THE LIBRARY OF S. CARTER BURDEN
THE WILLIAM STAFFORD COLLECTION

DOWN IN MY HEART. Elgin: Brethren Publishing House, 1947. First Edition in dust jacket.
The author's scarce first book, written while in a conscientious objectors' camp in California.

SURVEY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. [Portland]: Lewis and Clark College, 1955. Mimeographed sheets bound in a red folder. Typed on the spine is: "Misc. Materials Sifted Out at Lewis and Clark College, June 1955". With Stafford's holograph markings and notations throughout.

"HUMANITIES". [Portland]: Lewis and Clark College, 1955. Mimeographed sheets bound in an orange folder. Numerous notes, examination sheets, and course descriptions concerning Stafford's teaching course in Humanities at Lewis and Clark College. Holograph notations throughout.

WEST OF YOUR CITY. Los Gatos: Talisman Press, 1960. First Edition in dust jacket. This is an Advance Review Copy with the publisher's slip laid in. Signed by Stafford on the free front endpaper.

WEST OF YOUR CITY. Los Gatos: Talisman Press, 1960. First Edition in wrappers.
West of Your City, Stafford's second book, is often considered his best work. It most clearly demonstrates his clarity of thought and diction and introduces all of his major themes; concern for the past, for the Native American Indian, for family and for home, and the parabolic conflict between man's rationality and his intuition.

TRAVELING THROUGH THE DARK. New York: Harper & Row, 1962. First Edition in dust jacket. Inscribed by Stafford on the title page.

WRITINGS AND SPEECHES OF LEWIS AND CLARK COLLEGE FACULTY. Portland: Lewis and Clark College, 1962. First Edition in spiral-bound wrappers. Stafford contributes "Recent Poems".

SURVEY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE MATERIALS PUT INTO SEQUENCE IN 1962. [Portland]: Lewis and Clark College, 1962. Mimeographed sheets bound in a blue folder. "revised ]an '63" has been written on the front cover. Stafford's sheets and teaching materials. Holograph notations throughout.

FACULTY PORTRAITS. Portland. Western Humanities Review, 1963. Offprint. Stafford's poem details 1. The Part-Time Teacher in English; 2. Old Mrs. Berg in Foreign Languagesi 3. The Political Scientist.

OREGON STATE POETRY ASSOCIATION PRESENTS AN EVENING WITH POETS WARREN CARTER AND WILLIAM E. STAFFORD. [N.p.]: 1963. First Edition in wrappers. Mimeo containing Stafford's Empirics reprinted from Northwest Review.

UCLAN REVIEW. Los Angeles: University of California, 1964. Offprint.
Contains four poems by Stafford: German Shepherd; An Essai On The Civilized French; On Reading A Newspaper Account Of A Friend Shot By A Madman; and Listening The Hours.

READINGS ON VOLTAIRE. [Portland: Lewis and Clark College], 1964. Mimeographed sheets bound in a blue folder. More of Stafford's sheets and teaching materials. Holograph notations throughout.

THE RESCUED YEAR. New York: Harper & Row, 1966. First Edition in dust jacket. Inscribed by Stafford to fellow poet Richard Hugo on the free front endpaper: "For Dick, / with the regards and affection / of all the Staffords per Bill Stafford / Dec 1966".

THE RESCUED YEAR. New York: Harper & Row, 1966. First Edition in wrappers.
Hazard Adams describes the poems of The Rescued Year as "dramas where the point is to recapture something or to face its disappearance, its loss, and yet to gain by having been there."

FRIENDS TO THIS GROUND. Champaign: National Council of Teachers of English, 1967. First Edition in wrappers. A Statement of the Commission cn Literature.

SELECTED TRANSLATIONS 1948 - 1968. New York: Atheneum, 1968. First Edition in dust jacket. Inscribed by Stafford on the title page to William Meredith. A fine association copy.

ELEVEN UNTITLED POEMS. [N.p.]: Perishable Press, 1968. Limited Edition. One of two hundred and fifty copies in wrappers.

