POETRY from Gregor Rare Books

New York::: Knopf,,, 1998... First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight unread copy in a Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. The exquisite poems collected here draw on history, mythology, landscape, and personal memories to weave a rich tapestry of images that reveal the longing for--and expose the anguish over--lost loves, homes, and language, as the poet… Read more about this item

Toronto:: McClelland & Stewart,, 1998.. First Printing of the First Canadian Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. The poems collected here draw on history, mythology, landscape, and personal memories to weave a rich tapestry of images that reveal the longing for--and expose the anguish over--lost loves, homes, and language, as the poet contemplates… Read more about this item

(Rilke, Rainer Maria) Gass, William. Reading Rilke: Reflections on the Problems of Translation. New York: Knopf, 1999. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. After nearly a lifetime of reading Rilke in English, William Gass undertook the task of translating Rilke's writing in order to see if he could, in that… Read more about this item

New York:: Ecco Press,, 1997.. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine tight unread copy in a Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. In these poems Jorie Graham approaches a number of numinous characters, each an embodiment of sexual, emotional, political or spiritual desire -- desire seeking its place in an age of betrayed values, where dreaming has been rubbed… Read more about this item

New York:: Knopf,, 1999.. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine unread copy in a Fine dust jacket.

San Francisco:: San Francisco Book Review,, 1972.. First Printing of the First Edition. About fine in illustrated wraps. In addition to Buk's five-page autobiographical essay, the magazine contains his poems: "The Flower Love", "Love and Fame and Death", and "I Met A Genius".

London:: Penguin,, 1969.. First Paperback Printing. A Near Fine, tight copy in paperback wraps with a small nick to the front cover. This collection of three important poets contains 26 Bukowski poems.

N.P.::: Ox Head Press,,, 1975... Limited Edition. A Near Fine copy with a touch of darkening to spine.in original blue paper wraps. This is one of only 400 copies produced. Blazek was an early supporter of Bukowski and a poet in his own write. He was the editor of "Ole" magazine which published many of Bukowski's early poems. This chapbook… Read more about this item

[Poetry] Patchen, Kenneth. Outlaw of the Lowest Planet: Poems. Selected and Introduced by David Gascoyne. London:: Grey Walls,, 1946.. First Printing of the First UK Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Near Fine, unclipped edge-darkened dust jacket. There was no comparable US edition of this selection of Patchen's poems. A writer for the New York Times… Read more about this item

New York::: Harper & Brothers,,, 1943... First Printing of the First US Edition. A Near Fine copy in a Near Fine lightly darkened, price-clipped dust jacket. This is one of 2000 copies. "Cloth of the Tempest" is as varied as Kenneth Patchen's moods and methods of expression. He offers love lyrics full of the warmth… Read more about this item

Karlsruhe ::: Jonathan Williams, Publisher,,, 1953... First Printing of the First Edition. A Near Fine copy in paper covers with a Very Good plus dust jacket missing a small chip from the corner of the spine. This is one of only 450 copies published. None of these 60 short pieces were previously published before this collection appeared. Kenneth Patchen is… Read more about this item

Cambridge:: Harvard University Press,, 1969.. First Printing of the First Edition. A Very Good copy in yellow wraps; small sticker from the Asia Society afixed to the inside of front cover. Signed by poet William Stafford on the title page. This selection of Ghalib's ghazals shows the power of the Urdu poet's abstract writing in the poetic form… Read more about this item

London::: Penguin,,, 1969... First Paperback Printing. A Near Fine copy in paperback wraps with some wear to the spine. This selection of Bukowski's poetry is most drawn from his early chapbooks and his two books published by the Loujon Press. The twenty-five poems represent some of his strongest work from the 60's. Also included in this… Read more about this item

New York:: Knopf,, 1956.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Near Fine copy in Near Fine dust jacket with light moisture spotting to the front cover a touch of sunning to the edges. Merwin's early subjects were frequently tied to mythological or legendary themes, while many of his poems featured animals. In the mid-fifties, he joined the circle… Read more about this item

London::: Fulcrum,, 1966.. First Printing of the First UK Edition. A Fine copy in a Near Fine, unclipped dust jacket with a slight crinkle to bottom edge of front panel of jacket & tiny nick to fold, else fine. No names, stains to book or tears or chips to jacket. This is the first comprehensive collection of Snyder's early poems… Read more about this item

London:: Penguin,, 1969.. First Printing of the First UK Edition. A Near Fine copy in a Very Good plus unclipped dust jacket with light wear to the extremities. There was no comparable U.S. edition of this collection which features 25 early poems by Bukowski from his chapbooks and small press publications.

London:: Harvill Press,, 2000.. First Printing of the First UK Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. There was no hardcover U.S. Edition of this collection that features five previously uncollected stories, five essays and a meditation, five early stories, a fragment of an unfinished novel "The Augustine Notebooks", eight explanatory pieces on his… Read more about this item

San Francisco:: Sierra Club Books,, 1984.. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine tight unread copy in a Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. This is the first major collection of Patchen's unique mixture of surrealistic painting, poetry, and whimsy with many of the examples in color. With his picture poems. poet Kenneth Patchen created an original… Read more about this item

Brockport:: Boa Editions,, 1994.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. Poet, teacher, essayist, anthologist, songwriter and singer, Naomi Shihab Nye is one of the country's most acclaimed writers. Her voice is generous; her vision true; her subjects ordinary people, and ordinary situations which, when rendered through her language, become… Read more about this item

New York:: Norton,, 1980.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine, unclipped dust jacket. Review copy with review slip laid-in.