Collection: Poetry

Inscribed copy of this cerebral and structurally eclectic collection by the Bay Area poet. San Francisco: Krupskaya, 2008. Signed and briefly inscribed by Albon on the title page. Perfect-bound in printed wraps; 5.5 x 8 in.; 94pp. Near fine, with two dog-eared upper corners and... More

A sharp copy of this first collection of Antin's "talk poems." NY: New Directions, 1976. First edition. Octavo (8.25 x 5.5 in.); 267pp.; tan and brown textured-paper boards, in dust jacket. Light shelfwear to board bottoms, else fine in a near fine, unclipped ("$11.95") jacket... More

Inscribed copy of Antin’s first book of “talk poems,” a radical stylistic departure whose formal and philosophical ramifications Antin would continue to plumb for the rest of his career. NY: New Directions, 1976. First edition, the trade paperback issue. Perfect-bound in black-and-white wraps; 5 x... More

Second collection of verse by the American avant-garde poet and critic. In a 2013 interview conducted by Stephen Fredman, Antin referred to the work in Code of Flag Behavior as "pop poems," a claim bolstered by the book design's affinity with the flag paintings of... More

NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966. Hardcover. 8vo. 63pp. First edition. Light wear and soiling to board edges, faint dampstain to front board. Erasure mark top of front free endpaper. Unclipped "$3.50" jacket shows moderate soiling and wear, with a couple of small chips out at... More

Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Books, 1971. First printing. Perfect-bound in wraps featuring cover photograph by Alan Spain, 7-1/8 x 4-3/8 in. 207pp. Textblock toned, else near fine. No creasing to spine. Nice copy. More

NY: Persea, 1985. Hardcover. Small 8vo. 66pp. First edition. Full maroon cloth with gilt titles. Signed by Bartlett to the title page. Additionally, Bartlett has dated and inscribed the front free endpaper to a former owner "who can quote poems, from the Metaphysicals to Whitman." VG+/VG+.... More

A small archive of materials relating to writer, musician, and transgender activist Christine Beatty. Central to the grouping is an inscribed copy of Misery Loves Company, a self-published collection of poems and short prose works of a mostly autobiographical nature, detailing Beatty’s turbulent gender transition,... More

Los Angeles: Sun and Moon Press, 1987. Hardcover. 12mo. 179pp. VG/VG. Sturdily bound in black cloth. Bottom front board lightly worn, revealing a pinhead sized portion of underlying bookboard. A touch of soiling to edges of textblock. Two dog-eared (and straightened) pages. Jacket also very... More

An early collection, somewhat uncommon, by the American poet and prominent member of the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E group. Windsor, VT: AWEDE, 1983. One of 375 copies. Signature-bound in printed white wraps, 9-1/2 x 6 in. [36]pp. Near fine, with toning and a couple of minor spots of... More

First printing of this definitive collection of Bishop's poems, which expands on the 1969 Complete Poems with the addition of subsequently printed material, as well as uncollected and unpublished poems. NY: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1983. First edition. Octavo (6.25 x 9.5 in.); 287pp.; green cloth... More

Signed copy of this selection of verse by the Russian émigré poet, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1987 and in 1991 served as United States Poet Laureate. NY: Harper & Row, 1973. First edition. Octavo, 8-1/4 x 5-5/8 in. 172pp. Title and... More

The uncommon first issue of this literary journal, which includes an excerpt from William S. Burroughs’ yet-unpublished The Western Lands, three poems by Charles Bukowski, and a portrait of Bukowski by R. Crumb. Edited by Jeffrey H. Weinberg. Sudbury, MA: Water Row Books, 1987. Perfect-bound... More

Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Books, 1969. Perfect-bound in wraps featuring cover design by Alan Spain, 7-1/8 x 4-3/8 in. 176pp. First printing. Toning to textblock, light hinge wear. Else very near fine. A nice copy. More

Reseda, CA: Mojave Books, 1974. Xii, 52pp. 8vo. Blue cloth stamped in gilt and black on front board; gilt spine titles; lacking a jacket, if issued with one. Signed and inscribed by Carroll to front pastedown. Near fine, with light shelfwear at spine ends and... More

Uncommon hardcover issue of this early work by the esteemed American poet, written in the early 1950s while an inmate of the Bloomingdale mental hospital and thought lost for many years before its rediscovery. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1975. First edition. Octavo (5.75... More

Comidas, Chinas. [Five poems, circa 1979]. A pamphlet (7"x4.75") consisting of a single tri-fold sheet of five poems by Chinas Comidas, the pen name of Cynthia Genser (later Cynthia Kraman), who was the lyricist and lead singer for the late-70s Seattle punk band of the... More

London: Macmillan, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 53pp. Grey-green boards, gilt spine titles, dark green topstain. First printing. Briefly inscribed by Cooper on the title page. Minor tape ghosts on free end papers, else about near fine in a fine "$3.95" jacket. Cooper's first book of... More

Sharp first edition of this later collection of verse by the noted Beat poet. NY: New Directions, 1981. First edition. Octavo, 5.5 x 8.25 in. 57pp. Red cloth boards, silver spine lettering; in dust jacket. A few white smudges to front board, else fine in... More

[Mt. Vernon, NY]: The Golden Eagle Press, [1949]. First edition. Apparently a variant binding, with rose-colored rather than the blue-gray paper over boards noted in entry A22 of George James Firmage's "E. E. Cummings: a bibliography." Unpaginated (~ 20pp.). Printed in rose brown ink and... More

NY: Liveright, 1976. Large octavo; xv, 218pp.; purple cloth, gilt spine titles, front panel blindstamp. First edition thus. Introduction by Richard S. Kennedy. Edited and with an afterword by George James Firmage, who has signed, dated, and inscribed the front endpaper. Tulips and Chimneys was... More

A grouping of six diminutive books of poetry and drawings by sui generis Scottish poet, musician, and humorist Ivor Cutler (19223-2006). All volumes signed by Cutler on the title pages. Todmorden, England: Arc Publications, 1993-1999. Perfect-bound paperbacks, 4-3/4 x 3-1/4 in. A mixture of first... More

A grouping of five volumes of experimental poetry from a Vermont-based writer about whom our research efforts have yielded a frustrating lack of information. The quality of the work is strikingly mature, particularly for a poet seemingly operating in relative isolation. Though all [self-]published within... More

London: Fulcrum Press, 1967. First edition. Octavo (6.25 x 9.5 in.); 64pp.; gray cloth boards; gold spine lettering; in dust jacket. Light bump to top front board corner. Musty odor. Else near fine in a near fine jacket, lightly toned, with wear at spine ends... More

NY: Scribners, 1954. Hardcover. 8vo. 179pp. First edition. Very good in like jacket. Handsomely signed and inscribed by Harry Duncan on the title page of his section. Top board corners lightly bumped/softened. Some light whitish spotting to board cloth, esp. on rear board. Off-setting along... More