Modern Poetry
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Modern Poetry Books & Ephemera
![The Floating Bear: A Newsletter. Issue # 30 [Gary Snyder's Copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/013/083/1296083013.0.b.jpg)
The Floating Bear: A Newsletter. Issue # 30 [Gary Snyder's Copy]
by DI PRIMA, Diane, ed
New York: The Floating Bear, 1964. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); stapled mimeographed pictorial self-wrappers illustrated by Jeanne Marlowe; [20]pp. Previous mail folds, wrappers a shade toned along extremities, rear cover starting to separate, else Very Good overall. Postally addressed in manuscript to Gary Snyder with return address of the American Theatre for Poets in New York. Contents includes a lengthy contribution by Gilbert Sorrentino describing various contemporary poets: Kerouac, "Enormously...
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$150.00
Didactic Verses
by PFAFF, Henry J
Buffalo: Henry J. Pfaff, 1983. First Edition. 12mo (16.5cm.); original cream staplebound card wrappers; [2],62pp. Fine. Collection of protest poetry by a member of the IWW. Not in MILES.
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$35.00
Blind Man's Bluff
by Weidman, Phil
Stockton CA: Wormwood Review, 1980. First, Limited Edition. Stapled wraps, 1/50 signed by the author. Sunned at spine and extremities; Near Fine.
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$30.00
Compostrella / Starfield
by Charles Potts
A free verse cosmic celebration of the American west, with author's notes and an essay by Klyd Watkins
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$3.34
![Muchedumbres: Elegía en cinco actos sobre la tierra, la vida y otros gritos de desesperación [Inscribed & Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/615/063/1015063615.0.b.jpg)
Muchedumbres: Elegía en cinco actos sobre la tierra, la vida y otros gritos de desesperación [Inscribed & Signed]
by MAÍZ CHACÓN, Jorge
[Mallorca]: Calumnia Ediciones, 2011. First Edition. Small, slim 12mo (17cm.); publisher's glossy pictorial card wrappers, French flaps; unpaged. Fine condition. Inscribed and signed on front free endpaper in English: "Thanks [?] / You're an example." Poetry collection by the Spanish professor of Medieval studies. OCLC locates no copies in North America as of August, 2017.
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$45.00
Vivisection
by FOWLER, Gene
[Berkeley]: Thorp Springs Press, [1971]. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); original staplebound wrappers illustrated with a lithograph by Amelia Odell; unpaged. Light toning, else Near Fine. Long poem originally published in Freelance.
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$35.00
Rhymes of a Red Cross Man
by SERVICE, Robert W
New York: Barse & Hopkins, [1916]. Octavo (19.5cm). Green cloth stamped in gilt; 192pp. Rubbed, with some gilt on front flaking away, with mild foxing throughout: Good. World War I poetry; Service drove an ambulance for the American Red Cross.
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$50.00
Selected Poems of George Woodcock
by WOODCOCK, George; Pat Gangnon, illus
Toronto: Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited, 1967. First Edition. Octavo (24cm.); publisher's boards in orange pictorial dust jacket; [84]pp.; illus. throughout. Boards rather bumped with brief exposure at corners, else Very Good, internally fine. Poetry collected by the Canadian political historian and anarchist.
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$25.00
Swear By the Night and Other Poems
by CRANE, Nathalia; Louis Untermeyer, intro
New York: Random House, [1936]. Slim octavo (23cm.); publisher's cloth-backed boards in blue decorative dust jacket printed in blue and black; 59pp. Chips and wear to jacket extremities including half-inch loss at spine foot, upper panel fore-edge faintly dampstained, else Good to Very Good overall. Poetry collection by the former child prodigy, whose first collection, "The Janitor's Boy," was published in 1924 when the author was only 10 years old.
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$25.00
The Fruit Theory
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] [POETRY] JONES, Jymi
Philadelphia: Dorrance & Company, 1973. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm); red cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; [vi],86,[4]pp. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $3.95), with scattered foxing to flap folds and edges. The Philadelphia activist and author's second book of poetry, following his debut volume Guerilla Warfare in Philly. Jones, strongly influenced by the upsurge in Black militancy during the early sixties, speaks through his poetry about the experience of...
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$75.00
Color Photos of the Atrocities
by PITCHFORD, Kenneth
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1973. First Edition. Octavo. Red cloth boards; pictorial dustjacket; 83pp. Fine copy in unworn jacket.
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$25.00
The Jewish Problem (for Stanley Burnshaw). Reprinted from The American Scholar
by SHAPIRO, Karl
N.p.: By the Author, 1991. Offprint. Octavo (25.5cm). Side-stapled wrappers; 2pp (single leaf printed both sides). Small bump at bottom edge, else Fine. Offprint from The American Scholar, vol. 60 no. 2 (Spring 1991), presumably an author's copy for distribution to friends and colleagues.
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$20.00
The Changes Orders Becomings
by Peyton Houston
Jargon 106. In this set of three poems Peyton Houston continues his exploration of the predicament of the human in a universe not too-well understood and of what can be done about it. Afternote by the author. Designed by William E. Loftin, with three drawings made expressly for the book by artist James McGarrell. One of 1000 copies bound in warm, light brown cloth with cream-colored dust jacket. 65 pages. Fine.
