BERRYMAN, John

Homage to Mistress Bradstreet

New York, Farrar Straus Cudahy, (1956). First Edition. Hardcover. Pictorial boards. Berryman's early volume of poems about Anne Bradstreet. Illustrated by Ben Shahn with the cover and dustwrapper designed by him. Ill.: Ben Shahn. Beautiful copy in like dustwrapper. As close to new as possible .

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Book number: 003379

Catalogue: Modern First Editions

Keywords: Modern First Editions, Modern Poetry, Ben Shahn, John Berryman, Modern Firsts, Illustrated Books Ben Shahn Modern First Editions Ben Shahn Literature: American Modern Poetry

BIDART, Frank

The Book of the Body

New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1977). First Edition. Hardcover. Bidart's second book. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with a tiny closed tear at the top rear .

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Book number: 019200

Catalogue: Modern First Editions

Keywords: Modern First Editions, Modern Firsts, Modern Poetry Literature: American Modern Poetry Modern First Editions Modern Firsts

BISHOP, Elizabeth (Editor-in-Chief)

The 1934 Vassarion

Poughkeepsie, Senior Class/Vassar College, [1934]. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto (7-3/4" x 10-3/4") bound in velvet-covered boards. Elizabeth Bishop's senior yearbook at Vassar, of which she was the editor-in-chief. This can certainly be considered, as anyone who has ever been in charge of a yearbook may tell you, Bishop's first book, predating NORTH & SOUTH by 12 years. Profusely illustrated, with two photographs of Bishop, her senior photograph and a group shot of the yearbook staff. Underclassman Muriel Rukeyser has a poem here also. A scarce Bishop item, and one of the best copies of the several we have handled over the course of 35 years. Minor foxing to first and last few pages, no writing within. The velvet is only lightly marked. A Fine, fresh copy .

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Book number: 021649

Catalogue: Modern First Editions

Keywords: Modern First Editions, First Book, First Books, Modern Firsts, Elizabeth Bishop, Yearbooks, Vassar, Muriel Rukeyser, Modern Poetry Modern First Editions Literature: American Modern Poetry First Book

BISHOP, Elizabeth

North & South

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Bishop's first book, of which only 1000 copies were printed. Winner of the Houghton Mifflin Poetry Award. Owner name of Marjorie Bailey neatly penned on the front endpaper, quite likely belonging to the noted professor of English and Dramatic Arts and Literature at Stanford University whose students included John Steinbeck and who is considered a great influence in Steinbeck's formative years. Close to Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper with minor edgewear, a small chip on the front panel near the spine and a larger chip at the rear lower corner with a closed tear extending a few inches .

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Book number: 020902

Catalogue: Modern First Editions

Keywords: First Book, First Books, Modern First Editions, Modern Poetry, Modern Firsts, Elizabeth Bishop, Women's Literature First Book Modern First Editions Modern Poetry Literature: American

[LITERARY PERIODICALS] BLACKBURN, Paul; ONDAATJE, Michael; et. al

Is Ten: Summer 1971

(Toronto), (The Coach House Press), (1971). First Edition. Softcover. Stapled wraps, 8-1/2" x 11". Cover and center illustration by Michael Snowdon. Contributors include Paul Blackburn, Michael Ondaatje, and others. Small gouge at bottom of the spine at the rear, not affecting contents. Near Fine .

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Book number: 019309

Catalogue: Modern First Editions

Keywords: Canadian Literature, Modern Firsts, Modern First Editions, Literary Ephemera, Literary Periodical Modern First Editions Modern Poetry Canadian Literature Literary Ephemera

BLAKESTON, Oswell [HASSLACHER, Henry Joseph]

The Night's Moves

(London), Gaberbocchus, (1961). First Edition. Hardcover. A thriller by a British writer and artist who also worked in the film industry about a young black American accused by an African government of a crime. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper .

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Book number: 021202

Catalogue: Modern First Editions

Keywords: Mysteries, Modern First Editions, Modern Firsts, Thrillers, Gaberbocchus Press Mysteries Literature: English Modern First Editions Thrillers

BLUNDEN, E(dmund) C(harles)

Pastorals: A Book of Verses

London, Erskine MacDonald, 1916. First Edition. wraps. Decorated wraps; 36 pages plus ads. The poet's first commercially published volume, issued in the Little Book of Georgian Verse, Second Series, published when the poet was 20 and right at the time he joined the 11th Royal Sussex Regiment and saw active service in World War I. The same year Blunden would win the Military Cross for his "conspicuous gallantry in action." He was the longest serving war poet having spent two years in the trenches. Slight darkening along spine. Near Fine and largely unopened .

