Search Results: Authors starting with A from Jett W. Whitehead Rare Books (ABAA)

New York: Random House, 2000. 1st ed, uncorrected proof, printed blue paperwraps (as issued.) A fine copy with very little wear.

Portland: Charles Seluzicki, 2010. 1st edition, limited (1/100) signed, illustrated broadside. The present offering is from the Oyster Suite series of broadsides, printed by Paper Crane Press in Half Moon Bay, California, illustrated and published by Charles Seluzicki. Size: 11 inches high x 8.5 inches wide. Signed by Adamshick in black ink. Fine condition.

San Francisco: McSweeney's, 2014. 1st edition, uncorrected proof, illustrated paperwraps (as issued). A collection of ten poems (pp. 61) offered here in the uncommon "Uncorrected Proof" state, with publication sheet laid in. Fine condition.

Riverdale-on-Hudson: Sheep Meadow Press, 1996. 1st edition, full blue cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. Inscribed and signed by Agoos on the title page. A fine copy in like jacket.

New York: Norton, 1993. 1st edition, uncorrected proof, original green paperwraps (as issued). A collection of twenty-two poems. The author's fifth book of poetry, offered here in the "uncorrected proof" issue with publisher's matter laid in. Fine condition.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1979. 1st edition, cloth spine, with dust jacket. The author's second book, which won the 1978 Lamont Poetry Selection in manuscript form. Light, gentle shelf rubs to cream background of jacket, else a fine copy. Increasingly uncommon in fine condition.

The Seventies Press, 1977. 1st edition, stiff paperwraps, with dust jacket. Translated by Lewis Hyde and Robert Bly. Published by Bly at his Seventies Press. Very light sunning to an otherwise bright, tight copy.

Evanston: Triquarterly Books, 2002. 1st ed, uncorrected proof, original printed yellow paperwraps (as issued.) "Intensely autobiographical poems that explore the foreign and the familiar" (from the rear cover.) Fine.

Pittsford: State Street Press, 1981. 1st edition, limited (1/400) paperwraps, with illustrated dust jacket (as issued). Specially signed and inscribed by Allardt. Published as volume #6 in the State Street Press Chapbooks series. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Fine.

New York: Four Way Books, 2010. 1st edition, original illustrated paperwraps (as issued). A specially signed copy of the author's second book. The text includes thirty-six poems. The title won the 2010 Grub Street National Book Prize for poetry. Fine, 'as new' condition.

Fairfax Station, VA: Road Publishers, 1991. 1st edition, original glossy illustrated paperwraps (as issued.) "M. Ray Allen participates in the literary quickening that has taken place in southern Appalachia during the past quarter century. His subjects and themes . . . give expression to a collective experience of the region's population" (from the introduction.) A bright, tight copy, appears unopened and in 'as new' condition. Uncommonly scarce.

Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1979. 1st edition, full gray cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. This Cuban born poet's first book. "Alonso writes in the tradition of Afro-American and Caribbean poetry" (from the jacket notes). Very gentle shelf rubs to jacket, else fine.

New York: Norton, 1975. 1st edition, full black cloth, with dust jacket. A nice bright copy in like jacket of the author's eleventh book of poetry. Fine.

Urbana: U of Illinois, Autumn, 1960. 1st edition, original printed paperwraps (as issued.) This issue includes Ammon's poem "Canto 13," as well as contributions by Anthony Ostroff, David Ray, Robert Pack, and others. A fine copy.

New York: Norton, 1977. 1st edition, full navy blue cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. A large collection (pp. 292) of poems by this award winning poet. A fine copy, in jacket with only minimal upper edge wear and one short closed tear, else fine.

Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1961. 1st edition, full gray cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. The author's second collection of poems, offered here in the scarce cloth binding, with the second issue dust jacket. "It would not be accurate to call Mr Ansen a 'beat' poet, although he has something of the disenchanted attitude and the freedom of language of that school" (from the jacket notes). Lightly sunned spine to price clipped jacket, else fine.

Tungsten Press, N. H., 2020. 1st edition, limited, (1/62) numbered and signed, orginal hand tied paperwraps, with printed white dust jacket and glassine cover. This nine poem chapbook is handsomely designed by C W Swets and set in Courier and Garamond types using four color ink, on Zerkall Butten and Johannot papers. A fine copy, offered in 'as new' condition, at the published price.

Tungsten Press, N. H., 2019. 1st edition, limited (1/26) lettered, signed, original hand tied paperwraps, and printed white dust jacket (as issued). This long (pp. 12) poem is beautifully presented in classic Tungsten Press style, designed by C. W. Swets and set in Cambria type in March 2019. Printed on Zerkall Butten and Tokushu Moreau. Lettered and signed by Armitage on the colophon page. Offered in 'as new' condition, at the published price.

Tungsten Press, N. H., 2019. 1st edition, limited (1/100) numbered, signed, original hand tied paperwraps, and printed white dust jacket (as issued). This long (pp. 12) poem is beautifully presented in classic Tungsten Press style, designed by C. W. Swets and set in Cambria type in March 2019. Printed on Zerkall Butten and Johannot. Numbered and signed by Armitage on the colophon page. Offered in 'as new' condition, at the published price.

Chicago: Modern Poetry Association, 1966. 1st edition, Vol 108, No 5, original red printed paperwraps (as issued). The first appearance of Carroll Arnett in POETRY Magazine with three poems. Other contributors include Josephine Miles, Josephine Jacobsen, and others. The present copy is bright and fine, appears in 'as new' condition.