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A Fine copy in the Publisher's original stiff wrappers (some expected transfer from the dust jacket to the book's stiff card covers and from the dust jacket's flaps to the cover's versos and to the free endpaper rectos, minor push at the base of a few early pages) in a Fine dust jacket (small push at the spine head), INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY TOMAS TRANSTROMER on the half-title as follows: din vän / från Tomas / Tranströmer" ["your friend / from Tomas / Tranströmer"] and further SIGNED BY ROBERT BLY, the book's translator and a great friend of Tomas Transtromer's, at the end of his introduction to the book. (Bly also has drawn a sketch under his signature.) Winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize for Literature, Tomas Transtromer is one of the most important Scandinavian writers to emerge in the post World War II period, as well as one of the most influential Scandinavian Poets of his era. An important book, "20 Poems" is Transtromer's debut book in English translation. Signed copies of his work are uncommon to the market. Signed copies in English translation are quite scarce, and copies additionally signed by Robert Bly, his great friend and translator, are scarcer still. As Transtromer now has won one of Literature's greatest awards, reprints of his work soon will proliferate, but first edition copies of this, his debut book in English translation, should remain scarce, and signed copies of it quite so. A Fine copy of Tomas Transtromer's debut book in English translation, SIGNED BY TOMAS TRANSTROMER AND FURTHER SIGNED BY ROBERT BLY.

20 Poems [Signed by Transtromer and by Bly]
Transtromer, Tomas; Bly, Robert [Translator]
Madison, MN: Seventies Press, 1970.
Price: $1,750.00
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A Near Fine copy (small spot at bottom of rear board, lower corners tapped, minor shelf wear), in a Near Fine dust jacket (age toning, small spot at bottom of rear panel, light soiling and light edge wear) INSCRIBED, SIGNED, AND CONTEMPORARILY DATED BY FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS on the title page as follows: "To / Bill McBride / from a fellow artist / but of another field / Frank Marshall Davis / July 24, 1948". Davis was a poet, journalist, and political and social activist and former editor of the Atlanta Daily World, turning the paper from a semiweekly paper to the first successful black daily newspaper. Davis also served as a Member of the National Executive Board of the Civil Rights Congress, cited by the Truman Administration as a subversive organization. The Civil Rights Congress also was named a Communist Front in the House Un-American Activities Committee Report. Davis' work was resurrected during Amiri Baraka's (aka Everett LeRoi Jones) important Black Arts Movement. "47th Street" is named for Chicago's street of the same name. A very scarce book itself, signed copies are scarcer still. A Near Fine copy of an extremely scarce book, INSCRIBED, SIGNED, AND CONTEMPORARILY DATED BY FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS.

47th Street [Inscribed, Signed, and Contemporarily Dated]
Davis, Frank Marshall
Prairie City, Illinois: The Decker Press, 1948.
Price: $1,850.00
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A Fine copy of the First American edition (light rubbing at spine base and bottoms of front board corners) in a Fine dust jacket (a touch of soil to rear panel). A nicer copy of Kingsley Amis' second book of Poems than is usually found. A Fine copy.

A Look Round the Estate: Poems 1957-1967
Amis, Kingsley
New York: Harcourt Brace & World, Inc., 1968.
Price: $45.00
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A Very Good + or better copy of the first American edition (mild wear to spine extremities and to board bottoms), in a Very Good + dust jacket (two short closed tears to top of rear panel, one near the spine panel and repaired with tape to the dust jacket's verso / interior, mild soil to white rear panel, short crease mark and small push at top of front flap, very minor wear), SIGNED BY PABLO NERUDA on the title page -- in his usual green ink symbolizing Hope; a full decade of Neruda's Poetry. Declared by Gabriel García Márquez to be "the greatest poet of the 20th century in any language", Neruda won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature for "a poetry that with the action of an elemental force brings alive a continent's destiny and dreams". Signed copies of Neruda's works are rather uncommon, signed copies of his trade editions quite so, and signed copies of his trade editions in English translation are great scarcities. A Very Good + copy, SIGNED BY PABLO NERUDA.

A New Decade Poems 1958-1967 [Signed]
Neruda, Pablo
New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1969.
Price: $3,500.00
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A Very Good or better copy (light surface wear and some mild pushing) of the first edition, first printing, in the Publisher's original decorated wrappers, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY MARY LOW on the half-title as follows: "Dear Bob / May we meet often / again & have other / such happy breakfasts!"; a trade paperback original; poems and collages by the revolutionary political activist, poet, linguist, classics teacher, sometime-surrealist, and Trotskyist, widow of Cuban surrealist Poet Juan Breá. One of Black Swann Press' "Surrealist Editons". Signed copies of Low's work are not common.

