About This Collection -- Cataloged Books, 1930-1977

The Mary L. Richmond Cummington Press collection includes more than eighty books printed by the Cummington Press and Abattoir Editions, along with more than twenty Christmas cards other types of publications. All of these have been cataloged and more detailed information about each book may be found in the library catalog.

While Mary L. Richmond's collecting of non-book materials related to the Cummington Press focused primarily on the early years of the press, tapering off after the 1950s, her collecting of books by the press remained strong into the 1970s.

Inventory of cataloged items from the Mary L. Richmond collection:

Adams, Léonie. Her lullaby. Printed for Leonie Adams, 1947. Press not identified. Speculation that this may have been printed by Cummington Press, by association of this item as part of the Mary L. Richmond Collection. Call number: PS3501.D285 H47 1947 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 183)

Agee, James. Four early stories by James Agee. West Branch, Iowa: Cummington Press, 1964. Call number: PS3501.G35 A6 1964 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 222)

Annual report of the officers of the town of Rowe Massachusetts for the year ending December 31, 1954. Rowe, Mass.: Cummington Press, 1954. Call number: F74.R87 A5 1954 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 127)

Apollinaire, Guillaume. The firs. Cummington, Mass.: Cummington Press, 1950. Call number: NC1866.C5 C86 1950 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 116)

Audiberti, Jacques. Noel. West Branch, Iowa: Cummington Press, 1965. Call number: NC1866.C5 C86 1965 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 227)

Augustine. St. Augustine's confessions. West Branch, Iowa: Cummington Press, 1969. Call number: NC1866.C5 C86 1969 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 272)

Berg, Stephen. Bearing weapons. Iowa City, Iowa: Cummington Press, 1963. Call number: PS3552.E7 B36 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 220)

Berg, Stephen. The queen's triangle. West Branch, Iowa: Cummington Press, 1970. Call number: PS3552.E7 Q3 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 239)

Bertha Schaefer 1955. Rowe, Mass.: Cummington Press, 1955. Call number: NC139.W4845 B47 1955 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 186)

Bertha Schaefer: Xmas 1955. Rowe, Mass.: Cummington Press, 1955. Call number: NC1866.C5 C86 1955b Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 143)

Blackmur, R. P. The good European. Cummington, Mass.: Cummington Press, 1947. Call number: PS3503.L266 G6 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 58)

Blackmur, R. P. The second world. Cummington, Mass.: Cummington Press, 1942. Call number: PS3503.L26 S43 1942 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 12)

Boggs, Tom. American decade. Cummington, Mass.: Cummington Press, 1943. Call number: PS614.B513 1943 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 15)

Bond, Harold. Dancing on water. West Branch, Iowa: Cummington Press, 1969. Call number: PS3552.O595 D17 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 234)

The Book of Job from the King James Bible. Cummington, Mass.: Cummington Press, 1944. Call number: BS1413.W6 1944 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 20)

A brief account of the origins and purpose of the Chapin Library at Williams College. Williamstown, Mass.: Chapin Library, 1956. Set at the Cummington Press. Call number: Z881.W6 1956 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 138 and MLR 139)

Carruth, Hayden. Journey to a known place. Norfolk, Conn.: New Directions, 1961. Set and printed by Harry Duncan. Call number: PS3505.A77594 J6 1961 (Flamer inventory: MLR 218)

Clark, Walter H. View from Mount Paugus, and other poems. Omaha, Neb.: Abattoir Editions, 1976. Call number: PS3553.L294 V53 Aba (Flamer inventory: MLR 262)

The Corpus Christi carol evidently originated at Glastonbury. Iowa City, Iowa: Cummington Press, 1962. Call number: NC1866.C5 C86 1962 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 219)

Crashaw, Richard. On the blessed virgin's bashfullnesse. West Branch, Iowa: Cummington Press, 1967. Call number: NC1866.C5 C86 1967 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 229)

Cunningham, J. V. Doctor Drink. Cummington, Mass.: Cummington Press, 1950. Call number: PS3505.U435 D6 1950 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 114)

Dante Alighieri. Canzone. Omaha, Neb.: Cummington Press, 1977. Call number: PQ4309.A4 A46 1977 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 271)

