SILENCE IN THE SNOWY FIELDS
by Bly, Robert
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1962. First Edition. Illustrated wrappers; 8vo. 60 pp. Trade paperback issued simultaneously with the hardcover of the poet's first solely authored book. When issued he was already known to many through his magazine THE SIXTIES. A solidly very good copy, interior fine.
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THE SIXTIES: Issue Ten
by Bly, Robert (editor)
Madison, MN: Sixties Press, Summer 1968. First printing. Blue printed wrappers; small 8vo. 80 pp. Galway Kinnell's monumental "The Bear"; work by Saint Garaud (Bill Knott), Paul Zweig, Michael Benedict; a statement by LeRoi Jones (on police brutality involving him), and "Crunk"on the poetry of David Ignatow. A stamp with address of "The Greenfield Review/Joseph Bruchac III" on the... Read More
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SLEEPERS JOINING HANDS [Signed]
by Bly, Robert
New York: Harper & Row, 1973. First edition. First Printing, cloth issue. Large octavo; cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; 67pp. Signed by Bly on title page. A Very Good copy. Dustwrapper has some soiling and edge wear, and original bookstore price sticker on back; Very Good. Published simultaneously in paperback and often reprinted. Bly's third book, scarce signed.
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THE TEETH-MOTHER NAKED AT LAST
by Bly, Robert
Madison: Sixties Press, 1970. Second Edition. 12 pp. "folder" printed on a single sheet of yellow paper (this is the second edition; first edition on green paper). Inscribed on the front cover "For Norman - a sad poem - Robert". Published by Bly's press for the American Writers Against The Vietnam War: "Not to be sold. Printed as a... Read More
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Tennessee Poetry Journal, Vol. 2, no. 2, Winter, 1969 [Signed Bookplate Laid in]
by [BLY, Robert] MOONEY, Stephen, ed
Martin, TN: Tennessee Poetry Journal, 1969. First Edition. Slim octavo (23.5cm.); original white and green photo-illustrated card wrappers; 60pp.; illus. Wrappers a bit toned along extremities, just a hint of wear, else Very Good and sound. Bookplate signed by Bly laid in. Issue devoted entirely to Bly.
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THE TEETH-MOTHER NAKED AT LAST
by Bly, Robert
San Francisco: City Lights, 1970. First Edition. Illustrated blue and white wrappers;16mo. Number 26 in the Pocket Poets series that City Lights established. One of 5000 copies printed; the first printing in book form of this widely read anti-war poem. Cook p. 69. Stained covers, interior fine and tight, but good only. Gustafson p. 64-66.
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THE NIGHT ABRAHAM CALLED TO THE STARS
by Bly, Robert
New York: Harper Collins, 2001. First edition. An uncorrected proof copy in plain blue wrappers of this volume of poems, with pub material laid in. Publicity sticker with contact info attached to covers. Using the Islamic poetic form the ghazal, Bly invokes western figures from Abraham to Xerxes to do what poets like Rumi did best with it: write... Read More
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A Poetry Reading Against the Vietnam War
by BLY, Robert and David Ray (gathered by); Abraham Lincoln, Galway Kinnell, Walt Whitman (et al) (contributors)
Madison, Minnesota: The American Writers Against the Vietnam War / the Sixties Press, 1966. First Edition. Softcover, with publisher's prospectus for The Sixties laid in. Octavo (21cm); blue paper wrappers; [4],5-63,[1]pp. This edition includes a black-out effect to front wrapper and throughout text, as the "The blackout spaces are in mourning for the poems of E.E. Cummings, for which... Read More
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THE SIXTIES: A Magazine of Poetry and General Opinion, Eighth Issue
by Bly, Robert (editor)
Minnesota: Sixties Press, Spring 1966. First printing. Red wrappers; small 8vo. 102 pp. The eighth issue, with poems by fourteen German poets as well as new poems by Hall and Wright among others. Bly trashes Lowell, and there are parodies of Olson and Dickey. A stamp with address of "The Greenfield Review/Joseph Bruchac III" on the rear back cover.... Read More
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My Sentence Was A Thousand Years Of Joy: Poems
by BLY, Robert
New York: HarperCollins, 2005. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo; royal blue paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; xii,97pp. Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket.
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Morning Poems
by BLY, Robert
New York: HarperCollins, 1997. Second Printing. Octavo; black paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; xiv,109pp. Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket.
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Thirty-Fifth Annual Report of the National Labor Relations Boards for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1970
by NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
Washington DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1971. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's blue printed card wrappers; ix,[1],198pp.; graphs and charts throughout. Spine sunned, soil spot to rear cover, else Very Good and sound. Substantial portion of text devoted to "Unfair Labor Practices," including employer discrimination, the bargaining obligation, and prohibited strikes and boycotts.
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Company Experience with Negro Employment
by NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL CONFERENCE BOARD
New York: National Industrial Conference Board, 1966. First Edition. 2 volumes; large quarto (27.5cm.); uniformly bound in black and gilt card wrappers; v,[3],175,[5];[4],164pp.; text in double columns. Wrappers a bit rubbed, minor toning to extremities, else a Very Good set, uncommon thus. Studies in Personnel Policy, No. 201.
