The Singing Knives

Seattle: Mill Mountain Press, 1971. First printing. 56 pp., 6 x 9 inches. Side-stapled and glued into printed card covers. Uncredited frontispiece portrait of the author, and two-color title page illustration, repeated in part on the front cover. The usual sunning to the spine, and three very small discolorations to back cover that suggest strongly that the binding of… Read more about this item

Seattle, Washington: Mill Mountain Press, 1971. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Illustrated wrappers as issued. A bit of sunning mostly on and along the edges of the spine, corners a little bumped, a very good or better copy. Inscribed by the author to a fellow poet: "For DH, Frank Stanford." Author's extremely uncommon first book, a volume of… Read more about this item

Seattle: The Mill Mountain Press, 1971. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. First edition. 56 pp. with uncredited portrait at front and brief bio at rear. Navy wraps with black and pink designs. Very Good with small tear at head, sunning along top edge, corners bumped, former owner's name written on half title page, tiny stain to half title… Read more about this item

Seattle, WA: Mill Mountain Press, 1971. First edition. Near Fine. Slim octavo in violet wrappers, with titling and illustrations offset printed in black and pink. Collating 56, [1]pp; with illustrated title page following an illustrated portrait of the author. Inscribed by publisher Irving Broughton on the front endpaper to poet Richard Eberhart and his wife: "Dick + Betty,… Read more about this item

Fayetteville: Lost Roads Publishing Company, 1979. 59, [4] pp. Printed perfect-bound wrappers. Lower rear corner slightly bumped, minor foxing to edges. Cover silk-screened by David Hurley. Second edition of Stanford's first book, originally published in 1971. Contains an unpaginated four-page afterword (uncredited, attributed to C.D. Wright), with a short colophon which notes that two poems have been added to… Read more about this item

Fayetteville: Lost Roads,, 1979.. Second edition, second printing.. 59 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover screen by David Hurley. In addition to adding two poems not in the original edition, this second printing concludes with four page biography of Stanford by C.D. Wright (uncredited).