Search Results: Titles starting with B from Jett W. Whitehead Rare Books (ABAA)

Tungsten Press, N.H., 2013. 1st edition, limited (1/26) lettered and signed, broadside. Set in Baskerville and Folio and printed on Zerkall. Size: 12.5 inches high x 9.75 inches wide, with two edges deckle. Fine, 'as new' condition.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998. 1st edition, uncorrected proof, original printed paperwraps (as issued.) Poet and editor Peter Davison's card laid-in. Light bump to spine, else fine.

New York: Norton, 1995. 1st edition, full cloth, w/dj. A review copy w/review material and B/W glossy photo of the author laid-in. Bright in like jacket. Fine.

New York: Norton, 1995. 1st edition, uncorrected proof, original paperwraps (as issued.) Fine.

New York: Sheep Meadow - Carcanet, 1993. 1st US edition, uncorrected proof, original printed paperwraps (as issued). A collection of forty-three poems and short prose pieces. Fine condition.

Tungsten Press, N.H., 2010. 1st edition, limited (1/26) lettered and signed, broadside. A handsomely designed broadside, set in Folio and printed on Fabriano Umbria. The entire edition, printed in three color ink with two edges deckled, consists of only twenty-six copies lettered and signed by the poet. Size: 9.5 inches high x 11.5 inches wide. Offered here in fine, 'as new' condition, at the published price.

Santa Barbara: Capricorn Press, 1971. 1st ed, (1/1000) original illustrated stiff paperwraps. Appears unopened. Fine.

Hanover: Wesleyan University Press, 1994. 1st edition, full gray cloth, with silver printing to spine and front cover, without dust jacket (as issued). The uncommon hardcover issue of this collection by Revell, published during the late 1990s when Wesleyan/University Press of New England was issuing very few cloth copies and thus without jackets. A lovely copy, fine condition.

New York: Norton, 1995. 1st edition, full black cloth, w/illustrated dj. "BEFORE AND AFTER is a book of family poems . . . Smith captures the intimate life of one family--in all its courage, deceit, misery, madness, love, revelation, and rage . . . (from the jacket notes.) A fine copy in like jacket.

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1971. 1st edition, full white cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. The author's first book, with jacket reviews by Denise Levertov, William Saroyan, and others. The text includes forty-two poems arranged in seven sections. Minimal wear to jacket, else fine condition.

New York: Poet's Guild, 1925. 1st separate edition, broadside. Published in "The Unbound Anthology" series by The Poet's Guild in New York City. Also known as "The Christodora Broadsides." Exceptionally elusive and very scarce. The title of this poem was later changed to "The Blue Bird," and is among Dickinson's most popular poems. Overall size: 7.5 inches high x 5 inches wide. A lovely copy showing only gentle aging tones, in fine condition.

DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1986. 1st edition, boards, w/illustrated dj. The author's twelfth collection of verse, illustrated with paintings by Richard Beard. A bright, fine copy in like jacket. Appears in 'as new' condition.

New York: Scribner, 2001. 1st edition, uncorrected proof, original printed paperwraps (as issued.) "Hass has channeled his particular passions into assembling a collection featuring established masters such as John Ashbery, Carolyn Kizer, Robert Pinsky, Louise Gluck, and Robert Bly, rare posthumous works by Elizabeth Bishop and James Schuyler, and poems by extraordinary newcomers like Amy England, Claudia Rankine, and Rachel Rose" (from the publisher's notes.) A fine copy from this popular series, in uncorrected proof state.

Fairfax Station, VA: Road Publishers, 1991. 1st edition, original glossy illustrated paperwraps (as issued.) "M. Ray Allen participates in the literary quickening that has taken place in southern Appalachia during the past quarter century. His subjects and themes . . . give expression to a collective experience of the region's population" (from the introduction.) A bright, tight copy, appears unopened and in 'as new' condition. Uncommonly scarce.

Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1972. 1st edition, full gray cloth, with complete (not price clipped) illustrated jacket. A collection of twenty-nine poems, the author's first full-length book of poetry. "His poems are at once dense and powerfully vigorous, the rhythm of the long lines derived from the rhythms of contemporary spoken English . . . born in Northamptonshire in England" (from the jacket notes). Fine condition.

Concord NH: Ewert, 1985. 1st edition, limited (1/336) holiday card. Handsomely designed by R. P. Hale, who also provided the illustration and calligraphy. Published by William B. Ewert in December, 1985, for private distribution. Closed size: 4.5 inches high x 6 inches wide. Specially signed by Donald Hall in black ink below his printed name. Fine condition.

New York: Poet's Guild, 1925. 1st separate edition, broadside. Published in "The Unbound Anthology" series by The Poet's Guild in New York City. Also known as "The Christodora Broadsides." Exceptionally elusive and very scarce. This poem is among Dickinson's most popular pieces. Overall size: 7.5 inches high x 5 inches wide. A lovely copy showing only gentle aging tones, in fine condition.

New York: Knopf, 1998. 1st edition, maroon cloth spine, with illustrated dust jacket. A collection of over fifty poems, arranged in four sections. Fine condition.

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State U Press, 2013. 1st edition, original illustrated paperwraps (as issued). The Walt Whitman Award winning title for 2012, selected in manuscript form by Jane Hirshfield. The author's first book. A promotional letter from Academy of American Poets announcing the Whitman award is laid in. Fine condition.

New York: Knopf, 1999. 1st edition, uncorrected proof, original printed paperwraps (as issued.) A fine copy, appears "as new" and unopened.