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SIGNED COPIES

*Alexander, Elizabeth.  Praise Song for the Day.  A Poem for Barack Obama’s Presidential Inauguration, January 20, 2009.  St. Paul, MN:  Graywolf, 2009.  As new in wrappers, as issued.  Signed.  (Item ID:  5354*; http://www.rmgerberbooks.com)  $35.00

 *Ashbery, John

(1) As We Know.  New York:  Penguin Books, 1979.  (014042.2749) Soft cover.  Issued simultaneously with the hard cover edition.  Light glue staining at front gutter, slightest bit of wear to tips.  Association copy.  Inscribed and signed by Ashbery on the title page to poet Stephen Stapanchev. In protective Mylar. (ID: 6070)  $85.00  SOLD dealer 12 5 17

(2) Three Poems.  New York:  Viking, 1972.  Soft cover.  Very good to near fine; inscribed, signed, dated.  (Item ID:  5075*; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $175.00

(3) Ashbery, John.  A Wave.  Poems.  New York:  The Viking Press, 1984.  [ISBN:  0670751766]  Signed on the title page.  As new hard cover in as new Mylar-protected dust wrapper.  (ID: 1117-135; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $150.00  NEW

*Bell, Marvin

Alexander, Elizabeth

(1) Antebellum Dream Book.  Saint Paul, MN:  Graywolf Press, 2001.  3rd Printing.  As new soft cover.  (Item ID:  5577; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $14.00  

(2) Body of Life.  Chicago:  Chiachua Press, 1996.  Soft cover, ex libris, mark inside front cover, small stain back inside cover and FFEP. Scarce. (Item ID:  5074; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $30.00 

(3) Body of Life.  Chicago:  Chiachua Press, 1996. Soft cover.  Owner’s name/box number; some wrinkling upper right half title, otherwise fine, tight, clean text.  (Item ID:  5128; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $60.00

(4) Power and Possibility.  Essays, Reviews, and Interviews.  Ann Arbor:  The University of Michigan Press, 2010.  1st Printing.  As new soft covfer.  (Item ID:  5578; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $25.00

(5) The Venus Hottentot.  Poems.  Saint Paul, MN:  Graywolf Press, 1990.  2nd Printing.  Fine.  As new soft cover.  (Item ID:  5579; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $20.00

Ashbery, John

(1) Chinese Whispers.  New York:  Farrar, Straus, Giroux.  Cloth, as new, in as new dust jacket.   (Item ID:  5076; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $23.00

(2) Notes from the Air.  Selected Later Poems.  New York:  HarperCollins, 2007.  Cloth, near fine (remainder mark on bottom page edges); dust jacket, fine.  (Item ID:  5105; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $25.00

(3) Planisphere.  New Poems. New York:  HarperCollins, 2009.  As new hard cover in as new dust wrapper.  Unopened.  (ID: 6135; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $24.00   

Auden, W. H.  Thank You, Fog.  London:  Faber and Faber, 1974.  Last poems by Auden.  As new hard cover in as new, Mylar-protected dust wrapper.  Unopened.  (Item ID:  9085; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $58.00

Baraka, Amiri (Leroi Jones)

(1) Autobiography.  New York:  Freundlich Books, 1984.  1^st edition.  Cloth, as new, with minor shelf wear.Dust jacket:  price clipped, minor edge wear, otherwise, very good- to near fine.  (Item ID:  5302; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com). $40.00

(2) Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note.  New York:  Totem Press, 1961.  Cloth, good plus to very good.  (Item ID:  5303)  $7.00  SOLD

Bell, Julian.  Still Life and Other Poems.  Woodside, CA:  Occasional Works, 1987.  Number 113 of 200.  Limited edition in wrappers, as issued.  As new.  (ID: 207; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $40.00 

Bell, Marvin

(1) Drawn by Stones, by Earth, by Things that Have Been in the Fire.  New York:  Atheneum, 1984.  Hard cover, as new, in as new dust jacket with tiniest bit of wear to spine top and bottom; Mylar-protected.  (Item ID:  5342; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $20.00

(2) Iris of Creation.  Port Townsend, WA:  Copper Canyon Press, 1990.  As new in an as new dust jacket.  Review copy.  (Item ID:  5304; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $20.00

(3) Mars Being Red.  Port Townsend, WA:  Copper Canyon Press, 2007.  Soft cover, as new.  (Item ID:  5305; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $8.00

(4) Nightworks.  Poems 1962-2000.  Port Townsend, WA:  Copper Canyon Press, 2000.  2^nd edition, 1^st printing; review copy.  Soft cover, as new.  (Item ID:  5344; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $10.00

(5) Residue of Song.  New York:  Atheneum, 1974.  Soft cover.  Small crease and light wear at spine top tip, light edge wear and sunning, otherwise near fine.  Interiors clean and tight.  (Item ID: 5348; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $10.00

(6) These Green-Going-to-Yellow. New York:  Atheneum, 1981.  Soft cover, 1^st ed., very minor edge wear.  (Item ID: 5340;  http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)   $12.00

Bishop, Elizabeth.  Edgar Allen Poe & the Juke Box:  Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments.  Edited by Alice Quinn. New York:  Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2006.  Hard cover, as new, in as new dust jacket.  (Item ID:  5307; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $50.00

Bishop, Elizabeth,and Lowell, Robert.  Words in Air.  The Complete Correspondence between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell.  Edited by Thomas Travisano and Saskia Hamilton.  New York:  Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.  875 pages.  Alphabetical glossary of names, pages 813-842, with birth/death dates and brief identification.  First Edition, First Printing.  Near fine hard cover with bit of wear to bottom spine; a previous owner had turned down the following pages:  101-2, 191-2, 145-6, 167-8, 343-4, leaving light crease; several very small spill spots on p. 129.   Dust wrapper has light edge wear at lower right front corner and spit bottom, otherwise  very good plus.  (ID:  6198)  Also available from us on Amazon. $24.00 NOT CURRENTLY AVAILABLE 11/14/23 

Brendel, Alfred.  One Finger Too Many:  Poems.  New York:  Random House, 1998.  Cloth, as new; Mylar-protected dust jacket, as new.  (Item ID:  5309; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $48.00

Brooks, Gwendolyn.  Selected Poems.  New York:  HarperPerennial/Modern Classics, 2006.  1st Printing. Slightest of wrinkle to spine top, very light wear to edges, otherwise fine.  (Item ID:  9025; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $13.00  

Bruns, Gerald L.  Modern Poetry and the Idea of Language.  A Critical and Historical Study.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974.  Second Printing, 1975.  Near fine to fine hardcover.  Dust wrapper lightly tanned, spine ends have tiny closed tears, but o/w near fine.  (ID:  6104)  $25.00  SOLD Amazon 8 13 18 ($15.00)

Cavafy, C. P.  Four Poems.  Translated by James Merrill.  [West Chester, PA]:  Aralia Press, 2008.  Foreword by Rachel Hadas.  First Edition.  Limited to 220 copies.  Bound in marbled paper over boards with a cloth spine and a printed spine label.  16 pages.  Fine hardcover.  (Item ID:  9025; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $125.00 

[E. E. Cummings]  Firmage, George J.  E. E. Cummings:  A Bibliography.  Middletown, CT:  Wesleyan Univerity Press, 1960.  Hard cover (no d.j.), with some wear to spine ends and tips, o/w very good plus. (ID: 595; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $25.00  

Delanty, Greg

(1) American Wake.  Belfast:  The Blackstaff Press, 1995.  Soft cover, as new.  (Item ID:  5348; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $15.00

(2) The Blind Stitch.  Baton Rouge:  Louisiana State University Press, 2002.  1^st edition, 1^st printing.  Hard cover, as new, in as new dust jacket.  (Item ID:  5347; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $20.00Cast in the Fire.  Poems.  Mountrath, Portlaoise, Ireland:  The Dolmen Press, 1986.  Soft cover, as new.  (Item ID:  5347; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $15.00

