POETRY from James S. Jaffe Rare Books LLC

Churchtown, Dundrum: The Cuala Press, 1914. First edition (400 copies printed). Wade 110. Connolly 100, 24. Includes "September, 1913", "To a Friend whose Work has come to Nothing" and "The Cold Heaven", among other poems. Laid in is a small card with a passage from the prefatory poem in Responsibilities, "only the wasteful virtues earn the sun", signed by… Read more about this item

Boston: Published By Laurens Maynard At 287 Congress Street, 1897. First (trade) edition, first issue, following a limited edition of 35 large-paper copies, signed by Dr. Bucke, of which 25 were for sale. Myerson A14.1.b1. In addition to the letters by Whitman, who died in 1892, this book contains a very interesting interview with Peter Doyle, conducted by Bucke… Read more about this item

Amherst: Shanachie Press, 1980. First edition. One of only 10 lettered copies reserved for the author and artist (this being copy "J") out of a total edition of 35 copies produced, of which 25 roman-numeraled copies were for sale; all copies were signed by the poet and the artist, with each of the original prints also numbered and signed… Read more about this item

(1957). Original collaborative lithograph, editioned ("B1"), and signed by O'Hara and the artist, Larry Rivers. "Us" was the first in a series of lithographic prints, collectively called "Stones", produced by O'Hara and Rivers for Tatyana Grosman's Universal Limited Art Editions studio from 1957-1960. In his autobiography, Rivers recounts how the project came about and progressed: "As a young painter,… Read more about this item

Newark, VT: The Janus Press, 1979. First edition. One of 120 numbered copies signed by Kinnell and Van Vliet (the entire edition). Fine copy. Oblong 8vo, original cloth-backed boards, printed paper spine label. Fine copy.

(No date). A unique collaborative work of art by Conner & McClure, signed by the poet & artist, formerly in the collection of Donald Allen. In 1959, Bruce Conner (b. 1933) & Michael McClure proposed that "artists and poets repudiate the term beat and call themselves 'rat bastards' instead, and they announced the formation of the Rat Bastard Protective… Read more about this item

N. Y.: Phoenix Book Shop, 1973. First edition. One of 26 lettered copies (out of a total edition of 126) signed by Bishop. MacMahon A11. As new. Thin, oblong 12mo, decorated wrappers. As new.

Edinburgh: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1961. First edition of Niedecker's second book, published by the press of the Scottish concrete poet & gardener extraordinaire Ian Hamilton Finlay, with the introduction by Dorn on a separate sheet laid into the book. Inscribed on the inside front wrapper to her later publisher, Jonathan Williams: "Jonathan: My best book so far (Sept. 3,… Read more about this item

N. Y.: Phoenix Book Shop, 1973. First edition. No. 16 in the Phoenix Book Shop Oblong Octavo Series. Limited to 126 copies signed by Bishop. MacMahon A11. Fine copy. Thin oblong 12mo, original decorated wrappers. Fine copy.

N. Y.: Farrar Straus & Giroux, (1980). First edition of Schuyler's Pulitzer Prize-winning collection, which was dedicated to the artist Darragh Park. Presentation copy, inscribed by Schuyler to Barbara Guest: "for Barbara all love Jimmy Feb. 1980". The Morning of the Poem, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1981 in part owing to the advocacy of John Ashbery, one… Read more about this item

N. Y.: Random House, (1974). First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by Schuyler to Barbara Guest: "'this beauty that I see...' for Barbara from Jimmy with love, March 12, 1974. A fine copy of one of Schuyler's scarcest trade publications.. 8vo, original cloth-backed boards, dust jacket designed by Fairfield Porter. A fine copy of one of Schuyler's scarcest trade… Read more about this item

Iowa City: Windhover Press, 1990. First edition. One of 26 specially bound lettered copies signed by Strand & Welliver, with two separate prints laid in at the back; the only signed issue of this publication. As new.. Folio, original wrappers with Japanese style clasps. As new.

(Cummington, MA): Cummington Press, 1944. First edition. One of 380 copies printed in Centaur and Arrighi type on Dacian paper. Wallace A23. A diminutive but significant volume, which includes "Paterson: The Falls", "The Dance (In Breughel's great picture)", "The Semblables" and "To Ford Madox Ford in Heaven", in addition to Williams' important introduction, a brief "Ars Poetica. Arthur Mizener's… Read more about this item