Search Results: ten poems by dove rita

Lisbon, Iowa: Penumbra Press, 1977. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Square octavo. 20pp. Original stitched unprinted brown wrappers. Fine. Lacking the original illustrated manilla envelope that the book was issued in. Author's rare first book, this is copy number 133 limited to "approximately" 200 copies. Dove won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1987. Issued as Number Four in the press's Manila Series.

Lisbon, Iowa: Penumbra Press, 1977. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Square octavo. 20pp. Original stitched unprinted brown wrappers. Fine in fine original illustrated manilla envelope. Author's rare first book, this is copy number 84 limited to "approximately" 200 copies. Dove won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1987. Issued as Number Four in the press's Manila Series.

Lisbon, IA: The Penumbra Press, 1977. First edition. First edition. Signed by Rita Dove, inscribed to former owner and dated December 7, 2017. 20pp. Bound in publisher's unprinted sewn wrappers, housed in illustrated envelope. No. 143 of "approximately 200 copies." Fine in Very Good envelope with some dampstaining and wear along flap. The first chapbook by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet (the second African American person to win the award), also a former U.S. Poet Laureate. The fourth volume in the publisher's envelope-housed Mania Series. Especially scarce signed.