DIANE  ACKERMAN: EIGHT TITLES, FOUR OF THEM INSCRIBED TO THE SAME PARTY, INCLUDING HER FIRST BOOK (1976)

Ackerman, Diane. The Planets: A Cosmic Pastoral. New York: Morrow Quill Paperbacks, 1976. First edition, first printing. 8 1/4" x 5 1/4", 159pp., several black/white reproductions; wrappers (slightest wear to covers). Inscribed ("For...with every good wish") and signed ("Diane Ackerman") on the half-title.

Ackerman, Diane. Wife of Light: Poems. New York: William Morrow, 1978. First edition, first printing. 8 1/4" x 5 3/8", 64pp.; wrappers (spine sunned, extending to a 1/2" strip running the length of the front cover).

Ackerman, Diane. Lady Faustus. New York: William Morrow, 1983. First edition, first printing. 8 1/4" x 5 1/2", (ii),94pp.; wrappers (slightest wear to covers).

Ackerman, Diane. Reverse Thunder: A Dramatic Poem. New York: Lumen Books, 1988. First edition, first printing. 8" x 5", (x),97,(2)pp.; wrappers (slightest wear to covers).

Ackerman, Diane. A Natural History of the Senses. New York: Random House, 1990. First edition, second printing. 9 1/4" x 6 1/4", x,331,(1)pp.; cloth, boards, dust jacket (slightest wear to last).

Ackerman, Diane. Jaguar of Sweet Laughter: New and Selected Poems. New York: Random House, 1991. First edition, second printing. 9 1/4" x 6 1/8", xvi,254,(1)pp.; cloth, boards, dust jacket (spine of jacket sunned, a strip of faint fading to the upper edge of the front panel). Inscribed, signed ("Diane") and dated (April 1991) by the authoress on a slip of paper tipped to the (blank) verso of the first leaf).

Ackerman, Diane. A Natural History of Love. New York: Random House, 1994. First edition. 9 1/4" x 6 1/8", xxxiv,358,(2)pp.; cloth, boards (upper outer corner of the front cover just bumped, an indentation on the fore-edge of the rear cover), dust jacket (slightest wear). Inscribed, signed ("Diane") and dated (1994) by the authoress on the half-title.

Ackerman, Diane. I Praise My Destroyer: Poems. New York: Random House, 1998. First edition, second printing. 7 7/8" x 5 1/4", x,114,(3)pp.; cloth, boards, dust jacket (spine of jacket sunned). Inscribed and signed ("Diane") by the authoress on the half-title. Laid in: an autograph note (signed "Diane"), probably contemporary with the book and / or the inscription in it.