Lap Gun Cut
Columbus, OH: Luna Bisonte Prods, 2006. First edition. Paperback. 2006. Softcover. Chapbook. Fine. 12 pp.
Poetry
Decembrist, A Book of Poems
New York: Clarke & Way, 1951. First printing. Hardcover. Inscribed by the author. First edition, 1951. One of 440 copies printed. Hardcover, 61 pp., Very Good ex-library copy with minor treatments (bookplate on the front pastedown, a couple of small stamps), age-toning or discoloration to some pages, discoloration to the.....
Jamaica Labrish, Dialect Poems -- signed by Bennett and Nettleford
Jamaica: Sangster's Bookstores, 1966. First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo, publisher's red boards stamped in gilt, in dust jacket. Signed by Bennett and Nettleford to some local Pittsburghers when the two came to town to read work from this book under the auspices of the International Poetry Forum. Rarely found signed. Very.....
Poems and Prose
Glasgow: William Sinclair, 1888. First edition. Hardcover. 1888, First Edition, 163 pp. Hardcover, dark brown cloth, 8vo., gilt title. Good copy, no dust jacket. Cloth worn at corners and spine ends; light soil to boards. Previous owner's gift inscription on fly leaf; front inner hinge starting to separate, but secure.....
Quantum Chaos and Poems: A Manifest(O)ation
Toronto: BookThug, 2008. Second printing. Paperback. Second printing, 2008. Softcover, 31 pp., clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy.
Quantum Chaos and Poems: A Manifest(O)ation
Toronto: BookThug, 2008. Second printing. Paperback. Second printing, 2008. Softcover, 31 pp., clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy.
The Literary Context of Chaucer's Fabliaux: Texts and Translations
Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1971. First printing. Paperback. 1971, First Printing. Softcover, in Very Good+ condition, with light shelf wear.
The Way Into Town
Bellingham: The Signpost Press, 1984. First printing. Paperback. Signed first edition, 1984. Stapled wraps, 23 pp., clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy, no dust jacket. Signed and inscribed by Bentley on the titlepage.
This Is My Beloved
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. Later printing. Hardcover. quarto, orange boards, no DJ, book is in very good condition with mild wear and soiling to the boards, 43pp.
Songs of Béranger, translaged by the author of the 'Exile of Idria' etc. with a sketch of the life of Béranger up to the present time
London: William Pickering, 1837. First printing. Hardcover. First of this edition, small 8vo, xxiv, 163 pp, ads, good plus, some rubbing and wear to binding, joints show cracking but boards firmly attached, contents VG.
A History of Post-Contemporary Poetry
Russell, NY: MuscleHead Press Chapbooks, 2001. First printing. Chapbook, 47pp.
Piorkiem Przez Stulecia
Krakow: Wydawnictwo Artystyczno-Graficzne, 1963. First Printing. Hardcover. First edition in this format, with poems and illustrations, much in color. Small quarto, 11.5 x 8.5 inches, cloth in dust jacket, book very good, non-authorial inscription from 1964 on half title, jacket fair to good with some shelfwear and loss, book pages.....
In It
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986. First printing. Paperback. Signed first edition, 1986. Softcover, 78 pp., clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy, a bit of rubbing or wear to the tips and edges of the covers. Signed by Berg and inscribed by him to a colleague on the titlepage...
The Blue Gate, a Fugue (signed copy of a broadside poem)
Santa Fe & Kenosha, WI: CENTER Press & Open Meeting Books, 1991. First Printing. Unfolded, measures 11 x 8.5 inches. Near fine, inscribed in 1994 to old friend and fellow poet Robert Lima.
Rituals & Gargoyles (Black Book no. 2), inscribed to an old friend
Bowling Green: Black Book, 1976. First Printing. Wraps. 8vo, wraps, very good, light toning, bottom of spine slightly bumped. Inscribed to her old friend Robert Lima, fellow poet and playwright, and part of the downtown scene of the late 50s and early 60s in which Bergé also flourished. "For Bob.....
Ten Slovenian Poets of the Nineties; Litterae Slovenicae
Ljubljana: Slovene Writers' Association, 2002. First printing. Paperback. First edition, 2002. Softcover, clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy. Text in English.
The Care and Treatment of Pain
Lawrence: Kairos Editions, 1994. First printing. Paperback. Inscribed by the author. First edition, 1994. Softcover, 42 pp., clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy, covers with some edgewear. Signed and inscribed by the author on the titlepage.
The Palmetto Review: Number 4
Miami Springs, FL: Palmetto Press, 1986. Paperback. Inscribed by editor Berke, board member Mitchell Kaplan and contributors Steve Kronen, Barbra Nightingale! Paperback, 1986, octavo, 80pp., illustrated in b&w. Book VG with toning, rubbing, and mild soil to wrap, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. No DJ.
Saturday Night Poems, 1960-61
New York: Tibor de Nagy Editions, 1961. First edition. Paperback. Number 2 of 300 copies, this one signed by Berkson. 1961, First Edition. Softcover. 35 pp. Very Good. Light fading to the wraps; rear wrap with light soil; contents starting to brown, but not brittle in any way. Book now.....
Vale and Year's Holy Music and Art
Pittsburgh: Incredibly Thin, 2004. Limited ed. Paperback. 64 /75. Oblong 12mo, paperback. Minimal shelfwear with contents clean and unmarked. CDs are missing, but item is scarce with or without discs.
Berryman's Baedeker: The Epigraphs to The Dream Songs
Derry Pa: Rook Press, 1976. Paperback. 46 pp. Softcover, stapled wraps. A fine copy. All contents clean, bright and unmarked. Rook Monographs 2.
Hidden Music (Poems), inscribed and with two typewritten signed poems by her laid in
Galt, Canada: The Galt Printers, C. 1948. First Printing. Wraps. 8vo, wraps, very good, the title page tanned because of the two laid in typed poems by the author (on tanned paper). Inscribed in 1950 by the author. The two typed poems are titled "Ingrate" and "Winter Sketch" and are.....
IL PRIMO LIBRO DELL’OPERE BURLESCHE di M. Francesco Berni, di M. Gio. della Casa, del Varchi, del Mauro, di M. Bino, del Molza, del Dolce, e del Firenzuola. Ricorretto, e con diligenza ristampato (1548)
Florence / Firenze: Giunta, 1548. Hardcover. Published 1548, in 19th century full vellum with yapp edges, ruddy morocco spine label, [16], 132, [128], 129-293, [2] pages (last page is a blank), very good copy, pp. 77-82 are suspiciously a little brighter than the rest of the pages, but appear to.....
Dark City
Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1994. First printing. Paperback. First edition, 1994. Softcover, Very Good copy, poet Lynn Emanuel's copy with her signature on the half-title and some of her notes to the text, wear to the covers including a tear to the bottom outer corner of the front.....
A Poetics
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. Third printing. Paperback. Third printing, 1998. Softcover, 232 pp., clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy, wear to the edges of the covers.