A HOMAGE TO JOHN KEATS by Amy Clampitt - 1984

New York: The Sarabande Press, 1984. First edition. Large softcover. 24 pages. One of 250 copies that were letterpress printed on damped Johannot paper with a design by Joe Marc Freedman and with display lettering by G.G. Laurens. A fine copy in wrappers and in a very good cloth covered slipcase that has some light wear and a small stain. Signed by Clampitt on the colophon page. A very attractive production.

NY: Sarabande Press, (1984).. First edition, numbered & signed issue.. Folio. 34 pp w/note. Fine in wrappers with gilt stamping to front cover and spine. Fine publisher’s cloth-covered slipcase. Printed letterpress in two colors. One of 250 copies on dampened Johannot paper SIGNED by Clampitt.

The Sarabande Press, 1984. Original Wraps. Collectible; Fine/Fine. A lovely copy of this 1984 Amy Clampitt signed/limited. 1 of 250 copies SIGNED BY AMY CLAMPITT and "letterpress printed from handset type on dampened Johannot paper at The Sarabande Press". Bright and Fine in its thick card wrappers. And in a Fine example of the printed, thick-rag dustjacket. Folio, 34 pgs. Also includes a VG example of publisher's cloth slipcase, with light staining and scuffing at the edges. Signed by Author.

New York: Saraband Press, 1984. First Edition. Sewn card covers with gilt-stamped lettered jacket; Small folio. 34 pp. Eight poems beautifully printed on dampened Johannot paper; titling in blue. One of 250 copies signed by Clampitt; this is one of Clampitt's own copies, unnumbered but signed in the colophon, and additionally inscribed on the half title: "For Richard Howard to whose generosity I am so greatly beholden with thanks and vast admiration.  Amy Clampitt.  17 February 1985." Covers with a few blemishes and soiling, mostly on rear; still easily very good in added removable mylar cover. Lacking publisher's slipcase. An excellent association copy: Howard was a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, the NBA for translation, and a longtime Poetry Editor for the Paris Review (where he published what is probably her best-known interview).

sarabande, 1984. Limited. hardcover. fine/fine. 34pp., folio stiff wrappers, d.w. stamped in gilt. The Sarabande Press, (1984). Limited First Edition.<br/><br/> 250 numbered & 26 lettered copies were issued. This is signed but unnumbered, and bears an additional warm inscription to Ben Sonnenberg, editor of Grand Street, the periodical in which some of these poems first appeared. Fine, in cloth slipcase.<br/><br/>

New York: The Sarabande Press, 1985. First Edition, one of 26 lettered copies, Signed by Clampitt, Laurens & Freeman on the colophon page. 1 vols. Small Folio. Bound by Claudia Cohen in a "pulp paper" wrapper binding of 100% rag with multi-colored designs in relief attached to boards with vellum strip guards. Housed in black linen cloth binding with paper label. Mint. First Edition, one of 26 lettered copies, Signed by Clampitt, Laurens & Freeman on the colophon page. 1 vols. Small Folio. One of 26 Copies. First edition of Clampitt's Homage, consisting of 8 meditative poems on Keats, each of which utilizes as a theme, a place central to Keats's life and poetry. The book is dedicated to Helen Vendler, Clampitt's mentor at Harvard. A beautifully designed and printed book, combining letter designs by G.G. Laurens printed in pale blue, with text delicately composed and printed by Marc Freeman.