Recent Arrivals from Jett W. Whitehead Rare Books (ABAA)

Boston: David R. Godine, 1986. 1st edition, gray cloth spine, with printed dust jacket. The text (pp. 149) includes an index of titles. A fine copy in fine dust jacket.

Paris, New York, London: The Paris Review, 1969. 1st edition, original illustrated paperwraps (as issued). The Fall 1969 issue, featuring poems by Berrigan, Jim Carroll, Tom Clark, Ron Padgett, Anne Waldman's "Baby Breakdown" among others. Very minimal shelf wear to this fine copy.

London: Enitharmon Press, 2011. 1st edition, original stiff paperwraps (as issued). Specially signed and dated by the author on the title page in black in. A large (pp. 191) selection of the author's poems from his fourteen previous books.

New York: Harper & Row, 1981. 1st edition, boards, with illustrated dust jacket. Published in the National Poetry Series, selected by Carolyn Kizer. The text includes three haiku, a section of sonnets, and other poems. Fine condition, in price clipped dust jacket.

Boston: The Author, 1997. 1st edition, original gray handmade stiff paper covers, stitched binding. Illustrated throughout with drawings by the author. The colophon page states: "This book was made by the author / June 1997". The book is inscribed by Knott on the title page: " -- To One of the Few Masters, / Frank Bidart, / from one… Read more about this item

Menomonee Falls: Wiseblood Books, 2024. 1st edition, original printed paperwraps (as issued). Specially signed by Gioia on the title page in blue ink. An expanded essay by Gioia, published as No. 13 in the Wiseblood Essays in Contemporary Culture series. A new copy. Fine condition.

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. 1st edition, full cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. Signed by Kooser on the title page in black ink. A collection of essays (pp. 153) with jacket reviews by Jim Harrison, Judith Kitchen, and Merrill Gilfillan. Fine condition.

Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2014. 1st edition, gray cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. Signed by Kooser on title page. A collection of fifty-three poems, including the excellent title poem. Quite scarce in the first edition and signed. Fine condition.

Lincoln: Windflower Press, 1978. 1st edition, original illustrated paperwraps (as issued). "First Printing" is so noted on title page. Specially inscribed "For Gerald" and signed (by "Hatcher") on the FEP in black ink. Additionally, laid in is a typed letter signed by Kooser to Gerald on Wind Flower Press letterhead which prints Ted Kooser as editor. The oversized (11… Read more about this item

Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005. 1st edition, full navy blue cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. Specially signed by Kooser on the title page in black ink. For the present title "Kooser has selected poems from two of his earlier works, SURE SIGNS and ONE WORLD AT A TIME" (Pittsburgh Press web site). Quite scarce in cloth, and especially… Read more about this item

San Luis Obispo: Solo Press, 1974. 1st edition, original illustrated paperwraps (as issued). An early collection of seventy-six poems by Kooser, who would go on to become US Poet Laureate (2004-2006). A full rear cover photo of the author by John Spence. A fine copy showing very little wear.

Surrey, UK: Tony Baker, 1984. 1st edition, original illustrated wire stitched paperwraps (as issued). Published as number eight in the FIGlet booklets series, offshoots of FIGS magazine. Inscribed "to Ralph J. Mills / with best wishes, / John Levy / April 11, 1984 / Meligala" on the colophon page in blue ink. Laid in is a typed letter to… Read more about this item

Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1994. 1st edition, black cloth, without dust jacket (as issued). A collection of fifty-eight poems, arranged in seven sections. Also issued in paperwraps, this first edition is one of only a few copies bound in black cloth, and without dust jacket. Published as a title in the Pitt Poetry Series by Ed Ochester. A… Read more about this item

Rochester: BOA Editions, 2001. 1st edition, original illustrated stiff paperwraps (as issued). A signed copy of the author's first book, with a highly praised Foreword by Donald Hall. Published as No. 23 in the A. Poulin, Jr. New Poets of America Series. A very strong collection of first poems, ". . . their beauty lies in their language" (Donald… Read more about this item

Minneapolis: Bieler Press, 1986. 1st edition, limited (1/200) numbered and signed, decorated boards, without dust jacket (as issued). A collection of poems, "a dramatized narrative of the devastation unleashed by the great blizzard of January 12, 1888" (from the prospectus, laid in). Signed by Kooser and Pohrt on the colophon page. There was a second issue of this title… Read more about this item

Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2004. 1st edition, limited (1/26) lettered and signed, leather and cloth bound, without dust jacket (as issued). A collection of fifty-nine poems arranged in four sections. This title won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 2005. The present copy is designated letter "C" on the colophon page, and signed in full by Kooser on… Read more about this item

London: Faber and Faber, 1984. 1st English edition, original turquoise paperwraps (as issued). Specially signed by Clampitt on the title page in black ink. The author's first trade publication, first issued in the US by Knopf (1983). The English edition appeared in paperwraps only. Fine condition.

Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2023. 1st edition, original illustrated paperwraps (as issued). "First Graywolf Printing, 2023" so noted on copyright page. Specially signed by Gioia on title page in black ink. The text includes twenty-three poems presented in five sections, including the final poem in seventeen separate sections. Section II publishes "The Ballad of Jesus Ortiz" (Gioia's great-grandfather). Offered in… Read more about this item

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1971. 1st edition, full white cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. The author's first book, with jacket reviews by Denise Levertov, William Saroyan, and others. The text includes forty-two poems arranged in seven sections. Minimal wear to jacket, else fine condition.

Hopewell: Ecco Press, 1996. 1st edition, cloth spine, with illustrated jacket (as issued). Specially inscribed and signed by Gluck on the title page in blue ink. A collection of forty-six poems, arranged in a book-length sequence. Gluck is the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and most recently the Nobel Prize in Literature (2020).… Read more about this item