Octavio Paz: A Celebration. Poems by John Ashbery, Joseph Brodsky, Bei Dao, Richard Howard, Mark Strand, Charles Tomlinson, Derek Walcott and Octavio Paz. On the occasion of a reading at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 11, 1994, in celebration of Octavio Paz's 80th birthday. (N. Y.): The Academy of American Poets and the Mexican Cultural Institute, 1994. First edition of this festschrift. Signed on the front free endpaper by Paz, Strand, Howard, Ashbery, Dao & Tomlinson. 8vo, wrappers. Fine copy.

AGEE, James. The Morning Watch. Roma: Botteghe Oscure VI, 1950. First (separate) edition of Agee's autobiographical first novel, printed for private circulation in its entirety. One of an unrecorded number of offprints from Marguerite Caetani's distinguished literary journal Botteghe Oscure, this edition of The Morning Watch is decidedly rare. Presentation...

ALDINGTON, Richard. Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot. A Lecture. (Berkshire): Peacocks Press, 1954. First edition. One of only 10 numbered copies printed on Chatham paper & signed by Aldington. This is Copy No. 1. 8vo, full golden brown morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, card slipcase. Light offsetting to endpapers from leather turn-ins, otherwise a....

ALGREN, Nelson. A Walk on the Wild Side. N. Y. Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, (1956). First edition. 8vo, boards, dust jacket. As new; a superb copy.

ANDREWES, Lancelot. The Adoration of the Magi: an excerpt from a sermon preached by Lancelot Andrewes, Lord Bishop of Winchester on Christmas-day, mdcxxii. before King James the First at Whitehall. (Philadelphia: Janus Press, 1960). First edition. One of 150 numbered copies signed by the printer, Claire Van Vliet. Presentation copy, inscribed by Van Vliet on a preliminary leaf to typographer & printer John Anderson, with whom Van Vliet apprenticed, and his wife: "Merry Christmas Mr...

ASHBERY, John. The Tennis Court Oath. A Book of Poems. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, (1962). First edition. One of only 750 copies printed. Kermani A7. Presentation copy, inscribed by the poet to the artist Nell Blaine, who illustrated Ashbery’s first book: “For Nell with Love, John. ‘All was now ready for the continuance of...

ASHBERY, John & James SCHUYLER. A Nest of Ninnies. Calais, VT: Z Press, 1975. First wrappers edition. 8vo, original wrappers after a design by Joe Brainard. One of 26 lettered copies signed by Ashbery & Schuyler. Fine copy.

(ASHBERY, John). Trevor Winkfield's Pageant. Text by Jed Perl. Introduction by John Ashbery. West Stockbridge, MA: Hard Press Inc. 1997. First edition. One of 100 copies signed by the artist & Ashbery. "If all art aspires toward the condition of music, as Pater wrote, Trevor Winkfield must be counted among the most successful artists of all time." -...

ASHBERY, John. The Double Dream of Spring. N. Y. E. P. Dutton & Co. 1970. First edition, first issue. "The publisher has stated at different times that 1600 ... or 1798 hardbound ... copies were published ... approximately 50 copies of the hardbound edition were defective and had to be destroyed. As...

ASHBERY, John. Novel. N. Y. The Grenfell Press, 1998. First edition. Limited to 100 copies signed by Ashbery and Winkfield (the entire edition). An early prose poem, dating from 1954, only recently discovered by the poet David Lehman. Reviewing Novel in On Paper, Jed Perl calls this dashingly...

ASHBERY, John. Three Plays. Calais, VT: Z Press, 1978. First edition. One of 26 lettered copies signed by Ashbery out of a total hardcover edition of 500 copies printed at The Stinehour Press. 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket with cover design by Joe Brainard. Fine copy.

ASHBERY, John. Who Knows What Constitutes A Life. Illustration by Elizabeth Murray. Calais, VT: Z Press, 1999. First edition. One of only 26 copies with the original seven-color linoleum cut frontispiece signed by the artist & the colophon signed by the poet out of a total edition of 226 copies printed in Bembo type on Zerkall &...