Poetry from Crane's Bill Books

Houston, TX: Anson Jones Press, 1953. Limited . Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo. 160 pp. Head of spine bumped, minor wear to edges and corners of boards, covers lightly dusty overall with a few tiny specks, page edges tanned. Interior clean and unmarked. A very early appearance by Dickey, then an instructor at Rice. Edition of 500 numbered copies,… Ler mais sobre este item

Chicago, IL: University of Illinois, 1982. Stapled Wraps. Very Good. 8vo. Offprint from Ecos: A Latino Journal of People's Culture II:1, Winter 1982. [16] pp., illus. Spine faded, small faint sticker ghost on front, previous owner name inside front cover. Spanish-English. Poetry by Roque Dalton, Lalo Cervantes, Jaime Suarez Quemain, Mercedes Durand, Amable Lopez, Salima Rivera, and Alvaro… Ler mais sobre este item

Macmillan, New York, and Collier Macmillan, London, 1968. 1st Edition . Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. vi, 89 pp. Poet's first collection. Slight outward bow to boards, page edges tanned. Jacket handled, bumped at edges and folds. First edition.

Rochester, NY: BOA Editions, 1998. 1st Edition . Self-Wrappers. Fine. 8vo. 134 pp. Very slight shelf- and edgewear to wrappers only. First edition (2250 copies), signed by the poet on title page.

Providence, RI: Burning Deck, 1991. 2nd Edition . Wrappers. Near Fine. [42] pp. Corners lightly bumped, otherwise Fine. Second edition.

London: Oxford University Press, 1965. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 12mo. xxiii, 516 pp. Upper corners of boards lightly bumped, page edges notably tanned. Interior unmarked. Jacket priceclipped, sunned at edges, lightly bumped at head and heel of spine and folds. Reprint.

San Francisco, CA: Solidarity Educational Publications, 1986. 2nd Printing. Wrappers. Good. 12mo. A Translation Project of the Roque Dalton Cultural Brigade. xii, 183 pp. In Spanish with facing-page English translations. Wrappers a bit handled and edgeworn, corners lightly bumped, page edges markedly tanned, tiny spot at fore-edges of first two leaves only. Second printing.

London: Oxford University Press, 1967. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 12mo. xxxix, 700 pp. A couple of small faint marks on front cover, heel of spine bumped, binding gently pulled at head of spine from weight of text block, page edges lightly tanned, top edge foxed and dusty. Interior unmarked. Jacket priceclipped, lightly sunned and handled, bumped at heel… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Sun Press, 1985. 1st Edition . Wrappers. Fine. 8vo. iii, 172 pp. In French with facing-page English translations. Nearly As New with only the slightest wear to wrapper edges and corners. First edition.

New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1994. 1st Edition . Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. 69 pp. A couple of quite faint spots on covers, otherwise nearly As New. Jacket priceclipped, lightly shelf- and edgeworn. First edition.

New York: Doubleday & Co., 1972. 1st Edition . Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo. xxvi, 475 pp. First edition of this groundbreaking anthology. Binding very slightly pulled at crown, upper edges of boards and page edges a bit tanned, small faint spot on bottom edge, neat ownership ink stamp (a school's) on front pastedown, otherwise unmarked. Jacket priceclipped, rubbed,… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Library of America, 2005. Limited . Boards. Fine/Near Fine. 12mo. American Poets Project. No. 814 of an edition of 1203 numbered copies signed by Samuel Menashe. Colophon slip laid in. xxxviii. 191 pp. Fine, As New but for very lightly bumped head of spine. Jacket has light edgewear only. Winner of the Neglected Masters Award from… Ler mais sobre este item

Riga: Zinatne, 1989. Leather. Near Fine. 24mo. 141 pp., illus. Mild overall handling to leather; head of spine, upper corners of boards, and upper page corners lightly bumped. In Latvian. Seriju Atmodas.

Stuttgart: Edition Solitude, 2014. Limited . Wrappers. Very Good. 8vo. 137 pp. English-German. Collection of poems followed by "Narrative of a Walk from Galveston Island to the West Texas Town of Marfa." Edition Solitude Reihe Literatur. Wrappers edgeworn, with mild dustsoiling, front upper corner lightly bumped, short stray mark on back; upper corners of first few leaves very… Ler mais sobre este item

Cloth. Very Good. 8vo. Inscribed and signed by the poet. A creditable facsimile - evidently a photocopy - of the virtually unobtainable first edition (Rome, 1929) of the noted Panamanian writer's first book, a collection of poems, nicely bound in gilt-stamped dark blue cloth. Sinan's signed inscription is not a facsimile, and is dated 27/1/94, the last year… Ler mais sobre este item

St. Louis, MO, 1991. Stapled Wraps. Very Good. 4to. 28 pp. A photo of a Chagall painting, subject of one of the poems, is mounted on blank page as a frontispiece, and the last poem tipped in on last page (as issued). Inscribed by the poet "For ---- & ---- with love - this oddity - a mixture… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Ecco Press, 2001. 1st Edition . Cloth-Backed Boards. Fine/Very Good. 8vo. xi, 125 pp. Crown barely noticeably bumped. Jacket shelfworn, with some abrasion on rear; edges and corners lightly bumped.

New York: New Rivers Press, 1977. 1st Edition . Wrappers. Good. 4to. Small 4to, 100 pp., frontis., b&w plates. Errata slip. Spine sunned, rubbed at edges; wrappers lightly sunned with small faint spot on front, page edges tanned and lightly soiled, corners lightly bumped, lower corner of back cover creased.

Edicoes Sabia, 1967. Self-Wrappers. Very Good. 8vo. 149 pp. Spine and corners bumped, lower corners somewhat heavily; wrappers handled, mild soiling and foxing to page edges, erased but faintly visible pencil note on last page (colophon), otherwise unmarked. In Portuguese. 5th edition.

Giulio Einaudi, 1960. Wrappers. Good. 8vo. 171 pp. In Italian. Wrappers worn, soiled and stained; page edges foxed; wrapper and page corners notably bumped; marks in ink limited to neat date on first blank page and x's in margins of two pages only. Better than half the pages are unopened. 5th edition.