Poetry from Aardvark Rare Books

Tokyo, Boston, Singapore: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1998. Stated First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. 280 pp. including Notes and Bibliography. A wee bit of shelfwear and very very light rubbing to corners, previous owner's name and address to half-title page. Overall, tight and bright copy of this quite scarce first book in English on a woman haiku poet.… Read more about this item

New York: New York University Press, 1980. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Matching three volumes: Quarto,10.25 in x 7.24 in. Total pp. lxxx, 779. Red cloth boards with author's initials in gilt to front. Gilt title on black stamped panel to spine. Light green topstain. Dustjacket protected in mylar.

Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1981. Hardcover. Very Good in Good Plus Dustjacket. Octavo. Blue cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. Clean, sharp corners,, bright text block. Dustjacket illustration features "Portrait of Fujiwara Teika (1162-1241). xliv + pp. 652, including index. Review copy with publisher's slips laid in (a trifle creased). "...Sato and Watson have… Read more about this item

London, England: Macmillan and Co, 1894. Leather-bound. Good Plus. Small octavo, 7.5 in. x 5.2 in., pp. viii, 898. Illustrated with tissue-guarded frontis of Tennyson. Green full calf with gilt coat of arms to front. Gilt title and five raised bands to spine. Gilt edges. Rubbing to extremities; scuffing to rear board. Sunning to spine (leaving spine a… Read more about this item

San Francisco, CA: Frontier Press (Harvey Brown, Publisher); Designed/Printed by Graham Mackintosh, 1969. FIRST EDITION (NAP). Softcover. Very Good. Ecru card covers (9 inches x 6 inches; Textblock 7 7/8 inches x 5 1/2 inches). Some creasing to covers and a light tideline-stain to rear. Publisher's Slip laid in. Tiny signature and date previous owner to top of… Read more about this item

Greenfield Center, New York: Greenfield Review Press, 1972. Staplebound Pamphlet. Very Good. Staplebound pamphlet. Beige wraps with black drawing and lettering to front and Native American design to rear. Association copy signed "For Ingrid, Peace, Joe, with a little drawing of Kokopelli (the humped-back flute player). Association copy (from a collection once owned by poet Ingrid Wendt).The poems… Read more about this item

Los Angeles, California: Nash Publishing, 1973. Second Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good Dustjacket. Hank Saroyan (Photographs). Octavo. Turquoise buckram-over-boards (8 1/2 in. x 5 1/2 in.). Three corners barely nudged, and a bit of foxing to endpapers, but otherwise, tight and bright. Dustjacket is just a wee bit toned after fifty years. Lovely copy of a… Read more about this item

New York: Pantheon Books, 1992. STATED FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine Dustjacket. 8vo. Turquoise and brown. Tiny little shelf dimple to bottom edge - hardly noticeable. "...Generous selections from his eight earlier collections: Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems; Myuths and Texts; Mountains and Rivers Without End; Back Country; Regarding Wave; Turtle Island (Winner of The… Read more about this item

Berkeley, Ca: Oyez, 1976. Softcover. VERY GOOD PLUS. Permabound, Tan card covers, 9 3/4 in. x 8 in. Very light thumbing. Signed on title page. "A powerful narrative oem exploring the archetypal union of the sexual act. Situated on the Mississippi as a symbol of the American earth and the American mood, it narrates the ordeal of two… Read more about this item

Portland, OR: Charles Garvin, 1979. First Edition. Single, folded sheet. Near Fine. Single folded sheet. Ascribed to Howard by Michael Horvat (publisher) after discovery in a book, Glenn Lord questions whether this is really a Howard poem (Herman 2006, pp. 156, 397). Who's to know, in the squirrelly self-interest-ruled and ego-driven universe of credit, attribution and legacy.… Read more about this item

