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Large octavo. 217 pp. Original cream cloth lettered in red and black to the spine, in the publisher's pictorial dust jacket — Barbara Martin's cream design with mauve topographic lines and red, gray, and blue accent squares — in the publisher's clear acetate sleeve. Signed in black ink \"Robert Kelly\" at the colophon. 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The book is dedicated to the printer Mary Moore Goodlett (1950–1990): \"this book is for Mary Moore Goodlett 1950–1990 who shows me so much of the way.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePer the colophon, the book was issued in four states: paper wrappers; 200 cloth trade copies; 125 numbered hardcover copies signed by the author, of which this is one; and 26 lettered copies hand-bound in boards by Earle Gray, each with an original holograph poem by the poet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-003\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kelly, Robert","offers":[{"title":"Near Fine","offer_id":46459950661793,"sku":"TO-2026-003","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-003_01.jpg?v=1784613344"},{"product_id":"to-2026-005","title":"The Leaves (SIGNED)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLOEWINSOHN, Ron.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Leaves.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSIGNED LIMITED ISSUE — ONE OF 200 NUMBERED HARDCOVER COPIES, THIS NO. 97.\u003c\/strong\u003e Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1973.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst edition, signed limited issue: one of 200 numbered hardcover copies signed by the poet, this copy number 97 (the limitation number in red). Printed February 1973 in Santa Barbara by Noel Young for Black Sparrow Press; design by Barbara Martin. Large octavo. 27 pp. Original olive-green textured cloth boards, in the publisher's pictorial dust jacket in cream and buff with a delicate leaf-vine border framing the title, in the publisher's clear acetate sleeve. Signed in black ink \"Ron Loewinsohn\" at the colophon. ISBN 0-87685-147-2. Very good in a very good dust jacket; the olive cloth bright and clean with no shelf wear, the binding tight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA short collection of twenty-seven pages, dedicated \"this one is for the lady in the tree.\" \u003cem\u003eThe Leaves\u003c\/em\u003e finds Loewinsohn working in the spare, perception-centered manner he had refined since his Beat and San Francisco Renaissance beginnings — short-lined poems attentive to the natural world and to the act of seeing it, the leaf and the tree of the title serving as figures for noticing, change, and the passage of time. Barbara Martin's design frames the title page with a slender leaf-vine border in keeping with the book's name.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePer the colophon, the book was issued in three states: 1,000 copies in paper wrappers; 200 numbered copies signed by the poet, of which this is one; and 26 copies hand-bound in boards by Earle Gray, lettered and signed — the standard three-state Black Sparrow production of the period, of which the signed hardcover is the usual collector's target.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-005\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Loewinsohn, Ron","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":46459950727329,"sku":"TO-2026-005","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-005_01.jpg?v=1784613271"},{"product_id":"to-2026-006","title":"The Magellanic Clouds (SIGNED)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWAKOSKI, Diane.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Magellanic Clouds.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSIGNED LIMITED ISSUE — ONE OF 250 COPIES HANDBOUND BY EARLE GRAY, THIS NO. 155.\u003c\/strong\u003e Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1970.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst edition, signed limited issue: one of 250 copies handbound in boards by Earle Gray, numbered and signed by the poet, this copy number 155 (the limitation number in red). Printed January 1970 in Santa Barbara by Noel Young for the Black Sparrow Press; design by Barbara Martin. Large octavo. 150 pp. Blue cloth spine with a cream paper label, illustrated paper-covered boards carrying Barbara Martin's cloud-painting design across both panels. Signed in black ink \"Diane Wakoski\" at the colophon. Very good; the blue cloth spine clean, the paper label bright and the lettering crisp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlack Sparrow's first full-length collection by Diane Wakoski, gathering some fifty poems around the long title piece. The Magellanic clouds — the two satellite galaxies that orbit the Milky Way — give Wakoski a figure for the orbiting selves and absent lovers that drive the book: poems of longing, betrayal, and self-invention, written in the direct, incantatory, image-driven voice that became her signature. 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The poem opens under an epigraph from Robert Duncan, placing this coastal meditation in the lineage of San Francisco Renaissance poetry. 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Hilleary. Issued with its original envelope.