New York: Penguin Books, 2000. First edition. 78 pp. Advanced uncorrected proofs in glossy illustrated wrappers. Raab teaches at Williams; he has received the Bess Hokin Award and been nominated for a National Book Award. Fine. ... (more information)

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New York: The Ecco Press, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. 80 pp. Cloth. Review copy of the poet's second book with publisher printed sheet laid in. The American Poetry Series, 9. Fine in a very good dust jacket with a crease on the front flap and tanning on verso. The poet has received the Bess Hokin Award and been nominated for a National Book Award. ... (more information)

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Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, Spring 1968. No. 1. Very Good in Wraps. The first issue of this periodical, which published Raab (four years before his first collection), Norris (three years before her first), Ross Talarico, and others. Back cover ads for Wesleyan U.P. new titles, including Levine's NOT THIS PIG. The blue and black cover is rubbed, and lightly worn. ... (more information)

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New York: Pantheon, 2002. Hardcover. Second Printing. Signed. Fine in Fine DJ. ... (more information)

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New York: Knopf, 1981. Paperback. First edition. The second collection from this Boston native who founded the Creative Writing Program at The University of Alabama. No. 3 in the Knopf Poetry Series; the paperback was issued simultaneously with the hardcover. An internal review copy slip is laid in. Near Fine in Wraps. ... (more information)

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Montgomery: Black Belt Press, 2000. Hardcover. First edition. 88 pp. With handwritten card from someone at the press to a poet David Lehman who included one of the poems in this collection in his Best American Poems of 2000. Bound with one foreedge longer than the other, else very fine in like dust jacket. ... (more information)

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New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Two great French plays rendered into English by Lowell (Racine) and Barzun (Beaumarchais), respectfully. Near fine in a moderately worn, complete dust jacket, a couple of short tears and wear at the edges, the white back panel lightly soiled. Overall easily very good. ... (more information)

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New York: Harcourt Brace, 1982. Hardcover. Second Printing. Wilbur's translation of Racine's version of the Greek myth. Fine in Fine DJ. ... (more information)

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New York: Knopf, 1994. Hardcover. First printing. First book a collection of short stories. Fine in Fine DJ. ... (more information)

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Chicago: Modern Poetry Association, 1965. First edition. Paperback. Originally published in POETRY, Rago being the editor, this is one of 350 copies numbered and signed by the author. Manufactured by the University of Chicago Printing Department, in Aldine Bembo type on Mohawk Superfine and sewn into Italian Fabriano paper. Considerably sunned at the edges, otherwise about fine. ... (more information)

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New York: Doubleday, 1994. First American edition. Hardcover. From one of the UK's finest poets, "the story of two families - the family of Russian poet and novelist Boris Pasternak (into which he married), and the author's own family, the Raines who touch either other and are touched by history in different ways". As critic, poet and editor (he was Faber's poetry editor for a decade) he has been among the most influential poets of his generation. Fine in Fine DJ. ... (more information)

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Washington DC: Counterpoint, 2001. Hardcover. First American printing. 368 pp.; w/ index of titles and first lines. Born in 1908, her first collected poems appeared in 1956. This is what in a lifetime of writing the poet wishes to keep. Top edge tips bumped (paper cracked), else fine in fine dust jacket, with publisher "book News" laid in. Clean unused copy. ... (more information)

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West Branch, IA: Toothpaste Press, 1981. First edition. Paperback. Designed and printed by Allan Kornblum on Curtis Tweedweave and Smyth sewn into wrappers. A total of 1500 copies were printed (a limited signed edition of 150 were done in hardcover). Lightly stained front covers and some creasing to the first ten pages. Very Good + in Wraps. ... (more information)

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Black Sparrow, 1977. SPARROW 53. Paperback. Fine . Unpaginated stapled pamphlet. This copy is signed by Rakosi on the front cover. Issued as Sparrow 53. ... (more information)

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Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2001. First edition. From the Kuhl House Poets edited by Jorie Graham and Mark Levine. Signed by the poet. ... (more information)

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Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1995. Fine in Wraps. Second Printing. The fifth book, winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize. Ramke was previously a Yale Younger Poet winner. This copy signed by the poet. ... (more information)

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Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Very Good DJ. The poet's third book in the uncommon hardcover issue (published simultaneously in paper). The marbled boards bumped at edges; the dust jacket has one long (2 inches) closed tear, and wear at the edges. ... (more information)

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Louisiana State University Press, 1986. First edition. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. The poet's third book in the uncommon hardcover issue (published simultaneously in paper). Signed by the poet. ... (more information)

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Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. First edition. 64 pp. An uncorrected proof copy in yellow printed wrappers of this first collection of verse. Selected by James Tate for the National Poetry Series, with quote from him. Issued in paper only. Fine in spiral bound covers. ... (more information)

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Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. First edition. Paperback. 64 pp. Review copy in illustrated wrappers of this first collection of verse, with slip laid in. Selected by James Tate for the National Poetry Series, with quote from him. Trade paper original. Spine-faded, else fine. ... (more information)

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