Beissel, Henry

The Salt I Taste

Montreal, Quebec, Canada, DC Books, 1975. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Sterling condition softcover copy, just taken out of craft paper for proper collation, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the printed wraps, depicting perhaps the Monster from Frankenstein fame, drawn by Norman Yates. 54 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New

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N° du livre: 355075

Catalogue: Poetry

Mots-clés: Louis Dudek Henry Beissel Norman Yates

Benton, Walter

This Is My Beloved

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1945. Fourteenth Printing. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Walter Benton's This is My Beloved was a profoundly popular work, being a 14th printing in the American Poetry series, being a contribution to the 1945 issue. New York: Knopf, 1945. 43 pp. Brick-red cloth binding, gilt-stamped spine, rubbed. No d.j. as such, but the two inner flaps of the d.j. are laid-in. Front end-paper says G. Legman 1946 and the date 1943 is written in the upper corner of the inside of the front cover. From the personal library of Gershon Legman as conveyed to me by his widow Judith Legman.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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N° du livre: 353940

Catalogue: Poetry

Mots-clés: Walter Benton poetry poems

Berkson, Bill

Bill

San Francisco, California, Gallery 16 Editions, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. An item unique in the trade, it being a SIGNED and INSCRIBED item in Fine condition and in First Edition state, a collection of poems by Bill Berkson, William Craig Berkson (August 30, 1939 – June 16, 2016), who was "an American poet, critic, and teacher who was active in the art and literary worlds from his early twenties on" (Wikipedia), born in New York City, a child of Manhattan's Upper East Side. He studied under Kenneth Koch in Poetry at the New School for Social Research then at Columbia University and then at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts. Measures 9 1/4" x 7 1/4" tall and wide, bound in pictorial paper over boards with Colton Jacobsen's illustration of an astronaut on a manila folder to front cover. Virtually pristine, tightly bound, clean, unmarked interior. Graphite illustrations are drawn directly into typewritten text. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by Bill Berkson to the powerhouse couple, feminist art historian Whitney Chadwick and hyperrealist painter Robert Bechtle. "To Whitney and Bob, with love from the 'real' Bill, May 1, 2008. Published the year Berkson retired from San Francisco Art Institute. Acquired from their personal library. The colophon notes that Bill was written in 1980 or thereabouts, and Colton Jacobsen did the drawings in 2006-2007. A lovely copy with rich Northern California association value.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine

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N° du livre: 357789

Catalogue: Poetry

Mots-clés: poetry Bill Berkson Colton Jacobsen poetry signed Whitney Chadwick Robert Bechtle

Berrigan, Ted

Many Happy Returns

New York, Corinth Books, 1969. Second Printing. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Ex-library copy with usual markings, ink-stamp and check-out pocket, else clean and bright of interior. Ted Berrigan (November 15, 1934 – July 4, 1983) was an American poet, born in Providence, Rhode Island and who spent a year at Providence College before joining the U.S. Army with whom he spent three years. He graduated from the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma, earned a B.A. in English in 1959 and almost earned also an M.A. He was married to Sandy Berrigan, also a poet. He was a peer to "Jim Carroll, Anselm Hollo, Alice Notley, Ron Padgett, Anne Waldman, Bernadette Mayer, and Lewis Warsh." 47 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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N° du livre: 356821

Catalogue: Poetry

Mots-clés: Ted Berrigan poetry

Betjeman, John

New Bats in Old Belfries Poems

London, England, John Murray, 1945. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Stated Second Printing, later in the same month (December 25, 1945) as the First Printing. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Toning at gutters of front and rear pastedowns, waffled from glue, else handsome red cloth over board, sharp paper label to front cover. Printed red and black lettered dust wrapper, not price-clipped, large chip missing from rear panel. 54 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good/Fair,

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N° du livre: 356822

Catalogue: Poetry

Mots-clés: John Betjeman poetry poems

Betjeman, John

Slick But Not Streamlined: Poems and Short Pieces by John Betjeman

Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities, half of bottom tips a bit damp-stained, dissipating, half-dime sized. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, moderately worn at tips, chipped a bit there, protected by a plastic coat, price-clipped. 185 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good/Good,