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe text reproduces a letter written from Monterey by William R. Garner — the English expatriate who served as secretary to Walter Colton, the first U.S. alcalde of Monterey — first published in the Philadelphia \u003cem\u003eNorth American\u003c\/em\u003e on December 7, 1846. Garner's 1846–47 letters are among the most vivid and reliable firsthand accounts of California life in the years just before the Gold Rush; Colton himself drew on them for his own \u003cem\u003eThree Years in California\u003c\/em\u003e (1850). The original envelope makes a fitting presentation for a text that is itself a letter — a charming small-press production with a genuine double appeal: to collectors of Monterey and early-California history, and to the dedicated miniature-book collecting community.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-070\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Garner, William R.","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":46459952791713,"sku":"TO-2026-070","price":115.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-070_01.jpg?v=1784604612"},{"product_id":"to-2026-073","title":"This Open Zoo: A Bestiary (SIGNED)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFRANCIS, Dennis; LAGORIO, Irene (illustrator). \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis Open Zoo: A Bestiary.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST EDITION\u003c\/strong\u003e. 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Her hand-lettered calligraphy throughout, and her elaborate pictorial dust jacket with its striking sea-monster design, make this a distinctive piece of Carmel small-press bookmaking. A first-copy-off-the-press presentation from author to collaborator — about as close to the making of the book as a copy can stand.\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-073\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Francis, Dennis; Lagorio, Irene","offers":[{"title":"Fine","offer_id":46459952890017,"sku":"TO-2026-073","price":85.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-073_01.jpg?v=1784611697"},{"product_id":"to-2026-079","title":"Wrong Songs (SIGNED)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTATE, James. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWrong Songs.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST EDITION\u003c\/strong\u003e, one of 200 numbered copies signed by the author — this No. 97. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Halty Ferguson, 1970.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e27, [1] pp. Printed on Fabriano paper in Palatino type, bound in Japanese grasscloth boards with a printed paper spine label; designed and printed at the Ferguson Press, July 1970. The edition was limited to 200 numbered copies, all signed, of which only 150 were offered for sale. Signed by Tate on the limitation page. A near fine copy in the original blue dust jacket, with slight fading to the spine and a short closed tear to the upper front edge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWrong Songs\u003c\/em\u003e belongs to the remarkably prolific early-1970s period that followed: a slim chapbook gathering three poems — \"The Distant Orgasm,\" \"Breathing,\" and \"Two-Hundred-and-One\" — brief vignettes of grief, pleasure, and presence in the wry, surreal, quietly heartbreaking voice that became Tate's signature.\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-079\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tate, James","offers":[{"title":"Near Fine","offer_id":46459953152161,"sku":"TO-2026-079","price":185.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-079_01.jpg?v=1784609669"},{"product_id":"to-2026-087","title":"The Buck in the Snow \u0026 Other Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMILLAY, Edna St. Vincent. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Buck in the Snow \u0026amp; Other Poems.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST EDITION\u003c\/strong\u003e, signed limited issue, copy no. 353 of 515 numbered copies signed by the author — one of 479 printed on Arches handmade paper (a further 36 were on Japan vellum). New York and London: Harper \u0026amp; Brothers, 1928.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eOctavo. [viii], 69, [1] pp. Quarter ivory linen over gray paper-covered boards, printed paper spine label. A near fine copy: light toning to the board edges, characteristic of the ivory linen; armorial bookplate to the front pastedown. Housed in the original publisher's slipcase, which is soiled, and lacking its spine; the book itself sound and attractive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of Millay's major collections, issued in the prestige form Harper produced alongside the ordinary trade hardcover: handmade Arches paper, a quarter-linen binding, slipcase, and a colophon limitation signed by the poet herself. The collection holds several poems that entered the standard canon of twentieth-century American verse, among them \"Moriturus,\" \"On Hearing a Symphony of Beethoven,\" and the title poem, which remains one of the most anthologized of her shorter works. The volume sits at the hinge between her early Greenwich Village lyric brilliance and the more politically engaged poetry that followed her involvement in the Sacco and Vanzetti case.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe trade hardcover of \u003cem\u003eThe Buck in the Snow\u003c\/em\u003e is common. 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BAL 18827; Mattila A29.