Modern Poetry
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Wind In a Box
by Terrance Hayes
Terrance Hayes is an elegant and adventurous writer with disarming humor, grace, tenderness, and brilliant turns of phrase. He is very much interested in what it means to be an artist and a black man. In his first collection, Muscular Music, he took the reader through a living library of cultural icons, from Shaft and Fat Albert to John Coltrane and Miles Davis. His second collection, Hip Logic, continued these explorations of popular culture, fatherhood, cultural heritage, and loss. Wind in a Box,...
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Modern Poetry Books & Ephemera
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[Text in Yiddish] Lider
by STIKER, Meyer
[Nyu York: Amerike, 1945]. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's cloth in grey pictorial dust jacket; 126pp.; dust jacket illustration repeated on title page. Upper jacket panel and flap separated at spine but still present, several losses to extremities, as well as a long closed tear with subsequent creasing to upper panel; Near Fine in a Good only copy of the scarce dust jacket. Yiddish poetry collection with possible authorial inscription to front free endpaper.
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£202.38
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Specimens [Samisdat, Vol. 28, no. 3]
by MARTIN, D. Roger
Richford, VT: Samisdat, 1981. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's blue pictorial staplebound card wrappers; 20pp. Brief shallow chipping at bottom edge of rear cover, spine edge sunned, else Very Good and sound. Cover illustration by John Czapla.
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£20.24
The Happy Wanderer
by KEYES, Frances Parkinson
[New York: Julian Messner, 1935]. First Edition. 12mo (19.5cm.); publisher's cloth-backed marbled boards, in cream pictorial dust jacket; 96pp.; illus. throughout. Jacket extremities a bit toned and soiled, a hint of shelf wear, else Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Poetry collection by the novelist, memoirist, and wife of Henry W. Keyes, Governor of New Hampshire from 1917 to 1919 and Senator from that state from 1919 to 1937. Quite uncommon in dust jacket.
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£161.90
THE TROUBLE WITH LOVE
by Merriam, Eve [Elizabeth Janeway]
New York: Macmillan, 1960. First edition. Red cloth-backed decorated boards; small 8vo. 70 pp. A volume of poems from a poet best known for her work for children, even though her first book was a Yale Younger Poets volume. Laid in is a letter from her friend Elizabeth Janeway. Moderate shelfwear, otherwise fine in a dust jacket faded at the edges, and a touch of soiling, otherwise about fine. The dust jacket is not price-clipped, although the front flap corners are clipped by the publisher. The letter...
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£16.19
THE NAMING OF BEASTS
by Stern, Gerald
Omaha, NB: The Cummington Press with Abattoir Editions, 1973. First Edition. Handmade paper over boards, hand-stitched with paper spine label; large 8vo. 71 pp. One of 100 copies printed by Harry Duncan and others on Rives paper at West Branch and Omaha. Original poems by Stern, previously published only in magazines, and constituting his first book, having been printed in 1972; REJOICINGS his first trade publication (published in Canada) released in 1973. A very good copy, the spine and a portion of...
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£202.38
MARGINS 19. A Review of Little Magazines & Small Press Books
by Montag, Tom (ed.)
Milwaukee: Margins, 1975. First Edition. Stapled newsprint. Reviews of mostly poetry: "This ain't New York comin at ya!" Toned, soiled, and a bit worn, but complete.
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£12.14
CHIMERA: Vol. 3, No. 1
by Howes, Barbara, et al (ed.)
New York: Howes, Autumn 1944. Vol. 3, No. 1. 48 pp.. Attractively printed; prose from Arthur Koestler, Jacques Barzun, Sybille Bedford, and Wallace Fowlie on Henry Miller: " Clowns and Angels", and others. Very good in sunned and lightly worn orange stapled wrappers, clean interior. One of the best avant garde little mags in the 40's, lasting for 20 issues.
