Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 1992. First edition - Mexican poet's third book, in Spanish, issued in an edition of only 1000 copies. Texto en espanol, La edicion consta de 1 000 ejemplares. Indice. 130 pp mas colofon. ISBN: 968-362460x.

New York: Random House, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, winner of The Academy of American Poets' 1988 Walt Whitman Award (the judge was Amy Clampitt). Complimentary sheet laid in. 66 pp. ISBN: 0-394-575369.

New York: Norton, (1993.). Second book of poetry (third book overall) by this award-wnning writer. 62 pp. ISBN: 0-393-313042.

Providence, RI: Paradigm Press, 1989. A slim chapbook of poems first published in 1979 by Tuumba Press, as Tuumba 20. One of six hundred copies. Cover and title page by Susan Bee. Unpaginated (28 pp including colophon.). ISBN: 0-945926162.

Orono, ME: University of Maine, 1984. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED by author. Scholars famiiar with Bernstein's critical work will be glad to find that his sensitivity to modern issues (poetic intention and the harmony between innovation and tradition) carries over into his own poetry, collected for the first time in this book. ISBN: 0-915032-163.

Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, (2008). First edition - Irish author's first collection of poetry, which "effortlessly moves back and forth between here and there, then and now, the personal and the historic, the modern and the mythic." Winner of the Open Competition Award in the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry. Notes. 75 pp. ISBN: 9780809328383.

London: Chatto & Windus / Hogarth Press, (1984). First edition - An anthology which focuses on poetry by writers born in the West Indies but who came to England to live. Contributors include John La Rose, Andrew Salkey, Wilson Harris, Lynton Kwesi Johnson, Frederick D'Aguiar, Grace Nichols and many others. Introduction by Berry, notes on contributors. xxvii, 212 pp. ISBN: -070112797X.

New York: Pantheon, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection covering 10 years work - at the heart of this book is a series of poem's written during his father's final years. 80 pp. Laid in is a flyer for an event featuring Wendell Berry "in celebration of " this collection. ISBN: 0-679426094.

Boston: Godine, 1986. SIGNED first edition - A bi-annual journal of new writing. SIGNED by TWO authors at their contributions: Mei-mei Berssenbrugge at her prose poem 'Forms of Politeness' and by Michael McClure at "The Torture Murderers Upstate in Calaveras County." This issue alsp includes contributions by William Burroughs, Barbara Guest, Dennis Silk, Paul West, Michael Palmer, Nathaniel Tarn, Ron Silliman, Coleman Dowell and more. Notes on contributors. 289 pp plus advertisements. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line. ISBN: 0-941964-159.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1937). Hardcover first edition - Both in verse and fact, the history of travel is celebrated - from the days when long journeys were made on foot, through coach and horse and bicyle to modern ocean liners and airplanes. Color illustrations by Denise Mary. Oblong format. Unpaginated.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1997). Hardcover first edition - A collection of poems divided in two parts - the first lyric poems dealing with the death of his lover, while Part 2 is a long single poem "The Second Hour of the Night" based on Ovid's story of Myrrha and her father Cinyras . 59 pp plus a final note. ISBN: 0-374138249.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1990). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Includes the four eariy books of this award-winning poet (Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award and Bollingen among others) - Golden State in 1973, The Book of the Body in 1977, The Sacrifice in 1983 and the First Hour of the Night in 1990 - as well as a selection of new poems. The earlier books contained his notable dramatic monologues 'Ellen West' and 'Herbert White.' Also includes a 1983 interview with Mark Halliday. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper and dated in the year of publication. Notes. 244 pp. ISBN: 0-374176604.

Cambridge, MA: Ploughshares Inc, 1975. First edition - Includes contributions by James Merrill, Octavio Paz, John Peck, Mark Strand, John Malcolm Brinnin, James McMichael, Robert Lowell, Eleanor Ross Taylor, Margo Lockwood, Nicholas Christopher, Constance St. John Marchiel, Ricardo da Silveira Lobo Sternberg, Alice Mattison, Richard Howard, Jonathan Galassi, Barry Spacks, Helen Vendler, Frank Bidart, David Ferry, F.R. Leavis, Eugenio Montale, Peter Taylor, Donald Gertmenian, Elizabeth Bishop, Peter Kaplan, Todd Boli, Horace, William Nestrick, J.V. Cunningham, Robert Pinsky, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Eliot, Proust, Stein, and Dante and more - mostly poetry but some essays including Brinnin on first meeting Auden, and David Gertmenian on Rereading Howl. Illustrated with collages by Ralph Hamilton. Notes on contributors. 249 pp plus ads.

