Santa Rosa, California: Black Sparrow Press, 1999. Deluxe Limited Edition. Hardcover. 9 3/8" X 6 1/4". 204pp. Deluxe edition limited to 376, this being number 309, handbound in boards by Earle Gray and containing a previously unpublished broadside poem by Charles Bukowski, this one being "Crime & Punishment," printed on..... More
San Francisco: Four Seasons Foundation, 1965. First Edition. Staplebound wraps. 9" X 6 1/8". Unpaginated. Very mild shelfwear and light fading to spine of paper wraps. Previous owner's remarks to front free endpaper, else pages clean, bright, and unmarked. Edition limited to 1000, distributed by City Lights Books. More
Atlanta: Harvey Dan Abrams, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. 8 1/2" X 5 5/8". 99pp. Signed & Inscribed by the Author to front free endpaper. Light dust soiling to dust jacket. Light shelfwear to blue hardcover binding, with cover and spine lettered in bright gilt. Binding is tight, sound, and square..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2008. Hardcover. 9 3/8" X 6 1/4". 61pp. Signed by Thomas Lux at title page. A touch of shelfwear to unclipped pictorial dust jacket. Dark blue cloth over boards, with spine lettered in gilt. Bowing to boards. Binding is tight and sound. Pages are clean and..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. 6 5/8" X 5 1/4". 80pp. Blue paper over boards, with wrap-around title label. Rather heavy edgewear to binding, with tears to edges and extremities, sunning to spine, spine-panel of title label sunned to obscurity, and scuffing to boards. Gift inscription dated..... More
Darien, Georgia: Privately Printed for the McGarvey Family by the Ashantilly Press, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. 9 3/8" X 6 1/4". 81pp. Presents nicely in protective archival sleeved dust jacket. Moderate wear to dust jacket, with small tears to edges and faint dust soiling. Patterned paper over boards, with spine..... More
Highlands, North Carolina: The Jargon Society, 1999. First Edition. Paperback. 11" X 8". 257pp. Edtion limited to 1000, with 900 copies in wraps. Light cover wear to glossy pictorial dust jacket over purple wraps. Previous owner's inscription to title page. Binding is tight and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked..... More
[Highlands, North Carolina]: The Jargon Society, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. 7 1/4" X 6 1/4". Unpaginated. Signed by Thomas Meyer to title page. Presents nicely in protective archival sleeved dust jacket. Light creasing to dust jacket at edge of spine, else fine. Red cloth over boards, with spine lettered in..... More
St. Louis, Missouri: St. Louis Poetry Center, 1987. Staplebound wraps. 10 3/8" X 6 1/8". 30pp. Signed by Leslie Adrienne Miller to title page. Light edgewear and mild sunning to spine and top edges of stapled paper wraps. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A quite..... More
Edinburgh and London: Printed for the Scottish Text Society by William Blackwood and Sons, 1887. Leather bound. 9" X 6". Quarter dark red leather with green cloth over boards. Spine lettered in gilt. Ex-University of Aberdeen Library, with front cover stamped thus in blind, sticker to spine, small stamp to..... More
Memphis, Tennessee: Argus Books, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". 62pp. Mild edgewear to pictorial dust jacket, with light dust soiling to rear and very shallow small tears to corners. Slate blue cloth over boards, with spine and upper board stamped in black. Faint shelfwear to binding..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1897. Hardcover. If you’re searching for the perfect words with which to describe your lady love, look no further! Within these ivy-strewn covers you’ll find a poem for seemingly any and every woman’s name on the streets of New York or London at the..... More
[London]: Chapman & Hall Ltd., circa 1910. Hardcover. "Many poets affirm that if we only kept our own eyes open we should discover that the true fairy-land is really our own world, or a part of it..." So the poet Alfred Noyes writes in his circa 1910 treasure trove of..... More
