Poetry
LEESON PARK AND BELSIZE SQUARE: POETRY 1970-1975.
San Francisco, CA, Columbia, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1983. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 800 unsigned copies comprising the trade edition.
LEESON PARK AND BELSIZE SQUARE: POETRY 1970-1975.
San Francisco, CA, Columbia, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1983. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 200 numbered copies signed by Straub, this being copy number 1.
COLLECTED POEMS: NIGHTMARES AND VISIONS ...
[Sauk City, Wisconsin]: Arkham House, 1981. Octavo, printed stiff wrappers. First edition. 1030 copies printed. This collection of 67 poems "...established Tierney (b. 1936) as one of the leading weird poets of his his generation. [It] contains a variety of poems (many of them sonnets) displaying Tierney's absorption of the work of H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, and others; some of the poems feature the misanthropic bitterness of Ambrose Bierce." - Joshi, Arkham 154. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 8-43.
COLLECTED POEMS: NIGHTMARES AND VISIONS ...
[Sauk City, Wisconsin]: Arkham House, 1981. Octavo, printed stiff wrappers. First edition. Inscribed presentation copy signed by Tierney to Dick (Richard) Fawcett, founder of the August Derleth Society, dated in the year of publication. P1030 copies printed. This collection of 67 poems "...established Tierney (b. 1936) as one of the leading weird poets of his his generation. [It] contains a variety of poems (many of them sonnets) displaying Tierney's absorption of the work of H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, and others; some of the poems feature the misanthropic bitterness of Ambrose Bierce." - Joshi, Arkham 154. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 8-43.
COLLECTED POEMS: NIGHTMARES AND VISIONS ...
[Sauk City, Wisconsin]: Arkham House, 1981. Octavo, illustrations by Jason Van Hollander, printed wrappers. First edition. 1030 copies printed. This collection of 67 poems "established Tierney (b. 1936) as one of the leading weird poets of his his generation ... [It] contains a variety of poems (many of them sonnets) displaying Tierney's absorption of the work of H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, and others; some of the poems feature the misanthropic bitterness of Ambrose Bierce." - Joshi, Arkham 154. "His five translations from Charles Baudelaire are important." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 8-43.
COLLECTED POEMS. Edited by S. T. Joshi.
[West Warwick, Rhode Island]: Necronomicon Press, [1988]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers, stapled. First edition. Collects all of Wandrei's known poems, from his three published collections - including original and revised versions, as well as his uncollected poems.
DARK ODYSSEY.
St. Paul: Webb Publishing Co., [1931]. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 11-47 [48: blank], five illustrations by Howard Wandrei, original black cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition. Limited to 400 numbered copies. The author's second book. Poetry collection.
DARK ODYSSEY.
St. Paul: Webb Publishing Co., [1931]. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 11-47 [48: blank], five illustrations by Howard Wandrei, original black cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition. Limited to 400 numbered copies. The author's second book. Poetry collection.
ECSTASY AND OTHER POEMS.
Athol, MA: Published by W. Paul Cook The Recluse Press, 1928. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-40, cloth, printed paper label affixed to front cover. First edition. 322 copies printed. The author's first book.
POEMS FOR MIDNIGHT.
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House: Publishers, 1964. Octavo, with illustrations by Howard Wandrei, cloth. First edition. 742 copies printed. Macabre poetry.
POEMS FOR MIDNIGHT.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House: Publishers, 1964. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 742 copies printed. "A collection of all the poems Wandrei wished to preserve, taken largely from his earlier collections, ECSTASY AND OTHER POEMS and DARK ODYSSEY (1931). Each poem in the sonnet cycle 'Sonnets of the Midnight Hours' (composed around 1927) was inspired by a dream of Wandrei's. The influence of Clark Ashton Smith (with whom Wandrei had come in contact as early as 1924) is evident." - Joshi, Arkham 74. "Sonnets of the Midnight Hours" may have influenced Lovecraft's "Fungi from Yuggoth." Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 8-44. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 6-60.
AT SUNDOWN ... With Designs by E. H. Garrett.
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, MDCCCXCII [1892]. Small octavo, six unnumbered leaves followed by sixty leaves numbered 11-70, seven inserted plates (including frontispiece) with full-page illustrations by Edmund H. Garrett, original decorated white cloth stamped in gold and blind. First trade printing. This edition, preceded by an 1890 privately printed edition, contains a brief introductory statement and seven poems not in the private edition. BAL 22158 (noted state 4).
TO SPIN IS MIRACLE CAT: POETRY.
San Francisco, CA, Columbia, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1981. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 720 copies this is one of the twenty of 220 hardcover copies marked "Presentation Copy" signed by Zelazny.