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By: Allen Ginsberg, Denver Post, Fred Nelson
Price: $150.00
Publisher: Denver, Denver Post: 1983
Seller ID: 1028
Condition: Near Fine
[Ginsberg, Allen] Press Photo of Allen Ginsberg – Lecturing at Naropa Institute. Denver: The Denver Post, 1983. Original press photo, 221mm by 315mm. Near fine with press number in red in the right margin and a faint code number in the top margin. Date stamps (Nov. 29 and Dec. 4, 1983), pencil notes, and typed caption on verso: “Allen Ginsberg lecturing at the Naropa Institute.” A stunning profile of Ginsberg by Denver Post photographer Fred Nelson. Both the size of the print and the artistic integrity of the image are uncommon for press photos. $150.00 View more info
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By: Allen Ginsberg, Goucher College, Baltimore Sun
Price: $45.00
Publisher: Baltimore, Baltimore Sun, Goucher College: 1969
Seller ID: 1027
Condition: Very Good
[Ginsberg, Allen] Press Photo of Allen Ginsberg – Goucher College. Baltimore, Maryland: Baltimore Sun/Goucher College, November 2, 1969. Press photo from Goucher College for the Baltimore Sun, 253mm by 215mm. Very good with a pen note and a couple of drip marks on the right half of the image. The background (gray area) is heavily touched up. Pen notes, stamps and a label on verso. A wonderful image of a smiling Ginsberg. The caption, taped to the back, reads: “Poet Allen Ginsberg will give public readings at the Maryland Institute’s Mt. Royal Station on Sunday, November 2 at 8:00 ... View more info
By: Allen Tate
Price: $85.00
Publisher: New York, Farrar Straus Giroux: 1977
Edition: First printing
Inscription: Signed
Seller ID: 316
Condition: Very Good +
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1977. First printing. Very Good +/very good +. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1977. First printing. Very Good +/very good +. Tate, Allen. Collected Poems 1919 -1976. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1977, first printing. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6 1/4 by 9 1/4-inches, x, 217 pp. Orange cloth with bright gilt and grey spine titles. A beautiful copy, the hardcover shows only faint signs of shelf wear and the jacket has only a couple tiny closed edge tears. SIGNED on the title page by Tate, a former U.S. Poet Laureate and winner of the Bollingen Priz... View more info
By: Anne Waldman (Author ), Eleni Sikelianos (Author ), Laird Hunt (Author )
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Erie, Colorado, Smokeproof Press: 1998
Edition: First edition
Inscription: Signed
Seller ID: 46
ISBN: 0965887723
Condition: Fine
Erie, Colorado: Smokeproof Press, 1998. First edition. Paperback. Fine. SIGNED by Anne Waldman on title page. Fine condition, first edition staple-bound softcover. View more info
By: Bednarik, Joseph, editor; Dan Gerber and Jim Harrison, intros.
Price: $350.00
Publisher: East Lansing, MSU Press: 1997
Edition: Limited ed
Inscription: Signed
Seller ID: 1248
ISBN: 0870133272
Condition: Fine
Bednarik, Joseph, editor; Dan Gerber and Jim Harrison, intros. The Sumac Reader. East Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State University Press, 1997, first printing, limited edition of twenty-six copies lettered A – Z, this being V, and signed on the half-title by Harrison, Gerber and Bednarik. Fine, unread copy. Hardcover, no jacket as issued, green paper over brown faux leather spine with gilt spine titles and gilt Sumac Press owl logo on front cover, 14.4 by 22.2 cm, xix 238 pp. plus index. Sumac was a Fremont Michigan-based literary journal founded in 1968 by poets Dan Gerber and Jim Harr... View more info
By: Bhaskaran, M.P.
