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16019New York: St. Mark's Church No Date. First edition. Loose Sheets. Good. Single sheet of 8 1/2 x 14" tall paper. Announcement poster / flyer for a group poetry reading at St. mark's Church in New York. Although not attributed the artwork is clearly attributed to George Schneeman. Featuring a series of floating "Hershey's Kisses" type candies with name tags emanating from the tops. each tag prints the name of one of the poets at this reading. The contributor list includes Tom Picard Piero Heliczer Bernadette Mayer Tom Weatherly Anne Waldman Dick Gallup Peter Orlovsky et al. In overall good condition with toning to the top inch or two of the flyer and a small chip at top right. Scarce Poetry Project and New York School ephemera. <br/><br/> St. Mark's Church unknown books
19871New York: Poetry Project No Date. First edition. Loose Sheets. Very Good. Large single sheet of paper folded twice for mailing. When opened this poster measures 23 x 16" tall. Poster background is a large black and white photograph attributed to Rudy Burckhardt of a group of women crossing a major New York thoroughfare circa mid-to late 1940's based on their attire. Poster announces a mammouth poetry reading bonanza to take place on April 19 at Town Hall no year provided. Some of the contributing poets and artists for these events included Taylor Mead Larry Rivers John Ashbery Philip Glass Kenward Elmslie Joe Brainard Helen Adam Laurie Anderson Bob Kushner and many many more. This poster was mailed to the Phoenix Book Shop in NYC and is stamped and post-marked on the verso. Overall in very good condition. Suitable for framing. <br/><br/> Poetry Project unknown books
18336New York: Poetry Project No Date. First edition. Loose Sheets. Good. Single sheet folded poetry reading announcement flyer / poster. 13 x 19" tall. Artwork by P. North. One of the more colorful posters produced for the St. mark's Reading series. This copy in good condition. Folded once for mailing. Small round hole at top for pinning. Tape remnants to verso. Includes announcements for Dale Herd & Terry Winch Tom Savage & Piero Heliczer and numerous other events. <br/><br/> Poetry Project unknown books
1952WRCLIT50794Devon & London: Grey Walls Press beginning in 1940 1952. I:2; II:3; III:1-4; V:4; VII:1; VII:3; X:1; XI:1-4; XII:2; XIII:2-4 and XIV:1&2. Twenty issues. Quarto and octavo. Overlap edges of I:2 a bit chipped and spotted wrapper of III:1 rubbed and tanned ink annotation on upper wrapper of one issue else very good or better. Edited by Wrey Gardiner first as associate editor then beginning in 1940 as chief editor. Terminated with issue XIV:5 Spring/Summer 1953. In all perhaps a scattered third of the life of Gardiner's interesting periodical seen now in retrospect as more of a mirror of rather than a catalyst for innovations taking place in poetry at the time with particular sympathy for the neo-Romantics. HOFFMAN et al p.348-9. SULLIVAN MODERN pp.367-9. Grey Walls Press [beginning in 1940] unknown books
22769New York: St. Mark's Church No Date. First edition. Loose Sheets. Very Good. Single sheet of paper 8 1/2 x 11" illustrated with a drawing and announcing poetry readings at St. Mark's Church in New York on Wednesday April 25th year not stated. Artist unattributed but likely was George Schneeman who here appropriates the Archie comic book characters of Archie Veronica Reggie Jughead and others. Sheet has some toning to edges but is otherwise in very good condition. One of the less common poetry flyers from St. Mark's. <br/><br/> St. Mark's Church unknown books
19215Calais VT: Kent Museum No Date. First edition. Loose Sheets. Very Good. Large single sheet poetry and music events poster. Published by The Kent Museum Calais Vermont. Not dated but from after 1976. Headline reads Summer Poetry Festival and it details various poetry and musical events with participants including Louise Gluck and Ellen Voigt Joe Brainard Kenward Elmslie and William Corbett plus Thomas Pasatieri with John Ashbery. Poster printed on green paper stock and printed in black. Measures 14 x 22" tall. Faint mailing fold. With a one and half inch tear at fold. Overall in very good condition. <br/><br/> Kent Museum unknown books
