Search Results: Poetry from Burnside Rare Books, ABAA

Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1967. First Edition. Fine. First edition. Number four of a limited 99 copies signed by Charles Bukowski. In publisher's string-bound brown wraps printed in black. Fine. As the title suggests, this contains two poems by Charles Bukowski, "Family, Family," and "A Little Atomic Bomb.

Cleveland, Ohio: 7 Flowers Press, 1967. First Edition. Very Good. First edition, first printing; one of 275 copies printed. Side stapled mimeographed sheets bound into printed cover. Very Good with tape repair made to inside rear cover. Light stain to top of rear pages causing waviness to pages throughout. Scarce.

New York: Angel Hair Books, 1970. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition. Unfolded 8.5 x 11 stapled mimeographed sheets, printed on rectos only. Near Fine, with some light wear and two small abrasions to the front cover. The author's scarce second book of poetry, one of just 300 printed.

Cleveland, Ohio: 7 Flowers Press, 1966. Very Good. Side stapled mimeographed sheets with cover art by Ralph & Diedra Poplar. Very Good with toning, light soiling and light staining causing light waviness to tops of several pages. An anthology of Cleveland poets featuring works of d.a. levy, rjs, T.L. Kryss and Kent Taylor, to name a few.

San Francisco: White Rabbit Press, 1958. First Edition. Very Good. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's white illustrated wraps, with drawings by Jess. Very Good. Wraps toned, soiled and stained. Light creases throughout. Pages toned and occasionally foxed. Scarce.

New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1940. First Edition. Very Good. First trade edition, first printing. Signed by the poet on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's original pale orange cloth stamped in maroon, lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with fading to cloth at spine,wear at spine ends and corners, pages toned.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1958. Signed Limited Edition. Near Fine. Signed limited first edition preceding the first trade edition; copy 137 of 300 numbered copies signed by E. E. Cummings. Printed on rag paper, bound in publisher's blue cloth decorated in blind and stamped in gilt with top edges stained yellow, lacking the glassine wrapper. Fine, in a Near Fine slipcase which is lightly worn at the foot of the spine and with foxing and light soiling to the white title label. The last book of new poems published during Cummings' lifetime.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1958. First Trade Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First trade edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's black cloth backed paper-covered boards. Near Fine with former owner name and date to front pastedown, endsheets heavily foxed and pages lightly toned. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with light rubbing and light edge wear, light sunning near spine and light creases along the front spine joint.

New York: Tiber Press, 1960. First Edition. Fine. Complete in four folio volumes, each measuring 17½" x14¼". Each volume with three full-page color silkscreen prints and additional prints at title page and upper cover, original cloth-backed illustrated boards. First Edition. No. 47 of 200 copies. Each volume signed by the poet and artist on the limitation page. A Fine set, bright and sharp, in publisher's thick acetate jackets, housed in cloth slipcase with light shelf wear. A visionary collaboration between the leading lights of the New York School of poetry and four second generation abstract expressionist artists, produced at the height of their creative collective powers. A heady encapsulation of the New York literary and visual avant garde at the dawning of the '60s.

New York: James F. Carr & Robert S. Wilson, 1964. First Edition. First edition. Signed by Wieners on copyright page and inscribed, "To my Friends only a generation ago." 72 pp. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering. Fine in rare original unprinted jacket, torn and chipped, Fair. The poet's second book.

[Los Angeles?]: Al Jadid, 1992. First edition. First edition. Signed by Mahmoud Darwish on the front free endpaper in blue ink. Bound in publisher's wraps with red belly band that is loose on back wrap. In the original Arabic. Very Good+ with light bumping along top edge, slight crease to front wrap, reading wear. A rare signed book of poetry by Palestine's national poet. The work of Darwish (1941-2008) is quite highly regarded and popular within the Arabic-speaking world.

Berkeley: Haramia Press, 1976. First Edition. Fine. First edition. 28 pp. In publisher's orange wraps. Fine. An uncommon collection of Black Power-themed poems.

Cleveland, OH: American Weave, 1967. Four early poems by Mary Oliver included in this literary magazine: "Squire's Castle," "The Survival," "A Walk from the Asylum," and "Alex." All would appear in her rare collection The River Styx, Ohio. [ii], 67-134, [5] pp. Publisher's orange wraps. Good+ with dust-soiling and staining to wraps and edges, slightly sunned spine.

Demarest, NJ: Analecta Press, 1968. First Edition. First edition. 78 pp. Publisher's wraps. Near Fine, a little shelf worn and faintly toned. A collection of poems by Blazek, a mimeo poet and contemporary of Charles Bukowski. The cover and two cartoons inside were drawn by underground comics artist R. Crumb. Three collages are by fellow poet d.a. levy.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1962. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Signed by Anne Sexton and inscribed in the year of publication on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's original striped paper-covered boards over black spine cloth lettered in white. Near Fine with slight toning to boards and contents lightly tanned. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with trivial wear at the extremities and toning to the blindside. A beautiful copy of the author's second book of poetry, signed.

San Francisco: The Communication Company, 1967. First Edition. Near Fine. Early trial copy used in the production the first edition. Mimeographed sheets bound in publisher's yellow wraps; the front cover has a photograph of Richard Brautigan but lacks the titles that would appear on the actual first edition. Near Fine with light shelf wear and light soiling. Brautigan's fifth book, and like many, was not for sale but copies were given out for free.

San Francisco: The Communication Company, 1967. First Edition. Very Good. First edition, first printing. Signed with a small drawing of a fish by Richard Brautigan on the title page. Mimeographed sheets bound in publisher's yellow wraps printed in black. Very Good with some creasing to wraps and thumbing to pages. Brautigan's fifth book, and like many, was not for sale but copies were given out for free.

Los Angeles: [Charles Bukowski], 1978. Near Fine. An original painting on paper by Charles Bukowski of a woman and dog, created as a possible cover for his 1978 novel, Women, though ultimately another one of his paintings was chosed for the cover. Signed by Charles Bukowski as "Buk" at the bottom of the painting. 24x16 cm (9.5"x6.5); framed, with plexiglass; 28.5x23 cm (11x9"). Near Fine with possible light tanning, not examined out of frame. From the collection of John Martin, Bukowski's publisher at Black Sparrow Press.

Santiago de Chile: Ediciones de Libreria Neira, 1948. First Edition. Very Good. Folio. First edition. One of just 500 copies printed, with text in Spanish. Bound in publisher's tan wraps. Very Good, with spine showing a neat repair, and front cover joint about 1/3 split at bottom edge. Wraps show toning and light wear, especially at yapped edges, light rubbing. Pages toned. A lovely copy of this fragile production of one of Neruda's best-known longer poetic works.

Chile: Nascimento, 1954. Signed Limited Edition. Very Good. Signed limited edition, and the first printing of this edition. Bound in publisher's printed stiff wraps with yapped edges. Copy number 993 of 1,000, signed by Pablo Neruda on the limitation page. Very Good with light lean to spine, light general wear and light creasing to wraps, light edge wear and toning. With green paper insert present at rear, causing some offsetting to inside of rear cover. Illustrated with black and white photographs by Martin Chambi throughout.