Edited by John R Strong (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Binding is not as tight. Slight discoloration to pages. DJ is covered with Mylar sheet. Minor wear along the DJ edges and tips. Some rubbing wear to DJ covers. Some light creases to DJ covers at some spots. Minor wear along the edges and tips of the book itself.…

Original Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition. First impression of the true first edition. SIGNED by the editor with note handwritten (to Peter Jay, Anvil Press Poetry - though not addressed) in black fountain pen on loosely inserted slip of thin card- paper: "Never mind about paying me for sub. (send me a pamphlet now & then!) Jon Ridland". Printed at Bill Horton's Sun Press, Santa Barbara. Also loosely inserted, two typed erratum slips: 'on front cover: for volume read number', and a typed review notice slip for a book of poems published by the editor of The Little Square Review. Also inserted to the rear is a detailed announcement of Menashtash by Alvaro Cardona-Hine, a small bilingual book of short poems in Spanish and English on facing pages by the well-known Los Angeles poet, Alvaro Cardona-Hine. ***Near fine in tan card wrappers. Spine slightly faded. Pages clean. No tears. Spine tight. ***150 mm x150 mm. 36 pages including short introduction / statements by the poets. ***First impression of the true first edition of the seventh issue of The Little Square Review in very nice collectable condition. ***Of interest to collectors of 1960s American poetry first edition small press and magazine titles. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Signed by Editor.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Limited Edition. Damp staining to the lower outer corners of the rear cover and last several leaves. Binding is cracked between two front blanks. Lower ends of inner hinges are weak. Outer corners have slight wear, rear lower outer corner is bumped. Spine has slight wear to the ends and is a bit darkened. ; From the limitations page: "This Letterpress Edition .is limited to Sixty numbered copies for private distribution." However, this copy is unnumbered. Included is a business card from the editor, with the handwritten presentation "Mr. Arthur Derby, with the compliments of the editor". The card and the page it was formerly attached to have rusty paper clip impressions.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Octavo. xxii, 85pp. Small abrasion on rear pastedown, moderate foxing on the cover with a small tear along the joint, very good, lacking the unprinted glassine dust jacket. Contains the first book appearance of five poems by Louis Simpson (as Louis Marantz Simpson) [1923-2012], who eventually earned a Ph.D. at Columbia University and was awarded the Medal for Excellence from Columbia University; his first collection of poems was The Arrivistes: Poems, 1940-1949 (published in 1949 by Fine Editions Press).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Octavo. xxii, 85pp. Spine and edges sunned, very good being poet Daniel Hoffman's copy with his name penned on the front fly, lacking the unprinted glassine dust jacket. Contains the first book appearance of five poems by Louis Simpson (as Louis Marantz Simpson) [1923-2012], who eventually earned a Ph.D. at Columbia University and was awarded the Medal for Excellence from Columbia University; his first collection of poems was The Arrivistes: Poems, 1940-1949 (published in 1949 by Fine Editions Press).…