Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon, 1994. First Edition. Paperback. 8vo. Wraps. 80 pp. Inscribed by Bell on half-title to fellow poet Rick Holinger. Pen notes by Holinger inside front cover and infrequent underlining throughout. This is a signed first edition poetry collection by late Iowa poet laureate Bell. More

Aleph Press, 2005. Paperback. 8vo. Staple-bound wraps. Minor scuffing to wraps. Not in OCLC. This is an early poetry chapbook by influential Chicago poet Kevin Coval, published prior to his debut collection, Slingshots. Coval founded the long-running youth poetry slam Louder Than an a Bomb in Chicago in 2001. Later..... More

London: Jonathan Cape, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, publisher's quarter parchment and blue cloth; dust jacket. Signed on the half-title. Hint of toning to spine extremities; dust jacket price-clipped, with minor toning and light edge wear with a few tiny nicks or short tears. Author was the Poet Laureate of..... More

Garden City: Garden City Publishing, 1940. Hardcover. 4to. Decorated cloth. Illustrations throughout. Minor shelf wear. This is a vintage inspirational coffee table book. More

New York: Viking Press, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Boards. Dust jacket. 305 pp. Signed by author on bookplate. Minor shelf wear to jacket. This is a signed autobiography by Valerie Jarrett, former senior advisor to President Obama. More

Jersey City, NJ: Talisman House, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. 8vo. Cloth. Gilt lettering on spine. 118 pp. No jacket as issued. Errata leaf laid in. 1/8" white scuff at top edge of front cover. This is a first edition poetry collection by Menashe. The hardcover first issue is..... More

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Original blue cloth-backed black boards, spine lettered in silver; publisher's pictorial dust jacket. Inscribed by Nemerov to poet John Hollander and his wife Anne on the half-title: "For John & Anne / affectionately, / Howard." Touch of rubbing to spine..... More

San Francisco: City Lights, 1970. Paperback. 8vo. Stapled wraps. 31 pp. Fine condition. 7 copies in OCLC. This is an uncommon book of poetry by Japanese-American poet Francis Naohiko Oka. A memorial edition published after the author's death at age 24 in a motorcycle accident. He was co-editor of Aion..... More

New York: George Braziller, 1973. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo. Cloth. Dust jacket. Hand-pressed paper. 51 pp. Price clipped. Minor shelf wear and a few scuffs to jacket. This is a stated first printing of Maine poet Rosen's 1973 collection. More

London: New Beacon Books, 1982. First Edition, First Printing. Paperback. 8vo. Wraps. Small errata leaf laid in. This is a first edition of Jamaican poet Scott's (1939-1991) collected vernacular poetry. Scott was an important poet of Jamaica's post-independence era, and he also played Lester Tibedeaux on The Cosby Show. More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, original red cloth, gilt-lettered on upper cover and spine. Provenance: From the library of noted book collector William A. Strutz. More

New York: Little, Brown & Co., 2023. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Boards. Dust jacket. Signed on bookplate. This is a signed first edition of Smith's debut poetry collection. More