Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1968. Early Reprint. Hardcover. First Edition, Third Printing, of this touchstone of contemporary American avant-garde poetry. Crown 8vo (203 x 152mm): 94,[2]pp. Publisher's gray cloth, spine stamped in red and black, pictorial dust jacket (price-clipped) printed in black and salmon pink. Inscribed by Ashbery on..... more

London: Faber & Faber, 1974. First Impression. Hardcover. First Impression of the poet's last-published collection. Slim demy 8vo (216 x 137): 57,[1]pp. Publisher's quarter-bound blue cloth stamped in gold, pale blue paper-covered boards; grey and black dust jacket priced at £1.75. Fine (and unread) in like jacket. Prepared for publication..... more

London: Faber and Faber, 1965. First Printing. Hardcover. First Printing, one of 4000 copies. Tall, slim 8vo: 94pp. with errata slip tipped in facing page 7. Publisher's pale blue linen cloth, spine stamped in gold; price-clipped typographic dust jacket printed in black, olive green and purple. About Fine (owner's name..... more

London: Faber & Faber, 1959. First Impression. Hardcover. First Edition of this selection by Berryman from two of his previous books, including Homage to Mistress Bradstreet, "one of the most unique poems in modern American literature." (Literary Encyclopedia) Demy 8vo (216 x 134mm): 111,[1]pp. Publisher's teal cloth, spine lettered in..... more

Chicago: Forbes & Co., 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing of this charming paean to America's pastime, featuring 24 lighthearted and impertinent poems. Small, slim 8vo: 88pp, with baseball-themed spot illustrations from drawings in lower margin of each page. Publisher's pictorial paper-covered boards (showing two hands gripping a baseball bat)..... more

New York: Harper & Brothers, Mcmxxvii [1927]. First Edition. Two copies in different binding variants (one a later issue) of the poet's second collection. Crown 8vo (190 x 127mm): xi,[1],89,[1]pp, illustrated throughout. First Printing (with "first edition" and "G-B" on copyright page): Publisher's black cloth over brown and black marbled..... more

London: Turret Books, 1967. Limited Edition. Card Covers. First publication in the series Contemporary Poetry Set to Music, a six-line poem by Durrell, set to music for "high voice" by Southam. Limited to 100 numbered copies, signed by the poet and the composer, this being no. 25. Unpaginated: [8]pp, with..... more

Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire, Great Britain: Golden Cockerel Press, MCMXXV [1925]. Quarter cloth. Limited Edition, no. 17 of 500 numbered copies printed on Kelmscott handmade paper. Demy 8vo (221 x 147mm): xiv,[2],81,[3]pp, with wood-engraved vignette to title page and press device to colophon in gilt. Original oatmeal-colored quarter linen over..... more

New York: Harrison Smith & Robert Haas, 1933. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 205 of 360 copies signed by Faulkner in blue ink at the colophon. Demy 8vo (217 x 159mm): 67,[3]pp, with four wood engravings by Lynd Ward (including inlaid frontispiece and vignette in colophon) printed in green on laid..... more

London: Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 52 Tavistock Square, London, W.C.1, 1925. First Edition. Paper-Covered Boards. First Impression. 8vo: 112pp. Publisher’s red and black marbled paper-covered boards, cream title label printed in black to upper board. A superlative copy (probably unread), binding firm and square..... more

London: Arthur Barker Ltd, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. First Impression. Slim 8vo: [8],38pp. Publisher's black linen spine stamped in gilt, grey paper-covered boards lettered in black (without dust jacket, as issued), bookplate and gift card tipped to front paste-down. Near Fine or better, covers lightly browned, end papers spotted and..... more

London: Bodley Head, 1975. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 132 of 250 signed limited-edition copies bound in boards (of which only 170 were for sale); the first trade edition was issued as a paperback original. Small, slim 8vo (189 x 113mm): 80pp. Publisher's copper-colored paper over boards, spine lettered in gold..... more

New York: Oxford University Press, 1969. First Printing. Hardcover. First American edition, from British sheets, of the Nobel prize-winner's second commercially published work (preceded by Death of a Naturalist, in 1966), one of only 1,000 copies (purchased from Faber and Faber, Heaney's London publisher). Tall, slim 8vo: 56pp. Publisher's finely..... more