TIME
(1979)
First edition, review copy, of the fourth volume of Amichai's poetry to be published in English, translated from Hebrew by the author.
20th century
THE LITTLE REVIEW, Vol. VI, No. 6
October, 1919
Issue of the celebrated Modernist journal, with work by Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and others.
THE LITTLE REVIEW, Vol. IV, No. 5
September, 1917
Lively issue of the celebrated Modernist journal, with contributions from T.S. Eliot and others.
THE LITTLE REVIEW, Vol. III, No. 3
May, 1916
Issue of the celebrated Modernist magazine, including Emma Goldman's LETTERS FROM PRISON.
THE LITTLE REVIEW, Vol. XI, No. 2
Winter 1926
"Special Theatre Number" of the celebrated Modernist magazine, featuring one of the lit mag's celebrated graphic cover designs.
THE LITTLE REVIEW, Vol. III, No. 4
June-July, 1916
Double issue of the celebrated Modernist magazine.
THE LITTLE REVIEW, Vol. 1, No. 10
January, 1915
Early issue of the celebrated Modernist journal, full of vigorous cultural and literary criticism.
THE LITTLE REVIEW, Vol. V, No. 10
February, 1918
French poetry issue of the celebrated Modernist journal, with Ezra Pound's Study of French Modern Poets – Laforgue, Rimbaud, Remy de Gourmont, and more.
THE LITTLE REVIEW, Vol. V, No. 7
November, 1918
Ezra Pound-centric issue of the celebrated Modernist journal.
SELECTED POEMS
(1985)
First printing of Ashbery's own selection of poems from among his ten previously published collections.
ECONOMY OF THE UNLOST: (Reading Simonides of Keos with Paul Celan)
(1999)
First edition of Carson's comparative study of Simonides and Paul Celan, part of the Martin Classical Lectures series, from the library of poet Stanley Plumly and with his marginal commentary.
SELECTED POEMS AND PROSE OF PAUL CELAN
(2001)
First edition thus, a wide-ranging bilingual edition of Celan's collected and uncollected works, composed between 1940 and 1976, sensitively translated from the German by John Felstiner.
LOOSE WOMAN
1994
Signed first edition, first printing of this "candid, sexy and wonderfully mood-strewn collection" (Penguin Random House) of poetry by Cisneros.
MY WICKED WICKED WAYS
1987
First edition, first printing of this collection of poems composed during the same period as THE HOUSE ON MANGO STREET, with the controversially suggestive photo of Cisneros on the front cover.
JUNKETS ON A SAD PLANET: Scenes From the Life of John Keats
1994
First printing of Clark's biography in verse, poetic novel, or "historical oratorio" on the life of Keats.
THE BLACK CHRIST AND OTHER POEMS
1929
First printing of this collection of poems written while Cullen studied in Paris on a Guggenheim Fellowship, published at the pinnacle of his career.
COPPER SUN
1927
Early printing of this collection of poems by one of the leading lights of the Harlem Renaissance, focusing on themes of love and unity.
Unattainable Earth
(1986)
Inscribed first edition of Milosz's first new book of poetry following his 1980 Nobel Prize.
A LYTTEL BOOKE OF NONSENSE
1912
First printing of these Lear-esque nonsense limericks incongruously paired with woodcuts from Dodd's Specimens of Early Early Wood Engraving, much in the manner of contemporary internet memes beloved by the very online medievalists of our times.
LE PETIT LA FONTAINE
1835 (1987)
First printing of this facsimile of an 1835 book of French fable poetry, a charming little book.
ROUGH MUSIC
1995
First edition of the third poetry collection by Digges, winner of the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Poetry Award.
TRAVELING IN THE FAMILY: Selected Poems
(1986)
First edition of these selections by the great Brazilian poet, edited by Thomas Colchie and Mark Strand with additional translations by Elizabeth Bishop and Gregory Rabassa.
PLAY EBONY PLAY IVORY
(1974)
First printing of this powerful collection of poetry, posthumously published after Dumas was murdered by a police officer in 1968.
CENTRE AND PERIPHERY IN MODERN BRITISH POETRY
(2005)
First printing, review copy, of this sharply argued and observed "history without narrative" of modern poetry in Britain.
THE NEGRO IN ENGLISH ROMANTIC THOUGHT
1942
First printing of this critical assessment of the appearance of Black people in Romantic poetry and prose by a trailblazing Black academic.
