E-LIST #18
New York School of Poetry
We are proud to present a list of works of poets from the first and second eras of the New York School: Ashbery, Berrigan, Brainard, O'Hara, Schuyler, and Waldman. The Poetry Foundation sums up the influential group thusly:
"The New York School refers to a group of experimental painters and a coterie of associated poets who lived and worked in downtown Manhattan in the 1950s and 60s. The painter Robert Motherwell coined the name, playing off the pre-World War II École de Paris [... ] Similarly, the New York School was not an academic institution but rather a community built on proximity, relationships, and similarities in styles, methods, and subject matter.Though stylistic diversity existed within the group, New York School poetry tended to be witty, urbane, and conversational."
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The Double Dream of Spring
Ashbery, John
New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1970. First edition. Inscribed by John Ashbery on the title page. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. The title comes from a painting by de Chirico. A contemporary review in The New York Times stated, "This is Ashbery at his best, with all his characteristic difficulty, but also with his humor and his lyric gift." Item #140937372
$1,250
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Rivers and Mountains
Ashbery, John
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966. First edition, cloth issue. Signed by Ashbery on the title page. Tiny scuff to front board, else Fine in Near Fine rubbed and very slightly spine sunned unclipped jacket. An early collection by the Pulitzer-winning American poet. Item #140938310
$900
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New Haven: Yale University Press, 1956. First edition of the author's first regularly-published book. Inscribed on the title page in 1992. Near Fine with slight musty odor to pages, pages toned, non-authorial previous owner gift inscription to front free end paper, in Near Fine dust jacket with a darkened spine and light edge wear. There is a faint stain to the rear panel of the dust jacket, with a faint corresponding damp affect to the rear cloth. Else a lovely copy, signed by the poet. Item #140937325
$1,850
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The Tennis Court Oath
Ashbery, John
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1962. First edition. Inscribed to former owner on title page. Grolier Book Shop ticket to front free end paper, rubbing to poet's name on spine, else Fine. In a Near Fine dust jacket with toning to the spine panel, and revised price sticker over publisher's price. A lovely copy of the scarce cloth-bound issue, signed by the acclaimed American poet. Item #180214002
$1,900
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New York: Tibor de Nagy Gallery, 1953. First edition. Inscribed to previous owner. Very Good with toning to wraps, light chipping and cracking at fragile yapped edges, short split started at top of spine. A nice copy of the fragile production; one of 300 copies, and the poet's first book. Item #180222003
$3,800
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A fantastic association copy, inscribed by Jim Carroll to his mentor Ted Berrigan and wife Alice Notley
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The Basketball Diaries
Carroll, Jim; [Berrigan, Ted; Notley, Alice]
Bolinas, CA: Tombouctou, 1978. First edition. A fantastic association copy, signed by Jim Carrol, inscribed to poets Ted Berrigan and his wife Alice Notley on the half-title page, "To Ted + Alice, 'I'll be right there'... All my love, Jim 10/7/78." Berrigan was a central figure in the second generation of the New York School of Poets. While teaching at St. Mark's Poetry Project in the Bowery, Berrigan took a very young Carroll under his wing, introducing him to figures such as William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac. A blurb on the rear cover supplied by Kerouac reads, "At 13 years of age, Jim Carroll writes better than 89% of the novelists working today."
Berrigan made his admiration of Carroll known, dedicating several of his poems to him, and publishing an article entitled "Jim Carroll" in a 1969 issue the journal Culture Hero, heaping high praise, exclaiming "Jim Carroll has to be the biggest thing arriving in heroic culture right now."
