Search Results: Poetry from Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

Chicago: The Yellow Press, 1976. Minor rubbing to jacket, generally a fine copy. 8vo. 132 pages. Original blue cloth; printed dust jacket. First edition. Signed by Ted Berrigan and dated July 1980 on the front free endpaper. He has also made a correction (crossed out a word) in the final poem of his, "Boulder," on p. 9. The included poets comprise Berrigan, Walter Bradford, Gwendolyn Brooks, Paul Carroll, Maxine Chernoff, Richard Friedman, Paul Hoover, Angela Jackson, Henry Kanabus, Peter Kostakis, Art Lange, Haki R. Madhubuti (Don. L. Lee), Alice Notley, Darlene Pearlstein, and Barry Schechter. Also issued in wrappers, this hardcover issue is scarce.

Salt-Works Press, 1979. First edition. A nearly fine bright copy. One of 500 copies. 8vo. Printed wrappers.

Brooklyn: Nimbus Books, 1987. Some minor handling wear, generally fine. Folded sheet (8.5 x 5.5 inches). FIRST EDITION, one of 250 copies, signed at the foot of each poem by the authors: "Goofy's Brush with Despair" (Wieder) and "Goofy Plays Second Fiddle in the Family Quartet" (Shapiro). Designed by Andrea Korotky.

Albuquerque, NM: Hoshour Gallery, 1988. Fine. Folio (280 x 242 mm; 11 x 9 1/2 in.). Text and plates loose as issued in chemise and slipcase. One of 1500 copies, printed by the Meriden-Stinehour Press.

Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1987. A near-fine copy, a soft crease on some internal pages in a fine, price clipped jacket. 8.5 x 6.25 inches. 54 pages. Cloth; dust jacket. Inscribed by the author on title-page. First Edition, the hardcover issue, of the author's acclaimed first book. An extensive collection of Karr's poetry.

[New York]: The Spiral Press, 1960. In fine condition. Oblong 16mo. 8 leaves. Original printed wrappers. First edition, issue for Henry Holt and Company, one of 6,600 copies with their imprint, inscribed by Maureen and Sybil. Crane B32.

Vancouver: Standard, 1978. 4to. [11] pp. Illustrated by Bryan Wert. Original printed wrappers. Fine. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 40 of 40 copies signed by the author and illustrator from an edition of 350 copies.

[West Chester, PA]: Aralia Press, 1992. 12.5 x 16 inches. On Iyo Glazed paper. One of 60 copies published in honor of the poet's eightieth birthday.

Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1975. A near-fine copy with light toning to wrapper edges. 8vo. [16] pages. Stapled as issued in self-wrappers. FIRST EDITION of Sparrow 30, a collection of poems.

Tibor de Nagy Editions, 1968. A little age darkened else a very good copy. 8vo. Printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION. Inscribed by Towle on the half-title.

New Rochelle, NY: The Elizabeth Press, 1969. 8vo. [96] pp. Original cloth; printed dust jacket. Jacket with one minor closed tear, spine slightly sunned. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by Enslin on the front free endpaper.

San Francisco: City Lights Books/House of Anansi, 1969. Pale sun toning along rear upper and lower edges, owner's name on front free endpaper. 8vo. Original pictorial wrappers. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION.

New York: Moon Dragon Press, 1975. Near-fine with a few soft creases at corners. 11 x 8.5 inches. Printed in red and black. On Blue Water Script 25% Rag paper. This is Moon Dragon Press Broadside No. 1.

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2010. A fine copy. 8vo. 300 pages. Black boards; printed dust jacket. First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, inscribed by Bernstein on the title-page at the Zinc Bar, NYC, 3/28/2010.

New York: Moon Dragon Press, 1975. Near-fine with a few soft creases at corners. 11 x 8.5 inches. Printed in red and black. On Blue Water Script 25% Rag paper. Inscribed in red felt-tip pen by the poet, April 15, 1976. This is Moon Dragon Press Broadside No. 1.

Np: Granite, 1976. 8vo. [64] pp. Original printed wrappers. Soft vertical crease to wrappers and endleaves, lightly rubbed. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed in 1977 on the front free endpaper by Bertolino: "in the hallowed bowels of Roger Wm's with vino et cheez, Jim Bertolino.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1934. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Spine of cloth slightly faded; jacket lacking inner rear panel, a few other chips and smaller losses. 8vo. Original blue cloth, untrimmed; dust jacket. First edition. This book is dedicated to Stephen Vincent Benét and his wife Rosemary (the rear cover of the dust jacket is devoted to a blurb by Benét about the book). This is the dedication copy, inscribed by Engle on the front flyleaf: "For Steve and Rosemary, with great affection, Paul, Oxford, Trinity, 1934." At the time Engle was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford. He later helped found the celebrated Iowa Writers Workshop, and published a large body of work, much of it focusing on his native Iowa. (BA).

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1900. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Two volumes, large 8vo. Frontispieces and engraved titles. Original boards, printed paper labels, untrimmed; in a red quarter morocco slipcase. First edition, limited large-paper issue, no. 35 of the 'Author's Autography Copy" edition signed by Stedman. Bookplates of Frederick W. Skiff, Joseph Hodges Choate, and Jean Hersholt. With gift inscription Dec. 19, 1954 from Sally and Lew Feldman to Hilda and Frederic Dannay.

New York: Privately Printed, 1911. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. A fine copy. 8vo. Original thin printed boards, edges untrimmed. First edition of Bradley's first book, number 3 of 100 numbered copies. A penciled note says this copy was in the library of the dedicatee George Edward Woodberry, American critic and poet.

New York: Tompkins Square Press, 1967. A near-fine copy with slight toning to cloth. 12mo. 62 pages. Portrait frontispiece by Bob Ellison. Original cloth, cover design by Renie Perkins. FIRST EDITION, one of 1000 copies, this out-of-series. Introduction by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED on the limitation leaf: "For Sam, w/ best love Ray Bremser." this was the first in the Tompkins Square Poets series.