Poetry from Haec City / Also Books

VG+ with light general shelwear, bottom rear corner bumped. Contents clean and unmarked.

New York: Knopf, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good +. First edition, second printing. Hardcover 8vo, 73pp. Near Fine in VG+ dustjacket with rubbing to the covers. Contents clean and unmarked.

New York: Knopf, 2014. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good +. Stated First Edition, presumed first printing (no additional printings stated), 2014. Fine in a nearly-Near Fine dust jacket with mild shelfwear and a 1/4-inch stain on the rear panel. A very nice copy of the author's beautiful elegy written after his son's tragic and untimely death. … Read more about this item

Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good +. First edition, stated second printing, 1974. Hardocver cloth 8vo, 145pp. Simultaneous text printed in Spanish and English. Near Fine in VG+ dust jacket, lightly age toned and now housed in protective mylar cover. Contents clean and unmarked, an excellent copy.

New York: Harcourt, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/Good +. Stated First Edition, first printing (letter line begins with "A"). Very Good+ with some fading and wear along the edges of the boards, but internally bright and clean. In Good+ dust jacket with some discoloration, including a tidemark along the upper and lower edges. Translated from the… Read more about this item

Cambridge: Zoland Books, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Hardcover 8vo, 350pp. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket, now housed in mylar wrapper. Publisher's compliments stamp on the front flyleaf; else clean and unmarked. Early collectible work influenced by Basquiat. Choice copy.

New York: Knopf, 2008. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition, second printing. Hardcover 8vo, 156pp. Fine in like dust jacket, now housed in archival mylar wrapper. Contents clean and unmarked. Choice copy.

New York: Knopf, 2007. Paperback. Near Fine. First paperback edition, 2007. Softcover 8vo, 92pp. A bit of scuffing/soil on the rear cover; otherwise Near Fine with clean, unmarked contents. Appears unread.

New York: Knopf, 2009. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, second printing. Hardcover8vo, 196pp. Near Fine with remainder mark on the bottom edge; in like dust jacket, housed in archival mylar wrapper. Contents clean and unmarked. Choice copy.

Cincinnati: Miami Press Company, 1924. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Cincinnati: Miami Press Company, 1924. First edition. Very Good. Long poem elegizing the popular and scandalous 29th President of the United States, described in the Encyclopaedia Britannica as "a notoriously poor judge of character." Softcover 16mo, 34pp, printed recto-only. Textured wrappers with some minor discoloration and… Read more about this item

Cambridge, MA: West End Press, 1979. First edition. Paperback. Very Good+. Softcover 8vo, 31pp. VG+ with sunning around the edges, but crisp and clean overall.

Wichita, Kansas: Ark River Review Press, 1973. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Softcover 8vo, 52pp. Illustrated. VG with a band of sunning along the spine and upper edge. A great collection of these poets at their prime.

New York: New Directions. Paperback. Good +. First edition, first printing. NDP300, $1.50, 1970. Softcover, 58pp. Illustrated. Spine rolled, a bit of foxing to the edges and an abrasion on the first page--a Good copy overall. Previous owner's signature inside the front ccover; else clean and unmarked.

Boston: B. J. Brimmer, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. Good +. Hardcover 8vo, 65pp. Illustrated with Art Nouveau style woodcuts, some with color. A Good+ copy with soil and discoloration to boards; rubbing and fraying to the corners and edges, spine label chipped. Interior subtly age toned but overall nice and clean. A humorous appraisal of literary and cultural… Read more about this item

Near Fine with minor shelfwear. With original publisher's "bellyband" jacket. Nice copy.

Near Fine with minor shelfwear to wraps. A handsome self-published chapbook "published as a gift to the editors of the Ixnay Press... in celebration of the Chapter & Verse Reading Series season finale. No date or place of publication, but since Ixnay Press is a small independent and experimental publishing venture in Philadelphia, so we're guessing Casimassima printed the edition… Read more about this item

SIGNED by the author, Shabtai, on the title page. Near Fine with minimal wear. Translated from the Hebrew by Peter Cole.

Stated First Edition, 1994. Hardcover 8vo, 82pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with faint scratch on rear panel. National Book Award prize medallion on cover.

Stated first edition. VG with light soil to wraps, but contents remain clean and unmarked. Nice reading copy.

First edition copy of this scarce small press printing, in near fine condition with just a bit of handling wear. Contents clean and unmarked.