Bound in publisher's wraps with black and white author photo on the front cover taken by Rosemary Klemfuss. Very Good with spine lean, creases to spine and covers, stain to textblock edge occasionally affecting margins, light scuffs to half-title page, several page corners creased. The fictionalized memoir of juvenile delinquency and heroin abuse that inspired the 1995 film starring Leonardo DiCaprio. Carroll's best-known work, inscribed to his mentor and major figure in New York poetry, in the year of publication. Item #140938225
$5,500
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New York: Boke Press, 1968. First edition. Side-stapled mimeographed sheets, printed on rectos only. Very Good+ with uneven toning to rear cover, light wear, rusting to staples. A lovely copy featuring text by Berrigan and drawings by Brainard. Item #140938277
$375
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The Sonnets
Berrigan, Ted
(New York): Lorenz & Ellen Gude, 1964. First edition. Side-stapled 8.5" x11" sheets, printed on rectos only, with terminal blank leaf present, which is missing in most copies; no stiff leaf at rear, which may have not been included on most copies. Unnumbered copy from a stated run of 300. Very Good with bumped corners and lightly worn edges, slightly soiled back wraps, a little bit of foxing. The poet's scarce first book, praised by Frank O'Hara and generally considered his best work. Item #170129006
$1,500
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The Banana Book
Brainard, Joe
New York: Siamese Banana Press, 1972. First edition. Side-stapled mimeographed sheets, printed on rectos only. Near Fine with light toning and light wear, rusting to staples. Item #140938276
$250
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New York: Siamese Banana Press, 1972. First edition. Side-stapled mimeographed sheets, printed on rectos only. Near Fine with light toning, foxing and wear, rusting to staples. A lovely copy. Item #140938278
$175
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C Comics No. 2
Brainard, Joe; Berrigan, Ted; Ashbery, John; O'Hara, Frank; et al
New York: Boke Press, 1965. First edition. 4to. Stapled wraps. The second of two installments in this series featuring poems by New York School of Poets, including the likes of Frank O'Hara, Ted Berrigan, Joe Brainard, John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch and Ron Padgett, illustrated by Brainard. Very Good. Toning to wraps, light wear. Item #140938279
$550
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 A City Winter
O'Hara, Frank
New York: Tibor de Nagy Gallery, 1951. First edition. Folded and gathered sheets, unbound as issued; with two reproductions of drawings by Larry Rivers. One of 130 copies in the regular issue [of an edition of 150 total] as per colophon at rear, this copy is unnumbered. Not all copies of the regular issue were bound since there was a large over-run totaling twice the amount specified in the colophon. Perhaps the publisher's ran out of the decorative blue paper for use as covers on these extra copies, which may account for these unbound sets which were distributed as unnumbered "folded paper" copies.
Near Fine. Erased bookseller notation and stain to outer blank sheet, which protrudes slightly onto the bottom edge of title page as well, else a lovely copy. Housed in a half black morocco leather solander case stamped in gilt, covered in decorative paper that appears identical to the paper utilized by Tibor de Nagy for covers. A very uncommon collection of the O'Hara's first book, and the first book to be issued in this series by Tibor de Nagy. Item #140938018
$2,650
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The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara
O'Hara, Frank; Allen, Donald (Editor); Ashbery, John (Introduction)
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. First edition in first state binding with first issue jacket. (Later states of binding had blind-stamped, rather than gilt, lettering. Jacket with Larry Rivers nude art was suppressed after some found it objectionable.) Near Fine with faint tidemark along front board bottom in Near Fine unclipped jacket, lightly worn along edges, creased front flap. Slight musty odor. Item #171018005
$600
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 Love Poems (Tentative Title)
O'Hara, Frank
New York: Tibor De Nagy Editions, 1965. First edition. Publisher's purple and white striped wraps with titles in red, with the usual offsetting to the title page from the purple stripes. Very Good, with light toning, light staining to the rear cover near the spine. A scarce work by O'Hara, one of 500 unnumbered copies published by the Tibor De Nagy Gallery. Gallery founder John Bernard Myers would edit the definitive 1969 anthology The Poets of the New York School. Item #180715010
$1,200
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Lunch Poems (The Pocket Poets Series)
O'Hara, Frank
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1964. First edition. (No additional printings on copyright page or back cover, price of $1.25 as per Cook.) Very Good Clean, bright pages. Light wear along edges of spine. Light crease to back cover corner. Name and date penned on title page. The first appearance of the enduringly-popular poetry collection. Item #150329006
$600
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Meditations in an Emergency
O'Hara, Frank
New York: Grove Press, 1957. First edition. Issued in a special edition of 15 copies, a limited edition of 75, and here as an Evergreen Book of Poetry. Bound in publisher's stiff wraps printed in black. Very Good with fading to spine, light soiling to wraps, pages lightly toned. Item #140937949
$1,250
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May 24th Or So
Schuyler, James
New York: Tibor de Nagy Editions, 1966.
First edition, limited issue, #20 of only 20 copies signed by Schuyler on verso of rear wrap. Wraps. A Fine copy. A rare signed limited edition from the late Pulitzer-winning poet. Item #180721003
$2,250
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 The Morning of the Poem
Schuyler, James
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1980. Inscribed to former owner on front free endpaper, dated March 1980, a few months before publication. First edition. Review copy with review slip and press release about author laid in.Near Fine with light wear in a spine-toned dust jacket, else Near Fine and unclipped. Winner of the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, signed by the poet in the year of publication. Item #180721004
$600
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New York: Angel Hair, 1969. First edition. One of 474 unsigned, unnumbered trade copies, according to the colophon. Stapled wraps. Very Good, with toning at edges of cover, light wear, tiny stains, and dust soiling. Item #140920019
$200
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