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Santa Barbara: UNICORN, 1967. First Edition. Four leaves folded and sewn into medium green printed wrappers. Of one of 400 copies printed at the Unicorn Book Shop on the occasion of the poet's reading on May 26, 1967, this is one of 275 in Lepper's third state 1c (a signed state of 30 signed copies taking priority - with the first edition scrapped). Printed by Alan Brilliant & Jeffrey Sorenson; one of the first books of the press. Fine. Lepper p. 281.

Santa Barbara: UNICORN, 1967. First Edition. Four leaves folded and sewn into bright medium green printed wrappers. Of one of 400 copies printed at the Unicorn Book Shop on the occasion of the poet's reading on May 26, 1967, this is one of only 5 in Lepper's preffered state 1a. Printed by Alan Brilliant & Jeffrey Sorenson; one of the first books of the press. Fine. Lepper p. 281.

[Santa Barbara]: Unicorn Press, 1967. First edition. Four leaves folded and sewn into green printed wrappers. One of 400 copies printed at the Unicorn Book Shop on the occasion of the poet's reading on May 26, 1967. Printed by Alan Brilliant & Jeffrey Sorenson; one of the first books of the press, quite uncommon. Price in ink on inside front cover, spot on back cover, otherwise fine.

[Toronto]: [Coach House Press], [Circa 1968]. First Edition. Single sheet printed on gray paper and printed in green color, folded twice as issued to 5 x 5 inches. Published as IS. four. Printed & designed by Erik Gamble. Three copies listed on WorldCat. One smudge and a bit creased. Fine.

New York: Journeyman Books, 1966. First Edition. Stapled illustrated wrapers; 4to. Designed and illustrated by the publisher Emil Antonucci. Showing some aging and a bit soiled, still very good. Scarce. (In added removable protective mylar covers.).

New York: Norton, 1977. First edition. Burgundy cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 71 pp. Review copy with slip and author photo laid in. Light foxing: spotting on the top and a couple of spots on the jacket, which is clipped as usual at the bottom, not affecting price. A fine bright copy. Published simultaneously in hardcover and paper, Hugo's books from Norton, though relatively recent in publication terms, are becoming difficult to find in hardcover. Especially scarce as a review copy.

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc, 1977. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.75cm); maroon cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [viii],71,[1]pp. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, with lower front flap clipped (priced $7.95 at upper right corner of same), and some light wear to extremities. Sixth collection by the Northwestern poet.

Oakland, California: Ediciones El Gato Tuerto, 1987. First edition. Cuban poet, who has also lived in Zurich, New York, San Francisco; memory, exile, dreams, in lyric poems. Some wear to wraps.

New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1959. First Edition. 8vo. 22cm x 15cm. Publisher's original grey-blue cloth spine over decorated paper covered boards. Dustjacket. Titled in white to spine, clean and fresh, in a strong, bright, priceclipped dustjacket. A very smart copy. 86pp. Internally clean. Inscribed by the poet to the front flyleaf: "For Miss Frieda Roberts, Happy thoughts of a happy meeting, John Ciardi" A strong copy of an early Ciardi collection.

n. p.: privately printed, [1959]. First edition. Photographc, stapled wrappers; mimeo; small 8vo. [24 pp.] Cover and inside photo by Jay Weissberg. (Back cover photo of Morris reading to a concentrating Dr. William Carlos Williams.) Date stamp, very light wear, else fine. A scarce Beat chapbook.

Cambridge, MA: Laurence Scott, 1969. First, Limited Edition. One of 100 numbered copies signed by the author, this being copy no.31. Quarto; 4 broadsides sewn into plain card covers and marbled paper dustjacket; 8 uncut leaves; illus frontispiece signed by Scott, dated 1/69. Hint of offset to endpapers from jacket, else Fine.

Lenox, MA: Arts Action Press, N.d. [1976?]. First, Limited Edition. Printed broadside, 41cm x 21cm. One of 80 copies, signed by both Wilbur and artist Dwight Little. Reprints the poem "4/5/74" (collected in Wilbur's Collected Poems, and generally recorded as, "April 5th, 1974"). At head of text is an illustration by Dwight Little. Printed by Keith Thompson at Hawthorne Press. Faint creases to margins, a few tiny spots to verso, else Fine. A rather scarce Wilbur "A" item, though date of publication is uncertain (post-dates Field's Wilbur check-list); OCLC main catalog entry provides a date of 1976.

Trumansburg, NY: New Books / Crossing Press, [1971]. First Edition. Slim octavo (21cm.); original white photo-illustrated card wrappers; 75pp.; illus. throughout. A bit of shelf wear, else Very Good to Near Fine. Bookplate signed by Piercy laid in. Selected poetry by four authors, including the Second Wave feminist Piercy.

New York: Sheep Meadow Press, 1987. First Edition. First printing. Cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 115 pages. Inscribed on the first free end page by the poet Willis Barnstone to a Jonathan Spence noted professor of Chinese History at Yale University. Near fine in a spine-sunned else near fine dust jacket. Now protected by a Brodart Jacket. Uncommon in Hardcover, Barnstone is a distinguished professor emeritus from Indiana Univ. He was in China during the Cultural Revolution, which is central to this collection.

Washington DC: Orchises Press, 1984. First Edition. First edition. Issued only in an oblong illustrated paper edition, this is the poet's fifth book. Inscribed in 1985 "For Derek (Walcott), This is the book Douglas Powell & I staged last year. The plays the thing of it. With admiration. Peter.". Very good copy, covers lightly creased.

New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc, 1963. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (23.5 cm); blue paper-covered boards and green cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in silver on spine, and embossed onto front cover; dustjacket; [xiv],73,[2]pp. Fine in a Very Good+ dustjacket, price-clipped, with light wear to extremities, a touch of dust-soil, a few tiny tears (one of them tape-mended on verso), and two faint horizontal bands of offsetting from an old-style dustjacket protector. Cummings's final collection of poems, issued the year after his death.

London: Eland, 2007. First Edition. Red cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 218 pp. Inscribed to an American poet and signed "John". Greece through the eyes of a poet. Fine copy in like dust jacket. Scarce signed.

New York: 92nd Street Y., December 2004. First Edition. Single sheet folded; small Folio, with two sheets laid in: one with a biography of the poet on verso reproduced from manuscript in his hand the poem "Green"; the second with a schedule of the event with brief biographies of most of the speakers/readers: Dana Gioia, Philip Bosco, Brad Leithauser; Tree Swenson and Mary Jo Salter. Swenson presented the Wallace Stevens Award to Wilbur from the Academy of American Poets. Near fine.

New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc, 1958. First Edition. First Printing, trade issue, one of 5,000 copies (preceded by a signed, limited edition of 300 copies). Octavo (23.5cm); brown printed paper-covered boards and black cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in brown on spine; dustjacket; [xii],95pp. Fine in a Very Good+ dustjacket, price-clipped, lightly edgeworn, gently sunned and spine and front panel, with a few tiny tears and some shallow loss to crown. The last collection of poems published during the author's lifetime. FIRMAGE A27b.

Minneapolis, MN: Graywolf Press, 2016. First Edition. Cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 194 pp. Signed "Dana" and warmly inscribed on the front fly to a fellow poet also associated with New Formalism. Fine and complete very near fine dust jacket (protected by a removable archival Jacket). Nice association.