Search Results: Titles starting with M from Jett W. Whitehead Rare Books (ABAA)

Greensboro: March Street Press, 1996. 1st ed, original paperwraps (as issued.) A collection of sixteen poems. This copy specially signed by Minty on the title page, and offered in 'as new' condition. Fine.

Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1961. 1st edition, full gray cloth, w/illustrated dj. The author's first book, inscribed "Dear Mary and Jack Dant / Welcome aboard my book on its / shakedown cruise -- / Robert Bagg" in blue ink on the FEP. Three moderate stains to jacket, else minimal wear.

New York: Ecco Press, 1975. 1st edition, full green cloth, w/dj. The author's first book of poems, published as Volume 6 in The American Poetry Series by Ecco Press. Advance publicity material laid-in. A long jacket review by Richard Hugo. A fine copy, in jacket with minor edge wear/chip to foot of spine.

New York: Knopf, 1988. 1st ed, full red cloth w/dj. A bright, fine copy in like jacket.

New York: Knopf, 1988. 1st ed, uncorrected proof, green paperwraps (as issued.) Fine.

Cleveland: Bits Press, 1980. 1st ed, original printed paperwraps (as issued.) Published as A Bits Chapbook, by the Department of English at Case Western Reserve University. Light sunning to wraps, else fine.

Doubleday, 1978. 1st edition, cloth spine with dust jacket. A fine copy in like jacket.

New York & Norfolk: New Directions, 1964. 1st edition, original printed paperwraps (as issued.) Handsomely designed and printed in Verona, Italy by Stamperia Valdonega. The author's first book. Fine.

New York: New Directions, 1974. 1st edition, full green cloth, with dust jacket. "It is his first collection (of poems) since leaving the Dominican order . . . he was known for twenty years as one of the foremost Catholic poets of our time" (from the jacket). A lovely copy, bright and fine in like jacket.

New York: Harper & Row, 1982. 1st ed, original paperwraps. Inscribed & signed by the author, in year of publication, on the title page. Only gentle wear, else fine.

New Haven: Yale, 1963. 1st ed, full green cloth, w/dj. From the Yale Series of Younger Poets, the author's first book. A fine copy, in jacket with two small nicks to the upper edge.

Seluzicki/Rara Avis Press, 1982. 1st edition, limited (1/200) signed, illustrated hand-tied stiff paperwraps (as issued). This beautifully designed publication was printed by Christine Bertelson at the Rara Avis Press in Riverside, California. "The illustrations were taken from photographs of funeral masks" (from the colophon). There was not a trade edition of this collection, and all copies were signed by Merrill on the colophon. A lovely copy in fine condition.

New York: Viking, 1961. 1st edition, full orange cloth, with dust jacket. A large (pp. 301) selection of Moore's poetry, prose, letters, translations, and 'The Paris Review' interview with Donald Hall. All points present of first issue, except lacking the orange top edge (Abbott A18.a1), thus assumed 1st edition binding variant. A fine copy with moderate shelf wear, in worn jacket with 1 inch abrasion to jacket spine. (Not price clipped.).

New York: Viking, 1961. 2nd impression, gray cloth spine, w/dj. All points present (Abbott A18.a2) including complete (not price clipped) red dust jacket. The Moore commemorative US postage stamp on FEP. Edgwear to boards and overall wear/abrasions to jacket, clean text with a few annotations by prior owner. A good reading or reference copy.

Peoria IL: Elephant's Foot Press, 1993. 1st edition, prospectus, original printed card stock (as issued). Specially signed "William Benton 1/9/93 // Key West" in black ink on the front cover. A prospectus for [the full title] MARMALADE: DRIFTS, GISTS, VERSIONS, DRAFTS & TAKES from the poems of Stephane Mallarme. Poems by William Benton and Intaglios by James McGarrell. The prospectus reads (in part) "This suite is limited to 50 copies, presented in handmade portfolios." A trade edition of the same title was later issued by George Adams Gallery Press (1997). A fine copy of the prospectus only, printed on one sheet of card stock and folded to create four pages. Specially signed in year of issue.

New York: Knopf, 1992. 1st edition, uncorrected proof, original printed stiff paperwraps (as issued.) Fine.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1948. 1st edition, Uncorrected Proof, original gray green paperwraps (as issued). The present volume combines the complete text of Frost's A MASQUE OF REASON, A MASQUE OF MERCY, and STEEPLE BUSH representing the "First English Edition" of all three titles. There was no US equivalent. (Crane A34.) Uncorrected proof copies seldom appear for any of Frost's titles, scarce thus. Minimal aging to paper wrappers, and front cover tender at spine. Else a remarkably nice copy of a very scarce Frost "A" item.

New York: Norton, 2000. 1st edition, uncorrected proof, original glossy illustrated paperwraps (as issued). Publisher's material laid in. A collection of thirty-four poems. The present volume appears to be bound with pages in reverse order, making it truly an "uncorrected proof" copy. Fine condition.

Hopewell: Ecco Press, 1996. 1st edition, uncorrected proof, original glossy illustrated paperwraps (as issued). A collection of forty-six poems, arranged in a book-length sequence. Gluck is the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and most recently the Nobel Prize in Literature (2020). Fine condition.

Hopewell: Ecco Press, 1996. 1st edition, cloth spine, with illustrated jacket (as issued). Specially inscribed and signed by Gluck on the title page in blue ink. A collection of forty-six poems, arranged in a book-length sequence. Gluck is the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and most recently the Nobel Prize in Literature (2020). Fine condition.