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA privately printed pamphlet from the last year of George Sterling's life, in a copy he appears to have gone over and corrected himself — a habit well attested in his privately printed and presentation copies. \u003cem\u003eStrange Waters\u003c\/em\u003e was privately printed in San Francisco in an edition of just 150 copies and advertised in the August 1926 issue of the \u003cem\u003eOverland Monthly\u003c\/em\u003e (Johnson, p. 38). Small private printings of this kind are the scarcest part of Sterling's bibliography — his major collections circulated widely, but a slim silk-tied pamphlet like this survives in far fewer hands. 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The poems take their subjects from the landscape and seasons of Santa Cruz and the California coast, with titles including \"A Song of the Sea,\" \"A Winter Storm in Santa Cruz,\" \"The Orphans' Christmas,\" and \"To Santa Cruz.\" A genuinely uncommon book: no copies were traced in the antiquarian market at the time of cataloguing, and only two institutional holdings could be located — a survival rate typical of modest, locally produced wrappered volumes from the period.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-093\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stack, William J.","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":46459954266273,"sku":"TO-2026-096","price":285.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-096_01.jpg?v=1784610713"},{"product_id":"to-2026-100","title":"A Book of Limericks","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSMALL PRESS CLUB OF MARIN COUNTY. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Book of Limericks.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST EDITION\u003c\/strong\u003e. Marin County, California: The Small Press Club of Marin County, 1975. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eA genuinely scarce object; no other copies were traced at the time of cataloguing. Of real interest to collectors of California private-press and amateur printing. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eSmall oblong volume, 21 leaves. Color relief illustrations. Stiff salmon wrappers with red lettering, brown plastic comb binding.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn unusual collaborative private-press production: twenty-one leaves of comic limericks, each leaf hand-set and printed by one of the member presses of the Small Press Club of Marin County, gathered into a single volume. 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Drypoints by Clare D. Lune and Marc Stacton. Oakland, California: The Conspiratorial Impermanent Press, 1984. Signed at the colophon by both Marc Stacton and Clare D. Lune.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTall octavo. 14 unnumbered leaves. Cream wrappers with an etched vignette to the front cover and lettering to the spine, in the publisher's glassine jacket. A near fine copy, with light wear, faint creasing to the lower front corner, and a small tear and chip to the rear glassine wrapper.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA posthumous fine-press gathering of poems by David Stacton (1923–1968), the San Francisco-born novelist and historian, produced as a thirty-copy artist's book and designed at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland. Its title echoes Faulkner, and the sequence appeared sixteen years after Stacton's death — his poetry far less known than his fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA careful piece of letterpress work: printed on Mohawk Letterpress stock, enfolded in Arches Cover sheets, the drypoints pulled in several states by Clare D. Lune and Marc Stacton, the whole designed at the California College of Arts and Crafts. The Conspiratorial Impermanent Press was one of the small CCAC-affiliated imprints producing limited artist's books in the period; thirty-copy editions seldom appear in the trade. This is copy number 30, the last in the edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-105\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stacton, David","offers":[{"title":"Fine","offer_id":46459954626721,"sku":"TO-2026-105","price":425.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-105_01.jpg?v=1784612352"},{"product_id":"to-2026-134","title":"The Cup of Gold","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGILLESPIE, Ruth Merriam.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Cup of Gold.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST EDITION\u003c\/strong\u003e, one of 500 copies. San Francisco: Taylor \u0026amp; Taylor, 1917. Illustrated by Anna Wille.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8vo. 18 unnumbered pages, with a mounted color frontispiece by Wille (\"And there in all its beauty lay the Dream-Child\"), an additional black-and-white plate, and a mounted black-and-white illustration on the front wrapper. Pale green string-tied wrappers, the front cover with mounted illustration set within gilt rules and dark green lettering. A very good copy: short closed tears along the edges of the wrappers and age toning, contents fresh and clean.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGillespie's brief fairy tale — \"a great and beautiful country on the shore of the western ocean which in the ages long ago was inhabited only by the Fairies of the Hills and the Sea\" — is set within the careful Taylor \u0026amp; Taylor typography (red ornamental rule borders, ornamental initials, a poppy device on the title page) for which the press is now collected. 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