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Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1970. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition, wrappered issue. Slightly toned spine, light spotting on topedge, near fine.

The Oblivion Ha-Ha: Sixty Poems by James Tate. 1970 Atlantic-Little Brown, first paperback edition, 92 pages. Tate was a Pulitzer and National Book award-winning poet. According to his obituary in the Guardian: "James Tate . . . was one of the most original and inventive American poets of his era, whose sense of humour and love of the tall story calls to mind an earlier Missouri-born master of the fable, Mark Twain...An iconoclast and an original, Tate won both the Pulitzer prize and the Poetry Society of America's William Carlos Williams award for his Selected Poems of 1991, the National Book award for Worshipful Company of Fletchers (1994), and the Wallace Stevens award (1995)." Oblivion was his second book.
Condition: VG, some browning on back cover
"O the wedding cake and the good cigar!
O the souvenir ashtray!"

Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press Book | Little, Brown and Company, 1970. Soft Cover. Good binding. Octavo. xi, [1], 92 pp. First paperback edition. Signed by Tate on the title page. Trade paperback. Covers are rubbed with creases; spine sunned; contents are clean and solid. A reasonable copy of an early collection of poetry by the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning poet.

Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press/Little Brown, 1970. 92pp. Not price-clipped. Front endpaper neatly removed, dust jacket spine slightly faded. Photos on request.. First Edition So Stated. Hardciover. Fine/Fine-. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Little, Brown and Company, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Author's second major collection of verses; notable for the poem 'Failed Tribute to the Stonemason of Tor House, Robinson Jeffers' 92pp. Light shelfwear to boards; dust jacket has some wear along the edges.

Worcester, MA: Metacom Press, 1981.. Original Color Lino Cut, 5" x 4" Folded Sheet, Letterpress on Wove with Deckled Edge, Very Good. Scarce.Herb Yellin (1935-2014) was the highly respected publisher and founder of Lord John Press, considered by many to be one of the most important small presses of the 20th century. His close personal relationships with many significant writers resulted in an impressive number of unique, collectible, signed limited edition books. Working with some of modern literature's biggest names—Stephen King, Ray Bradbury, John Updike, Eudora Welty, and Joyce Carol Oates among them—and entertaining his personal fascination with Hollywood, Yellin was able to create a new realm for Lord John Press combining the two fields; several books, including The Lord John Film Festival, were the result.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1970. First edition. Paperback. Very Good +. Trade paperbound book. This is the so-stated Unrevised Galley Proofs for this early collection of poems by Tate. 92 pp containing sixty poems. A very good or better copy in simple bound printed brick orange wrappers. Scarce format and the first proof of this title we have handled.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1970. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition, hardcover issue. Fine in lightly spine-toned near fine dust jacket.