Elizabeth Alexander, Poetry, First Edition (35 results)

2005 Alexander, Elizabeth AMERICAN SUBLIME St Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, c2005 first printing 93pp 8vo Uncreased spine, fine bright unread trade paperback.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of this collection of eleven pieces of writing including novelettes, short stories and poetry. Featured are Crimes, Follies, Misfortunes and Love by Ian Creasey (novelette), Warning Label by Alexander Jablkov (novelette), Slow Boat by Gregory Norman Bossert (novelette), Superluminosity by Alan Wall (short story), The Lovely Ugly by Carol Emshwiller (short story), The Battle of Little Big Science by Pamela Rentz (short story) The Witch, the Tinman, The Flies by JM Sidorova (short story), On the Horizon by Nick Wolven (short story), Cultural Boundaries by FJ Bergmann (poetry), A Wrong Turn by Elizabeth Penrose (poetry) and the Great Peeloff by Qadira P Garger. In Fine Condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Cooper, Floyd (illustrator). 1st Edition. Stated First Edition. The Book Is Bound Within Boards With Gray Textured Paper Over One Quarter Red Cloth With Gilt Lettering On The Spine. Usual Library Markings. The Jacket Has Been Protected By Clear Plastic. Without The Library Markings The Book Is Very Gook Plus.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. [Boston]: Ploughshares / Emerson College. Fine. 2004. First Edition. Softcover. 0933277407 . First edition. Magazine. Pictorial [Pat de Groot] wrappers [about 5.5" x 8.5"], 189 pages plus ads. Fine copy. clph(plough).

Condition: Very Good. First edition copy. . (poetry).

Paperback. Condition: Fine. 1st. First Edition, First Printing; unpaginated; stapled wraps.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine in glossy wraps. Bright, snug & unmarked first printing. Review Copy with publisher's slip.

Paperback. poetry (illustrator). Uncorrected Proof. Paperback. Uncorrected Proof. A fine book in publisher's plain cream colored wraps. A paperback original that uses dreams to meditate on the strangeness of race and family.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Cooper, Floyd (illustrator). 1st Edition. Signed by Elizabeth Alexander above her name on title page. Clean throughout. DJ in archival cover. Signed by Author(s).

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Pictorial [Jane Ehrlich] wrappers [about 5.5" x 8.5"], 212 pages plus ads. Fine copy. . cel.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Decorated/pictorial wrappers [about 5.5" x 8.25"], saddle-stapled, 72+ pages, illustrated. Near fine with a trace of wear. bx60.

Soft Cover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition/1st Printing. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Author Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. No Jacket. First Thus. First Thus. Published by Poets & Writers, 2011. Octavo. Red boards stamped in white. Book is like new; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Boards have light shelf wear. No dust jacket. 36 pages. ISBN: 9780615531250. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York. We Buy Books! Individual titles, libraries, collections. Message us if you have books to sell!

First edition, first printing As new and bright stiff wraps with strong spine and clean text. Gift quality.

Condition: NEAR FINE. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) A beautifully written and very moving account of the sudden death of her husband by this noted African American poet - and also a picture of a rich and loving marriage. Ficre Ghebreyesus, born in Eritrea and a refuge from the war there, was known both as a gifted artist and a creative chef, when he died at just 50. 209 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers (corner slightly bumped).

First edition Fine and bright all around in glossy dustjacket with crisp bright text throughout.

Softcover; First Printing. Condition: F. First Edition. PBO fine unread first edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Cooper, Floyd (illustrator). 1st Edition. Hardcover with DJ. Black, textured paper over board with rd cloth over spine. Gilt stamping to spine. Title page not dated. Copyright page dated 2007. 47 pages. Very good condition. Covers clean, corners square. DJ has minimal shelf wear. Binding stiff. Pages clean. SIGNED by author Elizabeth Alexander (just name) on title page. Book of poetry was illustrated by Floyd Cooper. Signed by Author(s).

First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover; American Poets Project 19.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Graywolf Press, Minneapolis, 2010. First edition. First printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. A clean, tight copy. Comes with archival-quality dust jacket protector. Shipped in well-padded box. Smoke-free. POETRY, REAR STACKS.

2010 Alexander, Elizabeth GRAVE RADIANCE Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, c2010 first printing 255pp 8vo As new unread hardcover in as new d/j.