Davis, Glover. Bandaging bread and other poems. West Branch, Iowa: Cummington Press, 1970. Call number: PS3554.A9168 B3 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 241)

Defoe, Daniel. The meditations of Daniel Defoe. Cummington, Mass.: Cummington Press, 1946. Call number: PR3404.M35 1946 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 36)

Dickens, Charles. Dickens in Italy. New York, N.Y.: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1956. Set at the Cummington Press. Call number: PR4581.A4 M5 1956 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 141)

Dilsaver, Paul. Malignant blues. Omaha, Neb.: Abattoir Editions, 1976. Call number: PS3554.I44 M25 Aba (Flamer inventory: MLR 264)

Proposing a spectacular television production of John Dryden's The secular masque. West Branch, Iowa: Cummington Press, 1969. Call number: NC1866.N3 C86 1969 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 238)

Duncan, Harry. Heart helmeted and buckled up, secure heart, now. Cummington, Mass.: Cummington Press, 1945. Call number: NC1866.C5 C86 1945 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 35)

Duncan, Harry, and Moore, Marianne. The Cummington Press: with a poem by Marianne Moore. Cummington, Mass.: Cummington Press, 1949. Call number: Z232.D911 C83 1949 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 103)

Duncan, Lucy Elizabeth. Christmas MCMLXXIV. Omaha, Neb.: Cummington Press, 1974. Call number: NC1866.C5 C86 1974 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 250)

Eberhart, Richard. An herb basket. Cummington, Mass.: Cummington Press, 1950. Call number: PS3509.B456 H4 1950 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 112)

Engle, Paul. Homage to Baudelaire. Iowa City, Iowa: Cummington Press, 1957. Call number: PQ2191.F63 H6 1957 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 210)

Feibleman, James K. Journey to the coastal marsh. Cummington, Mass.: Cummington Press, 1946. Call number: PS3511.E19 J6 1946 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 51)

Frost, Robert. Birches. Lenexa, Kan.: April Editions, 1973. Handset by Harry Duncan. Call number: PS3511.R94 B5 1973 (Flamer inventory: MLR 249)

Geller, Richard. Iowa. West Branch, Iowa: Cummington Press, 1969. Call number: PS3557.E38 I6 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 235)

Gibbs, Barbara. Poems by Barbara Gibbs. West Branch, Iowa: Cummington Press, 1972. Call number: PS3513.I244 M49 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 246)

Gibbs, Barbara, and Tate, Allen. Requiescat in pace, Paul Wightman Williams, Jr., MCMXX-MCMLVI. Iowa City, Iowa: Cummington Press, 1957. Call number: PS3513.I23 R4 1957 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 209)

Glory to God in high heaven and peace on earth to men that are God's friends. Rowe, Mass.: Cummington Press, 1955. Call number: NC1866.C5 C86 1955 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 135)

Goldensohn, Barry. Saint Venus Eve. West Branch, Iowa: Cummington Press, 1971. Call number: PS3557.O3594 S2 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 243)

Golffing, Francis. Poems, 1943-1949. Cummington, Mass.: Cummington Press, 1949. Call number: PS3513.O3555 P6 1949 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 100)

The Great antiphons for the Canticle magnificat of Our Lady. Cummington, Mass.: Cummington Press, 1951. Call number: NC1866.C5 C86 1951 (Flamer inventory: MLR 121)

Hahn, Robert. Routine risks. Omaha, Neb.: Abattoir Editions, 1976. Call number: PS3558.A3236 R68 Aba (Flamer inventory: MLR 267)

Halsey, Helen. White Christmas yarn. Cummington, Mass.: Cummington Press, 1941. Call number: PS3558.A41147 W45 1941 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 7)

Heinemann, Katherine. Brandings. West Branch, Iowa: Cummington Press, 1968. Call number: PS3558.E457 B7 1968 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 231)

Herbert, George. Artillerie. Cummington, Mass.: Cummington Press, 1949. Call number: NC1866.C5 C86 1949 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 105)

Heyen, William. Of Palestine. Omaha, Neb.: Abattoir Editions, 1976. Call number: PS3558.E85 O3 Aba (Flamer inventory: MLR 266)

Holding out. Omaha, Neb.: Abattoir Editions, 1975. Call number: PT2635.I65 H6 1975 Aba (Flamer inventory: MLR 258)

