Columbus, OH: The Broken Stone, 1984. 1st Edition. Soft cover. A collaboration between poets. Sixteenmo (small), black wraps with silver stamped lettering on front, staple bound. 22 pages in the cream interior. Stated edition is 1,500 copies, but in our experience this small book is far less common than that.....
Lee Vining, CA: Artemisia Press (Mono Lake Committee), 2017. First edition. Softcover. With ten signatures of the contributors on the half-title page, including those of Gary Snyder, Tom Killion, Kim Stanley Robinson, David Robertson, Armando Qunitero, Hilary Gordon, Darryl DeVinney, and several others we can't identify with certainty. Scarce as.....
NY: Viking Press, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. An association copy: signed by Gary Snyder on the copyright page. Apparently when asked to sign the book, Snyder replied, slyly, "But I didn't write it." He then relented, though, and out of deference to Kerouac signed the copyright page instead of the.....
NY: Signet, 1959. First thus. Softcover. Ninth printing of this mass market paperback. An association copy, inscribed on the verso of the front cover in thick pen: "For Robert Novak, GS, Japhy Ryder." Also two Japanese characters in the inscription. Robert Novak is probably the poet, critic, and editor who.....
NY: Viking Press, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. An association copy: signed and dated by both Gary Snyder and Allen Ginsberg on the lower corner of the half-title page. Also signed by Snyder as "Japhy Ryder" on the bottom of the title page in a more flowing calligraphic style, probably on.....
NY: New Directions, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. A nice association copy, inscribed on the title page: "For Fred Martin, Gary Snyder." Martin was the managing editor of New Directions, which published this volume, the first of Snyder's New Directions publications. This book in general uncommon signed. Very good on account.....
NY: New Directions, 1971. First edition. Softcover. Thirteenth printing. Inscribed on the title page: "For John, Gary Snyder, II.XI.92." His fourth discrete collection, starting with "A Berry Feast" that Snyder read at the famous Six Gallery Reading that initiated the Beat era. Very good or better with a little bumping to.....
London: Fulcrum, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. The limited edition: one of one hundred copies printed on fawn-colored Glastonbury paper and signed by Snyder on the acknowledgments/copyright page in green ink. This is copy 40. Fulcrum published Snyder's A Range of Poems and followed it up with the reissue of Six.....
Phoenix Bookshop, New York, 1969. 1st Edition. Soft cover. One of 100 copies numbered and signed by Snyder. This copy is number 19. There were also 26 signed lettered copies not for sale. Approximately 5 x 6" in blue wraps, 24 pages, string bound, with a white jacket that has.....
NY: Library of America, 2022. First edition. Hardcover. The slipcased edition, only sent to subscribers and uncommon thus. Edited by Jack Shoemaker and Anthony Hunt. Includes his eleven books of poetry plus uncollected poems, translations, and more. A fine copy in very good slipcase on account of a bump to.....
Counterpoint, 2004. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First printing, signed on the title page. Snyder's first book of new poems since Axe Handles twenty years earlier, it begins with a cluster of poems about Mt. St. Helens and then ranges widely. Fine book in fine jacket.
New Directions, 1969. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "For Dick Wertheimer and Jean, Gary Snyder." Uncommon signed. Richard Wertheimer was an attorney in San Francisco who donated his time to progressive causes including defending the Diggers and supporting the San Francisco Zen Center. He may have.....
NY: Library of America, 2025. First edition. Hardcover. The slipcased edition, only sent to subscribers and thus uncommon. It gathers the essential prose across more than four decades from the "poet laureate of Deep Ecology." A companion to Snyder's "Collected Poems" published by Library of America in 2022. A fine.....
Roaring Forks Press, New York, 1971. 1st Edition. Soft cover. A small, slim pamphlet, approx. 2.5" x 5", 10 leaves, cream paper, published as part of the avant-garde Aspen: a magazine in a box, no. 10. A selection from Snyder's first journal from Japan. Staples are lightly rusted; still fine.....
Berkeley: Shaman Drum, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. One of 108 copies in boards signed by Snyder and the illustrator Michael Corr at the colophon. Printed by Clifford Burke at the Cranium Press in San Francisco. Includes "Spel Against Demons," the famous "Smokey the Bear Sutra," and "The California Water Plan.".....
A collection of 63 broadsides and poetry postcards featuring the poetry of Gary Snyder, as well as two posters. Snyder has shown a particular allegiance to broadsides over the course of his career. Quite possibly he is one of the poets with the most broadsides to his name over a......
Hereford, England: Five Seasons Press. First edition. Softcover. Number 39 of 65 special signed copies in a slipcase-sleeve of fibrous plant paper. Contains a single essay, "Good, Wild, Sacred," that was later collected in The Practice of the Wild. String bound, printed on rag paper with endpapers of Japanese Mingei.....
Hereford, England: Five Seasons Press. First edition. Softcover. Number seven of 65 special signed copies in a slipcase-sleeve of fibrous plant paper. Contains a single essay, "Good, Wild, Sacred," that was later collected in The Practice of the Wild. String bound, printed on rag paper with endpapers of Japanese Mingei.....
Grey Fox Press, 1982. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Inscribed on the title page in blue ink: "For James McElderry, Gary Snyder." Second printing, but uncommon signed in any edition and printing. Near fine with light toning to spine.
Bolinas: Grey Fox Press, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. One of 200 copies published in hardcover. Snyder's undergraduate thesis at Reed, an examination of myth of the Haida people of British Columbia coast, published here for the first time and giving great insight into his development and influences. With an introduction.....
North Point Pr, 1986. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed softcover uncorrected proof in green wrappers as depicted in stock photo. Uncommon thus. "Dedication to come," reads the dedication page, among other changes. Very good with light handling wear, most prominently a crease mark across lower corner of front wrap. Also some.....
North Point Press, 1986. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Association copy, inscribed on the title page: "For Nick Clinch, mountain men together, Gary Snyder." Clinch was an important alpinist and conservationist, serving as president of the American Alpine Club (1968-70) and as the longtime executive director of the Sierra Club Foundation (1970-1981).....
Berkeley: The Bancroft Library, 2013. First edition. Softcover. One of 400 copies printed on Mohawk superfine paper by the Autumn Press. Published as part of The Judith Lee Stronach Memorial Lectures on the Teaching of Poetry at UC Berkeley. Snyder gave the ninth annual lecture on May 11, 2012. With.....
New Directions, 2002. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Signed by Snyder on the title page. Uncommon or scarce signed (we have never seen another copy signed). Sampling from his New Directions books, with a new essay and poem honoring James Laughlin, to which the book is dedicated. Note: The cover is.....
Berkeley: Counterpoint, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. The limited edition, one of 150 copies in cream cloth with copper lettering to spine and a kokopeli illustration on the front board. In a slipcase with decorative gray paper depicting a Japanese mountain illustration. Snyder's epic poem (in pieces), first begun in 1956.....