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WHITE THORN.
Edition: First printing.
Dallas, Texas: Kaleidograph Press, (1938) dj. Hardcover first edition - A slim collecton of poems by this California author - the title poem and "Shut-in" both won the San Francisco Redeiell Poetry Cup in 1936 and 1937 respectively. 49 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in a good dustjacket (tears and edgewear to the dj, missing approx 1 inch at base of dj spine, but it protected the book quite well). Uncommon.
Book ID: 72888More details Price: $35.00 -
ON TIME: Poems 2005 - 2014.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
San Francisco: City Lights Books, (2015). First edition - Arranged chronologically these poems form a daybook of a poet - "moving between the personal and the political, the natural and the spiritual in a restless quest for sanity." 126 pp. Cover by Arthur Okamura (1932-2009), to whom this book is dedicated. Square format. ISBN: 978-0872866805.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 67190More details Price: $17.50 -
THE SIMPLE TRUTH: Poems.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of 33 poems, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Notes, 69 pp. ISBN: 0-679-435808.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket .
Book ID: 65159More details Price: $40.00 -
MYSTERIES OF MAGRITTE.
Edition: First printing in wrappers, the trade issue.
San Diego: Atticus Press, 1984. SIGNED first edition - Poems spanning the years from 1954 to 1984. A 4 pp foldout broadside poem, signed in the plate, is bound-in at the center of the book. SIGNED by Norse on title page. 28 pp. ISBN: 0-912377-070.
Condition: Very good in gold illustrated wrappers (some fading/discoloration to the front cover.)
Book ID: 80822More details Price: $40.00 -
CONSIDERING HOW EXAGGERATED MUSIC IS.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
San Francisco: North Point Press, 1982. dj. SIGNED first edition - A substantial collection by this award-winning Northern California poet, who had close ties to the Beats. Includes three of her previous books of poetry - The Woman Who Could Read the Minds of Dogs, Instead of an Animal, and This eating and walking at the same time - as well as two sections of new poems. SIGNED on the title page, and uncommon thus. ISBN: 0-86547-0669.
Condition: Very good in glossy white wrappers with pale gray lettering in a good outer illustrated dust jacket (some edgewear to the dj, price-clipped)
Book ID: 83182More details Price: $40.00 -
DANGER ON PEAKS: Poems.
Edition: First printing.
Shoemaker & Hoard, Shoemaker & Hoard, (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of 55 poems and prose poems, both serious and playful, many with very personal introductions by Snyder describing the circumstances behind the poems, from his first climb of Mt St Helens on the same day in August 1945 when the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima to the destruction of the Buddhas in Bamiyan.SIGNED on the title page. Photograph of Mt St Helens. Notes. 112 pp. ISBN: 1593760418.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 56015More details Price: $85.00 -
DANGER ON PEAKS: Poems.
Edition: First thus - the deluxe audio edition.
Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, (2014) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A beautiful new edition of these very personal poems, issued 10 years after the original publication. SIGNED by Snyder on the title page. Includes two CDs of Snyder reading the poems. Slightly oversized format. List of the audio CD tracks, 119 pp. Dust jacket illustration of Mt St Helens by Tom Killion. ISBN: 978-1619024519.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 66445More details Price: $85.00 -
DANGER ON PEAKS: Poems.
Edition: First printing.
Washington, D.C.: Shoemaker & Hoard, (2004.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of 55 poems and prose poems, both serious and playful, many with very personal introductions by Snyder describing the circumstances behind the poems, from his first climb of Mt St Helens on the same day in August 1945 when the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima to the destruction of the Buddhas in Bamiyan. Photograph of Mt St Helens. Notes. 112 pp. ISBN: 1-593760418.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 74966More details Price: $25.00 -
IN THE BUDDHA FACTORY.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 77918More details Price: $17.50