THE KINGFISHER: Poems BY AMY CLAMPITT (Uncorrected Proof Copy).
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. Softcover. Octavo. 148pp. Cream colored wrappers. Browning to spine and rear cover.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. Softcover. Octavo. 148pp. Cream colored wrappers. Browning to spine and rear cover.
Monaco: Editions Du Rocher, 1957. Softcover. 12mo. 116pp. Illustrated with 12 drawings by Cocteau. Text in French. Yellow textured paper wrappers. Light toning to cover edges, spine and paper. Corner bump effects most pages. Bookseller sticker on first page.
Princeton: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1970. Hardcover. Octavo. 477pp. Incl. index. Taupe cloth with beveled edges and red leather spine label. In dust jacket. Price-clipped dust jacket has fading to spine.
Princeton: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972. Hardcover. Octavo. 341pp. With appendix and index. Taupe cloth with beveled edges and red leather spine label. Price-clipped dust jacket has fading to spine. With Lay Sermons, Coleridge entered the debate on current distresses and discontents of 1816. The first sermon was.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1922. Hardcover. Octavo. 107pp. First thus. These poems were first published in 1915, shortly after Crapsey's death in 1914, this edition done in 1922 was edited by a colleague at Smith College and is a more complete collection with a number of previously unreleased poems.....
Los Angeles: Sylvester & Orphanos, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. 10'' x 7''. 63pp. With the original glassine dustcover. This is number 109 of an edition of 330 copies, signed by Cunningham. Light fading to spine.
Cummington Press, 1950. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. 6 folded sheets/ 12pp. Red paper wrappers. Limited to 200 copies, printed by Harry Duncan and Wightman Williams, with a small etching by Williams as a frontispiece. Wrappers (flaps intact) are worn with some chipping to edges and folds.
The Perishable Press Limited, 1967. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. Brown wrappers with matching exterior folding wrapper (jacket) printed with green title. Sewn binding. 10 folded sheets; 14 poems letterpress printed on one side only, plus titles, colophon and blanks. Limited to 200 copies. Very light wear. Second copy. Blue.....
The Perishable Press Limited, 1967. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. Green wrappers with matching exterior folding wrapper (jacket) printed with blue title. Sewn binding. 10 folded sheets; 14 poems letterpress printed on one side only, plus titles, colophon and blanks. Limited to 200 copies. This copy INSCRIBED TO ROBERT DUNCAN, ".....
Omaha: Abattoir Editions / The University of Nebraska, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Sq.12mo. 78pp. Limited edition #297 of 470 copies. illustrated with plates etched and engraved by Kieth Achepohl. Gilt stamped brown cloth. A couple tiny cracks in front hinge. Hand-made paper dust jacket has fading to spine lettering. Small.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 90pp. INSCRIBED, "Inscribed with the best of friendships, to Merrill from Foster, April, 1930". Blue cloth with silver decorative stamping. Cloth faded on spine and edges, rubbing to spine ends. Toning to page edges. Samuel Foster Damon (1893-1971).....
Oxford: Carcanet Press Ltd, 1971. Softcover. Octavo. 47pp. Staple-bound with decorated wrappers. SIGNED by Daryush and Roy Fuller who wrote the Preface. Spine darkened a little. Light rubbing to edges. A couple spots of foxing.
Oxford: By the Author, Stockwell, Boars Hill, 1938. Softcover. Lg octavo. 89pp. INSCRIBED by Daryush to poet and playwright, J. Redwood Anderson. Grey wrappers printed in white. Edges and spine darkened; light rubbing to spine ends. Some pencil markings throughout, with annotations (chart) on final blank page.
Alexandria, VA: Bembo Press, 1960. Softcover. Octavo. 9pp. Sewn binding. Hand-made grey paper. Limited edition of 225 copies, this is one of 185 on Curtis Utopian paper. Some fading to edges, mildly bumped corner. Scarce. "Catherine Breese Davis (1924-2002) was born in Minneapolis and left home under difficult circumstances.....
Palo Alto, CA: Hi-Ho Silver Press, 2008. Softcover. Octavo. 12pp. Staple-bound pamphlet. Grey paper wrappers. Posthumous publication of a selection of Davis' poems. A little known publication by a little known press. Inscribed to Joshua Odell, (co-author of the of Thom Gunn, a Bibliography) from Suzanne, "For Joshua, With Thanks.....
Portland, Me: Thomas B. Mosher, 1902. Limited edition. Softcover. 8.25" x 5.25". Limited to 450 copies. Card stock cover, handmade paper, green silk ribbon ties, all four ribbons in nice condition, though three look like they have about 1" loss. Book is in a glassine wrapper/ envelope that has kept.....
Yorks, England: The Guild Press, 1958. First edition. Paperback. Octavo. Wrappers.16pp. Inscribed by both Dorthea and Mavis "To Helen and Patrick..." Stiff orange paper wraps with sewn binding. Cover a little faded at edges, a couple small rubbed spots on inside cover.
Leicester, England: Leslie Weston, 1961. First edition. Paperback. Octavoe. Wrappers. 20pp. Staple-bound wraps. Heavy red paper cover, light fading to spine edge. Inscribed by both Mavis and Dorthea, "To Helen and Patrick..."
Poynette, WI: The Beiler Press, 1976. First edition. Paperback. Octavo. #55 of a limited edition of 150 numbered, SIGNED copies. Sewn wrappers in hand-made paper covers, plus hand-made paper dustjacket with blind-stamped design of a truck. Light fading to edges.
Denver: Alan Swallow, 1956. First edition thus. Hardcover. 12mo. 56pp. Blue cloth. Blue dust jacket has toning to spine and edges.
Denver: Alan Swallow, 1962. Hardcover. Sm. quarto. 58pp. Creamy yellow boards stamped in green, in matching dust jacket. Light bump to top of spine, gutters have light spotting. Dust jacket has light general wear including some toning to edges.
Denver: Alan Swallow, 1949. First edition thus. Hardcover. 12mo. 51pp. The New Poetry Series: 1949.Limited to 500 copies. Light grey paper covered boards have toning to very edge. In grey paper dust jacket that is toned on spine and edges.
London: EUROPA PRESS & STANLEY NOTT, nd. First edition. Hardcover. 9'' x 6''. 67pp. with a page of ads. This, the first edition of THORNS OF THUNDER, is limited to 600 copies total. This is copy number K, one of 25 copies reserved for use of the author and publishers.....
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Lg. octavo. 293pp. From the "Phoenix Poets, a Series Edited by Alan Shapiro". Paper covered boards with black cloth spine. Original price sticker removed from rear cover. Issued without dust jacket.
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 69pp. Phoenix Poets Series. Dark grey cloth mildly faded on spine and edges. Issued without dust jacket.