New York: Harper & Brothers, 1954. dj. Hardcover first edition - Second collection of poetry by this author who has also written several books of prose on Christianity, C. S. Lewis, etc.

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1978. dj. Hardcover first edition - First book by this African American and feminist poet. Her style is described as "accomplished...at once, lean, subtle and strong." Uncommon in hardcover. Nominated for the National Book Award. 75 pp. ISBN: 0-8071-04639.

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1978. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - First book by this African American and feminist poet. Her style is described as "accomplished...at once, lean, subtle and strong." INSCRIBED on title page. Uncommon in hardcover. Nominated for the National Book Award. 75 pp. ISBN: 0-8071-04639.

New York: Roof Books / Segue Foundation, 1995. First edition - Collection of poetry - cover praise from Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge among others. 76 pp. ISBN: 0-937804622.

Ocean City, Maryland: Skipjack Press, 1992. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A compilation of all the known poems of Steve Ward, most of which have never been published before. Although both Steve Ward and his brother Lem only had a high school education, they achieved fame as folk artists carving duck decoys, as well as working full-time as barbers and singing in a barbershop quartet. Introduction by Don Briddell, illustrated by Jack Schroeder, who was using the original Ward wood shop as his studio. SIGNED on the front endpaper by Ida Ward Linton and Jack Schroeder. 67 pp. ISBN: 1-879535025.

Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 1982. SIGNED first edition - Her first collection of poetry, SIGNED on the title page by the author.

New York: The Viking Press, 1931. dj. Hardcover first edition - The third book of poetry by the author of "Lolly Willows" (and many other books) - a single long poem which is, despite the rather heroic title, about an unsociable woman, named Rebecca Random, "who lives in an idyllic cottage, lives on bread and lives for gin, and has an almost uncanny ability to grow flowers." It is about the darker side of village life - although they are willing to buy her flowers, they do not accept her - and the struggles of women in the period between the two world wars. Bound in green paper covered boards with a black cloth spine, lettered in gilt with decorative design on front cover. 66 pp.

AuthorHouse, (2005). SIGNED first edition - NSCRIBED on first blank page by Mary Anne Warren Erlinger, the widow of Dale Warren who assembled and was responsible for publishing this collection of poems. Illustrated with drawings and photographs. Unpaginated. Cover painting by Mary Knox. ISBN: 1-42088462X.

New York: Random House, 1975. dj. Hardcover -. ISBN: 0-394-40531-5.

New York: Random House, (1983.). First edition - Long narrative poem by this Pulitzer Prize winning poet and novelist. 64 pp. ISBN: 0-394-713567.

New York: Random House, (1983.). Long narrative poem by this Pulitzer Prize winning poet and novelist. 64 pp. ISBN: 0-394-713567.

Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, (1980). "The depth and clarity of Cary Waterman's work make almost every poem in the collection linger." 66 pp. ISBN: 0-822953153.

Brockport, New York: Boa Editions, 1979. dj. Hardcover first edition - One of only 400 copies in the cloth bound issue (out of a total edition of 1200.) A title in the American Poets Continuum series. 60 pp. ISBN: 0-918526248.

Forestville, CA: Taurean Horn Press, (1990.). SIGNED first edition - The author's first collection of poems, INSCRIBED on dedication page, and dated in the year of publication. Photocopy review laid in. Cover illustrated with a semi-nude photograph of the author (who had worked as an artist's model while a student.) 94 pp. ISBN: 0-931552087.

New York & London: John Lane / The Bodley Head, 1917. Hardcover first edition - Watson was an outspoken traditionalist in his poetry and in his other writings - in this collection, which includes his later work, many of the poems are directly or indirectly aimed at critics - in fact, the first section is called 'poems of the literary life.' 98 pp.

Bakersfield, CA: Poet & Printer Press, 1978. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An interesting anthology of works by William Everson, Philip Levine, Gary Soto, Gerald Haslam, Richard Dokey, Shirley Williams, Eugene Redmond, David St. John, Joyce Odam, and many others. INSCRIBED on the title page by both the editor Jane Watts and the illustrator, Albert Naso, and dated in 1980 and also SIGNED by THREE authors at their contributions: by Gary Soto at his poem "History, " and by David St John at 'Hush' by Richard Dokey at his story "The Dead Man" , and uncommon thus. Includes notes on the authors. A very handsomely produced work, slightly oversized, 214 pp.