POETS AND THEIR CRAFT. Lake Wilderness Lodge: 1968. Twenty pages of stapled mimeographed sheets consisting of reprints of Stafford poems.

POEMS BY GHALIB. New York: Hudson Review, 1969. First Edition in wrappers. Translated by Stafford, Adrienne Rich and Ajiz Ahmad.

ALLEGIANCES. New York: Harper & Row, 1970. First Edition in wrappers. Mark Strand's copy with his signature on the front free endpaper. Additionally, this copy is inscribed by Stafford on the title page.
According to critic Gerald Bums, Allegiances is "the most dangerous book since Walden". The destruction of man's natural environment is the poet's major concern and he attempts to salvage some of that threatened world through poetry. "More than any other contemporary American poet, Stafford delivers injunctions, prescriptions, prohibitions, and gentle curses", observes Linda Wagner, who also notes that Stafford's courage "to suggest moral judgments" surprised the literary world of the 1960s. As in all his volumes, Stafford makes clear his allegiances to all those elements of existence capable of teaching him something about how to live and what relationship remains possible between us and the land buried under all that asphalt.

TEMPORARY FACTS. Athens: Duane Schneider, 1970. Limited Edition. One of two hundred copies in cloth signed by Stafford.

REPORTING TO CRAZY HORSE. Santa Cruz: UCSC Communications Workshop, 1971. First Edition in wrappers.
A selection of "on location" writing compiled from a two week workshop led by Stafford at the Bureau of Indian Affairs Communications Workshop at Santa Cruz. Stafford contributes With New Friends On The Beach and On The Santa Cruz Campus.

TAR RIVER POETS. Greenville: East Carolina University, 1971. First Edition in wrappers. The William Stafford issue in the Poetry Forum Series.

A QUIET DAY ON THE BEACH. [New Rochelle]: Writers Union, 1971. Broadside.

WAKING AT 3 A.M. Amherst: Slow Loris Press, 1972. Broadside. One of three hundred copies.

IN THE CLOCK OF REASON. Victoria: Soft Press, 1973. Limited Edition. One of three hundred copies in wrappers signed by Stafford and Nancy S. Craig, the illustrator.

THAT OTHER ALONE. [N.p.]: 1973. Limited Edition. One of one hundred and twenty copies in cloth of this fine press publication, signed by Stafford.

SOMEDAY, MAYBE. New York: Harper & Row, 1973. First Edition in dust jacket. Inscribed by Stafford on the title page.

TUNED IN LATE ONE NIGHT. Old Deerfield/Dublin: Deerfield Press/Gallery Press, 1978. Limited Edition in dust jacket. One of two hundred and fifty copies in cloth signed, by Stafford.

PASSING A CRECHE. Seattle: Sea Pen Press & Paper Mill, 1978. Broadside. One of two hundred copies.

TUFT BY PUFF. Mount Horeb: Perishable Press, 1978. Limited Edition. One of two hundred and forty copies in cloth of this fine press production. Illustrated by Elizabeth Coberly.

AROUND YOU, YOUR HOUSE & A CATECHISM. Knotting: Sceptre Press, 1979. Limited Edition. One of fifty copies in wrappers signed by Stafford.

AROUND YOU, YOUR HOUSE & A CATECHISM. Knotting: Sceptre Press, 1979. Limited Edition. One of one hundred and fifty copies in wrappers.

THE QUIET OF THE LAND. [N.p.]: Nadia, 1979. Limited Edition. One of twenty-six copies in wrappers signed by Stafford.

THE QUIET OF THE LAND. [N.p.]: Nadia, 1979. Limited Edition. One of two hundred copies in wrappers signed by Stafford.

ABSOLUTION. Knotting: Martin Booth, 1980. Limited Edition. One of fifty copies in wrappers signed by Stafford.

ABSOLUTION. Knotting: Martin Booth, 1980. Limited Edition. One of seventyfive copies in wrappers. This copy is inscribed by Stafford on the title page.

PASSWORDS: A PROGRAM OF POEMS. [N.p.: 1980]. Broadside. Signed by Stafford.

