Albuquerque: West End Press, (1994.). SIGNED first edition - Mexican American writer's third book and first collection of poetry - most in English, but some in Spanish. Winner of the 1994 Western States Book Award for Poetry. INSCRIBED on the title page "-- Hermano, love" and signed simply Luis. 82 pp. ISBN: 0-931122-783.

El Paso, TX: Cinco Puntos Press, (1997). SIGNED first edition - Award-winning writer's second collection of poems - he "has captured the grief of a parent's passage in death, multiplied ten-fold by violence" (Denise Chavez) SIGNED on the title page. Includes a translation of the poems which are in Spanish. 95 pp. ISBN: 0-938317-30X.

Carpenteria, CA and North Wilkesboro, NC: Solo Press, 1999. SIGNED first edition - Works by 61 poets, including, in addition to writers listed above, Christopher Buckley, Ionna Carlson, Wilma Elizabeth Daniel, Dixie Salazar, Carol Lee Sanchez, Maurya Simon, Barry Spacks, Judith Taylor, and more .SIGNED by TWO poets at their contributions - Amy Uyematsu and Sandra Gilbert. Cover painting by George Hitchcock. 170 pages plus advertisements. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line. ISBN: 0-941490-378.

Brisbane: The Jacaranda Press. (1961) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second poetry collection, one which contains the best of his mature poems - lyrical and delicate. INSCRIBED on the front free endpaper "For Jim with thanks for so much in so short a time" and dated in 1962 in Brisbane. The poet has corrected line 7, pg 14 by inserting the word "beyond." 63 pp plus acknowledgements.

New York: Hill & Wang, 1959. A long narrative poem, based on a prairie legend.

New York: William Sloane Associates, 1946. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of poems by this Pulitzer prize winning writer, illustrated by John O'Hara Cosgrave II. Attractively bound in a full-color lithograph binding, with a wraparound illustration repeated on the dustjacket.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. Hardcover first edition - First poety collection following Van Duyn's Pulitzer prize winning book, and published during the year that she was Poet Laureate in the US - the poems have a variety of forms, from long narrative to "minimalist" and range from witty to moving. Van Duyn has also been the recipient of the National Book award and the Bollingen Prize for poetry.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - First poety collection following Van Duyn's Pulitzer prize winning book, and published during the year that she was Poet Laureate in the US - the poems have a variety of forms, from long narrative to "minimalist" and range from witty to moving. Van Duyn has also been the recipient of the National Book award and the Bollingen Prize for poetry.

New York: Atheneum, 1982. dj. Hardcover first edition - Wonderful collection of poems by this much-honored writer, many of which were written about her parents (this book is dedicated to their memory). Van Duyn has been the recipient of the National Book award and the Bollingen Prize for poetry and the Pulitzer prize, in addition to other awards. Rather uncommon in the hardcover first edition. ISBN: 0-689-112866.

Urbana, Chicago & London: University of Illinois Press, (1980.) dj. Hardcover first edition - His second collection of poetry. Card laid in identifying this as the winner of the 1980 Lamont Poetry Selection of the Academy of American Poets. 60 pp. ISBN: 0-252-008642.

Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, (2012). First edition - The author's second collection of poetry, consisting of poems named for letters of the Phoenician alphabet, and which move between the physical and the abstract, the individual and the collective. Notes. 87 pp. ISBN: 978-1571314468.

Los Angeles: The Red Hill Press, 1974. First edition - Published in an edition of only 200 copies, in calligraphy by Rosie Thomas.

Los Angeles: The Red Hill Press, 1974. First edition - Published in an edition of 200 copies, in calligraphy by Rosie Thomas.

Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Press, 1970. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of thirty poems by this Arizona architect, each illustrated with his drawings on a tan background on the verso of each page. INSCRIBED on the half title page "with fondest regards. I hope you find one page that's meant only for you." 67 pp. plus colophon.

New Delhi, India: Kay Pee Publishers, (1996.) dj. First edition - Author's third collection of poetry, dedicated to his daughter Anjali, who is also a poet. 67 pp. ISBN: 81-900116-50.

New York: Segue, 1988. SIGNED first edition - A collection of poems which grew out of 4 years of a poetry workshop at Sing Sing. In addition to Vega, the following poets are included: Henry Johnson, Jackie Ruzas, James Douglas, George-Therese Dickenson, Hector Algarin and Chuck Culhane. INSCRIBED by Vega on the title page: "For ..., this great group of free souls in a walled world."

Santa Fe, NM: Tooth of Time Books, 1988. First edition - One of an edition of only 750 copies. Includes the poems originally published in the chapbook "Apex of the Earth's Way" and many others by one of the women "beat" poets.

New York: Kulchur Foundation, 1980. First edition - Blue colored text. Poems include dates. Cover illustration (of a barred owl, which inspired the title of the book) and full page drawings in the text by Martin Carey. ISBN: 0-936538-007.

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1967. dj. Hardcover first edition -

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950. dj. Hardcover first edition - Second collection from the winner of 1948 Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Includes a long essay on "The Poet in the Machine Age." 70 pp.

Toronto: Pedlar Press, (2002.). First edition - First collection of poetry by this Canadian author. Long commentary by Molly Peacock who talks about how these poems, many of which reflect on the ties between sisters, were inspired by the disappearance of Vigier's sister. 85 pp. ISBN: 0-9686522-98.

Paris: Le livre de poche, (1964). Hardcover - Edition etablie, presentee et annotee par Robert Guiette. Index de Gilbert Sigaux. Although originally published as a paperback, this has been bound in olive green leather with gilt lettering on the spine, marbled endpapers. Text in French / texte en francais. 254 pp.

Oakland, CA: Zeitgeist Press, 1998. First edition - Art by Deborah Vinograd. Poems of and about the streets of Berkeley and the people on them. 70 pp. ISBN: 0-929730-658.

Oakland, CA: Zeitgeist Press, 1993. SIGNED first edition - Art by Deborah Vinograd. SIGNED on the title page by this prolific Berkeley poet of the street people.

Oakland, CA: Zeitgeist Press, 1992. SIGNED first edition - Art by Deborah Vinograd. SIGNED on the title page by this prolific Berkeley poet of the street people.

Oakland, CA: Zeitgeist Press, 1996. SIGNED first edition - Art by Deborah Vinograd. Poems of and about the streets of Berkeley and the people on them. Cover praise from Tom Clark, Ishmael Reed and Robert Pinsky. ISBN: 0-929730-615.

Oakland, CA: Zeitgeist Press, 1998. SIGNED first edition - Art by Deborah Vinograd. Poems of and about the streets of Berkeley and the people on them. Boldly SIGNED by the author on the first blank page. 70 pp. ISBN: 0-929730-658.

Berkeley, CA: Zeitgeist Press, 1997. SIGNED first edition - Art by Deborah Vinograd. Poems of and about the streets of Berkeley and the people on them - the first poem is for Berkeley bookseller 'For Moe Who Died'. Boldly SIGNED by the author on the first blank page. ISBN: 0-929730-623.

Oakland, CA: Zeitgeist Press, 1996. SIGNED first edition - Art by Deborah Vinograd. Poems of and about the streets of Berkeley and the people on them. Cover praise from Tom Clark, Ishmael Reed and Robert Pinsky. Boldly SIGNED by the author on the title page. ISBN: 0-929730-615.

Oakland, CA: Zeitgeist Press, 1994. SIGNED first edition - Art by Deborah Vinograd. Poems of and about the streets of Berkeley and the people on them, by this winner of the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. Boldly SIGNED by the author on the title page. Cover photograph by Harold Parrish. 50 pp. ISBN: 0-929730-50x.