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£12.14
Jan Ve Smutku
by [CZECH AVANT-GARDE] NEZVAL, Vitezslav
Prague: Sfinx, 1930. First Edition. Octavo (21cm). Stiff printed wrappers, designed by Jindrich Styrsky; 104pp. Just mild wear to extremities of wrappers; VG to Near Fine. An impressive minimalist cover design by Styrsky, and an uncommon work from Nezval's surrealist period. PRIMUS 122.
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£242.85
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Preserving Poetry's Gene Pool: David Budbill's Judevine Cycle" [in] The Hollins Critic, Dec. 1899
by NELSON, Howard
Roanoke: Hollins Critic, 1988. First edition. December 1988 edition of the Hollins Critic that features an article about David Budbill of Vermont. Budbill has signed the cover that exhibits a sketch of his face. 20 pages. Journal. The Budbill article in the journal is by Howard Nelson. Scarce signed.
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£20.24
Like a Bulwark
by MOORE, Marianne
New York: The Viking Press, 1956. First American Edition. First Printing, one of 2,500 copies. Octavo; multi-colored patterned paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; 32pp. Hint of sunning to spine, else Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $2.50), with corresponding light sunning to spine panel and a few tiny tears. Sharp copy of the author's seventh regularly published volume of poetry. ABBOTT A14a.1.
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£80.95
Selected Poems
by WALCOTT, Derek
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 2007. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo. (21.5cm.); aqua spine over light blue boards stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; 307pp. Fine in a Fine, unclipped (priced $25.00) dustjacket. Walcott received the Queen's Medal for Poetry in 1988 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992.
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£28.33
THE SAUSAGE MASTER OF MINSK
by Kleinzahler, August
Montreal: Villenueve, 1977. First Edition. Stapled card covers pasted into printed jacket; 8vo. [28 pp.] The poet's first book a chapbook of 14 poems; one of 500 copies (this #492) signed and numbered by the poet. The US-born poet's first three books were published in Canada were he attended university. This is a near fine copy; faintly sunned with little wear or signs of use.
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£404.75
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Walls of America (House of Uncle Sam) [Inscribed and Signed]
by FARRINGTON, Harry Webb; W.H. Mace, intro
Bradley Beach, NJ: Rough and Brown Press, [1925]. First Edition. Octavo (20cm.); original maroon blind-ruled buckram, upper cover and spine lettered in gilt; 142,[2](ads)pp.; illus., including photographs. Fine. Signed and inscribed "Very Cordially Yours / Harry Webb Farrington" on front free endpaper. Small aviation-themed illustrated broadside Christmas greeting card (16cm.) printed in green and signed in print from Mr. and Mrs. Harry Webb Farrington, reproducing Farrington's hymn "The Men in Air." A...
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£40.48
Remembering the Future
by Bevins, Richard
Greensburg, PA: The Zelot Press, 1981. 1981. Stapled printed self-wraps; thin 8o. The Zelot no. 1, a literary magazine each devoted to a separate poet. Distributed by The Asphodel Book Shop the legendary Cleveland bookshop owned by Jim Lowell a mentor to Blevins the publsiher. Staples a bit rusty, else about fine.
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£12.14
Summoned by Bells
by BETJEMAN, John; Michael Tree (illus.)
London: John Murray, 1960. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm); green cloth, embossed with bell pattern, stamped in gilt, in tan dustwrapper; patterned endpapers; 111pp. Dustwrapper soiled and smudged; minor chips to extremities with creasing and edge rolling. Interiors slightly toned along margins, else clean and sound. Very Good or Better, in Very Good dustwrapper. An autobiography in blank verse by bestselling English poet John Betjeman, who lays out a detailed character sketch of an Edwardian childhood...
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£28.33
The Private Life of the Master Race: A Documentary Play
by BRECHT, Bertolt; Eric Russell Bentley, trans. & essay
[New York]: New Directions Books, Published by James Laughlin, [1944]. First American Edition. Small octavo (18.5cm.); publisher's black cloth in photo-illustrated dust jacket; [10],140pp. Light wear to jacket extremities, including a few tiny chips, spine and extremities rather browned, else Very Good and sound. Seventeen of twenty-eight scenes from the author's anti-Nazi Fears and Miseries of the Third Reich.
