Search Results: Titles starting with E from Triolet Rare Books, ABAA

London: Gordon Fraser, 1979. First edition. 136 pp. Blue cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, with the dust jacket. Slight sticker ghost on the front free endpaper, else about fine. Profusely illustrated with images from Kauffer's posters, book illustrations, theatre design, along with a checklist of Kauffer's published work.

Colorado Springs: The Mamalujo Press, 1955. First edition. 46 pp. Original printed wrappers. Slight sunning to spine, top corner slightly bumped. Introductions by Stanislaus Joyce and Ellsworth Mason. These essays were later subsumed into Mason and Ellmann's collection of Joyce's critical writings (Viking, 1959).

New York: New Directions, 1998. First English language edition. 118 pp. Gray boards over black cloth backstrip, spine lettered in gilt, with the dust jacket. Translated by Michael Henry Heim, who has signed this copy on the title-page. Fine copy.

Concord: William B. Ewert, 1986. First edition. Printed boards over cloth backstrip, printed spine label mounted. Of a total edition of 136 copies, this is one of 36 copies in boards, this copy unnumbered and inscribed by the publisher, and additionally signed by Carver. A collection of 10 poems, none of which had previously appeared in book form. Fine copy.

Guildford: Circle Press, 1981. First edition. Original wrappers. Near fine. Unprinted wrappers with integral jacket, French flaps. One of 150 copies of the regular edition, illustrated with six plates designed by Ronald King and printed relief in one color. Just about fine.

London: Faber and Faber, 1963. First edition. 46 pp. Full blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, with the dust jacket. Touch of darkening to endpaper gutters, else a fine copy. Illustrated by R.A. Brandt. Sagar & Tabor A7 (3000 copies printed).

New York: Vantage Press, 1995. First edition. 63 pp. Perfect-bound glossy wrappers. Bit of surface wear, minor crease to front cover. Lengthily inscribed by Madsen in verse on the half-title, dated in 1997. An early collection of Bukowski-esque poems by the actor perhaps best known for ensuring that "Stuck in the Middle With You" can never again be listened to with a casual ear (so to speak).

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006. First edition. 451 pp. Gray boards, spine lettered in silver, with the dust jacket. Slightest of rubbing to head of spine, else a fine copy. Winner of the National Book Award.

New York: Alexandre Iolas Gallery, 1970. First edition. [36] pp. Original white printed wrappers. Introduction by Henry T. Hopkins, fourteen color reproductions. Catalogue of Ruscha's second exhibition in New York, at the Alexandre Iolas Gallery (his first New York exhibition was at the same gallery three years earlier). Some very minor spotting and browning to the wrappers.

Key West: no publisher, 1986. First edition. One of one hundred copies printed (none of which were for sale). Single sheet, folded and laid into an unprinted green wrapper. Inscribed by Merrill on the title-page to Richard Howard. Fine copy. Hagstrom and Morgan A64.

n.p.: M. Gira/Young God Records, 2012. First edition. Velo-bound cardstock covers. One of 1000 copies, numbered and signed on the cover. Of the eight stories, three were previously published in Gira's collection The Consumer. With the Somniloquist CD mounted on the inside rear cover, as issued. Fine copy. "I wrote these stories in the 1990s, and I've written very little fiction since. The stories in this book are complete, absolute fiction and have nothing to do with reality. They certainly did not then, nor do they now, reflect my view of the world, nor do they depict anyone living or dead." - Michael Gira 2012.

San Francisco: Hermes Free Press, 1972. First edition. [8] pp. Stapled wrappers. Bottom corner toned on rear leaves. An early attempt by environmental activist Keith Lampe (later aka Ponderosa Pine) to disrupt the Republican convention in San Diego in August 1972. Johnston, pp. 27, 176.

New York: Editions of the Tibor de Nagy Gallery, 1951. First edition. Original Wraps. Near Fine. One of only 500 copies printed. Drawings by Rene Bouche. [16] pp. A near fine copy in stapled wrappers, as issued, with some minor edgewear. Scarce.

New York: Grove Press, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. 84 pp. Paper-covered boards, spine lettered in black, with the dust jacket. Extremely slight wear to the head of the spine and top front corner, else a fine copy. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. The uncommon hardcover issue of Ryan's fourth book, and the first to be published by a major publishing house. Kay Ryan was U.S. Poet Laureate from 2008 to 2010, won the Pulitzer Prize in 2011 for her new and selected poems The Best of It, and in September 2011 was named a MacArthur Fellow.

New York: Catchwords Press, 1986. First edition. Original wrappers. Fine. 28 pp. Stapled wrappers. One of 250 copies in wrappers, this copy unnumbered. An uncommon title. Fine copy.

First edition, one of 26 copies in boards, signed by the author and lettered N (250 copies in wrappers were also published). Blue cloth boards lettered in gilt on the spine. Fine copy. An uncommon title, the edition in boards is rare. Late haiku by an underrated poet, novelist and editor.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989. First English language edition. 199 pp. Rose paper boards over black cloth backstrip, spine lettered in silver, with the dust jacket. Some minor toning to jacket, top and fore-edges slightly foxed. Translated by Michael Henry Heim, who has signed this copy on the title-page.

New York: Grove Press, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. 64 pp. Yellow paper boards over blue cloth backstrip, spine lettered in gilt, with the dust jacket. Head and tail of spine a bit bumped, slight edgewear to jacket. Kay Ryan was U.S. Poet Laureate from 2008 to 2010, won the Pulitzer Prize in 2011 for her new and selected poems The Best of It, and in September 2011 was named a MacArthur Fellow. Signed on the title-page.

London: Thames & Hudson, 1989. First edition. 502 pp. Blue cloth, spine lettered in silver and black, with the dust jacket. Corners slightly bumped. Profusely ilustrated. A heavy book, international shipping not recommended.

London: The Egoist, 1916. First edition. [6], 7-19, [3] pp. Printed wrappers, single staple. Minor foxing, staple rusted. A scarce collection of pacifist poetry. OCLC locates six copies in the US.