James Cummins Bookseller is proud to present a catalogue of new and recent arrivals of 20th century poetry. Highlights include a scarce first edition of an important milestone in the evolution of Modernist American poetry, An "Objectivists" Anthology edited by Louis Zukofsky; a number of issues of Grammata, a little magazine from Alexandria that printed the works of Cavafy and his circle; a first edition of Ezra Pound's Selected Poems, signed and numbered by Pound; and the limited edition of Weldon Kees' Poems 1947-1954 bound with a signed drawing.
![Item #333028 Uroki muzyki. Stikhi. [Music Lessons]. Bella Akhmadulina](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/333028.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1646940343)
Price: $250
Moscow: Sovetskiĭ Pisatel', 1969. First edition. After her first book of poems Struna [String] (1962) was published, as a success, her work was criticized by the government as "superfluous and too intimate". It took her seven years to publish this, her second volume. Joseph Brodsky called her the best living..... Read More Item Details for Uroki muzyki. Stikhi. [Music Lessons] Add to Wish List
Item #333028
Price: $1,750
[Stratford-upon-Avon: The Celandine Press, [1981]. First edition, no. 41 of 75 copies printed on Zerkall by the Whittington Press, signed by the contributors and specially bound. And Everyone Was There : One of 75 Copies, Signed by All. Signed by Philip Larkin, Stephen Spender, Ted Hughes, Kingsley Amis, R.S. Thomas..... Read More Item Details for A Garland for the Laureate. Poems presented to Sir John Betjeman on his 75th birthday. [Edited by Roger Pringle] Add to Wish List
Item #345628
Price: $500
Rio De Janeiro: Rio De Janeiro [R. Monteiro], 1952. First edition. Bears Jorge De Lima's personal bookplate and an inscription to feminist writer Ruth Herschberger. Poems was published by a private press in Brazil the year before Jorge De Lima died at the age of sixty. De Lima was an..... Read More Item Details for Poems - Jorge De Lima Add to Wish List
Item #334506
Price: $450
London: Jonathan Cape, 1924. First edition. From the collection of Isaac Foot (1880-1960), the influential Liberal politian, Methodist preacher, author, and book collector. Read More Item Details for Heliodora and Other Poems Add to Wish List
Item #329389
Price: $350
New York: Antaeus Editions, 1976. First English language edition [letterpress and limited to 500 copies]; this is number 43 of 50 copies signed and numbered by the author and translator. SIGNED. Read More Item Details for Souvenir of the Ancient World Add to Wish List
Item #333591
Price: $3,000
Paris: Editions du Seuil, [1947]. First edition thus, bi-lingual edition (text in English and French), trade issue. Inscribed by Eliot. Inscribed by Eliot on title-page: “Inscribed for M. Jean-Louis Cattaneo by T.S. Eliot” with Cattaneo's ownership signature on the ffep. Printed in French and in English. Cattaneo was a professor..... Read More Item Details for Poemes 1910-1930. Texte anglais présenté et traduit par Pierre Leyris Add to Wish List
Item #346310
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Price: $1,500
Leicester / Oxford: Fishpaste / First Series / (Printed at the Pandora Press), 1967-1968. First edition; complete run of Fishpastes 1 to 22 (the first 22 post card poems), each in original printed envelope, with title card and colophon, published from January 1967 to August 1968 ("under 200 copies were..... Read More Item Details for FISHPASTE: 1 TO 22 ["Postcard review of art & letters"/ First Series]. January 1967 to August 1968. Produced by Rigby Graham, Peter Hoy, & Toni Savage Add to Wish List
Item #339326
Price: $32,500
1946. Impeccable fair copies of 8 poems that would be published in Steeple Bush (1947). 1) "To an Ancient" 2) "Something to Hope For": variant title ["Something for Hope" in published book]; line 12 starts "And in" (as in E38), rather than "And with" in book; line 15 has "noxious..... Read More Item Details for Autograph Manuscript Signed and Inscribed, "A Preview for Nita and Doc from R.F., After a good Bread Loaf, 1946," fair copy of 8 poems stitched into a pamphlet Add to Wish List
