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.
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 about Poems with an Introduction by Siegfried Sassoon
Price: $17,500
London: Faber and Faber, (1971). Uncorrected proof. This proof has differences from the final published text including differences in sequence of poems, with revised "Acknowledgements", and differs considerably from the final published text. Read More about Winter Trees
Price: $850
London: Faber & Gwyer, [1928]. First, limited edition, one of 100 copies signed and numbered by Pound. A lovely copy of this collection, featuring a lengthy introduction on Pound's work by T.S. Eliot. This edition collects all but 16 of Pound's poems from Personae (1926), and adds five early poems..... Read More about Selected Poems. Edited with an Introduction by T.S. Eliot
Price: $6,000
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 about A Change of World. With a foreword by W. H. Auden
Price: $2,000
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 about The Screens and Other Poems
Price: $300
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1925. First edition, half title a cancel. Signed with a Note and Self-Caricature. Signed by Sassoon with his monogram and with a note in his hand to the verso of the half title: “Very rare Bibliographical Note. N.B. Cancelled sheet was here. Cancellation was caused chiefly..... Read More about Selected Poems
Price: $1,250
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 about Wybór Poezjic (Selected Poems
Price: $250
[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 about Field Marshall, Broadside Poem from De L'Ame Pour L'Ame, Issue 5, the Official Newsletter of the...
Price: $200
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 about Riprap
Price: $2,000
Reprinted from the October Number of the Sewanee Review, [1945]. Read More about Description Without Place
Price: $650
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 about The Man with the Blue Guitar & Other Poems
Price: $1,250
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 about Notes toward a Supreme Fiction
Price: $1,500
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 about On the Limits of Poetry. Selected Essays: 1928-1948
Price: $350
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 about The Beautiful Changes and Other Poems
Price: $1,000
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 about An "Objectivists" Anthology
Price: $3,500
[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 about "A" 1 - 12 with an essay on Poetry by the author and a final note by William Carlos...
Price: $450