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Reports of the Subversive Activities Control Board, Volume 1
by [SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES CONTROL BOARD]
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1966. Octavo (23cm). Tan cloth boards; 820pp. Straight and tight, with text clean and unmarked; Near Fine. First volume of cumulative reports of the SACB; includes reports on the Board's investigations of the CPUSA, the Labor Youth League, the International Workers Order, the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee, the... Read More
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Take Care! Idle Hands Work For Hitler
by [WW2] WAR PRODUCTION BOARD
Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1942. Original poster, offset lithographed in three colors on off-white stock measuring 51.25cm x 72.5cm (20.25" x 28.5"). Professionally linen-backed, with old fold lines faintly visible; a bright, Fine example. War Production Board (WPB) poster depicting the black and white image of a male industrial worker, his injured left arm hanging in a... Read More
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Lattimore the Scholar
by BOAS, George and Harvey Wheeler, eds.; Gerald W. Johnson, pref
Baltimore: [The Editors], 1953. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm.); original grey printed staplebound wrappers; 61pp. Upper wrapper unevenly toned, minor foxing, dampstain to top third of spine edges of both wrappers; contents fine. About Very Good. Collection of short articles on the scholar of Asian (especially Mongolian) studies Owen Lattimore.
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Workshop of Liberty" [University of Chicago Round Table, no. 847, July 4, 1954]
by BOBRINSKOY, George et al.
Chicago: University of Chicago, 1954. First Edition. Small octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's green pictorial staplebound wrappers printed in blue; 15pp. Ex-Yakima Valley Junior College with their usual markings, extremities a bit worn, upper cover toned to grey; Good to Very Good overall. Transcript of an NBC radio discussion on the history of immigration in America by George Bobrinskoy, Peter Hryhorowycz,... Read More
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Ivan Babushkin: a Short Biography
by Bobrovskaya, C.
New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1932. Wraps. Very Good. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; 31pp. Clean, bright copy; VG or better.
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Shadow Land: Selected Poems
by BOBROWSKI, Johannes; Ruth and Matthew Mead, trans
London: Rapp & Carroll, [1967]. Second Edition. Second Printing. Slim octavo (22.25cm.); publisher's cloth in grey dust jacket; 63pp. Near Fine. Forms part of the Poetry Europe series.
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Shadow Land: Selected Poems
by BOBROWSKI, Johannes (poetry); Ruth and Matthew Mead (translation); Michael Hamburger (foreword)
London: Donald Carroll Ltd, 1967. Second Edition. Publisher's Rapp & Carroll Limited compliments paper slip laid in. Slim octavo (22.25cm.); blue cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [6],7-61,[1]pp. A Near Fine copy. Dustwrapper, unclipped (priced 21s), with light shelf-wear and rubbing; Very Good. This collection of verse forms part of the Poetry Europe Series, and... Read More
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Il Decamerone.... nuovamente stampato et ricorreto per Messer. Antonio Brucioli
by BOCCACCIO, Giovanni
Venice: Gabriel Ioito di Ferrari, 1542. Quarto in eights (21cm). Later brown sheep, double gilt fillets to outer perimeter of boards, titled in gilt on spine within ruled panel. [24]pp, then foliated I-CCLX. Decorative title page with relief portrait of the author, 10 in-text woodcuts, and numerous decorative initials. "Venize 1542" in manuscript on front board. Bookplate of Dr.... Read More
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Il terrorismo italiano 1970-1978
by BOCCA, Giorgio
Milano: Rizzoli Editore, 1978. First Edition. Octavo (22cm). Pictorial card wrappers (softcover); 158pp. Embossed ownership stamp; light wear; Very Good. Text entirely in Italian.
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Theatrum Machinarum Novum [Teatro de las Artes Mecánicas de Molinos y Construcciones Hidráulicas por Georg Andreas Böckler)
by BÖCKLER, Georg Andreas; Ángel Martín Municio (preliminar); Rafael García de la Sen (de máquinas)
[Madrid]: Universidad Europea de Madrid-CEES, 1997. Facsimile Edition. Text in Spanish and German. Quarto (34cm); red cloth-covered boards with tilting stamped in black on spine; xx,68,154,[13]pp; illus. Light shelf-soil to covers, with faint sunning to crown and light rubbing to titling; Very Good. First published by Paulus Fürsten, art dealer, in Nuremberg (1661), this includes the facsimile text followed... Read More
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Frère de Lait
by BOCQUET, José-Louis and Andreas Gefe
Paris: Editions E.P., 2003. First Edition. Quarto (28cm). Pictorial laminated boards (as issued); 70pp. Bit of external rubbing to boards, else Fine. Beautifully-drawn graphic novel from the creative team of Bocquet - Gefe, portraying the adventures of a pair of French rural youth – one of African descent, one white – as they navigate the streets of Paris. ... Read More
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Reflect Shuns in a Broken Mirror [Inscribed]
by BODEKER, Bradley L.
Baltimore: PublishAmerica, 2009. First Edition. Octavo. Pictorial card wrappers; 361pp. Author inscription to title page. Trivial faint spotting to top edge of textblock. Mild external wear to wrappers, slight peeling of wrapper laminate to bottom edge. Near Fine.
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