[Belfast: Ulsterman Publications], 1971. First edition of the author's first book, published when Muldoon was a nineteen year old student at Queen's University, Belfast. Presentation copy, inscribed by the editor and publisher of The Honest Ulsterman, the poet Frank Ormsby, on the title-page: "Enjoy these poems! / Frank Ormsby" Fine copy of a very rare book. 8vo, original printed wrappers, stapled as issued. More
Philadelphia: Printed at Bull Thistle Press for Banshee Press, 2006. First separate edition of the poem. One of twenty-six lettered copies signed by Muldoon, with a correction to the text in his hand, out of a total edition of 76 copies. As new. 8vo, single sheet of card stock folded to four panels. More
London: Faber & Faber, 2001. First edition. Limited to 100 numbered copies signed by the poet. Very fine copy. 8vo, original cloth-backed boards, publisher’s cloth slipcase. More
N. Y. Ecco Press, (1987). First edition. Signed by Muldoon on the title-page and dated by him "Salt Lake City / Oct 89" Fine copy. 12mo, original cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. More
(Belfast): Ulsterman Publications, (1975). First edition. Inscribed by the poet: "Paul Muldoon for ..., February 1976" Covers a little sunned, else fine copy. 8vo, wrappers. More
Hopewell, NJ: Pied Oxen Printers, 2002. First edition. One of 125 numbered copies signed by the poet, the artist, and the printer (the entire edition). Very fine copy, without dust jacket as issued. Small folio, two full-page illustrations, original cloth over boards, printed paper labels. More
Mark, Wendy. N. Y. Lori Bookstein Fine Art, (2006). First edition, trade issue. One of 990 numbered copies in a total edition of 1000. Although not called for, this copy is signed by the author and the artist. As new. Small, square 8vo. Original unprinted white wrappers, stamped in relief. More
(Old Deerfield, MA): Deerfield Press; (Dublin): Gallery Press, (1978). First edition. Limited to 250 copies signed by Murphy. Fine copy. 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket. More
North Hills, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1981. Limited to 300 copies. Prospectus laid-in. Very fine copy. Bound by Gray Parrot in quarter Oasis leather and tips with decorative paper boards. More
Edinburgh: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1961. First edition of Niedecker's second book, published by the press of the Scottish concrete poet & gardener extraordinaire Ian Hamilton Finlay, with the introduction by Dorn on a separate sheet laid into the book. Inscribed on the inside front wrapper to her later publisher, Jonathan Williams: "Jonathan: My best book so far (Sept. 3, '69). So good of you to keep it on hand. Best wishes, Lorine". In 1968, Williams' Jargon Society published Niedecker's Tenderness & Gristle: The Collected Poems (1936-1966) & in 1985, the most comprehensive edition of her poetry, From This Condensery: The Complete Writings of Lorine Niedecker. In his introduction to My Friend Tree, Dorn deftly sums up Niedecker's achievement: "I like these poems because first they attach an undistractable clarity to the word, and then because they are unabashed enough to weld that word to a freely sought, beautifully random instance - that instance being the only thing place and its content can be: the catch in the seine". Inscribed books by the sibylline poet from Black Hawk Island on the shores of Lake Koshkonong, Wisconsin, are extremely rare. A fine association copy in dust jacket. Oblong 8vo, original wrappers, dust..... More
(Highlands, NC): Jargon Society, 1985. First edition. Jargon 100. Patron's edition, limited to 100 copies specially bound & signed by the editor & Jonathan Williams, the publisher. Fine copy. Tall 8vo, full leather with printed labels, dust jacket. More
(London): Fulcrum Press, (1970). First edition. One of 100 numbered copies printed on glastonbury antique laid paper and signed by Niedecker. Fine copy in acetate jacket in which there are a couple of small chips. 8vo, original black cloth, acetate dust jacket. More