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Book number: 012546

Catalogue: Modern First Editions

Keywords: Modern Firsts, Modern First Editions, World War I Poetry, Modern Poetry, Edmund Blunden, First Book, First Books Modern First Editions First Book Literature: English World War I Poetry

BLY, Robert

Iron John: A Book About Men

Reading, MA, Addison Wesley, (1990). First Edition. Hardcover. Bly's book on male initiation and the role of the mentor added to the drumbeats of the Men's Movement. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper .

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Book number: 008444

Catalogue: Modern First Editions

Keywords: Men Modern Poetry Nonfiction Modern Firsts Literature: American

BLY, Robert

Iron John: A Book About Men

Reading, MA, Addison-Wesley, 1990. First Edition. Wraps. Uncorrected Proof in printed wraps. Scarce issue of this popular and important study of male initiation which rapidly went into later printings. Fine .

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Book number: 000323

Catalogue: Modern First Editions

Keywords: Men, Modern Firsts, Modern First Editions, Modern Poetry, Uncorrected Proof Modern First Editions Nonfiction Literature: American Uncorrected Proof

BLY, Robert

Iron John: A Book About Men

Reading, MA, Addison Wesley, (1990). First Edition. hardcover. Bly's book on male initiation and the role of the mentor added to the drumbeats of the Men's Movement. Fine in a close to Fine dustwrapper with a hint of edgewear on the rear .

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Book number: 005231

Catalogue: Modern First Editions

Keywords: Men, Modern First Editions, Modern Firsts Modern Poetry Modern First Editions Modern Firsts Literature: American

BLY, Robert

The Loon

[Marshall, MN], Ox Head Press, 1977. First Edition. Wraps. One of 500 copies in dark blue printed wraps with hand-painted ornaments in the text by D. Olsen. Fine .

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Book number: 005230

Catalogue: Modern First Editions

Keywords: Modern Poetry, Modern First Editions, Modern Firsts, Limited Modern Firsts Limited Modern First Editions Literature: American

BLY, Robert. HUI-MING, Wang (illustrator)

Two Poems

n.p. (The Massachusetts Review), (1969). First Edition. Wraps. Pictorial yellow wraps (6" x 9") containing the poems "Two Together" and "Turtle Climbing from a Rock" illustrated with woodcuts by Wang Hui-Ming. Printed on the rear cover: "Pages from a forthcoming book of poems by Robert Bly and Wang Hui-Ming The Massachusetts Review Fall 1969. Ill.: Wang Hui-Ming. Fine .

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Book number: 020801

Catalogue: Modern First Editions

Keywords: Illustrated Books, Modern Poetry, Modern Firsts, Modern First Editions, Wang Hui-Ming, Woodcuts Wang Hui-Ming Modern Poetry Illustrated Books Literature: American Modern First Editions

BOOTH, Philip

Letter from a Distant Land

New York, The Viking Press, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Author's first book, winner of the Lamont Prize. Prize card laid in. Fine in a lightly worn, Near Fine dustwrapper .

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Book number: 000252

Catalogue: Modern First Editions

Keywords: Modern Poetry, Modern First Editions, First Book, Modern Firsts Modern First Editions First Book Literature: American Modern Firsts

BOSWELL, Robert

Crooked Hearts

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Author's first novel about a Kentucky family transplanted to the Sunbelt. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper .

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Book number: 017100

Catalogue: Modern First Editions

Keywords: Modern Firsts, Modern First Editions Literature: American Modern First Editions First Book Fiction

BOSWELL, Robert

Dancing in the Movies

Iowa City, University of Iowa Press, (1986). First Edition. Hardcover. First book by this acclaimed author, a collection of stories, reportedly done in a print run of only 1500 copies. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper .

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Book number: 008402

Catalogue: Modern First Editions

Keywords: Modern First Editions, Modern Firsts, First Book, Short Stories Literature: American Short Stories First Book Modern First Editions