We Are All Lesbians: A Poetry Anthology
New York: Violet Press, (1973). Softcover. First edition. Octavo. 64pp. Illustrated. Stapled illustrated blue wrappers. A little sunning at the extremities else about fine. More
Poetry
A conversation between Tom and Ashley
A: [clears throat] “Winter in Gloucester…”
T: Huh?
A: Stop stifling my creativity! I’m writing a haiku for my poetry elist. [finger snaps]
T: And that sells books how?
A: Fine… how about just a limerick?
T: That sounds more amusing, but it doesn’t sound any better. How about you work?
A: “There once was a bookseller named Tom…”
T: [walks away]
A: [yells] What rhymes with Tom?
T: Work!
~ fin ~
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Black Stone Mother God
(Montreal: Cross Country Press, 1979). Unbound. First edition of this poem postcard. Some light tanning, otherwise a fine copy. One of 750 copies printed. *OCLC* locates two copies. More
(Poster): Rutgers College Program Council. Lecture Committee Presents Gwendolyn Brooks Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet
[New Brunswick?]: Rutgers College Program Council, [no date - circa 1980?]. Unbound. Photographic poster. 11" x 17". Small tack hole in upper margin, else about fine. A portrait of Brooks on the right side, and a quote from Lerone Bennett, Jr. on the left. More
A Lost Poem
New York: Harvard Press, (1932). Unbound. A single sheet of laid paper French folded to make four pages. Fine. One of 100 numbered copies Signed by Harvey Taylor. A fragile and rare Crane "A" item, presumably missing from many Crane collections. *BAL* 4105. More
![Item #341651 [Vinyl Record]: E.E. Cummings Reads His Poetry. E. E. CUMMINGS](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/341651.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1565817005)
[Vinyl Record]: E.E. Cummings Reads His Poetry
New York: Caedmon Publishers, (1953). Unbound. First edition. Original 33 1/3 rpm vinyl album, photo of author on rear along comments about the recording. The corner a touch bumped, else fine. Includes the author reading from *Him*, *EIMI*, *Santa Claus*, and 18 poems. More
A Coney Island of the Mind
(New York): New Directions, (1958). Softcover. Fourth printing. Age-toned, else near fine. Uncommon advance format. A set of unbound folded and gathered sheets for the fourth printing, formerly from the collection of New Directions publicity director Ned Erbe. More
A Masque of Reason
New York: Henry Holt, (1945). Hardcover. First edition, trade issue. About fine in a mildly chipped, very good dustwrapper with slight nicking. Inscribed by the author: "To Daniel Smythe (home again) from his old friend Robert Frost. October 30, 1945. Cambridge." A nice association – Smythe was the author of..... More
(Vinyl record): Allen Ginsberg Reads Howl and Other Poems
[No place]: Fantasy, 1959. Softcover. 33 1/3 rpm 12" red vinyl disc in paper sleeve and cardboard sleeve. Disc and sleeve are fine, cardboard sleeve is a bit foxed else near fine. Long printed introduction by Ginsberg on the rear of the sleeve. Stamped "Promotional Copy" and with the ownership..... More
An Armada of Thirty Whales
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1954. Hardcover. First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with glue remnants on the inside of the wrapper. Author's first book, chosen by W.H. Auden for The Yale Series of Younger Poets. This copy comes from the author's library with his address label tipped in..... More
![Item #424839 [Musical broadside]: Hymn by Oliver Wendell Holmes Written Expressly for the Great...](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/424839.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1568649261)
[Musical broadside]: Hymn by Oliver Wendell Holmes Written Expressly for the Great Sanitary Fair
[Philadelphia]: G.W. Childs, 1864. Unbound. First edition, printing A. Approximately 6.5" x 12". Printed on woven paper. Hymn with both text and musical notation, with the pictorial Seal of the Great Sanitary Fair as header. Old folds with tiniest tears at the edges and a little age-toning, near fine. Presumably..... More
(Small broadside): Tougaloo College Presents Langston Hughes
Tougaloo, Mississippi: Tougaloo College, [1952]. Unbound. Mimeographed small broadside or handbill. 5.5" x 8.5". Fine. A simple handbill and program for a lecture by Hughes at a small African-American college. Hughes presented, "At the Feet of Jesus," and "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," with Florence Perkins as soloist. Hughes was..... More
New Selected Poems
New York: Harper and Row, (1982). Hardcover. First American edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. More
Overland to the Islands
Highlands: Jonathan Williams, 1958. Softcover. First edition, regular issue. Tall octavo. Fine in wrappers in near fine dustwrapper with light wear at the crown. One of 450 copies. An early collection of poetry by the author. More
Poems of World War II
MD: Bethesda-Chevy Chase, (1945). Softcover. First edition. Near fine in stapled wrappers with publishers material laid in. Inscribed by the author to Phyllis Armstrong, the former assistant in poetry at the Library of Congress. More
Winter Trees
London: Faber and Faber, (1971). Hardcover. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Poetry Book Society promotional material laid in. An immaculate copy. More
Best Poems of 1955: Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards, 1956
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1957. Hardcover. First edition. Fine in a very good plus, price-clipped dustwrapper with shallow chips along the top of the rear panel and spine, and splitting along the front flap fold. A small poetry anthology that is particularly noteworthy as Sylvia Plath's first book appearance, preceding..... More
A Lume Spento And Other Early Poems
New York: New Directions, (1965). Hardcover. First edition. Fine in a fine original acetate dustwrapper. More
Love Poems
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1969. Hardcover. Second edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with rubbing. Inscribed by Sexton: "For Marian Seldes, who is loved [with drawing flower] from Anne Sexton." Seldes was a Tony and Obie Award-winning actress who starred in the 1969 off-Broadway production of Anne Sexton's *Mercy Street*..... More
The Lady is Cold: Poems by E.B.W.
New York: Harper, 1929. Hardcover. First edition, second issue binding. A fine, crisp copy lacking the dustwrapper. White's first book published by a commercial publisher, preceded only by a rare, pseudonymous promotional booklet. A very nice copy. More
On the Boiler
Dublin: The Cuala Press, (1938). Softcover. Second edition (preceded by an extremely limited first edition with only four copies known to exist, the rest destroyed by the poet's wife). Near fine in blue wrapper a touch toned and with touch of wear to the yapped edges. More
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