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

Tungsten Press, N. H., 2014. 1st edition, limited (1/26) lettered, signed, original hand tied paperwraps, printed white dust jacket, and publisher's glassine jacket (as issued). This handsome hand tied chapbook is set in Bembo type on Zerkall Butten and Gampi Torinoko, with silkscreen four color ink on the dust jacket and title page. The author notes the text is "adapted from the original notebook fragment written by Rainer Maria Rilke in Spain in 1913" (taken from the chapbook text). 8.75 inches high x 6.75 inches wide, approx. Offered in fine 'as new' condition, at the published price.

Tungsten Press, N. H., 2014. 1st edition, limited (1/100) numbered, signed, original hand tied paperwraps, printed white dust jacket, and publisher's glassine jacket (as issued). This handsome hand tied chapbook is set in Bembo type on Zerkall Butten and Johannot, with silkscreen four color ink on the dust jacket and title page. The author notes the text is "adapted from the original notebook fragment written by Rainer Maria Rilke in Spain in 1913" (taken from the chapbook text). 8.75 inches high x 6.75 inches wide, approx. Offered in fine 'as new' condition, at the published price.

Pentagram Press, 1979. 1st edition, limited (1/73) numbered & signed. Handset & printed in five color ink on French Rives rag paper, and sewn in Japanese striped papers. Errata slip laid-in. Fine.

Middletown: Wesleyan U Press, 1977. 1st edition, full gray cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. A review copy with publisher's review slip laid in. The English critic Alan Young's copy, with additional review slip from The Times Literary Supplement indicating "600 words by June 15" on the face of the slip. "In this new collection of prose poems, Russell Edson presents, beneath a sprightly surface, vignettes that are surprisingly pained, dark, animistic . . ." (from the jacket notes). A fine copy with only minimal wear to the complete (not price clipped) jacket.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1982. 1st edition, cloth spine, w/printed dj. Published in The Houghton Mifflin New Poetry Series. A "compliments" copy with slip laid in. Fine condition.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. 1st edition, uncorrected proof, original illustrated glossy paperwraps (as issued). A collection of poems, published in three sections, "RED ROVER begins as a historical meditation on our fall and grows into a song of praise for the green and turning world" (from the rear cover notes). Fine condition.

New York: Norton, 2005. 1st edition, uncorrected proof, original printed red paperwraps (as issued.) A collection of thirty-three poems, arranged in three sections. The author's third collection of poems. "A sensual and diverse collection of poems linked by recurring images and the sense of a story unfolding" (from the rear cover notes.) Fine condition.

New York: New Directions, 1949. 1st edition, full yellow cloth, with printed dust jacket. "A new book of verse by Kenneth Patchen is always an eagerly awaited event in the dry desert of modern American poetry . . . Patchen really communicates to the heart" (from the jacket notes). Published by James Laughlin at his New Directions publishing house, the text includes forty poems. Due to the pale yellow cloth and jacket, clean copies are seldom found. The present offering is uncommonly bright, clean and fine.

New York: Ecco Press, 1991. 1st edition, black cloth spine, with illustrated dust jacket. Specially inscribed to Herb Leibowitz and signed on the title page. The inscription reads: "for Herb -- Jorie / - 1997 - " in blue ink. Laid in is a "Compliments of the Author" card from Ecco Press. Provenance: from the collection of Herb Leibowitz, editor and publisher of PARNASSUS. Evidence of small stain to bottom of jacket interior, else fine condition. Association copy.

New York: Ecco Press, 1991. 1st edition, uncorrected proof, original printed white paperwraps (as issued). A proof issue of Graham's fourth volume of verse, the actual copy originally sent to Joyce Carol Oates requesting a review, with a note from Oates enclosed declining to review the book. The note is handwritten by Oates on a yellow PostIt Note, and signed "Joyce" in black ink. Interesting, uncommon, and unique thus. Fine condition.

Keene, NY: AuSable Press, 2005. 1st edition, uncorrected proof/advance reading copy, original illustrated paperwraps (as issued.) ". . . a book-length sequence of meditations on the complexities of memory" (from the rear cover notes.) Publisher's material laid in. Fine condition.

Seattle/New York: Wave Books, 2006. 1st edition, uncorrected proof, original glossy paperwraps (as issued.) Publisher's material laid in. "A deftly woven tenth collection from a respected poet with a rapidly ascending reputation" (from the rear cover.) Fine condition.

Alexandria, VA: Railway Station Press, 2005. 1st edition, limited (1/120) numbered and signed, broadside. Handsomely designed and printed by Stuart Bradley on heavyweight Arches Johannot paper, a French acid free mouldmade paper. The text is printed in Emerson hand set type, the title in Bernard Modern Roman, and the printer's mark in Goudy Bible. Selected in February, 2007, for inclusion in the permanent collection in the graphic arts department of the American History Museum of the Smithsonian in Washington, DC. We are proud to serve as a partner for distribution of this broadside with Railway Station Press. It is thus offered 'as new' at the published price. Additional shipping required.

New York: Knopf, 1990. 1st edition, full cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. Strong jacket reviews from Anthony Hecht, Richard Wilbur and John Hollander. The author's third collection of poems. A very bright copy, in like jacket. Fine.

New York: Ecco Press / HarperCollins, 2004. 1st edition, uncorrected proof, original illustrated paperwraps (as issued). A collection of over 100 poems, bound in the uncommon "uncorrected proof" format. Fine condition. Scarce, thus.

New York: Harper & Row, 1976. 1st ed, thus, cloth spine, w/dj. "This is an expanded version of an earlier edition printed by not released commercially by World Publishing Company in 1971, shortly before it discontinued its trade publishing operations. This revised edition contains seven entirely new poems." (from the jacket.) Jacket illustration is by Blackfeet artist Neil Parsons. The author ". . . is an American Indian; Blackfeet on his father's side and Gros Ventre on his mother's" (from the jacket biography.) Very little wear, fine.

New York: Knopf, 1983. 1st ed, full gray cloth w/dj. A presentation copy, inscribed: "for---with admiration and best wishes for 1984" and signed in full on the FEP. Jacket reviews by Dave Smith & Alfred Corn. Fine in like jacket.

New York: Norton, 1980. 1st edition, full black cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. A review copy, with black and white glossy photo of Hugo laid in. A collection of thirty-three poems written from Hugo's experience living off the coast of Scotland on the Isle of Skye. The present offering is in bright fine condition.

New York: New Directions, 1979. 1st edition, green cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. A very bright copy of this British poet's sixth collection to be published by New Directions. Fine.

New York: Knopf, 1988. 1st ed, full black cloth, w/dj. The Lamont Poetry Selection (in manuscript form) for 1987, with the Lamont card laid-in. The author's second book. A bright, fine copy.