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24 copies on this shelf. One of each, examined point by point and photographed honestly — the flaws are on the page, not in the fine print.

24 of 273 books · 1 copy each
First edition

Collected Poems 1950-1970

Donald Davie
Oxford University Press, New York, 1972
$45Very Good/Good
First edition

Selected Poems and Parodies of Louis Untermeyer

Louis Untermeyer
Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1935
$95Very Good
First edition

Make Bright the Arrows

Edna St. Vincent Millay
Harper & Brothers, 1940
$35Very Good
First edition

Remedy

John Roedel
Independently published, 2021
$15Near Fine
First edition

Birthday Letters

Ted Hughes
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998
Forward Prize for Poetry, 1998
$25Fine/Near Fine
First edition

Letter to an Imaginary Friend: Parts Three & Four

Thomas McGrath
Copper Canyon Press, 1985
$45Fine/Near Fine

The Poetry of Heinrich Heine

Heinrich Heine (selected and edited by Frederic Ewen)
Citadel Press, 1969
$25Very Good
First edition

Antipoems: New and Selected

Nicanor Parra
New Directions
$25Near Fine
First edition

Head Off & Split

Nikky Finney
TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, 2011
National Book Award for Poetry, 2011
$20Very Good
First edition

Selected Poems

W. H. Auden
Vintage Books (Random House), March 1979
$40Very Good

Once: Poems

Alice Walker
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (Harvest/HBJ), 1976 paperback reissue; copyright 1968
$20Very Good
First edition

Essential Poems and Writings of Robert Desnos

Robert Desnos
Black Widow Press (Boston, Mass.), December 2007
$80Near Fine
First edition

Frank O'Hara: The Poetics of Coterie

Lytle Shaw
University of Iowa Press, 2006
$35Near Fine/Very Good
First edition

A Last Bridge Home: New and Selected Poems

Dan Gerber
Clark City Press, Livingston, Montana, 1992
$15Near Fine
First edition

The Shadows of Laughter

Kwesi Brew
$20Very Good

Shakespeare's Sonnets & A Lover's Complaint

William Shakespeare
$35Fine/Fine
First editionSigned

The World for Wedding Ring

Daniel Berrigan
$40Near Fine/Very Good
First edition

Selected Poems

Vladislav Khodasevich
$85Fine/Fine

Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1916 and Year Book of American Poetry

William Stanley Braithwaite
$25Very Good
First edition

Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1923 and Yearbook of American Poetry

William Stanley Braithwaite
$25Very Good
First edition

Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1918 and Year Book of American Poetry

William Stanley Braithwaite
$25Good

Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1920 and Year Book of American Poetry

William Stanley Braithwaite
$25Ex-library
First edition

Bright Ambush

Audrey Wurdemann
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1935
$60Very Good/Very Good
Signed

Native Guard

Natasha Trethewey
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 2007
$35Fine/Near Fine

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