Poetry
The Truro Bear and Other Adventures: Poems and Essays
Boston: Beacon Press, 2008. First edition, first printing. Signed by Mary Oliver on the title page. [xii], 80, [4] pp. Bound in publisher's red boards with brown cloth backstrip, spine lettered in gilt. Fine in a bright, slightly rubbed dust jacket, else Fine. More
Why I Wake Early
Boston: Beacon Press, 2004. Signed by Mary Oliver on the title page. xiv, 72pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth with silver lettering. Second printing of the first edition. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket with light shelf wear. More
Grapefruit: A Book of Instruction and Drawings
New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000. 29th printing. Signed and inscribed by Yoko Ono on the front free endpaper "NYC, '03". Bound in publisher's black hardcover lettered in orange foil. Fine in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light scuffing to panels. Yoko Ono's conceptual art book book originally..... More
Ovid's Metamorphosis Englished by G. S.
London: Printed by William Stansby, 1626. First edition of the Sandys translation. [17], 326, [5] pp. ([a]4, b6, A-2R4, 2S6). Engraved title-page. Engraved portrait of Ovid by William Marshall. Woodcut printer's device on colophon. (Folio in 4s) 25.2x15.5 cm (10x6"), rebacked, period speckled calf, raised bands. This translation is the..... More
Poems
New York: B.W. Huebsch, Inc., 1921. First American edition, first printing. [ix], 33pp. Bound in publisher's paper boards lettered in gilt. Near Fine with light wear at extremities, light soiling to covers; minor foxing to all edges. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper; moderate foxing to front and rear..... More
Not So Deep as a Well
New York: The Viking Press, 1936. First edition of her collected poems, signed limited issue. Copy number 324 of a limited 485 signed by Dorothy Parker. Bound in publisher's reddish-pink paper covered boards over black spine cloth lettered in gilt. Near Fine with light fading to spine cloth, endsheets a...... More
The Journal of Albion Moonlight
Mount Vernon, New York: Walpole Printing Office, 1941. First edition, second issue. Number 235 of a limited 295 copies, unsigned. Bound in publisher's black cloth over boards, with red and gold title labels on upper board and spine. Very Good or better, with spine and edges faded, several small scuffs..... More
Poem-Scapes
Highlands, North Carolina: Jonathan Williams, Publisher, 1958. First edition; one of a limited 75 numbered copies prepared with covers hand painted by Kenneth Patchen, with colophon signed and painted by the poet as well. Near Fine with wear to edges of boards and toning to pages. Patchen often experimented with..... More
Red Wine and Yellow Hair
New York: New Directions, 1948. First edition, first printing. Signed by Kenneth Patchen on the front free endpaper and inscribed to former owners. Bound in publisher's yellow cloth lettered in red and black on the spine. Very Good, with cloth dust-soiled, lightly rubbed at tips, pages toned. Lacking the dust..... More
An Astonished Eye Looks Out of the Air
Waldport, Oregon: Untide Press, 1945 [1946]. First edition, likely second impression. (According to Morgan the first and second impressions are identical. All but roughly 30 copies of the first impression were scrapped due to a printing mishap.) [35] pp. Heavy black wraps with slick white label wrapped around fold. A...... More
Sappho and the Island of Lesbos
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1912. First edition. (States "First published 1912" on copyright page.) xvi, 180 pp. with 26 b/w photos. Publisher's dark green cloth with gilt lettering. Very Good+ with very bright gilt, hint of sunning to spine, edges foxed, former owner's name written and stamped on front..... More
Sunstone / Piedra de Sol
New York: New Directions, 1991. First edition, deluxe limited issue. Signed by both Octavio Paz and the book's translator, unnumbered copy issued alongside a run of 250 copies. 64 pp. Publisher's cream cloth lettered in black and crimson, housed in matching original slipcase. Fine in publisher's slipcase, a little offsetting..... More
A Draft of Shadows and Other Poems
New York: New Directions, 1979. First American edition. Signed by Octavio Paz on half-title, inscribed to former owner. [vi], 186 pp. Original brick red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Fine in unclipped dust jacket with small creased tear in top of front panel, another in bottom of back panel, basically..... More
DOWN HERE: A Magazine from the East Village, Volume One Number One
New York: Tompkins Square Press Ltd., 1966. First edition. 76 pp. Stapled wraps. Near Fine with a little uneven toning to wraps. Includes Charles Bukowski - Tom McNamara correspondence. More
Selected Poems by Fernando Pessoa
Chicago: The Swallow Press Inc., 1971. First American edition. x, 170 pp. Original red cloth, spine lettered in black. About Very Good with faint tidemark on front board, a few marginal tic marks towards front, reading smudges, small stain to fore edge, in a Good sunned, lightly dampstained, and rubbed..... More
The Rainbow Box: The Rabbit Box, the Peace Box, the Magic Box, & A Box of Sun
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
The Disappeared and Other Poems
London: Enitharmon Editions, 2002. De luxe edition. Includes color print "Violet Interior" signed in pencil by Tony Bevan, #35 of 75 in wallet. Book #31 of 75. Signed by Pinter and Bevan on rear limitation page. First edition. Fine in Fine original slipcase. Poetry by the Nobel-winning playwright, director, and..... More
Ariel
New York: Harper & Row, 1966. First American edition, first printing. In publisher's black cloth binding stamped in blue. Very Good. Title lettering on spine is rubbed, cloth shelf worn and lightly faded. Pages toned and with several small stains. In a Very Good dust jacket with publisher's price intact..... More
Ariel
London: Faber and Faber, 1965. An advance uncorrected proof of the first edition. Bound in publisher's drab printed wraps, with review slip (formerly stapled to front cover) laid in. Foxing mostly to front wrap and textblock edge. Small pencil notation to first blank, with light pencil markings on corresponding pages..... More
Ariel
New York: Harper & Row, 1966. First American edition stated, first printing. From the library of Sylvia Plath's daughter, Frieda Hughes with her ownership signature on the half title page with a cutaway doodle of a frame on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's black cloth lettered in light..... More
Ariel: Poems
New York: Harper & Row, 1966. First Edition, First Printing. Review copy, with publisher's slip loosely laid in. Near Fine, in a Very Good dust jacket with price intact. Light strip of sunning to to edge of cloth, mainly at spine. The dust jacket shows toning and soiling. The review..... More
The Bell Jar
London: Faber & Faber, 1963. First Edition thus, being the first edition published under Plath's real name following the original 1963 publication under the pseudonym "Victoria Lucas." From the library of Sylvia Plath's daughter Frieda Hughes with her ownership signature to the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's black cloth..... More
The Colossus
London: Faber & Faber, 1967. First Faber edition, preceded by the 1960 Heinemann first edition and the 1962 American edition. From the library of Sylvia Plath's daughter Frieda Hughes with her ownership signature to the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's cloth lettered in silver. Near Fine with slight lean..... More
Crossing the Water
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1971. First American edition, first printing. From the library of Sylvia Plath's daughter Frieda Hughes with her ownership signature to the title page. Bound in half tan cloth lettered in silver with lavender paper covered boards. Near Fine with light wear at extremities, slight..... More