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Copper Canyon Press, June 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Beautiful, press-printed with blue and black ink. Pages deckle-edged. Clean, tight copy. One of 150 copies signed by the author. More
Copper Canyon Press, June 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Beautiful, press-printed with blue and black ink. Pages deckle-edged. Clean, tight copy. One of 150 copies signed by the author. More
Selwyn & Blount, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A very good+ copy in very good dust jacket (slight rubbing to DJ spine). Small 8vo with DJ ix+[3]+76 Three essays on death, printed at the Curwen Press. Signed and inscribed on front free endpaper: 'Walter..... More
Brandstead Press, 1982. Limited Edition. Unknown. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" One of one hundred numbered copies, signed by the 'bookwright'. [4]pp on French-fold sheets. The text is set in Kennerley Oldstyle, and the booklet printed on Charles 1 paper. With four vignette-sized engravings, as well as front cover..... More
Alfred A. Knopf, 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 63 pages. Later issue of Higginson & Williams A6b, in variant binding (green cloth, with chartreuse printed paper spine label). Contains 25 poems in all. A very good- copy with slight sunning, browning and rubbing to..... More
Duckworth, 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" vii, [1], 68, [1] pages. Author's second book. Halkett & Laing VI, 405. A very good copy with slight sunning to spine; slight rubbing to covers; slight internal browning (chiefly to endpapers); else a very serviceable copy of a...... More
Arundel Press, 1994. First Edition. Wraps. [9] pages, in handsewn grey paper wraps. One of 105 copies (the entire edition), designed and printed by Chris Stern at the Grey Spider Press for the Arundel Books Poetry Series. Signed by Levine in pencil on limitation page. More
Jonathan Cape, November 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed By Author on title page. A fine copy of the first edition in a fine jacket. More
Sidgwick And Jackson, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Noted American poet Denise Levertov's copy, with her name in pencil on the ffep, dated 1946; and marginal line markings to selected paragraphs of the text. First of this edition. 68pp., with frontispiece portrait, and blue cloth boards. Overall an intact copy, the..... More
January 1808. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Bound in full tree calf with gilt stamped border decorations, text-block edges hand marbled. Front endpaper missing, some period ink notes to text, endpapers foxed, pages browning, boards detached but present, spine heavily chipped, all edges and corners well rubbed..... More
Maunsel & Company, 1916. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" 18, [2] pages. Contains the 3 poems 'Autumn 1915', 'Spring 1916' and 'Joy Be With Us'. One of 500 numbered copies (the entire edition). A very good copy with slight rubbing and minor nicks to wrappers;..... More
John Lane, 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. Thin Tall 12mo. viii, 71, [1], 16 pages + plate. Contains 9 poems in all (including 'The Turk in Armenia'); also notable for the frontispiece (after the photograph by Frederick Hollyer). Subsidiary imprint on title page: Chicago: Stone & Kimball (see Kramer #57); with..... More
Creative Age Press, Inc., 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. 95 pages. Two-part collection of verses, some inspired by the world war; 59 poems in all, dedicated to George Barker. Presentation copy, with signature and inscription of noted American writer Katherine Anne Porter in blue-gray..... More
Macmillan, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy of the first American edition (Wade #137), based on the English New and Revised edition. A bright copy in the original green cloth decorated in gilt and blind (very slight wear; neat ink gift inscription on front endpaper). More
Spankstra Press, 2004. Trade Paperback. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. UNIQUE COPY - publisher's galley with author's hand-written corrections to text (later incorporated in the actual edition). White printed wraps. 12mo. unpaginated 32 poems. 'Here, just as out there, airports are alienated abstractions that conceal the impossibility of..... More
New Directions, January 1941. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" 23, [1] pages. Rare publisher's prospectus for the series, including sample title pages as well as a few texts; uncredited publisher's introduction. Additional publisher's postcard (for reply) present. A very good copy with slight browning, creases..... More
Push Button Pub, July 1994. Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Clean, tight copy. Signed and inscibed by author. Previous Owner's bookstamp inside front cover. More
Dodd, Mead, 1910. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. VG in original green cloth, top edge gilt, binding designed by Margaret Armstrong (minor fading and wear to cloth). Originally published in 1899 (see BAL #4925).Frontis Portrait. More
Wesleyan University Press, September 2004. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Signed by author on title page. Also signed and inscribed beneath: 'Peace, Yusef Feb 19 2006 To Nikolai.'. More
Chatwin Books, March 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Brand new! One of only 50 deluxe copies - includes an original poem handwritten by the author. 'You are about to meet a man by reading over forty years of his writings. In many ways, it is..... More
Princeton University Press, April 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes, complete as issued. A very good set in the original bindings and dust jackets (each jacket has a crease to spine, books have minor spotting to top edges). PROVENANCE: From the library of noted American poet and scholar William Matchett..... More
Gas Station Editions, March 1992. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Light dust soiling to covers, spine lightly tanned, else a clean copy, tight uncreased spine. Parallel text in Spanish and English, translated by Gabriel Berns and David Shapiro. More
Reed College, 1945. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Scarce. Designed by Curtiss Cowan. Minor wear. More
Printed at Anderson, Ritchie & Simon, January 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" [8], 29, [1] pages. Illustrated by Nicolas Cann; designed, with a short introductory note, by John Russell Taylor. One of 507 numbered copies (the entire edition), printed at Anderson, Ritchie and Simon, May..... More