San Francisco: The Porpoise Bookshop, Peregrine Press, 1955. Soft cover. This illustrated collection of poems, was published in 1955 by the Porpoise Bookshop, a San Francisco based shop that had a small press dedicated to printing original contemporary work. Description: Cream softcover portfolio with title printed in black on cover.....
San Francisco: The Porpoise Bookshop, 1956. Fielding Dawson. Soft cover. According to the Poetry Foundation, Robert Creely is one of the most important and influential poets of the 20th century, known for his concise emotional power. This illustrated collection of poems, was published in 1956 by the Porpoise Bookshop, a......
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922. N.C. Wyeth. Hardcover. Illustrated by Wyeth, a renowned Western artist, during a period when his work was featured in classic literature. Wyeth was heralded in Outing Magazine as "one of our greatest, if not our greatest, painter of American outdoor life." Original oil.....
New York, NY: Bantam, 1974. Soft cover. An early printing of collection of eclectic philosophical poetry and prose. 150pp, off-white front cover with pictorial, black type for titles on cover and spine, rear is split between a pictorial and book reviews. Condition: Mild rubbing around edges and spine, moderately scuffed.....
Black Spring Press Ltd, 1988. 1st Edition. Hardcover. This book includes all the lyrics which the author has recorded with his bands The Birthday Party and The Bad Seeds, unreleased and commissioned lyrics, as well as prose pieces and plays. Dust jacket black with pictorial front cover, titles to front.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1972. Hardcover. This collection of poetry was written two years before Sexton's death, and several years after she had won a Pulitzer Prize. This is one of the last collections of poetry she published during a very tragic life. Red slipcase with black paper title wrapping.....
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976. Hardcover. Described as Walcott's "search for true images of the post-Adamic 'new world'- especially those of his native Caribbean culture". Sea Grapes is a collection of new poems, focused on the forms of island life. 84 pp. Black dust jacket with photo to front, author's.....
University of Toronto Press, 1990. Hardcover. 2 volumes in near fine dust jackets. Both jackets are protected in Mylar. Brown cloth covers are near fine. Text is as new.
Woodside, California: The Heyeck Press, 1983. Hardcover. Rich was widely influential throughout the 20th century, with work spanning 7 decades. Her poetry in the 1970s and 80s were central to second wave feminism, though her work here in the long poem "Sources" addresses her Jewish heritage. Brown cloth boards with.....
UC Santa Cruz, Cowell College: THIS IS NOT A PIPE PRESS, 1988. Hardcover. Robert Service's most famous poem was based on events he observed while in the Yukon, where a man was cremated who had died after a boat struck a rock on Lake Laberge. The poem has more recently.....