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SAN FRANCISCO POEMS.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 89167More details Price: $75.00 -
THE GREAT INDOORS
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
Brownsville, OR: Story Line Press, 1994. First edition - Winch's first book of poetry after winning the American Book Award. 108 pp.
Condition: Near fine in printed white wrappers.
Book ID: 63364More details Price: $15.00 -
SUPERSTITIONS: Poems.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Good overall in green cloth with gilt lettering on the spine - corners slightly bumped and scattered underlining, check marks, and a few comments throughout. No dust jacket. Despite the flaws this is still a decent copy of a book which has become very scarce,
Book ID: 87218More details Price: $125.00 -
FLOGGING THE CZAR: Poems.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
New York: Sheep Meadow Press, (1983.). First edition - Cover praise from Gerald Stern and Thomas Lux. 67 pp. ISBN: 0-935296-395.
Condition: Very good in stiff wrappers.
Book ID: 31923More details Price: $12.00 -
THE PROOF
Edition: First printing.
New York: Coward-McCann, 1930. dj. Hardcover first edition - Early collection of poetry by this very influential writer. The first volume in the "Songs of Today Series."
Condition: Very good in a very good dustjacket (bookplate on pastedown, spine of dj sunned, light edgewear.)
Book ID: 8694More details Price: $100.00 -
COLLECTED POEMS.
Edition: First printing.
Denver: Allan Swallow, Publisher, 1952. dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes poems from 1920 to 1952. While not a complete collection of his poetry, Winters states in his note at the end that this includes all the ones which he wishes to keep. 143 pp.
Condition: Very good tan cloth in very good dust jacket (gift inscription dated Christmas 1952 on front endpaper; severe offsetting on pp 10-11 in the table of contents from two sheets of paper with some of Winters' poems typed on them which were laid in, dj is price-clipped)
Book ID: 74453More details Price: $30.00 -
THE EARLY POEMS OF YVOR WINTERS, 1920 -28.
Edition: First printing.
Denver: Allan Swallow, Publisher, (1966) dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes his first three books of poetry - The Immobile Wind, The Magpie's Shadow, and The Bare Hills - as well as some previously uncollected poems. As Winters explains in the introduction, this book was to provide an authorized edition of his early and 'experimental' work (his earlier "Collected Poems" focused on his later and more mature work.) 148 pp.
Condition: Near fine in grey buckram cloth in a very good minus dust jacket (previous owner's name, that of poet Elizabeth Harrod, on front endpaper, overall edgewear to dj, small hole in center of dj spine)
Book ID: 74454More details Price: $35.00 -
JOURNEY AND OTHER POEMS
Edition: First printing in wrappers.
Ithaca, NY: Dragon Press, 1931. First edition - A slim chapbook, one of 500 copies. Cover drawing by Alison Mason Kingsbury. A title in The Dragon Series edited by Angel Flores. 29 pp. plus a list of other titles in the series.
Condition: Very near fine in stapled cream wrappers. Previous owner's name - that of poet Elizabeth Harrod - on first page.
Book ID: 83408More details Price: $35.00 -
COLLECTED POEMS.
Edition: Revised edition.
Denver: The Swallow Press, Inc., (1960). Based on the 1952 edition, with some additional poems added. In his note, Winters states that will this is not a complete collection, it contains "everything which I wish to keep." Title page shows Routledge and Keegan Paul as publishers, cover has The Swallow Press. 146 pp.
Condition: Good condition (extensive notes on one poem, a few other marks, some wear to the covers).
Book ID: 54654More details Price: $10.00 -
THE POETRY OF YVOR WINTERS.
Edition: First US printing.
Chicago & Manchester: Swallow / Carcanet, (1978.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes all of the poems from the Early Poems and the Collected Poems, as well as many never previously collected and Winter's short story "The Brink of Darkness." Introductory essay by Donald Davie. Printed from the British sheets with Carcanet on the title page, Swallow Press on the spine and copyright page. Index of first lines. xii, 230 pp. ISBN: 0-804007993.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 54650More details Price: $25.00 -
THE POETRY OF YVOR WINTERS.
Edition: First US printing.
Chicago & Manchester: Swallow / Carcanet, (1978.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes all of the poems from the Early Poems and the Collected Poems, as well as many never previously collected and Winter's short story "The Brink of Darkness." Introductory essay by Donald Davie. Printed from the British sheets with Carcanet on the title page, Swallow Press on the spine and copyright page. Index of first lines. xii, 230 pp. ISBN: 0-804007993.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (sunning to the spine of the dj).
