Poetry from Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

Hollywood: Galloping Pony Press, 1958. First edition, one of 125 unnumbered copies "printed and bound by Kathryn Peck in the years 1957 & 1958" [the colophon]. Internally clean and fresh. 8vo. 103, [2] pages. Four full-page plates by Washburn (one offset onto text). Original patterned cloth, printed paper title label on front cover; dust jacket (chipped with loss… Read more about this item

New York: W. W. Norton, 1979. Light wear at edges of wrappers, a few spots to fore-edges, small doodle on inner front wrapper. 8vo. ix, [1], 161 pages. Printed wrappers. First edition, first printing, paperback issue. Presentation copy, inscribed in a shaky hand on the half-title: "For Stephanie Pazienza chi ha pazienza sempre con affetto Dick Hugo. … Read more about this item

Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1970. A fine copy, tear to acetate. 4to. [32] pages. Original cloth-backed printed boards; acetate jacket. First edition, limited issue, number 126 of 250 copies in boards signed by McClure. Designed and printed by Noel Young and Graham Mackintosh.

New York: LINES, 1966. Some light soiling to the wrappers, generally fine. 11 x 8.5 inches. Mimeographed. 26 leaves. Printed on rectos only. Stapled in wrappers, typographic cover design by Perrault. First edition. Introduction by John Ashbery: "The first person singular occurs throughout these poems, like a key signature in music, but the poems are not meant as… Read more about this item

Buffalo, NY: Intrepid Press / PulpArtForms Unltd, 1975. Light toning to the paper, as usual, generally fine. 11 x 8.5 inches. [16] pages. "Fertile Donation Box", rear wrapper with ads and half-tone portrait of the author. Illustrated wrappers, stapled, showing a sculpture by Suzanne Benton. Presumed first edition. This is The Beau Fleuve Series no. 9. "In 1960,… Read more about this item

London: Faber and Faber, 1941. Jacket corners clipped, slight toning to spine; offsetting to endleaves, light spotting to fore-edges, otherwise quite fresh and fine. 8vo. 80 pages. Red printed boards; printed dust jacket. First edition.

New York: Exposition Press, 1955. A fine copy in a very good plus jacket that is somewhat age-toned, and has a chip at upper rear panel/spine and light wear at the extremities. 8vo. 64 pages. Green cloth; printed dust jacket. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "To Joe, One who believes. 1956. From us… Read more about this item

New York: Nalanda University Press, 1980. Some toning to the wrappers and light wear to edges. Two works, mimeographed and bound dos-à-dos. [32] and [43] leaves, printed on rectos only. Stapled in stiff card covers with illustrations by Alice Notley. First edition, letter "C" of 26 lettered copies signed by New York School aligned poets Savage and Notley… Read more about this item

San Francisco: Centaur Press, 1950. Fine copy in a near-fine jacket with a chip to the back panel and several closed tears, small losses at extremities. 8vo. 83, [1] pages. Illustrated by Lee Mullican. Black cloth; printed dust jacket. First edition, one of 500 copies printed by Kermit Sheets. Signed by Broughton on a front flyleaf.

New York: Macmillan, 1923. A fine, unopened copy in a near-fine slipcase with some wear to the labels. Tall 8vo. 191 pages. Original cloth-backed boards, black labels on spine and front cover; publisher's slipcase with paper labels. First edition, limited issue, number 32 of 750 copies signed by Robinson.

Henniker, NH: United Artists, 1980. Light toning to the front wrapper, but a fine copy. 11 x 8.5 inches. 17 leaves, text printed on rectos and versos, following plain blue preliminary leaf. Stapled in wrappers, front cover illustrated by Trevor Winkfield. First edition, one of 400 copies.

London: Oxford University Press, 1967. Slightest toning to jacket spine but a fine, superior copy. 8vo. 86 pages. Brown cloth; yellow printed dust jacket. First edition of Brathwaite's first book. Born in Barbados, Brathwaite was educated at Cambridge and returned to the West Indies to teach at Ghana.

Buffalo: State University at Buffalo, 1982. A fine copy. Folding card, 8. 5 x 5.5 inches. Green paper. One of 2000 copies, signed beneath the colophon on rear. This is number four of the second series of Christmas broadsides published under the auspices of the Friends of the University Libraries.

New York, 1979. First edition. Fine. 4to. [32] pages. Self-wrappers, stapled. Contains contributions by Nick Piombino, Jerome Rothenberg, Bob Perelman, Lynne Dreyer, Michael Lally, Clark Coolidge, Alan Davies, Jackson MacLow, Lyn Hejinian, Robert Grenier, Madeleine Burnside, Steve Bensn, Milli Graffi, Robert Kelly, David Bromige, Bruce Andrews, Charles Bernstein, and Stanley Cavell.

New York: Adventures in Poetry. A fine copy with a few trifling stains on the plain rear wrapper. 11 x 8.5 inches. Ten mimeographed leaves, on rectos only. Stapled in wrappers, front cover with full-bleed photographic reproduction of an aerial view of a Belgrade street. First edition, one of 500 copies. O'Hara's letter to Joe LeSueur is printed… Read more about this item

London: Faber and Faber, 1934. A good copy with a split to the front joint and a few leaves coarsely opened, a worn jacket with chips and losses. 8vo. 69 pages. Black cloth; printed dust jacket. Second edition. Signed by Spender of the half-title.

New York: Harper & Row, 1973. A near-fine copy with light soiling to cloth and some soiling to upper sheet edges; a near-fine jacket with light shelfwear. 8vo. 172 pages. Purple and black cloth; printed dust jacket. First U.S. edition. Translated by George Kline and with a foreword by W. H. Auden, "After reading Professor Kline's translations, I… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1974. Fine. 8vo. Reproductions of monoprints by Bobbie Creeley. Original cloth-backed printed boards; acetate wrapper. First edition, number 81 of 250 numbered copies signed by Creeley.

Boston: Isaac Knapp, 1837. Front cover detached, worn at extremities. 12mo (6 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches; 16.4 x 10.7 cm). x, 103 pages. Engraved frontispiece; illustrations in text. Publisher's brown cloth, gilt-lettered on front cover. First edition, second issue, with the additional poems at end; BAL state B of p. 66 (no priority).A series of abolitionist poems.… Read more about this item

London: Faber & Faber, 1992. Fine. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards and wrappers. Together in a cloth slipcase. Number 164 of 250 copies signed by Hughes from an edition of 280.