscribed and signed by the author. Wrappers a bit handled, edgeworn.
Toronto: The Ryerson Press. 1948. First printing. Hardcover. Inscribed by author, two-inch stain on back cover, slightly discolored along top front cover and spine.
Burnaby, BC: Talonbooks, 1997. First printing. Wraps.
New York: Gathering of Tribes / Fly by Night, 1995. First edition. Wraps. 8vo, 91 pp. Review copy with publisher's materials. Inscribed and signed by the poet to Jerome and Diane Rothenberg, and with her letter to them laid in. Light foxing to page edges, top corner bumped.
New York: American R.D.M Corporation, 1966. First edition thus. Wraps. First Edition. Rare early Blackburn translation. Published in the Study Master series. Blackburn has written a one page translator's preface.
New York: Caterpillar, 1967. First edition. Wraps. 4to. First edition. 6 unnumbered pp. Printed on one side only. Staped sheets. 1/300 copies. Light coffee stains to front covers.
New York: Permanent Press, 1980. First edition. Wraps. 8vo, 69 pp. Wrappers a bit edgeworn, head of spine bumped.
London: Oxford University Press, 1969. Later printing. Cloth. 8vo, 944 pp. Edges of boards, page edges, and endpapers browned. Jacket edgeworn.
San Francisco: Open Space, 1964. Second edition. Stapled Wraps. Second edition of 300 copies with new endpapers designed by the author. 8vo, pp. unnumbered. Translations of Nerval. Very light edge and corner wear to wrappers.
Vancouver: Talon Books, 1983. First edition. Wraps. 8vo, 58 pp. Signed by author at Preface, and additionally inscribed and signed by him to Jerome and Diane Rothenberg on halftitle page. Wrappers sunned and edgeworn, page edges tanned, foxing to page edges, corners lightly bumped.
New York: Strawberry Press, 1979. Bill Crosby. First edition. Wraps. 8vo, 80 pp. Inscribed and signed by author to Jerome Rothenberg. Wrappers sunned, lightly dustsoiled, edgeworn; foxing to top edge.
Brunswick, ME: Wind River / Blackberry Press, 1978. Bill Crosby. First edition. Wraps. 8vo, 80 pp. Wrappers sunned, lightly dustsoiled, edgeworn; foxing to page edges; faint paperclip mark to top edges of front cover and first leaf; corners bumped and several page corners turned.
Brockport, NY: BOA Editions, 1993. First edition. Staplebound wraps in dustjacket. 8vo, 21 pp. SIGNED by ROBERT BLY. Dustjacket very lightly handled and dustsoiled. Chapbook.
Brockport, NY: BOA Editions, 1993. First edition. Staplebound wraps in dustjacket. 8vo, 21 pp. SIGNED by ROBERT BLY. Dustjacket very lightly handled and dustsoiled. Chapbook.
New York: Harper Collins, 2001. First edition. Boards. 8vo, 95 pp. Signed by the author. Appears unread.
New York: Macmillan, 1961. First edition. Cloth. 8vo, 70 pp. Poems. Spine, edges of boards, page edges, and endpapers foxed; light superficial insect damage to rear board. Jacket priceclipped, unevenly faded, foxed, soiled and worn.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1968. First edition. Cloth. 8vo, 136 pp. Spine faded, with fraying at head; boards handled and lightly stained; stains to top and fore-edges, date on front free endpaper.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1968. First printing. Wraps. 8vo, 136 pp. Wrappers rubbed and worn at edges and corners, page edges tanned, top edge foxed.
Yale University Press, 2007. First edition. Cloth. 12mo, 61 pp. Light dustsoiling to jacket.
Sherbrooke, Quebec: Editions Naaman, 1977. First thus. Wraps. 8vo, 73 pp. Bilingual. Wrappers lightly sunned, handled and worn at edges and corners.