19862843991986. unbound. very good. Excellent F.D.C. honoring Thomas Paine signed by Allen Ginsburg and Richard Eberhart: the recipients of the prestigious 1986 Robert Frost Medal. Ginsburg has added the date 5/20/87 indicating that he and Eberhart have returned to the event one-year later in order to present the new recipients Robert Creeley and Sterling Brown with their awards. Boldly signed and in fine condition.<br/><br/> unknown books
19368608New York: Farrar & Rinehart 1936. First Limited Edition. One of 275 signed copies signed by Benet on limitation page. Octavo 22cm.; full burgundy morocco; later custom cloth chemise and slipcase; 80pp; illus. Fine in original glassine; slipcase lightly sunned on spine VG or better. Benet always a "people's poet" was at his most socially engaged in this collection published at the height of the Great Depression. Includes his stridently anti-Fascist long poem "Litany for Dictatorships" and the powerful suite of Depression poems beginning with "Metropolitan Nightmare" and ending with "1936. Farrar & Rinehart unknown books
1968004802Cambridge MA: Pym-Randall Press 1968. "This edition consists of 200 numbered and 26 lettered copies. Each copyhas been signed by the author. Design by Raquel Halty. August 1968 Copy Z." . SIGNED. Limited and Numbered Signed 1st Edition. Printed Wrappers. Fine in Wraps as Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Pym-Randall Press Paperback books
1902008460Harrison Ohio : Major Ridgeway 1902. Author presentation slip laid in "Compliments of the Author to J.H. Fenton Editor of 'News'. Will you not kindly bear with me in the unavoidable delay in publication of the little book And will you not further give it a little fraternal 'jolly' to help it along financially ". Near Fine slight curl at corners of front wrapper. 89 pages with illustrations and frontis portrait. An early biography of Riley. Russo p.241. Last copy noted at RareBookHub was a 1978 dealer catalogue. . SIGNED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Pictorial Printed Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Presentation Copy. Major Ridgeway Paperback books
1915004496Indianapolis IN: Bobbs-Merrill 1915. "Indiana is proud of its "National Poet." The first official public celebration occurred in 1915 when Governor Samuel Moffett Ralston decreed October 7th as Riley Day. The state celebration swept across the country as the National Commissioner of Education issued instructions for a nationwide observance in all public schools. A birthday dinner in honor of the Poet was held in Indianapolis and attended by four hundred people. Many admirers were turned away and telegrams from countless well-wishers were cabled including one from President Woodrow Wilson. To mark the event a special birthday edition of Riley's Poems Here at Home was published and distributed to attendees."Lilly Library This copy one of those printed for the 400 dinner attendees. It is dated October Seventh Nineteen Hundred Fifteen on the title page and states Birthday Dinner Edition front cover. Top edge gilt Near Fine white cloth at spine lightly soiled. ASSOCIATION COPY from the library of Will H. Hays most famously known as the first President of Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America MPPDA which under his guidance published a blacklist of actors and workers studios should not hire inserted moral clauses into actors' contracts and published an informal list of suggested guidelines for film producers. Although no written indication in the book of Hays ownership the book was purchased from his estate and laid in is a printed 1 page foldedspeech Hays gave at the Indiana State Fairgrounds on Sept. 22 1915 published and presented by The McKinley Club and a single page folded review of Hays from the New York Evening Post. This Birthday Dinner Edition is RARE in the marketplace and made even more so by this great Hoosier Association. . Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket As Issued. Illus. by Kemble E.W. Association Copy. Bobbs-Merrill Hardcover books
