Modern Poetry
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Modern Poetry Books & Ephemera
A DIFFERENT PERSON. A Memoir
by Merrill, James
New York: Knopf, 1993. First edition. An uncorrected proof copy in orange printed wrappers.
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$20.00
Primitives
by N'GOMA, Eugène
[Paris]: Pierre Jean Oswald, [1972]. First Edition. Small, slim 12mo (17.75cm.); original yellow printed card wrappers; 71pp. Fine. Congolese author's first (and apparently only) book, a collection of poetry. At the time of publication, N'Goma was teaching French at Brown University.
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$75.00
HISTORY OF DESIRE
by Hoagland, Tony
Tucson: Moon Pony Press, 1990. First Edition. Tall illustrated wrappers; 27 pp. A chapbook including the title poem from the poet's first regularly published book Sweet Ruin, not published until 1992. Inscribed and signed by Hoagland in 1997 to another (minor) poet. Laid in a brief typed note (torn from a sheet of paper) from the poet and a photocopied poem (not signed), "Heather and the Hair Color of Hope" not published until 2001 in AGNI 53. Corners bumped, light small stain, some creasing and uneven...
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$550.00
STRANGE MESSENGER. THE WORK OF PATTI SMITH
by SMITH, Patti
Pittsburgh: Andy Warhol Museum, (2002). First Edition. Pictorial wraps. Fine. Patti Smith. Pictorial wraps. Essays by David Greenburg and John W. Smith. Text and color reproductions of paintings and drawings by Smith who has SIGNED the front endpaper.
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$156.30
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England Reclaimed A Book of Eclogues [Signed, Limited]
by SITWELL, Osbert
London: Duckworth, 1927. First, Limited Edition. Limited to 165, this being # 32. Octavo (25cm); tan buckram titled in gilt on the spine; deckle edges; 100pp.; minor soil to the covers; spine slightly toned; foxing inside covers / endpapers; Very Good+. "The sequence of poems, which the author now has the honour to present to the public, represents the work of two years, and forms in itself a complete volume...ecogues, rustic and pastoral poems." (from the introduction); FIFOOT, OA12b.
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$100.00
THE BURIAL AT THEBES, with letter (both signed)
by Heaney, Seamus (trans and signed by him)
Dublin: Abbey Theatre, 2004. First Edition. Illustrated wrappers; 4to. [40 pp.] Program for the Abbey Theatre production of Heaney's translation of the play. Players biographies, cast etc. with notes (three pages) by SH and a photo of the cast and crew with him. Not to be confused with the common Abbey Theatre Playscript Series edition. Sophocles' Antigone translated by the Nobel Prize-winner. Signed by Seamus Heaney on the cover, with an accompanying letter - 35 words - in his hand using photocopied...
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$500.00
The Gospel According to Night (The Book of Ben, Part One) - SIGNED copy
by Nations, Opal Louis (Opal L. Nations)
London: TNT Press, 1972. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 4to, 19 leaves (printed one side), stapled wrappers. Recently SIGNED and rubber-stamped by the author on the first interior page. Uncirculated copy, moderate staple rust.
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$60.00
THE ENCHANTED ACRES
by Guest, Harry
Knotting: Sceptre Press, 1975. First edition. Chapbook. Number 20 of 50 copies signed by the poet, of an edition limited to 150 numbered copies. Fine in orange-yellow wrappers.
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$35.00
A Pen, Some Paper, Pen & Paper - SIGNED copy
by Nations, Opal Louis (Opal L. Nations, author), Ellen Frank (illustrator)
San Lorenzo, CA: Shameless Hussy Press, 1976. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 16pp, stapled wrappers. Number 76 of 250 stated copies, recently SIGNED by the author and rubber-stamped by him on the inside front cover. Uncirculated copy with minor wear and sunning.
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$30.00
The Nations of Rock n' Roll (Gegenschein 21, 1981) - SIGNED copy
by Nations, Opal Louis (Opal L. Nations, author), Phil Demise (ed.)
New York: Gegenschein, 1981. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 4to, 56 leaves (printed one-side), printed wrappers. Recently SIGNED by the author and rubber-stamped by him on the inside front cover. This issue of Gegenschein is entirely devoted to work by Opal Louis Nations. Uncirculated copy, just about as new with minor storage wear.
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$75.00
Strange Faeces 9 (Blue Suede Shoes Presents, No Nine, 1972)
by Nations, Opal L. (ed.), Glen Baxter, Pierre Joris, Carl Wissner (letter to Sinclair Beiles), Antonio Claudio Carvalho, Aram Saroyan, David and Maria Gitin, Robin Crozier, Paul Mathews, et al
Monterey, CA: Blue Suede Shoes Press, 1972. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 4to, 40pp (mimeographed), stapled wrappers. 1 of 200 stated copies. Scarce crossover issue (printed and publlshed by Keith Abbott of Blue Suede Shoes) of this important early seventies experimental poetry magazine edited by Opal L. Nations. Include writing by Glen Baxter, Pierre Joris, et al. Uncirculated copy with inevitable toning and some staple rust.
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$80.00
THE CHEER
by MEREDITH, William
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. Meredith's own copy of the uncorrected proof in printed wraps. Laid in on a 7" x 5" card is a MANUSCRIPT poem from the book, "Country Stars," written by Meredith and dated January 1975.
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$250.00
THE SHORE
by ST. JOHN, David
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1980. First Edition. Printed wraps. Fine with review slip laid in. Uncorrected Proof in orange wraps. Uncommon format for poet's second book.
