The Poetry Library of Marie Bullock - Locus Solus Rare Books

846. SMITH, WILLIAM JAY. At Delphi: For Allen Tate on his seventy-fifth birthday 19
November 1974. N.P., N.p., 1974. First edition. Small 4to, single leaf of watermarked
Carousel paper, folded once, printed on three sides. Bottom edge very slightly rumpled and
nicked, fine. One of an unspecified but small number of copies of this poem, printed for
private distribution. Smith has inscribed this copy on the front, signed “Bill.” $75
847. SMITH, WILLIAM JAY & WILBUR, RICHARD. Verses on the Times. N.P., N.p.,
(1978). First edition. Small 4to, single leaf of watermarked Mardi Gras paper, folded once,
printed on three sides. A bit of rumpling, else fine. One of a small number of copies printed
on the occasion of Smith’s sixtieth birthday at his wife’s behest. The texts are the result of
an ongoing exchange between the two poets: as neighbors in Cummington, Massachusetts,
they enjoyed a game in which the first one to arrive at the local store on Sunday for the New
York Times would compose some spontaneous lines of verse on the other’s paper. Some of
the results are published here. Smith has inscribed and signed this copy (“Bill”) for Mrs.
Bullock. $100
848. SMITHDAS, ROBERT J. City of the Heart. New York: Taplinger Publishing Company,
(1966). First edition. 8vo, cloth. Fine in a lightly sunned dust jacket with a chip at the top of
the spine. The first book of poetry (and second book) by Smithdas, a deaf and blind poet. $20
849. SMYTHE, DANIEL. Strange Element: Selected Poems. Francestown, New Hampshire:
Golden Quill Press, (1966). First edition. 8vo, cloth-backed boards. Offsetting to front
endpaper from a clipping, else fine in a spine-faded dust jacket. Inscribed by Smythe to Mrs.
Bullock. $25
850. SMYTHE, DANIEL. Green Doors. Francestown, New Hampshire: Golden Quill Press,
(1971). First edition. 8vo, cloth. Fine in dust jacket, very lightly sunned on spine.
Presentation copy, inscribed by Smythe to Mrs. Bullock. $25
851. SMYTHE, DANIEL. The Best Poems of Daniel Smythe. Revised by the Author.
Francestown, New Hampshire: Golden Quill Press, (1974). First edition. 8vo, cloth. Fine in
dust jacket, with one small tear to the rear elbow. Inscribed by Smythe to Mrs. Bullock, with
some of her pencil notes. $30
852. SNEAD, HELEN OLSEN. My Kinsmen: All Danes. Lynchburg, Virginia: J.P. Bell
Company, 1961. First edition. 8vo, cloth. Fine in a lightly soiled dust jacket, one tear to rear
panel. Signed and dated by the poet on the half-title page at the time of publication. $25
853. SNODGRASS, W.D. In Radical Pursuit: Critical Essays and Lectures. New York: Harper
& Row, (1975). First edition. 8vo, blue and white cloth. Spine faded slightly, else fine in a
lightly sunned dust jacket. Presentation copy, inscribed by Snodgrass on the front flyleaf to
Mrs. Bullock. $100
854. SNODGRASS, W.D. The Führer Bunker: A Cycle of Poems in Progress. Brockport, New
York: BOA Editions, 1977. First edition. 8vo, red cloth. Tips a bit bumped, else fine in a
bright dust jacket with light rumpling. Presentation copy, inscribed by Snodgrass and signed
twice on the title page, to Mrs. Bullock. $125
855. (SNODGRASS, W.D.) SUTTER, BARTON. Cedarhome. Foreword by W.D. Snodgrass.
Brockport, New York: BOA Editions, 1977. First edition. 8vo, cloth. Fine in dust jacket.
Sutter’s first book, one of 250 clothbound copies (there were another 50 signed copies sobound)
This copy has been inscribed by Snodgrass on the first leaf to Mrs. Bullock, with a
carbon copy of her letter to Snodgrass, acknowledging receipt of the book. $75
856. SPELLMAN, FRANCIS CARDINAL. Prayers and Poems. New York: Charles Scribner’s
Sons, 1946. First edition. 8vo, cloth. Very good in a lightly rubbed and frayed dust jacket
with a tape-mended tear to the front. $35
857. SPELLMAN, FRANCIS CARDINAL. What America Means to Me and Other Poems and
Prayers. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1953. First edition. 8vo, cloth. Fine in a lightly