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New York: Grove Press, 1962. The prospectus for the first American edition of Naked Lunch, published by the publisher, Barney Rosset, in anticipation of an obscenity trial. The prospectus includes lengthy statements by Terry Southern and E. S. Seldon, as well as short statements by John Ciardi, Norman Mailer, Robert Lowell and Jack Kerouac. It also includes an 8 page excerpt from the novel. The prospectus appears to be rare. Some very light dust-soiling, otherwise a fine copy. 8vo, 14 pages, original printed self-wrappers, stapled as issued. Some very light dust-soiling, otherwise a fine copy.

(Iowa City): The Windhover Press, 1976. First edition. One of 200 copies printed by hand on Fabriano signed by the author (the total edition). With Levine's signed (first name only) presentation to poet Jane Cooper: "For my dear Jane, In whom all the lost Names are found.. Very fine copy. Narrow 4to, original cloth, printed paper spine label. Very fine copy.

N. Y.: Atheneum, 1976. First trade edition, a paperback original. Presentation copy, inscribed by the poet to his brother Eli: "Fresno 102 (degrees) Dear Eli & Louise, Here in hell it's lovely to think of you breezing across Lake Michigan, Love, Phil". Also signed by PL on the title-page. Fine copy. 8vo, original pictorial wrappers. Fine copy.

N. Y.: Atheneum, 1976. First trade edition, a paperback original. Signed by Levine on the title page & inscribed on the half-title page to Jane Cooper, a fellow student in John Berryman's class at the University of Iowa: "For Jane, In whose heart no one is lost. With love + thanks, Phil. Fine copy. 8vo, pictorial wrappers. Fine copy.

(Iowa City): Windhover Press, 1976. First edition. Limited to 200 copies printed by hand on Fabriano paper & signed by Levine. Fine copy.. Tall 8vo, cloth with printed label on spine. Fine copy.

N. Y.: Atheneum, 1976. First trade edition, a paperback original. Presentation copy, inscribed by Levine to the poet Mark Strand on front fly leaf: "Fresbery 103 [degrees], Dear Marcos, This one is not bound in cashmere like the real book. It's just a little toy book for those who like words. The Scotch one will be coming when Kim shears all the beasts. Until then, this crass, itchy one must do. Love, Phil". Also signed by Levine on the title-page. Fine copy. 8vo, pictorial wrappers. Fine copy.

(La Crosse, WI: Sutton Hoo Press), 2004. First edition. Sutton Hoo Select Number Four. Although the colophon calls for a "lettered series on Nideggan & Johannot" papers, this is one of 26 lettered & specially bound copies on Johannot paper & signed by Levine (out of a total edition of 200 copies printed). "Little to no effort was made to sort out of the edition bifolios that varied in print quality due to irregularities in the handmade paper. Most copies have been bound by Julie Leonard. The calligraphic ornaments are by Cheryl Jacobsen. Very fine copy. 12mo, quarter dark blue morocco & boards with morocco edges, black cloth folding box. Very fine copy.

(La Crosse, WI: Sutton Hoo Press), 2004. First edition. Sutton Hoo Select Number Four. One of an unspecified number of "standard run" copies printed on "handmade paper from India" and signed by Levine (out of a total edition of 200 copies printed). "Little to no effort was made to sort out of the edition bifolios that varied in print quality due to irregularities in the handmade paper. Most copies have been bound by Julie Leonard. The calligraphic ornaments are by Cheryl Jacobsen". Presentation copy, inscribed by the poet to his brother Eli: "1/10/2004, Dear Eli & Louise, Yes, I'm afraid it's still another book. One of you is here in these pages. Guess who? Love, Phil." Eli, PL's older brother, is the one who figures in this long poem that draws on experiences from PL's childhood and youth. The book is also signed on the title-page and the colophon page by PL. Very fine copy. 12mo, original Japanese-style board binding. Very fine copy.

(La Crosse, WI: Sutton Hoo Press), 2004. First edition. Sutton Hoo Select Number Four. One of an unspecified number of "standard run" copies printed on "handmade paper from India" & signed by Levine (out of a total edition of 200 copies printed). "Little to no effort was made to sort out of the edition bifolios that varied in print quality due to irregularities in the handmade paper. Most copies have been bound by Julie Leonard. The calligraphic ornaments are by Cheryl Jacobsen. Very fine copy. 12mo, Japanese-style board binding. Very fine copy.

N. Y.: National Book Awards, 1969. Berryman's Acceptance Speech for the National Book Award in Poetry which he received for His Toy, His Dream, His Rest (N. Y.: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1968). A brilliant statement of poetic purpose, independence, and vindication: "Both the writer and the reader of long poems need gall, the outrageous, the intolerable - and they need it again and again. The prospect of ignominious failure must haunt them continually. Whitman, our greatest poet, had all this. Eliot, next, perhaps even greater than Whitman, had it too. Pound makes a marvelous if frail third here. All three dazzlingly original, you notice, and very hostile, both Pound and Eliot, to Whitman. It is no good looking for models. We want anti-models." National Book Award speeches of this and earlier vintages were printed for the occasion, and in our experience, seldom survive. Very fine copy. Rare. 1 page, 4to, mimeographed. Very fine copy. Rare.

