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New York: The Spiral Press. Fine. 1962. Brochure. One of the various little booklets printed by The Spiral Press, this copy is a Christmas keepsake with an additional preliminary page, printed thus: "Greetings / Christmas / 1962 / From Robert Frost". This was Frost's short poem about the push and pull of nature, and mystic belief vs. science. "In other… Read more about this item

San Francisco: Cranium Press. Fine. 1976. Limited Edition. Softcover. Keith Abbott's wide-ranging poem that bounces through successive observations about himself and life. Boldly inscribed by Abbott to Kenward Elmslie, on the front endpaper in elaborate calligraphic script using a chisel-point pen. "The Ken- / ward / Elmslie / Copy / (a calligraphic flourish) / Keith" Provenance: From the library and… Read more about this item

West Branch, Iowa: Toothpaste Press. Fine. 1979. Limited Edition. Softcover. Seven, tiny poems, each creating a scenario for a mystery. Example: "You return to / your bedroom / visibly shaken / as you turn down / the covers a cobra / leaps for your throat / paralyzed you collapse // you are no longer suspect". Each is… Read more about this item

San Francisco: Twowindows Press. Very Good+. 1970. Broadside. Some broadsides have very light, shallow creasing from handling. Folder has creasing and bumped corners, quite common to these.; Six poetry broadsides, printed on the recto, by authors Douglas Blazek (Figuring Things Out, 1970). Blazek was the founder of Open Skull Press and was one of the driving… Read more about this item

Princeton, New Jersey: The Manticora Press. Near Fine. 1969. Limited/Numbered Edition. Softcover. Tiny, closed tears to the head edge of the wraps, adjacent to the spine head. Just a bit of wear to the spine tail.; The bibliography of this tiny ephemeral press that produced 3 books; two previous books and this one. Founded in 1967 by… Read more about this item

Winston-Salem: Palaemon Press Limited. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1979. Signed, Limited Edition. Hardcover. The front board has some splay, as many, if not most, copies do.; Twelve previously unpublished "translations" of poems by other poets, selected by Dickey and each rewritten by him as an homage and to add his unique perspective to the retelling.… Read more about this item

Glendale, CA: Privately Printed. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1984. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Sixty-four collected examples of free verse written by this poet between 1970 and 1983, forty-six having appeared in periodicals. Being a creator informed her educational career and she was focused on fostering creativity in children. Frances Hall's (Adams') verse has depth and maturity.… Read more about this item

No Place Stated: A. R. Tommasini. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1970. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Bump to head of spine, possibly in the making. Light toning to the very edges of the boards, common to this edition.; A selection of verse fragments from John Greenleaf Whittier's classic Snow-Bound : A Winter Idyl. Printer Tommy Tommasini… Read more about this item

Tieton, Washington: Marquand Editions. Fine with no dust jacket. 2009. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Pinhead nick to paper of back cover.; This brief essay is an homage to the spines of books. Spines, at their best, convey what the author, and ultimately the publisher, want the bookstore browser to assume about the book. The width, font, face, number… Read more about this item

Cambridge: The Pym-Randall Press. Fine with no dust jacket. 1967. Limited/Numbered Signed Edition. Stiff wraps. This poem is an homage to George Herbert, the influential Welsh-born, English-educated "metaphysical" poet of the 17th century, state orator, and priest of the Church of England. His best-known religious poems are The Temple, The Country Parson, and Jacula Prudentum. Written by… Read more about this item

Toronto, ON: House of Anansi Press. Fine with no dust jacket. 2001. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Tiny, closed tear to the publisher's paper band.; Thirty, tiny, quirky essays from this frequent contributor to McSweeny's. The essays span a mermaid in a jar, newly created fairy tales, a frog that gives relationship advice to a plumber, love,… Read more about this item

San Francisco: twowindows Press. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1968. Limited/Numbered Edition. Hardcover. Faint smudges of silkscreen ink to front cover and tail corner of the rear cover. Tiny hole in the cloth at the tail edge of both covers.; Don Gray's six short-lined, jagged poems for his very young child, Rasan. Interspersed with the text… Read more about this item

San Francisco: Twowindows Press. Fine. 1970. Broadside. Folder has creasing and bumped corners, quite common to these.; Six poetry broadsides, printed on the recto, by authors Douglas Blazek (Figuring Things Out, 1970). Blazek was the founder of Open Skull Press and was one of the driving forces behind the "mimeo revolution," cheap, grass roots publishing of… Read more about this item

City OF New York: Kurt H. Volk. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1951. Hardcover. Front pastedown has a large rectangle of browning, likely from a previously removed bookplate. Some offsetting to front free endpaper. Slipcase has 3 small darkened areas, light wear to corners, nick to bottom edge, and the paper cover is somewhat darker than… Read more about this item

East Aurora, New York: The Roycroft Printing Shop. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1896. Limited/Numbered Edition. Hardcover. A light mark to the front cover, spine tail slightly bumped, bruise or dent to the head edge of the rear cover. Occasional, foxing to the pages, some pages foxed in the gutter at the head. ; In a periodical,… Read more about this item