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New York: Washington Square Press, 1966. Hardcover. Complete 3-volume set. Translation by Louis Biancolli. Illustrations by Harry Bennett. Small 4to. Quarter ivory cloth with gilt spine lettering and pictorial paper over boards, slipcase with paper label. (284pp, 280pp, 284pp). Full-page illustrations. Fine/near fine. Handsome set of this bilingual edition with Italian original facing English free verse translation. The first… Read more about this item

Iowa City: University of Iowa, 1961. Paperback. Narrow small 4to. Stiff pale blue wrappers. (26pp). Fine. First and surely sole printing of this slim, scarce pamphlet whose contributors include Iowa Poetry Workshop's long-time director Paul Engle along with such luminaries as Philip Levine, W.D. Snodgrass, Donald Justice, William Dickey and others. (Front wrapper title: "Poems: Creative Arts Week, May… Read more about this item

Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1969. Hardcover. Translation and n otes by Allan Gilbert. Small 4to. Charcoal grey cloth with gilt spine lettering, price-clipped dust jacket. xlvi, 373pp. Fine/very good. Bit of age toning and uneven sunning to rear panel (only) of nice jacket. Handsome first of this edition, a side-by-side pairing of the original Italian of this first… Read more about this item

Paperback. One of the great American protest and radical poets, Beecher left his steel mill background to teach English and sociology at various universities; he worked various positions under the New Deal; his first published poem, "And I Will Be Heard" (1940), placed him on the literary map, and the book-length narrative poem "Here I Stand" came the following… Read more about this item

Pittsburgh: Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1983. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. 77pp. Near fine. Attractive and tight first softbound edition of the second verse gathering from the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and former Poet Laureate (born 1952). Two ownership signatures on inside front cover, one of which is Bill Pauly (1942-2021), long-time English professor at Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa… Read more about this item

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1979. Hardcover. Introduction by Robert Louis Stevenson. Edited by Leonie Adams. 4to. Green cloth with gilt lettering, slipcase. 145pp. Decorative endpapers. Fine/near fine. Ownership signature on inner flyleaf. Sharp, bright, tight LEC edition -- second title in their 45th Series -- of this selection of the colorful 15th century French poet's verse, featuring… Read more about this item

New York: The Noonday Press, 1998. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. 85pp. Near fine. Handsome fourth softbound printing of this Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award winner, as circular gold foil label on front wrapper loudly proclaims. The poet inscribes and signs huge and bold in black fineline on title page: "Charles Wright, / For Bill."… Read more about this item

Hanover: Wesleyan University Press, 1991. Paperback. Foreword by David St. John. 8vo. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. xxiii, 157pp. Frontispiece. Near fine. Superb and tight third printing of the second edition of this 1983 National Book Award for Poetry winner, boldly inscribed and signed in black fineline on title page: "Charles Wright -- / For Bill again." Wright (born 1935)… Read more about this item

San Diego: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1996. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. xi, 83pp. Fine. Superbly tight and perfect later printing of this softbound edition, inscribed and signed huge and bold in black fineline on half-title page: "For Bill / Charles Simic." Simic (1938-2023) was the Pulitzer Prize-winning Serbian-American poet. Recipient "Bill" is Bill Pauly (1942-2021), a poet… Read more about this item

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1996. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. 205pp. Fine. Pristine and tight fourth printing, inscribed and signed large and bold in black ballpoint on title page "For Bill / With best wishes / Eavan Boland." Boland (1944-2020) was a prolific Irish poet, author and educator. Recipient "Bill" is Bill Pauly (1942-2021), long-time… Read more about this item

Cumberland, IA: The Pterodactyl Press, 2003. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff pale green wrappers. 59pp. Fine. Pristine and lovely first edition of the third volume in the "Iowa Poets Series" -- a posthumous verse gathering from the prolific Iowa poet (1900-83) nicknamed "The Robert Frost of the Midwest." Uncommon.

Dennis, MA: salt-works press, 1976. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff pale blue wrappers. (54pp). Very good. A tad sunned about the edges, per usual. Tight and nice first edition, with rear colophon noting limitation to 300 numbered copies (this #220). Handsome slim verse gathering from the prolific Maine avant-garde poets (1925-2011).

New York: The Heritage Press, 1942. Hardcover. Translation by Alexander Pope. Illustrations by John Flaxman. Small 4to. Blue blind-ruled cloth with gilt spine lettering, slipcase. xi, 357pp. Numerous full-page illustrations. Very good/very good. Spine well sunned, else tight and internally fine; front flyleaf ownership signature; slipcase a bit age toned. Tight and nice edition, with relevant "Sandglass" issue laid… Read more about this item

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1976. Hardcover. Translation by Richmond Lattimore. Small 4to. Brown cloth with gilt spine lettering. 527pp. Very good/very good. Outer page edges faintly speckled; jacket spine rather sunned. Just a book club edition of what's generally considered the greatest Iliad translation ever -- but super tight, clean, unmarked and nice.

Chicago: Workman for Workmen Inc, 1960. Paperback. Small 4to. Heavy stock trifold leaflet. Illustration. Fine. Original unaddressed mailing envelope. An interesting, oddball poem. The author, a Chicago business woman and social activist who befriended Carl Sandburg in the 1950s and became unusually close to him, was, writes Sandburg biographer Penelope Niven, "statuesque and extraordinarily beautiful." Inner central panel of… Read more about this item

London, Ontario: South Western Ontario Poetry, 1984. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff tan wrappers. 28pp. Near fine. Tight and handsome first edition of this slim verse gathering by the Latvian-Canadian psychologist and poet (born 1940) who's a major player in the world of haikus, boldly inscribed and signed by him in black ballpoint on title page: "Bill, / A fellow traveller,… Read more about this item

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1945. Hardcover. Edited by Louis Untermeyer. Illustrations by Richard and Doris Beer. Small 4to. Full black sheepskin with gilt lettering, slipcase. xvi, 238pp. Color illustrations, all pages ruled in blue. Near fine/near fine. Slipcase faintly age toned. Tight and handsome copy of this lovely LEC production -- fourth title in their 16th series.… Read more about this item

Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1992. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff tan wrappers. 204pp. Very good. Mild wear to outer wrapper, though tight and internally near fine. Tight, nice twentieth printing of this thick and popular 1969 verse collection.Front flyleaf bears inked ownership signature of Bill Pauly (1942-2021), an Iowa poet and academic especially well known for his haikus.

New York: Viking Press, 1990. Hardcover. 8vo. Quarter black cloth with silver spine lettering and grey paper over boards, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. ix, 75pp. Fine/fine. Pristine, tight first edition of this Maine's poet's work.

Minneapolis: New Rivers Press, 1994. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. 73pp. Near fine. Bright, tight first edition of this verse gathering by the Iowa poet, boldly inscribed and signed by her in black ballpoint on front flyleaf to a fellow Iowa poet: "For Bill Pauly / Nice meeting you at / the Hearst Celebration / of Poetry. /… Read more about this item