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Misc., Mostly Poetry Mark Alexander Alexander Rare Books 234 Camp Street Barre, VT 05641 (802) 476-0838 ALEXANDER Literary Firsts & Poetry RARE BOOKS We are are leaving VT: please see back cover CATALOGUE FORTY: Misc., mostly Poetry Mark Alexander Alexander Rare Books 234 Camp Street Barre, VT 05641 (802) 476-0838 [email protected] All items are US or UK First Editions, First Printings, unless otherwise stated. All items guaranteed & are fully refundable for any reason within 30 days; orders subject to prior sale. VT residents please add 6% sales tax. Checks, money orders, most credit cards, & PayPal accepted. Net 30 days. Institutions billed according to need. Reciprocal terms offered to the trade. Shipping is free in the US (via Priority or First Class Mail); Canada $10 per shipment; elsewhere $20 per shipment. Visit AlexanderRareBooks.com for scans of most items. We encourage you to visit for the latest acquisitions. Thank you in advance for perusing this list. Included (in anticipation of our removal) are items from stock not recently catalogued. Many reduced in price – in most cases significantly. [printed on recycled paper] Catalogue 40 1. Ammons, A.R. A COAST OF TREES. NY Norton, 1981. First edition. An uncorrected proof copy in light brown wrappers with publication information written in in ink. An early state of this monumental and award-winning volume which includes among other masterpieces his great poem "Easter Morning" that begins: "I have a life that did not become,/that turned aside and stopped/astonished:". Spine area lightly creased in three places, but the spine is still straight, the pages tight. Near Fine in Wraps. [77] $50.00 2. Ammons, A.R. DIVERSIFICATIONS. NY: Norton, 1975. First edition. A lovely copy, with the front fap clipped at the bottom as usual, not affecting price, and only a tiny spot of glue affecting the binding. Signed by the poet on the half-title. Fine in near fne dust jacket. [3723] $50.00 3. Ammons, A.R. SELECTED LONGER POEMS. NY: Norton, 1980. First edition. Published simultaneously in hardcovers as well as paper. An extraordinary copy. Inscribed to Stuart Wright, Ammons' bibliographer, and signed "Archie Ammons". The jacket is as usual price-clipped at the bottom front fap. Very good in a very good dust jacket. [909] $175.00 4. Ammons, A.R. WORLDLY HOPES. NY: Norton, 1982. First edition. An uncorrected proof copy in orange wrappers. This copy is heavily annotated (through the frst half and top portion of the cover) in pencil by a reviewer, e.g. "American chinoiserie - Japanese quality of Ammons' work; Imagism's late child; a romanticist of detail". Near fne. [1404] $35.00 5. Arnold, Bob. ROPE OF BELLS. Cherry Valley, NY: Cherry Valley Editions, 1974. First Edition. Stapled Kraft paper. [20 pp.] Edition limited to 250 copies. Signed by the poet. Poet/publisher's frst book. Price inked out, else about fne. [13159] $35.00 6. Arnold, Bob. THREAD. Markesan WI: Pentagram, 1980. First edition. Original decorated wraps. Inscribed by the author to another small press publisher/poet. Lovely small press book art: set on handmade papers, stitched. 290 copies were issued, during December 1980, handset in Joanna & Italian Old Style on Frankfort. Bob Arnold is a Vermont poet and publisher (Longhouse Press); he is the literary executor of Cid Corman's estate. Fine. [13161] $25.00 7. Ashbery, John. APRIL GALLEONS. NY: Viking, 1987. First edition. Fine in fa ine dust jacket. [196] $20.00 8. Ashbery, John. HOTEL LAUTREAMONT. NY: Knopf, 1992. First edition. "Ashbery seems to be to the second half of our century what Stevens and Yeats were to the frst" - Harold Bloom (quoted from the fap). Fine in a fne dust jacket. [194] $25.00 9. Ashbery, John. SUNRISE IN SUBURBIA. NY: The Phoenix Book Shop, 1968. First Edition. Sewn card covers in decorated wrappers, with paper label; oblong 12mo. Number 93 of 100 copies (of 126 total). Additionally inscribed on the title page "For C. W. With my very best wishes,/ John Ashbery/ February 12, 1997/ New York". Printed at the Ferguson Press, Cambridge. Spine a bit worn, else fne. [13136] $350.00 10. ANOTHER COPY. Letter B of 26 copies (of 126 total) signed by the author. Additionally inscribed on the title page. Fine. [13137] $600.00 11. Auden, W. H. POEMS 1928. Ilkley, West Yorkshire, UK: Privately Printed, 1973. First Thus. Facsimile of Auden's frst book in green printed folder, created for the Ilkley Literary Festival. A special copy: inscribed: To Gabriel [Carritt)] a book Wystan would have liked him to have from Stephen [Spender] Jan 24 '74." Carritt, Spender, and Auden were Oxford classmates. According to Auden's biographer Humphrey Carpenter, Auden met Carritt in 1927. Carritt, the inspiration for some of his earliest love poetry didn't fully reciprocate Auden's passion, but their friendship persisted for 45 years. In 1930 they took a walking tour