Multitudes by Clampitt Amy (11 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition from 1973, inscribed by author on title page. Softbound in green laid paper with a stapled binding. Paper cover has a large (3" across and 4" down) tear on backside that has been repaired with cellophane tape. There is also some fading, especially near spine, a creased lower front outer corner, and a tiny chip at lower spine edge. Author's inscription with sentiment in red pen. Laid paper text pages are clean and unmarked. 69 pages. LO. Signed. …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Inscribed on tp by author, her first book, stapled softcover, 1st edn, slight fading along spine else attractive copy. Inscribed by Author(s).

Paperback. Condition: Near fine. First Edition, First Printing. Thin octavo. 5.5 x 8.5 in. 69 pp. Sunning to spine, otherwise near fine in original plain-lettered stapled wrappers. Signed on the title page by Clampitt. Her first book of poety. Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Not Issued. First Edition. First edition, first prnt. Printed stapled wraps. No hardcover edition. Printed on laid paper in Monotype Bembo italic. Faint toning on the spine fold. Near Fine condition. Clampitt's first book.

Condition: Very Good. First edition. Green laid paper printed wraps, stapled. [4], 69, [1] pages. Title page in red and black. Wraps a bit discolored at edges. This copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Clampitt to classical scholar Martha Browne as "the first purchaser of this volume.".

Unknown Binding. Condition: Good. Paperback, INSCRIBED by the author. Typical ware from use, top and bottom of front cover edges curled, still a GOOD+ copy.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. Fine A collection of poems. The author's first book. First edition (paperback). SIGNED by the author on the title page. Fine in green, stapled wraps.; 69 pages; Signed by Author.

Wraps. First edition. 8vo, 69pp; wrappers. The poet's scarce and delicate first book, this copy warmly inscribed and signed by Clampitt to a fellow poet, dated 1983. Spine very slightly sunned, tiny dents to corners, fine.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Stapled wrappers. 69pp. Spine a touch tanned, else fine, and still in the original manilla envelope addressed to Daniel Hoffman. Inscribed by the author to fellow poet Daniel Hoffman on the title page. Additionally, laid in is a typed letter addressed to Daniel Hoffman Signed by the author. The author's first chapbook.…

New York, Washington Street Press. 1973. 8vo. Sage green stapled paper wraps with black title lettering to front cover; pp. [vii] 69, [1]; slight corner crease to bottom of back cover; minor nick to foot of spine; two very faint ink corrections in author's hand on p. 25; otherwise near fine. First Edition of the author's scarce first book, signed by the author to front free endpaper.When Amy Clampitt published this debut volume of poems, Multitudes, Multitudes, in 1974 she was as yet an unknown voice but this would prove to be a crucial marker of her evolution into one of the most highly regarded American poets. She was 63 upon the publication of Kingfisher in 1983, and she became an established name, compared to the likes of Emily Dickinson and Elizabeth Bishop. It was at her own expense that she published this scarce first book, a poetry chapbook, and a work which caught the eye of Howard Moss, the poetry editor of The New Yorker who from then on began to lend Clampitt her deserving platform.…

Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. New York: Washington Street Press, 1973. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's green printed staple bound wrappers; [4],69pp. Very light sunning to wrapper margins, else a Fine example. Inscribed and signed on front free endpaper verso, "For Kay Masson [?] / Clearly a kindred spirit, with grateful esteem -- Amy Clampitt / 30 March, 1988." Together with a one-paged typed letter with the same date and recipient, evidently a former Grinnell classmate who had gotten in touch with Clampitt after discovering her latest poetry collection "Archaic Figure" (1987). "[T]o hear that one's work has given pleasure, especially to a friend from one's early days, is just about the most satisfying thing that can happen to anybody who happens to have published a book.I wish too that I had been better acquainted with one so clearly on a similar wavelength. The truth is that I was too un-grown-up, unconfident and confused to be close to anyone during my time at Grinnell." Clampitt then offers Kay a copy of this, her first book, famously not published until the poet was in her fifties. Signed.…