The Drunken Boat
New York: Adventures in Poetry, [1974]. First edition. Unpaginated. Side-stapled wraps. Near Fine with a little offsetting from staples, a few small rust stains to front cover. Nice shape overall. More
New York: Adventures in Poetry, [1974]. First edition. Unpaginated. Side-stapled wraps. Near Fine with a little offsetting from staples, a few small rust stains to front cover. Nice shape overall. More
New York: Boke Press, 1968. First edition. Side-stapled mimeographed sheets, printed on rectos only. Very Good+ with uneven toning to rear cover, light wear, rusting to staples. A lovely copy featuring text by Ted Berrigan and drawings by Joe Brainard. More
Paris: Editions Luigi Mormino, 1982. First edition. Signed by Michel Butor and illustrator Axel Cassel in pencil on rear colophon, #11 of 60 copies thus. 30, [4]pp. Bound in publisher's stiff wraps.Text in French. Fine. A poem by the late French author inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven." Butor's..... More
Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1975. Signed limited first edition. 44, [4] pp. Handbound in publisher's quarter black cloth with blue boards, paper label on spine. Signed by Carver on publisher colophon, copy #32 of 100 thus. Fine. More
Kayak Books: Santa Cruz, 1970. First edition. Signed by Carver on title page. 56 pp. Yellow illustrated wraps. A Fine copy. The short story writer and poet's first regularly published book, an illustrated collection of poetry printed by George Hitchcock's Kayak Books in April 1970 in a limited edition of..... More
Billings: Montana Indian Publication Fund, 1973. First edition. Signed by Willis Eberman on the dedication page. 32 pp. Stapled wraps. About Very Good with crease along spine, light soiling. Part of the Indian Culture series, written by a Seaside, Oregon author. More
London: Faber and Faber, 1930. First large paper edition. Signed limited edition; one of 400 copies signed by T. S. Eliot. Bound in publisher's light blue paper-covered boards stamped in gilt on the upper boards. Light rubbing to spine and edges, spotted discoloration to covers. Illustrated by E. McKnight Kauffer..... More
Waldport, OR: Untide Press, 1943. First edition. (This edition has mimeographed contents and silkscreened covers, and ten poems rather than the later eleven. One of 100 copies according to Everson's biographer Lee Bartlett.) [20] pp. Bound in publisher's wraps glued over stapled contents, silkscreened in yellow and black. Very Good..... More
New York: Harper & Row, 1970. First edition. Four hardcover volumes with original poster. Housed in well-worn clear plastic box with tape mends. Books are all Fine, as is fold-out Peace poster. A set of what has been called "a children's book for adults," a series of colorfully illustrated meditations..... More
Rutland, VT & Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle, 1957. First edition, first printing. 211 pp. Bound in original paper-covered boards with gilt stamping, original obi band, housed in publisher's checkerboard slipcase. Very Good+ with foxing to edges, rubbing along edges to boards and obi band, faint small stain to spine of..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1893. 63 pp. First edition thus. Bound in publisher's green cloth, beautifully stamped in gilt, all edges gilt, in dust jacket repeating the design. Fine, with light bruising to cloth at spine ends, offsetting to endsheets. Dust jacket with a small chip at the head, else..... More
Seattle: The Mill Mountain Press, 1974. First edition. 40 pp. Bound in publisher's crimson wraps. Staining to wraps, else Fine. One of Stanford's rarest works published in his lifetime. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905. First edition thus. Bound in publisher's original charcoal cloth with pictorial onlay. Very Good with rubbing to binding, fading to spine and light, scuffing and a large stain to the rear cover. Pages toned. Occasional pencil scribbles, and more scribbles that have been erased..... More
Cleveland, Ohio: 7 Flowers Press, 1967. First edition, first printing; one of 200 copies printed. Side stapled mimeographed sheets. Very Good or better, with toning and several faint water splashes to the front cover. Illustrated throughout with drawings by dagmara. More