A Voice in Three Mirrors [Signed]
Low, Mary
Chicago: Black Swan Press, 1984.
Price: $75.00
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A Fine copy of the first edition, first printing, in the Publisher's original wrappers (a few slight pushes to the edges and to the spine ends, but easily Fine), SIGNED BY ROBERT J. CONLEY on the title page as follows: "To Kathleen / from Robert J. Conley". TOGETHER WITH a SMALL CARD INSCRIBED AND SIGNED as follows: "To our friend Kathleen, / We hope that we've / helped to make your / summer a memorable one. / Bob & Evelyn Conley". The card was published separately by the Strawberry Press in their Postcard Series, and presents the 19th Poem from the book. (We believe the inscription on the card is by Conley, but we are not sure and cannot warrant that it is.) The second book (following "21 Poems") by Robert J. Conley, an award-winning -- including three Spur Awards -- Cherokee author and an enrolled member of the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians. His work has been collected in numerous anthologies and has been published internationally. In 2007, Conley received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas (an organization comprises of Native American Authors and which also gives awards for First Book of Poetry and for First Book of Prose. Lifetime Achievement Award winners include: N. Scott Momaday (1992), Leslie Marmon Silko (1994), James Welch (1997), Louise Erdrich (2000), Sherman Alexie (2010), and others). A Fine copy, SIGNED BY ROBERT J. CONLEY together with a SIGNED Strawberry Press postcard. Scarce.

Adawosgi [Signed]: Swimmer Wesley Snell: A Cherokee Memorial
Conley, Robert J.
Marvin, South Dakota: Blue Cloud Quarterly, 1980.
Price: $300.00
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A Very Near Fine copy (spine ends gently pushed, slight bump at lower front corner of front board -- a mild production flaw -- price stamped in light ink to the front free endpaper, otherwise Fine), in a Near Fine dust jacket (some sunning to the spine), SIGNED BY JAROSLAV SEIFERT on the title page. A collection of Seifert's Poems translated from Czech by Ewald Osers. The book itself is rather uncommon and signed copies of Seifert's works in English translation are scarce indeed. An essentially Fine copy, SIGNED BY JAROSLAV SEIFERT.

An Umbrella from Piccadilly [Signed]
Seifert, Jaroslav; Osers, Ewald: Translator
London: London Magazine Editions, 1983.
Price: $745.00
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A Very Good copy of the first UK edition, first printing (some white spotting where it appears that the dye was not absorbed by the cloth, minor edge wear and some corner bumping), in a Near Fine dust jacket (light wear at the outer corners, age toning to the white flaps), SIGNED BY HARRY MARTINSON on the title page; an epic poetic cycle about a spaceship, the "Aniara", that escapes from an Earth polluted by the nuclear explosions of a great and ongoing war and heads to Mars with 8,000 colonists. The Aniara (a name derived from the ancient Greek work for "sad or "despairing") is unexpectedly diverted from its destination, and then heads irretrievably into the void. In the Poem, Martinson examines humanity through the cults and sects that develop among the passengers and the ways in which the travelers, with no destination and surrounded by the vast emptiness of Space, deal with their isolation. Martinson won the 1974 Nobel Prize in Literature for "writings that catch the dewdrop and reflect the cosmos". "Aniara", perhaps, Martinson's most famous work, was quite well received. Prominent Science fiction writer Theodore Sturgeon (who famously stated that ninety percent of all Science Fiction is "crud") proclaimed respecting Aniara that: "Martinson's achievement here is an inexpressible, immeasurable sadness. [It] transcends panic and terror and even despair [and] leaves you in the quiet immensities, with the feeling that you have spent time, and have been permanently tinted, by and with an impersonal larger-than-God force." (The 1974 prize was divided equally between Martinson and his co-winner Eyvind Johnson and evoked controversy as both men were then members of the Swedish Academy. Furthermore, Graham Greene, Saul Bellow, and Vladimir Nabokov were the other candidates that year and many expected that one of them would win the Prize.) Only a few of Martinson's works have been translated to English. Signed copies of his works in any language other than his native tongue are quite scarce, and signed copies of them translated into English are hen's teeth. All in all, a Very Good + copy, SIGNED BY HARRY MARTINSON. RARE.

Aniara [Signed]: A Review of Man in Time and Space
Martinson, Harry
London: Hutchinson, 1963.
Price: $675.00
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A Fine copy of the first edition, first printing (some fading about the spine); a collection of 15 Poems published together and in book for for the first time. A Fine copy of scarce early book in Fred Chappell's oeuvre.