(3) The Hellbox.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 1998.  Oxford Poets series.  Soft cover, as new, unopened.  (Item ID:  5351; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $10.00

(4) The Ship of Birth.  Manchester:  Carcenet Press, Ltd., 2003 Oxford Poets.  Soft cover, as new; unopened.  (Item ID:  5346; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $35.00

(5) Southward.  Baton Rouge:  Louisiana University Press, 1992.  Soft cover, 1st edition/1st printing. Tiniest of edge wear, otherwise as new.  (Item ID:  5371; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $8.00

Dickey, James.  Babel to Byzantium.  Poets & Poetry Now.  New York:  Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968.  1st Printing.  Near fine volume with slight fading to cover edges, gilt bright.  Dust wrapper has some fading, very small chips to spine bottom/top and tips, otherwise near fine.  (Item ID:  9113K; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $80.00

Digges, Deborah.  Rough Music.  New York:  Knopf, 1995.  Hard cover as new in as new dust wrapper.  (Item ID: 5310; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $50.00

Doolittle, Hilda (H.D.)  Trilogy.  The Walls Do Not Fall.  Tribute to the Angels.  The Flowering of the Rod.  New York:  New Directions, 1973.  Fine hard cover in fine Mylar-protected dust wrapper.  (Item ID:  9086)  $23.00   SOLD. private customer 12 16 21

Eliot, T. S.

(1) Ash Wednesday.  London:  Faber & Faber, 1930. (Gallup A15b) First trade edition.   One of 2,000 T.E.G. Without dust wrapper.  Near fine with signature to ffep.  Sylvia Beach, Shakespeare and Company small bookplate to rear pastedown.  (ID: 8420; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $140.00

(2) East Coker.  London:  Faber & Faber, [1942]  Sixth Printing.  In wraps, with bottom edge wear.  Very good.  (ID: 8422; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $17.50 

(3) Poems Written in Early Youth. New York:  Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1967.  Near fine volume with some marginal pen notes.  Fine Mylar-protected dust wrapper.  (ID: 8711; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $22.50

(4) The Sacred Wood.  (Gallup A5c)  London:  Methuen, 1934.  Fourth Edition.  Fountain Library.  Fine in near fine Mylar-protected dust wrapper.  (ID: 8713; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $40.00 

(6) The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism.  London:  Faber & Faber, 1958.  Ninth Printing.  Near fine volume.  Very good dust wrapper with spine soiling and chips.  In Mylar.  (ID: 8712; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $20.00  

(7) [Eliot, T. S., translator.]  St.-John Perse. Anabasis.  New York:  Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc., 1949.  Revised and corrected edition.  Eliot’s translation of the St.-John Perse poem.  Bilingual edition.  Near fine hard cover, toned pages.  Slightest of wear to volume and jacket tips.  Inked name to front pastedown. (ID: 8611; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $30.00  

(8) [Eliot, T. S.]  Aldington, Richard.  Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot.  New York: Oriole Chapbook, [N.D.] Fine stapled card wrappers with signature/date to inside front cover.  (ID:  716; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $20.00  

(9) [Eliot, T. S.] Gallup, Donald.  T.S. Eliot:  A Bibliography. New York:  Harcourt, 1953.  Fine volume with slight top edge foxing in near fine Mylar-protected dust wrapper with chips to spine ends.  (ID: 8415; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $60.00

Durrell, Lawrence.  Cities, Plans and People.  London:  Faber and Faber, 1946.  Fine in near fine dust wrapper with a bit of jacket edge fade and wear.  Endpaper foxing.  Not price clipped.  (ID: 205; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $50.00  

Engels, John

(1) Big Water.  New York:  Lyons & Burford, 1995.  Soft cover, 1st edition/1st printing. Place,date on FFEP, otherwise as new.  (Item ID:  5372; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $20.00

(2) Cardinals in the Ice Age.  Poems by John Engels.  The National Poetry Series, Selected by Philip Levine. Saint Paul:  Graywold Press, 1987.  Soft cover, 1st edition/1st printing.  Date, place, owner's name on FFEP, otherwise as new.  (Item ID:  5373; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $20.00

(3) The Homer Mitchell Place.  Pittsburgh:  University of Pittsburgh Press, 1968.  Cloth, fine.  Dust jacket:  minor edge wear, stray pen marks upper right cover, price clipped, otherwise very good to near fine.  (Item ID:  5097; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $15.00

(4) Signals from the Safety Coffin.  Pittsburgh:  University of Pittsburgh Press, 1975.  Cloth, fine.  Dust jacket:  very good to near fine, minor edge wear, rubbing near jacket spine.  (Item ID:  5096; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $20.00

(5) Sinking Creek.  New York:  The Lyons Press, 1998.  1st ed.  As new in as new dust jacket.  (Item ID:  5342) $12.00 SOLD Dealer 8/31/19

(6) Sinking Creek.  New York:  The Lyons Press, 1998.  1st ed. As new in as new dust jacket. (Item ID: 9001; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $12.00

(7) Walking to Cootehill.  New and Selected Poems, 1958-1992.  Hanover:  University Press of New England, 1993. Soft cover, 1st edition/1st printing.  Some wrinkling to front cover, name, date, place on inside front cover, tiny stain on half title, otherwise near fine.  (Item ID:  5374; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $10.00

Engle, Paul

(1) American Child.  New York:  Random House, 1945.  First Edition, First Printing.  Slightest of rubbing to tips, otherwise fine.  No dust wrapper.  (Item ID:  5381; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $25.00 

(2) Corn.  New York:  Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1939.  Stated 1st edition.  Hard cover:  wear rear cover top, spine top.  Small owner's label front pastedown, some browning of pages.  Dust jacket:  some chips, wear at spine, cover fore edge, otherwise very good.  Grant Wood lithograph reproduction on cover and dust jacket.  (Item ID:  9014; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $30.00  

(3) Poems in Praise.  New York:  Random House, 1959.  First Edition.  Light staining at gutters, otherwise fine volume in fine dust wrapper.  In protective Mylar.  (Item ID:  5382)  $35.00  SOLD dealer 8/31/19

Faulkner, William

(1) The Marble Faun and A Green Bough.  New York:  Random House, 1965.  First Random House Edition. Cloth:  tanned front pastedown, FFEP, and rear pastedown, otherwise fine.  Dust jacket:  some soiling, 3/4" chip bottom of spine; 3 scratches front cover.  (Item ID:  9020; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $200.00 

(2) [William Faulkner]  William Faulkner:  an Exhibit on Loan from the Collection of Louis Daniel Brodsky. St. Louis:  Washington University Libraries, 1976.  Exhibit guide with chalk drawing of Faulkner.  Fine. (Item ID:  5312; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $25.00 

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence.  Coney Island.... SOLD  Alibris 3 8 21

Frost, Robert.  A Masque of Reason.  New York:  Henry Holt and Company, 1945.  Stated First Printing.  Deaccessioned from the library of Miss Hewitt’s Classes in New York City (stamp on front pastedown).  Hard cover with wear to tips and spine ends and covers; gilt on spine dull; pages age tanned, o/w good plus.  (ID:  995; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $10.00

Ginsberg, Allen.  The White Shroud.  Poems 1980-1985.  New York:  Harper, 1986.  First Edition. New. Review copy with note and photo of Ginsberg laid in.  Mylar-protected.  (Item ID:  2232; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $50.00  

