Living With Chris. Drawn by Joe Brainard.
(BRAINARD, Joe). (No place, but NY): Boke Press, (no date, but 1968). First edition. Fischer p. 26. Covers a little sunned, otherwise a fine copy. 4to, original stapled pictorial wrappers. More
(BRAINARD, Joe). (No place, but NY): Boke Press, (no date, but 1968). First edition. Fischer p. 26. Covers a little sunned, otherwise a fine copy. 4to, original stapled pictorial wrappers. More
(BRAINARD, Joe). N. Y. Corinth Books, 1969. First edition. One of 1500 copies. Fischer, p. 30. Review copy, with publisher's slip laid in. Inscribed by Berrigan: Many Happy Returns, Ted Berrigan, for Burt [Britton]. The title-page is also signed by Brainard. Mint copy. 12mo, illustrated wrappers by Joe Brainard. More
(BRAINARD, Joe). N. Y. Corinth Books, 1969. First edition. One of 1500 copies printed. Fischer p. 30. Fine copy. 12mo, original illustrated wrappers by Joe Brainard. More
(San Francisco: Angel Hair Magazine, 1967). First edition. One of 200 copies printed by Grabhorn-Hoyem and signed by Berrigan. Fine copy. 8vo, folded sheet. More
N. Y. Corinth Books, 1969. First edition. One of 50 copies signed by Berrigan and Brainard (out of a total edition of 1500 copies printed). Fischer p. 30. Very fine copy. 12mo, original illustrated wrappers by Joe Brainard. More
(SCHNEEMAN, George). (Lenox, MA): Angel Hair Books, (1977). First edition. One of 1000 copies. Fischer, p. 53. Inscribed: "for Burt [Britton], Something out of Nothing, best, Ted Berrigan" Covers slightly dust-soiled, otherwise a fine copy. 8vo, illustrated, original wrappers by George Schneeman. More
Chicago: Yellow Press, (1976). First edition, simultaneous paperback issue. Fischer, p. 50. Inscribed by Berrigan: "for Burt [Britton], solemnly, Ted Berrigan." Berrigan has added a small self-portrait. Fine copy. 8vo, original wrappers. More
(PORTER, Fairfield). (No place: no publisher), 1970. First edition. Fischer, p. 41. Fine copy. Broadside, 17 x 11 1/2, with illustration by Fairfield Porter. More
N. Y. Granary Books, 1998. First edition. One of 1000 copies. Very fine copy. 8vo, illustrated, original wrappers. More
N. Y. National Book Awards, 1969. Berryman’s Acceptance Speech for the National Book Award in Poetry which he received for His Toy, His Dream, His Rest (N. Y.: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1968). A brilliant statement of poetic purpose, independence, and vindication: “Both the writer and the reader of long poems need gall, the outrageous, the intolerable – and they need it again and again. The prospect of ignominious failure must haunt them continually. Whitman, our greatest poet, had all this. Eliot, next, perhaps even greater than Whitman, had it too. Pound makes a marvelous if frail third here. All three dazzlingly original, you notice, and very hostile, both Pound and Eliot, to Whitman. It is no good looking for models. We want anti-models.” National Book Award speeches of this and earlier vintages were printed for the occasion, and in our experience, seldom survive. Very fine copy. Rare. 1 page, 4to, mimeographed. More
(New York): William Sloane Associates, (1950). First edition. Stefanik A6.I.a. An important association copy, inscribed by Berryman to his teacher Mark Van Doren on the front free-endpaper: “Mark & Dorothy with love / Crane’s relation w. [Hamlin] Garland tells me something about mine with you. Rebellion & guilt [underlined] suffocating the gratitude. Will you forgive me ever & can we meet? This is better by the way than when you saw it but still lousy. Don’t read it. I hope to do something pleasant yet. / John / 14 Nov 50”. Van Doren was Berryman’s professor at Columbia University, where Berryman attended college and where he began publishing poems in the Columbia Review. In September 1945, Van Doren gave Berryman his own set of Wilson Follett’s twelve-volume edition of The Works of Stephen Crane. One of Berryman’s most important influences, and a life-long friend, Van Doren was also a general editor of, as well as a contributing author to, The American Men of Letters Series, and he commissioned Berryman to write this critical study of Crane, a psychological study some scholars believe tells more about its author than its subject. Berryman’s inscription to Van Doren enhances this insight. A fine..... More
N. Y. Farrar Straus & Cudahy, (1956). First edition of Berryman's most accomplished work. Stefanik A7. Signed by Berryman at Bread Loaf in 1962 on the front free endpaper. Fine copy. 8vo, original pictorial boards, dust jacket. More
