Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, (2015). First edition - A title in the Pitt Poetry series, issued as a trade paperback original. The second collection by this award-winning poet: one "haunted by the cruelties of war." Notes, 60 pp.

Berkeley, CA: Etherdome, 2000.0. First edition - The author's first collection of poetry, a slim chapbook, illustrated with drawings by Spencer Selby. Unpaginated (44 pp)

Chicago: Red Triangle Books, 1994. SIGNED first edition - A collection of poems, mostly in English, but some in Spanish, by this Argentian-born writer. SIGNED on the title page by Sandra Cisneros who wrote the introduction - in the form of a poem titled "A Woman Like You." 84 pp. ISBN: 0-964182505.

Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, (1991.). SIGNED first edition - His third collection of poetry, including several translations and many poems set in New Mexico, as well as others reflecting his experiences during the Vietnam war. SIGNED on the title page. A title in the National Poetry Series, selected by W. S. Merwin. 71 pp. ISBN: 1556590377.

Dallas: Story Book Press, 1951. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - INSCRIBED with "best wishes to you always."

New York: Crown, 1952. dj. Hardcover first edition - Second collection of poetry by this New Hampshire writer.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1981. First edition - A title in the National Poetry Series, selected by Ishmael Reed. ISBN: 0-385-175302.

Louisville, Kentucky: Sarabande Books, (2002). First edition - Philippine-born author's first collection of poems, winner of the 2001 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, selected by Stanley Plumly. 79 pp. ISBN: 1889330736.

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998. dj. Hardcover first edition - The fifth book by this highly praised African American poet, one which collects 104 poems, including 18 new poems. A title in the Southern Messenger Poets series. xiii, 101 pp. ISBN: 0-807123137.

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, (1989). Hardcover first edition - Includes essays on William Everson, Robert Duncan, Gary Snyder, Kenneth Rexroth, Michael McClure, Nathaniel Tarn, Thom Gunn and more. Notes, bibliography. xv, 217 pp. ISBN: 0-826311628.

Lausanne: Editions Castella, (1967). First edition - Edition originale, un des 900 exemplaires numerotes sur Canson et Ingres et imprimee sur les presses de l'Imprimerie Chabloz a Renens. Ouvrage illustre de 12 photographies d'Henriette Grindat. (#650 out of 900 copies of the regular edition). A relatively early work of this Belgian poet, active in the Resistance during World War II, a lawyer and psychoanalyst, who moved to Paris in 1946 where he was friends with Camus and Gide, among others. Swiss photographer Henriette Grindat (1923 - 1986) was known for her complex surrealistic images which were often achieved by means of collage, photograms, or solarisation - many of which, like the ones in this book, depicted the effects of light and water. Unpaginated (36 pp including the colophon), Large format.

Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, (1988.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a collection of poems, winner of 1987 Walt Whitman Award. Dust jacket praise by William Matthews, J. D. McClatchy and Mona Van Duyn, who was the 1987 judge. A title in the Wesleyan Poetry Series. 62 pp. ISBN: 0-819521442.

Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, (1988.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a collection of poems, winner of 1987 Walt Whitman Award, with the announcement card for award laid in. Dust jacket praise by William Matthews, J. D. McClatchy and Mona Van Duyn, who was the 1987 judge. A title in the Wesleyan Poetry Series. 62 pp. ISBN: 0-819521442.

New York: Melomime Publications Inc., 1922. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Posthumous publication of these poems, #364 out of 999 numbered and signed by his widow, Dorothy Usner Baxter, who has also INSCRIBED this copy. Frontispiece portrait of Baxter. 64 pp.

New York: Macmillan, 1950. dj. Hardcover first edition - The third collection of poetry by this scholar and literary critic. The various sections of this book range include "home feeling," "mythology" "meeting stranger's eyes" and "bring your own liquor." 97 pp.