N. Y.: National Book Awards, 1961. First edition, a mimeograph, for distribution at the awards ceremony. Jarrell won the National Book Award for Poetry for The Woman at the Washington Zoo: Poems and Translations (New York: Atheneum, 1960). "Sometimes I read, in reviews by men whose sleep I have troubled, that I'm one of those poets who've never learned to write poetry. This is true . . . It is customary for poets, in conclusion, to recommend poetry to you, and to beg you to read it as much as you ought instead of as much as you do. . . . Poetry doesn't need poets' recommendations. . . . Poetry, art . . . I do not recommend them to you any more than I recommend to you that, tonight, you go home to bed, and go to sleep, and dream." National Book Award speeches of this and earlier vintages were printed for the occasion, and in our experience, seldom survive. A fine copy; ephemeral, and rare. 4to, 4 pages, stapled as issued. A fine copy; ephemeral, and rare.

Calais, VT: Z Press, 1974. First edition. One of 274 numbered copies in an entire edition of 300. Fine copy. 4to, color frontispiece, original printed wrappers, string-tied, as issued. Fine copy.

N. Y.: E. P. Dutton, 1969. First edition. Signed by Ashbery. Fine copy in lightly dust-soiled jacket with one short closed tear.. 8vo, cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. Fine copy in lightly dust-soiled jacket with one short closed tear.

N. Y.: Dutton, 1969. Uncorrected proof copy of the first edition. The idea for this collaborative novel came to Schuyler on a drive from the Hamptons into New York City in 1952. At first, working together, Schuyler and Ashbery came up with alternating lines, but this method became too problematic, and had to be abandoned when Ashbery went to Europe in 1955. Eventually, the two poets began composing longer passages alone, but the attempt to continue the collaboration by correspondence proved unsatisfactory. The "hand-made quality" of the work suffered, and it was only completed after the two men were reunited in New York ten years later. "The style of arch ventriloquism that Ashbery and Schuyler adopted in A Nest of Ninnies had the virtue of allowing each of the two to escape from his personality, to lose himself in the work.... Perhaps the most extraordinary thing about A Nest of Ninnies is that the two poets have dissolved their own personalities and merged so entirely into a common style that it… Read More

N. Y.: Dutton, 1969. First edition of this collaborative novel. One of 6000 copies printed. Kermani A14. Presentation copy from Schuyler to the artist Trevor Winkfield, with a fair copy of a portion of the text: "'Somehow,' Fabia was saying to Claire, 'I had not expected Paris to be quite so much like Florida.' page 93, for Trevor Winkfield with my best - Jimmy Schuyler, 3/11/69." Trevor Winkfield would later edit James Schuyler's The Home Book (1977), design the dust jacket for Ashbery's Flow Chart (1991) and illustrate his Novel (1998). Small spot of damp-staining at head of spine, spine a little cocked, otherwise a fine copy in slightly dust-soiled and nicked jacket with one tiny closed tear and a bit of wear to the head of the spine. 8vo, cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. Small spot of damp-staining at head of spine, spine a little cocked, otherwise a fine copy in slightly dust-soiled and nicked jacket with one tiny closed tear and a bit of wear to the head of the spine.

Leipzig: Im Insel Verlag, 1907. First edition. Von Mises 61. Presentation copy, with a full-page inscription on the second leaf, including an eight-line poem: "Wüsshen mir um welcher Dinge willen mir die Tage so und so die Nächte aft verbringen - keener dächte Heimlich seinen Schmer zu stillen; jeder wollte, dass er einem Schrei aus dem Leiden immen in sich forme, drin das eingenommene Enorme wie in Vogel, Rufe gültig sei. Lia Rosen forzlief von R. M. R. Obermenland bei Bremer, an 28 Dez. 1907." In English: "I knew why I spent my days this way and that night for the sake of it - no one thought to secretly assuage their pain; Everyone wanted to form a cry out of the immense suffering within themselves, in which the enormity that was captured was valid, like in the call of a bird. Lia Rosen forzran from R. M. R. Obermenland near Bremer, on December 28, 1907." At various times, Lia Rosen was a successful and popular actress in Vienna and Berlin. She also performed Yiddish plays in New York, and… Read More

Perry Township, WI: Perishable Press, 1994. First edition. One of 125 copies printed on & bound into Sakamoto & Kuritani papers, the colophon with an ad personam inscription. As new, at publication price. 8vo, original wrappers with white leather strips. As new, at publication price.

N. Y.: Henry Holt, 1923. First edition, first issue. Crane A6. Presentation copy, inscribed by the poet: "For Raymond from his friend in all and through all R.F." The recipient was the young poet Raymond Holden, a close neighbor in Franconia, New Hampshire with whom Frost had a complicated friendship and to whom he initially sold part of his land, the remainder being purchased by Holden upon Frost's move to Vermont in 1920. Thompson. Covers slightly rubbed, small Rockwell Kent bookplate of Frederick Baldwin Adams Jr on the front endsheet, otherwise a very good copy. 8vo, woodcut frontispiece and other illustrations by J.J. Lankes, original cloth with gilt foil label on front cover. Covers slightly rubbed, small Rockwell Kent bookplate of Frederick Baldwin Adams Jr on the front endsheet, otherwise a very good copy.

N. Y.: W. W. Norton, (1937). First edition. Contains Bishop's "The Sea and Its Shore". One of 800-900 copies printed. MacMahon B4. Also includes works by James Agee, W. H. Auden, Richard Eberhart, Muriel Rukeyser, John Malcolm Brinnin, John Cheever, Franz Kafka, among others. A fine copy in dust jacket which is a bit chipped at head and tail of spine, with another small chip from the top of the back panel. An attractive copy. 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket. A fine copy in dust jacket which is a bit chipped at head and tail of spine, with another small chip from the top of the back panel. An attractive copy.

London and Aachen: Coracle Press / Ottenhausen Verlag, (1986). First edition. Fine copy. 8vo, original glossy printed wrappers. Fine copy.