San Francisco: Five Trees Press, 1976. Edition limited to 400 copies, this one of 365 in wrappers; 12mo, pp. [20]; 3 relief block prints by Jaime Robles; fine in originl green wrappers printed in red. From the library of Kimk Merker. More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1903. First edition, 4to, pp. viii, 626pp., text in double column; ex-James J. Hill Library with standard albeit minimal treatments; very good and sound in original blue cloth, gilt-stamped spine. More
New York: Twayne Publishers, [1958]. First edition, 8vo, pp. 147, [1]; fine copy in a near fine, unclipped dust jacket. From the library of Kim Merker. Among the rising stars are Lewis Turco, Raeburn Miller, Robert Mezey, and Karl Kimber Merker, anong many others. More
[Iowa City]: The Prairie Press, 1952. First edition limited to 800 copies, 8vo, pp. [26]; fine in original patterned green printed wrappers. From the library of Kim Merker. Designed and printed by Carroll Coleman at the Prairie Press. Cheever 100. More
Rochester, New York: [publisher not identified], 1962. First edition, 8vo, pp. [10], 3-136, [4]; portrait frontispiece, 22 illustratins on rectos and versos of 3 plates, 4 pages of genealogical trees at the back; a good, sound copy in original green cloth-backed green cloth-covered boards. From the librrary of Kim Merker..... More
Minneapolis: New Rivers Press, Minnesota Voices Project Number 88, 1999. First edition, 8vo, pp. xii, 210, [2]; fine copy in a fine, unclipped dust jacket. From the library of Kim Merker. This copy inscribed: "To Kim, You are a spoecial part of this journey! At long last - my own..... More
Iowa City, Iowa: The Cummington Press, 1961. Edition limited to 2500 copies, 8vo, pp. 72; title page drawing by Mary Sims; slight skewing of the binding, slight rubbing; a very good copy in original maroon cloth stamped in white on spine, without the dust jacket. From the library of Kim..... More
New York: Reinhold Publishing in co-operation with Cooper & Beatty, Toronto, [1967]. First edition in English, 8vo, pp. [6], 9-94; photographic frontispiece portrait, 37 illustrations in text (some in color), and 1 folding plate; publisher's black cloth slightly rubbed at extremities; very good. From the library of Kim Merker. The..... More
Sutton Hoo Press, [1999]. Edition limited to "approximately 136 copies," signed by Wright and Gary Young, 8vo, pp. [30]; woodcuts printed in blue throughout, displaying an array of stars, shooting stars, Saturn, etc.; fine copy in original navy blue cloth, printed paper lael on spine. Fine copy. From the library..... More
Kansas City, Missouri: Hallmark Cards, Incorporated, 1967. First edition, 8vo, pp. 71, [5]; printed in red and black; generally a fine copy in a near fine, unclipped dust jacket. From the library of Kim Merker. Designed by Kim Merker. Among the selections are those from Bryant, Longfellow, Whittier, Emily Dickinson..... More
New York & Manchester: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Indiana Art Museum, Bloomington, [2004]. First edition, wrapper issue; oblong folio, pp. vii, [1], 160; illustrated with high quality reproductions of Sinsabaugh's photographs; fine in original pictorial wrappers. From the library of Kim Merker. In 1976 Merker intended to published..... More
[Winston-Salem, North Carolina]: Jargon Society, 1988. First edition, 8vo, pp. xvii, [1], 289, [1]; fine copy in a fine, unclipped dust jacket. From the library of Kim Merker. More
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, [2010]. First paperback edition, 8vo, pp. ix, [1], 75, [1]; fine copy. From the library of Kim Merker. This copy inscribed by Wright on the title page: "For Kimber, from this old and boring head. Charles." In 2014, Wright was named Poet Laureate of the..... More
New York: Atheneum, 1987. First edition, review copy, with publisher's slip printed in red and black, with prices, publication date, etc. laid in; 8vo, pp. [10], 73, [3]; fine copy in a fine, unclipped jacket. From the library of Kim Merker. More
New York: Reynall & Hitchcock, [1947]. First edition of the author's first commercially published book, 8vo, pp. [8], 55, [1]; publisher's tan cloth lettered in green on upper cover and spine, lacking the dust jacket; some spotting to the covers, some toning of the text; a good sound copy. From..... More
[Pittsburgh]: University of Pittsburgh Press, [1988]. First edition, 8vo, pp. [12], 57, [3]; fine copy in a fine dust jacket. From the library of Kim Merker. Signed by Joseph on the title page, and with an inscription from him to Kim Merker on the half-title: "For Kim Merker, with the..... More
[New Rochelle, N.Y.?]: James Weil, publisher, 2005. Edition limited to 50 copies printed from American Uncial and Palatino types ... to celebrate in memoriam the eighty-seventh birthday of William Bronk," 8vo, pp. [8]; title page printed in red and black; original green handmade Japanese paper wrappers printed in red; fine..... More
[Los Angeles?]: Onion Press, 1982. Edition limited to 31 copies (this, no. 18) signed by the author, 8vo, pp. [20]; original pictorial wrappers based on a TV-program listing; fine. From the library of Kim Merker. Printed "on Mohawk Superfine using Bembo types. Typography by LK. "The long poem is for..... More
[Kalamazoo]: Western Michigan University, New Issues Press, 2000. First edition, 8vo, pp. [14], 9-73, [5]; fine in original pictorial wrappers. From the library of Kim Merker. This copy inscribed by Oness of the Sutton Hoo Press, to his teacher, Kim Merker: "For Kim, who gave me a million worlds, Ever..... More
[Barrytown, New York]: Station Hill Press, [1979]. First edition, one of 1500 copies (26 lettered copies and 974 regular copies of which this is one); 8vo, pp. 41, [9]; calligraphic illustrations by Susan Quasha; original pictorial wrappers; very good copy. From the library of Kim Merker. This copy inscribed: "For..... More
Buscoduci (‘s-Hertogenbosch): C. N. Teulings, 1920. 8vo, pp. xiii, [1], 127, [1]; thesis bifolium laid in; text in Latin; gray printed paper wrappers; spine chipped, signature on upper wrapper, stamp on title page, very good. More
Athens: [n.p.], 1968. 8vo, pp. [2], 111-217, [3]; offprint from "Επιστημονικης επετηριδος της φιλοσοφικης σχολης του πανεπιστημοιη Αθηνων του ετουσ 1967-1968"; text in Greek; printed green paper wrappers; fine. British Library only in OCLC. More
Athens: [n.p.], 1961. 8vo, pp. 98, [6]; text in Greek, printed creme paper wrappers, fine. Apparently not in OCLC. More
[West Chester, Pennsylvania]: Aralia Press, 1990. Edition limited to 120 copies printed from Spectrum types on Frankfurt Creme; 8vo, pp. [16]; title-page drawing by Fulvio Testa; fine in original taupe wrappers printed in black. From the library of Kim Merker. This chapbook was "completed in time to celebrate the poet's..... More
Thessaloniki: [Aristotle University of Thessaloniki], 1967. 8vo, pp. 18, [2], 238, [2]; text in Greek with summary in English; blue printed paper wrappers; unopened, fine. On the prehumanistic circle of Padua and the Tragedies of L. A. Seneca. Memoirs and comments of the 14th century in the Octavia praetexta and..... More