Book ID: 86168More details Price: $23.50 -
NOW, SWIM: New Poems.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Ashland, Ohio: The Ashland Poetry Press, (1974). First edition - A new collection of poetry by this award-winning writer. Praise on back cover from William Stafford, James Schevill and others. 72 pp. Cover illustration by Joanne de Longchamos.
Condition: Near fine in stapled wrappers (ownership stamp of poet Elizabeth Harrod.)
Book ID: 74163More details Price: $15.00 -
EVEN TIDE.
Edition: First printing in wrappers, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1977. First edition - The author's third book, and first collection of poems.
Condition: Near fine in glossy blue and yellow wrappers.
Book ID: 11935More details Price: $13.50 -
EMBERS: A Novel in Poems.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback.
Los Angeles: Red Hen Press, (2003.). SIGNED first edition - A 'work of fiction about people who actually lived' - the story of generations of women in one family from 1907 to 2000. INSCRIBED on the title page "For Cat, who's also smelled the smoke." Timeline. xvi, 156 pp. ISBN: 1888996722.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (upper corner slightly bumped.).
Book ID: 52028More details Price: $22.00 -
THE DEATH OF LONG STEAM LADY
Edition: First printing in wrappers.
Los Angeles: West End Press, 1986. First edition - A collection of poems, radical and feminist, but also rooted in her Cantonese heritage and imbued with compassion.
Condition: Very good (some signs of reading, rubbing to wrappers, a few notes on last page.)
Book ID: 4819More details Price: $15.00 -
BILMA.
Edition: First US printing.
Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - First collection of poetry (interspersed with some short fiction pieces) by this Australian aborigine writer who uses B. Wongar as his pseudonym. The overall theme of his writing is the conflict between cultures, and especially the conflict as it relates to attitudes about the land. Illustrated with aboriginal paintings. ISBN: 0-8142-03701.
Condition: Ex-library with relatively few l markings, and overall tight and clean in a very good dustjacket (spine faded.)
Book ID: 21579More details Price: $15.00 -
SHAMAN'S CIRCLE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collaboration between the Santa Fe poet, novelist and photographer Nancy Wood and the artist Frank Howell, who is known for his stunning paintings of Native Americans. In this book, written for older children, "poetry and paintings follow the cycle of nature and human life as seen through the traditional beliefs and rituals of the Taos Indians of the American Southwest. " Large format. Index, 80 pp. ISBN: 0-385309279.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (gift inscription on front endpaper)
Book ID: 83560More details Price: $21.50 -
SPIRIT WALKER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second collaboration between the Santa Fe poet, novelist and photographer Nancy Wood and artist artist Frank Howell, who is known for his paintings of Native Americans. A companion piece to their 1974 book, "Many Winters." A lovely book with a preface by Woods, an introduction to the Pueblo of Taos, and poems for younger readers which reflect the deep spiritual values of the Taos Indians. Large format. Index, 80 pp. ISBN: 0-385309279.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 87085More details Price: $18.00 -
RED INK: A Native American Student Publication Volume Four (4) Number One (1), Fall 1995.
Edition: First printing.
Tucson: University of Arizona, American Indian Studies Program, 1995. First edition - Red Ink was a literary journal focused on the stories, art, poetry, and essays of Native American students, and which was published for 25 years, from 1990-2015. This issue includes an article on the US vs Abeyta by Kenneth B. Mello, a section of drawings by Gerard Dawavendawa (who also provided the cover graphic), poems by E. L. Roanhorse, Charles R. England, Reva 'Mariah' S. Gover and others, book reviews, notes on contributors and more. Large format, handsomely produced. 54 pp.
Condition: Fine in stapled illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 78453More details Price: $18.00 -
RED INK: A Native American Student Publication Volume Three (3) Number One (1), Spring 1994
Edition: First printing.
Tucson: University of Arizona, American Indian Studies Program, 1994. First edition - Red Ink was a literary journal focused on the stories, art, poetry, and essays of Native American students, and which was published for 25 years, from 1990-2015. This issue includes articles on gaming and Indian sovereignty by Albert Bender, on Columbus by Garrett Holm and on the Indian Health Services policy of sterilization by Charles England, poems by Gloria Bird, Reva 'Mariah' S. Gover, J. Cedric Woods, Presley Hickman and others, book reviews, notes on contributors and more. Large format. 46 pp.