Hardcover. 117p., introduction, the novel in German & English on facing pages, very good first edition thus in red cloth boards and price-clipped dj, Prose poem from the 15th century.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. In fine condition; tiny translucent stain at left edge of back cover; faint dusting top edge of book; light soiling bottom edge of book; otherwise, as new. SIGNED by author on title page. 255 numbered pages. 9 x 6 in. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. x, 358 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. ; LCCN 95050472 ; LC Z2014.P7 B39 1997 ; ISBN 9780847819584, 0847819582 ; OCLC 33818867 ; black and tan cloth in photographic dustjacket ; The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture ; Contents: Foreword / by Paul LeClerc -- Introduction / by Rodney Phillips -- The magical value of manuscripts / Dana Gioia -- Poems and papers. John Donne -- Alexander Pope -- William Blake -- Robert Burns -- William Wordsworth -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Leigh Hunt -- George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron -- Percy Bysshe Shelley -- John Keats -- Emily Bronte? -- William Cullen Bryant -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Henry David Thoreau -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Oliver Wendell Holmes -- James Russell Lowell -- Walt Whitman -- Emily Dickinson -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Alfred Lord Tennyson -- William Makepeace Thackeray -- Lewis Carroll -- Robert Louis Stevenson -- Rudyard Kipling -- Thomas Hardy -- Charlotte Mew -- Hilaire Belloc -- Oscar Wilde -- Ernest Dowson -- William Butler Yeats -- James Stephens -- Robert Frost -- Edward Thomas -- Siegfried Sassoon -- Rupert Brooke -- Issac Rosenberg -- Humbert Wolfe -- Anna Wickham -- D.H. Lawrence -- Robert Graves -- Elinor Wylie -- Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Robinson Jeffers -- William Faulkner -- Wallace Stevens -- William Carlos Williams -- Ezra Pound -- T.S. Eliot -- Marianne Moore -- E.E. Cummings -- Vladimir Nabokov -- W.H. Auden -- Louise Bogan -- Kay Boyle -- Lorine Niedecker -- Louis Zukofsky -- Charles Olson -- Stanley Kunitz -- Jean Garrigue -- May Sarton -- Muriel Rukeyser -- Delmore Schwartz -- Dylan Thomas -- Randall Jarrell -- John Berryman -- Robert Lowell -- Elizabeth Bishop -- Howard Moss -- Richard Wilbur -- Jack Kerouac -- Allen Ginsberg -- Gary Snyder -- Robert Duncan -- Denise Levertov -- Robert Creeley -- James Schuyler -- Frank O'Hara -- Kenneth Koch -- Ted Berrigan -- Ron Padgett -- Anne Waldman -- Donald Justice -- Samuel Menashe -- James Merrill -- Amy Clampitt -- James Wright -- W.S. Merwin -- Anne Sexton -- Sylvia Plath -- Philip Levine -- Jean Valentine -- Adrienne Rich -- Imamu Amiri Baraka -- Mark Strand -- Louise Glu?ck -- Charles Simic -- Ai -- Dana Gioia -- Julia Alvarez -- The Prado of poetry : a history of the Berg Collection / Dana Gioia -- Suggestions for further reading -- Checklist of illustrations/permissions -- Acknowledgments -- Index ; Based on an enormously successful exhibition at The New York Public Library, The Hand of the Poet draws the reader into the real world of the poet - ink spots, tobacco stains, and all - by presenting a wide range of working drafts, letters, diary entries, photographs, and memorabilia. One hundred writers from the seventeenth century to the present day are represented. Biographies and portraits of each poet - alongside manuscripts of such legendary works as Yeats's "The Wild Swans at Coole" and W.H. Auden's "Stop All the Clocks"--Make up a mosaic that offers powerful and often surprising revelations of the person behind the poem ; FINE/FINE. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First printing. Chapbook. A fine copy. A clean, unmarked copy. Note: Very light fading on spine (as pictured). Although not marked in any such way, this book came from the library of poet and literary critic J.D. McClatchy, from his estate in Stonington, Connecticut. One of the 100 numbered copies (#61, marked on colophon) of this collection of poetry dedicated to Patricia Willis (one of which is written by McClatchy).

Softcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. First edition. Trade paperback original. INSCRIBED by Elizabeth Alexander. Fine in pictorial printed wrappers. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Red glossy cloth on boards with horizontal green lining wrapping from front around spine to rear. Titling to spine as well. Small book is tight, square, particularly sharp-cornered and free of markings and flaws inside and out - matching red endpapers. Book is Fine. Unclipped Dust Jacket with attractive design also Fine. First Edition, First Printing. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry on May 1, 1950, for "Annie Allen", making her the first African American to receive a Pulitzer Prize. We have multiple other copies from this series.

