Search Results: Authors starting with A from James S. Jaffe Rare Books LLC

New York: Acadia Press, (1964). First edition, deluxe issue. One of 50 numbered copies, the "'Author's Edition' restoring cover design and two drawings from the illustrator's original book-plan," signed by Adam, Duncan, and Jess, from an entire edition of 1050. Bertholf B12. Wrappers lightly rubbed, otherwise a fine copy. 8vo, illustrations and original decorated front wrapper by Jess, stapled as issued. Wrappers lightly rubbed, otherwise a fine copy.

(London): Allen Lane in association with Rex Collings, (1977). First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed and signed by Adams "with kind regards" to poet and Jargon Press publisher Jonathan Williams and Tom Meyer on the front free endpaper. Few foxmarks on edges of the textblock, otherwise a fine copy. 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket. Few foxmarks on edges of the textblock, otherwise a fine copy.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1934. First edition of Agee's scarce first book, a collection of poems. Tipped to the front free endpaper is a slip of paper on which is inscribed a note from Stephen Vincent Benét: "Dear Miss Locke, Here is the Macleish book, my sister's, and one by a young poet who, I think, has great promise, Merry Xmas to you both! Stephen Vincent Benét.. Spine a little faded, inch-deep strip at top of the back cover faded as well, otherwise a near fine copy. 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket. Spine a little faded, inch-deep strip at top of the back cover faded as well, otherwise a near fine copy.

Munich: Tovarishchestvo Zarubezhnykh Pisatelei, 1963. First edition of Akhmatova's masterpiece, first published in this form in the West, without the poet's knowledge, fourteen years prior to its publication in the Soviet Union in the journal Novyi mir in April 1987. "From 1925 until 1940, there was an unofficial ban on the publication of Akhmatova's poetry. Akhmatova concentrated on scholarship, immersing herself in her critical studies of Pushkin. But in 1935, following the arrest of Nikolay Punin, the man she was living with, and Lev Gumilyov, her son, she began to compose the 15-part poetry and prose cycle Requiem. Not daring to write it down, she recited various parts to friends, including Lidiya Chukovskaya (Korney Chukovsky's daughter), who memorized and reassembled them. Requiem, a tribute to the ordeal of the victims of the Terror, and the women who waited in the prison lines hoping to get word of them, is based on her own experience in Leningrad, where Lev was imprisoned for 17 months. In… Read More

(Berkshire): Peacocks Press, 1954. First edition. One of only 10 numbered copies printed on Chatham paper & signed by Aldington. This is Copy No. 1. Light offsetting to endpapers from leather turn-ins, otherwise a very fine copy in red cloth chemise & marbled board slipcase. 8vo, full golden brown morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, card slipcase. Light offsetting to endpapers from leather turn-ins, otherwise a very fine copy in red cloth chemise & marbled board slipcase.

Paris: Hours Press, 1930. First edition. One of 200 numbered copies printed on Haut Vidalon paper and signed by Aldington. Covers lightly rubbed and sunned along spine, otherwise a near fine copy. Small 4to, green velvet-textured cloth. Covers lightly rubbed and sunned along spine, otherwise a near fine copy.

(Hurst., Berkshire): Peacocks Press, 1955. First edition. One of 350 copies printed on Barcham Green "Medway" paper. Heel of spine a little bumped, otherwise a fine copy in slightly nicked glassine with a few short closed tears. 8vo, green cloth, glassine dust jacket. Heel of spine a little bumped, otherwise a fine copy in slightly nicked glassine with a few short closed tears.

Paris: Henri Babou and Jack Kahane, 1930. First unexpurgated edition. Limited to 300 numbered copies (the entire edition), ordinary issue. The authoritative text of Aldington's bitter World War I novel, restoring the expurgations made to the previously published British and American trade editions, which were both bowdlerized owing to obscenity laws, although the American text was less sanitized than the British. Kershaw 56. Slipcase broken, otherwise a fine copy. 2 vols., 4to, original paper wrappers, glassine outer wrappers, in publisher's matching marbled paper chemise and slipcase. Slipcase broken, otherwise a fine copy.

Kentfield, CA: The Allen Press, 1969. First edition. Limited to 140 copies printed. Lewis Allen, Allen Press Bibliography, 34. A bit musty, otherwise a fine copy. Small folio, illustrated, original pictorial linen, acetate dust jacket. A bit musty, otherwise a fine copy.

Philadelphia: Dorrance & Co, (1955). First edition of Ammons' rare first book. One of 300 copies printed, of which only 100 were bound. Wright A. According to his close friend, the poet David Lehman, "Ammons published Ommateum, his first book, at his own expense in 1955; sixteen copies were sold in the next five years.. A very fine copy, essentially as new. Small 8vo, original salmon cloth, dust jacket. A very fine copy, essentially as new.