[Ginsberg, Allen.  Howl]  Shindler, Jason, Editor.  The Poem that Changed America. “Howl” Fifty Years Later.  New York:  Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.  First paperback printing. [ISBN:  0374173443] Essays and comments by Marjorie Perloff, Andrei Codrescu, Billy Collins, Donald Justice, Allen Ginsberg, John Cage, Marge Piercy, Robert Pinsky, Kenneth Rexroth, Anaïs Nin, and others.  Foxing to top edge, faint water stain with consequent warping to top & bottom (increasingly less noticeable) 150 pages, o/w good plus. (ID: 317-101; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $10.00  NEW

Gioia, Dana.  The Gods of Winter.  Saint Paul:  Graywolf Press, 1991.  Light tip and spine ends wear, otherwise near fine soft cover.  (5619; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $12.00

Graves, Robert.  Poems.  1938-1945.  New York:  Creative Age Press, 1946.  First American Edition.  Good-plus red boards have some edge and tip wear, off-setting to front and rear pastedowns and ffep/rfep., tanning to page edges.  Dust wrapper:  price clipped, light edge/tip wear, light soiling, but otherwise very good.  In protective Myler.  (ID:  3045; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $22.00 

Grilled Flowers.  Volume 2, Number 1.  Spring/Summer 1977. Frank Graziano, Editor.  Includes poetry by Donald Hall, Charles Simic, and others.  Translations of Apollinaire, Cocteau, among others.  In wrappers, as issued. (Item ID:  5314; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $10.00

Guest, Barbara.  The Blue Stairs (Poems).  New York: Corinth, 1968.  Unnumbered 1/100 Limited.  Helen Frankenthaler cover.  Wraps, a bit soiled, four spots to cover.  (ID:  442; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $25.00

Hall, Donald

(1) Life Work.  Boston:  Beacon Press, 1993.  As new hard cover in as new dust wrapper.  (6059; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $25.00

(2) Marianne Moore.  The Cage and the Animal.  New York:  Pegasus, 1970.  Nick to bottom back cover, otherwise fine, bright copy.  dust wrapper has light soiling at eges, otherwise near fine.  (Item ID:  9044; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $20.00 

(3) The Museum of Clear Ideas.  New York:  Ticknor & Fields, 1992.  1^st edition.  Cloth.  As new.  Dust jacket:  very good to near fine, some rubbing, minor shelf wear.  (Item ID:  5316; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $20.00

(4) The Old Life.  Boston & New York:  Houghton Mifflin, 1996.  Cloth, as new.  Dust jacket, very good to near fine.  (Item ID:  5317; http:/www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $15.00

(5) The Painted Bed.  Boston:  Houghton Mifflin, 2002.  Cloth, as new, in as new dust jacket.  (Item ID:  5102; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $20.00

(6) Unpacking the Boxes.  Boston:  Houghton Mifflin Company, 2008.  Third Printing.  Fine hard cover in fine dust wrapper.   (5620; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $15.00  

(7) The Yellow Room:  Love Poems.  New York:  Harper & Row, 1971.  1^st edition. Cloth, as new.  Dust jacket:  very good to near fine, with minor shelf wear.  (Item ID:  5318; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $35.00

(8) White Apples and the Taste of Stone.  Selected Poems, 1946-2006.  Boston:  Houghton Mifflin, 2008.  Cloth, fine.  Dust jacket:  near fine, with small area of wrinkling lower edge.  Third printing.  (Item ID:  5103)  $15.00 . SOLD Alibris 11 27 18

(9) Willow Temple. New and Selected Stories.  Boston:  Houghton Mifflin, 2003.  Cloth, as new, in as new dust jacket.  (Item ID:  5104; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $25.00

Harjo, Joy

(1) In Mad Love and War.  Middletown, CT:  Wesleyan University Press, 1990.  Third Printing.  Fine soft cover.  (ID:  6106; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $10.00 

(2) A Map to the Next World. Poems and Tales.  New York:  Norton, 2000.  1^st edition.  Fine hard cover in near fine dust jacket, with very minor edge wear.  (Item ID:  5092; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com; see also Native American literature list)  $15.00

Harrison, Lou.  Joys & Perplexities.  Selected Poems of Lou Harrison.  Winston-Salem, NC:  Jargon Society, 1992.  In wrappers as issued. (Item ID:  5320; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $15.00

Hayes, Terrance.  Hip Logic.  New York:  Penguin, 2002.  Cloth, as new.  6^th printing.  (Item ID: 5321; http://www.rmgerberbooks.com.alibrisstore.com)  $17.00

Heaney, Seamus

(1) The Making of a Music:  Reflections on the Poetry of Wordsworth and Yeats.  The Kenneth Allott Lectures 1.  Liverpool:  University of Liverpool, 1978.  [ISBN:  0906370051]  As new soft cover, Mylar-protected.  (ID: 8616; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)   $35.00 

*Heaney, Seamus.  Field Work.  New York:  Farrar Straus Giroux, 1979.  First American Printing.  Inscribed and signed by Heaney.  Fine hard cover in fine, Mylar-protected dust wrapper.  (ID:  1119-103) $300.00 SOLD Dealer 6 9 22

(2) Preoccupations.  Selected Prose 1968-1978.  New York:  The Noonday Press, 1980  Eighth printing, 1996.  (Item ID:  5352; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $15.00

(3) Seamus Heaney:  Readings in Contemporary Poetry Number 4.  The Reed Foundation Poetry Chapbook Series.  New York:  Dia Art Foundation, 1988. One of 350.  As new soft cover, Mylar-protected.  (ID: 8615; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $100.00

(3a) Selected Poems, 1965-1975.  (ID: 364).  $175.00. SOLD Amazon 3 17 21

(4) [Heaney, Seamus, and Longley, Michael].  An Upstairs Outlook:  An Evening of Poetry.  Belfast:  Linen Hall Library Development Campaign, 1989.  8 pages in cardstock French wrap covers.  Fine.  (ID: 8565HW; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $25.00 

[Heaney, Seamus] Vendler, Helen.  Seamus Heaney.  London:  HarperCollins, 1998, Near fine to fine hard cover in fine Mylar-protected dust wrapper. (ID:  6149; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $12.00

Hollander, John. Types of Shape.  New York:  Atheneum, 1969.  Dedicated to James Merrill.  Hard cover first edition with very light edge wear.  Dust wrapper has two 1" chips at spine top, right front corner has tape-repaired tears, otherwise good to good plus. (Item ID: 9046; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $100.00 

Hopkins, Gerard Manley.  Hopkins.  The Mystic Poets.  Woodstock, Vermont:  SkyLight Paths, Publishing, 2004.  Preface by Rev. Thomas Ryan, C.S.P.  As new hard cover in Mylar-protected as new dust wrapper.  (5621)  $8.00    SOLD    1/22/16

Jones, Leroi.  See Baraka, Amiri, above.

Justice, Donald.  Collected Poems.  New York:  Knopf, 2004.  Cloth, as new, in as new dust jacket.  (Item ID:  5099; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $25.00

Karoniaktatie (Alex A. Jacobs).   Landscape:  Old and New Poems.  Cover and illustrations by Karoniaktatie.  Blue Cloud Quarterly, Volume 30, Number 4.  Marvin, SD:  The Blue Cloud Quarterly Press, 1984.  Association copy:  Addressed on back cover to novelist Jonis Agee.  Fine.  (Item ID:  5365; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) See also "Books by and about Native Americans." $25.00 

Kenny, Maurice.  Dancing Back Strong the Nation.  Introduction by Paula Gunn Allen.  Cover and Illustration by Rokwaho (Daniel Thompson).  The Blue Cloud Quarterly.  Volume XXV, Number 1. Marvin, SD:  Blue Cloud Quarterly Press,  1979.  Address on back cover (Small Press Review). See Native American list for additional titles.   Small crease upper right corner.  Stapled wrappers, as issued.  Fine.  See also "Books by and about Native Americans."  (Item ID: 5366; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $30.00  

Kenyon, Jane.  