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$10.00
C. Day-Lewis, the Poet Laureate: A Bibliography
by HANDLEY-TAYLOR, Geoffrey and Timothy d'Arch Smith; W.H. Auden, intro
Chicago: St. James Press, 1968. First American Edition. Slim octavo (23.5cm.); original boards in dark blue gilt-lettered dust jacket; xii,40pp.; color portrait frontispiece, 6 leaves of plates, including photographs and facsimiles. Sunning to upper jacket panel and spine with jacket spine gilt rather dulled, light edge wear, minor bump to upper board, small sticker to front pastedown, else Near Fine in Near Very Good jacket.
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$50.00
Full Moon Dancers: Cape Poet. Spring, 2001
by [CAPE COD POETS THEATRE] GOUVEIA, José, ed
N.p.: Cape Cod Poets Theatre, 2001. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's yellow pictorial staplebound wrappers; 31pp. Just a hint of wear and soil, else Near Fine. Poetry anthology including contributions by Marge Piercy and Martin Espada. This title unlocated in OCLC as of October, 2018.
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$25.00
The King Who Saved Himself from Being Saved
by CIARDI, John; Edward Gorey, illus
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1965. First Edition. First printing. Oblong 12mo. Yellow cloth hardcover; dustjacket; [48]pp. Fine, fresh copy in the original dustwrapper, price-clipped else fresh and unworn, Near Fine.
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$50.00
![Poemscapes and A Letter to God [AND] Hurrah for Anything [Cover title: Doubleheader]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/227/909/966909227.0.b.jpg)
Poemscapes and A Letter to God [AND] Hurrah for Anything [Cover title: Doubleheader]
by PATCHEN, Kenneth
[New York]: New Directions, [1958]. First Thus. Octavo (20cm.); original pictorial black and white card wrappers; 55,[1],62pp.; illus. General shelf wear to wrapper extremities, else Very Good and sound.
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$30.00
Sonnets
by ROBINSON, Edwin Arlington
New York: Macmillan, 1928. First Edition. First printing, trade issue. 12mo (20cm). Cloth-backed, paper-covered boards, titled in silver on spine, with silver foil title label to front cover; dustjacket; 89pp. Upper corner of front board just pushed, else a fine, apparently unread copy in presumed later-issue dustwrapper, with corners clipped by publisher and $1.75 price overprinted at base of front flap. Near Fine jacket with some inconspicuous rubbing at head and heel of spine panel.
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$40.00
New and Collected Poems, 1964-2006
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] REED, Ishmael
New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2006. First Carroll & Graff Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.75cm); black paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xxiv,482,[6]pp. Spine ends gently bumped, else Near Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $25.95), with light wear to extremities. A substantial collection of Reed's poetry, spanning more than four decades.
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$35.00
Edwin Arlington Robinson
by [ROBINSON] WINTERS, Yvor; Alvin Lustig (design)
Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1946. First Edition. First printing. 12mo. Green cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 162pp. Tight, Near Fine copy in attractive original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2.00 at base of fron flap); light soil, a bit of toning at spine and margins, still Near Fine. In the New Directions "Makers of Modern Literature" series. The jacket, though unsigned, is by Alvin Lustig.
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$50.00
Kicking the Leaves
by HALL, Donald
New York: Harper and Row, 1978. First Trade Edition. Inscribed on half-title: "For Wayne / with Brockton platform pleasure," signed and dated in year of publication. Octavo (24cm). Cloth-backed boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 58pp. Fine in fine, unclipped dustwrapper. The somewhat uncommon hardcover trade issue, nicely inscribed, presumably to a fan traveling the same train route as Hall on the MBTA.
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$150.00
Songs, Merry and Sad
by MCNEILL, John Charles
Charlotte, NC: Stone & Barringer Co, 1906. First Edition. 12mo (20cm). Tan linen, titled on white paper label on front board; 106pp; frontispiece. Rubbed, minor dustsoil to cloth, gently foxed: Good. During his liftime, McNeill was frequently described as North Carolina's unofficial poet laureate.
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$40.00
![The Fables of La Fontaine [Limited Edition, Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/748/187/844187748.0.b.jpg)
The Fables of La Fontaine [Limited Edition, Signed]
by LA FONTAINE, Jean de; Marianne Moore, trans
New York: Viking Press, 1954. First Thus. Limited to 400 copies of which this is no. 267. Large, thick octavo (25cm.); original red cloth, gilt-lettered spine, in black glossy board slipcase; x,342pp.; photographic frontispiece. Spine a bit faded, else a Fine, mostly unopened copy. Slipcase worn with a few panels starting to separate, Good or better. Signed by the translator on limitation page. ABBOTT A11.a1b.
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$250.00
The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers
by JEFFERS, Robinson
New York: Random House, [1938]. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (24cm). Tan buckram with paper title label on spine; reddish-brown topstain; dustjacket; frontispiece portrait, xviii,[1]-622pp. A tight, Near Fine copy in the original dustwrapper, price-clipped, slightly darkened on spine panel and with a bit of rubbing to extremities, Very Good.
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$250.00