Item #333275
Price: $9,500
New York: Henry Holt and Company, [1939]. First printing. Inscribed with an Early Draft of a Poem. Frost has written out an early draft of his poem “Come In” lacking the eventual first stanza, and with a variant of the first line of the eventual second. “Come In” first appeared..... Read More Item Details for Collected Poems of Robert Frost 1939 Add to Wish List
Item #333204
Price: $2,750
London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1939. First expanded edition, English issue. Signed by Frost on a tipped in front blank, as issued. The expanded edition, signed and in dust-jacket. A scarce title in the English issue, especially when signed. Robert Frost contributed a four-page introduction for this 1939 expanded edition..... Read More Item Details for Collected Poems of Robert Frost 1939 Add to Wish List
Item #338128
Price: $8,500
New York: Henry Holt, 1936. First trade edition, second impression (without "first printing" statement on copyright page). Inscribed with the poem "Two Tramps in Mud Time" Inscribed by Frost to Robert Smith, with sixteen lines from his poem "Two Tramps in Mud Time", utilizing most of the front free endpaper..... Read More Item Details for A Further Range Add to Wish List
Item #346452
Price: $45,000
Lima: May 28, 1960. ‘a magic universe’. The autograph manuscript of this long poem by Allen Ginsberg, a reflection on creation and the poet’s own mortality, composed at the Hotel Comercial, Lima, Peru, in May 1960. The manuscript varies slightly from the published text (which appears as the last poem..... Read More Item Details for Autograph Manuscript of his poem, "Aether," with annotations by Jack Kerouac and Gary Snyder Add to Wish List
Item #346601
Price: $1,250
[San Francisco]: City Lights Books, [1961]. First edition, Second Printing, with $1.50 price on the rear wrapper. True First, Presentation Copy to Matthew Monahan. Inscribed to Mathew Monahan of the Gotham Bookmart on the title-page, with some ephemera laid-in, including: 1) Checklists of Separate Publications of Poets at the First..... Read More Item Details for Kaddish and Other Poems 1958-1960 Add to Wish List
Item #324690
Price: $650
New Hampshire: William B. Ewert, 1992. First edition, limited issue; "one of fiteen copies specially bound in half leather" HEANEY, ANNE TYLER, HEYEN, GRUMBACH, R. WILBUR, M. KUMIN. An elusive publication in this half-leather issue. Contains the first appearance of poems by Seamus Heaney ("A Wave from the Distance") [Brandes..... Read More Item Details for Forward into the Past. A Festschrift for May Sarton on her Eightieth Birthday, May 3, 1992 Add to Wish List
Item #338243
Price: $4,000
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1916. First edition of the author's second book, Review Copy with perforated stamp on the title-page. SIGNED BY JEFFERS IN 1916. Signed on the ffep bottom "Robinson Jeffers, [Malibu], 1916." Author's first regularly published book. Read More Item Details for The Californians Add to Wish List
Item #345293
Price: $700
New York: Harcourt, Brace, [1941]. First edition, stamped on front free endpaper: “Review Copy / Publication Date / April 3 1941.”. Weldon Kees’ Copy. Weldon Kees’ copy with his ownership inscription (name and New York / 1941) on front free endpaper. Presentation copy, inscribed by Gregory also on the front..... Read More Item Details for Poems 1930-1940 Add to Wish List
Item #346296
Price: $1,000
Iowa City, Iowa: The Stone Wall Press, 1960. First Edition, no. 59 of 180 copies printed on Rives Light by Kimber Merker and Raeburn Miller, out of a total edition of. Collects the three volumes of poetry Kees published before his disappearance in 1955: The Last Man, The Fall of..... Read More Item Details for The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees. Edited by Donald Justice Add to Wish List
