Modern Poetry from Lorne Bair Rare Books

Hollywood, CA: Three Penny Press, n.d. [ca 1960]. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pictorial card wrappers; [10]pp; three color illustrations, one folding. Text printed by offset; the illustrations, by the artist Gene Maslow, are mimeographed in colors. Mild external toning and wear; Very Good. A beat-inflected, book-length poem intended (according to the publisher's preface) to be read to… Read more about this item

Georgetown, CA: Dragons Teeth Press, N.d. [1972]. First, Limited Edition. (Limitation not stated; issued in the series "Living Poets Library"). 12mo. Green pictorial card wrappers; dustjacket; 61,(1)pp. Fine copy in the original pictorial dustwrapper. Gleason (1903-1979) was the founder of the San Francisco Poetry Guild (1947) and is considered one of the principal architects of the San… Read more about this item

New York: Atlantic Monthly, 1933. Single octavo issue in original black-printed orange wrappers; pp [385]-508 + 48pp ads. Slight wear and soil; paper on backstrip slightly faded; rear wrapper partially detached; about Very Good. Includes the first appearance of Edith Wharton's personal essay, "Confessions of a Novelist", which does not appear to have been collected until the 1982 anthology… Read more about this item

Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1991. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24cm); blue cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in light blue on spine; dustjacket; [6],7-145,[7]pp.; illus. Trivial wear to cloth, else Fine. Dustjacket unclipped with some trivial wear, else Fine. Critical analysis of Hölderlin's poetry, presented in two sections: The Work, and Poetry and Ontology. [82108].

New York: Atlantic Monthly, 1934. Single octavo issue in original black-printed orange wrappers; pp [385]-512 + 44pp ads. Slight wear and soil; paper on backstrip slightly faded; Very Good. Includes a very early short story, "One Of Us", by the great California proletarian writer John Fante, who writes in the contributors' column: "[this acceptance from the Atlantic] tickles the… Read more about this item

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965. First Edition. First printing. Small, slim octavo (22cm). Red cloth-covered boards; dustjacket; 46pp. Mild darkening to endpapers at gutters, else a very fresh, clean copy, Near Fine. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $4.00 on front flap), crisp and clean with fading to red lettering on spine panel and a few mild… Read more about this item

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1960. First Edition. First printing. Signed in ink by Starbuck on the front endpaper. Small octavo; green cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 58pp. A fine copy. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $3.00 on front flap); lightly rubbed and worn; Very Good+. Starbuck's first published collection, issued as no. 60 in the Yale Series of… Read more about this item

New York: Atlantic Monthly, 1934. Single octavo issue in original black-printed orange wrappers; pp [513]-640 + 40pp ads. Slight wear and soil; paper on backstrip slightly faded; Very Good. Includes "Genius" a very early eight-line poem by Theodore Roethke, preceding publication of his first collection by seven years. Other contributors to this issue include Owen Wister (on John Jay… Read more about this item

New York: Atlantic Monthly, 1934. Single octavo issue in original black-printed orange wrappers; pp [257]-385 + 44pp ads. Slight wear and soil; paper on backstrip slightly faded; rear wrapper partially detached; about Very Good. Includes "People Who Have Crossed Our Threshold: Windows on Henry Street", an extract from her upcoming memoir of the Henry Street Settlement in New York.… Read more about this item

New York: Vanguard Press, (1958). First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Russet cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 208pp. Mildly dusted on upper edge of text block, else clean, tight and unmarked; Near Fine. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $3.95 at base of front flap); a shade darkened on spine, with mild rubbing at folds and extremities, small chip at base of… Read more about this item

Richmond, CA: North Atlantic Books, 1980. First Edition. Octavo. 23cm. Publisher's bright yellow card wraps titled and decorated in black to spine and front cover. 672pp. Clean and bright, a near fine copy of Enslin's expansive poetic project.

Highlands, North Carolina: Jonathan Williams; The Nantahala Foundation - Jargon 32, 1964. First Edition. Octavo. 23cm. Publisher's photographic card wraps titled in white to spine with a Jargon 32 imprint. 110pp. Minor edgewear and scuffing, a little light wear to the spine ends, a very good, tight copy. Internally clean. Inscribed by Lowenfels to his eldest daughter on the… Read more about this item

New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1972. Third Printing. Octavo (21cm); original light green cloth, with dark green titling stamped on spine and floral decorations on front cover; dustjacket; [viii],[2],3-83,[5]pp.; illus. Signed in full by Kumin on half-title page. Light sunning to upper board edges, else Fine. Dustjacket unclipped (sticker price on inner front flap, $7.50) with some light… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1984. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24.5cm); pale green cloth-covered boards with black blocking and titling stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [xxvi],[3],4-278,[6]pp. Blind-embossed ownership stamp to front free endpaper. Foxing to upper edge of textblock; small bump to bottom edge; Near Fine. Mild tanning to upper panel, with some spine fading, else… Read more about this item

Trumansburg, NY: The Crossing Press, 1971. First Edition. First printing. Octavo; stapled, pictorial wrappers; [48]pp; illus. Trivial bumps to wrapper edges at covers; cover slightly darkened at spine; Very Good. The Kansas poet's first book. Illustrated from original line drawings by the author.

London: A.T. Stevens for Flying Fame, 1913. Stated Second Editions. Twelvemo. 17cm. Later oatmeal buckram with black leather title label titled in gilt, with a pencil note suggesting the binding is by Chivers. Some darkening of the cloth and a little wear to the label, otherwise a very good, neat little biding. Internally clean, bookplate and ownerships,… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966. First Edition. First printing. Undated inscription on front endpaper: "for Bob Johnson / Galway Kinnell," undated. Small octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 132pp. Very Good copy, cloth foxed at upper and lower board edges. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $3.95 on front flap), lightly worn but conspicuously foxed on spine and front panel, just Very… Read more about this item

Binghampton: Bellevue Press, 1978. Crisp, elegant miniature broadside/postcard. With striking poem by Bruchac on orange stock, printed letterpress by Stuart McCarty. 3.5" x 5.5." Fine.

Orange, CA: The Orange County Book Society, 1981. First Edition. One of 230 copies signed by the author and illustrator. Broadside, with text letterpress printed in black and illustrations in dark brown on a sheet of beige deckle-edged Arches paper, measuring 56.5cm x 38.25cm (22.25" x 15"). Mild handling, with a faint trace of thumb-soil to lower right margin;… Read more about this item

Johnson, VT: The Crow's Mark Press, 1967. First Edition. Small sewn chapbook printed at the Stoveside Press in Vermont; 12 mo.. 33 pp. No.97 of 250 copies numbered and signed by the author. Errata slip and mailed order invite to order laid in. Toned at extremities, else very good in sewn wrappers. The Crow's Mark Press was the author's… Read more about this item