(np) Poet and Printer Press, 1978. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An early anthology of poetry and fiction by writers from California's San Joaquim valley. Contributors include William Everson, Philip Levine, Shirley Williams, Wendy Bishop, Gary Soto, Eugene Redmond, Roberta Spear, David St. John and others. SIGNED by Gary Soto at his poem "History." Each writer's selections are preceded by brief biographical comments. Introduction by the editor, and illustrated with drawings by Albert Naso. An attractive and uncommon book. slightly oversized. Errata slip laid in. Notes on contributors. 214 pp.

Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, (1992. ). First edition - African American writer's third collection of poetry, A title in the Pitt Poetry series. 75 pp. ISBN: 0-8229-54699.

Lewisberg, PA: Bucknell University, 2003. First edition - A journal of poetry, fiction and non-fiction and reviews. Contributors to this issue include Charles Harper Webb, Richard Selzer, Thomas Rabbitt, Moira Egan, Joseph Harmon, Joseph Bathanti, and more, Notes on the contributors. 145 pp plus ads. ISBN: 0-971373035.

New York: Dutton, n.d. (ca 1946) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of poems found among the papers of Webb's husband after his death, and arranged by him for publication. Illustrated with wood engravings by Joan Hassell. 65 pp.

Scottsdale, AZ: Inkwell Productions, (2002). SIGNED first edition - SIGNED by author and dated 5/30/2003." With black and white photographs. Preface, epilogue. 121 pp. ISBN: 0-971815593.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. First edition - The author's second book of poetry.

Berkeley, CA: Shakespeare's Sisters Press, 1979. SIGNED first edition - A collection of poems written after a marriage has ended - INSCRIBED on the title page with a small drawing of an owl's eye to fellow Bay Area poet Elizabeth Harrod and dated in the year of publication. Laid in is a postcard signed by Florence Miller inviting Harrod to a launch party for this book. Unp[aginated (44 pp)_

Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, (1984). First edition - A collection of poems. Notes. 77 pp. ISBN: 0-938190474.

Mill Valley, CA D'Aurora Press, (1978). SIGNED first edition - A wonderful collection by this poet who was called the 'mother of the beats.' A member of the San Francisco Renaissance, she is credited with introducing jazz poetry to San Francisco. INSCRIBED by author on blank page following the title page and dated in 1979. Cover portrait of Weiss on front cover by William McNeill and painting on back cover by Paul Blake. Issued in an edition of only 1,000 copies. Small oblong format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-933022018.

New York: Collier, 1976.

Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, (2000). First edition - An award-winning collection of poems by this innovative writer - an Academy of American Poets Lenore Marshall Prize finalist and Village Voice Best Book of the Year, a book which "...maps and annotates a world we can almost touch and see, yet which is clearly a space of the mind."(Rosemarie Waldrop) Slightly oversized format, 148 pp. ISBN: 1-566890985.

San Francisco: Book Club of California. 1940. Hardcover first edition - Anthology of poems about early California arranged in three sections: The Period of Spain and Mexico, Days of the 'Forty-nine, and San Francisco. Among the poets included are Ambrose Bierce, Bret Harte, Gelett Burgess, Bayard Taylor, Joaquin Miller and others. Very attractively illustrated by Barse Miller with hillside scenes of San Francisco on the endpapers continued on double facing pages preceding the title page and after the final page of text. Issued in a limited edition of 300 copies by the Ward Ritchie Press. x, 46.

Albuquerque. NM: Hawkeye Press, (1979). SIGNED first edition - INSCRIBED "for Elizabeth" (poet Elizabeth Harrod) and dated in the year of publication. Unpaginated.

San Francisco: Grey Fox Press, (1980). First edition - Frontispiece of Whalen as a Zen Buddhist priest. Preface, index. 75 pp. ISBN: 0-912516496.