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N° du livre: 356824

Catalogue: Poetry

Mots-clés: John Betjeman poetry poems W.H. Auden

Betjeman, John

Slick But Not Streamlined: Poems and Short Pieces by John Betjeman

Garden City, New York, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. I love suburbs and gas-lights and Point Street and Gothic Revival churches and mineral railways, provincial towns and Garden cities," says the author about his poetry on his inner dust jacket flap. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, moderately worn at tips, chipped a bit there, protected by a plastic coat, price-clipped. 185 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good/Good,

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N° du livre: 356825

Catalogue: Poetry

Mots-clés: John Betjeman poetry poems W.H. Auden

Betjeman, John

Summoned by Bells

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Blue paper over boards, orange lettering to front cover and to blue cloth over spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, moderately worn along top edge, protected by a plastic coat. 97 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good/Good,

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N° du livre: 356823

Catalogue: Poetry

Mots-clés: John Betjeman poetry poems

Beveridge, Andrew

The Maiden's Stone of Tullibody and Other Poems

Carluke Lanarkshire Scotland, Printed by Andrew Beveridge, Machine Printer, 1871. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Uber-scarce in the trade, there being currently only one additional copy available on-line. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover in burgundy cloth over boards, gilt lettering to front cover, clean, if lightly toned interior, minimal rubbing to extremities but for some scuffing to spine head. One lengthy poem titled eponymously, then another two dozen poems. 108 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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N° du livre: 357096

Catalogue: Poetry

Mots-clés: poetry Ireland poets Andrew Beveridge

Bidart, Frank

In the Western Night: Collected Poems 1965-90

New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket, protected. Bound in black cloth over boards, sharp and distinct copper lettering to spine. 243 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New/Fine,

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N° du livre: 356818

Catalogue: Poetry

Mots-clés: Frank Bidart poem poems

Bidart, Frank

The Sacrifice

New York, Random House, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket, protected. Bound in black cloth over boards, sharp and distinct copper lettering to spine. Stated First Edition, First Printing, with "2" or in "number" line present as is fitting for Random House. Frank Bidart was born in Bakersfield, California, in 1939 and was educated at the University of California at Riverside and at Harvard, author of two previous and several additional volumes of poetry. 62 [1] pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Fine,

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N° du livre: 356819

Catalogue: Poetry

Mots-clés: Frank Bidart poem poems

Bidart, Frank

The Sacrifice

New York, Random House, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Ex-library copy with usual markings to spine, endpapers, etc.; dust jacket flaps affixed to inside covers. Stated First Edition, First Printing, with "2" or in "number" line present as is fitting for Random House. Frank Bidart was born in Bakersfield, California, in 1939 and was educated at the University of California at Riverside and at Harvard, author of two previous and several additional volumes of poetry. 62 [1] pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good/Good,

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N° du livre: 356820

Catalogue: Poetry

Mots-clés: Frank Bidart poem poems

Bird, Beatrice

Lisa, She Say

New York, Vantage Press, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, protected by a plastic coat. 56 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Near Fine,

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N° du livre: 356817

Catalogue: Poetry

Mots-clés: Beatrice Bird poetry

Jacob, Max; Moishe Black and Maria Green, eds.

Hesitant Fire: Selected Prose of Max Jacob

Lincoln, University of Nebraska, 1991. First English Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine but scarcely-available-to-the-grade contribution to the French Modernist Library series, translated and edited by Moishe Black and Maria Green. First English Edition. A superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bright and shiny dust jacket, paper-backed, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Gift-quality condition inside and out. xxi [1], 3-226 [1] pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New/Fine,

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N° du livre: 348553

Catalogue: Poetry

Mots-clés: Max Jacob|oishe Black|Maria Green|poetry|poetry criticism

Black, Charles

Telescopes & Islands: Poems by Charles Black

Denver, Colorado, Alan Swallow, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by the author at first free endpaper, inscribed warmly from New Haven in 1964 to June and Jacque. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright mustard-colored cloth over boards, sharp and distinct black lettering to front board and spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, protected by a plastic coat. 48 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . Signed by Author. . Very Good/Very Good,

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N° du livre: 356814

Catalogue: Poetry

Mots-clés: poetry Alan Swallow Charles Black signed