Ephraim, Wisconsin: Druid Books, 1976. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition of this legendary, perhaps undersung-by-most Cleveland late-beat poet, friend of Ginsberg's, tireless, anarchic American Crazy Wisdom man-of-the book, of spiritual seeking, reaching out to make utterance, both public and private ranting, streetcorner litany, american language elevated to prayer and muttering noveau-Tibetan ululation, hemphead and hedonist, political… Read more about this item

New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, 1947. FIRST EDITION (NAP). Hardcover. Octavo. Gray, cloth-covered boards. with red lettering to spine. Very light rubbing to extremities, with corners slightly nudged. Gray dustjacket with white and red lettering to front panel and spine. Edgewear to dustjacket. 3 in. x 1/2 in. chip missing from rear panel bisecting the red word "POETRY", extending… Read more about this item

New York: Svoboda, 1963. Softcover. Near Fine. Green card covers, with red lettering inside red decorative frame. 91 poems, printed on fine, laid paper. 95 pp. Poetry by a Ukrainian-American poet.

London, England: Suttaby, Evance, and Company, Stationers' Court, Ludgate Street, 1811. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Plus. Quarto, 11.25 in. x 9 in., pp. [10] (five one-sided plates), 182. Printed by Ellerton and Henderson. Illustrated with aquatint frontis and five additional aquatint engravings. Half calf ruled in gilt over marbled boards. Gilt title to rebacked spine. Rubbing to extremities;… Read more about this item

New York: Thomas Whittaker, 1900. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo, 8.6 in. x 6.2 in., pp. xvi, 727. Illustrated with a tissue-guarded frontis portrait of Byron by Lemercier. Half morocco over marbled boards with gilt title, fleurons, and five gilt-etched raised-bands to spine. Gilt top-edge. Rubbing to extremities; scuffing to edges and joints (joints holding). Marbled endpapers. Hinges tight.… Read more about this item

San Francisco, CA: Stolen Paper Editions, 1966. Early Edition. Staplebound Pamphlet. Good. Stapled pamphlet, 7.75 in. x 7 in., 7 leaves with 6 poems. Cardstock cover with brown and blue kama sutra imagery to front and back, and white title to front. Edgewear to spine, and light thumbing to bottom left front corner. Dampstains to endpapers, fore-edge, and… Read more about this item

New York: Doubleday and Company, 1949. Hardcover. Good Plus/None. Octavo. Greyish-green cloth-covered board, ruled in red, with silver lettering. Some light spotting/staining to boards, and two, small, black magic-marker crossouts to title page and verso. A good solid reading copy of this important, fairly early anthology. Includes poems on "the Negro's experience in the Western world, Negro countries… Read more about this item

Self-published by Katherine Dunn, 1979. Staplebound Chapbook. Very Good. Staplebound wrappers. 8.5 in. x 5.5 in. Unpaginated (twelve leaves). "Arboreal Abomination #1" printed to rear cover. Inscribed and signed by the author on verso of cover page. Light rubbing to covers. Age-toning to pages. Katherine Dunn's scarcest titles. Worldcat shows only 4 copies in libraries worldwide. Katherine Dunn… Read more about this item

London, England: John Lane, 1928. Hardcover. Very Good. Harry Clarke. Octavo, 9.6 in. x 6.1 in., pp. xxx, [4], 217. Illustrated with frontis and nine other tissue-guarded engravings, and many line drawn "decorations", by Harry Clarke. Dark blue cloth boards with gilt title and Harry Clarke drawing to front and to spine. Untrimmed fore- and bottom edges. Bottom… Read more about this item

Athens, GA: Croissant & Company, 1978. Limited Edition. Pamphlet. Very Good Plus. Gray paperbound pamphlet (Croissant Pamphlets No. 9), 8/5 in. x 5.5 in. Unpaginated (nine leaves). Limited edition, signed by the author on colophon page. #114/426 numbered copies, with Nos. 1-176 signed. Black title and double-line design to front. Light tanning to edges. Ten poems from lauded… Read more about this item