![Waiting for the King of Spain [Limited Edition, Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/712/783/1695783712.0.m.jpg)
Waiting for the King of Spain [Limited Edition, Signed]
by WAKOSKI, Diane
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1976. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 250 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author, this being copy no.169. Octavo (23.75cm); decorative paper-covered boards and orange cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to spine; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; [12],13-157,[7]pp. Fine in a lightly rubbed, Near Fine dustjacket. MORROW & COONEY 251c. 86516.... Read More
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![Spending Christmas with the Man from Receiving at Sears [Limited Edition, Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/624/017/697017624.0.m.jpg)
Spending Christmas with the Man from Receiving at Sears [Limited Edition, Signed]
by WAKOSKI, Diane
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1977. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 150 numbered copies signed by the author, this being no.106. Slim octavo; 3/4 buff-colored paper over quarter orange cloth, with titles printed in green and orange on front panel unprinted paper dustjacket; [15pp]. Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Issued as a New Year's Greeting from the Black... Read More
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![Smudging [Limited Edition, Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/632/783/1695783632.0.m.jpg)
Smudging [Limited Edition, Signed]
by WAKOSKI, Diane
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1972. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 250 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author, this being copy no.155. Octavo (24.5cm); printed paper-covered boards and orange cloth backstrip, with printed title label mounted to spine; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; [8],9-153,[3]pp. Fine in a lightly rubbed, Near Fine dustjacket. MORROW & COONEY 120b.... Read More
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Coins & Coffins
by WAKOSKI, Diane
New York: Hawk's Well Press, 1962. First Edition. 12mo (18cm). Pictorial card wrappers; 35pp. Trace of discoloration to front wrapper at upper margin, else Near Fine. Very nice copy of the poet's first regularly published collection (preceded by two mimeographed chapbooks). Once considered a great rarity. Now, not so much. LEPPER p.403.
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![Midsummer [Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/716/785/1498785716.0.m.jpg)
Midsummer [Inscribed]
by WALCOTT, Derek
New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1984. First Edition. First Printing, wrappered issue. Octavo (20.25cm); glossy pictorial wrappers; [x],54,[6]pp. Inscribed by the author in March, 1985 on the preliminary blank. Pencil underlining throughout the text, else sharp; Very Good+. Poems written by Walcott during a summer in Trinidad, centered around the relationship of poetry to painting, midsummer in the tropics,... Read More
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Another Life
by WALCOTT, Derek
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22.75cm); teal cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [viii],151,[1]pp. Gentle sunning to spine, else Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $7.95), with modest external wear, several small tears and creases (two of them tape mended on verso), and a few faint spots of soil... Read More
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THE BOUNTY
by Walcott, Derek
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1997. First edition. Two uncorrected proofs: the first in tan printed wrappers with an inked in date of Feb. 97, the second in green wrappers with a June date and a printed letter stating that "several significant changes were made". There are minor changes throughout, and several poems added to the later version.... Read More
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What The Twilight Says: Essays
by WALCOTT, Derek
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22.25cm); light gray paper-covered boards, with titling and author's initials stamped in black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 245, [1]pp. Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket (priced $23.00). Late collection of essays by the West Indian Nobel Prize-winner, spanning over 20 years.
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The Joker of Seville & O Babylon! Two Plays (Uncorrected Proof)
by WALCOTT, Derek
London: Jonathan Cape, 1978. First Edition. Octavo. Publisher's printed wrappers; 275pp. Uncorrected proof, issued prior to publication. Light soil and creasing to covers; spine leaning slightly; Very Good.
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Selected Poems
by WALCOTT, Derek
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 2007. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo. (21.5cm.); aqua spine over light blue boards stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; 307pp. Fine in a Fine, unclipped (priced $25.00) dustjacket. Walcott received the Queen's Medal for Poetry in 1988 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992.
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Three Plays: The Last Carnival; Beef, No Chicken; A Branch of the Blue Nile
by WALCOTT, Derek
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1986. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo; beige linen over boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 312pp. Fine copy in original dustjacket, unclipped (priced $22.50), unfaded, Fine. "The three plays in this collection form a triptych - the central play, a farce, is flanked by two dramas. Together... Read More
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Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays
by WALCOTT, Derek
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1970. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); teal cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; green topstain; dustjacket; 326pp. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $10.00), with mild wear to base of spine, tiny stain at crown, with a short tear to lower edge of rear panel. The Nobel... Read More
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In A Green Night: Poems 1948-1960
by WALCOTT, Derek
London: Jonathan Cape, 1962. First Edition. First impression. Small, slim octavo. Cream cloth spine over patterned paper-covered boards; dustjacket; 79pp. A fine copy, free of any notable wear. In the original dustwrapper, price-clipped, else bright and clean, very Near Fine. Small bookseller stamp ("The Book Shop / Port-of-Spain") beneath imprint on title page. The St. Lucian poet's... Read More
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TIEPOLO'S HOUND
by Walcott, Derek
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2000. First printing. Uncorrected proofs in plain tan wrappers with publisher printed letter laid in. Near fine.
