Search Results: Titles starting with S from Triolet Rare Books, ABAA

New York: Something Else Press, 1971. [18] leaves, printed on the recto only, interleaved with tissue. Bound with three metal rings. Some minor cover wear, slight rust marks at rings. Murray 3.40.

San Francisco: [Auerhahn Press], 1961. First edition. [8] pp. Paper wrappers, sewn with red yarn. Folded once, some minor handling wear. Program for an event held January 29, 1961, at the Marines' Memorial Theatre, to raise funds for treatments of Patchen's illness. Readings by Rexroth, McClure, Broughton, Jonathan Williams, Whalen, Ferlinghetti, et. al., jazz, and songs. Program printed by the Auerhahn Press. Morgan M25. Johnston, Auerhahn, 9.

Berkeley: Oannes, 1963. First edition. Fine. First edition, one of 500 numbered copies printed. Stiff wrappers with attached printed dust jacket. Printed on textured brown paper. 110 pp. A two-act ballad opera set in San Francisco in 1906. Slightest rubbing to head of spine, still a fine copy.

Basel: Edition Fanel, 1981. First edition. [16] leaves, folded once. Unbound leaves, laid into a chemise, housed in publisher's slipcase, as issued. Fine copy. One of 200 numbered copies, signed by Oppenheim. Sixteen poems, written between 1933 and 1957, accompanied by fifteen color serigraphs on embossed sheets, one with gold leaf. A beautiful production. OCLC locates two copies in the US (Getty and Nelson-Atkins).

New York: Tibor de Nagy Editions, 1961. First edition. Original wrappers. Near fine. First edition of the first book by this important poet, one of 300 copies printed. Original perfect-bound printed wrappers. 35 pp. Minor toning to covers and spine, near fine or better. Not to be confused with the more common Sand Dollar reprint of 1975.

New York: Atheneum, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. First edition, hardcover issue, of Justice's first collection of selected poems, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Some extremely minor rubbing to the head and foot of the jacket spine and corners, price-clipped, else a fine copy.

London: Penguin Books, 2006. First edition. Original Wraps. Near Fine. First edition of the first full selection of Fenton's poems to be published. 204 pp. A near fine copy in wrappers, as issued, with some minor handling wear and a very slight bump to the lower edge of the spine, overall clean and unread. Inscribed by Fenton on the title-page "best wishes" but not to anyone specific.

New York: Penguin, 1994. First edition. Original wrappers. Near fine. 134 pp. Perfect-bound printed wrappers. Uncorrected proof in plain beige printed wrappers. Edited by Aram Saroyan with an introduction by Alice Notley. Some minor handling wear to covers. Publicity letter laid in.

London: Oxford University Press, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. 94 pp. Black boards, spine lettered in gilt, with the dust jacket. Slight foxing to rear endpapers, else about fine. Selections from Sexton's first two books, with no equivalent American edition published.

Berkeley: Tuumba Press, 1979. First edition. Original Wraps. Near Fine. Printed stapled wrappers. Slight edgewear, spine head and tail slightly bumped. One of 450 numbered copies. Tuumba 20.

Paris: Clémence Hiver, 1990. Facsimile edition. Two volumes, joined accordion-style, texts in French and Russian (French translation reads from front to back; original Russian, from back to front). Translation by Andre Markowicz. Design by Braque on rear cover, portrait of Iliazd by Giacometti. A sequence of sonnets, originally published in a limited edition in 1961. Fine copy in the original paper slipcase.

Fata Morgana, 1986. First edition thus. Original Wraps. Near Fine. First edition thus, one of 970 copies (out of 1000) printed on vergé teinté. Printed wraps. Originally published as the introduction to Brisset's La Grammaire logique in 1970, this is the first separate publication. Slight edgewear to wraps, lower corners slightly bumped, but overall a just about fine copy of an uncommon book.

New York: Harcourt Brace, 1951. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good +. 94 pp. Full black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, with the dust jacket. Jacket spine slightly darkened with slight rubbing to head and tail, minor edgewear to jacket, but overall quite clean and bright. Small ownership siganture of poet Roger Hecht on the front free endpaper. Jarrell's fourth collection of poetry.

San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1979. First edition. Perfect-bound printed wrappers. Slightest surface wear, near fine. Photographs by Michael Montfort, chronicling Bukowski's trip to Germany. Krumhansl 69a.

Boston: Bruce Humphries, 1936. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good +. First edition, one of 1000 copies printed. 198 pp. Red paper boards over black buckram backstrip, lettered and decorated in gilt, with the dust jacket. The jacket shows some minor rubbing but is fairly clean overall. Two newspaper articles about Gilbert's exhibition on Jeffers at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art are tipped-in on the rear endpapers and consequently browned. A fairly early and sympathetic study of Jeffers' work; in a letter to Gilbert after having read the manuscript Jeffers wrote, "I must thank you for your extremely well-done, careful, sympathetic and interesting study of my poems." An earlier letter from Jeffers is reproduced in facsimile holograph preceding the title-page. Briefly and warmly inscribed by Gilbert on the front free endpaper. Broomfield Bii22.

Denver: The Ally Press, 1975. First edition, limited issue. [8] pp. Sewn printed wrappers, French flaps. Some toning to spine, else a fine copy. One of 50 signed and numbered copies, of a total edition of 200. An early publication by the future U.S. poet laureate. Laid in is a postcard reproducing the second poem, "So This is Nebraska," printed by the Pentagram Press in Milwaukee, advertising his collection Not Coming To Be Barked At in 1976.

Dorset: Words Press, 1988. First edition. Original wrappers. Near fine. One of 75 copies signed and numbered by the author, of a total edition of 200 copies. [8] pp. Stapled wrappers with printed label on front cover. Sunned at spine, near fine.

New York: The Ecco Press, 1990. First edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Wallace's third book, co-written with his former Amherst roommate. A couple of creases to front and rear cover, but overall a near fine copy in wrappers, as issued.

New York: The Ecco Press, 1997. Second edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Second edition of Wallace's third book, co-written with his former Amherst roommate. Small crease to the lower corner of the front cover, but overall a near fine copy in wrappers, as issued.

Springdale Township, WI: Perishable Press, 1969. First Edition. Original wrappers. Near fine. Sewn brown wrappers with blind-embossed jacket. One of 167 copies printed, signed by Hamady. Very slight rubbing to corners. Hamady 26.