Unpublished Autograph Poem: THE SNOWFLAKE STAR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.
First edition in book form of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven," the single most famous American poem of the nineteenth century.
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.
First printing of this limited deluxe edition poetic ode to a pair of pears, illustrated in lovingly executed mezzotints – with original copper plate included in the original box.
Rare inscribed first edition of the second poetry collection by the Black artist and author called by contemporaries the "Paul Laurence Dunbar of Cincinnati," presented to another Cincinnati poet.
Signed limited first edition of the last collection of poems published within Faulkner's lifetime.
First printing of this powerful collection of poetry, posthumously published after Dumas was murdered by a police officer in 1968.
First edition of this groovy collection of four little books containing poetry and art meant to encapsulate the different seasons.
First Christy-illustrated edition of this beloved poem of the Highlands, populated by beautiful "Christy Girls" — very scarce signed.
First Christy-illustrated edition of this mock-medieval Tennyson poem, very scarce signed.
First trade edition of the last collection of poems published within Faulkner's lifetime, in the Lynd Ward dust jacket in uncommonly good condition.
First edition of Agee's debut collection, published as the thirty-third volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets only two years after the author's graduation from Harvard.
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.
First edition of this important landmark of lesbian literature.
Inscribed first edition of Knight's third book, nominated for both a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize.
Scarce signed limited hardcover first edition of this collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, issued as No. 4 in the Metacom Limited Editions Series.
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 edition of the second poetry collection by the Black artist and author called by contemporaries the "Paul Laurence Dunbar of Cincinnati."
First UK edition of this collection of lyrical, evocative, and often humorous poetry, by the co-founder of City Lights Booksellers – in remarkably sharp condition.
Handsome and comprehensive two-volume set of the National Book Award winner's complete poetic works.
First (and only) printing of this pamphlet, the first of four issued by Equinox for Christmas of 1932, a revised version of Faulkner's poem "My Epitaph" included in the following year's A GREEN BOUGH.
Early printing of this poetry collection by early-20th century US American writer Joyce Kilmer, uncommon in dust jacket.