Selected Poems
New York: Random House, 1964. First Printing. Jacket design by Betty Anderson. Near Fine (a touch of soiling to endpapers and edge) in a VG+ unclipped dustjacket (soiling, pinhole to front cover, sunning). More
New York: Random House, 1964. First Printing. Jacket design by Betty Anderson. Near Fine (a touch of soiling to endpapers and edge) in a VG+ unclipped dustjacket (soiling, pinhole to front cover, sunning). More
Atlanta: African Expressions, 1970. 42 pp. Illustrated, original stapled pictorial wrappers. Near Fine. Developed as part of the Atlanta Center for Black Art, Rhythm was a short-lived magazine with only 3 issues printed (Danky, 5137). This inaugural issue includes work by Ameer (sic) Baraka (LeRoi Jones) on “Black Nationalism vs. Pimp Art,” Bill Mahoney on..... More
New York: The Smith, 1989. First Edition. Softcover. 88 pp. VG+. Collection of poetry from this New York poet. More
East Falmouth, MA: PeKa Boo Press, 1981. Near Fine stapled illustrated red wraps. [8 pp.]. First Edition. No. 29-A of 50 copies. INSCRIBED by Swope to Maxine Kumin (d. 2014), winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize who was also poet laureate of the United States..... More
New York: Tambimuttu & Mass, 1964. First Edition—spine lettering in the uncommon first state (not blacked out). Octavo, 137 [9] pp. VG+ in a VG+ or better dustjacket. Leonard Baskin cover art, with fifteen drawings by Peggy Brown, Laurence Scott, and Helene Fesenmaier. Contributors include Allen Ginsburg, John Ciardi, May..... More
Hopewell, NJ: Ecco Press, 1994. First Edition. SIGNED by Tate on title page. Fine in a Near Fine unclipped dustjacket with a touch of rubbing. This collection of poetry, winner of the National Book Award, was published on the heels of his Pulitzer Prize in 1992 for Selected Poems. Tate..... More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1964. First Edition. 646 pp. VG+ in VG+ price-clipped dustjacket (dampstaining to lower edge). Laid in is the 1964 Washington Post Book Week review by Randall Jarrell of the book. More
Printed in Limited Edition by Maine Coast Printers for Bern Porter International, October 1975. 200 copies, this being #162. Fine (without dustjacket as issued) in brown cloth with yellow endpapers. Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Eberhart’s copy, SIGNED by him on ffep and dated “April 1976.” Eberhart won the National Book..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1969. First Printing. 62 pp. Near Fine in a VG+ unclipped dustjacket, a bit of off toning to flaps and wrinkle at crown. The author’s first published collection; Williams would go on to win the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. He died in 2015. More
Circa mid-1990s. A two-page stapled poem entitled "Bat Cave" by Eleanor Wilner, who has written below her name in top corner "and here's my response to our most recent war." The poem appeared in Reversing the Spell: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 1997). Folded in thirds. About Fine..... More
Hanover, NH: Granite Publications, 1971. First issue of this short-lived but important literary journal which ceased publication with Number Twelve in 1977. VG+. SIGNED by Young on verso of title page, where he has written, “Printed in a limited edition of 1000 copies.” Contributors include Robert Bly, Fred Chappell, Richard..... More