Unpublished Autograph Poem: THE SNOWFLAKE STAR
Original autograph manuscript of one of Plath's earliest poems, in a version preceding the 1946 revision published in her junior high school literary magazine and collected nowhere else.
Original autograph manuscript of one of Plath's earliest poems, in a version preceding the 1946 revision published in her junior high school literary magazine and collected nowhere else.
Mimeographed reading list from Sylvia Plath's Fall 1952 sophomore English 221 class at Smith College, with her handwritten notes — including library call numbers for the titles on the list and comments on an upcoming blind date.
Original signed contract for Plath's appearance in SEVENTEEN for her short story "And Summer Will Not Come Again."
Rare original drawing by the eleven-year-old poet featuring a lute-playing cherub singing with a robin sitting on a perch.
Signed first edition of Bishop's first book, along with the original ticket from Bishop's reading where the book was signed.
Rare signed limited "author's edition" of Loy's selected poems, inscribed by the poet to her daughter Joella Bayer and son-in-law, Bauhaus designer-architect Herbert Bayer.
Collection of more than three dozen magazine appearances by Plath — including the first appearance in print of "Daddy" and "Lady Lazarus."
First edition of Plath's first book-length work, and the only poetry collection published within her lifetime.
Signed first edition of the Pulitzer- and Nobel-winning poet's ninth poetry collection, a striking sequence of nature- and mythology-inflected verses.
First edition, review copy with publisher's slip laid in, of the Pulizter- and Nobel-winning poet's first book, published when she was only 25 and already capturing Glück's characteristic mix of symbolic allusion, disciplined expression of anger, and breathtakingly lyrical composition.
First edition of the Nobel winner's perhaps most acclaimed collection, winner of both the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the Poetry Society of America's William Carlos Williams Award.
Inscribed first printing of the great Guatemalan intellectual's first book of poetry.
Fine press limited first edition of this early work in the Pulitzer- and Nobel-winning poet's oeuvre.
First edition of this important landmark of lesbian literature.
First edition, advance uncorrected proof copy, of the Nobel-winning author's third book of poetry, a "confrontation with the fragility and risk involved in allowing oneself to love what is passing" (Morris, 6).
First edition, review copy with publisher's promotional broadside laid in, of the Nobel-winning author's third book of poetry, a "confrontation with the fragility and risk involved in allowing oneself to love what is passing" (Morris, 6).
First edition of the first book by the influential Japanese American poet (and later contributor to the landmark feminist anthology THIS BRIDGE CALLED MY BACK), exploring her memories of WWII-era internment.
Inscribed first edition 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.
First printing of Dove's first book-length publication — a fresh, beautiful copy.
First edition of the Pulitzer- and Nobel-winning authors fourth book of poetry, the title poem addressing "the power of grief to motivate heroic action" (Morris, 50) — not through victory in battle, but through Achilles's love of Patroclus.
First edition, review copy, of the confessional poet's uncommon second book of verse.
First edition of Glück's acclaimed fifth poetry collection.
Signed limited first edition of Levertov's poetry collection, arranged thematically in five "kinship groups" of associated poems.
Signed first edition of the book that won Graham the Pulitzer Prize.
First printing of this collection of previously unpublished and fragmentary material from Vassar College's Bishop archive, inscribed by editor Alice Quinn to bookseller and publisher George Bixby.