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paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Ross, Lilly (illustrator). Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

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Paperback or Softback. Zustand: New. Red Tail Pilots in the Sunset: Tuskegee Heroes Tell Their Stories. Book.

Zustand: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

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Zustand: New.

Zustand: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Ginny Crouch Stanford (illustrator). 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 half-title page. Ink transfer to verso of front cover. See photos. Illustrations, line drawings, are bright and clear. Interior exhibits minimal signs of age and wear. Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks.** PS2025.1023** 49 pages. 6 x 9.75 inches** Scarce signed copy of the fourth book by Arkansas poet Frank Stanford (1948-1978). Pale gray wrappers with title stamped in brown, four illustrations in the text by Ginny Crouch Stanford. Some wear to the wraps at head edge and toning to extremities and spine panel. Interior, on tan stock, is unmarked. Inscribed "For Linda, Frank Stanford" on the half-title page. Condition is overall Very Good.** This collection of thirty poems came toward the middle of Stanford's brief career, and it carries the hallmarks of a maturing poetic voice. No longer a novice writer, Stanford had come into his own by this point; his sense of rhythm and imagery brings the reader into intense contact with ideas of death, solitude, and angst.** First edition. Copyright page states "Second Edition," but this is the true first edition since there was no prior edition. Signed and inscribed by author on half-title page.** "Postage for oversized and international shipping will be calculated by size and weight. AbeBooks shipping quotes are ESTIMATES only. Seller Inventory #010345"**. Inscribed by Author(s).

Portfolio. Zustand: Very Good. Marc Chagall (illustrator). 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 and wear. Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks. Protective flap at head edge of portfolio is foxed. See photos. Portfolio retains its original corrugated carton marked "Chagall Gouaches."** PS2025.1022** 15 pages + 10 plates. 14.75 x 19.75 inches** A Very Good Plus copy of this portfolio edition of works by Marc Chagall (1887-1985). Limited Edition in facsimile, published by Harry N. Abrams in cooperation with Pheobus-Verlag of Basel. The portfolio contains a sampling of Chagall's works from the 1910s to 1950s. Complete, with all ten matted color collotypes, as issued. Large portfolio sheets and introductory text are housed in hardcover portfolio. Introduction by Georg Schmidt, translated into English by Robert Allen. Portfolio has a few smudges, foxing to flap at head.** "Postage for oversized and international shipping will be calculated by size and weight. AbeBooks shipping quotes are ESTIMATES only. Seller Inventory #010348"**.

Paperback / softback. Zustand: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.

Wraps. Zustand: Near Fine. First Edition. Scarce copy of the poets 4th book. 32pp., in blue grey wraps, with titles printed in red. Illustrated with 2 b/w drawings by Ginny Crouch Stanford. Small stain to the front cover, slight fading to the spine, else Very Good.

Wraps. Zustand: 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 Good copy with light soiling to the front cover. Scarce.

First edition. 28 pp. A few smudges to front cover, a handful of droplet marks to rear. In all, very good plus in printed wrappers, the concluding leaf bound upside-down. Stanford's fourth collection of poems, illustrated with two drawings by Ginny Crouch Stanford.

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 binding of this issue is actually stapled and then glued into the wrappers (a detail I've not seen previously noted), otherwise very close to fine and uncommon thus. The author's scarce first book, inscribed to publisher E. V. Griffith:For E.V. Griffith, This is about the last book from the original edition; another will be out soon. Frank StanfordAdditionally, Stanford has added "Partisan R." to the list of previous publications on the copyright page, in the same ink as the inscription, and someone - almost certainly the author -?has in a different color of ink crossed out the last sentence of the short biography on the last page, which states that Stanford, "lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and attends the University of Arkansas, occasionally.".

Paperback. Zustand: 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 corner. The poet's first collection, issued in a very small run on Irv Broughton's press.

Wrappers. Zustand: 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 soiling and rubbing to covers of Volume 1-2 and Volume 1-3. Three impressions to upper margin of rear wrapper of Volume 1-2. Light foxing to rear wrapper of Volume 1-3. VG in wrappers. THE SET: Author.

Softcover. Zustand: 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 Poetry to the Library of Congress (the position now known as the Poet Laureate of the United States). Author's extremely uncommon first book, a volume of poetry. Stanford was an Arkansas poet who committed suicide at age 29 in 1979, and who has since achieved cult status.

First edition. 542 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Stanford's epic poem begun as a teen and worked on and off for years. Issued as Lost Roads 7-12. Though there is an assigned isbn for a hardcover edition of this title, one was not produced.

Zustand: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition, first printing. 542 pp. Bound in publisher's white wraps printed in black and red. Near Fine with light wear, toning and light soiling, light creases to spine. A sharp copy of Stanford's epic poem composed of over 15,000 unpunctuated lines.

Zustand: 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), published three years before his suicide at the age of twenty-eight.

Zustand: 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 not often found in this condition. A Southern poet who was prolific during his all-too-brief career, Frank Stanford (1948 - 1978) published his magnum opus, The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You, the year before his suicide. This 542-page stream-of-consciousness poem, written in one sentence, has reached cult status among poets, and has earned Stanford comparisons to Whitman and Rimbaud. To this day, the epic poem is considered a creative marvel, and has reached even greater acclaim since its publication in a new edition in 2000. Of Battlefield, the poet John Berryman proclaimed, "Most poets would give their left eye to have written this." Near Fine.

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 The Ark River Review, Poetry Now, The Mill Mountain Review, and The Little Review.

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 in the pages of Boston After Dark, Boston Phoenix, and La Notte.

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, her MFA thesis at University of Arkansas. She took over the publishing company Lost Roads after the suicide of Frank Stanford.

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 extremities, else a clean, Near Fine copy. An attractive copy of Stanford's second collection following the release of The Singing Knives (1972), with many of the poems having first appeared in the pages of Ark River Review, Le Belle Et La Bête, Boston After Dark, The Iowa Review, The New York Quarterly, The Mill Mountain Review, and Prairie Schooner. Among the scarcest books published during the author's lifetime, seldom found signed or inscribed. OCLC notes a scant 15 holdings. Signed.

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 extremities, else a clean, Near Fine copy. The Arkansas poet's fifth collection of verse, with many of the poems first appearing in the pages of The Mill Mountain Review, The Ark Review, Poetry Now, and The Little Review. Seldom found signed or inscribed. OCLC notes 14 holdings. Signed.

First Edition. First edition. 28, [2] pp. Bound in publisher's blue wraps. Very Good+ with slightly sunned spine, a few small stains to back panel. A collection by cult classic poet, with illustrations by his wife, Ginny.

First Edition. First edition. 40 pp. Bound in publisher's crimson wraps. Staining to wraps, else Fine. One of Stanford's rarest works published in his lifetime.

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 spine, else fine.

Zustand: 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 example of his maturing voice, Field Talk "dealt with tension between the narrative and the lyric, between the allegorical and the personal.by the time he reached his peak with Field Talk, he combined the two impulses into a unified voice" (Howell). The poems in field talk range from one and two ling impressionistic pieces "I hold the knife underwater / the boats come by" to longer pieces that seem to draw from Stanford's mysterious adventures. Fine.