Search Results: Modern Poetry from Lorne Bair Rare Books

[ : = Beijing, People's Literature Pubishing Hosue, 1977]. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Printed wrappers; 274pp; 4 unnumbered leaved of plates. Mild bump to bottom fore-corner, still a clean, Near Fine copy. Poems by the prominent Chinese communist revolutionary and leader Biwu Dong (1886-1975), who served as acting Chairman of the People's Republic from 1972 until his death in 1975. Text entirely in Chinese.

Prentice, WI: Jump River Press, n.d., ca. 1980s. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's brown pictorial staplebound wrappers; [18]pp. Fine condition. Short poetry chapbook by the Pennsylvania author. Not in OCLC as of November, 2018.

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc, 1977. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.75cm); maroon cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [viii],71,[1]pp. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, with lower front flap clipped (priced $7.95 at upper right corner of same), and some light wear to extremities. Sixth collection by the Northwestern poet.

New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1959. First Edition. 8vo. 22cm x 15cm. Publisher's original grey-blue cloth spine over decorated paper covered boards. Dustjacket. Titled in white to spine, clean and fresh, in a strong, bright, priceclipped dustjacket. A very smart copy. 86pp. Internally clean. Inscribed by the poet to the front flyleaf: "For Miss Frieda Roberts, Happy thoughts of a happy meeting, John Ciardi" A strong copy of an early Ciardi collection.

Cambridge, MA: Laurence Scott, 1969. First, Limited Edition. One of 100 numbered copies signed by the author, this being copy no.31. Quarto; 4 broadsides sewn into plain card covers and marbled paper dustjacket; 8 uncut leaves; illus frontispiece signed by Scott, dated 1/69. Hint of offset to endpapers from jacket, else Fine.

Lenox, MA: Arts Action Press, N.d. [1976?]. First, Limited Edition. Printed broadside, 41cm x 21cm. One of 80 copies, signed by both Wilbur and artist Dwight Little. Reprints the poem "4/5/74" (collected in Wilbur's Collected Poems, and generally recorded as, "April 5th, 1974"). At head of text is an illustration by Dwight Little. Printed by Keith Thompson at Hawthorne Press. Faint creases to margins, a few tiny spots to verso, else Fine. A rather scarce Wilbur "A" item, though date of publication is uncertain (post-dates Field's Wilbur check-list); OCLC main catalog entry provides a date of 1976.

Trumansburg, NY: New Books / Crossing Press, [1971]. First Edition. Slim octavo (21cm.); original white photo-illustrated card wrappers; 75pp.; illus. throughout. A bit of shelf wear, else Very Good to Near Fine. Bookplate signed by Piercy laid in. Selected poetry by four authors, including the Second Wave feminist Piercy.

New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc, 1963. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (23.5 cm); blue paper-covered boards and green cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in silver on spine, and embossed onto front cover; dustjacket; [xiv],73,[2]pp. Fine in a Very Good+ dustjacket, price-clipped, with light wear to extremities, a touch of dust-soil, a few tiny tears (one of them tape-mended on verso), and two faint horizontal bands of offsetting from an old-style dustjacket protector. Cummings's final collection of poems, issued the year after his death.

New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc, 1958. First Edition. First Printing, trade issue, one of 5,000 copies (preceded by a signed, limited edition of 300 copies). Octavo (23.5cm); brown printed paper-covered boards and black cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in brown on spine; dustjacket; [xii],95pp. Fine in a Very Good+ dustjacket, price-clipped, lightly edgeworn, gently sunned and spine and front panel, with a few tiny tears and some shallow loss to crown. The last collection of poems published during the author's lifetime. FIRMAGE A27b.

Yaoundé [Cameroon]: Editions Cle, 1969. First Edition. 12mo (17.75cm.); original white and green pictorial wrappers by Philippe Ouassa; 106pp. Fine. Cameroonian poetry, text entirely in French.

London: Faber and Faber, 1966. First U.K. Edition. First Impression, preceded by the American edition published six months earlier. Octavo; blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 94pp. Fine in a price-clipped, else Fine dustjacket, with the errata slip tipped onto Acknowledgements page. Late collection of 28 poems, issued in a print run of 4,000 copies. BLOOMFIELD & MENDELSON A49b.

New York: House of Books, 1962. First Edition. Limited to 300 copies of which this is no. 75. Slim 12mo (19.5cm.); original blue gilt-lettered cloth, glassine dust jacket; [2],vi,88pp. Spine a hint cocked, light wear to bottom fore-edge corner of upper jacket panel, else Near Fine. Signed by Moore on colophon. ABBOTT A19.

Glasgow: Mariscat Press, 1998. First, Limited Edition. First Printing, one of 120 copies, this being #82; signed by the author on limitation page. Octavo (26.5cm); red wraps titled in black on cover; 12pp. Trivial wear to extremities, else Fine. These pieces are adapted from work produced for the performance piece Delicate which was commissioned and inspired by Motionhouse Dance Theatre and it's Artistic Director's, Kevin Finnan and Louise Richards. The first performance of Delicate took place on 14 March 1996 at Warwick Arts Center. (from the limitation page).

Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1970. First Edition. Wrappered issue. Octavo; pictorial card wrappers (softcover); 92pp. Small (

Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1970. First Edition. Cloth issue. Octavo; cloth boards; dustjacket; 92pp. Fine in a price-clipped and slightly edgeworn dustwrapper, Very Good or better. Posthumous collection of work by the Nova Scotia poet, killed in action over Germany in 1943. Edited, and with an introduction by Len Gasparini. The cloth issue is rather uncommon.

New York: Random House, [1948]. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (24cm.); original cloth-backed boards in olive decorative price-clipped dust jacket; 63pp. Shallow chips and short closed tears to jacket extremities, spine rather sunned. Fine in Very Good jacket. Book designed by Meyer Wagman.

London: Faber and Faber, [1930]. First Trade Edition. First issue dust jacket with author's name printed twice on spine. Small, slim octavo (19cm.); original cloth in decorative teal price-clipped jacket printed in red and black, green topstain; 108pp. Jacket extremities a bit toned, mostly to spine, a few tiny chips and closed tears, none approaching text, spine just a hint cocked, else Near Fine in Very Good jacket.

New York: Eakins Press, [1968]. First Edition. Octavo (23.75cm.); original cloth in green pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; 284pp. Light wear to jacket extremities, spine a bit toned, else Fine in Very Good or better jacket.

London: Cape Goliard Press, 1970. First Edition. Cloth Issue. Quarto (28.5cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in white on spine and front cover; dustjacket; unpaged; illus. Signed by Padgett on the title page. Faint whitish transfer to lower edge of rear cover from corresponding damp mark on dustjacket; clean internally; Very Good+. Dustjacket is unclipped, with light wear and dustiness to extremities, and faint damp mark to lower edge of rear panel; Very Good+. Attractive collaborative work between the second generation New York School poet and American pop artist.

Roxbury, MA: Scoham Bookshelf, [1974]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original green printed staplebound wrappers; unpaged. Fine. Collection of six folktales and poems, including "An Ecstasy of African Witchcraft" and "The Story of Palm Wine.