THE SECRET OF POETRY: ESSAYS BY MARK JARMAN
Ashland, OR: Story Line Press, 2001. Soft Cover. Octavo. 224 pp. First Edition. Signed by Jarman on the title page with an inscription by him on the half title dated 2008. A fresh copy.
Ashland, OR: Story Line Press, 2001. Soft Cover. Octavo. 224 pp. First Edition. Signed by Jarman on the title page with an inscription by him on the half title dated 2008. A fresh copy.
Story Line Press, 2000. Soft Cover. Octavo. 83 pp. First edition, first printing thus. Signed by Jarman on the title page and additionally inscribed by him on the half title; light shelfwear only, with a bit of residue from an early price sticker.
Berkeley: Poltronn Press, 1986. Hard Cover. Quarto. [24] pp., frontis. Limited edition, one of 120 copies. Signed by Jess. As issued, backed in cloth with handmade paper over boards; covers a trifle sunned, but largely a clean, bright copy of this striking collection.
Atlanta: Jeanne Duval Editions, 2006. Soft Cover. Octavo. 20 pp. First edition, signed and inscribed by Johnson to poet Stuart Dischell, who is thanked in the acknowledgments. A fairly fresh copy in publisher's stiff printed wrappers.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1947. Hard Cover. Octavo. xii, [2], 271 pp., plates, illus. First edition, first printing. In publisher's cloth, lacking the dust jacket; all eight photographic plates are present as called for. Light rubbing to the extremities; spine sunned; contents clean. In this work, the American.....
Philadelphia: John C. Winston Company, 1952. Hard Cover. Octavo. x, 210 pp. First edition. As issued, in navy blue cloth with title in red on the spine. Binding is only lightly worn with the tail of the spine a bit bumped; textblock is notably and evenly toned, else Very Good+.....
Chicago: Tia Chucha Press, 2001. Soft Cover. Octavo. 94 pp. Signed and inscribed by Jordan on the title page. Light shelfwear to the covers; lengthy and surprisingly touching gift inscription on the dedication page--Jordan's inscription and this gift inscription are to the same individual. A nice, inscribed copy of the.....
New York: Viking Press, 1933. Hard Cover. 12mo. First American edition. Publisher's blue paper over boards with charming decorative embellishment on the front board; gently shelfworn; spine a bit darkened. Originally issued by the Hogarth Press, Virginia Woolf thought well of Strachey's novella. Quite an uncommon early edition.
Levittown, NY: Tortoise Press, 1986. Original Wrappers. Octavo. [20], [1] pp., illus. Limited edition, number 280 of 500 copies signed by Kaplan. As issued, in stiff, pictorial wrappers. Light edgewear only. A bright copy. A very good artist's book without words beyond the title page and some explanation and history.....
New York: New Directions, 1998. Hard Cover. Octavo. [14], 78, [1] pp. First Edition, signed by Karr. As issued, in cloth backed boards. A bright, clean copy in a similarly fresh dust jacket. Price intact on the front flap. A very nice copy of this collection, signed and inscribed by.....
Auburn, AL: Paperbird Press, 1987. Comb Binding. Quarto. 45, [1] pp. First edition. Inscribed by Kempton. Comb binding. Toning to the extremities, but generally a clean bright copy. Here inscribed by the author on the title page to poet Daniel Abd-al Hayy Moore.
Somerville, MA: Firefly Press, 1998. Hard Cover. Octavo. [8], 50, [6] pp. Limited edition, one of 300 copies. Signed and inscribed by Kessler. In original cloth-backed boards. Spine ends softened by largely a clean, bright copy. This copy has been inscribed by by Kessler on the front free endpaper and.....
London: John Murray, 1874. Hard Cover. Octavo. [8], 488 pp. First edition. Red embossed cloth binding with title in gold on the spine; the partially unopened textblock is a trifle shaken, but holding. An uncommon first edition copy of King's collection.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. Hard Cover. Octavo. viii, 106, [6] pp. First Edition, signed by Kinzie on the title page. As issued, in full cloth. A bright copy in crisp dust jacket. A typed note requesting Kinzies signature is laid in, to which Kinzie has handwritten a brief.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. Hard Cover. Octavo. viii, 82, [4] pp. First Edition, signed by Kinzie. As issued, in full cloth. A bright copy in crisp dust jacket. A nice copy, signed and inscribed by Kinzie on the title page; additionally, there is laid in a warm hand-written.....
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000. Hard Cover. Octavo. [10], 77 pp. First edition, first printing. In publisher's cloth with dust jacket. A very bright copy in similarly fresh, crisp dust jacket.
London: Faber and Faber, 1989. Hard Cover. Octavo. [8], 199 pp. First British edition. In publisher's binding with dust jacket. A fairly fresh binding with limited shelfwear; contemporary owner name on the front pastedown; textblock is generally and evenly toned throughout; dust jacket has minor rubbing and is fairly fresh.....
Tokyo: Seibido Co., 1983. Hard Cover. Octavo. A bright, fresh copy in dust jacket; small closed tear at the bottom of the front panel and spine of the jacket else in Very Good+ or better condition.
Brockport, NY: Boa Editions, 1984. Hard Cover. Octavo. 86, [2] pp. First edition, one of 1000 copies. As issued in white cloth with title and decoration stamped in black and red and spine and cover. Covers are a bit soiled, internally Near Fine. Dust jacket is crisp, though a trifle.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. Soft Cover. Octavo. viii, 324, [2] pp. First softcover edition, inscribed and signed by Koch on the title page. Trade paperback with typical rubbing to the covers; contents are clean. States first edition, likely issued simultaneously with the hard cover edition.
New York: Red Dust, 1989. Soft Cover. Octavo. [4], 19, [1] pp. First edition. In publisher's stapled pictorial wrappers. Covers a trifle soiled; inked date in the top of the half title otherwise contents clean.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000. Hard Cover. Octavo. x, 134 pp. First Edition. As issued in paper over boards; a bright copy in fresh dust jacket; price intact on the front flap. Inscription by Komunyakaa on the title page. A nice collection by this Pulitzer Prize winning poet.....
Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2004. Hard Cover. Octavo. xii, 87, [5] pp. First edition, signed and limited, numbered 64 of 250 copies. In publisher's cloth. An exceptionally nice copy. Scarce, edition of Kooser's Pulitzer Prize winning collection.
New York: Grove Press, 1988. Hard Cover. Octavo. [4], 183 pp. First American Edition. Cloth backed boards. A clean, bright copy in moderately shelfworn dust jacket with some abrasions on the back panel. Price intact on the front flap. A nice copy of Kristof's first book and winner of the.....
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1989. Hard Cover. Octavo. [8], 232 pp. First edition, second printing. Signed and inscribed by L'Engle on the title page. As issued, in cloth-backed boards with dust jacket. A bright fresh copy; minor foxing to the fore-edge of the textblock; contents clean but for.....