THINGS THAT HAPPEN WHERE THERE ARENT ANY PEOPLE. Brockport: BOA Editions, 1980. Limited Edition. One of twenty-six lettered copies in marble boards signed by Stafford with a postcard laid in.

THINGS THAT HAPPEN WHERE THERE ARENT ANY PEOPLE. Brockport: BOA Editions, 1980. Limited Edition. One of five hundred. and fifty copies in cloth.

THINGS THAT HAPPEN WHERE THERE ARENT ANY PEOPLE. Brockport: BOA Editions, 1980. Limited Edition. One of six hundred copies in wrappers.

THINGS THAT HAPPEN WHERE THERE ARENT ANY PEOPLE. Brockport: BOA Editions, 1980. Broadside featuring the poem Answerers.
As the title of the volume suggests, "The poet looks for simplification through a version of a most fundamental Romantic theme: uncorrupted and primitive Nature as a wellspring of wisdom and love." Stafford "observes his world as naturally as he draws breath; and finds orders of correspondence as meaningful as the first Romantics did." He is a poet concerned with the way man is living, the ways in which man has to come to himself. "Like Whitman, Stafford sends us looking for our own sturdy and common, but real, songs."

WYOMING CIRCUIT. [N.p.]: Tideline Press, 1980. Limited Edition. One of one hundred and twenty-five copies in cloth of this fine press production, signed by Stafford

SLEEPING OVER AT A FRIENDS HOUSE. [N.p.]: Scarab Supplement 1, 198 1. Limited Edition. One of twenty-five copies in wrappers reserved for the author and,signed by Stafford.

SLEEPING OVER AT A FRIEND'S HOUSE. [N.p.]: Scarab Supplement 1, 19 8 1. Limited Edition. One of seventy-five copies in wrappers signed by Stafford.

SOMETIMES LIKE A LEGEND. Puget Sound: Copper Canyon, 1981. Limited Edition. One of twenty-six copies in cloth signed by Stafford, with a holograph poem titled "Radar" on the endsheets.

SOMETIMES LIKE A LEGEND. Puget Sound: Copper Canyon, 1981. Limited Edition. One of two hundred and ninety copies in cloth signed by Stafford.

ASK ME. Portland: Press-22, 1981. Broadside. One of twenty-six lettered copies signed by Stafford.

ASK ME. Portland: Press-22, 1981. Broadside. One of two hundred numbered copies signed by Stafford.

A GLASS FACE IN THE RAIN. New York: Harper & Row, 1982. First Edition in dust jacket. Inscribed by Stafford to Stephen Sondheim on the title page: "For Stephen Sondheirn / - William Stafford - / one wordsmith to another".

A GLASS FACE IN THE RAIN. New York: Harper & Row, 1982. First Edition in wrappers. Inscribed by Stafford on the title page.
A Glass Face in the Rain belongs "in the American pattern of mysticism, a heritage from Edwards, Emerson and Whitman, preaching wonder and calling us to recognize the physical world around us." Continuing, unwaveringly, to develop and refine one of the most delicate, supersensitive recording instruments in American poetry, Stafford has been trained himself to hear and feel his way back in touch with distant places, ages and epochs. James Dickey describes Stafford's natural mode of speech as "a gentle, mystical, half-mocking and highly personal daydreaming about the Western United States.", while Lawrence Lieberman describes it as "a bare, plain idiom capable of the widest range of expressiveness in the lowest registers of the quiet tones of language." A voice "never raised above the sound of one man talking to another man at nightfall outdoors."

ASSURANCE. Dallas: Toothpaste Press, 1983. Broadside.

WHY I AM HAPPY. Roslyn: Stone House Press, 1983. Broadside. One of one hundred and fifty copies signed by Stafford.

CUTTING LOOSE. [Winston-Salem]: Palaemon Press, [1983]. Broadside. One of twenty-six lettered copies signed by Stafford.

CUTTING LOOSE. [Winston-Salem]: Palaemon Press, [1983]. Broadside. One of fifty numbered copies signed by Stafford.

