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Richmond, Ind.: Nicholson Printing, 1905. First Edition . Hardcover. Good+. Aleen Stein and E.E. Edwards. First Edition, same date, no additional printings; SIGNED, with an autograph quatrain, on the page following the dedication page, and dated January 10th 1906. Green cloth, no dj; good+ (discoloration to rear board; spine dull, worn and bumped at ends; corners worn; edges soiled, top dark; bookplate on front pastedown; light foxing throughout, heavily so on frontis and title page); 219 pp.

Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1994. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near Fine in NrFine dust jacket. One light half-moon scuff on front cover. Ortiz signature on first free endpaper. These poems represent the author's musings between autum and spring on the Lakota Sioux Reservation. Ortiz is a Acoma Pueblo native.

Florence, NM: Self Published, 1898. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. First Edition, no additional printings; INSCRIBED by the author: "To Mrs. Bradford Prince with the compliments of the writer / Santa Fe, Febry. 18, 1907 [no signature]"; Bradford Prince was the Governor of New Mexico Territory from 1889-1893. Red cloth, no dj. Good (waterstain to bottom half of spine and 3 inch corner of both boards, inside water stains faintly visible in the gutter of a few early pages; tiny paint splatters to top edge of front board; tear to side edge of front free endpaper; starting at third blank front flyleaf). 165pp. A very scarce book of poetry produced to raise money to build a library at Florence, New Mexico, now called Loving.

New York: E. P. Dutton, 1944. First Edition . Hardcover. Good+/Good+. First Edition stated, no additional printings. Good+ (spine ends bumped; bookplate on front pastedown, large 'W' initial stamp on front free endpaper, price in ink on rear free endpaper, name on rear pastedown) in good+ dj (soiled rear panel; edgeworn; spine ends and corners chipped; toned), $3.00 price. 255 pp.

Green River, Vt.: Longhouse, 1985. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 1st, 1/100 copies printed on loose 4to sheets, folded and nestled in a folder with the title printed on front; they must be taken out to be read. Also included is a 1-p. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED by 'Gerry', dated 5 Jan. 1985, on the poet's personal stationery. In vg condition; cover a little sunned, 2 sm. spots on the front, one corner of the loose title page is creased.

Burnet, Tex.: Eakin, 1981. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 1st, maroon cloth, nf in vg dj (minor wear at top of spine; light dustsoiling and tear to rear panel), $7.95 price (author's name misspelled 'Lautargo' on front panel). 95 pp., English & Spanish on facing pages. SIGNED on the ffep by the author and by translator Maria C. de Vergara.

NY: Putnam, 1940. First Edition . Hardcover. Good+. First Edition, no additional printings; blue cloth, g+, no dj. Spine faded, spotted and worn to boards at ends; bottom corners worn to boards. Clean inside except for a sm. spot at the foreedge of the foreword and contents pages; endpapers and pages toning. INSCRIBED on the ffep; also SIGNED upside down on the rfep, apparently by accident. Dj flaps are laid in; price was $1.50. 89 pp.

Iowa City: Maecenas Press, 1990. Hardcover. Very Good. Green cloth; 8vo; no dj; vg (spine ends and corners lighty bumped and rubbed; water spots on top edge); 165pp.

New York: Poet's Press, 1941. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good-/Good+. First Edition, no additional printings; INSCRIBED in Santa Fe to fellow poet Alice Corbin Henderson and dated October 15, 1943; 8vo, blue cloth; vg- (spine sunned; spine ends bumped and worn; top corners bumped; correction slip pasted onto last page) in good+ dj (stains and rippling to spine and both panels from water; sunned spine and panels; edges chipped, torn, worn, and bumped); 90pp.

Madison: Hispanic Seminar of Medieval Studies, 1975. Hardcover. Very Good-. Reprint; magenta cloth; no dj; vg- condition (front board faintly bowed; boards and corners sltly rubbed; spine ends bumped and worn; light spotting to top half of side edge; $5 price in red ink on ffep); 181pp.

