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

New York: Scribner Poetry, 2000. 1st ed, uncorrected proof, original printed paperwraps (as issued.) Publisher's material laid in. Includes an introduction by the author, which begins: "In January 1996 I started writing a poem a day as an experiment." An excellent collection of poems. Fine condition.

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1967. 1st edition, full brown cloth, w/illustrated dj. Inscribed and signed by the author on the title page, who has also crossed out one name on the dedication page using the same pen. The author earned his M. A. in 1958 from the University of Michigan. Fine condition.

Concord NH: William B Ewert, 1989. 1st edition, limited (1/36) numbered and signed, broadside. A handsomely designed broadside, the entire text in calligraphy by R. P. Hale. The present offering is one of only thirty-six copies printed on special paper and signed by the author and calligrapher. There were an additional 150 regular copies, making the total press run only 186. Size: 15 inches high x 9.5 inches wide. The present offering is in bright, fine condition. Scarce.

Brockport: State Street Press, 1992. 1st edition, original paperwraps, w/photo-illustrated dust jacket. Published as a State Street Press Chapbook, this collection of fourteen poems by Martinez in fine condition.

Brockport: State Street Press, 1992. 1st edition, original paperwraps, w/photo-illustrated dust jacket. Specially signed by Martinez on the title page in black ink immediately below his printed name. Published as a State Street Press Chapbook, this collection of fourteen poems by Martinez is in fine condition.

New York: Harper & Row, 1974. 1st edition, green boards, w/illustrated dj. The author's second book of poetry. A fine copy, in price clipped jacket with gentle wear primarily to the jacket edges.

Santa Cruz: Kayak, 1974. 1st edition, original illustrated paperwraps (as issued). Designed by George Hitchcock and printed by Dennis Koran at the Panjandrum Press. A collection of several poems (pp. 40) decorated with illustrations by Hitchcock. Age toning along edges, and two stains to rear cover. Internally fine, appears unopened.

New York: Knopf, 2001. 1st edition, uncorrected proof, original printed paperwraps (as issued). The author's eighth collection of poems. "For all the glee of the poesis, Hecht's lines are severe even in their civility, their music wild even in its mastery" (Richard Howard, advance review). A fine copy.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002. 1st edition, uncorrected proof, original glossy paperwraps (as issued). The title page states (sic) 2001 as the year of publication, though it was actually published on February 16, 2002. A selection of poems from four previously published titles, plus a section of ten new poems. The magazine Library Journal selected this title as one of the best poetry books published in 2002. Publicity material laid in. Fine condition.

New York: Viking Press, 1984. 1st edition, cloth spine, w/decorated dj. The author's second book. The present offering is the first printing of the first issue, bound in boards, by the original publisher. This title was reissued in 2005 by Pleasure Boat Studio. The price clipped jacket shows minimal edge wear near the crown of spine, else fine. Uncommon in the original issue.

n. p., 2008. 1st edition, limited (1/75) numbered and signed, illustrated broadside. Designed and illustrated by Julio Granda, letterpress printed on fine paper with one deckled edge. The author, poet David C. Ward, also serves as Historian at the National Portrait Gallery, and recently curated "Poetic Likeness: Modern American Poets" at the Smithsonian. Size: 14 inches high x 11 inches wide. Professionally shrink wrapped on acid free foam core. Fine, 'as new' condition.

Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2004. 1st edition, limited (1/26) lettered and signed, leather and cloth bound, without dust jacket (as issued). A collection of fifty-nine poems arranged in four sections. This title won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 2005. The present copy is designated letter "C" on the colophon page, and signed in full by Kooser on the title page in black ink. Bright, fine condition.

Fremont: Sumac Press, 1973. 1st edition, simultaneous paperwraps. This volume of thirty-three poems, and dedicated to the author's good friend and business partner Jim Harrison, was published at their Sumac Press. Published in an editon of 1000 softcover, and 126 hardcover, as noted on the colophon page. Very light wear. Fine.

New York: Ecco Press, 1980. 1st edition, uncorrected proof, original yellow printed paperwraps (as issued). A collection of twenty-six poems, arranged in three sections. A collection of fifty-four poems. Gluck is the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and most recently the Nobel Prize in Literature. Very light sunning to spine, else fine condition.

New York: Viking Press, 1970. 1st edition, cloth spine, w/dj. A presentation copy, inscribed and signed by the author on the FEP. Very little wear, two short closed tears to rear panel of jacket, else a bright copy. Fine.

Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1990. 1st edition, full gray cloth, w/illustrated dj. "DESIRE IN L. A. confronts limitless longing in a city that is itself without limits" (from the jacket notes.) A bright, fine copy. Appears in 'as new' condition.

New York: Penguin, 1989. 1st paperwraps edition, original illustrated glossy paperwraps (as issued.) "With the compliments of THE AUTHOR" slip laid in. This first paperwraps edition followed the cloth edition (Viking Penguin, 1988) by one year. Brief cover reviews by Howard Moss, James Merrill, Madison Smartt Bell, and Jim Carroll. Very little wear, fine.

Cleveland: Bits Press, 1979. 1st edition, original illustrated paperwraps (as issued.) Published as A Bits Chapbook, with a cover illustration by Jeanne Meinke. Sun fading to cover along spine and bottom edge, else little wear, fine.

New York: Atheneum, 1965. 1st edition, full cloth, w/illustrated dj. A lovely copy of poet James Merrill's second novel, in complete (not price clipped) jacket. Mary McCarthy states on the jacket's front flap: "THE (DIBLOS) NOTEBOOK is charming--wry, puckered, like seersucker, or like what alum does to your mouth . . ." Further jacket notes include: "A young writer keeps a notebook, which records at one and the same time a series of happenings on the Greek island of Diblos in which he is deeply involved, and his attempts to transform these happenings into a novel." The finest copy of this publication we have seen. Fine condition.

Boston: Godine, 1985. 1st US edition, full black cloth, w/dj. The author's second book, originally published in England by Salamander Press. A fine copy in like jacket.