New York: The Phoenix Book Shop, 1973. First edition, one of the author’s copies from the lettered issue. Copy “L” (presumably chosen for “Loren”) of 26 lettered copies (out of a total edition of 126) signed by Bishop on the colophon. This copy bears Bishop’s presentation inscription: “For Loren MacIver & Lloyd Frankenberg – love, Elizabeth Bishop” on the title-page. Laid in is an exceptionally interesting TLS from Bishop to MacIver and Frankenberg concerning the publication of Poem: “I’ve always disliked ‘pretty little books’ like this – However, Bill Ferguson, the printer, is a friend of mine here & he wanted to do it for some time & so I finally gave in. (The Phoenix Book Shop man is quite another type…) And since they have just arrived, or were here when I got back – I’m sending you one of my copies with a real, EXTRA signature – whee! You can sell it for a small sum if need be sometime – Love, Elizabeth”. The artist Loren MacIver was a longtime friend and correspondent of Bishop’s and contributed the dust jacket design for Bishop’s second collection, Poems North & South – A Cold Spring, in 1955. Their friendship dates..... More
N. Y. Farrar Straus & Giroux, (1969). First edition, winner of the National Book Award for Poetry. One of 5500 copies printed. MacMahon A9. Signed by Bishop on the title-page. Fine copy in a slightly sunned jacket with a spot of soiling on front panel. 8vo, blue cloth, dust jacket. More
N. Y. W. W. Norton, (1937). First edition. Contains Bishop's "The Sea and Its Shore". One of 800-900 copies printed. MacMahon B4. Also includes works by James Agee, W. H. Auden, Richard Eberhart, Muriel Rukeyser, John Malcolm Brinnin, John Cheever, Franz Kafka, among others. A fine copy in dust jacket which is a bit chipped at head and tail of spine, with another small chip from the top of the back panel. An attractive copy. 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket. More
Santa Rosa and Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, Spring 1980-Spring/Summer 2002. A collection of Black Sparrow Press bi-annual forthcoming books catalogs, catalog texts by Tom Clark. Clark's own set, each catalog bears his signature on the front wrapper. An extensive run in fine condition. Uncommon. A complete list is available upon request. Thin 8vos, original patterned or decorated self-wrappers, stapled, as issued. More
Paris: Black Sun Press, 1929. First edition. One of 150 copies printed. Minkoff A25. Presentation copy, inscribed by the publisher, Harry Crosby, to his father: "SVRC [Stephen Van Rensselaer Crosby] from Harry", with an accompanying sketch of his personalized sun symbol and the Black Sun Press’s emblem. “In August Harry (Crosby) delivered one hundred and fifty copies of 1450-1950 to Brown, who quickly sent most of them on to publishers and friends, sixty of whom he listed opposite the title page under the heading “Free Copies.” In return, Brown hoped for a few kind words that might be useful in reviving a writing career that had been quiescent for close to fifteen years. 1450-1950 is an amusing mixture of ideography and calligraphy, examples of which Brown had been amassing – with obvious pleasure – for many years. “I like looking back / at the / Illuminated manuscripts of / 1450 / And forward / to the / more Illuminations / Movie Scripts of / 1950 I like to see / Fly Specks / on yellowed pages / I like too / Leaving my own on / New ones / My Fly Speck.” In his dedication to “all monks, all early..... More
(Cummington, MA): The Cummington Press, 1947. First edition. One of 270 copies printed on Etruria paper out of a total edition of 310 copies. Fine copy. Tall 8vo, original cloth-backed paste-paper boards by Arno Werner. More
Cummington, MA: The Cummington Press, 1942. First edition. Limited to 300 copies, the Centaur and Arrighi types set by hand by Katharine Frazier and printed on Sterling Laid paper by Harry Duncan and David Newton. Very fine copy. 8vo, title-page decoration by Eugene Canade, original black cloth, tissue dust jacket. More
London and Cambridge: Macmillan and Co., 1863. First edition. Volume I contains Gilchrist's biography of Blake; Volume II prints a selection of Blake's poems and other writings. Fine copy. 2 volumes, portrait and illustrations (some fold-out), marbled endpapers, half red morocco and yellow buckram over boards, t.e.g., by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, half-titles bound in. More
London: Beaumont Press, 1930. First edition. The twenty-fifth book from the press. One of 325 numbered copies on hand-made paper. Faint offsetting to endpapers, spine a trifle sunned, otherwise a fine copy. 8vo, illustrations by Randolph Schwabe, cloth-backed patterned boards. More
London: Beaumont Press, 1931. First edition. The twenty-sixth book from the press. One of 325 numbered copies on hand-made paper. Kirkpatrick A40b. Fine copy. 8vo, illustrations by Randolph Schwabe, original cloth-backed patterned boards. More
N. Y. Dim Gray Bar Press, 2000. First edition of this poem, printed to celebrate the occasion of a reading by the poet at The Center for Book Arts in New York City, on April 29, 2000. One of 25 specially bound copies reserved for the Center & signed by Boland (out of a total edition of 100 copies printed on Iyo Glazed paper). As new. Tall, thin 8vo, Unryu indigo & azure endpapers, Khadi Natural black covers with title calligraphy by Malachi McCormick. More