New York: Farrar, Straus / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printings of Berryman's Dream Songs sequence, winner of the Pulitzer Prize (77 Dream Songs) and the National Book Award and the Bollingen Prize for poetry (His Toy, His Dream, His Rest). Complete in two octavo volumes... more
New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1956. First Printing. Hardcover. "With Pictures [10 woodcuts] by Ben Shahn." First Printing (so stated). Tall, slim 8vo; unpaginated, with 57 numbered 8-line, partially rhymed stanzas and 10 black & white illustrations (7 full-page). Publisher's tan and black pictorial paper-covered boards with a red... more
London: Faber & Faber, 1959. First Impression. First UK edition of an important selection, made by Berryman, that precedes by eleven years (and differs substantially from) the American edition. Tall 8vo; 111pp. Original teal cloth, the spine lettered in white; in a blue and red typographic dust jacket lettered in... more
![77 Dream Song [with] His Toy, His Dream, His Rest [Inscribed]. John BERRYMAN.](/pictures/thumb/BB1400.JPG?v=1499796782)
![Homage to Mistress Bradstreet and Other Poems [Nathaniel Tarn's copy]. John BERRYMAN.](/pictures/thumb/BB0452.jpg?v=1499796661)