Poetry from Warwick Books

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1924. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover in batik-decorated boards with blue cloth strip at spine. No dust jacket. One of 2040 numbered copies printed by the Pynson Printers after a design by Elmer Adler. This copy numbered 922. Heavy wear at corner tips and some darkening of right-hand side of front board.… Read more about this item

Berkeley, CA: Thorp Springs Press, 1973. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. Stapled illustrated softcover poetry journal "published seasonally" in Berkeley, California. This issue, dated 1973, is a special remembrance issue devoted to Ezra Pound, a year after his death. Includes photos of Pound, facsimile letters, and poems by Josephine Miles, Gary Snyder,, Hester Storm, Stan Slater, Leonard Nathan,… Read more about this item

New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1998. Softcover. Fine/Fine. Softcover book housed in a hardcover case with two bone-and-ribbon closures. Fine condition inside and out. Second printing of first edition. Binding of book is string. Inside lining of case is pictures of stones. A collection of Japanese calligraphy accompanied by short inspired verse in English, printed on thin,… Read more about this item

Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Hardcover in dust jacket. First edition (stated). Book and unclipped jacket are in fine condition, fresh and unmarked. Nash's poems are translated by James C. Gleeson and Brian N. Meyer. With whimsical black-and-white drawings by Ken Maryanski. Square 16mo. 94 pp. including an index of first lines. In… Read more about this item

Melbourne, Australia: A.H. Massina, 1901. Flexiboards. Near Fine. Original Maroon flexiboards with title in gilt on spine. All edges gilt. Top of spine has small chips. Crisp and clean pages. Rounded edges to pages. Inked inscription from 1904 on front free endpage. Illustrated. A nice homey copy. 12mo. 354 pp. From the estate of Donald Skinner, Canadian military… Read more about this item

Winston Salem, NC: Palaemon Press Limited, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Hardcover in marbled-paper covered boards. No dust jacket, as issued. No paper label on front. One of 200 numbered copies SIGNED by Robert Penn Warren on the limitation page. This copy is also signed by publisher Stuart Wright to a noted American writer. The two poems… Read more about this item

Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very good. Hardcover in dust jacket. First printing of first edition. SIGNED (indirectly), dated, and inscribed to literary agent Irene Skolnick, with the poet's usual signoff, "Onword!" Book is in Fine condition. Unclipped dust jacket is in very good condition, discolored around the edges. Large… Read more about this item

New York: The Greystone Press, 1951. First Thus. Hardcover. Near Fine. Hardcover in quarter-cloth boards and Florentined paper. An appealing tiny edition of Kipling ballads. Light wear at corner tips, else fine condition. 119 pp. 32mo.

New York: Atheneum, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Hardcover in dust jacket. First printing of first edition. Book is crisp and clean, with tight binding and sharp corners. Unclipped dust jacket is fresh and bright. Illustrated with drawings by Milton Glaser. Small 8vo. 113 pp. In protective Mylar.

Ibadan, Nigeria: Mbari Publications, 1963. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Stapled pictorial wraps. First printing. Book has gentle overall wear but is basically clean and fresh. One corner is bent. Brutus, who died in 2009, was a South African activist, education, journalist, and poet. He is best known for his campaign to have South Africa banned from the… Read more about this item

New York: New Directions, 1978. First Revised Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Hardcover in dust jacket. First revised edition, and first hardcover edition (after the 1960 Totem Press paperback). Both book and jacket are first state, with the misspelling of Snyder's name on both. Book is in fine condition; dust jacket is slightly age-toned, but otherwise in fine condition.… Read more about this item

New York: Riverrun Press, 1967. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Softcover in matte pictorial wraps. First edition. Wraps are somewhat worn and scuffed but interior pages are mostly fine (last page has a small tear). Laid in is a SIGNED two-page letter typed on parchment paper that Wakoski wrote to literary agent Irene Skolnick, at the time an… Read more about this item

New York: Grenfell Press, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Hardcover with front pictorial board and parchment jacket. Limited edition of 130 copies (this is #42) printed on handmade Indian paper and bound in quarter morocco. Five poems by Robert Duncan, with drawings and an Afterword by R.B. Kitaj. SIGNED by both artist and poet by their portraits… Read more about this item