(1) Collected Poems.  St. Paul, MN:  Graywolf Press, 2005.  2nd Printing. As new hard cover in near fine to fine dust wrapper, with slightest bit of edge wear.  (Item ID:  5459)  $20.00  SOLD

(2) The Boat of Quiet Hours.  St. Paul, MN:  Graywolf Press. 1986.  Soft cover, 2nd printing.  Creased at corners, light edge wear, but otherwise very good to near fine.  (Item ID:  5477; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $10.00  

Otherwise.  New & Selected Poems.  St. Paul, MN:  Graywolf Press, 1996.  First edition, first printing.  As new hard cover.  Review copy with publisher's information laid in.  Afterword by Donald Hall.  (Item ID:  5460; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $30.00 

Kinnell, Galway.  

(1) Flower Herding on Mount Monadnock.  Boston:  Houghton Mifflin, 1964.  Fine hard cover in fine dust wrapper with light tanning to edges.  Author's second book.  In Mylar.  (Item ID:  5478)  $70.00  SOLD  9 6 16 ALIBRIS

(2) When One Has Lived A Long Time Alone.  New York:  Knopf, 1990.  Uncorrected Proof in fine green wrappers.  (Item ID:  5494; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $25.00

Kleinzahler, August.  Sleeping It Off in Rapid City.  Poems, New and Selected.  New York:   Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.  First Edition, Second Printing.  Fine hard cover in fine dust wrapper.  As new.  (Item ID:  5495; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $20.00 

Kumin, Maxine

(1) Connecting the Dots.  New York:  W. W. Norton, 1996.  Soft cover, 1st edition.  Owner's name, date, place on FFEP, otherwise as new.  (Item ID:  5375; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $15.00

(2) In Deep.  Country Essays.  New York:  Viking, 1987.  Hard cover as new in as new dust jacket.  (Item ID:  5340; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $20.00

(3) Inside the Halo and Beyond.  The Anatomy of a Recovery.  New York:  W. W. Norton, 2000.  As new in as new dust jacket.  (Item ID:  5353; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $22.00

(4) The Long Approach.  New York:  Viking Penguin, 1985.  Owner's name, place, date written on FFEP, otherwise as new.  (Item ID:  5350; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $5.00

(5) Looking for Luck.  Poems.  New York:  W. W. Norton, 1992.  Soft cover, second printing.  Owner’s name, place, date written on FFEP, otherwise as new.  (Item ID:  5363; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)   $10.00

(6) The Nightmare Factory.  New Poems by Maxine Kumin.  New York: Harper & Row, 1970.  1^st Edition.  Hard cover, very good to near fine, with light wear to tips and spine top/bottom.  Dust jacket:  Mylar-protected; very small chips spine top and bottom.  (Item ID:  5341; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $25.00

Lawrence, D. H.  The Ship of Death and Other Poems.  London:  Faber and Faber, 1941.  Near fine volume with 1” tanning to endpapers. In near fine dust wrapper, slightly darkened spine.  (ID: 475; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  ($22.50) $35.00  

Lehmann, John.  A Garden Revisited and Other Poems.  London:  The Hogarth Press, 1931.  Hogarth Living Poets  No. 21. (Wolmer 262) One of 400 copies.  Near fine, protected in Mylar.  (ID: 919-103; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $75.00 NEW

Lopez, Barry.  Lessons from the Wolverine.  Athens:  University of Georgia Press,  1997,  Illustrations by Tom Pohrt.  Fine hard cover.  Dust wrapper has crease front flap, but otherwise near fine to fine.  (5623; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $8.00  

Lowell, Robert

(1) The Mills of the Kavanaughs.  New York:  Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1951]. Stated First Edition.  Hard cover:  light bump to right front cover tip, very light edge/tip wear.  Dust wrapper:  Slightly rubbed, 1/2" chip bottom spine, very small closed tear spine tip, very light tip and edge wear.  Near fine volume in near fine dust jacket.  (Item ID: 5389; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $90.00 

(2) Near the Ocean.  London:  Faber and Faber, 1967.  First British Edition.   Near fine hard cover with slight tip wear, light off-setting ffep.  Small sticker for Foyle’s, Charring Cross, on front pastedown.  Dust wrapper has slight tip wear and very light age tanning, but otherwise near fine to fine.  (6030; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $30.00 

Lowell, Robert, and Elizabeth Bishop.  See Elizabeth Bishop, above.

(3) [Lowell, Robert]  Mazzaro, Jerome.  The Achievement of Robert Lowell:  1939-1959.  Detroit:  University of Detroit Press, 1960.  Hard cover, near fine.  Label reading “The Achievement of Robert Lowell/Volume II/Contemporary Poet’s [sic] Series” pasted to copyright page.  (ID: 6154; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $25.00

Lynch, Thomas.  Poems:  Still Life in Milford.  New York:  Norton:  1998.  As new hard cover in as new jacket. (Item ID:  5326; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $10.00

McNair, Wesley.  Illustrations by Marjorie Moore.  12 Journeys in Maine.  Portland, ME:  Romulus Editions, 1992.  Soft cover with water damage to upper corner of pages, not affecting text or illustrations; very minor edge wear, tiny sticker for Apple Tree book Shop on back cover, light indentation on fore edges.  (Item ID:  5327) $10.00

Merriam, Eve.  Rainbow Writing.  New York:  Atheneum 1976.  Hard cover with sunning to edges, otherwise very good to near fine.  Dust wrapper has one closed tear ¾”) and very small chips at tips and edges, otherwise very good.  In Mylar.  (ID:  6046) $12.00  SOLD Amazon 10 4 22

Merrill, James

(1) Analekta 1924-1954.  An Anthology of Amherst Undergraduate Writing.  Privately printed, Northampton, MA, 1954.  Printed wrappers unevenly faded, creased lower page corners, but otherwise near fine, unopened.  Contains two poems ("The Broken Bowl" and "The Black Swan") by Merrill; also has Richard Wilbur's "War Aces."  (Item ID:  9061; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $45.00 

(2) Braving the Elements.  New York:  Atheneum, 1972.  Second printing.  Cloth: fine.  Dust jacket:  stain on spine, soiling, but otherwise near fine.  (Item ID:  5327)  $50.00 . SOLD dealer 8/31/19

(3) The Changing Light at Sandover.  A Poem.  New York:  Alfred A. Knopf, 1992.  First Knopf Edition.  As new hard cover in as new dust wrapper.  (Item ID:  5428) $70.00 SOLD 7 20 18

(4) Collected Novels and Plays.  New York:  Alfred A. Knopf, 2002.  As new hard cover in as new dust wrapper.  Very small red remainder dot on lower edge.   (ID: 6136; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $22.00 

(5) The Country of a Thousand Years of Peace and Other Poems.  New York:  Alfred A. Knopf, 1959.  Cloth, fine; dust jacket is near fine with tiny closed tear front cover, slightest of wear to corners and spine ends, light spine sunning. (Item ID:  5429; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $200.00 

(6) The Country of a Thousand Years of Peace and Other Poems.  New and Enlarged Edition.  NY:  Atheneum, 1970.  First Revised Edition. Soft cover.  Slightest of wear to edges and tips, light foxing fore edges. (Item ID:  5347; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $20.00 (R&MG)

(7) The (Diblos) Notebook.  A Novel.  New York:  Atheneum, 1975.  Soft cover.  Very light edge wear, otherwise fine.  (Item ID:  9026; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $22.50

(8) A Different Person.  A Memoir.  New York:  Knopf, 1993.  Cloth:  fine.  Dust jacket:  very good to near fine.  (Item ID:  5328; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $15.00