New York: Putnam, (2001.). SIGNED first edition - Her 6th volume of poems - a look at all the different meanings of 'second.' SIGNED on the title page and also INSCRIBED 'For David with joy from the mountain' and dated at Bread Loaf 2003. 88 pp. ISBN: 0-399-147977.

New York: Henry Holt, (1991). SIGNED first edition - Her 3rd collection of poems, INSCRIBED on the half title page (to another poet) and dated in 1993. 88 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-17658.

Akron, Ohio: University of Akron Press, (2002). The author's third collection of poetry. Praise from Billy Collins on back cover. A title in the Akron Series in Poetry. A slim trade paperback. 61 pp. plus colophon. ISBN: 1-884836933.

Wainscott, New York: Pushcart Press, (1978.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "An annual small press reader." Introduction by Henderson. Includes 69 selections from 63 presses, short stories, poems and essays by authors including Leslie Marmon Silko, John Gardner, Wesley Brown, Louise Gluck, Adrienne Rich, Seamus Heaney, Walter Abish, Andre Dubus, Robert Hass, Anais Nin, Margaret Atwood, Jane Bowles, James Crumley,Maura Stanton and many others. Includes an interview with Ralph Ellison by Quincy Troupe, Ishmael Reed and Steven Cannon. Notes on contributors. 552 pp. ISBN: 0-916366-030.

Bridgend, Wales: seren, 1998. First edition - Her first collection of poetry. Review copy with letter laid in and a sticker on title page indicating US distribution by Dufour Editions.

Louisville, KY: The Kentucky Foundation for Women, 1990. SIGNED first edition - A triannual magazine of poetry and prose. Includes contributions by Marilyn Chin, Wanda Coleman, Sharon Doubiago, Caroline Knox and many others. SIGNED by TWO authors - by Chin at her poem "Autumn Leaves" and by Doubiago at her essay "The Reddest Rose Unfolds" on the poet H.D. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line. 79 pp plus notes on the contributors and ads.

Santa Barbara: Fithian Press, 1994. SIGNED first edition - The title poem refers to the Shoshone name for Death Valley - in this collection, this award winning poets explores the intersection of the landscape and the human heart. INSCRIBED on the title page.

Santa Barbara: Fithian Press, 1998. First edition - A sequence of poems in tribute to Buddy Bolden, cornetist, who formed the first jazz band in 1895. ISBN: 1-56474-2687.

Studio City, California: Rattle Foundation, 2022. First edition - A Rattle Chapbook Prize Winner, a slim collection of poems by Afro-Indigenous writer and member of the Northern Arapaho Tribe. 36 pp. Cover art by John Isaiah Pepion. ISBN: 978-1931307529.

Hollywood: W. M. Hawley, (1956) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Parallel text translations Of T'ang Dynasty Poetry (618-906 A. D.) with the original Chinese on the left facing the English translation on the right. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper and simply signed "Shirley." Black, a British born Sinologist, is perhaps best known for her 1960 translation of "Chapters from a Floating Life" by Fu Shen. 45 pp.

San Francisco: Open Space, 1964. SIGNED first edition - The author's first book. One of 300 copies printed and designed at the White Rabbit Press by Graham Mackintosh. SIGNED on the verso of the half title page by the author.

New York: Exposition Press, (1959) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of 124 poems by this Southern writer, born in Tennessee, educated in Virginia, and who lived in Florida for many years, although she also traveled extensively. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper and dated in the year of publication. 91 pp.

New York: The Sheep Meadow Press, (1980.). First edition - An uncommon and very early collection by this award winning poet and translator. 59 pp. ISBN: 0-93529614X.

Canada: The Muses' Company, (1999). First edition - When Canadian poet and playwright Laurie Block travelled to Chile, he found himself speaking, working, and forging new friendships entirely in Spanish. As the new language altered his imaginative vision, as he began to compose poetry in Spanish. A bilingual edition, this book presents poems first conceived in his second language and written also (not translated) in English. Afterword. 96 pp. ISBN: 1-89623948X.

Brockport, NY: BOA Editions Limited, (1993.). First edition - A collection of poems either dedicated to - or about - poets including Wallace Stevens, William Stafford, James Wright, William Carlos Williams and others. Frontispiece by Robert Marx. No. 8 in the BOA Pamphlets Series. One of an edition of 1500 copies, 1390 in wrappers. 21 pp plus colophon. ISBN: 1880238012.

New York: Harper & Row, (1977). First edition - A collection of prose poems, illustrated with drawings by Gendron Jensen. 59 pp. ISBN: 0-060104147.

New York: Harper & Row, (1973) dj. Hardcover - Contains 12 poems in all (including two long poems "The Teeth Mother Naked At Last", as well as the title work), plus the prose commentary "I Came Out of the Mother Naked." Illustrated. ISBN: 0-06-0103817.