19741441New York: Random House 1974. First Edition First Printing. <br /><br />8vo 8 ¼ inches / 208 mm 139 pages in illustrated wrappers. <br /><br /><b>INSCRIBED</b> by James Schuyler on the title page: "For Tom / with all love / Jim / 3/80." A collection of more than 50 poems including the title poem Hymn to Life as well as The Fauré Ballade. Schuyler 1923-1991 was one of the giants of the first generation of the New York School of Poetry. <br /><br />The cover of Hymn to Life features an attractive watercolor by his friend Fairfield Porter. Signed copies of this volume are unaccountably scarce to the market especially in the softcover version there was also a hardcover edition. SCARCE SIGNED. <br /><br />CONDITION: Some wear to the extremities long crease to rear panel soiling to the page edges small closed tear to lower left of front panel. Still a Very Good copy with a beautiful cover design by Fairfield Porter.<br /><br /> Random House paperback books
198829222Omaha Nebraska: bradypress 1988. 1st edition. SIGNED. Limited to 100cc. Deckled-edged black paper wrappers with black cloth spine. Spine stitchings with red thread. Abstract geometric design to front wrapper. Nr Fine. 26 6 pp. Last poem printed on a separate leaf inserted in pocket on p. 26. Printed in red & black. Illustrated by the author. Folio. 12-3/4" x 9-1/2" <br/><br/>The colophon states the work printed by Denise Brady at the University of Nebraska Omaha Fine Arts Press. bradypress hardcover books
19921414Paris: Orphée / La Différence 1992. First Edition First Printing. 16 mo 4 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches 115 x 164 mm 124 4 pages in wrappers. Author's Ink inscription on first page has rubbed off onto inside of front wrapper. Otherwise a Fine copy.INSCRIBED to fellow poet Clayton Eshleman on the first page: "For Clayton -- / Gary / in Feb''96." A nice association. This is a bilingual edition in French and English featuring a selection of poems from Snyder's volumes of poetry Myths & Texts Regarding Wave and Axe Handles. Lengthy introduction by Antoine Wyss in French. No other copies in commerce as of November 1 2017. SCARCE. <br /><br /> Orphée / La Différence books
198510068m1985. TLS. 8.5 x 11 inch sheet. 20lb white stock. Dated "1 August 85." Stafford writes to Louis McKee the publisher of "The Axe Factory Review literary magazine in response for a request for a biographical statement. "Greetings from cool Oregon." He "spiles a bit" and mentions ten new or soon-to-be published works and five up-coming reading events and ends with "Tomatoes and poems are ripening out here in Oregon. Adios." Signed "Bill Stafford" in ink. Aprx one hundred and sixty words. Folded twice for mailing; otherwise in Fine condition. . Signed by Author & Actor. Unbound. Fine/Not Issued. Advance Excerpt. Paperback books
1965007023Ann Arbor MI: Generation 1965. The noted poet's first book SCARCE SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page -" For Julie and Bruce twenty-two years later Anne Stevenson" . Near Fine front end pages toned from browned Ann Arbor News clipping with article on the author dated Sept. 22 1965 laid in. In a Near Fine dust jacket shallow chip top edge front panel faint corner crease bottom corner rear flap. The Generation New Poet Series Volume II edited by George Abbott White. Introduction by X.J. Kennedy. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Generation Hardcover books
1924007606London: Martin Secker 1924. #9 in an edition of 200 copies SIGNED by Arthur Symons. In original cream colored boards clean and lovely top edge gilt gilt lettering bright. Near Fine light foxing to end pages final 12 pp. top corner dented. . SIGNED. Limited and Numbered Signed 1st Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Limited Edition. Martin Secker Hardcover books
1918005623New York: The Macmillan Co 1918. Second Printing November 1917 stated copyright page dated 1918 title page. Very Good Plus in the original gilt decorated and gilt lettered blue cloth cloth a bit soiled small prior owner inscription front end pages. Rather SCARCE in collectible condition. Love Songs won the first Columbia Poetry Prize in 1918 a prize that would later be renamed the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. . 2nd Printing. Decorative Cloth. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. The Macmillan Co, Hardcover books
1987004575No Place: David Holman for Northouse & Northouse 1987. Limited Numbered Edition signed by the author John Updike. Numbered "viii " of 40 signed and Roman numeral-numbered copies. There were also editions of 1-100 numbered copies and A to Z lettered copies published as a portion of the "American Poetry Portfolio". Approx. 13" x 17" broadside poem. Fine As Issued. SCARCE. SIGNED. Limited and Numbered Signed 1st Edition. One Sheet Illustrated. Fine. Illus. by David Holman. Broadside Poem. David Holman for Northouse & Northouse Paperback books