Condition: Very Good -. Saint Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 2009. First Graywolf Printing, with full numberline. 12mo; publisher's dark blue staplebound card wrappers lettered in silver foil; [28]pp. Wrappers and textblock rather warped and creased from overhandling, light wear and a bit of thumbsoiling to top page edges just entering margins on a couple pages, else a Good to Very Good, sound copy. Inscribed and twice signed on title page: "For Bruce, with much love always, Elizabeth.".

Stapled program. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. [ART]. MARSHALL, Kerry James, ALEXANDER, Elizabeth. "The Dedication and Blessing of the Now and Forever Windows by Kerry James Marshall with the Original Poem American Song by Elizabeth Alexander." Washington DC: Washington National Cathedral, September 23, 2023. English language. Program with stapled glossy pictorial paper wrappers. Text with musical notation. 11 x 8 1/2 inches. 2 oz. 12 pp. Text clean. Very Good. No ISBN. "A program for the dedication of Marshall's windows. The new windows and poetry grew out of a decision in 2017 to permanently remove windows that honored Confederate Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson. Through this new addition to the Cathedral, we hope to tell a broader, more inclusive story of American history. We want to be a place where everyone sees their story reflected in the Cathedral?s art and iconography, and that means you!".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 384 pp. ; illustrations ; grey and beige cloth ; wear to covers ; brown lettering and design on front cover ; gold lettering on spine ; notation by previous owner on front ep ; line drawings by Marion Connelly ; a large collection of poetry, largely written during World War II, with many poignant passages : "Veils in a marihuana fantasy" (!) from Lucile Coleman's "The Prodigal Muse" ; "The little, lisping, yellow, apes / Coming in the most grotesque shapes / Brought America to her knees" from William Comeau's "The Eagle's Scream" ; "Transfusing my blood with avid tooth / They thus renew their vampire youth" from Lucile Coleman's "Dirge of a War Nurse" ; "I shall know peace / When I walk alone in other years / With eyes grown dry from ex cess tears / When dreams and plans are past / And I am free of you / At last" from Charles Forde's "Finality" ; detailed biographical listings for each poet at back, many probably now the only source of information on several of them ; foxing ; Poet s include : Clarence Adams, Ralph Sturtevant Adams, Alvarita Ashe, Isabel Allam, Elam Allen, Charles T. Alexander, Mary B. Anderson, Florence Archer, Sallie Arnold, Athena, Selina Avery, Helen Axtell, Dorothy Baer, Fanny Hazelton Baker, Henry G. Baker, Ella Ballew, Walter Bardeck, Anne Barlow, Maude Barragan, Florence Bartsch, Ruth Bassett, Anita Bassford, Joseph Bean, William Beckett, Florence Beebe, Faye Benbow, Harriet Blackwell, Bennie Bledsoe, Lura Boles, Stella Boren, Nancy Boston, Berni ce Bradford, Johnielu Bradford, Marguerite Brennan, Grace Brown, Elizabeth Browne, Hazel Bruner, Adelaide Bunn, Vena Burt, Adah Byrnes, Janet Cade, Maud Cain, Elise Campbell, Ethel Carlson, Leona Carlson, Janet Carney, Mandfred Carter, Arthur Chaam beau, Ida Chamberlain, Petronella Chapp, Gladys Chasey, Lorene Childress, Charlotte Chittick, Forrest Gordon Clark, Maude Clark, Martha Cochran, Lucile Coleman, Edna Collins, Veda Collins, William Comeau, Isabel Conant, Virginia Conway, S. Arthur Cook, Gertrude Cooper, Peggy Copeland, A. Bertha Cote, John Cotter, Mabelle Cottle, Josephine Courtright, Mildred Creath, J E Crews, Kathryn Cross, Laaura Cudahy, Miriam Dabbs, Lorene Dandridge, Grace Day, Prentice Douglas, Frances Dowell, John Gray Duncan, Georgia Moore Eberling, Alletah Glasier, Ida Clarice Gowan, Florence Rupert Graves, E J Grigsby, Gertrude Hanson, Ruth Hazelton, John Herget, William Sidney Hillyer, Anne George Hudgins, Eleanor Hughes, Annis Humphries, Enid Daniel Jones, Ber nice De Hart Kelley, Thomas Brockholst Livingston, Henry Luoma, Dorothy Lewis Maddux, Ralph Duane McKinnis, Helen Meier, Anne Methvin, Della Miller, Martha Norburn, Eugene Okarma, Elizabeth Winston Sheehan, Bess Foster Smith, Peggy Opal Snyder, Bern ard Tankersley, Lillian Carson Terhune, Anne Trousdale, Leonard Charles Van Noppen, Allen E. Woodall, Leander Zimmerman, etc ; G. Book.