ALEXANDER Literary Firsts & Poetry RARE BOOKS CATALOGUE THIRTY-EIGHT 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, which is a bit longer than usual, included are a number of items from stock never or not recently catalogued. Most reduced in price – in some cases signifcantly. [printed on recycled paper] Catalogue 38 1. Ackerman, Diane. WIFE OF LIGHT POEMS. NY: Morrow, 1978. First edition. 64 pp. Quarter cloth in dust jacket; small 8vo. First printing of the poet's second collection. Light foxing at top edges, slightly rubbed dust jacket Excellent copy of an uncommon Book issued simultaneously in paper. Near %ne in near %ne dust jacket. [8007] $35.00 2. Aldington, Richard. WAR AND LOVE. Boston: The Four Seas Press, 1919. First edition. 8vo., 94 pp. Mottled brown Boards, paper labels. Spine label a bit rubbed and toned, but still bright, crown thumbed, a couple of pages torn, else very good and clean; lacking the scarce dust jacket. The poet's third book, second to be published in the US. The bibliographer does not note two different sized spine labels – this the longer at 4 5/16 in. [Kershaw no. 9] [6834] 35.00 Aldington's frst poems along with those of future wife H.D. were the frst to be named "Imagist" by Pound, when he sent them off to Harriet Monroe at Poetry. 3. Aldington, Richard (trans.). GREEK SONGS IN THE MANNER OF ANACREON. Ln: The Egoist Ltd., 1919. First edition. Small 8vo, 36 pp. The Poet's Translation Series (Second Set No. 1). Soiling to covers, spine-toned, crown and tail a bit rounded, still very good. [6833] $50.00 4. Andrews, Bruce. FILM NOIR. Providence: Burning Deck, 1978. Chapbook. Review copy, printed sheet with blurbs and copy laid in. One of 350 numbered copies printed by the Waldrops at their press. By one of the foremost proponents of LANGUAGE poetry. Minor wear, moderate rubbing, else %ne in illustrated (By the author) wrappers. [20 pp.] [7213] $25.00 5. Armitage, Simon. THE DEAD SEA POEMS. Ln: Faber & Faber, 1995. First edition.Original wraps; small 8vo. Signed on the title page, with a Waterstone's bookstore bellyband to that effect. The fourth collection from the newly elected Oxford Professor of Poetry, a %ve year posting begun in 1708, and recently held By Geoffrey Hill, Paul Muldoon and Seamus Heaney. Fine in Wraps [440] $40.00 6. Ashbery, John. WAKEFULNESS. NY: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1998. First edition. Review copy with a sheet (reviews from PW, Library Journal) laid in. Fine in a %ne dust jacket. [4176] $25.00 7. Bátki, John. FALLING UPWARDS. Cambridge: Dolphin Editions, 1976. First edition. Enthusiastically inscribed by the poet to fellow poet Kenward Elmslie. 32 pages in pictorial wraps, with many playful illustrations. Near %ne, and a nice association. [9983] $20.00 8. Beckett, Samuel. POEMS IN ENGLISH. NY: Grove Press, 1963. First U.S. Edition. Green cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. Attractive copy in unusually bright, complete (not price-clipped) near %ne dust jacket with just the lightest edgewear; the top edge of cloth lightly soiled, else %ne. [12959] $125.00 9. Bell, Marvin. THESE GREEN- GOING-TO-YELLOW: Poems. NY: Atheneum, 1981. First edition, hardcover issue. Bell's %fth book of poems, a lovely copy affectionately inscribed to a fellow author at Bread Loaf, 1983. Bell taught for 40 years at Iowa's Writers' Workshop. Near %ne, dust jacket faps starting to tone a bit, else %ne.[8359] $40.00 10. Bernard, April. BLACKBIRD BYE BYE. NY: Random House, 1989. First edition. An uncorrected proof copy in yellow printed wrappers of the poet's %rst book. Fine in Wraps. [211] $25.00 11. Berrigan, Ted, et al. Poster for Viridian Gallery poetry readings. New York, 1979. Poster on orange paper (8 1/2 x 11 in.) for the Thursday Evening Poetry Readings at Viridian Gallery in NYC. Listed in the following pairings: Steve Hamilton and Jackson Mac Low; Yuki Hartman and June Jordan; Jim Brodey and Michael Slater; Charles Bernstein and Ted Berrigan; Jamie MacIness and BoB Rosenthal; Charles North and Annabel Levitt; Rose Lesniak and Ed Friedman; Quincy Troupe and Tony Towle and Janine Pommy Vega and Vicky Hudspith. Folded for mailing with Phoenix Book Shop address on the Back. One silver dollar-sized closed tear/crease, else very good. [10486] $45.00 AlexanderRareBooks.com (802) 476-0838 p.3 12. Berryman, John. HOMAGE TO MISTRESS BRADSTREET: A poem, with