Hoskins, Katherine. A penetential primer. Cummington, Mass.: Cummington Press, 1945. Call number: PS3515.O699 P4 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 30)

Ite missa est Deo gratias. Iowa City, Iowa: Cummington Press, 1960. Call number: NC1866.C5 C86 1960 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 216)

Kroll, Ernest. Fifty fraxioms. Omaha, Neb.: Abattoir Editions, 1973. Call number: PS3521.R565 F5 Aba (Flamer inventory: MLR 255)

Kuzma, Greg. A day in the world. Omaha, Neb.: Abattoir Editions, 1976. Call number: PS3561.U9 D27 Aba (Flamer inventory: MLR 259)

Liberman, Myron M. Maggot and worm. West Branch, Iowa: Cummington Press, 1969. Call number: PS3562.I2 M3 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 236)

Logan, John. On our Lord's nativity. West Branch, Iowa: Cummington Press, 1971. Call number: NC1866.C5 C86 1971 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 244)

Lowell, Robert. Land of unlikeness. Cummington, Mass.: Cummington Press, 1944. Call number: PS3523.O89 L3 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 21)

Marks, S. J. Lines. Omaha, Neb.: Cummington Press, 1972. Call number: PS3563.A668 L75 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 245)

McCorkle, Samuel. Incident on the bark Columbia. Cummington, Mass.: Cummington Press, 1941. Call number: G545.M2 1941 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 4)

The Messiah. Cummington, Mass.: Cummington Press, 1947. Call number: NC1866.C5 C86 1947 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 66)

Mezey, Robert. Last words for John Lawrence Simpson, 1896-1969. West Branch, Iowa: Cummington Press, 1970. Call number: PS3563.E98 L34 1970 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 237)

Mezey, Robert. The lovemaker. Iowa City, Iowa: Cummington Press, 1961. Call number: PS3563.E98 L6 1961 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 217)

Mezey, Robert. White blossoms. West Branch, Iowa: Cummington Press, 1965. Call number: PS3563.E98 W5 1965 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 226)

Morse, Samuel French. A garland of snow for Christmas. Cummington, Mass.: Cummington Press, 1944. Call number: NC1866.C5 C86 1944 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 28)

Morse, Samuel French. Time of year. Cummington, Mass.: Cummington Press, 1943. Call number: PS3525.O77733 T5 1943 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 19)

Morse, Samuel French, et al. Five Cummington poems, 1939. Cummington, Mass.: Association of Friends of the Cummington School, 1939. Call number: PS614.F547 1939 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 2)

Paul Cramer: Christmas 1955. Rowe, Mass.: Cummington Press, 1955. Call number: NC1866.C5 C86 1955c Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 144)

Pinkerton, Helen. Error pursued. Iowa City, Iowa: Cummington Press, 1959. Call number: PS3531.I714 E7 1959 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 213)

Price, Robert. The hidden airdrome. Rowe, Mass.: Cummington Press, 1956. Call number: PS3531.R54 H5 1956 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 140)

Radnóti, Miklós. Postcards. West Branch, Iowa: Cummington Press, 1969. Call number: PH3321.R27 P85 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 233)

Richmond, Mary L. Terence illustrated. Rowe, Mass.: Cummington Press, 1955. Call number: ND3395.T4 W5 1955 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 131)

Rilke, Rainer Maria. Five prose pieces. Cummington, Mass.: Cummington Press, 1947. Call number: PT2635.I65 A25 1947 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 53 and MLR 55)

Rilke, Rainer Maria. A God and yet a man. Omaha, Neb.: Cummington Press, 1975. Call number: NC1866.C5 C86 1975 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 251)

Rilke, Rainer Maria. Primal sound & other prose pieces. Cummington, Mass.: Cummington Press, 1943. Call number: PT2635.I65 A253 1943 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 14)

Rimbaud, Arthur. A une raison. Cummington, Mass.: Cummington Press, 1948. Call number: NC1866.C5 C86 1948 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 70)

Rolfe, Frederick. A letter to a small nephew named Claud. Iowa City, Iowa: Typographic Laboratory, University of Iowa School of Journalism, 1964. Call number: PR5236.R27 Z54 1964 (Flamer inventory: MLR 211)