1944005676Baltimore Maryland: Contemporary Poetry 1944. Volume 1 Contemporary Poetry Library Series Edited by Mary Owings Miller printed at The Prairie Press by Carroll Coleman. Fine in Fine dust wrapper. An uncommon title RARE in collectible condition. 200 copies printed. Cheever 63. Limited First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Contemporary Poetry Hardcover books
1970005547Middletown CT: Wesleyan Univ Press 1970. First Edition of his first book. Fine in Very Good Plus dust jacket a bit rubbed and a few small edge tears with $4.00 priced front flap and RARE THUS. Poem on p. 36 "x" ed out as found in all copies. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good Plus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Wesleyan Univ Press Hardcover books
19701256London and New York: Cape Goliard Press and Grossman Publishers 1970. First Edition First Printing. A book of poems and prose INSCRIBED on the front end paper by Ted Berrigan to fellow poet Terry Jacobus: "For Terry in Chicago / at Dinner / 2 May 72. / 'The last of the / First Editions.' / Love / Ted." Additionally signed in full on the title page; Berrigan has crossed out his name as printed on the page and signed with his own signature. A nice association from Berrigan's days in Chicago. This is the wrappers edition featuring a cover and drawings by George Schneeman. There were two other simultaneous issues--a hardcover trade edition and a signed limited edition. No priority. See Aaron Fischer Ted Berrigan: An Annotated Checklist page 41. Small 4to 9 7/8 x 6 1/2 inches / 245 x 165 mm 106 pages in printed wrappers. Bump to one corner edge wear a bit of soiling to the top edge and fore edge and some very light toning to the pages. Slight lean. Overall a Very Good copy of one of the strongest collections by Ted Berrigan 1934-1983 and a nice association with a fellow poet. <br/><br/> Cape Goliard Press and Grossman Publishers hardcover books
19871973London: Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd. 1987. First U.K. Edition First Printing. 8vo 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 220 x 140mm ix146 pages in black cloth gilt titles to spine in an unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by Yevgeny Yevtushenko 1932-2017 on the title page. A collection of poems and prose. Foreword by Harrison E. Salisbury who notes ".Yevtusheno has embarked on a creative experiment--the combination of prose and poetry in what seems to me to be a new attractive and enormously effective form. It gives strength and body to his poetics and it lends emotion and color to his prose. Here is an outrush of feeling as tumultuous as anything Yevtusheno has ever written." Translated by Antonia W. Bouis Albert C. Todd and Yevgeny Yevtushenko. U.K. and U.S. editions of this book were published in 1987. Signed copies of the U.K. edition such as this one are far more elusive than the U.S. edition. SCARCE SIGNED. <br/><br/> CONDITION: Gilt spine titles bright and unfaded pages moderately toned. Dust jacket slightly soiled and rubbed spine sunned. Large old price label to verso of front flap with outline of label visible on recto. A Very Good copy. Marion Boyars Publishers, Ltd. hardcover books
197416070Erin Ontario: Press Porcepic 1974. First Edition. Octavo illustrated card wrappers; 136pp; illus. Presentation copy from McCaffery to Jackson Mac Low inscribed on half-title with small original drawing dated 1975. Minor external wear; Near Fine. Excellent association copy of the influential Canadian poet McCaffery's scarce second book. Includes a brief postscript in which McCaffery outlines his experimental poetics: ".these poems were attempts to produce text which directly presented language-material without the intrusion of my own consciousness. Press Porcepic unknown books
1976000142New Haven and London: Yale University Press 1976. Forward by Stanley Kunitz. Volume 71 of the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Prior owner name along fore edge of front paste down completely hidden by front flap. 1/8" chip at head of spine. Her scarce 1st book of poetry. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Yale University Press Hardcover books