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Calcutta, Writers Workshop: 1968
Edition: Second edition
Seller ID: 2602
Condition: Good
Off-white paper over orange cloth spine, dust jacket, 14.4 by 22.3 cm, [16] pp. Hardcover is uniformly stainted from low quality binding glue, but the interior is clean and unmarked; jacket is good with light edge wear, chips, and yellowing on the spine. The Avyakta Upanishad is a Sanskrit text and a minor Upanishad of Hinduism. It is one of 16 Upanishads attached to the Samaveda, and classified under the 17 Vaishnava Upanishad. The Writers Workshop is a Calcutta-based literary publisher founded by P. Lal in 1958. Over the next few decades it published many new authors of post-independenc... View more info
By: Bockris, Victor
Price: $50.00
Publisher: New York, Telegraph Books: 1972
Edition: First printing
Seller ID: 507
Condition: Near Fine
Wraps, card covers with a photograph of Bockris by Aram Saroyan, 4 3/4 by 7 1/4-inches, 26 pp. plus page listing Telegraphs publications. Only faint signs of shelf wear to what appears to be an unread copy. Pages 9/10 and 19/20 are duplicated, but no leaves are missing. One of the ten publications from telegraph, the press of Saroyan, Bockris, and Andrew Wylie. Their compact look and consistent cover design was reminiscent of City Light’s Pocket Poet series—and this wasn’t by chance. “We wanted to do something specifically for our generation,” said Saroyan about Telegraph, “al... View more info
Price: $200.00
Publisher: San Francisco, X-Ray Book Co.: 2004
Edition: First, Limited Edition
Seller ID: 380
Condition: As New
San Francisco: X-Ray Book Co., 2004. First, Limited Edition. As New. San Francisco: X-Ray Book Co., 2004. First, Limited Edition. As New. Brewton, Johnny, ed. X-Ray Magazine No. 10, 2004. San Francisco: X-Ray Book Co., 2004, limited edition of 126, this being number 52 of 100 numbered copies. Letterpress booklet and over twenty letter letterpress mini-broadsides, photographs and found objects housed in a cardboards box with letterpress card label on the lid by Jason Davis of the Verdant Press. Box measures 5 1/4 by 6 1/4 by 1-inch. Fine, as new condition. Featuring a previously unpu... View more info
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By: Browning, Robert; Washington Irving; Edgar Allan Poe
Price: $100.00
Publisher: Chicago, The Monastery Hill Bindery: 1933
Edition: Limited Edition
Seller ID: 3192
Condition: Very Good - Near Fine
Three lovely volumes housed in a simple card slipcase that measures 12.3 by 17 by 3.4 cm. The slipcase is good with some skinning on the top and bottom panels and corner wear. Included are: Browning, Robert. Rabbi Ben Ezra. Chicago: The Monastery Hill Bindery, 1933, limited edition of 400 numbered copies printed by the Broadside Press (Illinois), though this copy isn’t numbered. Dark burgundy leather, top edge gilt, 12 by 16 cm, 17 pp. plus colophon. Near fine. Irving, Washington. The Specter Bridegroom. Chicago: The Monastery Hill Bindery, 1933, limited edition of 500 numbered cop... View more info
By: Charles WRIGHT
Price: $150.00
Publisher: New York, Farrar Straus & Giroux (t): 1997
Edition: First printing
Inscription: Signed
Seller ID: 1185
ISBN: 0374114102
Condition: Near Fine
Wright, Charles. Black Zodiac: Poems. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997, first printing. Hardcover with dust jacket, 14.5cm by 21.5cm, 85 pp. Black paper over grey paper spine with black spine titles. Near fine, unread hardcover with only minor rubbing at the tail of the spine in a near fine jacket. Signed by poet on the title page (no inscription). Wright was named U.S. Poet Laureate in June 2014 and he won the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his Black Zodiac collection. No writing, highlighting, names, or other marks. The dust jacket is in a fresh mylar cover. We ship our ... View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Chicago, Chicago Sun-Times: 1986
Edition: original
Seller ID: 1184
Condition: Near Fine
Press Photo of Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Chicago: Chicago Sun-Times, 3 April 1986. Press photo, 20.2cm by 25.3cm. Near fine with a couple of small scuff marks on the image and agency stamps and a caption taped on verso: “Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet of the beat generation, in town for a rare reading.” Photo by Amanda Alcock. View more info
By: Coleman, Wanda
Price: $16.00
Publisher: Santa Rosa, CA, Black Sparrow Press: 1999
Edition: second printing
Inscription: Signed
Seller ID: 2208
Condition: Very Good
Hardcover, illustrated paper over black cloth spine with paper spine label, 16 by 23.5 cm, 288 pp. plus author portrait and bio. Signed by Coleman on a blank leaf facing the copyright page. Near fine but for some very light rubbing on the bottom edges and a tiny remainder dot on the bottom edge of the textblock. The tenth collection of poetry from “the L.A. Blueswoman.” No writing, highlighting, names, or other markings. We ship our books in boxes or cardboard wraps, never in bags. Bay Leaf Books (Member ABAA, ILAB) is dedicated to offering fine books for discriminating readers. View more info
By: Collins, Billy
Price: $40.00
Publisher: New York, Random House Publishing Group: 2008
Edition: Advance Uncorrected Proof
Seller ID: 415
ISBN: 1400064910
Condition: Very Good +
Advance Uncorrected Proof. Softcover, 5 1/2 by 8 1/4-inches, xi, 102 pp. with publication info on first pages and mail-in comment card on last page. Glossy wraps with Random House logo repeated on covers with titles and publication info. A tiny nick on the bottom edge of the front cover and a very light lower corner crease on the back cover and second half of the textblock. A scarce proof copy of Ballistics, which includes “Pornography,” “Carpe Diem,” “The Great American Poem,” &c. Includes the original prospectus letter. View more info