(9) A Different Person. A Memoir.  New York:  HarperCollins, 1994.  Soft cover, slightest of wear to lower front tip, otherwise as new.  (Item ID:  5349)  $10.00    SOLD    1/22/16

(10) Divine Comedies.  New York:  Atheneum, 1976.  As new hard cover in as new dust wrapper.  In Mylar.  (Item ID:  5400; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $70.00

(11) Divine Comedies.  New York:  Atheneum, 1980.  Good to good plus soft cover.  Splatters to top edges, several splatters to fore edge, but interiors tight and clean; some edge/tip wear.  A good reading copy. (Item ID:  9041; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $8.00 

(12) The Firescreen.  New York:  Atheneum, 1969.  Slight sunning, otherwise fine soft cover.  (Item ID:  9060; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $45.00

(13) First Poems.  New York:  Knopf, 1951. Number 761 of 990. Mylar-protected.  Hard cover: fair plus; 1" chip rear cover, chips to spine top and bottom; several spots front cover; faded gilt on spine; interiors neat, clean, unmarked; dust jacket:  1/2 chip spine, chip rear, closed tear front; otherwise good. (Item ID:  9009; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $75.00 

(14) From the Cutting Room Floor.  Omaha:  University of Nebraska at Omaha, 1983.  Fine, in hand sewn wrappers.  Number 268 of 290.  (Item ID:  9006; wwhttp://wwww.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $70.00 

(15) From the First Nine.  Poems 1946-1976.  New York:  Atheneum, 1982.  Stated First.  Hard cover:  light bump to right front corner, light soiling to white board edges, othewise fine.  Dust wrapper:  Two very small chips, closed tears to front and back edges, otherwise near fine.  (Item ID:  9015; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $80.00  

(16) The Inner Room.  New York:  Alfred A. Knopf, 1988.  As new hard cover in as new dust wrapper.  (Item ID:  5401; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $45.00   

(17) The Inner Room.  New York:  Alfred A. Knopf, 1988.  Soft cover.  First paperback edition.  Tiny bit of edge wear, otherwise fine.  (Item ID:  5461; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $15.00

(18) The Inner Room.  New York:  Alfred A. Knopf, 1988.  Soft cover.  First paperback edition.  Near fine soft cover.  (Item ID:  5408) $15.00    SOLD    1/22/16

(19) Late Settings.  New York:  Atheneum, 1985.   Pristine copy.  (Item ID:  9052; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $55.00

(20) Late Settings.  New York:  Atheneum, 1985.  Fine volume.  Dust wrapper has slightly sunned spine, slightest of wear to spine top and bottom.  (Item ID;  5406; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $15.00  

(21) Mir Poets.  Number Eleven.  Dorset:  Words Press, 1988.  Limited Edition, #94 of 200.  Near fine stapled wrappers.  (Item ID:  9058; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $40.00

(22) Mir Poets.  Number Eleven.  Dorset:  Words Press, 1988.  Limited Edition.  #97 of 200.  Near fine stapled wrappers.  (Item ID:  9059; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $38.00

(23) Nights and Days.  New York:  Atheneum, 1969.  4th Printing.  A few poems have underlining/notes.  Edge/tip wear, otherwise good to good plus.  (Item ID:  9057; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $5.00  

(24) A Scattering of Salts.  New York:  Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.  Cloth, as new, in as new dust jacket.  1^st edition.  (Item ID:  5330; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $15.00

(25) A Scattering of Salts. New York:  Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.  Uncorrected Proof.  In wrappers, as issued. Two staples in front cover, otherwise fine.  (Item ID:  5462; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $40.00 

_{(26) Voices from Sandover.  [privately printed for the poet; New York, 1988]  Script adapted from Merrill's long poem, The Changing Light at Sandover.  First edition.  Fine, in wrappers as issued. Laid in is the very scarce program “Works and Process,” With Music by Bruce Saylor.  Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, of the only performances of this Merrill play, May 23 and 24, 1989..  The program is creased and has light staining and soiling. (Item ID: 5463) $150.00     SOLD}  

(27) Vol. XLIV, No. 3.  Sea Cliff, NY:  Sea Cliff Press, 1991.  5 x 7 broadside printed at Bembo Typographic Company, Chelsea, NY, for the subscribers and friends of the Sea Cliff Press, December 1991.  Fine.  (Item ID: 5376; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $125.00  

(28) Water Street.  New York:  Atheneum, 1962.  Bright, clean cover, slightest of edge wear.  Small stains half title, fore edges of first several pages, otherwise near fine.  Tight, clean, unread.  (Item ID: 5369; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $70.00. (R&MG)

(29) Water Street.  New York:  Atheneum, 1962.  Soft cover, first edition.  Very light tanning, a bit of foxing, but tight and clean, unread.  (Item ID:  5401) $100.00     SOLD  

(30) Water Street.  New York:  Atheneum, 1962.  Bright, clean cover, slightest of edge wear.  Small stains half title, fore edges of first of several pages, otherwise near fine.  Tight, clean, unread.  (Item ID:  5349; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $70.00

(31) Water Street.  New York:  Atheneum, 1973.  Fourth Printing  Soft cover.  Gift inscriptions on half-title, but otherwise like new.  Unread.  (Item ID:  9021; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $20.00

(32) The Yellow Pages.  Cambridge, MA:  Temple Bar Bookshop, 1974.  Wrappers as issued.  Limited edition:  One of 850.  (Item ID:  5125; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $50.00

(33) The Yellow Pages.  Cambridge, MA:  Temple Bar Bookshop, 1974.  Wrappers as issued.  Limited edition; one of 850.  Faint imprint of a paperclip on half title and title pages, publisher's return label laid in. (Item ID: 9011; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $50.00

(34) [James Merrill] James Merrill, Poet.  An Exhibit of Printed Materials and Manuscripts Drawn from the Modern Literature Collection of Washington University Libraries.  St. Louis:  Washington University, 1985.  Exhibit brochure.  Wrappers, as issued; crease lower left front edge, mild sunning at edges, otherwise near fine.  (Item ID:  5331; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $25.00

[Merrill, James]  Christmas card and envelope.  4” x 5-1/2” envelope is addressed to “Charles” [Crawford] and underlined.  The card, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is “Peace and Joy” (the original postcard was by [Adolfine]Valerie Petter, 1881-1963; Frohe Ostern! [“Happy Easter,” though this is a Christmas card).  The handwritten note reads, “Dear Charles – Nuts anda jingle – you’re really over-doing it!  But both are delicious + greatly appreciated. Here is your comparatively uninspired CHRISTMAS TIE, which I ought to have stitched myself, though if I had you’d never want to be seen in it…Love always, Jimmy”  (ID: 6068) $200.00

Merrill, James]Undated (late 1990s) Christmas Card.  Sent to Charles Crawford from Hellen Ingram Merrill Plummer, JM’s mother, signed in red ink “Hellen,” with a small red heart. Merrill’s poem “Christmas Tree” is printed in green ink, with red star, on gold-edged 6”x9” cream colored stationery.  There is a very slight crease, upper left-hand corner. The text forms a full tree, whereas Merrill’s shaped poem, written in 1995 when he knew he was dying, was printed with the left half of the tree missing. (ID: 6067) $100.00

[Merrill, James] Moffett, Judith.  James Merrill.  An Introduction to the Poetry.  New York:  Columbia University Press, 1984.  NF/NF.  Tiniest bit of edge/tip wear to covers; dust wrapper is similar, with a bit of sunning to front cover edge.  Unopened.  (ID: 6147; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $25.00 

(36) [James Merrill]  Poetry.  James Merrill.  A Memorial Issue.  September 1995.  Volume 166, Number 6. In wrappers, as issued.  Very light sunning; small smudge rear cover, otherwise near fine to fine.  Includes poems by Merrill, as well as by J. D. McClatchy, W. S. Merwin, John Hollander, and others.  (Item ID: 5424; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $20.00  

(37) [James Merrill]  Poster.  A promotional broadside from the publisher (Alfred A. Knopf, 1988) for Merrill's The Inner Room, reproducing "Arabian Night" and featuring a small photo of the author by Jim McHugh.  (Item ID:  5491; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  Unframed, $45.00.

