Passager: 2008 Poetry Contest
Baltimore: University of Baltimore, 2008. First Edition. Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Very good copy (has minor wear). More
Poetry Anthologies
Poems and Songs of the Golden West
NP [San Francisco?]: NP, 1927. Decorative Upper Wrapper. First Edition. Paperback. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 52 pages. Upper wrapper title. Small anthology of poems, chiefly concerning the Western United States, written chiefly by San Francisco Bay Area poets; uncredited editor. Date is conjectural (one poem copyrighted 1927..... More
Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetry, 1984
Monitor Book Co, 1984. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Good used hardcover in jacket (general light wear). More
Yanks: A Book of A.E.F. Verse
NP [Paris?]: The Stars and Stripes, 1918. First Edition. Paperback. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. [ca. 100] pages. "The verses ,,, have all been published in The Stars and Stripes ... [by] the heart and soul of the American Army in France" (foreword). Uncredited editorship; printed in France..... More
Immortalia: An Anthology of American Ballads, Sailors' Songs, Cowboy Songs, College Songs, Parodies, Limericks, and Other Humorous Verses and Doggerel Now for the First Time Brought Together in Book Form / By a Gentleman About Town
NP: Privately Printed, 1927. B/w Decoration (title page); Decorative Endpapers (gray/white). Probable First Edition. Hard Cover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Bound in half tan cloth over matching boards, spine lettered in brown, plain endpapers (soiling and wear to binding; inner hinges weak; partially removed bookplate on front..... More
Lillabulero Volume II Number 1 Winter 1968
Chapel Hill: Lillabulero Press, 1968. First Edition. Paperback. Folio - between 12" - 15" Tall. Minor wear and creasing to wraps; ink name. More
Five Courtier Poets of the English Renaissance
New York: Washington Square Press, 1967. First Thus. Paperback. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. A good cheap reading copy with creasing, very light chipping, and edge/corner wear; light soiling to page edges; browning and ink underling to pages. More
Cloud Marauder: Sixth Number [six]
Cloud Marauder, 1970. Illustrated by Peter Ruhf. First Edition. Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Includes work by James Tate, Greg Kuzma, and others. More
Ergo: The Bumbershoot Literary Magazine Vol. IV, 1989
Bumbershoot Festival Commission, 1989. First Edition. Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Includes work by Ursula Hegi, Ishmael Reed, Jerome Rothenberg, et al. More
Ergo: The Bumbershoot Literary Magazine Vol. VI, 1991
Bumbershoot Festival Commission, 1991. First Edition. Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Includes work by Allen Ginsberg, Diane DiPrima, Jack Hirschman, W.P. Kinsella, Mary Lou Sanelli, Rebecca Wells, et al. More
Botteghe Oscure: Quaderno XII
Rome: De Luca Editore, 1953. First Edition. Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Includes work by Robert Graves, W. S. Merwin, W. D. Snodgrass, Theodore Roethke, Richard Wilbur, Edward Field, Paul Goodman, Vernon Watkins, James Broughton, W. H. Auden & Chester Kallman. Cream printed wraps spine darkened, with some..... More
Future Present
Seattle: So Many Birds Publishing, 2002. First Edition. Paperback (stapled). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Scarce anthology. A very good copy. 36 pages. More
A Slow Flash of Light: An Anthology of Poems about Poetry
New York: Teachers & Writers Collaborative, 1998. First Edition. Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Very Good copy. Signed and inscribed (no recipient's name) by compiler on title page. More
Dream of the Highway: 5 Kansas and Missouri Poets
Cambridge, MA: West End Press, 1979. B/W Photographs. First Edition. Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Clean, tight copy. Wear to cover edges and spine crease. Inscribed and signed by contributor Fred Whitehead. Featured poets: Tom James, Jamie Jacks, Tom Page, Kathy Turner, Fred Whitehead. More
The Bouquet: : containing the poetry and language of Flowers By a Lady
Boston: Benjamin B. Mussey, 1846. Early American Edition. Hard Cover. 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. Very good in the original brown ribbed cloth decorated in gilt and blind (minor fading, spotting and wear; some foxing to text). 3 color lithograph plates (one a pictorial title). Notes: Added t.p...... More
Contact 1: The San Francisco Journal of New Writing, Art and Ideas
Sausalito, CA: Angel Island Publications, 1958. Over 25 b/w Illustrations. First Edition. Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Good copy (has light general wear). Contains prose pieces by William Saroyan, Ray Bradbury and William Carlos Williams. First issue. More
Contact 1: The San Francisco Journal of New Writing, Art and Ideas
Sausalito, CA: Angel Island Publications, 1958. Over 25 b/w Illustrations. First Edition. Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Good copy (has light general wear; spine rubbed). Contains prose pieces by William Saroyan, Ray Bradbury and William Carlos Williams. First issue. More
Tidepools 1982
Port Angeles, WA: Peninsula College, 1982. First Edition. Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Very good copy. More
Poets West Literary Journal. Volume I, Number 1 Spring, 1998
Seattle: SCW Publications, 1998. First Edition. Paperback. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Original green stapled wraps(some fading, minor wear). More
New Expansive Poetry: Theory, Criticism, History
Ashland, Oregon, U.S.A. Story Line Pr, 1999. First American Printing. Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A very good copy with solid, unmarked text; rubber stamped edge. More
A Bokay of Wild Daisies Home Grown and Full Blown the kind that grows in and around La Cygne, Kansas. A little book of native verse,
La Cygne, Kansas: C. E. Hesser, 1915. First Edition. Hard Cover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Scarce 1915 first edition, bound in the original blue cloth decorated in gilt (minor darkening and wear; neat ink inscription on endpaper). An uncommon Kansas imprint. More
The Anglo-Welsh Review Number 79 1985
Tenby: H. g. Walters, 1985. First Edition. Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" More
From Other Lands: Poetry That Makes History Live
Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" First edition hardcover in jacket. Jacket spine sunned; slight rubbing and minor nicks to jacket; slight crease to front free endpaper. 281 pages. Collection of verses inspired by various events in world history;..... More
Zyzzyva: The Last Word: West Coast Writer's & Artists: Volume IX, Number 4 Winter 1993
San Francisco: Zyzzyva, 1993. First Edition. Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Good in wraps (some bumping and wear). Includes a gatefold letterpress poem. More
Poems That Have Helped Me
Seattle, Washington, U.S.A. Laughing Elephant Books, 2000. Reprint. Paperback. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. A solid little volume, reprint of the 1913 Volland. A good+ copy with owner's ink gift inscription on front page. More