By: Cummings, R.M., ed. [Edmund Spencer]
Price: $30.00
Publisher: New York, Barnes & Noble, Inc.: 1971
Edition: first American edition
Seller ID: 3193
Condition: Very Good
Hardcover with dust jacket, blue cloth with gilt spine titles, 14 by 22 cm, xix 355 pp. The hardcover is very good with light foxing on the edges of the textblock, a tiny name in pen on the ffep, and a 13 mm tear on the front hinge. The jacket is fair with overall rubbing and soiling (now in mylar). Part of the Critical Heritage Series, “this collection of contemporary and near-contemporary comment on the work of Edmund Spencer covers the period from 1579 to 1715. The extracts draw attention to emphasis in Spenserian criticism, from which the modern reader has generally been drawn away, ... View more info
By: Cy Warman
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Berkeley, Rand Avery Co.: 1911
Edition: Second edition
Seller ID: 560
Condition: Very Good +
Berkeley: Rand Avery Co., 1911. Second edition. Very Good +. Berkeley: Rand Avery Co., 1911. Second edition. Very Good +. Warman, Cy. Songs of Cy Warman. Boston: Rand Avery Co., 1911, second edition. Hardcover, 5 1/4 by 7 1/2-inches, 177 pp. Green cloth with gilt spine and cover titles and gilt and red cover decoration. Light rubbing to the corners and head and tail of the spine. The interior is clean with faint yellowing of the pages. No writing, highlighting, names, or bookplate. A collection of poems by Warman (1855-1914), the “Poet of the Rockies.” View more info
By: De Kok, Ingrid
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Seven Stories Press: 2006
Edition: First American edition
Inscription: Signed
Seller ID: 1451
Condition: Very Good
De Kok, Ingrid. Seasonal Fires: New and Selected Poems. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2006, first U.S. printing. Softcover, 14 by 20.8 cm, 186 pp. Very food with light wear to the covers and a light lower corner crease on the front cover. Inscribed and signed by the author on the title page: “To Meredith / Ingrid De Kok.” No other writing, highlighting, names, or markings. The author’s first book published outside of South Africa. We ship our books in boxes or cardboard wraps, never in bags. Bay Leaf Books (Member ABAA, ILAB, IOBA) is an open shop dedicated to offering fine boo... View more info
By: Gary Lenhart, Gregory Masters, Michael Scholnick, Jeff Wright
Price: $300.00
Publisher: New York, I Did This For You/A Power Mad Book: 1978-1979
Edition: First, Limited Editions
Seller ID: 506
Condition: Very Good +
New York: I Did This For You/A Power Mad Book, 1978-1979. First, Limited Editions. Very Good +. New York: I Did This For You/A Power Mad Book, 1978-1979. First, Limited Editions. Very Good +. A complete set of four poetry booklets published by the mimeo press Remember I Did This For You/A Power Mad Book of Steve Levine and Barbara Barg. While the press, operated out of The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church In-The-Bowery, only ran during 1978 and ’79, it helped cement the reputation of the poets it published at a time when young writers had to fend for themselves in the shadows of ... View more info
By: Gerber, Dan
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Livingston, Montana, Clark City Press: 1992
Edition: first softcover edition
Inscription: Signed
Seller ID: 2150
Condition: Very Good
Wraps, 14 by 21.3 cm, 162 pp. Inscribed and signed by Gerber on the half-title page: “For Jim McNeil, with my best wishes, Dan Gerber / August 19, 1992,” and signed and dated by Gerber on the title page. Very good with only faint edge wear and light foxing to the top edge of the textblock. No writing, highlighting, names, or other markings. We ship our books in boxes or cardboard wraps, never in bags. Bay Leaf Books (Member ABAA, ILAB) is dedicated to offering fine books for discriminating readers. View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Philadelphia, Dorrance & Company: 1966
Inscription: Signed
Seller ID: 2064
Condition: Very Good
Burgundy cloth with gilt spine titles, dust jacket, 14 by 20.3 cm, 32 pp. Very good with light cover wear, foxing to the rear endpapers, and a very faint coffee ring on the cover (not on the jacket, just on the book); the jacket is good with light edge wear, a few small edge tears, and some areas of foxing. Inscribed by Gerber to Ray and Phyllis Jansma (Ray Jansma was an architect in Fremont, Michigan, and they were family friends), dated 1966. No other writing, highlighting, names, or other marks. The dust jacket is in a fresh mylar cover. We ship our books in boxes or cardboard wraps, n... View more info
By: Ginsberg, Allen; Associated Press; Chicago Tribune
Price: $45.00
Publisher: Chicago, AP/Chicago Tribune: 1969
Seller ID: 1026
Condition: Good +
[Ginsberg, Allen] Press Photo of Allen Ginsberg – Chicago 7. Chicago: Associated Press via Chicago Tribune, December 12, 1969. Wirephoto, 257mm by 182mm. Good with light crazing and a crease to the upper right corner. Date stamps, pencil notes and scribbling, and a strip of masking tape on verso. For an article related to the Chicago 7 (and 8) trial, the caption reads: “RAISES FUNDS FOR CONSPIRACY DEFENDENTS [sic] -- Bearded poet Allen Ginsberg appears at an art auction in Chicago held to raise funds for seven defendents [sic] on trial for conspiracy to incite mob action during the 1... View more info
