Mill Mountain Press (35 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Pale gray wraps have title in brown ink. Wraps show some exposure, wear to head edge, a few marks to back cover, a small ding, edgewear. Corners are a little softened. See photos. Spine has brown text and is darkened with firm ends. Perfect binding is strong. Signed and inscribed on…

Portfolio. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. Gray covers with white cloth at spine are mostly clean, with red text. Boards show a few smudges. Corners are sharp. Spine has gilt text and is bright with firm ends. Illustrations, color collotypes, are bright and clear, plates have mats. Interior exhibits minimal signs of age a…

Wraps. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Stanford's fifth collection of poems. A stated First Edition. 6.25 in. x 10 in. 32pp., in green wraps with dark green printed titles on the spine and front cover. Illustrated with 2 b/w drawings and a b/w photograph of a painting, all by Ginny Crouch Stanford, the author's wife. A Very…

First printing. 56 pp., 6 x 9 inches. Side-stapled and glued into printed card covers. Uncredited frontispiece portrait of the author, and two-color title page illustration, repeated in part on the front cover. The usual sunning to the spine, and three very small discolorations to back cover that suggest strongly that the bindin…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. 56 pp. with uncredited portrait at front and brief bio at rear. Navy wraps with black and pink designs. Very Good with small tear at head, sunning along top edge, corners bumped, former owner's name written on half title page, tiny stain to half title and to bottom c…

Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 3 volumes. 8vo. 1st edition. SIGNED by Stanford. Together with Mill Mountain Review Volume 1-2 and Volume 1-3. Staining to upper joint of front wrapper of The Singing Knives, also affecting spine and rear wrapper. Slight soiling to rear wrapper with minor creasing to joint. Minor so…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Illustrated wrappers as issued. A bit of sunning mostly on and along the edges of the spine, corners a little bumped, a very good or better copy. Inscribed by the author to a fellow poet: "For D.H., Frank Stanford." The recipient, Daniel Hoffman was at the time, the Consultant in P…

Condition: Near Fine. Seattle, WA: Mill Mountain Press, 1975. Limited First Edition, of an unspecified number of copies. Slim octavo(24.5cm); publisher's blue card wraps; 28pp.; illus. Covers clean and crisp. Binding sound and pages unmarked. Fourth poetry collection by the Ozark poet (the "swamprat Rimbaud" per Lorenzo Thomas),…

Condition: Near Fine. First edition. A Near Fine copy of this scarce and important work of modern poetry. Publisher's white pictorial wrappers reproducing a harrowing Vietnam War photograph. Some rubbing to back cover and an ink stain to inside of front cover (not visible from exterior). A very appealing copy of a book that is n…

First Edition. First Printing. Slim octavo (25cm); olive green card wrappers, with titles printed in dark green on spine and front cover; [9],10-32pp, with three illustrations by Ginny Crouch Stanford. A fresh, Fine copy of the Arkansas poet's fifth collection of poems, with several of these previously appearing in the pages of…

First Edition. First Printing. Slim octavo (24.75cm); light blue-gray card wrappers, with titles printed in reddish-brown on spine and front cover; [9],10-28,[4]pp, with two full-page illustrations by Ginny Crouch Stanford. A fresh, Fine copy of the Arkansas poet's fourth book of poems, with several of these previously published…

First Edition. First edition, first printing. Signed by C.D. Wright on the title page, inscribed to fellow poet/publisher Douglas Blazek. 30 pp. Bound in publisher's blue wraps lettered in black. Very Good+ with light fading to spine and top edges, light soiling to wraps. The late Rhode Island poet laureate's rare first book, he…

First Edition. Slim octavo (25cm); original burgundy card wrappers, titled in navy blue on spine and front cover; [9],10-38,[2]pp, with nine illustrations by Ginny Crouch Stanford. Inscribed by the author along the lower margin of the title page: "For Linda / Frank Stanford." Gentle sunning to spine, some trivial wear to extremi…

First Edition. Slim octavo (25cm); original olive green card wrappers, titled in dark green on spine and front cover; [9],10-32pp, with three illustrations by Ginny Crouch Stanford. Inscribed by the author along the lower margin of the half-title page: "For Linda / Frank Stanford." Gentle sunning to spine, light wear to extremit…

First edition. Perfect-bound printed wrappers. 28, [4] pp. Two illustrations by Ginny Crouch Stanford. The fourth book by the great doomed poet. Always scarce, Stanford's Mill Mountain books have become quite rare and dear in the wake of the publication of his collected poems What About This in 2015. Extremely slight sunning to…

Condition: Fine. First Edition. Tall trade paperbound volume of poems by the cult poet hero, Frank Stanford. Drawings by Ginny Crouch Stanford. 30 pages. A sharp, Fine copy in simple bound blue wrappers, lettered in red. The author's fourth collection and one of the more elusive books in his all too brief career. Considered an e…