pictures by Ben Shahn. Ln: Faber & Faber, 1959. First edition. An uncorrected proof copy in green mottled wrappers. The %rst of Berryman's selected poems on either shore, and selected By him. Includes 39 poems from THE DISPOSSESSED and 7 from HIS THOUGHT MADE POCKETS..., as well as the title poem and notes. Scarce in this format. The front top corner of the cover has a crease where it has been folded, the paper has age-toned, but there is very little wear; very good. [Stefanik A9.1.a.] [12956] $200.00 13. Berryman, John et al. POETRY: Volume 72, Number 1. Chicago, April 1948. An interesting issue. Five poems from Berryman, his %rst appearance in this magazine, including the title poem of "The Dispossessed". Poems By Richard Eberhart and Malcolm Cowley, and a review of a prose translation of "The Odyssey" By Fitzgerald, with his own verse (well prior to his landmark translation); a long review of Frost's "A Masque of Mercy" by W C Williams, and of Duncan's %rst book By Rukeyser. There is a single page of author photos. Bottom corner creased, the Eberhart photo with paper loss from transfer to opposite page, otherwise very good in printed wrappers. [4737] $25.00 14. Bidart, Frank. THE SACRIFICE. NY: Random House, 1983. First edition. An uncorrected proof copy in orange plain wraps. Poet's third collection, and containing the important long poem "The War of Vaslav Nijinsky". A name in ink on the front cover (By the publisher), covers creased in three areas, and a spot on the spine; the interior is %ne. [232] $50.00 15. Bishop, Elizabeth. All These Cafes Have Lots Of Tourists On Weekends.... A Letter to Robie Macauley. NY: Glenn Horowitz, 1987. First Edition. One of 200 copies printed at the Kelly Winterton Press, NY; 12mo. 9 pp. Sewn into brown printed wrappers. Bishop's letter on her cleaning lady, food places and other wonderfully mundane things in Boston. Poly protective cover added. Fine. [12954] $100.00 16. Blaser, Robin. Of Is The Word Love Without The Initial Consonant. Vancouver: Slug Press, 1979. First edition. Poetry broadside (approx. 13 x 11 in.) printed in two colors on beige paper; one of 100 numbered (#22) and signed by the poet. Contemporary broadside number 1. Fine. [10842] $35.00 17. Bly, Robert. The Dead Seal Near McClure's Beach. Rushden, Northhamptonshire, UK: Sceptre Press, 1973. First edition. Original Wraps; chapbook. This is number 6 of 50 copies (of 150 total) signed and numbered, printed in the UK. A crisp %ne copy, with very slight wear to top edge of wrap. [7896] $35.00 18. Bly, Robert. THE LIGHT AROUND THE BODY. NY: Harper & Row, 1967. First edition. Poet's second book, winner of the National Book Award. With a number of anti-Vietnam War poems, not surprising as he was instrumental in starting American Writers Against The Vietnam War in 1966. Edges shelf-worn else about %ne in an easily very good, complete dust jacket lightly sunned spine, with wear at the extremities, but no chips or tears. Published simultaneously in trade paper, the hardcover is somewhat dif%cult in collectible condition. [10140] $50.00 19. Bly, Robert. POINT REYES POEMS. Cedarville, CA, U.S.A.: Floating Island Publications, 1989. First Rev. Edition. Sewn illus. wraps; 12mo. Specially signed on the title page by the Author. Foreword By Michael Witt. Slender volume of 25 pages stitched into green wraps with cover illustration By David Lubin. Limited to 2000 copies. Originally published in 1974, here substantially revised. Light wear, fading, else %ne . [7672] $50.00 20. Bly, Robert. The Teeth Mother Naked at Last. San Francisco: City Lights, 1970. First Edition Thus. Illustrated blue and white wrappers;16mo. Number 26 in the Pocket Poets series. One of 5000 copies printed; the %rst printing in book form of this widely read anti-war poem. [Cook p. 69.] Stained covers, interior %ne and tight, but good only. [12949] $30.00 21. Bly, Robert. The Teeth-Mother Naked At Last. Madison: Sixties Press, 1970. Second edition. 12 pp. "folder" printed on a single sheet of yellow paper (%rst edition letterpres printed on green paper). Inscribed on the front cover "For Norman - a sad poem - Robert". Published By Bly's press for the American Writers Against The Vietnam War: "Not to be sold. Printed as a gift to the Resistance By Robert Bly and Lawrence Ferlinghetti." PuBlished later By City Lights. Light soiling and creasing, still close to very good.