Poetry from Royal Books, Inc.

N.p.: N.p., 1963. Vintage borderless press photograph of Soviet poet and novelist Yevgeny Yevtushenko, circa 1963. Printed mimeo snipes and Dalmas and PIX agency stamps on the verso. Yevtushenko embarked upon a tour of West Germany and France in 1963. From the archive of the PIX Agency, an American photo house that acted as an intermediary… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1969. Vintage oversize borderless photograph of Beat poet and writer Allan Ginsberg, circa 1969. From the archive of the PIX Agency, an American photo house that acted as an intermediary between emigre photographers (as well as those still living in Europe) and the American magazine and newspaper market between 1935-1969. 10.25 x 13.25… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1969. Vintage oversize borderless photograph of Beat poet and writer Allan Ginsberg in profile, circa 1969. From the archive of the PIX Agency, an American photo house that acted as an intermediary between emigre photographers (as well as those still living in Europe) and the American magazine and newspaper market between 1935-1969. 9.75… Read more about this item

New York: Acme News Pictures, 1935. Vintage press photograph of novelist, poet, and playwright Gertrude Stein preparing to return to Paris by ocean liner on May 4, 1935. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso, along with the stamps of the "Philadelphia Inquirer" and its library. Stein arrived in America in October of 1934 after a 30-year… Read more about this item

East Aurora, NY: The Roycroft Shop, 1899. First printing of this edition. Limited Edition, one of 920 hand numbered copies (this being No. 638) SIGNED by publisher Elbert Hubbard. Poor, bound in embossed suede, with text block detached from the binding, a chip at the heel, and endpapers moderately toned.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1929. First Edition. First Edition. A collection of stories adapted from the "Shahnameh" by the Persian poet Ferdowsi. Very Good plus, lacking the dust jacket, with a slight lean, spine lightly toned and soiled, and a small dampstain on the top left corner of the rear board.

New York: Dodd, Mead, 1901. First Edition. First Edition. First printing, with the title page in state B, printed in black and green. With art nouveau decorations by Margaret Armstrong, and photographs by the Hampton Institute Camera Club, throughout. A collection of nine poems by renowned, influential African American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, best known for his dialect… Read more about this item

Berkeley: Poltroon Press, 1986. Limited Edition, one of 120 unnumbered copies SIGNED by author Jess Collins. Additionally INSCRIBED by the author on the first blank: "Dear Ken / Some old dreams here all dresst [sic] up pretty like / Sending herewith loving best wishes as always and ever / Love / Jess." The only known publication by the… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan, 1919. First Trade Edition, preceded by the Cuala Press edition in 1914. Gilt cover design by T. Sturge Moore. Very Good plus, lacking the scarce dust jacket, with small bumps at the bottom right board corners, and a tiny splash on the bottom right of the front board.

San Francisco: New College of California, 1990. Vintage "Harm Farm and The Heads of the Town Join Various Poetic Performers to Celebrate the Publication of NCOC's Poetics Journal Prosodia" poster, for a performance at San Francisco's New College Valencia Center, Saturday, June 30, 1990. The critically acclaimed Harm Farm were an alternative San Francisco band, whose use of… Read more about this item

San Francisco: N.p., 1990. Vintage "[illegible] Hard Driving Acoustic Poetry in the Castro" flyer for a performance by what appears to be "Tritanes," although the a has been illegibly amended, and an art opening by Michael Brown, at San Francisco's A Different Light bookstore, Sunday March 4, 1990. A Different Light was a chain of four LGBTQ bookstores,… Read more about this item

Pocatello, Idaho: The Limberlost Press, 1980. First Edition. First Edition. Limited Edition, one of 26 hand-lettered copies (this being letter C) SIGNED by the author. Very Good plus in side stapled wrappers, with wrapper spine lightly toned.

New York: Grossman, 1969. First Edition. First Edition. Noted artist, architect, and philosopher Madeline Gins' first published book, now regarded as a masterwork of experimental fiction. Very Good plus in a Very Good dust jacket. Faint offsetting on the boards, and a small tap on the top edge of the front board. Jacket moderately foxed overall, with… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1989. Vintage flyer for a performance by Danielle Hell and Iao Core on Saturday, September 2, 1989, at the Hat Heads Gallery of the San Francisco College of Art. Danielle Willis, a self-described San Francisco-based poet, writer, and vampire, who often went under the pseudonym Danielle Hell in the late 1980s and early 1990s, is best… Read more about this item

San Francisco: Klub Komotion, 1989. Vintage flyer for a 1989 film screening at San Francisco's Klub Komotion, held on December 2, 1989. In addition to the screening, the flyer advertises poetry by Q.R. Hand accompanied by Lewis Jordan on sax, and music by Fuzz Factor. Based on the 1950 French novel "La Rue Cases-Nègres" by Joseph Zobel. Set… Read more about this item

London: Paul Breman, 1971. Vintage flyer announcing the forthcoming publication of a book in honor of Dutch poet and anthologist Rosey E. Pool, limited to 250 copies and slated for publication on May 7, 1974 (Pool's birthday). The last page of the flyer lists the contributors to the book, includingW.E.B. DuBois, Nina Simone, Naomi Madgett, Langston Hughes,… Read more about this item

Geneva: Editions du Sablier, 1919. Limited Edition, one of 706 numbered copies (this being No. 8). With ten woodcut illustrations by Flemish artist Frans Masereel. Text and titles in French. Very Good plus, bound in contemporary quarter-leather, with raised bands and gilt titles on the spine.

Boston: Thayer and Eldridge / Richard Worthington, 1860. Third edition. Richard Worthington "pirated" printing, with no printer and stereotype information on copyright page. Frontispiece tissue guard intact. The third edition of Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" was initially published by Thayer and Eldridge in 1860. At the beginning of 1861, however, they declared bankruptcy and sold the… Read more about this item

Unknown: Privately printed, 1939. Limited Edition, one of 100 numbered copies (this being No. 27). INSCRIBED by the author to American journalist Edgar Mowrer on the limitation page: "To Edgar Mowrer / from / Edward Storer / Rome / 30/1/'60." Considered by many to be "the dean of American foreign correspondents," Edgar Mowrer was born in Bloomington in… Read more about this item

London: George Routledge, 1858. First UK Edition thus. Illustrated throughout with 33 engravings by the Brothers Dalziel, after Birket Foster. Good, with front hinge starting, dampstains on the bottom right page and board corners, and light foxing on the endpapers.