over Easter vacation visiting Hadrian's Wall. Approximately 100 copies were printed (this the issue in green folder) for sale at the festival, and reproduced with the poet's corrections from the Durham University copy. The frst edition prepared by Spender for friends in an edition of about 30 copies is nearly impossible to obtain. This extraordinary association copy a facsimile prepared for an event that featured one of Auden's last public readings is of a different order, but nonetheless quite special. The book is fne lacking the errata slip (facsimile) with foreword and lightly creased folder. [13111] $500.00 12. Bagg, Robert. THE WORST KISS. Chester, MA: Hollow Spring Press, 1985. First Edition. Sewn wrappers in printed orange jacket; 8vo. 28 pp. One of 250 (#7) numbered copies signed by the poet and publishers Alex Harvey and Ed Rayher, printed by Ed at Swamp Press of Amherst. Fine. [13179] $35.00 AlexanderRareBooks.com (802) 476-0838 p.3 13. Banks, Russell. SNOW Meditations of a Cautious Man in Winter. Hanover, NH: Granite Publications, 1974. First edition. Bank's second book a collection of poetry in stapled wrappers. Signed by the author. According to the author only about 300 copies printed. Spine worn, pages yellowing at edges, about very good. [4068] $95.00 14. Berge, Carol. THE VANCOUVER REPORT. NY: Fuck You Press, 1964. First edition. Mimeograph sheets printed on rectos only, stapled. Printed on pink paper by Ed Sanders at a "secret location in the lower east side". The poet's frst solely authored book a report from the Vancouver Poetry Seminar at The University of British Columbia in 1963. The three week seminar brought together the Creeley's (Robert was teaching at UCBC), Olson, Duncan, Ginsberg, Avison, Whalen and others. Berge's frst hand account from her notes is a summary of North American avant garde culture at the time, as well as the seminar itself. Some stains, creasing and wear, previous owner's name on cover, still about very good; lacking the back cover which serves as the colophon. [10650] $75.00 15. ANOTHER COPY. An easily very good and complete copy: Light wear at edges, one corner creased, else about fne and with little of the common fading of the pink wrappers. [10773] $150.00 16. Bertholf, Robert; Robert Bly et al. THE ASPHODEL BOOK SHOP: 25 Years. Kent, OH: Privately Printed, 1988. First Edition. Stapled wrappers. [24 pp.] Thirty copies printed on the 25th anniversary of the great Cleveland Bookshop owned by Jim Lowell. Booklet with contributions by poets Robert Creeley (an obviously original poem "Hymn to Jim"), Richard Blevins, Gael Turnbull, Paul Metcalf, and others friends. Near fne and obviously scarce. [13163] $50.00 17. Berrigan, Ted. A FEELING FOR LEAVING. New York: Frontward Books, 1975. First edition. Stapled mimeographed sheets with hand-colored covers (as issued) by Rochelle Kraut. One of 403 total copies. This copy inscribed "For Bob __ in NYC/with affection,/ Ted Berrigan/ 16 May 79". Light wear and toning to the edges, easily very good. [10492] $300.00 see cover 18. Bishop, Elizabeth. THE COMPLETE POEMS. NY: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1969. First Edition. Blue cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 216 pp The winner of The National Book Award; includes new poems and translations, as well as the work of more than three decades. 5500 copies printed. The blue cloth on this copy is lightly worn, the top stain faded; the easily very good dust jacket sunned at edges, else minor wear, a few closed tears, the spine crown thumbed. Attractive copy, becoming more diffcult to fnd in collectible condition. (MacMahon A9.) [13158] $200.00 19. Bly, Robert. THE MOON ON A FENCEPOST. Greensboro, NC: Unicorn, 1988. First Edition. Sewn illustrated wrappers; 8vo. [14 pp.] Number 243 of 300 copies (of 426 total). Eight poems with illus. by Gregory Bitz. Near fne. [13164] $15.00 20. Bronk, William. THE CHOICE OF WORDS. New Rochelle: James L. Weil, 1995. First Edition. Sewn wrappers; thin 12mo. One of 50 on printed at the Kelly-Winterton Press. Fine. [13112] $35.00 21. Broumas, Olga. BEGINNING WITH O. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977. First edition. A lovely copy of her frst regularly published book. Fine in a fne dust jacket; this copy not price- clipped as it commonly is. [153] $75.00 22. Broumas, Olga. SOIE SAUVAGE. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1979. First Edition. One of 150 copies attractively printed on French mould-made Rives paper and signed by the poet. In quarter cloth with a paper label, without dust jacket as issued. Very near fne (issued without a dust jacket). [2438] $50.00 23. Buck, Bill; Wallace Look; Jane Stern. THREE DOORS. San Francisco: self-published, 1955. First Edition. Red wrappers, paper label; small 4to. Three sections of poems purporting to be from the Akash[t]ic Records.
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