[Rarebooks] FS: Some Modern Poetry, prices reduced

Charles Agvent chagvent at ptd.net
Fri Apr 25 11:55:55 EDT 2014


AUDEN, W. H. A GOBBLE POEM SNATCHED FROM THE NOTEBOOKS OF W. H. AUDEN & 
NOW BELIEVED TO BE IN THE MORGAN LIBRARY. London: Fuck Books Unlimited, 
1967. First Edition. Bloomfield & Mendelson Appendix II. Stated First 
English Printing of this blatantly homoerotic poem but actually the 
second. Stapled green wraps lettered in green. Quarto (7-7/16" x 10"). 
Illustrated with a caricature of a naked man on the title page. 
Limitation somewhere between 250 and 400 copies. Apparently light violet 
covers were used on the first copies before the bright green covers as 
on this copy. Slight crease at top. About Fine. (#010853)        $100.00 
     Now $75


CARVER, Raymond. AT NIGHT THE SALMON MOVE. Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 
1976. First Edition. Early collection of poems, one of 1000 copies of 
the softcover issue of a total edition of 1100. Uncommon now in this 
condition. Fine, essentially new. (#012043)   $250.00 Now $150


LEVERTOV, Denise. OVERLAND TO THE ISLANDS. Highlands, NC: Jonathan 
Williams, 1958. First Edition. One of 450 copies of the Regular Edition. 
Plain wraps in printed dustwrapper. Soiling to spine and along edges. 
Very Good or better. (#012041)        $200.00    Now $125


LEVINE, Philip. DREAMING IN SWEDISH. Los Angeles: Arundel Press, 1994. 
First Edition. One of only 105 numbered copies SIGNED by the poet in 
pencil on the colophon page. Fine. (#006311) $125.00    Now $75

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