Poetry from Abaculus Books

The Price of Stone & Earlier Poems by Richard Murphy 190 pages. 8vo, blue cloth, dust wrapper. Winston-Salem: Wake Forest University Press, (1985). First American edition. DJ lightly sunned and with a small tear. A fine copy in a very good(+) wrapper.

Meeting the British by Paul Muldoon 64 pages. 8vo, paper wrappers. Winston-Salem: Wake Forest University Press, (1987). First American edition. Fine.

Poems 1963 - 1983 by Michael Longley 206 pages. 8vo, paper wrappers. Winston-Salem: Wake Forest University Press, (1987). First US edition. Clean and bright, a fine copy.

The Astrakhan Cloak by Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill Translations by Paul Muldoon. 103 pages. 8vo, blue cloth, glossy wrappers. Winston-Salem: Wake Forest University Press, (1993). First US edition. Fine.

The Astrakhan Cloak by Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill Translations by Paul Muldoon. 103 pages. 8vo, glossy paper wrappers. Winston-Salem: Wake Forest University Press, (1993). First US edition. Fine.

Pharaoh's Daughter by Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill Revised edition with translations by many celebrated poets. 159 pages. 8vo, glossy paper wrappers. Winston-Salem: Wake Forest University Press, (1993). First US edition. Fine.

Mount Eagle by John Montague 75 pages. 8vo, brown cloth, lacking wrapper. Winston Salem: Wake Forest University Press, (1989). First US edition. Fine.

The Hunt by Night by Derek Mahon 63 pages. 8vo, paper wrappers. Winston-Salem: Wake Forest University Press, 1983. First US edition. Inscribed by Mahon on title page: "For __ with very best wishes - Derek 17/2/91". Clean and bright, a fine copy.

On Ballycastle Beach by Medbh McGuckian 59 pages. 8vo, paper wrappers. Winston-Salem: Wake Forest University Press, 1988. First edition. Fine.

Philippe Jaccottet Selected Poems with translations by Derek Mahon 160 pages. 8vo, green cloth, dust wrapper. Winston Salem: Wake Forest University Press, 1988. First US edition. Wrapper ever-so slightly sunned. A fine copy in a near fine wrapper.

The Magdalene Sermon and Earlier Poems by Eilean Ni Chuilleanain 63 pages. 8vo, blue cloth, dust wrapper. Winston-Salem: Wake Forest University Press, (1991). First US edition. Signed by the author on title page. A fine copy in a fine wrapper.

The Mirror Wall by Richard Murphy Illustrated. 61 pages. 8vo, orange cloth. Winston-Salem: Wake Forest University Press, (1989). First edition. Fine.

The Poetry of Richard Milhous Nixon Compiled by Jack S. Margolis Slim unpaginated 16mo, paper wrappers. Los Angeles: Cliff House Books, 1974. First edition. Very light toning to wrappers near spine. A near fine copy. Out of print and scarce.

Collected Poems by William Empson 119 pages. 12mo, paperback pocketbook. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., (1949). Internally clean, binding tight. A very good(+) copy.

Mindfield: New & Selected Poems by Gregory Corso Illustrated by the author in black and white. With a forwards by William S. Burroughs and Allan Ginsberg. 268 pages. 8vo, paper wrappers. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, (1989). First edition, first printing. Clean and tight, a very good(+) copy.

The New Consciousness: An Anthology of the New Literature edited by Albert J. LaValley Back and white illustrations. 567 pages. Tall 8vo, paper wrappers. Cambridge: Winthrop Publications, (1972). First edition, full number line. Clean and tight, a very good(+) copy.

The Poems of Longfellow (Modern Library No. 56) Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth 732 pages. 12mo, brightly printed blue cloth, price-clipped dust wrapper in plastic sleeve. New York: The Modern Library, (no date, c. 1961). Faint crease to top of first pages. A near fine copy.

View With A Grain of Sand: Selected Poems Szymborska, Wislawa Translated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavangh. 213 pages. 8vo, paper wrappers. Orlando: Harcourt, 1995. First edition. Fine, as new.

New Spaces: Poems 1975-1983 Oppenheimer, Joel 151 pages. 8vo, cloth backed printed boards, plastic sleeve. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1985. First edition. Light foxing on initial pages. Signed by the author on free end page, number 105 of 150 such copies. A very good(+) copy.

Mad Cow #1 Whittington, Jont (ed.) With contributions from Thomas A. Clark, C.A. Conrad, Jim Cory, Simon Cutts, Ian Hamilton Finlay (poems withdrawn), Harry Gilonis, Spike Hawkins, Denise Levertov, Thomas Meyer, Stuart Mills, Ron Padgett, Iliassa Seguin, and Jonathan Williams. Illustrated in black and white. Unpaginated spiral bound 8vo in publisher's slipcase. London: Mad Cow, (1994). A fine copy.