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&v=1656546639)
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 about Uroki muzyki. Stikhi. [Music Lessons
Price: $250
[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 about A Garland for the Laureate. Poems presented to Sir John Betjeman on his 75th birthday. [Edited by...
Price: $1,750
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 about Poems - Jorge De Lima
Price: $400
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 about Heliodora and Other Poems
Price: $450
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 about Souvenir of the Ancient World
Price: $350
New York: Terence & Elsa Holliday, 1932. 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..... Read More about Poemes 1910-1930. Texte anglais presente et traduit par Pierre Leyris
Price: $3,000
London: Faber and Faber, 1940-42. ‘Time present and time past’: Eliot's Four Quartets in Original Form. East Coker is the first Faber edition, second printing, October 1940 (the first was September); Burnt Norton is the first separate edition, February 1941; The Dry Salvages is the first edition, September 1941; and..... Read More about FOUR QUARTETS: EAST COKER (1940), BURNT NORTON (1941), THE DRY SALVAGES (1941), LITTLE GIDDING (1942
Price: $1,750
![Item #339326 FISHPASTE: 1 TO 22 ["Postcard review of art & letters"/ First Series]. January 1967...](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/339326.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1671121780)
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 about FISHPASTE: 1 TO 22 ["Postcard review of art & letters"/ First Series]. January 1967...
Price: $1,500
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 about Autograph Manuscript Signed and Inscribed, "A Preview for Nita and Doc from R.F., After a...
Price: $32,500
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 about Collected Poems of Robert Frost 1939
Price: $9,500
London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1939. First expanded edition, English issue. Signed by Frost on a tipped in front blank, as issued. SIGNED. A scarce title in the English issue, especially when signed: Robert Frost contributed a four-page introduction ('The Figure a Poem Makes') for this 1939 expanded edition of..... Read More about Collected Poems of Robert Frost 1939
Price: $2,750
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 about A Further Range
Price: $8,500
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 about Autograph Manuscript of his poem, "Aether," with annotations by Jack Kerouac and Gary...
Price: $45,000
[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 about Kaddish and Other Poems 1958-1960
Price: $1,250
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 about Forward into the Past. A Festschrift for May Sarton on her Eightieth Birthday, May 3, 1992
Price: $650
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 about The Californians
Price: $4,000
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 about Poems 1930-1940
Price: $700
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 about The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees. Edited by Donald Justice
Price: $1,000
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 about The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees. Edited by Donald Justice
Price: $4,000
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 about The Fall of the Magicians
Price: $1,800
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 about Poems 1947-1954
Price: $5,000
![Item #346297 [Selected Sonnets in the Fungi from Yuggoth cycle]. [Cover title:] Poems /...](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/346297.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1669656852)
[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 about Selected Sonnets in the Fungi from Yuggoth cycle]. [Cover title:] Poems / Lovecraft
Price: $10,000
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 about Neruda, Pablo Memorial de Isla Negra Buenos Aires, Argentina: Editorial Losada, S.A., 1964
Price: $450
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 about Biotherm (For Bill Berkson). Lithographs by Jim Dine. Introduction by Andrew Hoyem; essay and...
Price: $3,000
[Palma de Mallorca]: The Divers Press, 1953. First edition. Edited with a preface by Robert Creeley. Read More about Mayan Letters. Edited by Robert Creeley
Price: $250