Poetry from Heaven-Haven Books

Pamphlet in hand bound beige papered boards with dust jacket. One of 50 copies using handmade paper by Harry Reese, signed by the poet to the colophon page. An exceptional copy of a beautifully pressed book.

Stated 1st edition. Near fine in red orange cloth with gilt titles and red topstain. Dust jacket is unclipped (6.75) and is a bit ruffled showing chipping at tail of spine and at flaps with minor soiling to rear panel. Boards show some fading, else binding sharp and square with clean text. The first one volume edition of e.e. cummings… Read more about this item

NEW AND SELECTED POEMS, Donald Davie, Wesleyan University Press, 1968. 2nd printing softcover edition, signed by Davie to ffep. A slim volume of gathered verse by the English Movement poet, formalist and contemporary of Ted Hughes and Philip Larkin.

First published book by the Arkansas poet (and father of Lucinda Williams), signed to half title page. Ex library copy showing discreet markings to spine, bookplate to front endpaper, and stamp to dedication page, else internally clean sharp and tight.

HYMN TO LIFE, James Schuyler, Random House, 1974. 1st edition. One of the author s scarcest books. Poet of the New York School and frequent collaborator with John Ashbery and Frank O Hara, Schuyler was later awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1980 for The Morning of the Poem. Hardcover in grass-green quarter cloth, housed in an unclipped dust jacket, designed… Read more about this item

First issue of the author's first book, limited run of 1000 copies. 11 page staple bound pamphlet with the price of 10 cents to front cover. Pages wholly age toned with a slight crease to left corner of front cover. Prints sixteen of the earliest poems of William Everson, also known as Brother Antoninus, California naturalist poet and disciple of… Read more about this item

16mo (5 x 7.5) Limited issue. Stiff yellow boards, 6pp. Sewn page leaves with a black and white wood cut drawing by Ditchling artist and typographer Eric Gill. Boards show some minor rubbing and toning, contents are nearly fine. Chesterton s chorus from an unfinished play , a Christmas poem published here for the first time by Faber and Faber… Read more about this item

Small 8vo, red cloth with gilt titles and floral stamping, gilt topstain, deckled pages, 156pp. First edition. Frontispiece photograph of the author by Hector Murchison with intact tissue guard. Boards mildly rubbed, lower corners bumped, ownership signature to front endpaper. Binding sound, contents clean. Chesterton's first published volume of collected verse. Includes his ballads, love poems, war poems, rhymes, and… Read more about this item

8vo, purple cloth with gilt titles and bordering, 86pp. Stated second impression, 1915. Minor fraying to cloth at spine, ownership marking to flyleaf and rear pages following text, pages age toned. Firmly bound with clean text. The first volume of poetry by the Catholic monsignor and author of Lord of the World, with a note of introduction by Wilfred Meynell.… Read more about this item

8vo, black cloth with gilt titles, 300pp. Stated 1st edition. Unclipped dust jacket (5.95), showing minor loss and wear to edges, toning and rubbing to panels. Minor rubbing and discoloration to cloth. Firmly bound with clean text. The Polish poet and Nobel Laureate's autobiography, written in a nonlinear construction. Translated from the polish by Catherine S. Leach. A handsome copy… Read more about this item

Tall 8vo, stiff softcover wrappers, 95pp. First trade paperback edition, so stated with full number line. Wrappers slightly sunned and rubbed, binding firm, text clean. A bilingual selection of later poems translated by Alastair Reid. A handsome copy.

8vo, black cloth with gilt titles, 131pp. Unclipped dust jacket (2.75). Reissue edition with Nobel Prize statement to rear panel. Dust jacket shows minimal edge wear and toning to panels and flaps, a small closed tear to rear. Pages clean and unmarked, binding solid. 'A verse play with a contemporary setting.' A nice copy.

8vo, black cloth with gilt titles, 86pp. Unclipped dust jacket (1.25). Second American Edition, First Thus, with note of January 1936 note of revision stated opposite copyright page. Ownership signature to front endpaper, and discreetly to title page, else unmarked. Toning to pages, endpapers. Dust jacket sunned at spine with a few chips to edges, closed tear to front panel… Read more about this item

8vo, brown quarter cloth over decorative green papered boards, gilt titles, green endpapers 63pp. Unpriced dust jacket shows a closed tear at front flap edge and a quarter loss to rear panel at spine edge, small pen mark to rear panel. A brief volume of verse, this book overlapping the last nineteen poems of The Broken Ground and and first… Read more about this item

8vo, stiff softcover wrappers, 111pp. Price of 1.25 to front wrap. Kentucky Writing No. 4. Prints Kentucky writers such as James Still, Jesse Stuart, Harriet Arnow and others, including a poem by Wendell Berry. A fine copy.

16mo, stiff softcover wrappers, 156pp. Price of 50c to front wrap. Mild creasing to spine, rubbing to wrappers, foxing to rear wrap. Firmly bound with clean text. An anthology of Kentucky writers, which includes James Still and an early published story by Wendell Berry. A nice copy.

16mo, stiff softcover wrappers, 156pp. Price of 50c to front wrap. Mild creasing to spine, rubbing to wrappers. Ownership signature to front endpaper. Firmly bound with clean text. An anthology of Kentucky writers, which includes James Still and an early published story by Wendell Berry. A nice copy.

8vo, black cloth with gilt titles, 252pp, unpriced dust jacket. Inscribed by the author to the front endpaper. Boards show mild spotting and foxing to text edges. Firmly bound with clean text, a nice copy.

Small 8vo, blue cloth with gilt titles, 91pp. Unclipped dust jacket (1.50 net). Reprint of the 1969 reissue of the original 1938 text. Dust wrapper shows some pilling and rubbing to front panel. Internally clean, sharp and tight. A longer poem cycle by Williams based on Arthurian legend. A nice copy.

8vo, quarter cloth over brown papered boards, brown gilt titles, 95pp. Unclipped dust jacket (4.75). Stated 7th printing, according to G.68 code to copyright page. Boards show mild spotting at spine and rubbing to covers, dust jacket shows rubbing to panels and minor loss to edges. Firmly bound with clean text. A nice copy.