The Poetry Library of Marie Bullock - Locus Solus Rare Books

80. BLUMENKRON, CARMEN. Spearhead Toward the Dawn. Illustrations by Arturo
Gomez. New York: Vantage Press, (1973). First edition. 8vo, cloth. Fine in dust jacket.
Presentation copy, inscribed effusively by the poet to Mrs. Bullock, with the poet’s inscribed
calling card laid in. $25
81. BODE, CARL. The Man Behind You. London: Heinemann, (1959). First edition. 8vo,
cloth. Fine in a lightly soiled, second-issue dust jacket. $25
82. BODE, CARL. The Man Behind You. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1960. First American
edition. 8vo, cloth. Fine in a sun-darkened dust jacket. One of 750 copies in the edition, so
stated, with the publisher’s presentation slip laid in. $30
first book
83. BOGAN, LOUISE. Body of This Death. New York: Robert McBride, 1923. First edition.
8vo, cloth-backed boards Very slight lean, else fine in a sunned dust jacket with a bit of edge
wear and two tape-mends. The poet’s scarce first book. $35
84. BOGAN, LOUISE. Collected Poems: 1923-53. New York: Noonday Press, (1954). First
edition. 8vo, yellow cloth. Spine slightly darkened, else fine in a spine-sunned dust jacket
with a bit of wear at the crown and tips. $100
85. BOGAN, LOUISE. Blue Estuaries: Poems 1923-1968. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux,
(1968). First edition. 8vo, blue cloth. Faint lightening toward upper and lower edges, else
fine and bright in a nice dust jacket with a couple of small tears to the top edge. $75
STONE WALL PRESS
86. BONNEFOY, YVES & ENGLE, PAUL. La Chambre / In Honor of the Visit By Yves
Bonnefoy to the Workshops in Poetry and Translation at the University of Iowa. Iowa City:
Stone Wall Press, 1964. First edition. 12mo, single leaf folded into thirds, sewn into printed
wrappers. Fine. One of approximately 250 copies, unnumbered, the entire edition. Prints the
text of Bonnefoy’s poem alongside an English translation by Peter Clothier, as well as an
appreciation by Paul Engle. Although not called for, this copy has been signed by both
Bonnefoy and Clothier; in addition, Paul Engle has inscribed it beneath his contribtion: “To
Marie Bullock, who has for so long bent her kind face toward poetry. -Paul Engle, 1964.” A
nice association copy of a scarce and finely printed item. Berger A4. $350
87. BOOTH, PHILIP. Available Light. New York: Viking Press, (1976). First edition. 8vo, blue
cloth. Fine in a very lightly used dust jacket. With an excellent presentation inscription on
the front flyleaf to Mrs. Bullock. The Academy honored Booth’s first book with the Lamont
Selection for 1956. Address label in Booth’s hand laid in. A nice association copy. $100
88. BORLAND, MARY. A Path Across the Night. N.P.: The Fine Editions Press, 1961. First
edition. 8vo, cloth. Fine in a lightly used dust jacket. One of 500 copies. $25
89. BOTTOMS, DAVID. In a U-Haul North of Damascus. New York: William Morrow,
1983. First edition. 8vo, cloth-backed boards. Fine in dust jacket. Poet’s second book, signed
on the title page and additonally inscribed on the half title page to Mrs. Bullock, and with a
brief TLS laid in, along with the carbon copy of Bullock’s reply. Bottoms’s first book
received the Walt Whitman Award, administered by the Academy. $65
90. BRANCH, ANNA HEMPSTEAD. Sonnets from a Lock Box and Other Poems. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin, 1929. First edition. 8vo, cloth Spine lightly faded and a bit rubbed, no
jacket. $20
91. BRANCH, ANNA HEMPSTEAD. Last Poems. Edited and with a Foreword by Ridgely
Torrence. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, (1944). First edition. 8vo, cloth Just about fine in a
lightly soiled dust jacket with a few tears, one tape mend to the crown. $30
92. BRIDGES, ROBERT. Poems. Oxford: Printed at the Private Press of H. Daniel, 1884. First
edition. Small 4to, vellum-backed blue boards. Few spots of light foxing to endsheets, covers