Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. "Regardless of how poets feel about their youthful attempts at verse, their early poems not only enrich our understanding of their artistic growth, but also reveal much about the nature of literary genius. No other twentieth-century poet has left behind such a wealth of early poetry as did W.H. Auden. By bringing together for the first time all the poems written..... More

Brighton, England: Unicorn Bookshop, 1968. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers; Single Sheets; and Plastic Bag Invitation. “Motion-picture studies of Ronald Reagan reveal characteristic patterns of facila tonus and musculature associated with homo-erotic [sic] behavior. The continuing tension of buccal sphincters and the recessive tongue role tally with earlier studies of facial rigidity (c.f. Adolf Hitler, Nixon). Slow motion cine-films of campaign speeches exercised a marked erotic effect upon an audience..... More

Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Coach House Press, 1976. Limited Second Printing. Softcover. "This is the record of a Quebec novelist's obsession with Jack Kerouac and with the significance of Kerouac's life and writing for a Quebecois. Victor-Levy Beaulieu finds Kerouac's Americanism superficial, constituted mostly of desperate and unsuccessful flight from the Quebec gloom which was his inescapable heritage. He suggests that Kerouac's fear of women, his mother-worship, and his fear of..... More

New York, NY, USA: Viking/ Penguin, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. "Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, three National Book awards, and the Nobel Prize in Literature, Saul Bellow wrote marvelously acute, unsparing, tender, ferocious, hilarious, and wise letters throughout his long life (1915-2005). Friends, lovers, wives, colleagues, and fans all cross these pages. Some of the finest letters are to his fellow writers- William Faulkner, John Cheever, John Berryman, Ralph Ellison..... More

London, England: Ignu Publications, 1971. First Edition, First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. “The Sonnets were first published in 1964 by a small press, then they were picked up in 1968 or '69, I forget which, by Grove. […] It was very difficult to get this work written, although it wasn't difficult to write it. It was a long time coming and I didn't really know what was coming, but then it..... More

Albuquerque, NM, USA: University of New Mexico Press, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. "The correspondence of Robert Duncan and Charles Olson is one of the foundational literary exchanges in American poetry in the second half of the twentieth century. The letters provide the facts and circumstances of what lies under the published literary history, and they illuminate the pathway from imaginative conception to the published texts by recounting the poetics of..... More

New York, NY, USA: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1984. First Edition. “Every time I see long columns of numbers, handwritten in a certain way, a strange sensation or shudder, partly aesthetic, partly painful, goes through my diaphragm. It is like seeing the dorsal fin of a large fish suddenly cut through the surface of the water – not a frightening fish like a shark, more like a sailfish. The numbers..... More

London, England, UK: Ferry Press, 1974. Limited First Edition. Softcover. "the participation is broken/ fished from a sky of fire/ the fiery lake pouring itself/ to reach here// that matter of language caught/ in the fact so that we/ meet in paradise in such/ times, the I consumes itself// white trees, rings around them,/ wander and roll, the fog breaks,/ the sky, blue in the window" ("IMAGE-NATION I (the fold,"..... More

New York, NY, USA: Random House, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed, signed (twice) & dated to Laurence & Nancy Goldstein by Joseph Blotner. "Robert Penn Warren published ten novels, sixteen volumes of poetry, a book of short stories, two selections of critical essays, a biography, three hundred essays, a critical book on (Theodore) Dreiser, a study of (Herman) Melville, and two studies of race relations in America. In addition, he..... More

New York, NY, USA: Twayne Publishers, 1992. First Edition, First Printing. “Eniko Bollobas’s Charles Olson introduces the reader to the radically imaginative and intensely demanding world of the poet. By suggesting possible interpretations of Olson’s themes while encouraging a creative interaction between the verse and the reader, Bollobas taps into the same spontaneous and holistic manners of human perception advocated by Olson and provides a fresh approach to his work..... More

Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. "Through a detailed and thoughtful study of the impact of Alfred North Whitehead's philosophy on (Charles) Olson's aesthetic theory, this book points out the conceptual unity underlying what seems to be a sprawl of fragments in Olson's major work, The Maximus Poems. The poetics that Olson developed expressed a total weltanschauung, which was influenced by two major sources. Others have called..... More

New York, NY, USA: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. From the collection of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, with his ownership signature & date. "Noted historian of American letters, Van Wyck Brooks tells for the first time the story of American writers and artists who have lived and worked in Italy, and have seen in that classic land the earthly fulfillment of their "dream of Arcadia." Some of them..... More

Canton, NY: Saint Lawrence University, c. 1980s-1990s. Loose Sheets. A series of published and unpublished scholarly materials regarding Gary Snyder (b. 1930), the canonical Beat Generation/San Francisco Renaissance-&-Beyond American poet & environmentalist who is still with us & active as of this writing at age 95, & whose works have been enshrined in the Library of America series. This lot includes, among other things, an essay by one Theodosia H. Grayson..... More