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Roma: Botteghe Oscure VI, 1950. First (separate) edition of Agee's autobiographical first novel, printed for private circulation in its entirety. One of an unrecorded number of offprints from Marguerite Caetani's distinguished literary journal Botteghe Oscure. Presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "to Bob Edwards / with warm good wishes / Jim Agee". The novel was not published… 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

West Burke, VT: The Janus Press, 1979. First edition. One of 150 numbered copies (the entire edition) printed on Barcham Green deWint paper, signed by Helen Siegl, with the woodcuts hand-colored by the artist. Very fine copy of Siegl's most beautiful book, and certainly one of the most beautiful books from the Janus press. Scarce. (SIEGL, Helen).. 4to,… 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

(London): Gogmagog Private Press, (1980). First edition. One of 35 numbered copies "designed, cut, modelled, hand-printed & bound" and signed by Cox. "Plates & text printed on Japanese Hosho & Kuzo-shi papers.... Binding material woven in Hong-Kong, supplied by Mr Corrie Guyt". Chambers 33. Presentation copy from Cox to Guyt, who supplied the binding materials, with Guyt's bookplate on… 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.

(Frankfort, Kentucky): Gnomon Press, (2006). First edition, limited issue, one of 50 numbered copies signed by the photographer and with an original signed and numbered print ["Juana Paloma, 1998"] enclosed in a separate envelope and laid in. By the author of The Neugents (Jargon Society, 1993). As new. 4to, illustrated, original cloth, matching cloth slipcase. As new. … Read more about this item