CONTEMPORARY POETS OF WISCONSIN Centennial Collection
Wauwatosa, 1948. 1948. First Edition. Soft cover. Printed orange wraps. 40pp. Quite faded borders of front cover, else fine.
Poetry
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AN HONEST ANSWER (Signed)
Ashland, OR: Story Line Press, 1999. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. Pictorial wraps. 105pp. Signed & dated in year of publication by Andrews. Winner of the 12th Annual Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize. Fine.
LOOKING UP FROM THE GUTTER (For Men Only) (irreverent poetry)
Dayton: Charles McLean, 1944. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. Printed brown wraps. 32pp. Illustrated with a few drawings & frontispiece portrait of the poet. Six-line presentation signed by Antrim but to no one in particular. Dedication reads, "To those wives and sweethearts whose insatiable craving for "men only" stories.....
Haiku for Chocolate Lovers (Signed)
Mukilteo WA: Basho Press, 2007. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. Small glossy oblong wraps. 102pp. Signed & inscribed in 2008, but not to any person. Promotional review sticker on half-title. Fine, like new. Scarce little gem!
POEMS
Moorhead, Minnesota: Privately printed & Klenk's Modern Printerie, 1924. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. Printed wraps. 141pp. Poems and ballads incorporating American West & frontier subjects and Christian faith themes. There is a reference to this priest-poet in the Catholic World. The binding is stapled & the covers have.....
SHATERING AIR: Poems (Signed)
Brockport: BOA Editions Ltd., 1996. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. Pictorial wraps. 69pp. Signed by Biespiel (signature only). Fine, like new.
LONG JOURNEY (Signed) Contemporary Northwest Poets
Oregon State, Corvallis, 2006, 2006. First Edition. Soft cover. Glossy pictorial wraps. 329pp. Signed & dated by Biespiel. Features "the work of poets from Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and western Montana." Fine, as new.
TODAY IS HERE (Signed)
NY: Dodd, Mead & Co, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. The beautiful design on the front cover is all in gilt except for lettering & image highlights. Cloth. 143pp. Illustrated with nice woodcuts by Blanding. Signed "Aloha Don Blanding" with his device. Custom bookplate on front paste down. A bit musty.....
THE WIND AND ME: VERSE: (Signed)
NY: Dodd, Mead, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. Unpag. Illustrated by Mircea Vasiliu. Presentation copy "For J____ / sincerely / Beverly Butler." Fine in fine dj. Very scarce signed. Very scarce.
HARMONY: A Treasury of Chinese Wisdom for Children and Parents (Signed)
Cheney: Eastern Washington Univ Pr, 2008. ARC. Soft cover. Advance copy. Oblong glossy pictorial wraps. Sample pages bound in wraps. 24 pages with color illustrations for a 184 pps book. Lovely little item for an owner of the book. Very scarce. SIGNED BY CONOVER. Fine, like new.
THE TEMPLE ON MONDAY (Signed)
Spokane: Eastern Washington Univ Pr, 2001. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. Glossy pictorial wraps. 95pp. Signed & dated by Crawford in year of publication. Not signed to anyone. Fine, like new. Scarce signed.
POEMAS DE LA ISLA (Signed)
Spokane: Eastern Washington Univ Press, 2000. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. Glossy pictorial wraps. 71pp. Signed & dated in year of publication by Reyes. Poems, published bi-lingually, by "the last living representative of that poetic group" (Generation of '27). Fine, like new.
THE INNOCENT ASSASSINS.
NY, 1973. 1973. First Thus. Soft cover. 1st printing in pictorial trade wraps. 123pp. Illust. The well-known paleontologist's vivid, brooding poems, mainly set in the West. Vg.
POEMS BY HILDA SHUTTS FARQUHAR
Privately printed, ca 1945, no place of publication, but references to Louisiana. 1945. First Edition. Soft cover. Probable 1st & only edition. 4to printed wraps. 34pp + Appendix. The author's poetry was apparently published in various publications in Louisiana. Vg. Rare.
THE WINDING RIVER AND OTHER POEMS.
Hutchinson, Kansas, no date. First Edition. Soft cover. Original tall printed & decor wraps, no printing stated. (24pp). Privately printed, dedicated by Freeman to his daughters, Lottie Lee & Edna May. Poems of the Kansas prairies & one referring to our soldiers in WWI. Near fine condition with couple of.....
Dear Ghosts, Poems (Signed)
Graywolf, Saint Paul, 2006, 2006. Hardcover. 2nd printing. Hardbound. 140pp. Signed by Gallagher. Fine, as new in dj.
SAYING THE NECESSARY (Signed)
Bainbridge Island, WA: Pleasure Boat Studio, 2000. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. Glossy pictorial wraps. 99pp. Presenation copy to a person signed by Harkness. Poems. Fine.
SYLVICOLA: or SONGS FROM THE BACKWOODS
Viroqua, Wisc: Privately Printed, Henry Casson, Jr., 1878. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo gilt-stamped & decorated green cloth. 100pp. a.e.g. (all edges gilt). A very attractively printed & bound book of verse, "Idylls and Fantasies from the heart of Canadian backwoods and the wilds of Wisconsin..." Minor wear to extremities. Near.....
STILL LIFE IN THE PHYSICAL WORLD (Signed)
Yakima: Blue Begonia Press, 1995. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. Glossy pictorial wraps. 88pp. Notes. Warm presentation by poet to your bookseller. A book of poetry. Fine, like new.
SELECTED POEMS OF VACHEL LINDSAY.
Collier, NY, 1967. 1967. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st Collier Books Edition. Pictorial wraps. 210pp. Fine.
THE GOLDEN WHALES OF CALIFORNIA and other rhymes in the American language. (Association copy)
NY, 1920. 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. Decorated small 8vo cloth. 181pp. Glued on the front paste down, the ffep, its verso, & the blank preliminary page are clippings regarding Lindsay, & also one original photograph of the famous Illinois poet with two friends. The photo (2 1/2" x 3 1/8".....
LAZARUS LOVE: Selected Poems
Bellingham: Goshawk, 2006. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. Fine press publication on quality paper & printing. Pictorial wraps with French folds. 32pp. Fine, as new. Hard to find.
HORIZONS OF DEATH (Signed)
Parnassus, NY, 1934, 1934. Limited/Numbered. Soft cover. Attractive quarto red printed wrappers with overlapping flaps. Simple designs on the front cover. Unpaginated. #110 of 363 copies finely printed. Neat inscription by Macleod: "for Paul Snodgrass, member of the Central Executive Committee and genial fellow worker who is so adept at.....
ON FOOT, IN FLAMES (Signed)
Univ. of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, 2002. 2002. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. Trade pict wraps. 89pp. Signed & dated by McDowell. "Working in the narrative tradition of Robinson, Frost, and Jeffers. McDowell is a leading figure in the expansive poetry movement." Fine, as new.
THE INELUCTABLE SEA (Signed)
Wake Brook House, Ft. Lauderdale, 1975. 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Small 4to cloth. 128pp. Inscribed & signed by Meudt. Dj say, "Wisconsin's best poet, but that does not begin to cover it. She is a farm widow who owns and manages two farms. She is an earth mother, the Grand.....