The Moment of Poetry
MD: Johns Hopkins Press, 1967. Hardcover. Very good minus purple stains on end pg, sticker on inner front panel, light soiling of panels/spine, bumping of corners/ends. More
MD: Johns Hopkins Press, 1967. Hardcover. Very good minus purple stains on end pg, sticker on inner front panel, light soiling of panels/spine, bumping of corners/ends. More
New York: The Academy of American Poets, 1994. Softcover. First edition. Octavo. Stapled self-wrappers. Fine. One of 499 copies. Issued on the occasion of a reading by Chancelloers of The Academy of American Poets at the Library of Congress Introduced by Rita Dove. More
New York: Ballantine Books, 1953. Softcover. First edition, wrappered issue. 179pp. Pages slightly age-toned, spine with reader's creases, wrappers lightly worn, very good. Contributions by W.H. Auden, Louise Bogan, Philip Booth, Padraic Colum, Galway Kinnell, James Merrill, Marianne Moore, Howard Moss, Theodore Roethke, May Sarton, Louis Simpson, Wallace Stevens, Richard..... More
Boston: The Atlantic Monthly Company, 1975. Softcover. Vol. 235, No. 6, June 1975. Quarto. 99pp. Stapled wrappers. Illustrated in black and white as well as color. Wrappers split along the bottom of the spine, edgewear including some chips and tears, wrappers rubbed, good only but a perfectly suitable reading copy..... More
(New York: The Hudson Review), 1969. Softcover. First edition. 602-784pp. Illustrated with photographic plates. Printed wrappers. Spine moderately browned, covers lightly soiled, bit of early brown staining on rear cover, very good. Prints "A Native Hill" by Wendell Berry and "Volpone" by William Empson; additional contributions by Victor Brombert, Suzanne..... More
Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, (1972). Softcover. First edition, wrappered issue. Edited with an Introduction by Elizabeth Bishop and Emanuel Brasil. Parallel text in Portuguese and English. Foxing on page edges, sunned spine, very good. Complimentary copy from the Center for Inter-American Relations, one of the sponsors for this book..... More
Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, (1972). Softcover. First edition, wrappered issue. Edited with an Introduction by Elizabeth Bishop and Emanuel Brasil. Parallel text in Portuguese and English. Crease to the front wrap and light edgewear, very good. Complimentary copy from the Center for Inter-American Relations, one of the sponsors for..... More
New York: Columbia University, 1976. Softcover. Periodical. Octavo. 152pp. Perfectbound in about near fine wrappers sunned at the spine and bumped corner. Literary journal featuring contributions from Jorge Luis Borge, Anthony Burgess, Carlos Fuentes, Philip Levine, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Boris Pasternak, and Richard Wilbur, among many others. More
New York: 92nd Street YM-YWHA, 1989. Softcover. Seven leaves folded to make fourteen pages, unstapled as issued. Fine. Program for a reading, prints poems by each of the readers. More
New York: Fordham University Press, 1986. Softcover. First trade edition, and first edition thus (by this publisher). Illustrated from wood engravings by John De Pol. Illustrated wrappers. Fine. Poet David Ignatow's copy with his owner label. Inscribed by the editor to Ignatow: "For Dave a poet who would have been..... More
New York: Pantheon Books, (1993). Hardcover. Preceded by a 1955 edition. Illustrated by Alexander Calder. Folio. Fine in fine dustwrapper. From the library of the artists Ben Shahn and Bernarda Bryson Shahn, with an estate label designed by their son, Jonathan Shahn. More
New York: Printed at the Spiral Press for Pantheon Books, -1955. Hardcover. First edition. Compiled by Richard Wilbur. Illustrated by Alexander Calder. Folio. Dark blue cloth stamped in silver with design by Calder on front cover. A fine copy in publisher's unprinted glassine dust jacket and publisher's cardboard slipcase box..... More
Boston / New York: Mariner / Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009. Softcover. Uncorrected proof. Translated and with an introduction by Richard Wilbur. Fine in glossy pictorial wrappers. More
Orlando: Harvest / Harcourt, Inc., (2007). Softcover. First edition. Translated and with an introduction by Richard Wilbur. Fine in wrappers. More
(Dorchester, Massachusetts): Origin, 1951. Softcover. First edition. Prints by Dick Boyce. 125-186pp. Stapled wrappers. Small stain on page foredges and on spine, lightly age-toned, very good. Laid into the book is publisher's printed promotional sheet and order form. Contributions by Robert Creeley, Charles Olson, William Bronk, Richard Wilbur, Samuel French..... More
(Dorchester, Massachusetts): Origin, 1951. Softcover. First edition. Illustrated from prints by Dick Boyce. 125-186pp. Stapled wrappers. Spine lightly tanned, wrappers faintly soiled, very good. Contributions by Robert Creeley, Charles Olson, William Bronk, Richard Wilbur, Samuel French Morse and others. More
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1971). Softcover. First edition of this translation by Richard Wilbur. Pictorial wrappers. Pages lightly toned, near fine. More
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1971). Hardcover. First edition of this translation. Octavo. 146pp. Fine in a toned, very good or better dust jacket. More
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1971). Hardcover. First edition of this translation by Richard Wilbur. Octavo. 146pp. Fine in about near fine toned dust jacket. More
(Munchen): Babel, (1990). Softcover. First edition. Quarto. 80pp. Text in English, German and French. Printed wrappers. Fine. An international periodical devoted to new poetry in English, German and French and translations of poetry in these languages (translations printed opposite original poems). Includes Previous unpublished work by André du Bouchet, George..... More
Charlotte, North Carolina: Stuart Wright / Heritage, 1979. Unbound. Broadside. Measuring 15¼" x 24". A fine copy. One of only 50 copies printed for Stuart Wright to celebrate poet and novelist George Garrett's 50th birthday. Contributions from Richard Wilbur, Babette Deutsch, Wright Morris, Dara Wier, and others. More
Washington: Library of Congress, 1959. Softcover. First edition. Stapled wrappers. 56pp. Fine. Lectures presented under the auspices of the Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund. More
Washington: Library of Congress, 1959. Softcover. First edition. Stapled wrappers. 56pp. Wrappers age-toned, corners rubbed, very good. Lectures presented under the auspices of the Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund. More
Washington: Library of Congress, 1959. Softcover. First edition. 56pp. Stapled wrappers. Faint vertical creases on wraps, near fine. Lectures presented under the auspices of the Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund. More
Washington: Reference Department / Library of Congress, 1959. Softcover. First edition. 56pp. Stapled wrappers. Spine tanned, rear wrap with moderate uneven tanning, covers slightly worn, very good. Lectures presented under the auspices of the Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund. More