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$56.30
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Original poster: Labor Champion Tom Mooney / Free Mooney: a Class War Prisoner 19 Years, July 27, 1935 / Victim of a Monstrous Capitalist Class Frameup / Member of International Molders' Union 33 Years [alt. title: Labor Martyr Immortalized in Prison / Stone Face]
by [SOCIALISTS] [TOM MOONEY MOLDERS' DEFENSE COMMITTEE] RIDGE, Lola
San Francisco: Tom Mooney Molders' Defense Committee, 1935. First Edition. Original photo-illustrated broadsheet poster (71x86cm.) printed offset in black on white stock; features two of the most well-known photographic portraits of Mooney on recto and verso. Previous folds, just a hint of foxing, else Very Good or better. Large fund-raising poster issued by the Committee "for Labor Day, May Day, Working Class and Mooney parades and demonstrations, mass meetings, Unions' halls and Workers' headquarters"...
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$750.00
Creation of a Nation, Death of a Mind / Catalog for Eddie Warings Hydrostatic Douche Primer - SIGNED copy
by Nations, Opal Louis (Opal L. Nations) and Paul Brown
London: The Strange Faeces Press, 1972. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 4to, 10 leaves (printed one side, dos a dos), stapled wrappers. SIGNED by each author, and additionally rubber-stamped by Opal Nations. Comprises two short experimental visual works, bound dos a dos. Uncirculated copy, minor wear.
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$60.00
Jargon 31: 14 Poets, 1 Artist
by WILLIAMS, Jonathan (ed)
New York: Jargon, 1958. First Edition. Octavo. Folded wrappers enclosing 14 loose broadside poems, reproduced from holograph over illustrations by Fielding Dawson. Includes poems by Louis Zukofsky, Denise Levertov, Allen Ginsberg, Walter Lowenfels, Paul Blackburn, Edward Dahlberg, etc. Wrappers moderately soiled; contents fine; Very Good, lacking the original mailing envelope.
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$50.00
LOVE'S WILL (Poems 1967)
by Bialy, Harvey
Annandale-on-Hudson: Matter Books, 1968. First Edition. Oblong chapbook in purple printed wrappers; 8vo. With a long inscription by the poet with drawing and colored pen, to the poet Ted Enslin (also published by Matter). Early if not first book by the controversial molecular biologist. Minor creasing and wear, but heavily toned and a bit soiled.
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$25.00
WINTER POLES
by Callahan, Bob, Illustrated by Okamura, Arthur
n. p.: Hipparchia Press, 1977. First edition. Original sewn wraps; silkscreen cover. One of 200 copies. Crisp, elegant, 10 pages of poetry stitched into stiff wraps. Cover design by Arthur Okamura. Fine.
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$25.00
Book I.
by JACKSON, William B
New York: Rannick Playwrights Company, 1971. First Edition. First Printing. Slim octavo (21.5cm); illustrated wrappers, stapled; [32]pp. Top edge lightly foxed, else Fine. Jackson's second book of poetry, primarily dealing with Black Nationalism, racsim, and the Black experience in impoverished areas. OCLC shows 6 copies in member institutions.
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$50.00
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Vindictment [Samisdat, Vol. XVI, no. 2]
by CLIFTON, Merritt
Richford, VT: Samisdat, 1977. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's pale green pictorial staplebound card wrappers; 40pp.; illus. Spine a bit toned, else Very Good and sound.
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$25.00
Songs From the Native Lands: Poetry
by MANYARROWS, Victoria Lena
San Francisco: Nopal Press, 1995. First Edition. Octavo; photo-illustrated wrappers; [xii],81,[3]pp. Tiny sticker remnant to lower rear wrapper, else Fine. First full-length book of poetry by the Native American author, giving voice "to her experience as an indigenous woman in the native lands north and south of the Rio Grande. From North Dakota to Nicaragua, Canada to California, these poems unravel oppression, rejoice in love, confront injustice, and sing praise to the strength and beauty of Native...
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$25.00
Launcelot
by LEWIS, Sinclair
[Cambridge: Privately printed by the Harvard Press for Harvey Taylor, 1932]. Of this first edition of Sinclair Lewis' earliest known published writing one hundred copies privately printed" of which this is no. 6, octavo (19.5cm.); white decorative self-wrappers, fore-edge untrimmed; unpaged. Numbered and signed by Harvey Taylor. Fine. Poem originally published in the Yale Literary Magazine, March, 1904. First Printings of American Authors III, p. 216.
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$200.00
The Mind-Reader. New Poems
by WILBUR, Richard
New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1976. First Edition. First printing. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 67pp. Fine, tight copy in crisp and attractive, unclipped, Near Fine dustwrapper.
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$45.00
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The Summer of Black Widows [Signed]
by ALEXIE, Sherman
Brooklyn: Hanging Loose Press, 1996. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (23.5cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in white on spine; dustjacket; [10],11-139,[5]pp. Signed by the author on the title page. Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket (priced $22.00). Sharp copy of the National Book Award-winning author's sixth collection of poems, some of which were first published in Seattle Weekly, Graffiti Rag, Caliban, Beloit Poetry Journal, and Red Brick Review, et al.
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$100.00
CAVENDER'S HOUSE
by ROBINSON, E. A
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Some sunning to covers. Near Fine, lacking the slipcase. Copy #99 of 500 SIGNED by the poet on the limitation page. In addition Robinson has written four lines from the poem's beginning on the half-title page and SIGNED the book again: "He stood by the same door that he had closed/Twelve years ago, and waited; and again/He closed the door, slowly and silently,/And was himself a part of darkness there/E. A. Robinson." Bookplate on front...
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$312.50
