Babel to Byzantium: Poets & Poetry Now
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1968. First edition. Cloth. 8vo, 296 pp. Foxing to page edges. Jacket priceclipped, sunned, foxed, lightly soiled, with light edgewear.
Literature
The Suspect in Poetry
Madison, MN: Sixties Press, 1964. First Printing. Stiff wraps. Papercovered stiff wraps (cardboard) Fading toward the edges. Some minor chipping to spine.
Self-Interviews
Garden City: Doubleday, 1970. First edition. Cloth. 8vo, 190 pp. Edges of boards lightly rubbed, page edges tanned. Jacket lightly sunned, rubbed, edgeworn.
Histriophone: A Dialogue on Dramatic Diction (The Hogarth Essays)
London: Leonard and VIrginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1925. First edition. Illustrated Wraps. 8vo,40 pp. Wrappers sunned, rubbed, lightly dustsoiled, with small nick at front top edge; light wear to corners; pages tanned; interior unmarked.
Jack London, Hemingway, and the Constitution: Selected Essays 1977-1992
New York: Random House, 1993. First edition. Boards. 8vo, 206 pp. Light rubbing and edgewear to jacket.
Life of Count Tolstoi, The
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. Later printing. Cloth. Decorative blue pebbled cloth, small 8vo, 467 pp. Spine faded, covers dull, page edges browned, top edge dusty.
P. G. Wodehouse: A Biography
New York: Knopf, 1982. First edition. Boards. 8vo, 369 pp. Small stain at head of spine, top edge lightly stained and dustsoiled, remainder dot on bottom edge, corners of boards lightly bumped, small stain to rear pastedown. Jacket sunned, rubbed, edgeworn, with several chips and scuffs.
Broken Cord: A Family's Ongoing Struggle With Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Harper Collins, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo, 300 pp. Inscribed and signed by the author. Jacket a bit faded at spine.
Broken Cord, The: A Family's Ongoing Struggle with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Harper & Row, 1989. First edition. Boards. 8vo, 300 pp. Inscribed and signed by the author. Very slight dustsoiling to covers and page edges; jacket lightly edgeworn.
First Wave: Women Poets in America, 1915-1945
New York: Macmillan, 1987. First edition. Boards. 8vo, 314 pp., illus. Slight bow to boards, head and heel of spine and corners of boards bumped, light soiling and foxing to page edges. Jacket faded, edgeworn, with faint stains at head and heel of spine, light foxing.
Play Time PseudoStein; A Fairy Play
San Francisco: Tenth Muse, 1969. Second Edition. Paperback. ExLib. Remnant of checkout slip on tipped to rear cover. Pencil library number at top of title page. Former owner's name at top of front flyleaf. Second edition with bookseller Julia Newman’s The Tenth Muse books was subsequently printed with a preface.....
Art and Outrage: A Correspondence about Henry Miller
London: Putnam, 1959. First edition. Cloth. 8vo, 63 pp. Minor sunning to page edges and edges of jacket.
Art and Outrage: A Correspondence about Henry Miller
New York: Dutton, 1961. First edition. Boards. 8vo, 62 pp. Light foxing to top edge, otherwise FIne. Jacket a bit edgeworn, foxed mainly at rear panel.
Read the Way He Writes: A Festschrift for bpNichol (Open Letter, Sixth Series, Nos. 5-6: Summer-Fall 1986)
Toronto: 1986. Wraps. 8vo, 270 pp., illus. Spine lightly creased, wrappers rubbed and edgeworn, small sticker mark on front, light soiling to page edges.
Bukowski and the Beats: A commentary on the Beat Generation. Followed by An Evening at Buk's Place - an Interview with Charles Bukowski
Northville: Sun Dog, 2002. First printing. Wraps. 255 pp., illus. Edge and corner wear to wrappers.
Henry James. Five Volumes in Slipcase
New York: Avon. Mass Market Paperback. All five volumes tight, clean and unmarked, with light wear to head of spines, pages tanned. Scuff to one corner of slipcase.
Robert Creeley's Poetry: A Critical Introduction
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico, 1978. First edition. Cloth. 8vo, 186 pp. Spine sunned, foxing to page edges. Jacket sunned, foxed, edgeworn with small chips at head of spine.
ORMAND; Irish Novels Series
Shannon: Irish University Press, 1972. Reprint. cloth. 8vo. 400 pages.First hardback edition thus in the Irish Novels series edited and introduced by A. Norman Jeffares. This is a photolithographic facsimile of the 1900 edition. VG in VG DW which has a small tear at the top edge of the front.....
Lost Notebooks of Loren Eiseley, The
Little, Brown & Co., 1987. First edition. Hardcover. Narrow 4to, 260 pp., illus. Slight bow to boards, light dustsoiling and edgewear to jacket.
Adam Bede
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1860. Cloth. 8vo, brown cloth with stamped design and gilt lettering, 452 pp. + ads. Faint stains to boards, spine a bit cocked and faded, wear and chipping to head and heel of spine and minor loss to corners, page edges darkened, wrinkling and discoloration.....
Reader's Guide to T. S. Eliot: A Poem-by-Poem Analysis
New York: Noonday, 1953. First edition. Cloth. 8vo, 248 pp. Covers a bit dull,pages tanned. Jaket sunned, rubbed, edgeworn, with a few small chips.
Writer's Experience, The
Washington DC: Gertrude Clark Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund, for the Library of Congress, 1964. First edition. Staplebound Wraps. 8vo, 32 pp. Two lectures: Hidden Name and Complex Fate (Ellison) and American Poet? (Shapiro). Wrappers stained and edgeworn, corners bumped, staples rusted, page edges tanned.
A long the riverrun: Selected Essays
New York: Knopf, 1989. First American edition. Boards. 8vo, 277 pp. Head and heel of spine lightly bumped, remainder stripe on top edge. Jacket bumped at head and heel of spine, lightly sunned and edgeworn.
Representative Men / Nature, Addresses and Lectures (Two Volumes In One)
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1883. Cloth. Popular Edition. Small 8vo, 276 + 372 pp. Covers dull, worn at head and heel of spine, some soiling to page edges and endpapers, bottom edge dampstain also affecting margins of a few pages, previous owner name on front blank.
Colloquies of Erasmus, The (in Two Volumes)
London: Reeves & Turner, 1878. Cloth. Top edge gilt, 8vo, 464 pp. / 467 pp. Binding professionally repaired preserving original covers. Covers faded and worn with some loss at extremities, foxing to page edges and first and last few leaves; Vol. II spine cocked.