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

Deerfield / Dublin: Deerfield Press / Gallery Press, 1980. 1st edition, limited (1/300) signed, full black cloth, with printed dust jacket (as issued). Illustrated by Timophy Engelland. The text includes four poems in Gaelic with English translation facing, and two color illustrations. A bright, fine copy in like jacket.

New York: Harcourt Brace, 1959. 1st edition, full black cloth, with dust jacket. The author's first book, selected in manuscript form as The Lamont Poetry Selection of 1958. A fine copy in jacket with only minimal wear.

Chicago: Modern Poetry Association, 1970. 1st edition, Vol CXVI, No 2, original illustrated paperwraps (as issued). The present volume features seven poems by O'Hara, five poems by Merwin, and many others. A fine copy with only minimal sunning to spine. Scarce issue.

San Francisco: Four Seasons Foundation, 1969. 1st edition, original photo illustrated paperwraps (as issued.) A lecture delivered by the poet to the University of California Poetry Conference, July 20, 1965, at Berkeley. Gentle wear to covers, else fine.

New York: Norton, 1991. 1st edition, gray cloth spine, with illustrated dust jacket. "In this eloquent, definitive first biography of Charles Olson, poet Tom Clark, making extensive use of previously unseen private journals and letters as well as revealing testimony from close family and friends, has gone beneath the legend to uncover the man -- in all his complexity, vulnerability, and singularity" (from the jacket notes). Bright, fine condition in like jacket.

Tungsten Press, N. H., 2015. 1st edition, limited (1/26) lettered and signed, broadside, with publisher's wrap. Handsomely designed by C. W. Swets, and printed in three color ink by Frank Turenhout using Times and Folio types on Zerkall paper. The special publisher's wrap for this lettered edition is Neenah Columns. The poet has signed and lettered the broadside in pencil at the colophon. A bright, fine copy, offered 'as new' at the publisher's price.

Tungsten Press, N. H., 2015. 1st edition, limited (1/100) numbered and signed, broadside, with publisher's wrap. Handsomely designed by C. W. Swets, and printed in three color ink by Frank Turenhout using Times and Folio types on Zerkall paper. The special publisher's wrap for this numbered edition is Gmund Kaschmir. The poet has signed and numbered the broadside in pencil at the colophon. A bright, fine copy, offered 'as new' at the publisher's price.

New Haven: Yale U Press, 1957. 1st edition, green cloth w/dj. "First edition: first printing" stated on copyright page. The last full-length play by O'Neill. Fine in jacket with light rubs & small tears.

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1973. 1st edition, full brown cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. A collection of "occasional" poetry. Jacket wear includes two closed tears and rubs, else near fine.

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. 1st edition, original illustrated paperwraps. The winning title of the 2005 Walt Whitman Award of The Academy of American Poets, selected by Mary Oliver. The author's first book. A fine copy in 'as new' condition.

Middletown: Wesleyan U Press, 1978. 1st edition, full gray cloth, w/dj. The author's first book. A fine copy, with only slight wear to the jacket.

Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2000. 1st edition, uncorrected proof, original printed paperwraps (as issued.) Publisher's material laid in. "This booklength lyric sequence reinhabits and modernizes the story of Orpheus . . . (from the rear cover notes.) Fine condition.

Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1988. 1st edition, full orange cloth, w/illustrated dj. This collection " . . . demonstrates the rich range and strength of Gregory Orr's poetry . . . He has chosen poems from each of four earlier books and also seventeen new poems" (from the jacket notes.) A very bright, fine copy in complete (not price clipped) jacket. Rather uncommon in cloth.

Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1986. 1st edition, full dark gray cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. "Now, in WE MUST MAKE A KINGDOM OF IT, he [Orr] emphasizes the transformation of a chaotic world into one of order and meaning" (from the jacket notes). The illustration used on the jacket cover is a photo of a painting by the author's wife, Trisha Orr. A collection of thirty-eight poems presented in three sections. Fine condition, in fine (price clipped) jacket. An uncommon title, and particularly scarce in cloth.

Tungsten Press, N. H., 2016. 1st edition, limited (1/62) signed and numbered, chapbook. This single poem by the 2014 Newdigate Prize winning author is presented as a long format (13 inches high x 6.5 inches wide) broadside. Set in Baskerville type and printed by Frank Turenhout for Tungsten Press on Gmund paper and laid into stiff Zerkall paperwraps. Offered in 'as new' condition, at the published price.

Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1974. 1st edition, limited (1/200) numbered and signed, with publisher's acetate dust jacket (as issued). Laid in is a copy of # MAGAZINE (April 1980) with contributions by Owens, Robert Kelly, and others. Trace of sunning to bright yellow boards, small nick & tear to acetate, else fine.