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![The Arkansas Testament [Review Copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/871/880/1669880871.0.m.jpg)
The Arkansas Testament [Review Copy]
by WALCOTT, Derek
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1987. First Edition. First Printing, a Review Copy with publisher's typed review slip and promotional letter laid in. Octavo (22cm); oatmeal cloth spine over green paper-covered boards, with titling stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; 117pp. Light shelf-wear; Very Good+. Dustwrapper, designed by Cynthia Krupat, unclipped (priced $14.95), lightly tanned, with trivial surface... Read More
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BIM Vol. IX, No. 36
by Walcott, Derek [et al.]; Barnes, W.T., Collymore, Frank, and Forde, A.N. [editors]
St. Michaels, Barbados: Editors, January-June 1963. First Edition. Light green wrappers printed in red and black; 8vo. This copy inscribed to a prominent book dealer by the author. BIM was a long-running literary journal edited by Frank Collymore and others; Walcott was an early and longtime contributor. His contribution here the poem "Bulwark"; other contributors include Forde with a... Read More
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![The Dozens: A History of Rap's Mama [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/458/408/1685408458.0.m.jpg)
The Dozens: A History of Rap's Mama [Signed]
by WALD, Elijah
New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24cm); black paper-covered boards, with titling stamped in white on spine; dustjacket; 244pp. Light peeling to paper to crown and upper front board; Very Good. Dustwrapper, designed by Lisa Force with photograph by Russell Lee, with trivial surface wear and soil, and faint dampstain to upper spine panel;... Read More
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Mistaken Identity: A Semiautobiographical Novel
by WALDEN, Oscar, Jr.
New York: Vantage Press, [1976]. Revised Edition. Octavo (20.75cm.); original cloth in grey pictorial dust jacket; [10],118pp. Fine. Autobiographical novel based on the author's experience as a young born-again middle class black man arrested for the rape of a white woman. Tortured into signing a confession, Walden (as well as his fictional counterpart) was sentenced to 75 years in... Read More
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Angel Hair: 1-6 [Complete Run]
by WALDMAN, Anne and Lewis Warsh (editors); Charles Stein, Ted Berrigan, Robert Duncan (et al) (contributors)
Williamstown: Angel Hair, [1966-69]]. First Edition. Complete run of six issues.Quarto (ca 31-33cm), with varying colors of paper wrappers, nos. 1-5 with yapped edges; [24]pp; [44]pp; [48]pp; [64]pp; [64]pp; [64]pp. Modest shelf-wear, occasional minor soil and edge-creasing; overall a nicely preserved run, easily Very Good. Editors Waldman and Warsh founded Angel Hair in 1966, both still in their... Read More
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Nice To See You: Homage to Ted Berrigan
by WALDMAN, Anne (ed)
Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1991. First printing in wrappers. Octavo; pictorial, glossy card wrappers; 253pp; illus. A tight, Near Fine copy, with just a tiny bump to upper corner of front wrapper. From the library of noted poet and translator Nathaniel Tarn, with his ownership signature, dated 1991, on title page.
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Giant Night: Poems
by WALDMAN, Anne (poems); BRAINARD, Joe (design)
New York: Corinth Books, 1970. First Trade Edition. First Printing, cloth issue, one of 1,000 copies. Octavo (21cm); purple cloth, with titles stamped in white on spine; dustjacket; [8],9-94,[2]pp. Fine in a very Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $6.50), with only some trivial wear to extremities. Waldman's first regularly published book, considerably expanded from the mimeographed 1968 collection of... Read More
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Disembodied Poetics: Annals of the Jack Kerouac School
by WALDMAN, Anne and Andrew Schelling (editors); Peter Warshall, Clark Coolidge, Nathaniel Tarn, (et al) (contributors)
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1994. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo (23.5cm); pictorial paper wrappers; [xviii],501,[1]pp; illus. A Near Fine copy. Contributions include Amiri Baraka's "Cultural Revolution and the Literary Canon", William S. Burroughs's "Screenwriting and the Potentials of Cinema", and Allen Ginsberg's "Negative Capability: Kerouac's Buddhist Ethic". [87565].
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STAGE-DUO
by Waldman, Anne; Kenward Elmslie; Joe Brainard
Cherry Valley, NY: Rocky Ledge Cottage Editions, 1983. First Edition. Single sheet, card stock, folded to 8 1/2 x 11 inches; 4pp. "Written for the occasion of a reading by Anne Waldman & Kenward Elmslie at the Savoy theatre in Montpelier, Vermont, on August 28, 1983." Signed by Waldman and Elmslie at their contributions and by Elmslie's partner Joe... Read More
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Wind Scales
by WALDROP, Keith (text); Linda Lutes (illustrations)
Philadelphia: Treacle Press, 1976. First Edition. Trade paperback. The Treacle Story Series 4. Octavo (20cm); white paper wrappers; [n.p.]; illus. Light tanning with trace shelf-soil, else Near Fine. Waldrop's short melodrama includes illustrations throughout. [86396].
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CHANGE OF ADDRESS
by Waldrop, Keith and Rosmarie
Providence, RI: Burning Deck, 1968. First Edition. Stapled photographic card covers; oblong 4to. [8 pp.] "This CHANGE OF ADDRESS was printed near Christmas, 1968, by Burning Deck, in a small edition for friends. The photograph [of the Waldrops] on the cover is by Walt Odets." Inscribed to friends (a small press magazine publisher) and signed by both Keith and... Read More
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