Rhymes of a Jerk.
New York: Kulchur Foundation, 1974. Wraps. Quarto. Stiff wrappers. 128pp. Nice copy without any markings. More
ESTABLISHED IN 1965
New York: Kulchur Foundation, 1974. Wraps. Quarto. Stiff wrappers. 128pp. Nice copy without any markings. More
Full Court Press, September 1978. First edition. Paperback. Wrappers. Very nice copy. More
Pasadena: San Pasqual Press, 1940. revised edition. Hardcover. A very nice copy in a lightly chipped dust jacket. Frontispiece by Edward Weston. Inscribed on front endpaper to the eminent folklorist Wayland Hand and signed by author Lawrence Clark Powelll. Dated 1943. Faint staining to dust jacket spine. Limited to 1000..... More
Los Angeles: Primavera Press, 1934. First edition. Hardcover. 24 x 16 cm. Octavo. 215 pages. Brown cloth with spine label in salmon colored dust jacket. First edition, limited to 750 copies. Previous owner's name inside front cover. Laid-in 4 page pamphlet advertising the book. Dust jacket spine is sun faded..... More
City Lights Books, 1978. Paperback. 18 x 12.5 cm. 16mo. 48pp. Chapbook. Foxing to the cover. More
The Stolen Paper Review, 1966. second printing. Wraps. Color pictorial wrappers. 6pp. 2nd printing with address of publisher on verso of rear endpaper. Newspaper clipping regarding this book (dated May, 19, 1967) was laid in front page has toned the pages. More
New York: The Viking Press, 1965. First US Edition. Hardcover. 21.5 x 15 cm. Octavo. 88pp. Brown boards in dust jacket. Originally published in Canada by McClelland and Stewart in 1961 this is the first USA edition done in 1965, with Published in 1965 on copyright page and no subsequent..... More
I.B.Tauris, 2006. Hardcover. Octavo. 9 1/2" x 6 1/2". Full page inscription signed by editor Leonard Lewisohn to poet Robert Bl;y on front free endpaper. From the library of Robert Bly. Nice copy in dust jacket. More
Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press. Full Leather. 27 x 19.5 cm. 120pp. Bound into full blue leather with gilt design, lettering, and foredges. This is the version with a gilt design of a warrior on the front cover. 3 raised bands to spine, moire endpapers, silk ribbon. Verse translation by William..... More
London: Sinclair-Stevenson Ltd, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. ((23cm x 14cm) 745pp. A fine copy in equally fine dust jacket. More
Springfield: : Jeffersons Printing Company, 1920. second edition. Wraps. Pictorial wrappers. 128pp. Second imprint. The original Village Magazine was issued ten years before this printing in an edition of 700 copies. This second edition is limited to 1000 copies. Lovely black and white drawings accompanied by poetry. Pencil markings on..... More
Louisiana State University Press, 1989. First printing. Hardcover. Very nice copy in an equally nice dust jacket. In a brdart protective wrapper. More
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, no date (circa. Brown decorated cloth. Color frontispiece. Each page has a design of a leaf (or two) Middle gutter cracked otherwise a pristine copy. This poem is based on a painful occurrence which took place in the early period of British colonization in the..... More
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1852. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 18.5 x 12 cm. 12mo. 301pp. Bound in brown blind-stamped cloth. Precededed by 4 page publisher's catalogue dated October, 1851, the state A earlier edition of the catalogue. BAL notes that during the first printing the date on the..... More
Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press, 1980. Full Leather. 26 x 17 cm. 444pp. Bound into full red leather with gilt design, lettering, and foredges. 4 raised bands to spine, moire endpapers, silk ribbon. Selected and edited by Louis Untermeyer, illustrated with wood-engravings by Boyd Hanna. A few small scratches to gilt..... More
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1855. First edition. Hardcover. 18.5 x 12 cm. 12mo. v 316pp (12 ads). Bound in brown blind stamped boards. First edition, early issue, with most of the first issue points. Ads in rear dated November 1855. Boards somewhat cocked. Scuffing to edges of boards. A blank..... More
Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1877. Hardcover. 23.5 x 17.5 cm. Octavo. Unpaginated. Bound in brown cloth illustrated in black and gilt. AEG. Illustrated with engravings by A. V. S. Anthony, from illustrations by L. S. Ipsen [illuminated title page], E. A. Abbey, and Mary A. Hallock. . Bit..... More
Dublin. Hardcover. 17 x 10.5 cm. 16mo. Four scarce Dublin works bound together in one volume with seperate paginations. First work: "The First Book of T. Lucretius Carus of the Nature of Things" Translated into English by William Hamilton Drummond, printed in Edinburgh by Mundell, Doig & Stevenson in 1808..... More
Tampere, Finland: Satapaino KY, 1991. Hardcover. 20.5 x 21.5 cm. Octavo. 100pp. Color illustrations. Black cloth in dust jacket. Parallel texts in Finnish, Swedish, & English. Translations by Christel Pakarinen. Signed by the poet on the title page. More
Philadelphia: Privately Printed, 1916. Limited ed. Hardcover. 19 x 14.5 cm. 12mo. 142pp. Bound in tan paper covered boards with black spine and gilt lettering. Limited to 750 copies of which this is copy 661. Staplebound 8 page appendix laid-in. Gilt top foredges. A few instances of erased pencil underlining..... More
Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Company, 1854. Reprint. Hardcover. 20 x 13 cm. 492pp. [5 ads]. Bound into blind-stamped red cloth, gilt spine lettering and design. Illustrated with plates throughout. Some edgewear. Scattered foxing. Binding is tight. Although MacPherson is noted having translated the Ossian cycle of epic poems from the..... More
Privately published, no date circa [1930]. Limited ed. Hardcover. 24.5 x 16 cm. Octavo. 80pp. 1/2 black boards, gold paper covered covers. Published for subscribers, copy number 78 of 200 copies printed. Introduction by Louis Untermeyer. Scuffing to the edges of the boards. Evidence of bookplate removeal on front fixed..... More
Random House Inc (t), 1978. First edition. Hardcover. octavo. 130pp A very nice copy in an equally nice dust jacket. In a brodart protective wrapper. More
Harper Perennial, 2009-01. Paperback. Signed and inscribed by Mark Doty on title page. Light "wrinkle" on half-title page. More
Amador City, California: Quintessence Publications, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. 17.5 x 21 cm. Oblong octavo. 294pp. Frontispiece medal of Jeffers and other tipped in plates. Bound in blue cloth with gilt design to cover in dust jacket. Ribbon bookmark. Limited to 900 copies of this first edition, this being number..... More