Bogan, Louise; J. V. Cunningham, Katherine Hoskins; Elizabeth Jennings; Howard Nemerov; F. T. Prince; Adrienne Rich; Theodore Roethke; Karl Shapiro; Charles Tomlinson; William Carlos Williams. Poems in Folio (Volume 1, Nos. 1-11). San Francisco, 1957.

Price: US$263.00 + shipping

Description: First Edition, limited to copies of 1000 - 1150. Portfolio with 11 broadsides & accompanying note sheet (lacking note sheet for Louise Bogan and F. T. Prince broadsides), some with illustration. Edited by Richard Wilbur, Stanley Kunitz and Henry Rago. Printed by various private presses such as Ward Ritchie, Grabhorn, The Allen Press, The Press of the Morning Sun and others. Pale geen & blue illustrated boards with tape remnants on bottom and fore-edges; marks and spotting inside front board; foxing to fold flaps. Broadsides are in fine conditon (one with two small offset marks along edge). The 11 poems are: "July Dawn" by Louise Bogan; "Trivial, Vulgar & Exalted: Epigrams" by J.V. Cunningham; "The Partridge Tree" by Katherine Hoskins; "The Child and the Seashell" by Elizabeth Jennings; "The House" by Lawton Kennedy; "Small Moment" by Howard Nemerov; "The Stolen Heart" by F.T. Prince; "The Knight" by Adrienne Rich; "The Exorcism" by Theodore Roethke; "Solo for Glass Harmonica" by Charles Tomlinson; a translation of Sappho by WC Williams.

Seller: Carpe Diem Fine Books, ABAA, Monterey, CA, U.S.A.