The Sexual Outlaw. A Documentary
New York: Grove Press, (1977). First edition. Black cloth, fine copy in near-fine dust jacket. Signed by Rechy on the title page. More
MODERN FIRST EDITIONS
Adrienne Cecile Rich
Swinford: Fantasy Press, 1952. First edition. Published as Number 12 in The Fantasy Poets series, issued by the Oxford University Poetry Society, edited by Donald Hall and Oscar Mellor. Wrappers. Notes in ink on front, still fine. Published while Rich was a student at Oxford. More
Four Unposted Letters to Catherine
Paris: Hours Press, [1930]. Lye, Len. First edition. Calf spine, boards with photo-montaged design. Ends of spine slightly rubbed. First edition, one of 200 copies, numbered and signed by Riding. The cover design is by the New Zealand surrealist Len Lye. First state, without the tipped in introductory note. More
Anatole France at Home. By Marcel Le Goff. Translated by Laura Riding Gottchalk (sic)
New York: Adelphi Company, 1926. First edition of what is probably the first book by Laura Riding, if a translation can be so regarded. Her first volume of poetry, The Close Chaplet, was published in October of the same year, and Adelphi imported copies, but made no mention of it..... More
The Poetry of Louise Bogan
Ann Arbor: 1960. Offprint from Michigan Alumnus Quarterly Review, Dec. 3, 1960, Vol. LXVII, No. 10. Stapled sheets, fine. This is the text of Roethke's Hopwood Lecture delivered at the University of Michigan. Very scarce. More
Still Such. Photograph by Duane Michaels
New York: William Drenttel, 1992. Michaels, Duane. First edition. Cloth backed boards, fine. One of 200 numbered copies signed by Salter. More
Letter to Carl Sandburg.; After reading his autobiography "Always the Young Strangers" published on his 75th birthday January 6, 1953.
New York: Joseph Hall Schaffner, 1968. Dean, Mallette. Cloth backed boards, fine. First edition, one of fifty copies on handmade Tovil paper, from an edition of 250, designed and printed by Mallette Dean. Out of series copy. Signed by Weigel. Frontispiece portrait of Sandburg after Steichen. More
Little Children
New York: Harcourt Brace, 1937. First edition. White cloth, a fine copy in lightly chipped dust jacket. 1500 copies were printed. Inscribed "To my very good friend Leon Gelber, who on many occasions has shown his admiration for art, and horse racing, by financing my internationally famous bets (Saroyan's horses..... More
My Name is Aram. Illustrated by Don Freeman.
New York: Harcourt Brace, (1940). Freeman, Don. First edition. Yellow cloth, labels, fine in lightly edge-worn dust jacket. Five line inscription from Saroyan "For my pal Leon Gelber Xmas & New Year greetings & best wishes for the biggest year ever in 1941. Sincerely, William Saroyan / 1940." Antiquarian bookseller..... More
Syracuse Poems 1964
Syracuse, N.Y. Department of English, Syracuse University, 1964. Wrappers, fine. First edition. Schwartz contributed a foreword to this collection of poems by five student poets. More
Auden (1907-1973)
Davis,Calif. Putah Creek Press, (1974). First edition. Brown wrappers, string-tied. Slightly faded as often, otherwise fine. One of 175 copies, numbered and signed. More
The Portrait and Other Poems.
Stockwell, 1950. Wrappers, slightly faded; fine. The date is written in ink on title page, probably by the publisher. First edition. More
Myths & Texts
New York: Totem Press/Corinth Books (1960). (1960). White wrappers, slight dust soiling, but an unusually fine copy. Marshall Clements's ownership signature inside front cover. McNeil A2. First edition of Snyder's second book. More
Flash and Filigree
New York: Coward-McCann, (1958). First American edition. White cloth, very good in worn dust jacket. Inscribed "To Maxine with love and best wishes. Terry S." Someone has lined out the first paragraph of the inside jacket flap copy, probably the same pen that wrote the inscription. More
Twenty-Five Poems
Helskini: Eurographica, 1988. First edition. Wrappers, as new. Illustrated with manuscript facsimile. One of 350 copies, signed and dated by the author. Four of the poems were not included in the author's Collected Poems, 1985. More
Aetatis Suae LIII
San Francisco: Privately printed, 1961. Broadside. First edition, one of about 25 copies printed by Albert Sperisen. This poem was written for the birthday of Stacton's friend, Stanford professor John McClelland. Fine. More
"A desert fox, with cactus-colored fur," Broadside poem.
[San Francisco: Privately printed, 1960]. First edition. Broadside poem. First edition, issued anonymously. About fifty copies were printed, on various papers, by Albert Sperisen. Fine. More
The Power Gods by Bud Clifton [pseud.]
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1958. 1958. Blue boards, slight foxing to fore edge, but a nice copy in dust jacket. First edition. More
Why Steinbeck wrote The Grapes of Wrath. Did Shakespeare Translate the Decameron, by Carter Meredith. Mr. Grahame, Mr. Roosevelt, and I, by A.A. Milne
New York: The Limited Editions Club, (1940). First edition. Wrappers, nice. More
Alice Adams
Garden City: Doubleday, Page, 1921. First edition, Original brown cloth, front inner hinge cracked; very good. First printing with error on page 419. Inscribed by Tarkington shortly before his death in 1946. Winner of a Pulitzer Prize and the source of two films. More
Recent American Poetry and Poetic Criticism; A selected list of references
Washington: The Library of Congress, 1943. Wrappers, very good. First edition, mimeographed. Tate provided, as Poetry Consultant, an annotated list of works to be sent to the Soviet Union. More
The Winter Sea
Cummington, Mass. The Cummington Press, 1944. Cummington Press. First edition. First edition, one of 300 copies on laid paper, this is copy "0", marked as a "reviewer's proof" on the colophon, and with specially printed wrappers, noting it as such. A rare state, in fine condition, with half morocco slipcase..... More
Collected Essays.
Denver: Swallow, (1959). First edition, inscribed by Tate to his friends Shelley and Dick Beatty, dated Wellfleet, 1961. Usual paper browning, otherwise fine in trifle used dust jacket. More