Item #346760
Price: $4,000
Iowa City, Iowa: The Stone Wall Press, 1960. First Edition, limited to 200 copies, of which numbers I-XX are printed on Rives Heavy by Kimber Merker and Raeburn Miller, this number XVIII. The publisher's copy, in fine condition. Collects the three volumes of poetry Kees published before his disappearance in..... Read More Item Details for The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees. Edited by Donald Justice Add to Wish List
Item #351934
Price: $1,800
New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, [1947]. First Edition of the author's second book. SIGNED. Flat signed by Kees on the title-page. Read More Item Details for The Fall of the Magicians Add to Wish List
Item #346763
Price: $5,000
San Francisco: Adrian Wilson, 1954. Limited edition of 25 with a signed drawing by the artist/author. ONE OF 25, WITH A DRAWING. In his short life, Kees was a librarian, a short story writer, a novelist, a poet, art critic of The Nation, photographer, filmmaker, abstract expressionist painter photographed as..... Read More Item Details for Poems 1947-1954 Add to Wish List
Item #346762
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Price: $10,000
[N.p., Providence and North Montpelier, Vermont: n.d., ca. 1933]. Lovecraft’s ‘Evening Star’ and other Fungi from Yuggoth. A nice private compilation of poems by H. P. Lovecraft, eleven sonnets in the Fungi from Yuggoth cycle, including his celebrated “Evening Star”, “The Port”, and “Antarktos”. The eleven poems are stapled in..... Read More Item Details for [Selected Sonnets in the Fungi from Yuggoth cycle]. [Cover title:] Poems / Lovecraft Add to Wish List
Item #346297
Price: $450
Buenos Aires: Editorial Losada, S.A, 1964. First edition. Contains the volumes Donde nace la lluvia, La Luna en el laberinto, El Fuego cruel, El Cazador de raíces, and Sonata critica. Neruda won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1971 "for a poetry that with the action of an elemental force..... Read More Item Details for Neruda, Pablo Memorial de Isla Negra Buenos Aires, Argentina: Editorial Losada, S.A., 1964 Add to Wish List
Item #345266
Price: $3,000
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1990. First edition, lettered issue; limited to 26 lettered copies ('reserved for participants in the project'), signed by Jim Dine, of total printing of 176 copies. Signed by Jim Dine, one of 26 lettered copies. "'Biotherm' is the last long poem of Frank O'Hara, whose accidental..... Read More Item Details for Biotherm (For Bill Berkson). Lithographs by Jim Dine. Introduction by Andrew Hoyem; essay and glossary by Bill Berkson Add to Wish List
Item #324944
Price: $250
[Palma de Mallorca]: The Divers Press, 1953. First edition. Edited with a preface by Robert Creeley. Read More Item Details for Mayan Letters. Edited by Robert Creeley Add to Wish List
Item #345424
Price: $17,500
London: Chatto & Windus, 1920. First edition. In the RARE Dust Jacket. First edition of Owen’s posthumously published first book. One of the landmarks of Twentieth Century poetry and unquestionably the finest collection of poems to come out of the Great War, including “Strange Meeting”, “Anthem For Doomed Youth”, “Dulce..... Read More Item Details for Poems with an Introduction by Siegfried Sassoon Add to Wish List
Item #338745
Price: $2,000
New haven: Yale University Press, 1951. First edition, one of 551 copies. INSCRIBED. Published when Rich was a 21-year-old senior at Radcliffe, A Change of World is the poet's first mature book, preceded only by juvenilia. Volume 48 of the Yale Younger Poets series edited by W. H. Auden, one..... Read More Item Details for A Change of World. With a foreword by W. H. Auden Add to Wish List
Item #345814
Price: $300
Harcourt Brace and Company, 1960. First American edition. Inscribed to linguist Roman Jakobson. Richards, one of the main voices of the New Critics, engaged with Jakobson's work throughout his career, particularly in writing So Much Nearer: Essays Toward a World English (1968). Roman Jakobson was an important linguist, one of..... Read More Item Details for The Screens and Other Poems Add to Wish List
