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N.Y.: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1972). First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to poet and Jargon Press publisher Jonathan Williams on the front free-endpaper: "For my dear friend Jonathan, my constant love, Edward Sep. 10, '73 N.Y.C.. Top-edge dust marked, otherwise a fine copy in very good dust jacket. 8vo, original cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. Top-edge dust marked, otherwise a fine copy in very good dust jacket.

(München): R. Piper & Co. Verlag, (1968). First German edition, translated by Paul Baudisch. Laid in is a 3 1/2 inch-square b/w photograph of Robert Graves sitting on the roots of a large tree. On the verso, Dahlberg has inscribed: "For my dear, good Friend, Jonathan [Williams]. Love - Edward June 21, '69 [illegible] / taken at Deya [sic], Mallorca 1964. The book and the photograph are in fine condition. 8vo, original cloth, printed paper spine label, dust jacket. The book and the photograph are in fine condition.

N.Y.: E.P. Dutton, 1972. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by Dahlberg to poet and Jargon Press publisher Jonathan Williams on the front free-endpaper: "For my dear friend Jonathan, who was responsible for the Festschrift. With abiding love, Edward Dec. 12, '73 N.Y.C.. Top-edge of text block dust marked, otherwise a very good copy. 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket. Top-edge of text block dust marked, otherwise a very good copy.

Hopewell, NJ: Ecco Press, 1993. First edition, deluxe issue. Limited to 125 copies signed by each of the translators & with an original etching signed by Francesco Clemente laid in. The translators include Heaney, Strand, Halpern, Kinnell, Clampitt, Jorie Graham, Charles Wright, Richard Howard, Stanley Plumly, C. K. Williams, Alfred Corn, Robert Haas, Sharon Olds, & Cynthia Macdonald. The text was set in Monotype Dante & printed letterpress by Michael & Winifred Bixler on Rives heavyweight paper. A handsome book, as new.. CLEMENTE, Francesco.. Small folio, quarter black calf & red silk over boards, slipcase, by Claudia Cohen. A handsome book, as new.

Bloomington, Indiana: Fine Arts Department University of Indiana, 1968. First edition. One of only 36 copies (the entire edition) signed by Williams & McGarrell, with each lithograph individually signed by the artist. Crane D44. Fine copy of this rare portfolio.. Large folio, loose sheets in fabricoid portfolio. Fine copy of this rare portfolio.

Haverford: Green Shade, 2004. First edition. One of 100 numbered copies signed by Davenport and Williams out of a total edition of 526 copies printed. Designed by The Grenfell Press & printed by Trifolio, Verona, Italy. "We are not celebrities. No one has known quite what to make of a patrician satirist and lyric poet from Highlands, North Carolina, or of an essayist and short story writer from Anderson, South Carolina." - Guy Davenport. "It is clear that G. Davenport and J. Williams write their letters in the fresh of the morning, when the Wheaties have kicked in, in GD's case, and the peanut-butter-and-mayonnaise sandwich and Coke, in JW's case." - Jonathan Williams. "Here we have two men the perfection of whose craft has been wrought through the practice of letter-writing. ... What we have here in particular is onset and blossoming, one of the most distinguished exchanges imaginable unfolding." - Thomas Meyer. As new. 8vo, illustrated, original pictorial wrappers. As new.

(N. Y.): The Grenfell Press, (1983). First edition of this story about Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, with title adapted from Ezra Pound. One of 115 numbered copies dated and signed by Davenport out of a total edition of 125 copies. Crane A22. In his Introduction to 50 Drawings (N.Y.: Dim Gray Bar Press, 1996), Davenport writes of The Bowmen, "There are printers and designers who see what I'm up to, and Leslie Miller's beautiful edition of The Bowmen of Shu is a perfect, and beautiful, example of realizing a text that is both writing and drawing.... As new. Accompanied by the publisher's prospectus. 4to, with 12 illustrations by the author and five reproductions of drawings by Gaudier-Brzeska, original quarter green morocco and illustrated paper over boards. As new. Accompanied by the publisher's prospectus.

Haverford: Green Shade, 2004. First edition. One of 26 lettered hardbound copies signed by Davenport and Williams and Thomas Meyer, out of a total edition of 526 copies printed. Designed by The Grenfell Press & printed by Trifolio, Verona, Italy. "We are not celebrities. No one has known quite what to make of a patrician satirist and lyric poet from Highlands, North Carolina, or of an essayist and short story writer from Anderson, South Carolina." - Guy Davenport. "It is clear that G. Davenport and J. Williams write their letters in the fresh of the morning, when the Wheaties have kicked in, in GD's case, and the peanut-butter-and-mayonnaise sandwich and Coke, in JW's case." - Jonathan Williams. "Here we have two men the perfection of whose craft has been wrought through the practice of letter-writing. ... What we have here in particular is onset and blossoming, one of the most distinguished exchanges imaginable unfolding." - Thomas Meyer. As new. Price is net to all. 8vo, illustrated, original… Read More

Haverford: Green Shade, 2004. First edition. One of 400 copies in wrappers (out of a total edition of 526 copies printed). Designed by The Grenfell Press & printed by Trifolio, Verona, Italy. "We are not celebrities. No one has known quite what to make of a patrician satirist and lyric poet from Highlands, North Carolina, or of an essayist and short story writer from Anderson, South Carolina." - Guy Davenport. "It is clear that G. Davenport and J. Williams write their letters in the fresh of the morning, when the Wheaties have kicked in, in GD's case, and the peanut-butter-and-mayonnaise sandwich and Coke, in JW's case." - Jonathan Williams. "Here we have two men the perfection of whose craft has been wrought through the practice of letter-writing. ... What we have here in particular is onset and blossoming, one of the most distinguished exchanges imaginable unfolding." - Thomas Meyer. As new. 8vo, illustrated, pictorial wrappers. As new.

