NY: The Seabury Press, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. An excellent association copy, inscribed to poet-translator Robert Fitzgerald on the front free endpaper with lines from one of the book's untitled poems in Spanish that W.S. Merwin translates as: "women on the sea shore are waiting / for dawn to come.....
Brockport, NY: BOA Editions, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. An association copy: Of a limited edition of 50 copies in French marbled paper over boards, this is one of 10 with a holograph poem by Aridjis opposite the holograph translation by editor Eliot Weinberger, in this case a beautiful, gnomic, spare.....
Berkeley: Sand Dollar Books, 1977. First edition. Softcover. A nice association copy, inscribed on the first blank: "To Gary [Nabhan] and Karen, from Wendell." With Nabhan's ownership stamp in blue at the top of the page. One of 1000 copies, a slender chapbook book of about 40 pages presenting, as the.....
North Point Press, 1989. First thus. Hardcover. Association copy, inscribed by Berry on the first blank in the year of publication to the poet, critic, and biographer Vince Clemente with a holograph version of the titular poem, "Traveling at Home." Clemente was a professor at SUNY and his papers are held.....
Crete, NE: The Best Cellar Press, 1975. First edition. Softcover. A standout association copy of this handsome chapbook, inscribed on the front free endpaper: “To the Stegners, with affection, from the Berrys.” In Wendell Berry’s hand. Berry studied with Stegner, "the Dean of Western Writers," as a Wallace Stegner Fellow.....
Berkeley: U California P, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. A nice association copy, inscribed on the title page: "For Michael [McClure] and Amy, for Amy and Michael, Love, Robin Blaser." Blaser and McClure were both central poets in the San Francisco Renaissance and under the wing of Robert Duncan and Jack.....
NY: Delacorte Press, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. An association copy, inscribed on the title page: "This copy is for Russ Chatham, 'a man who knows that every second counts.' Richard Brautigan, August 19, 1978." This book was signed at a gathering of some of the Montana gang in San Francisco.....
Keene, NY: Ausable Press, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. An association copy, inscribed at the top of the title page: "For Jim [Harrison] from Hayden." Uncommon signed. Carruth was the winner of the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and here is a powerful collection of letters.....
LA: The Primavera Press, 1934. First edition. Hardcover. An association copy: Loren Eiseley's copy, with his signature at the top of the front free endpaper. One of 750 copies of this limited edition. Also laid in is a departmental book order card that Eiseley has filled out to purchase another.....
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012. 1st Edition. Soft cover. An advanced review copy (uncorrected proof, ARC) from this decorated poet, winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award among many others. Near fine with light wear to edges (noticeable mainly because the front cover is black).
NY: Random House, 2002. First edition. Softcover. Seventh printing. Inscribed "To Dan" and dated 2005 by Collins on the title page. A very near fine book with an almost imperceptible bump to the lower corner of wrap.
Harcourt, 1985. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Association copy, inscribed on the title page: "Leo Connellan, for Annie Dillard, October 16, 1987." With Dillard's bookplate. Blurbs by Sydney Lea, Richard Eberhart, and Hayden Carruth. Connellan live in Greenwich Village during the Beat scene, and later was the the Poet Laureate of Connecticut.....
Barrytown, NY: Station Hill, 2017. First edition. Softcover. A nice association copy, inscribed on the title page: "For Michael [McClure] + Amy -- all these years . . . with love, Clark, 30 I 17." An apparently uncommon book with no other copies to be found, scarcer signed. Clark was.....
Cambridge, MA: Zoland Books, 1989. First edition. Softcover. An association copy, inscribed on the title page: "28 Aug. '90, For Jim + Linda [Harrison], All best, Bill." From the library of poet-novelist Jim Harrison in Livingston, MT. Corbett was a prolific poet who taught for Harvard and other Boston-area universities.....
Four Seasons Foundation, San Francisco, 1970. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Association copy, inscribed in a bold blue marker on the front free endpaper to poet Denise Levertov and her husband: "For Denny + Mitch, with my love, Bob, Eden, NY - 5/12/70." Very good with some light creasing to wrappers.....
NY: Scribners, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. A nice association copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "Best wishes to Michael, Francis." Michael McClure is the seminal Beat poet who shared the stage with Gary Snyder and Allen Ginsberg at the famous Six Gallery Reading that kicked off the Beat generation.....
University of California Press, 1991. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Association copy, inscribed to poet Denise Levertov on the half-title page: "For Denise, with affection & best wishes, from Simone, 1991." A nice association between standout West Coast poets who were colleagues at Stanford. Fine hardback in fine jacket. // Wood (+).....
Hamish Hamilton, 1971. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First British edition, following Doubleday s 1970 limited and trade editions. Inscribed by Dickey to John Gardner, of Grendel fame, with his usual flourish and aplomb on the first flyleaf, uniting two of the bad boys of contemporary literature: "to John Gardner, from James.....
NY: Little Brown, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. Fourth printing. Joan Didion's copy, with a bookplate affirming this provenance on the front free endpaper. Two post-its are found within, one with a little math and a phone number in Didion's hand. Edited by Thomas H. Johnson, a biographer of Dickinson, this.....
Harpercollins, 1995. 1st Edition. Hardcover. The inscription reads: "For Bob, the love and light of my life, Annie." The relationship between Annie Dillard and her husband, Robert D. Richardson, is a remarkable and well-known story. Both were married, to different people, when Dillard sent Richardson a fan letter out of.....
Columbia, MO: U Missouri P, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Third printing in the year of publication. Dillard's first book, an association copy inscribed on the title page: "For my friends and colleagues Bill and Petch Peden, in all gratitude, Annie Dillard, Middletown, Connecticut, April 12, 1983." William Harwood Peden and.....
NY: Scribner's, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. An association copy: Diane Di Prima's copy with her ownership signature at the top of the front free endpaper. Di Prima and Duncan were friends and both significant poets in the San Francisco Renaissance and Beat poet scene. Di Prima wrote of her friendship with.....
Athens: U Georgia P, 2009. First edition. Signed. Signed on the title page by Dungy. Uncommon signed. While there was a simultaneous hardcover edition, it was expensive and was probably only sold to libraries by this university press. An important anthology from Dungy, who is a decorated ecopoet, professor, and.....
New Directions, Norfolk, 1944. 1st Edition. Hardcover. The Poets of the Year Series. Inscribed to Stuart Wright, the noted North Carolina collector, bibliographer, and the publisher of Palaemon Press, who championed Eberhart and acquired his papers. Wright's Eberhart collection is now housed at East Carolina University (see their finding aid.....
NY: The Eakins Press, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. An association copy: tipped in on the front free endpaper is a typed note signed (TLS) from Eberhart to Vince Clemente providing a bio, dated 1990. Clemente was a professor at SUNY and his papers are held at Rochester University. Eberhart was the.....