Poetry from Crooked House Books & Paper

London: The Fleuron, 1926. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Signed by Author(s). Pink boards under blue dust jacket, 8.5" x 7". #167 of 350 copies, signed & dated by author on front endpaper. Owner's name & date also to ffep, else near fine. DJ has some discoloration, most especially to rear panel, which has a rectangular patch, probably… Read more about this item

Berkeley, California: Oyez, 1970. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. Oblong trade paperback, lime green with blue & pink lettering and decoration. First edition. Fine. Poetry from the "Bubble Lady" of the People's Park demonstrations in Berkeley.

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. First edition with seal. Fine/Near Fine. The jacket is well made, probably by an early owner, lettered & decorated by hand on spine. The first woman to be Poet Laureate of the US.

Enitharmon Press, 1972. Hardcover. Fine. Black & white cloth spine over red paper-covered boards, 8vo, 79 pp. #31 of 85 copies on Canson Ingres paper, signed by Raine at colophon. Originally set to be published in 1946, these are war-time essays & sketches by the noted poet and scholar.

William Edwin Rudge, 1927. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near Fine/Very Good. Minor discoloration to spine panel of DJ. Inscribed by Albert Maurice Bender, a patron of the arts who later helped fund the printing of a collection of poetry by Field and her partner C.E.S. Wood.

Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1949. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Later printing, with no date on title page and DJ price of $2.50. Black cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine, under brown & orange DJ, frontispiece by Ernest Alexander. Book itself quite nice, but the DJ has a 2.5" diagonal chip out of the front panel, plus rubbing and some wear.… Read more about this item

Black Sparrow Press, 1970. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Signed by Author(s). #25 of 200 copies numbered and signed by Kyger. Cream cloth spine with paper label over paper-covered boards; under clear dust wrapper, probably original. Slight foxing to edges, slight wear to edges of boards, rubbing to jacket.

October House, 1965. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition stated. Brown paper-covered boards, 9" x 5.75", 83 pp. Original price of $4.50 on DJ flap; minor fading to spine panel of jacket. First poetry collection by Urdang.

Oyez, 1970. Soft cover. Fine. Trade paperback, 8vo, 61 pp. No statement of later printing, assumed first edition. No flaws found.

Harper & Row, 1972. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Signed by Author(s). Signed by Kumin (name only) below her name on title page; first edition stated & with full number line. Blue cloth spine over green cloth boards, 83 pp. DJ price-clipped with rubbing to rear panel, light wear to spine panel ends. The Pulitzer Prize collection of poetry.

University of Pittsburgh Press, 1981. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine copy in DJ with some fading to spine. Pitt Poetry Series, and Soto's third book published. Soto is a Mexican-American whose "poems are sure, spare evocations of the wonder and violence of life in the barrio and beyond.

Kathmandu, Nepal: Bardo Matrix / Starstreams, 1976. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. Limited edition of 500 copies, with illustrations by Maya, Dana Young, Sidney Hushour, Petra Vogt, Lee Baarslag, and Paul Bowles. 9-1/2" x 7".

Black Sparrow Press, 1975. Soft cover. Fine. Yellow wraps with black & red lettering over brown illustration on front cover. The trade edition, although the previous owner has laid in a xerox of the cat photo from the limited edition (not a good xerox). Very minor fading toward edges of wraps.

New Directions, 1949. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Full blue cloth boards with gilt lettering under brown paper dust jacket, 8-3/4" x 5-3/4", 273 pp., $3.50 price intact on front flap, rear flap has no mention of "Rock Drill". Minor toning to edges of covers, offsetting from flaps to endpapers, minor toning to front panel of jacket, very shallow… Read more about this item

New York: The Phoenix Book Shop, 1969. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine/Fine. Blue card covers under white dust jacket, 5-1/2" x 7-1/4". Limited edition of 100 copies, signed by Snyder, this is #39. Fine copy all around. In the original envelope which has some toning to edges, it is also numbered 39.

The Auerhahn Press, 1958. 2nd Edition. Soft cover. Fine. 2nd issue with "cock suckers." Stapled wraps, 7-3/4" x 6". Although he lived in the Eastern US for most of his life, Wieners spent two hugely important years in San Francisco, during which time he produced his first book, Hotel Wentley, and was included in "New American Poetry" by Donald Allen.… Read more about this item

White Rabbit Press, 1966. Soft cover. Fine. Tan wraps with black lettering, stapled binding. 2nd printing in an edition of 500 copies after the first of 350. No flaws found.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1926. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Miguel Covarrubias. Third printing, October 1926, same year as first edition. Blue cloth spine over printed paper-covered boards under the famous DJ illustrated by Miguel Covarrubias. Light wear to spine ends; DJ has shallow chipping at head & tail of spine, toning, small chips to edges of jacket, including one which… Read more about this item

Hill & Wang, 1970. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First printing with full number line. Full black cloth binding with red lettering at spine, under red & black dust jacket. Fine in all regards. About half the poems are about Africa.

Oyez, 1966. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. Red & black covers, stapled binding. Minor toning to edges of front cover, else fine.