(38) [James Merrill]  The Voice of the Poet:  James Merrill.  Audiobook.  New York:  Random House, 1999. Includes never-before-released recordings of Merrill reading from his own work.  A companion book contains the complete text of the poems and an essay by J. D. McClatchy.  Unopened, fine condition; cellophane-wrapped box in fine condition.  (Item ID:  5426 $25.00 SOLD Alibris 8 6 24

Merwin, W. S. 

(1) The Ends of the Earth.  Essays.  Washington, DC:  Shoemaker & Hoard, 2004. Fine hard cover in near fine dust wrapper with light soiling.  (ID:  6095; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $12.00 

(2) Lament for the Makers.  A Memorial Anthology.  Washington, DC:  Counterpoint, 1996.  Cloth, as new, in as new dust jacket.  (Item ID:  5094; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $25.00

Momaday, N. Scott.  Angle of Geese and Other Poems.  Boston:  David R. Godine, 1974.  Number 5 in the  First Godine Poetry Chapbook Series, Jan Schreiber, General Editor.  Hard cover.  Light fading to spine, price stamp FFEP, otherwise fine. See also "Books by and about Native Americans."  (Item ID: 5370;http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $30.00  

Moore, Marianne.  

(1) Like a Bulwark:  New Poems.  New York:  Viking, 1956.  Near fine hard cover with slight shadow to front endpapers.  Swlight wear to Mylar-protected dust jacket tips and chip to jacket rear.  (Item ID:  9069; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $27.50  

(2) Tell Me, Tell Me:  Granite, Steel, and Other Topics:  New Poems and Prose.  New York:  Viking, 1966.  Near fine hard cover, with slightest wear to dust jacket, spine and tips.  (Item ID:  9068; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $22.50

(3) [Marianne Moore] Hall, Donald. Marianne Moore. See also Hall, Donald, above. (Item ID:  9044; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $20.00  

Muldoon, Paul.  Poems.  1968-1998.  New York:  Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2001.  Uncorrected Proof.  In wrappers, as issued.  Near fine, with very slight tanning to spine.  (ID:  6109; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)   $25.00 

Nash, Ogden.  Zoo.  Illustrations by Etienne Delessert. New York:  Stewart, Tabori, Chang, 1987.  (First issued 1930)  Cloth, as new in as new dust jacket.  (Item ID:  5333; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $50.00

Ouellet, Jacques.   Qui Ose Regarder.  Ottawa: Éditions Lémeac, 1987.  Soft cover, as new.  In French.  Card tipped in:  Prix Octave-Crémazie, 1987.  Le Lelève de la poésie de Québec.  (Item ID:  5322; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $25.00

Parks, Gordon.  Gordon Parks:  A Poet and His Camera.  New York:  Viking, 1968.  Hard cover:  Some foxing, tanning to edges, but otherwise very good cloth volume.  Dust jacket:  tear/chip left back wrap, otherwise very good.  (Item ID:  5101; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $10.00

Plath, Sylvia.  Crossing the Water.  New York:  Harper & Row, 1971.  First American Printing.  Fine hard cover with slightest fading to cover edges, gift inscription ffep; in near fine dust wrapper with repaired closed tear and slightest bit of edge wear.  In Mylar.  (ID: 640; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $20.00 

[Plath, Sylvia]  Koren, Yehuda, and Negev, Eilat.   Lover of Unreason.  Assia Wevill, Sylvia Plath's Rival and Ted Hughes' Doomed Love. Cambridge, MA: DaCapo, 2007.  As new soft cover.  (ID:  436; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)   $10.00

Perse. St.-John.  Anabasis.  See Eliot, T.S., above.

[Porter, Cole. ]  Kimball, Robert, Editor.  Cole Porter.  Selected Lyrics.  New York:  American Poets Project/Library of America, 2006.  Hard cover:  black remainder mark on lower edge, o/w fine; dust wrapper has minimal tip, edge and spine end wear, o/w near fine to fine.  Unopened.   (ID:  6094; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $15.00

Pound, Ezra

(1)  The Cantos of Ezra Pound.  New York:  New Directions, 1979.  Seventh printing. [ISBN:  0811203506]  Near fine, top edge a fit foxed.  Fine dust jacket.  (ID:  8612; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $45.00

(2)  Pound, Ezra.  Confucio Studio Integrale.  Rapallo:  Scuola Tipografica Orfanotrofio Emiliani, 1942.  In Italian. Near fine, printed wraps, stapled.  The usual toning, no watermark.  (ID: JH 108; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $250.00

(3) [Pound, Ezra] Aldington, Richard.  Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot.  New York: Oriole Chapbook, [N.D.] Fine stapled card wrappers with signature/date to inside front cover.  (ID: 716; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $20.00

(4) [Pound, Ezra]  Hyperion, A Poetry Journal.  A Special Issue to Remember Ezra Pound, Who Died a Year Ago.  Volume III, No. III, Issue 10.  Fall, 1973.  Thorp Springs Press.  Editor for this issue:  Paul Foreman.  Associate Editors:  Judy Hogan, Foster Robertson.   Stapled pictorial wrappers, as issued.  Photos and poetry (including “Why Log Truck Drivers Rise Earlier than Students of Zen,” by Gary Snyder) Tanned, but o/w near fine.  (ID:  986; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $10.00  

(5) [Pound, Ezra] Kenner, Hugh. The Poetry of Ezra Pound.  Lincoln:  University of Nebraska Press, 1985.  First Bison Printing.  With new preface by the author.  Foreword by James Laughlin.  Soft cover. Very light age tanning/soiling, but otherwise near fine.  (ID: 6108)  $18.00  NEW    SOLD

(6) [Pound, Ezra]  Kenner, Hugh.  The Pound Era.  Berkeley:  University of California Press, 1973.  0520018605  First edition, first printing.  Fine hard cover.  Dust wrapper is near fine to fine, with 1” closed tear to lower front tip, slightest of age tanning and a small wrinkle to cover’s spine tip.  In protective Mylar.  (Item ID:  5656)  $70.00  SOLD

(7)  [Beinecke Library] Rainey, Lawrence C.  A Poem Including History:  The Cantos of Ezra Pound.  New Haven:  Yale University Press.  1989 Beinecke exhibition catalog of unpublished material; cover photo of Pound and autograph manuscripts.  Fine, in stiff wraps.  (ID: JH 12; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $25.00 

Rimbaud, Arthur.  A Season in Hell.  Norfolk , Conn.:  New Directions, 1939. Translated from the French (Une Saison En Enfer) by Delmore Schwartz. Limited Edition:  One of 780 copies. Text of the poem in English and French.  Schwartz’s Introduction first appeared in Poetry:  A Magazine of Verse.  Plum paper-covered boards and linen spine, paper label to cover; light wear to spine ends, o/w very good to near fine. Light foxing to end papers.  Signature of previous owner, writer Killian Jordan, on ffep. No dust wrapper, as issuedIn protective Mylar. (ID: 317-105; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $40.00  NEW

Scrimgeour, James R.  Brushstrokes of the Millennium.  Danbury, CT:  The Western Connecticut State University Foundation, 2004.  (Item ID:  5361; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $10.00

Shapiro, Karl

(1) Karl Shapiro – Selected Poems.  New York:  Library of America, 2003.  Edited by John Updike. [ISBN:  1931082340]  As new in similar dust wrapper.  (ID: 8614; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)   $10.00  NOT CURRENTLY AVAILABLE

(2) V-Letter and Other Poems.  New York:  Reynal and Hitchcock, 1944.  Near fine volume with owner’s signature/date FFEP; dust jacket:  spine sunning, small chips at edges, otherwise very good plus; 1^st ed, 1^st printing.  (Item ID:  5349; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $15.00

Snodgrass, W. D. 

