Methana Books

Philip Appleman, Summer Love and Surf, Nashville: Vanderbilt UP 1968. 1^st,  Hardcover. A very sound copy, sunned; some shelf-wear. $20.

Charles Baxter, Chameleon. With cover art and interior drawings by Mary E. Minor. New Rivers Press, New York, 1970. Paper. Good copy of author’s rare first book sunned, some age discoloration. Signed by the author with inscription on leaf: “Dear Mr. Poulin, Noting that you’re putting together an anthology, I decided to send you my book. I am 23 and a good student at SUNY Buffalo. Hope that perhaps you find something here to your liking.” $70. The anthology that he refers to is the first edition of Contemporary American Poetry, edited by Alfred Poulin, Jr.

Stephen Berg, With Akhmatova at the Black Gates: Variations. Foreword by Hayden Carruth. Urbana: U of Illinois Press 1981. Cloth, near fine, in VG cover with a couple chips at top and bottom of spine. $17

Robert Bly, Gratitude to Old Teachers. Frontispiece illus by Robert Marx. Brockport NY: BOA Editions, 1993. Fine. 1^st. Cloth, limited edition of a chapbook published by BOA. Bound in French papers and quarter cloth over boards. One of two signed, numbered series.  This series i.-x., were signed by Bly and Marx, this copy is iv. Fine copy. $70.

Robert Bly. The Man in the Black Coat Turns. Hardcover. First. Dial Press, 1981. VG to fine. A little rough spot on protective plastic cover. Signed by Bly on front leaf. $50.

Besmilr Brigham, Heaved from the Earth. New York: Alfred Knopf, 1971. Cloth, very good in a VG (slightly  chipped DJ). Previous owners name and address on leaf. $80.

Lucille Clifton, Good Woman: Poems and a memoir, 1969-1980. Brockport NY: BOA Editions, 1980. First, stated. Cloth, near fine in near-fine DJ, slight shelf wear. Only 500 copies of the cloth edition were bound. $60.

Kenneth Fearing. Stranger at Coney Island. Harcourt Brace, 1948. Hardover, First. Some smudge and wear to DJ back, else very good with clear plastic protective cover. $50.

Sam Hamill, trans. Crossing the Yellow River: Three Hundred Poems from the Chinese. Preface by W. S. Merwin; translator’s Intro by Hamill. Rochester: BOA Editions, 2000. Original edition of this book; a revised and updated edition was published by Tiger Bark Press in 2013. Cloth. Near fine.  $85.

Mark Jarman. Questions for Ecclesiastes. Story Line Press. 1997. Hardcover. Winner of the 1998 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. Fine in a near-fine DJ, showing the slightest shelf wear. $40.

Galway Kinnell, A New Selected Poems. Houghton Mifflin 2000. Uncorrected proofs in wraps. VG, with some shelf-wear. Signed by Kinnell to previous owner $30.00.

Laurence Lieberman, Compass of the Dying, U. Arkansas, 1998, hardcover, very good copy, slight shelf wear to DJ. Warmly inscribed by author “To Gerry” [Stern] from Stern’s collection. $50

Laurence Lieberman, The Creole Mephistopheles, Collier Books, 1988, inscribed by Lieberman to “Gerry,” [Stern] from Stern’s collection, paperback, VG with some shelf wear. $35.00.

John Logan. The Bridge of Change. BOA Editions, 1982. Limited edition, hardcover, no dust jacket, quarter cloth and French paper over boards. From limited series, lettered A-Z, this copy signed and lettered “W” by Logan. $40

Mina Loy. Mina Loy: Woman and Poet, edited by Maeera Shreiber & Keith Tuma. National Poetry Foundation, 1998. VG copy, first paperback edition. $75

Thomas Lux, The Blind Swimmer: Selected Early Poems, 1970-1975. Adastra Press, 1996. First Edition, stated, Inscribed by Lux to Kurt [Brown] and Laure-Anne [Bosselaar]. Very good copy with some shelf wear to bottom edge. $40

William Matthews. Flood. Atlantic Monthly Press/ Little Brown, 1982. Hardcover. Inscribed by Matthews to previous owner. Very good, clean copy in DJ. $50.

Jerome Mazzaro. Changing the Windows. Ohio UP, 1966. Hardcover. Very good copy, moderate wear to cover but cover protected by clear plastic wrap. Inscribed by Mazzaro on title page. Small pen edits to several poems in the poet’s hand. $40.

W. S. Merwin, The Carrier of Ladders. New York: Atheneum, 1970.  Paper, good, sound binding, some shelf wear, sunned, previous owner’s sig on front leaf. Inscribed by Merwin on front leaf. $30

Howard Nemerov, New and Selected Poems, Univ. Chicago Press, 1960. Hardcover. Very good in very good DJ, with minor shelf wear, clear plastic cover. Signed by Nemerov on the half-title page. $50.

David Ray. Demons in the Diner. Ashland, OH: Ashland Poetry Press, 1999. Paper. Very good copy, very small stain on the cover. Signed  by Ray on the title page. $20

David Ray. The Maharani’s New Wall and Other Poems. Wesleyan UP. Cloth. Fine in fine d.j $20

David Ray. Wool Highways and Other Poems.  Kansas City, MO: Helicon Nine Editions, 1993. Paperback. Near fine with very modest shelf wear. Signed by Ray on title page. $20.

Mary Ruefle. Beyond Sunset. Prose poems on set of 11 cards, bound by a delicately printed band. No date. Lovely, and scarce. $32.

Louis Simpson, Caviare at the Funeral. New York: Franklin Watts, 1980. Cloth, VG in almost VG DJ, some shelf wear. Signed by Simpson, $30.

William Stafford. Things that Happen where There Aren’t Any People. Brockport NY: BOA Editions, 1980. 38pp. Cloth, VG in good DJ (shelf wear). Only 500 copies of the trade edition bound in hardcover with dust jacket (and only 600 in paper), Stafford’s scarcest title. Signed by Stafford on title page. $60.

William Stafford. Things that Happen where There Aren’t Any People. Brockport NY: BOA Editions, 1980. 38pp. One of 50 copies in ltd edition binding, French papers and quarter cloth. There are 3 limt. Series, I-X, A-Z, and i-xiv. This copy is iii, and signed by Stafford on the colophon page.  Fine copy. $100.

C. D. Wright, Translations of the Gospels Back into Tongues. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press 1982. Paper, which was published simultaneously with the cloth bound. Fine with minor shelf wear. $70.