Poetry from Burnside Rare Books, ABAA

East St. Louis, IL: Black River Writers, 1972. First edition. First edition. Signed by Eugene B. Redmond, inscribed to former owner and dated 1973. 63pp. Bound in publisher's wraps. Very Good, lightly worn with a slight bump to the top edge. An early collection by the St. Louis poet associated with the Black Arts Movement.

Brooklyn, NY: [The Author], 1855. First edition, second state. First edition, second state of the copyright page, second state of p. iv with "cities and" correct, in Myerson's Binding B. [viii, reviews as noted in Myerson], 95pp. with author portrait at front on thin paper, mounted on thicker paper. Bound in publisher's dark green cloth with elaborate blindstamping and… Read more about this item

New York: Horace Liveright, 1930. First Edition. Fine/Near Fine. First American edition, preceded by the Paris edition published by Black Sun Press. Bound in publisher's original dark blue cloth ruled in blind, with titles in gilt on spine and upper board. Fine with trivial wear at extremites and bookseller's ticket to rear pastedown. In a Near Fine unclipped… Read more about this item

Boston: Atlantic- Little, Brown & Company, 1983. Signed by Mary Oliver on the half title. viii, 88 pp. Bound in publisher's stiff wraps. Second printing. Very Good+ with very slightcrease to front wrap, light wear. A signed copy of the American poet's Pulitzer-winning collection.

San Francisco: City Lights Pocket Bookshop, 1956. First Edition. Very Good+. First edition, first issue with Lucien Carr listed on the dedication page and a period after Harlem on the rear cover. Signed by Allen Ginsberg on the title page and inscribed "Allen Ginsberg - Dec. 15, 1975, G.B.M. - for Kirby Congdon - Ah." with doodles of… Read more about this item

London: Faber & Faber, 1971. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First British edition, first printing. From the library of Sylvia Plath's daughter Frieda Hughes with her ownership signature to the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's blue cloth lettered in silver. Very Good+ with boards faintly splayed, mottling to cloth at spine at edges and offsetting to endsheets.… Read more about this item

New York: Exposition Press, 1955. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's red cloth lettered in black. Near Fine with slight lean to binding and trivial rubbing to tips, in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with toning to spine and rear panel, light wear to the extremities. A lovely copy of this… Read more about this item

London: Faber and Faber, 1939. First Edition. First edition, first printing of T. S. Eliot's charming collection of poems about feline psychology and sociology. Bound in publisher's original pale yellow cloth printed in red. Very Good with light soiling and irregular toning to cloth; top edge dust soiled. Former owner's bookplate on front pastedown with heavy foxing to endsheets.… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976. First Edition. Very Good+/Very Good+. First edition, first printing. Signed by Elizabeth Bishop and warmly inscribed, "For Isle and Kit - I always seem to be signing my books years later for you- anyway - lots of love ^ again! - Elizabeth." Kit Barker, the inscribee, was a British artist. Of… Read more about this item

London: Chatto & Windus, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Signed by Elizabeth Bishop on the title page, inscribed to British artist Kit Barker and his wife, Ilse. Their collection of correspondence with Bishop is held at Princeton. Kit Barker, the inscribee, was a British artist. Of Ilse Barker, The Guardian wrote in her obituary, "In the… Read more about this item

Milan: Poligrafia Italiana, 1909. First edition. 92pp. Bound in publisher's oblong stapled wraps. Text in Italian, French, and English. Very Good+, toned with age, lightly edge worn with a few small tears along bottom edge of rear wrap. Nice shape overall. Rare. An entire quadruple-size issue of the periodical Poesia dedicated to the nascent modernist cross-disciplinary movement Futurism, edited… Read more about this item

San Francisco: Carp Press, 1960. First edition. First edition. Staplebound in wraps. Very Good+ with faint hints of foxing or staining to front wrap, tiny corner crease to back wrap. A rare early chapbook by the author of Trout Fishing in America. His poetry, though often out-of-print and known mainly to collectors, often distills his best qualities as a… Read more about this item

London: Faber & Faber, 1966. First edition. Signed limited edition, UK issue. Copy #125 of 200 signed by Ezra Pound on the rear colophon. 106, [2] pp. Bound in publisher's parchment-backed buff boards, spine lettered in gilt, author's initials stamped on front cover in gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. In original clear acetate jacket, slightly small for book.… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1960. First Edition. Very Good+/Very Good. First edition, first printing. 72pp. Bound in publisher's original red cloth stamped in silver. Near Fine with light fading at spine ends; tender rear gutter. In a Very Good price-clipped dust jacket with light fading and toning to spine; minor edge wear with small pen marks to… Read more about this item

London: Jonathan Cape, 1972. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First British edition, first printing. Signed by Leonard Cohen on the title page. Bound in publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt. Near Fine with foxing at top edge of textblock in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with minor rubbing. A fresh copy of this uncommon collection of lyrical… Read more about this item

New York & London: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc, 2001. Signed Limited Edition. Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing, limited issue. Number 129 of a limited 250 copies, signed by Paul McCartney on the limitation page. Bound in publisher's original maroon cloth lettered in gilt with a matching cloth slipcase with photographic onlay. Fine in a Near Fine… Read more about this item

New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000. Fine/Near Fine. 29th printing. Signed and inscribed by Yoko Ono on the front free endpaper "NYC, '03". Bound in publisher's black hardcover lettered in orange foil. Fine in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light scuffing to panels. Yoko Ono's conceptual art book book originally published in 1964.

Boston & New York: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1986. First Edition. Very Good. First edition, paperback issue.Signed by Mary Oliver on the half title page. [vi], 90 pp. Bound in publisher's wraps. Very Good with light edge wear, slight staining to front and rear covers at edges. Light foxing to all edges with minor age staining to contents.… Read more about this item

New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1946. Very Good. Second printing of the first edition. Signed by Elizabeth Bishop on the front free endpaper, inscribed "For Ilse and Kit Barker, with esteem and affection, Elizabeth Bishop." viii, 54 Bound in publisher's blue cloth binding lettered in silver, lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with toning to spine and edges,… Read more about this item

New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1955. First Edition. Very Good. First edition, first printing. Signed and inscribed by Elizabeth Bishop on the title page, "to Ilse and Kit Barker." She has also hand corrected the title of the poem "The Gentlemen of Shalott" to "Gentleman" in ink on both the table of contents and the poem itself. Kit… Read more about this item