(1) After Experience.  New York:  Harper & Row, 1967.  Snodgrass’s second collection. Hard cover, with small tear as base of hinge ffep and front pastedown, small bumps to top of spine and tips, o/w very good plus to near fine.  Dust wrapper:  light wear to spine ends and to tips, 1 very small closed tear, light soiling to back cover, but o/w very good plus to near fine.  (ID:  989; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $25.00  

(2) Heart’s Needle.  New York:  Alfred A. Knopf, 1966.  Seventh Printing. (Originally published 1959)  Gilt slightly faded, a bit of foxing to endpapers, but otherwise near fine.  Dust wrapper has small chips to spine/spine top/front cover, spine faded, back cover tanned, but o/w very good.  In Mylar.  (ID:  3105; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $30.00  

(3) [Snodgrass, W. D.]  Ferry, David, and W. D. Snodgrass.  Poems.  Read at the Spring Meeting of the New England College English Association at Amherst College  May 7, 1960.  Amherst, MA:  Amherst College, 1960.  Includes “Lying Awake,” “Flash Flood,” ”Heart’s Needle,” and “A Flat One,” first appearance of Snodgrass poems. Stapled wrappers as issued.  Bit of tanning/foxing to front cover, tanning to interior, with a few tiny chips at edges, otherwise very good to near fine.  (ID:  3053; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $200.00  

Spender, Stephen. 

(1) The Generous Days.  New York:  Random House, 1971.  (There was an earlier limited edition published by Godine.) Spender’s first book of poetry since his 1962 Selected Poems. Slightly cocked hard cover with very light wear to tips.  Dust wrapper has some wear to tips and spine ends, rubbing to spine edge front cover, very small white mark front cover, o/w good plus to very good.  First American Edition.   Includes “To W. H. Auden On His Sixtieth Birthday” and “Four Sketches for Herbert Read.”  (ID:  6091; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $24.00  

(2) The Imagination in the Modern World.  Three Lectures Presented Under the Auspices of the Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund.  Washington, DC:  The Library of Congress, 1962.  (ID:  6092; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  Lightly tanned stapled grey and green wrappers, creases at spine of back cover, spine rubbed.  Very good.  $12.00 

(3) Poems by Stephen Spender.  New York:  Random House, 1934.  [check – is there a hand correction in one of my copies – tell whether later printing].  Tanning to blue cover edges, spine sunned.  Gilt on front cover bright, but faded on spine.  (ID: 592; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $30.00

(4) [Spender, Stephen.] The Sixth Annual Wallace Stevens Program.  See Stevens, Wallace, below.

(5)  [Spender, Stephen]  Sutherland, John.  Stephen Spender.  A Literary Life.  Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 2004.  First Edition.  As new hard cover in as new dust wrapper.  Unopened.  (ID: 6137; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $15.00 

Stephens, James

A Singing Wind.  Selected Poems by James Stephens.  Edited by Quail Hawkins.  New York:  The Macmillan Company, 1968.  Stated first printing.  Drawings by Harold Goodwin.  Owner’s bookplate to front pastedown, o/w fine hard cover.  Dust wrapper is slightly rubbed with light edge/tip wear, crease to front flap, o/w very good.  (ID: 8317l; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $17.00

[Stephens, James]  Williams, I. A.  Bibliographies of Modern Authors:  No. 4.  London:  Chaundy and Co., 1922.  John Collings Squire and James Stephens.  #51/75.  Repaired spine, small bookplate to front pastedown. Original card covers.  (ID: 8348; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)   $60.00  

[Stehens, James] McFate, Patricia.  The Uncollected Prose of James Stephens.  Vol. 1.  1907-15 [ISBN: 717112624]; Vol. 2. 1916-1948. [ISBN:  717112632]  Dublin:  Gill and Macmillan, 1983.  Near fine hard cover, mild cover wear.  (ID: 8619/8620; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $40.00  NEW

Stevens, Wallace  

(1) The Auroras of Autumn.  New York:  Alfred A. Knopf, 1950.  Stated First Edition.  Owner’s signature on ffep and the usual tanning, but otherwise very good plus to near fine hard cover with bright gilt.  Dust wrapper has tanned spine, very small spine end and edge chips, but otherwise very good plus to near fine.  (ID:  970; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  In protective Mylar. $260.00 

(2) The Collected Poems.  New York:  Alfred A. Knopf, 1954.  One of 2500 Copies.  Unnumbered Printer’s Copy (so noted on Limitation Page).  Winner of the Pulitzer Price and the National Book Award.  $7.50 price intact. Covers lightly faded at edges, small spots of lost color at spine ends.  Copper and silver decoration on spine and front cover bright.  Corners slightly bumped.  Dust wrapper is rare first state jacket (“The First Edition of The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens is Limited to Twenty-Five Hundred Numbered Copies” on front flap. Jacket has several small chips and closed tears and is age tanned, otherwise good plus to very good.  In Mylar.  (6031; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $300.00  

(3) Collected Poetry & Prose.  New York:  The Library of America, 1997.  Fifth Printing.  Fine hard cover in fine, Mylar-protected dust wrapper.  (ID:  805)  $25.00  SOLD Amazon 7 6 20

(4) Harmonium.  New York:  Alfred A. Knopf, 1931.  First thus edition.  Fourth state binding.  Hard cover.  Top edge maroon.  Page facing title page headed “Some New Poetry on Mr. Knof’s List” (includes T.S. Eliot’s Poems).  Ffep (blank) is about 1/3 missing (possibly inscription/signature torn out).  Tan cloth (no dust wrapper). Spine is sunned, slightly discolored. A few pages have very small stains in the margin, not affecting text.  A very good copy of Stevens’s first collection.  In protective Mylar. (ID: 6107) $175.00

(5) Opus Posthumous.  Revised, Enlarged, and Corrected Edition.  Edited by Milton J. Bates.  London:  Faber and Faber Limited, 1989.  Jacket drawing by David Hockney.  Fine hard cover in near fine to fine dust wrapper.  (ID: 6123; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $30.00  

(6) The Palm at the End of the Mind.  Selected Poems and a Play.  New York:  Vintage Books, 1972. Edited by Holly Stevens.  Soft Cover.  Owner’s name/date/place on ffep, light tanning, but otherwise near fine.  (ID: 6032; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $12.00  

(7) Poèmes.  Paris:  Pierre Seghers, 1963.  Bilingual text of poems (including “Harmonium,” “Ideas of Order,” and “Parts of a World”).  Translated by Marie-Jean Beraud-Villars and André Ravaute.  Introduction by Bernard Delvaille. Near fine hard cover; dust wrapper has very small chips at tips and spine ends, very light soiling to rear cover, o/w very good plus to near fine.  (ID:  6084; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $30.00 

(8) The Relations Between Poetry and Painting.  New York:  The Museum of Modern Art, 1951.  A lecture delivered January 15, 1951.  Fragile stapled paper wrappers  good plus:  chipped, tanned and detached; text unaffected.  In protective sleeve.  (ID:  969; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $75.00 

(9) [Stevens, Wallace]  Brown, Merle E.  Wallace Stevens:  The Poem as Act.  Detroit:  Wayne State University Press, 1970.  Near fine hard cover in sunned, but o/w near fine dust wrapper.  (ID:  6105; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $20.00 

