The Beautiful Changes and Other Poems

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1954. Cloth. Very Good. SIGNED BY RICHARD WILBUR on the title page. A solid copy to boot of the 1954 2nd printing (following the 1947 1st printing by Reynal & Hitchcock). Clean and VG in its sea-green cloth, with very light wear along the spine and mild darkening at its base. Octavo,… Read more about this item

New York:Reynal and Hitchcock, (1947). First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. New York:Reynal and Hitchcock. (1947). 1st edition. vi+55pp, Hardcover.  Beige boards soiled with some sun-fading around edges and spine. Blue print on spine still clear. Internally clean, free of previous owners marks or signatures. The binding is tight and hinges intact.*Author's first book.

New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1947. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Nominal, barely visible small stain on the front board, else fine in very near fine dust jacket with a little rubbing at the spine ends. Signed by the author on the front fly. Wilbur's first book, one of 750 copies.

New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, 1947. Hardcover. Good. First edition. A soiled, good only copy lacking the dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author to New York bookseller Robert Wilson in 1961. The author's first book, one of 750 copies.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1954]. Second printing. Small octavo (21cm). Blue cloth-covered boards; dustjacket; 55pp. Touch of wear and sunning to spine ends, else Near Fine in a a price-clipped, slightly edge-rubbed dustwrapper, Very Good. A generic bookplate, hand-signed by Wilbur, has been loosely laid-in at the title page. Wilbur's important first book, first published… Read more about this item

New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First Printing of the poet's first book, collecting 42 poems. Demy 8vo (207 x 146mm): vi,[2],55,[1]pp. Publisher's finely woven beige cloth, spine stamped in green, green dust jacket lettered in white, priced $3.50 to bottom corner of back flap, fore-edge untrimmed. Inscribed by Wilbur to front fly-leaf:… Read more about this item

Reynal & Hitchcock, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. 55 pages. The first edition of the author's first book. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in cloth with blue lettering on spine. Spine and edges faded. Mild cover soiling. Mild edge wear. No dust jacket.

New York: Reynal & Hitchcock,, 1947. First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Merry Christmas to RAB. Hope you like them. Dick Wilbur, 1947." This is the author's first book of poetry. Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine black. With dust jacket. Spine gently rolled, board edges and spine… Read more about this item

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1950. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Second edition. Tiny soil mark in the margin of a couple pages, lightly toned spine, very good in a very good or better dust jacket with light toning and edgewear. Wilbur's first book.

Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. A fine copy of the first edition, in a near fine jacket (jacket has slight wear to edges). A nice copy of the author's first book. PROVENANCE: From the library of noted American poet William Matchett with his inscription on front endpaper. Matchett and Wilbur were close friends… Read more about this item

NY: Harcourt, Brace and Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1961. Hardcover. The author's first book. Second printing thus. Very good in a very good (minor shelf wear) dust jacket. .

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1961. Later edition. 55 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original cloth, dust jacket. Fine in near fine unclpped dust jacket. Later edition. 55 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The author's first book. Wilbur later went on to to win both the Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award. Broccoli-Clark v. 2, p. 381

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1947. Later printing. 55pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original pale blue cloth. Beautiful copy in a near fine unclipped dust jacket. Later printing. 55pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Fine Copy of His First Book. The author's first book, first published by Reynal & Hitchcock in 1947; reissued by Harcourt, Brace subsequently. Broccoli-Clark v.2, p.… Read more about this item