SIX POEMS, SIX POETS FROM THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST. Pacific Lutheran University: Elliott Press, 1983. Limited Edition. One of fifty copies in wrappers.
Stafford contributes Remembering Brother Bob; other poets are Tess Gallagher, Robert Wrigley, Jim Heynen, Henry Carlile and Laura Jensen.

SEGUES. Boston: David R. Godine, 1983. First Edition in dust jacket. A correspondence in poetry between Stafford and Marvin Bell.

SEGUES. Boston: David R. Godine, 1983. First Edition in wrappers. This copy is inscribed by Stafford on the half-title page.

ROVING ACROSS FIELDS: A CONVERSATION AND UNCOLLECTED POEMS, 1942-1982. Daleville: Barnwood Press Cooperative, 1983. First Edition in wrappers. Signed by Stafford on the title page.

SMOKE'S WAY: POEMS FROM LIMITED EDITIONS 1968-1981. Port Townsend: Graywolf Press, 1983. Limited Edition in dust jacket. One of twentysix copies in cloth signed by Stafford on the title page.

LISTENING DEEP. Great Barrington: Penmaen Press, 1984. Limited Edition. One of fifty copies in cloth signed by Stafford and the artist, Michael McCurdy, and with an original signed wood engraving by McCurdy laid in.

LISTENING DEEP. Great Barrington: Penmaen Press, 1984. Limited Edition. One of one hundred copies in wrappers.

STORIES AND STORM AND STRANGERS. Rexburg: Honeybrook Press, 1984. Limited Edition. One of twenty-six lettered copies in wrappers signed by Stafford.

WYOMING. Bristol: Ampersand, 1985. First Edition in wrappers.

PURIFYING THE LANGUAGE OF THE TRIBE. Seattle: M Kimberly Press, 1985. Limited Edition. One of thirty copies in wrappers hand-colored and signed by Stafford. and Mare Blocker, the artist.

PURIFYING THE LANGUAGE OF THE TRIBE. Seattle: M Kimberly Press, 1985. One of two hundred and eighty copies in wrappers.

BROTHER WIND. Rexburg: Honeybrook Press, 1986. Limited Edition. One of twenty-six copies in wrappers signed by Stafford with an original holograph poem titled "Memo".

BROTHER WIND. Rexburg: Honeybrook Press, 1986. Limited Edition. One of two hundred and twenty-four copies in wrappers.

YOU MUST REVISE YOUR LIFE. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1986. First Edition in cloth.

YOU MUST REVISE YOUR LIFE. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1986. First Edition in wrappers.

AN OREGON MESSAGE. New York: Harper & Row, 1987. First Edition in dust jacket.

AN OREGON MESSAGE. New York: Harper & Row, 1987. First Edition in wrappers.

YOU AND SOME OTHER CHARACTERS. Rexburg: Honeybrook Press, 1987. Limited Edition. One of twenty-six copies in wrappers signed by Stafford with an original poem in holograph titled "Poet in a Strange Land".

YOU AND SOME OTHER CHARACTERS. Rexburg: Honeybrook Press, 1987. Limited Edition. One of twenty-six copies in wrappers signed by Stafford and Barbara Stafford who provided the illustrations.

YOU AND SOME OTHER CHARACTERS. Rexburg: Honeybrook Press, 1987. Limited Edition. One of three hundred and twenty-eight copies in wrappers.

GEOGRAPHY LESSON. [N.p.]: Red Ozier Press, 1987. Broadside. One of thirty copies signed by Stafford and published separately in paper wrappers.

ANNIE-OVER. Rexburg: Honeybrook Press, 1988. First Trade Edition in wrappers.

THE GREAT BLUE HERON: PORTLAND'S CITY BIRD. Portland: Audubon Society of Portland, [n.d.]. Informational leaflet issued by the City of Portland Bureau of Parks and Recreation containing Stafford's poem Spirit of Place.

THE DAILY SHOOT-OUT FOR TOURISTS ON THE SQUARE IN JACKSON, WYOMING. [N.p.: n.d.]. Broadside.

BORDER INCIDENT. [N.p.: n.d.]. Broadside.