(No place): Amreican Historical Co. Inc, (No date). McCann, M. J.. Inscribed below the image by Anderson's wife Eleanor to the poet Jose Garcia Villa: "Sherwood would have inscribed this to you Jose with deep affection and appreciation Eleanor Anderson

(Philadelphia: Janus Press, 1960). First edition. One of 150 numbered copies signed by the printer, Claire Van Vliet. Presentation copy, inscribed by Van Vliet on a preliminary leaf to typographer & printer John Anderson, with whom Van Vliet apprenticed, and his wife: "Merry Christmas Mr & Mrs A with best wishes for the new year love from Claire. Very fine copy. Square 12mo, original orange wrappers, sewn as issued. Very fine copy.

(London and Yorkshire: North and South, 1987). First edition. One of 500 numbered copies printed (the entire edition). Presentation copy, inscribed by the author and the artist on the dedication page: "For Jonathan [Williams] and Tom [Meyer], With myriad salutations, David Annwn / Peterjon Skelt. A fine copy. 4to, illustrations, original illustrated wrappers. A fine copy.

Kent, OH: Kent State University Libraries, 1971. First edition. One of 50 sets signed by the authors and artists, out of a total edition of 500 sets produced. With poems by John Ashbery, James Bertolino, Gwendolyn Brooks, Denise Levertov, Steven Osterlund & Gary Snyder & with illustrations by Grace Hartigan, Alex Katz, Fairfield Porter, Harvey Quaytman, Otto Piene, Mary Ann Begland Sacco & Robert Smithson. Kermani C198. Fine copy. 4to, 14 loose sheets laid into paper portfolio. Fine copy.

Lexington, KY: Anvil Press, 1986. Limited to 100 numbered copies printed by Carolyn Hammer and W. Gay Reading at the Anvil Press in Victor Hammer's American and Andromaque Uncial types. A very fine copy of a beautiful book, in a custom-made slipcase. 4to, original cloth-backed boards with printed spine label, dust jacket. A very fine copy of a beautiful book, in a custom-made slipcase.

Of Ford's Selected Poems, Helen Vendler commented: He has been a Harvard Fellow, and last year he was awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship. Apart from manuscripts of Ford's poetry, prose, and translations, the archive is especially important owing to his correspondence with John Ashbery, far and away the most voluminous and free-ranging correspondence of Ashbery's life. A list is available.

In 1979, Jon Friedman founded the annual Bisbee Poetry Festival in the historic mining town of Bisbee, AZ, a picturesque town on the Mexican border that had become a vibrant center of creative activity for musicians, writers, and artists. Every year for the next seven years Friedman invited six of the best contemporary poets to Bisbee during third week of August to read their poetry to audiences that usually exceeded 500 avid fans from around the country. The readings, which might more accurately be described as performances, varied from an hour to an hour and a half, and these readings, along with the interviews, workshops, press conferences and informal social events that surrounded the readings, were all professionally videotaped, thereby capturing some of the most riveting live poetry readings of the period. In all forty-four poets participated in the personalized week-long residences that the Bisbee Poetry Festival offered them, including Kathy Acker, Helen Adam, Ai, David Antin, John Ashbery,… Read More

‘Annah Sobelman [1954-2017] was the author of two books of poetry, The Tulip Sacrament (Wesleyan University Press, 1995) and The Bee Latitudes (University of California Press, 2012). She was also editor of The Taos Review. Among the friends and poets to whom Sobelman expressed her gratitude in her first book were Toi Derricotte, Jorie Graham, Robert Hass, Galway Kinnell, Sharon Olds and Brenda Hillman. Sobelman's archive consists of approximately 14 plastic boxes measuring 24 x 16 x 6 inches. In addition to Sobelman's manuscripts, the archive includes her voluminous notebooks, a few hundred of them, which Brenda Hillman describes as follows: "the notebooks have her original art, drawings and paintings, along with her literary notebooks— which are more or less diaries and in some cases drafts of poems imbedded among the art. The art is **extremely** colorful and vibrant and the combination of the writings, very personal and intimate, often like letters to self though not always comprehensible, and… Read More

N.Y.: Tibor de Nagy Editions, 1997. First edition. One of 26 lettered copies signed by the artist and poet, and with an original photographic print, signed with the title "Rain Pavement" and dated 1995 in pencil on the back by Burckhardt, tipped in as a frontispiece. The image "Rain Pavement" is not one of the images reproduced in the book. A fine copy. Tall 8vo, illustrated with photographs by Rudy Burkhardt, original pictorial wrappers. A fine copy.

(Verona, Italy: Renzo Sommaruga, 1972). First edition. Limited to 55 numbered copies printed on Fabriano paper, with each aquaforte etching initialed by the artist. Fine copy in slightly soiled slipcase. Folio, illustrated with 12 original aquaforte etchings by Ger Van Dyck, original quarter vellum & boards, publisher's slipcase. Fine copy in slightly soiled slipcase.