Two Long Poems
Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1990. First edition thus. Paperback. First edition, 1990. Softcover, 71 pp., clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy, light soiling and rubbing to the covers.
Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1990. First edition thus. Paperback. First edition, 1990. Softcover, 71 pp., clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy, light soiling and rubbing to the covers.
San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 2009. First Printing. Wraps. With seven new essays added to the original edition of 2004. Trade paperback, wraps, about fine, inscribed "For Gail, dear friend, Love, Jerry, 1-10." Also signed again fully on the title page. 366 pp. Essays, including some autobiographical accounts of his.....
San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 2009. Second edition. Paperback. Signed by Stern on the titlepage. Second, revised edition (with 7 new essays), 2009. Softcover, 367 pp., clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy, light wear to the covers.
Pittsburgh: 2018. First edition thus. Wraps. No. 46 of 50 copies signed by Stern on the book's "bellyband" dust jacket. 7 x 5 inches, sewn wraps with dust jacket, fine copy in very good, lightly used and soiled envelope repeating the owl drawing. Stern has written three paragraphs printed on.....
(Paris): (1953). First Printing. Wraps. 7 x 5 inches, tan wraps, hand-bound with blue string. 13 pp. Housed in a yellow mailing envelope with some scattered random notes by Stern. Technically Stern's first book: he wrote it with his former wife Patricia while living in Paris in 1953. Stern wrote.....
Pittsburgh: 2018. First edition thus. Paperback. First edition, 2018. One of 100 copies, stapled, 10 pp, with wraparound bellyband, with three-paragraph note on this book by Gerald Stern, in printed envelope. (7.5 x 5.25 inches). Technically, this is Stern's first book, preceeding The Naming of Beasts by 20 years. He.....
Pittsburgh: 2018. First edition thus. Paperback. First edition, 2018. One of 50 numbered and signed copies, blue string-bound wraps, 10 pp, with wraparound bellyband, with three-paragraph note on this book by Gerald Stern, in printed envelope. (7.5 x 5.25 inches). Technically, this is Stern's first book, preceeding The Naming of.....
Pittsburgh: 2018. First edition thus. Paperback. First edition, 2018. One of 50 numbered and signed copies, blue string-bound wraps, 10 pp, with wraparound bellyband, with three-paragraph note on this book by Gerald Stern, in printed envelope. (7.5 x 5.25 inches). Technically, this is Stern's first book, preceeding The Naming of.....
Pittsburgh: 2018. First edition thus. Paperback. First edition, 2018. One of 50 numbered and signed copies, blue string-bound wraps, 10 pp, with wraparound bellyband, with three-paragraph note on this book by Gerald Stern, in printed envelope. (7.5 x 5.25 inches). Technically, this is Stern's first book, preceeding The Naming of.....
Madrid: Vaso Roto Ediciones, 2014. First edition. Paperback. First edition, 2014. 8vo, paperback, 273 pp. Text in Spanish and English. Book is Near Fine, text is clean and unmarked. Mild bumping to corners of wraps.
Pittsburgh: Caliban Book Shop, 2015. First Printing. Wraps. 8vo, pictorial wraps, fine copy in mylar dust jacket. 66 pp. Limited to 650 copies, this one signed on the title page by Stern, who passed away in early 2023. (Also signed on the last page by Frank Lehner, one of the.....
Pittsburgh: Caliban Book Shop, 2015. First Printing. Wraps. 8vo, pictorial wraps, fine copy in mylar dust jacket. 66 pp. Limited to 650 copies, this one signed on the title page by Stern, who passed away in early 2023. A celebration of Stern in honor of his 90th birthday. Stern is.....
Pittsburgh: Caliban Book Shop, 2015. First Printing. Wraps. 8vo, pictorial wraps, fine copy in mylar dust jacket. 66 pp. Limited to 650 copies, this one signed on the title page by Stern, who passed away in early 2023. (Also signed on the last page by Frank Lehner, one of the.....
no place: Sutton Hoo Press, 1991. Limited edition. Paperback. Tied paper binding in dust jacket, octavo, unpaginated, one b&w illustration. Book has foxing to panels, tied binding tight, text clean and unmarked with mild foxing to ends of block, faint crease to bottom corners throughout. DJ foxed and rubbed, mild.....
New Brunswick, NJ: The Associated Friends of the Library of Rutgers University, 1969. Paperback. This issue only! RARE--only two copies on OCLC! Printed paper wraps with stapled binding, octavo, paginated 42-80, frontispiece in b&w, otherwise not illustrated. Book has rubbing and mild soil to wraps, vertical crease to foredge of.....
New Brunswick, NJ: The Associated Friends of the Library of Rutgers University, 1969. Paperback. This issue only! RARE--only two copies on OCLC! Printed paper wraps with stapled binding, octavo, paginated 42-80, frontispiece in b&w, otherwise not illustrated. Book has mild rubbing and wear to corners, stapled binding tight, text clean.....
Berlin: Matthes & Seitz, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. Presumed first edition, 2010, hardcover with red paper boards in dust jacket, octavo, 278pp., sparsely illustrated in b&w. Book fine with handsome boards and tight binding, text clean bright and unmarked. DJ near fine with hint of wear. Text in German and.....