Awakening to Music
Chappell, Fred
Davidson, North Carolina: Briarpatch Press, 1979.
Price: $135.00
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Carrying A Torch (Clown War 22) [Signed]
Berrigan, Ted
New York: Clown War, 1980.
Price: $1,150.00
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A Fine, Superior, copy of the first American edition, first printing, in a Fine dust jacket, with illustrations by Leonard Baskin. Ranked by the Times as one of the "50 greatest British writers since 1945", Ted Hughes followed John Betjeman as Britain's Poet Laureate from 1984 until his death in 1998. A Superior copy.

Cave Birds: an Alchemical Cave Drama
Hughes, Ted [Baskin, Leonard: Illustrator]
New York: The Viking Press, 1978.
Price: $75.00
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Collected Poems: 1
Spark, Muriel
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1968.
Price: $35.00
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A Very Good + or better set of this Two Volume collection of Elizabethan Poetry, of which only 250 copies of this large paper edition were published, SIGNED BY A. H. BULLEN. Volume I [1890] is inscribed and signed by Bullen on the title page as follows: "From / A. H. Bullen", and Volume II [1891] is signed by Bullen on the half-title. Each Volume is bound in half-leather with the spine lettered and dated in gilt. The free endpapers and pastedowns have some offsetting and foxing, and the remainder of the leaves are rather clean, bright, and attractive. Founder of the Shakespeare Head Press, Bullen was an editor, publisher, and a specialist in 16th and 17th Century literature. The set presents a collection of early Welsh, Scottish, and English Poets that were found and gathered by Elizabethan scholar and poet Francis Davison (1575 - 1619) and which otherwise would have have been lost to history. The set itself is not terribly common, and signed copies are quite scarce. A very nice copy of an important collection of Elizabethan Poetry, SIGNED BY A. H. BULLEN.

Davison's Poetical Rhapsody [Signed]
Bullen, A. H. [Editor]
London: George Bell and Sons, 1890 [1891].
Price: $325.00
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A Fine copy, in a Very Good dust jacket (spine lightly sunned, light wear to spine ends and panel corners).

Day by Day
Lowell, Robert
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977.
Price: $40.00
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Earth Took of Earth [Signed by Ashbery, Graham, and Walcott]
Graham, Jorie [Editor]; Ashbery, John; Walcott, Derek; Merwin, W. S.; Dickinson, Emily; Frost, Robert; Creeley, Robert; Chaucer, Geoffrey; Marlowe, Christopher; Shakespeare, William; Donne, John; Milton, John; Keats, John; Whitman, Walt; Levine, Phillip;
New York: The Ecco Press, 1996.
Price: $65.00
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Every Day: Poems by Philip Whalen [Signed]
Whalen, Philip [Richards, Mary Caroline]
Eugene, Oregon: Coyote's Journal, 1965.
Price: $90.00
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A Fine copy of the first edition, first printing, in a Fine dust jacket; John Updike's seventh collection of Poems. A Fine copy.

Facing Nature
Updike, John
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985.
Price: $35.00
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A Fine copy of the first edition, first printing (spine tail gently pushed), in a Fine dust jacket. A Memoir written by Pulitzer Prize-Winner author Alison Lurie who knew Merrill and Jackson for over 4 decades. A Fine copy.

Familiar Spirits: A Memoir of James Merrill and David Jackson
Lurie, Alison [Merrill, James; Jackson, David]
New York: Viking, 2001.
Price: $35.00
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A Very Good + copy of the first edition, first printing (spine ends bumped), no dust jacket - as issued, SIGNED BY SHERMAN ALEXIE on the title page; Alexie's fourth collection of stories, poems, and prose poems. A Very Good + copy, SIGNED BY SHERMAN ALEXIE.

First Indian on the Moon [Signed]
Alexie, Sherman
Brooklyn, NY: Hanging Loose Press, 1993.
Price: $90.00
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A Fine copy of the Uncorrected Proof (opening creases to spine side of the front and rear wraps) SIGNED BY JOHN ASHBERY on the title page. A book-length poem by John Ashbery, one of America's preeminent poets and perhaps the most influential poet writing in English. The Proof itself is uncommon. Signed copies of the Proof are hen's teeth. A Fine copy of the Uncorrected Proof SIGNED BY JOHN ASHBERY.

Girls on the Run [Rare Signed Proof]
Ashbery, John
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999.
Price: $165.00
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