PASS THRU FIRE: The Collected Lyrics by Reed, Lou - 2000

Santa Barbara, California: Capra Press, 1977 First printing of the first edition, limited to 225 signed and numbered copies, this being number 107. Signed by all four contributors: Kay Boyle, Erica Jong, Henry Miller, and Thomas Sanchez. Light tanning to top edge of boards, light foxing to upper page edge, and age-toning to page margins, else book in fine condition; dust jacket with a short closed tear near bottom back spine fold and light shelf wear, else fine.

Denver: Alan Swallow, 1964 First printing of the first edition. Signed by Samuel French Morse directly on the title page; additionally, French wrote the following inscription on the front-free endpage: "For Bill Kienbusch / who is often / 'Colloquial as August when we're / here' / June 1965 / Sam"

American artist, William Austin Kienbusch (1914-1980), a magna cum laude graduate of Princeton, was best known for his semi-abstract landscapes of Maine. Representations of his work are on exhibit at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C.

Morse finished his inscription to Kienbusch using the first line of the last stanza from the concluding poem for this volume: "A Poem in Praise of Hancock Point," p.91. (The referenced poem was also included in Morse's, The Collected Poems, 1995.)
"Colloquial as August, when we're here-- / A rhyme for rustics, like a villanelle. / We listen for but almost never hear / The kind of talk that makes our… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers / A Story Press Book, 1938 Presentation copy from Richard Wright to Ernest Hemingway: "To Ernest Hemingway / From / Richard Wright." Stated second edition in married original dust jacket, first published with four novellas; two more were added when the book was reprinted in 1940. In Down by the Riverside, included in this collection, Wright transposes the Italian retreat at the Battle of Caporetto in Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms to the American South. Richard Wright was known to be a great admirer of Ernest Hemingway, whom he once named as a modernist writer whose work should be read by aspiring black authors (Scruggs, Hemingway and the Black Renaissance, 58–59). Mild toning to margins of endpapers, light toning to page margins, spine ends gently crimped, and a light pale stain to bottom front cover, foot of spine, and just an inch to bottom back spine fold, else book in fine condition; dust jacket with professional restoration to extremities, mild… Read More

New York: Scribner Poetry / Simon & Schuster, 2005 First printing of the first edition. Signed by David Lehman directly on the title page; additionally signed at their page of contribution by John Ashbery, Stephen Dunn, Galway Kinnell, and D. Nurkse. Light shallow crimping at spine ends, else book and dust jacket in fine condition.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons / Macmillan Publishing, 1990 First printing of the first edition. Signed by Jorie Graham directly on the title page; additionally signed by 16 contributors at their page of contribution: John Ashbery, Hayden Carruth, Robert Creeley, Linda Gregg, Donald Hall, Daniel Halpern, Galway Kinnell, Yusef Komunyakaa, Philip Levine, Thomas Lux, W. S. Merwin, Adrienne Rich, Gerald Stern, Mark Strand, James Tate, and Charles Wright. Book and dust jacket in fine, as new condition.

Santa Barbara, California: Capra Press, 1977 First printing of the first edition, limited to 225 signed and numbered copies, this being number 107. Signed by all four contributors: Kay Boyle, Erica Jong, Henry Miller, and Thomas Sanchez. Light tanning to top edge of boards, light foxing to upper page edge, and age-toning to page margins, else book in fine condition; dust jacket with a short closed tear near bottom back spine fold and light shelf wear, else fine.

Denver: Alan Swallow, 1964 First printing of the first edition. Signed by Samuel French Morse directly on the title page; additionally, French wrote the following inscription on the front-free endpage: "For Bill Kienbusch / who is often / 'Colloquial as August when we're / here' / June 1965 / Sam"

American artist, William Austin Kienbusch (1914-1980), a magna cum laude graduate of Princeton, was best known for his semi-abstract landscapes of Maine. Representations of his work are on exhibit at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C.

Morse finished his inscription to Kienbusch using the first line of the last stanza from the concluding poem for this volume: "A Poem in Praise of Hancock Point," p.91. (The referenced poem was also included in Morse's, The Collected Poems, 1995.)
"Colloquial as August, when we're here-- / A rhyme for rustics, like a villanelle. / We listen for but almost never hear / The kind of talk that makes our… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf / A Borzoi Book, 1947 First printing of the first edition, original publisher’s teal cloth, yellow top edge; in original dust jacket; written while Hughes was a visiting writer in residence at Atlanta University, containing over 70 poems including “Border Line” that was submitted by Hughes for the 1962 anthology Poet’s Choice. A presentation copy from Langston Hughes to Marius Flothius: “Especially for / Marius Flothius / with my thanks for your excellent / musical settings / of my poems, / Sincerely / Langston Hughes / New York, November 1, 1955.” Additionally, loosely laid-in is a brochure for Hughes’ “The Rhythms of the World” and a single page carbon copy of Hughes’ short poem “Cross.”
Marius Flothuis (1914–2000) was a Dutch composer who set six of Hughes’ poems to music.
Shallow crimping to cloth spine ends, the very tip of the bottom back corner slightly softened, and light toning to… Read More

New York: Scribner Poetry / Simon & Schuster, 2005 First printing of the first edition. Signed by David Lehman directly on the title page; additionally signed at their page of contribution by John Ashbery, Stephen Dunn, Galway Kinnell, and D. Nurkse. Light shallow crimping at spine ends, else book and dust jacket in fine condition.

New York: Scribner Poetry / Simon & Schuster, 2012 First printing of the state first Scribner edition. Signed by Mark Doty directly on the title page; additionally signed the following contributors at their page of contribution: Sherman Alexie, Billy Collins, Kay Ryan, Tracy K. Smith, Mark Strand, and Kevin Young. Book and dust jacket in fine, as new condition.