(10)  [Stevens, Wallace]  Doggett, Frank, and Buttel, Robert, Editors.  Wallace Stevens.  A Celebration.  Princeton:  Princeton University Press, 1980.  Contributions by Louis L. Martz, Stevens, A. Walton Litz, Holly Stevens, Richard Ellmann, Helen Vendler, Frank Kermode, J. Hillis Miller, among others.  Near fine to fine hard cover with bright spine lettering.  Dust wrapper is near fine with slightest bit of tanning.  (ID: 6155; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $20.00  

(11) [Stevens, Wallace] Doyle, Charles, Editor. Wallace Stevens:  The Critical Heritage.  London:  Routledge, Kegan Paul, 1985. Fine hard cover. No dust wrapper. One hundred and twenty-three critical pieces (from early reviews to posthumously published material) by a wide range of critics and poets, among them Carl Sandburg, Marianne Moore, Edmund Wilson, Allen Tate, William Carlos Williams, Delmore Schwartz, Roert Lowell, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Donald Davies, and many others. (ID:  6037; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $20.00  

(12) [Stevens, Wallace]  Pearce, Roy Harvey, and Miller, J. Hillis, Editors.  The Act of the Mind.  Essays on the Poetry of Wallace Stevens.  Baltimore:  The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1965.  Hard cover:  Owner’s name blacked out, ffep, very slight edge/tip wear, o/w near fine.  Dust wrapper:  price clipped, several chips and closed tears, rubbing and edge/tip wear, but good plus.  (ID:  6083; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $20.00  

(13) [Stevens, Wallace].  The Sixth Annual Wallace Stevens Program.  Presented by the Department of English of the University of Connecticut with the support of The Hartford Insurance Group.  An Anthology of Prize Poems.  May 14, 1969.  Presentation and Poetry-Reading by Stephen Spender.  Fine. Stapled wrappers, as issued.  Signed by Stephen Spender on the title page. (ID:  6093; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $45.00

(14) [Stevens, Wallace]  Vinal, Harold, Editor.  Voices.  A Quarterly of Poetry.  Wallace Stevens Issue.Number121.  Spring, 1945.  Excerpts from Harmonium, Ideas of Order, The Man with the Blue Guitar, Parts of a World, From Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction, and new poems.  Essay on Stevens by John Malcolm Brinnin.  Also includes eight reviews, including one of William Carlos Williams’s The Wedge and another of Robert Frost’s A Masque of Reason. Stapled wrappers, as issued.  Unevenly tanned, o/w near fine.  (ID:  985; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $80.00  

(15) [Stevens, Wallace] Wake. 9.  The Creative Magazine.  New York:  Wake Editions, 1950.  Seymour Lawrence and Jose Garcia Villa, Editors.  Includes poems by E. E. Cummings, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, Williams Carlos Williams, among others.  Wrappers, as issued.  Some age tanning, soiling, tiny chips at tips/edges, o/w very good to near fine.  (ID: 3054; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $25.00 

(16) [Stevens, Wallace]  Stevens, Holly.  Souvenirs and Prophecies.  The Young Wallace Stevens.  New York:  Alfred A. Knopf, 1977.  Fine hard cover.  Dust wrapper has a tiny bit of edge wear, otherwise near fine to fine.  (ID:  6039; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $30.00  

Triquarterly59.  Evanston, IL:  Northwestern University Press, 1984.  Volume contains poems by Roy A. Young Bear (Native American poet; see Native American Literature list), Ward Just, Joyce Carol Oates, Maxine Kumin, and others.  Light soiling at corners, otherwise near fine to fine.  (Item ID:  5337; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $12.00

Updike, John.  Endpoint.  New York:  Knopf, 2009.  1^st edition.  New hard cover in new dust jacket. 1^st ed., 1^st printing.  (Item ID:  5336; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com).  $25.00

[Updike, John, Editor]  See Shapiro, Karl, above.

Viorst, Judith.  Forever Fifty and Other Negotiations.  New York:  Simon and Schuster, 1989.  As new volume in as new dust jacket.  (Item ID:  5338; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $5.00

Wilbur, Richard

(1) Advice to a Prophet and Other Poems.  New York:  Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1961. Paperclip indentation on pages 48-51, otherwise near fine hard cover.  No dust jacket.  (Item ID: 9007; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $15.00 

(2)  Poems. 1943-1956.  London:  Faber and Faber, 1956.  Hard cover, with small scuff to spine, owner’s name/date to front pastedown, lt. tanning to ffep and rfep, o/w near fine.  Dust wrapper, very small chips at spine ends, tips, spine sunned, lt. tanning to edges, o/w very good.  (ID: 6143)  $45.00     SOLD  

Williams, William Carlos

(1) A Dream of Love.  A Play in Three Acts and Eight Scenes.  Direction Six.  New York:  New Directions, 1948.  In wrappers, as issued. Cover is Alvin Lustig design.  Small closed tear at top of spine, some wear to paper edges, but o/w near fine.  Small area of spotting stain to side edges.  Small sticker residue/stain to back cover. (ID: 6141; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $50.00 

(2) The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams.  New York:  Random House, 1951.  First edition, second printing.  Near fine hard cover, with slightest bit of tip wear; gilt bright on cover and spine, very lit. tanning to interior.  Dust wrapper has large chips and closed tear, front flap is tape repaired, fair plus.  In Mylar.  (ID:  6110; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $20.00 

(3)  A Beginning on the Short Story (Notes). Yonkers, NY:  Alicat, 1950.    Outcast Chapbook #XVII.  One of 750; in wrappers.  1” moisture stain to lower front cover, crease to ffep upper tip. (ID:  709; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $30.00

(4) [Pound, Ezra] *Whittemore, Reed.  William Carlos Williams.  Washington, DC:  Library of Congress, 1984.  As new soft cover, signed and inscribed by Whittemore, Mylar-protected.  (ID:  8617; http//www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $30.00

Wilson, Edmund.  The Twenties.  New York:  Farrar, Straus and Giroyx, 1975.  Edited with an introduction by Leon Edel.  First Edition/First Printing.  Edel edited this work which Wilson died before completing. Hard cover.  Covers and dust wrapper have light age soiling and minor edge/tip wear, but otherwise very good.  In protective Brodart.  (ID:  6139; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $30.00  

Yeats, William Butler

(1) Essays and Introductions.  London:  Macmillan, 1961.  Very good plus volume with mild foxing; very good plus Mylar-protected dust wrapper, spine and edges age toned.  (ID: 8424; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $70.00

(1a) The Wild Swans at Coole.  New York:  Macmillan, 1919.  Lovely Sturge Moore decorated grey paper covers; lacks (1a)  Tdust wrapper.  Very good plus.  Spine sunned with two minor cuts, 2" cut to front spine hinge, minor wear to spine ends/tips, some foxing to first few pages. Signature to ffep.  Internals clean and tight.  Mylar-protected.  (ID: 152; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $325.00 

(2) [Yeats, William Butler]  Symons, A. J. A.  A Bibliography of the First Editions of Books by William Butler Yeats.  London:  First Editions Club, 1924.  #243/500 copies.  Near fine with toning to endpapers.  (ID: 8997; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com)  $80.00 

(3) [Yeats, William Butler]  Foster, R.F.  Words Alone: Yeats and His Inheritances.  New York: Oxford, 2011. As new in similar dust jacket.  (ID: 433; http://www.rmgerberbooks.alibrisstore.com) $10.00

(4) [Yeats, William Butler]  Vendler, Helen.  Our Secret Discipline.  Yeats and Lyric Form.  Cambridge, Massachusetts:  The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007.  First edition, first printing.  Fine hard cover in fine dust wrapper.  As new.  Vendler explores the most inventive reaches of Yeats’s mind, offering brilliant insights into the creative process.   (ID: 6186)  Also available on from us Amazon.com $30.00 

 

 

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