Item #325012
Price: $250
Londyn [London]: Nakadem "Nowej Polski, 1944. First edition. Inscribed to Eve Curie. Inscribed on title-page to Eve Curie in 1946. Eve Curie was the daughter of Marie Skłodowska–Curie (Polish by Birth) and Pierre Curie, whose biography of her mother, Madame Curie (1937), was an international success (the American edition won..... Read More Item Details for Wybór Poezjic (Selected Poems) Add to Wish List
Item #339271
Price: $200
[Wisconsin: Patti Smith Fan Club, October 1977]. An orphan broadside from the official newsletter of the Patti Smith Fan Club, which was published by Nanalee Berry with help from Beverly, Patti's mother. This issue came with multiple pieces of ephemera, produced only for this distribution Reads: house doctor in the..... Read More Item Details for Field Marshall, Broadside Poem from De L'Ame Pour L'Ame, Issue 5, the Official Newsletter of the Patti Smith Fan Club Add to Wish List
Item #338249
Price: $2,000
Ashland, Massachusetts: Origin Press, 1959. First edition, first printing. Printed in Japan. One of 500 copies designed and edited by Cid Corman. A Choice First of Riprap, SIGNED. Nice copy of the author’s uncommon first book, gathering poems written 1948-58. Read More Item Details for Riprap Add to Wish List
Item #346393
Price: $650
Reprinted from the October Number of the Sewanee Review, [1945]. Read More Item Details for Description Without Place Add to Wish List
Item #346765
Price: $1,250
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1937. First edition, one of 1,000 copies. Dust jacket in second issue jacket with corrected reading "conjunctions" on the inner front flap. Read More Item Details for The Man with the Blue Guitar & Other Poems Add to Wish List
Item #338629
Price: $1,500
Cummington, MA: The Cummington Press, 1942. First edition, No. 51 of 190 numbered copies, from a total edition of 273 copies. First Edition, One of 273 Copies. Read More Item Details for Notes toward a Supreme Fiction Add to Wish List
Item #351933
Price: $350
New York: The Swallow Press and William Morrow & Company, Publishers, -1948. First edition. INSCRIBED BY ALLEN TATE TO PUBLISHER HARRY DUNCAN. Warmly inscribed by Allen Tate, to publisher Harry Duncan, on the front flyleaf, in year of publication: "For Harry [Duncan], with gratitude and love, Allen. September 14, 1948"..... Read More Item Details for On the Limits of Poetry. Selected Essays: 1928-1948 Add to Wish List
Item #329680
Price: $1,000
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1947. Inscribed to William Targ with a letter. Presentation copy, inscribed to William Targ on the title: "For William Targ / With pleasant recollections of our long-ago meeting / Richard Wilbur Cummington Mass. 1971." And with a fine autograph letter signed ("Richard Wilbur") laid in..... Read More Item Details for The Beautiful Changes and Other Poems Add to Wish List
Item #345790
Price: $3,500
Dijon: TO, Publishers [Printed by Imprimerie Darantiere], 1932. First Edition. With a preface: "'Recencies' in poetry" by Zukofsky, and contributions from the following poets, organized into two groups: A) René Taupin, Basil Bunting, Mary Butts, Frances Fletcher, Robert McAlmon, George Oppen, Ezra Pound, Carl Rakosi, Kenneth Rexroth, Charles Reznikoff, William..... Read More Item Details for An "Objectivists" Anthology Add to Wish List
Item #346796
Price: $450
[Ashland, Massachusetts]: Origin Press, 1959. First edition. One of 200 copies printed by the Genichido Printing Company in Kyoto, Japan. Inscribed. The first instalment of Zukofsky’s major work. Inscribed on the front flyleaf, “To Harvey H. Corwen with kindest regards Louis Zukofsky October 27, 1960”. Read More Item Details for "A" 1 - 12 with an essay on Poetry by the author and a final note by William Carlos Williams Add to Wish List
Item #345550