NY: Vassar Miscellany Monthly, 1916. First Edition . Hardcover. Good+. 1st, g+ in original grey boards with white cloth spine, no dj. Book shaken but not broken; paper chipped frtom front board. No writing inside; many pp. unopened. Includes supposed 1st appearance of Edna St. Vincent Millay in a book (2 poems), and many other fine writers. P. 130 of Millay's poem 'The Suicide' contains an error; 'fcultily' for 'faultily'. 173 pp.

New Rochelle, NY: Elizabeth, 1978. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Eduard Wiiralt. 1st, folio (13" x 10"), 1/750, nf in good slipcase (two 4 inch tears to top edge), no dj. 49 pp. Includes smaller 8-p. pamphlet, 'A Postscriptum to Cantus Firmus', laid in.

NY: Dodd, Mead, 1954. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+/Good+. 1st, red cloth, vg+ in g+ dj with $2.50 price. There is a sm. red spot on the top edge near the foreedge; not a remainder mark. The book is very slightly cocked but has very little wear. The dj is chipped at the spine ends and corners and at top of rear panel, and has several very sm. holes in the rear panel, affecting the ad for 'Ballads of a Bohemian'. It is just barely soiled and not faded at all. 190 pp.

Paris: Editions Two Cities, 1977. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. First Edition, one of 1500 copies; vg in original white wraps (edgeworn; spine head and top front corner bumped; light soiling to rear cover; pages toned). Publisher's notices in French, but the poems are in English. 47 pp. INSCRIBED on half-title to poet Will Inman: "Fond Memories, Fanny." Also bears her address label on the dedication page. Also laid in, in a plastic bag, is an article about Fanny from the Winter Park, Fla. Sun-Herald.

Self Published, 1994. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Very Good-. Limited Edition, one of a thousand copy run; pink cloth, no dj. Vg- (light dirt soiling to edges of boards; smudge on spine tail; spine head and top corner of rear board bumped; title piece on spine coming unglued, light glue stain from attempted repair to piece); 57pp.

Houston, Tex.: Arte Publico, 1984. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good-. 1st, vg- in wraps (wraps rubbed and faded; corners bumped; edgeworn). INSCRIBED by author on title page. 52 pp.

Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999. First Edition . Hardcover. Fair. First published 1999 by Cornell University Press; 8vo, blue cloth, no dj; fair (boards rubbed, rear board lightly scratched; spine ends bumped and rubbed; light soiling to side edge; headcase detached from text block; non-professionally repaired rear hinge, was completely broken from top to bottom at rear blank flyleaf, cannot guarantee stability); 771pp.

San Francisco: Juniper Von Phitzer Press, 1991. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good+. Limited Ed, No. 136/200, SIGNED by Hiemstra and publisher Von Phitzer; 12mo; vg (boards bowed, spine ends bumped, light wear to bottom corners) in vg+ dj (edges lightly bumped); also INSCRIBED by Marvin Hiemstra on third ffep.

Ragnarok Press, 1972. Hardcover. Good. First Edition, limited, one of 300 copies but this copy is unnumbered at the colophon; INSCRIBED on second blank page to author Steven Halpern, "...who is the wave of the future..." and dated Aug 4 '82; also laid in is a handwritten signed note from Holt to Halpern concerning this book. Purple cloth, no dj. Good (cocked and a little shaken; boards rubbed; spine ends and corners lightly bumped and worn). Handbound and beautifully printed in crimson, indigo, aquamarine, navy, black and brown inks. Dedicated to Anais Nin, who contributes a page from her diary.

San Francisco: Grey Fox, 1980. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. First Limited Edition, No. 12 of 56 SIGNED copies, signed by Whalen on limitation page. Blue cloth, no dj. Vg (top edge soiled; faint stain on side edge). 75 pp.