San Antonio, Texas: Harvey Lindsley Page, the Mills Engraving Company, Wood-Brownlee Printing Company, 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. 7" X 5 1/4". 60pp; 55pp; 69pp. Pictorial paper over boards with spines backed in red cloth and lettered in gilt to side. Moderate wear to bindings, with bumping and rubbing to extremities..... More
Albany, California: verygraphics, 1990. Staplebound. 11" X 8 1/2". 49pp. Light creasing and wear to covers. Some rubbing to front and rear covers. Staplebound binding is sound. Pages clean and unmarked. Includes black and white and color erotic art, poetry by Michael Campbell, Rachel Loden, Donald Rawley, and Rachel Guido..... More
Edinburgh and London: Printed for the Scottish Text Society by William Blackwood and Sons, 1896. Leather bound. 9" X 6". xxii, 218pp, plus 18pp of Scottish Text Society business. Quarter dark red leather with green cloth over boards. Spine lettered in gilt. Ex-University of Aberdeen Library, with front cover stamped..... More
Columbia, PA: The Clover Press (Geo. D. Hall), 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. 7 3/4" X 5 1/2". 95pp. Signed & Inscribed by the Author to flyleaf. Mild edgewear to tan cloth hardcover binding, with front cover lettered in black. Light dust soiling to edges of text block. Very heavy toning..... More
New York: Calkins and Company, 1908. Special Presentation Edition. Hardcover. 7.5" x 4.75". 87pp. Signed presentation copy, limited to 150 copies. Blue cloth binding with floral design and symbols. Illustrated title paper pasted to front cover. Light soiling to cloth, edges rubbed, corners frayed. Contents clean and free of marks..... More
London: John Camden Hotten, 1867. First Edition. Hardcover. 6 7/8" X 4 1/2". 8pp ads, 66pp, 8pp ads, 6pp ads. Blue cloth over boards, spine lettered in gilt. Moderate wear to binding, with rubbing to edges and bumped corners, light soiling, and rubbing through to boards at head and tail..... More
Atlanta: Poetry Atlanta Press, 1988. First Edition. Staplebound wraps. 8 3/8" X 5 3/8". 20pp. Inscribed to previous owner by Memye Curtis Tucker at title page and dated June 1988. Mild wear to staplebound wraps. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. Newspaper clipping praising the author..... More
Berkeley: The Arif Press, 1975. First Edition. Staplebound wraps. 10 3/4" X 8". 16pp (Unpaginated). Minor wear to wraps, with some very light rubbing to edges and spine. Bookseller notations penciled to front free endpaper and page 13. Binding is sound. Contents are clean, bright, and unmarked. A very nice..... More
Buffalo: Otto Ulbrich Co., 1911. Lester J. Ambrose. First Edition. Hardcover. 7 3/4" X 5 1/4". xiii, 151pp. Red cloth over boards, with pictorial label to front cover and front cover and spine lettered in gilt. Mild edgewear to binding, with some light scattered rubbing and bumping to corners. Top..... More
Scaly Mountain, North Carolina: The Press of Otis the Lamed-Vovnik (Jonathan Williams), 1994. First Edition. Staplebound wraps. 11" X 8 1/2". Unpaginated. Flatsigned by Jonathan Williams only to limitation page. Edition limited to 250. A touch of edgewear to pictorial dust jacket and red stapled wraps, else fine. Bookseller notations..... More
Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. 10 1/4" X 7 1/8". Signed by Jonathan Williams on title page. Presents nicely in protective archival sleeved dust jacket. Mild edgewear to dust jacket, with light dust soiling and one light scratch to front cover. Green cloth..... More
Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press, 2005. First Edition. Paperback. 9" X 6". 304pp. Stated First Printing. A touch of shelfwear to paper wraps, else fine in tight, sound binding, with uncreased spine and bright, clean, unmarked pages. From rear cover: "Jubilant Thicket teems with the eccentric, strange, and boundlessly..... More