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£80.95
The Best Poems of 1932
by MOULT, Thomas (ed); Elizabeth Montgomery (illus)
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1932. First Edition. 12mo (19cm). Cloth backed patterned paper boards; dustjacket; 127pp. Fine copy in slightly dusty pictorial dustwrapper with small area of damp-soil at base of spine panel; Very Good. Anthology of magazine verse; contributions by A.E., James Stephens, Humbert Wolfe, Harriet Monroe, etc, as well as a host of lesser lights. Eleventh volume in the annual series.
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£20.24
KULCHUR 8
by Hornick, Lita
New York: Kulchur Press, Winter 1962. First Edition. Printed wrappers; 8vo. 104 pp. Vol.2, no.8: One of twenty issues of this influential literary magazine with Frank O'Hara, Joe LeSueur, Gilbert Sorrentino, Charles Olson and LeRoi Jones among its editors. Most issues were reviews and essays, with a smattering of poems. This issue contains contributions by Anselm Hollo, Sorrentino, Denise levertov ("Letter to the Editors"), Fielding Dawson, Michael McClure, Louis Zukofsky a portfolio of jazz photographs...
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£28.33
FOR LIZZIE AND HARRIET
by Lowell, Robert
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1973. First Edition. Green cloth in dust jacket; small 8vo. 48 pp. Poetic sequences previously published, in different versions and in another order, in his Notebook. Jacket toned, and an embossed stamp on half title page. Near fine in easily very good dust jacket with no discernible wear.
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£16.19
LORD WEARY'S CASTLE
by Lowell, Robert
New York: Harcourt Brace, 1946. First edition. Black cloth, gilt lettering, in dust jacket; small 8vo. 69 pp. Grolier Bookshop book ticket on front paste down. Very good copy with light wear to extremities and light foxing to prelims; black jacket lightly rubbed, few spots; few tears to rear; top and bottom of spine of jacket with small chips, else very good (in removable protective archival cover). Not price-clipped. Poet's first regularly published book, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1947; Lowell...
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£60.71
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JAMES KOLLER [ephemera]
by Koller, James
Captain Cook, HI: Fortuna, circa 1987. First Edition. Single sheet card stock folded with bibliography, bio. of JK; with "The Bone Show" a singe sheet card folded a theater collaboration with composer Peter Garland and puppeteer Karl Bruder; with "Graffiti Lyriques" a single card sheet folded listing performances of the work. Three items promotional pieces regarding Koller and his work; oddly given he lived in Maine issued from Hawaii. Fine.
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£20.24
CALENDAR YEAR
by Agoos, Julie
Riverdale, NY: Sheep Meadow Press, 1996. First edition. Blue Cloth in dust jacket. Signed on the title page by the Poet Julie Agoos. The poet's second collection. Hardcover, first edition in fine/fine condition. Now protected by a Brodart Jacket. Scarce title signed.
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£20.24
SHADOW TRAIN
by Ashbery, John
New York: Viking/Penguin, 1981. First Edition. First trade paper edition published simultaneously with the hardcover. Inscribed by the author in the year of publication to Stephen Stepanchev, professor emeritus Queens College, a longtime teacher of creative writing/English. Light rubbing and very light toning, at least very good. Poly protective cover added.
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£48.57
Black Volume
by SHANDS, Annette Oliver
Mount Vernon, NY: A & J Press, 1973. Revised Edition. Preceded by the first edition published the previous year. Slim octavo (21.5cm); glossy, illustrated wrappers, stapled; 46pp. Some pinpoint wear to spine ends, else Fine. Shands's first book, collecting 28 poems "for mature readers...varying in theme from Vietnam to mental illness and in form from sonnet to haiku..." The author was a former lecturer in the English department at Baruch College in New York City. Laudatory blurb from Gwendolyn Brooks...
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£36.43
PARSIFAL
by OLIVER HUCKEL
1903 EDITION, PAGED UNMARKED, BINDING SOUND. LOVELY COVER AND DESIGN.
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£80.95