A remarkable letter in which Dickinson grapples with the disturbing situation of having received a gift from an anonymous individual and is trying to identify that person. Having already written to the person whom she mistakenly assumed was the giver - a man - she is now filled with embarrassment and rather abjectly addresses her question to Mrs. Holland, a logical possibility: "Forgive the fervent Ingrate, if this time I am right, who had last week a bewitching Box and replied Elsewhere. "Elsewhere" replying this morning that "it isn't him though he would it were", and will keep the gratitude till the first delight he may dare to send." Dickinson then describes the gift she received: "It was Rose-colored Butterflies, threaded on a Stem, with Antlers of Green, and three Branches of Golden Rod, though not like the field's. Do you identify? Dare not thank you until I know, lest I miss again. Jacob versus Esau was a trifle in litigation compared to the skirmish in my mind. Emily." The rather hyperbolic… Read More

1970. Titled, dated March 12, 1970 and signed in image by Dorfman. Fine. Original black & white photograph, 7" x 7", mounted on stiff board. Fine.

(London): Fulcrum Press, (1967). First edition. Limited to 100 specially bound copies signed by Dorn. Fine copy.. 8vo, illustrations by R. B. Kitaj, cloth, dust jacket. Fine copy.

(West Burke, VT: Janus Press, 1994). First edition. Limited to 100 copies designed & printed by Claire Van Vliet at the Janus Press & signed by the poet. A wonderful three-dimensional presentation of Dove's poem about the return of the Freedom statue to the dome of the U. S. Capitol in Washington, D. C., with cut-outs of the face of the statue & the Capitol. As new.. 8vo, original cut-out folded sheets, plastic folder, in cloth slipcase with printed label on spine. As new.

(Plainfield, VT: Goddard Journal Publications, 1969). First edition of Dubie's rare first book, a small pamphlet published during the poet's senior year at Goddard College. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to Ted Enslin on the front free endpaper: "To Ted Enslin / Best Wishes / Norman Dubie. In our experience, one of the rarest first books of modern American poetry and only the second copy we have handled. Very fine copy. 12mo, original illustrated wrappers, stapled as issued. In our experience, one of the rarest first books of modern American poetry and only the second copy we have handled. Very fine copy.

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1961. First edition of the author's first book, winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award. Issued as Volume 57 in the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Presentation copy, inscribed by Dugan to Norman Thomas DiGiovanni on the front free endpaper: "Norman: Here is the book, as part-payment of my literary debt to you. The balance will follow. Regards, regards, Dugan". Dugan has written an early version of his poem "On HAT" on the recto and verso of the front free endpaper. The poem, which does not appear in this book, was first published in a significantly revised form in Poems 2 (1963) under the full title of "On Hat: On Vertical Mobility As A Concept". Beneath the printed dedication to his wife Dugan has added the manuscript dedication, "& Norman & Priscilla DiGiovanni". Dugan contributed translations of three poems to DiGiovanni's edition of The Selected Poems of Jorge Luis Borges, 1923-1967 (N. Y.: Delacorte, 1972): the long poem, "Otro Poema de Los… Read More

(Berkeley: Bern Porter), 1947. First edition of Duncan's first book. One of 250 copies (out of a total edition of 350). Bertholf A1a. Spine portion lightly tanned, faint offset along endpaper gutters, otherwise an unusually fine copy, with a short closed tear in the spine fold of the front panel of the dust jacket. Large 8vo, portrait, original illustrated paper over boards, dust jacket. Spine portion lightly tanned, faint offset along endpaper gutters, otherwise an unusually fine copy, with a short closed tear in the spine fold of the front panel of the dust jacket.

(Portland: Trask House, 1971). First Trask House edition (1000 copies printed). Bertholf A13c. Presentation copy, inscribed by Duncan to the book's publisher Carlos Reyes: "And for Carlos who brought it back into print / Robert Duncan / April 1971". Accompanied by a TLS from Duncan to Reyes, 1 page, February 25, 1971: "I find WRITING WRITING, Trask House edition, already out upon my return from a three weeks' tour East, and congratulations upon your speedy production. The facsimile comes out a little dim perhaps but still it is most pleasant to have this book available again." "I'm enclosing the receipt for the hundred you sent on advance royalties as per our verbal agreement. And in this same mailing, the opening twelve pages of GROUND WORK, a book in progress which I am sending out pre-publication to a select mailing list of friends, just to keep you up with what I am doing as it is done. Tho at this point I am behind time in getting things typed up. I hope in the coming week to have another set of… Read More

Duncan writes: "Dear John, a little book by our gang of me and a card that was waiting for me to round up an [sic] address for you when overnite news came that Olson was ill and wanted to see me, so unexpectedly I am in New York today - New Haven over the weekend and then I will be back in New York Tuesday until Sat. Let's try to see each other sometime then this coming week / RD." There is an original 3 x 4 1/2 inch colored-pencil design by Duncan on the front panel of the card, signed by Duncan (who has also added Jess' name). The card's message is Rilke's poem "The Child" (in English) in 12-lines of Duncan's initialed holograph, with an additional two lines of German words Englished. Both the card and the ALS are in fine condition. Both the card and the ALS are in fine condition.

Berkeley: The Bancroft Library Press, 1991. First edition. One of 41 copies printed (the entire edition) "from the author's unpublished manuscript in the collection of The Bancroft Library... using an Albion handpress and Emerson type.. A very fine, unopened copy. Small 4to, string-tied illustrated wrappers, illustrations. A very fine, unopened copy.

Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1970. First edition. One of 300 numbered copies. F.. Fine copy. 8vo, loose sheets in folding cloth case, matching cloth slipcase. Fine copy.