London: Fulcrum Press, (1968). First edition. One of 100 copies printed on mould-made deckle-edged paper & signed by Niedecker, the late oracle of Black Hawk Island, one of America's real poets. Head & foot of spine slightly bumped, otherwise a fine copy. 4to, cloth, dust jacket. More
London: Fulcrum Press, (1968). First edition, limited issue. One of 100 numbered copies printed on mould-made paper signed by Niedecker. Few foxmarks on fore-edge of textblock, otherwise a fine copy. 4to, illustrations, original buckram, dust jacket. More
London: Fulcrum Press, (1968). First edition. One of an unspecified number of copies printed on Glastonbury grey antique laid paper. Top-edge of textblock dust-marked, otherwise a fine copy. 4to, illustrations, original boards, dust jacket. More
(N. Y.): Adventures in Poetry, (1974). First edition, limited issue. One of 26 lettered copies signed by North and Freilicher. Fine condition. 4to, original illustrated wrappers, stapled as issued. More
West Burke, VT: The Janus Press, 1978. First edition. One of 250 numbered copies (the entire edition). Inscribed and signed by Van Vliet for a collector. Very fine copy. 4to, original gingham cloth over boards, printed paper spine label. More
RIVERS, Larry. N. Y. Tibor De Nagy Gallery, 1951. First edition of O'Hara's first book, the birth of the New York School of Poetry. One of 20 copies printed by hand in Bodoni types on Japanese Kochi paper by Ruthven Todd for Editions of the Tibor de Nagy Gallery, specially bound with an original drawing by Larry Rivers as a frontispiece; this copy number 8. The drawing in this copy, a beautiful drawing of a reclining nude woman, is signed by Rivers. According to the colophon, A City Winter was published in March-April 1952 in an edition of 150 numbered copies, in two forms: a regular issue of 130 copies printed on French Arches paper [copies 21-150] and a deluxe issue printed on Japanese Kochi paper with an original drawing by Larry Rivers [copies 1-20]. However, according to Brad Gooch, 280 "folded paper" copies were printed in addition to the copies on Kochi paper. The regular issue, bound in blue paper wrappers, sold for $1.00; the deluxe hardbound issue on Kochi paper with an original drawing by Rivers for $20.00. (Gooch, City Poet, p. 213.) Not all of the copies in the regular issue were bound, a fact probably explained..... More
Iowa City: The Windhover Press, and Bruccoli Clark, 1974. First edition of "the only surviving example of his (O'Hara's) apprentice journalism." Limited to 150 copies printed in handset Bembo type on paper specially made for The Windhover press by the Wookey Hole Mill in England. Very fine copy, with the publisher's compliments slip laid in. Rare. 8vo, original printed wrappers. More
Verona: Privately printed for Andre Jammes & Alberto Falck, 1968. First edition of this alphabet of Sapphic strophes, making a hymn for Christmas, in the original Latin, from Zachariae Ferrerii hymni novi ecclesiastici, printed by Ludovico Vicentino & Lautizio Perugino, Rome, 1525, and here printed by Giovanni Mardersteig in Arrighi-Vicenza italic with red calligraphic initials. One of 80 copies on Magnani mould-made paper. Mardersteig & Schmoller, The Officina Bodoni 158. Barr 78. A very fine copy. Oblong 12mo, with calligraphic initials from Ludovico Vicento's writing-book, Il modo di temperare le penne (Rome 1523) printed in original vellum-coloured paper boards, publisher's slipcase with printed label. More
London: Elkin Mathews Ltd, 1926. First edition, one of 250 copies printed by hand in 12-point Cuneo type at the Officina Bodoni in Montagnola, Switzerland. The text follows that of the first edition of 1785, of which only six copies were printed. Some notes, written by Walpole in his copy of the first-sheets of the first edition, now in the British Museum, have been added. A tifle rubbed at extremities, but a fine copy. Tall 8vo, original decorated boards without dust jacket as issued. More
(Cambridge, MA): Da Capo Press, (2002). First edition. Signed by Oliver on the title-page. Very fine copy. 8vo, original cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. More
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1997. First edition. Signed by Oliver on the title-page. Very fine copy. 8vo, original cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. More