Eugene, OR: Resource Publications / Wipf and Stock (2015). SIGNED first edition - In these poems, Beal "goes in search of America. She sings the Cherokee Creation story, imagining dialogue between Sky-Woman and First Man. . . she gives voice to women from American history such as the mother Pocahontas, the midwife Martha Ballard, and the preacher Sojourner Truth. She enters into conversation with American writers like Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, and Walt Whitman. She later turns from human voices to Nature's creatures, watching the Stellar's Jay, Mourning Dove, and Great White Egret in flight. She explores the landscapes of California, Colorado, and New Mexico, the city of Vallejo, and the high Sierras." SIGNED on the title page. 88 pp. ISBN: 978-1498221825.

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, (2005) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of visual story poems that explore the landscape of the West. SIGNED on the title page and INSCRIBED on the half title page and dated in 2006. Winner of the Western Heritage Wrangler Award, and finalist for the Women Writing the West award. xxv, 165 pp. ISBN: 0-826334229.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1977. Hardcover first edition - Author's fifth volume of poetry - lyric poems both meditative and sensuous.A title in the Princeton Series of Contempory Poets. 71 pp. ISBN: 0-69106346X.

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, (2011). First edition - "In this debut collection, Eyes, Stones, Elana Bell brings her heritage as the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors to consider the difficult question of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.The poems invoke characters inexorably linked to the land of Israel and Palestine. There is Zosha, a sharp-witted survivor whose burning hope for a Jewish homeland helps her endure the atrocities of the Holocaust. And there is Amal, a Palestinian whose family has worked their land for over one hundred years--through Turkish, British, Jordanian, and now Israeli rule." Recipient of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets. Notes, 62 pp. ISBN: 9780807144640.

Boston: Emerson College, 1999. First edition - Contains poetry by Aliki Barnstone, Laurie Greer, William Heyen, Maxine Kumin, D. Nurske, Charles Harper Webb, and many others. Stories by George Garrett, Cynthia Kadohata, Carolyn Cooke and more. Introductions by Bell and Spires. Notes on contributors. Index to Volume XXV. 238 pp plus ads. Cover art by Kate Borowski. ISBN: 0-933277-27x.

Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, (1990.). SIGNED first edition - A collection of poetry, SIGNED on the title page. 83 pp. ISBN: 1556590326.

Chicago: Poetry Magazine, 1964. SIGNED first edition - SIGNED by Marvin Bell at his poem "The Condition." Also included are poems by LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka), Carolyn Kizer, Barbara Guest, X. J. Kennedy, William Dickey and others.

New York: Richelieu Court, 1988. SIGNED first edition - Collection of poems INSCRIBED by the author. Foreword by Joseph F. Girzone.

Seattle: Cune Press, (1996). First edition - Northwest poet's third collection. 27 pp plus colophon. ISBN: 1-885942001.

London & NH: Marion Boyars, 1980. First edition - A collection of poetry. Release date in the US (Feb 1981) and US prices written in pencil on copyright page. ISBN: 0-7145-27254.

London & NH: Marion Boyars, 1980. First edition - A collection of poetry. ISBN: 0-7145-27254.

By the author, (1982.). First edition - Poems inspired by the author's experience of living aboard a boat in the Sacramento River Delta. Illustrated with small line drawings by Phyllis Rittenhouse. 72 pp.

Marshfield, MA: Four Way Books, 1998. First edition - A collection of prose poems, not meant to be 'read aloud in polite company" but deeply autobiographical, meditative and metaphysical.

Pittsfield, MA: Berkshire Writers Room, 2001. SIGNED first edition - A literary journal featuring short stories, non fiction and poetry. INSCRIBED inside the front cover by William Donovan (author of the story "Solan #1"), signed as Billy and dated in July 2001. 156 pp.

Woodacre, CA: Owl Press, 2001. First edition - An expanded version of a chapbook of the same name published in 1974 by Adventures in Poetry - the cover notes this is the "full run of poetry and prose that the two poets between 1960 and 1964. Two-thirds of these have never appeared in book form before." Includes miscellaneous writings, "The Letters of Angelicus & Fidelio Fobb," and "Marcia: An Unfinished Novel (with Patsy Southgate)" Notes. Errata slip laid in. Cover art by Alex Katz. One of only 1000 copies in the first printing. Square format. 85 pp. ISBN: 0-966943058.