Heart's Needle by W.D. Snodgrass - 1959

New York: Norton, 1967. First printing of the reissue of 1963 Harper & Row first edition; it contains "some revisions and one hitherto unpublished poem." SIGNED by Rich on the title page. Fine in very good+ dust jacket (light edgewear, clipped bottom corner of front flap but not price-clipped).. Signed by Author. 1st Edition thus. Hard Cover.

Chicago: McClurg, 1906. First edition, first printing. Hard cover. Published Chicago: McClurg, 1906. First printing, November 3, 1906. Small 8vo., 5 1/2" x 8." 78 pages. Multi color Persian pattern paper covered boards, title page printed in red and black. Mild starting of the outer paper covered hinges, but covers strong and tight, little shelfwear to the edges and tips, slight age toning to the paper, but a very nice copy. Very good.. 1st. Hard. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo..

The book is fine. The dust jacket is lightly soiled, dulled on the spine, and has a small area of paper loss at the foot of the spine. 1/1000.

San Francisco: Black Star Series, 1987. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 40pp, stapled wrappers. 1 of 600 stated copies of the first edition of this classic text by noted Bay Area experimentalist Steve Abbott. Unmarked copy, light wear and soil.

Hardcover Condition: VG. Internally clean. Marbled end papers.

London: Faber & Faber, 1974. First Impression. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Impression of the poet's last-published collection. Slim demy 8vo (216 x 137): 57,[1]pp. Publisher's quarter-bound blue cloth stamped in gold, pale blue paper-covered boards; grey and black dust jacket priced at £1.75. Fine (and unread) in like jacket. Prepared for publication by Auden's literary executor Edward Mendelson. In addition to the title poem, the collection includes "Aubade," "Address to the Beasts," "Archaeology, " and "No, Plato, No," among others. Mendelson also included an "anti-masque" titled "The Entertainment of the Senses," written in 1973 by Auden and Chester Kallman for a planned production of James Shirley's masque Cupid and Death, as as well two lyrics Auden wrote for the musical Man of La Mancha, but which were rejected by the original librettist. "When Auden died, on 29th September 1973, he had already collected the poems in this book, had decided its title and had given it its dedication . . . "… Read More

San Francisco: North Point Press, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Green cloth. 209pp. Faint scuff to rear board else Fine in just about Fine dust jacket.

Minneapolis: Rain Taxi, 2002. Limited Edition. Softcover, illustrated wraps. 35pp. Fine.One of 300 copies. Rain Taxi Brainstorm Series #8.

London: Macmillan, 1919. First edition. Cloth bound in very good condition.. 7.75" x 5.25" blue cloth with gilt spine and cover titles; pp. xvii, 242, 6 (ads for authors other works).

Chicago: The Chicago Press, 1972. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. Folio, 67 leaves (printed one-side), printed wrappers. Double second issue of this important early seventies mimeo poetry magazine edited by Alice Notley. Includes 15 poems by Jim Carroll, a Philip Guston plate page, much else. Unmarked copy (aside from what appear to be publisher's touch-ups to some missing marginal characters), light toning and wear to wrappers, slight bumping.