Condition: Fine in stapled illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 78454More details Price: $18.00 -
LUMINARIES OF THE HUMBLE.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, (1994.). SIGNED first edition - A new of poems by this award-winning Native American poet, an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, Oregon. Cover praise from Ursula Le Guin. SIGNED in full on the title page and INSCRIBED on the half title page and dated in 1995. Volume 30 in the Sun Tracks Literary Series. Notes, 128 pp. ISBN: 0-816514658.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 73143More details Price: $30.00 -
INVISIBILITIES: Poems.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Cambridge, MA: Apple-wood Press, (1977.). First edition - His second collection of poetry. Cover praise from Richard Wilbur, A. R. Ammons (in the form of a poem called 'Fire Going'), and Denise Levertov (who called Worth 'one of the most gifted and accomplished of younger poets.'). ISBN: 0-918222-028.
Condition: Very good in stiff wrappers.
Book ID: 31922More details Price: $12.00 -
STEALING THE CHILDREN.
Edition: First printing in wrappers. No hardcover edition.
Boise, ID: Ahsahta Press / Boise State University, (1978). SIGNED first edition - Her first collection of poetry, INSCRIBED (in Portuguese) on the first page and dated in the year of publication "Good luck from a crazy poet." Introduction by Donald Dike. 41 pp. ISBN: 0-916272-095.
Condition: Very good in printed olive green wrappers (some crinkling to the bottom edges of the pages.) Newspaper clipping with a humorous "guest comment" by Wright.
Book ID: 61510More details Price: $18.50 -
ETRUSCAN PRINCESS and Other Poems.
Edition: First printing.
Denver: Allan Swallow, Publisher, 1964. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A title in The New Poetry Series. A collection of poems with a strong sense of place - many are rooted in California and its history. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper (with the recipient's name partially erased.)
Condition: Very good in a good dustjacket with some tape repairs on the interior.
Book ID: 13287More details Price: $24.00 -
ETRUSCAN PRINCESS and Other Poems.
Edition: First printing.
Denver: Allan Swallow, Publisher, 1964. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A title in The New Poetry Series. A collection of poems with a strong sense of place - many are rooted in California and its history. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper. Her first collection of poems.
Condition: Fine in a near fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 16956More details Price: $28.00 -
SEASONED TIMBER.
Edition: First printing.
Francestown, NH: Golden Quill Press, (1977.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Includes the poems from 'Etruscan Princess' and 31 other poems which had not previously appeared in book form. Dr Wright, a pioneering educator, who received many honors, among them the a silver medal from the Commonwealth Club of California, was the first woman professor at the University of California, Davis (back when it was the annex to Berkeley and only had eight women among the students. ). ISBN: 0-8233-02644.
Condition: INSCRIBED by the author on the front free endpaper. Fine in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped.)
Book ID: 29023More details Price: $20.00 -
A SENSE OF PLACE.
Edition: First printing.
Francestown, NH: Golden Quill Press, (1973.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second collection of poems by this noted Elizabethian scholar. Dr Wright, a pioneering educator, who received many honors, among them the a silver medal from the Commonwealth Club of California, was the first woman professor at the University of California, Davis (back when it was the annex to Berkeley and only had eight women among the students. ) INSCRIBED on the front endpaper and dated in 1975. ISBN: 0-8233-02644.
Condition: Fine in very good dust jacket (price-clipped, closed tear to upper edge of dj)
Book ID: 67912More details Price: $21.50 -
BUFFALO YOGA: Poems.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2004.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of short lyric and longer narrative poems by this Pulitzer and National Book award winning poet. 76 pp plus notes. ISBN: 0-374-117284.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (short closed tear to dj at base of spine.)
Book ID: 48980More details Price: $20.00 -
APPALACHIA.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of poems by this Pulitzer and National Book award winning poet, the final book in his trilogy of trilogies. 64 pp plus notes. ISBN: 0-374-117284.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket .
Book ID: 58063More details Price: $20.00 -
BUFFALO YOGA: Poems.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2004.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of short lyric and longer narrative poems by this Pulitzer and National Book award winning poet. 76 pp plus notes. ISBN: 0-374-117284.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (tear to upper corner of dj at fold) .
Book ID: 86432More details Price: $18.50