Ross, Bob. Solitary confinement. Omaha, Neb.: Abattoir Editions, 1977. Call number: PS3535.O6 S6 1977 Aba (Flamer inventory: MLR 269)

Sample Christmas cards from the Cummington Press. Cummington, Mass.: Cummington Press, 1941. Call number: NC1866.C5 C86 1941 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 10)

Schwerner, Armand. The tablets I-VIII. West Branch, Iowa: Cummington Press, 1968. Call number: PS3569.C57 T3 1968 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 230)

Shapiro, Harvey. The Book, and other poems. Rowe, Mass.: Cummington Press, 1955. Call number: PS3537.H264 B6 1955 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 133)

Slesinger, Warren. Field with figurations. West Branch, Iowa: Cummington Press, 1970. Call number: PS3569.L322 F45 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 240)

Smyth, Paul. Thistles and thorns. Omaha, Neb.: Abattoir Editions, 1977. Call number: PS3569.M9 T4 Aba (Flamer inventory: MLR 268)

A song: Alcalá MDLVII. West Branch, Iowa: Cummington Press, 1963. Call number: NC1866.C5 C86 1963 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 221)

Squires, Radcliffe. New Year's Day at the end of a decade. Omaha, Neb.: Cummington Press, 1972. Call number: NC1866.N3 C86 1972 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 248)

Squires, Radcliffe. Waiting in the bone, and other poems. Omaha, Neb.: Abattoir Editions, 1973. Call number: PS3537.Q68 W3 Aba (Flamer inventory: MLR 256)

Stanford, Donald E. The traveler, allegorical lyrics. Rowe, Mass.: Cummington Press, 1955. Call number: PS3537.T182 T7 1955 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 129)

Stevens, Wallace. Esthétique du mal. Cummington, Mass.: Cummington Press, 1945. Call number: PS3537.T4753 E8 1945 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 31)

Stevens, Wallace. Notes toward a supreme fiction. Cummington, Mass.: Cummington Press, 1942. Call number: PS3537.T4753 N6 1942 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 13)

Stevens, Wallace. Notes toward a supreme fiction. Cummington, Mass.: Cummington Press, 1943. Call number: PS3537.T4753 N6 1943 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 18)

Stevens, Wallace. Three academic pieces. Cummington, Mass.: Cummington Press, 1947. Call number: PS3537.T4753 T5 1947 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 62)

Tasso, Torquato. Genesis. Cummington, Mass.: Cummington Press, 1952. Call number: PQ4639.M2 E5 1952 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 122)

Tate, Allen. Christ and the unicorn. West Branch, Iowa: Cummington Press, 1966. Call number: BR115.C5 T38 1966 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 228)

Tate, Allen. Fragment of a meditation, MCMXXVIII. Cummington, Mass.: Cummington Press, 1947. Call number: PS3539.A74 F7 1947 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 63)

Tate, Allen. The hovering fly. Cummington, Mass.: Cummington Press, 1949. Call number: PN37.T3 1949 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 72)

Tate, Allen. Ode to the Confederate dead. New York, N.Y.: Minton, Balch & Co, 1930. This copy is from the library of Paul Wightman Williams, specially bound by him. Call number: PS3539.A74 O3 1930 (Flamer inventory: MLR 172)

Tate, Allen. Sonnets at Christmas. Cummington, Mass.: Cummington Press, 1941. Call number: PS3539.A74 S66 1941 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 9)

Tate, Allen. Two conceits for the eye to sing, if possible. Cummington, Mass.: Cummington Press, 1950. Call number: PS3539.A74 T96 1950 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 106)

Tate, Allen. The vigil of Venus. Cummington, Mass.: Cummington Press, 1943. Call number: PA6557.P3 1943 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 16)

There is no rose of such virtue as is the rose that bare Jesu alleluia. Iowa City, Iowa: Cummington Press, 1959. Call number: NC1866.C5 C86 1959 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 215)

Thompson, Marilyn. Saying things. Omaha, Neb.: Abattoir Editions, 1975. Call number: PS3570.H6425 S27 Aba (Flamer inventory: MLR 257)

Tuckerman, Frederick Goddard. The cricket. Cummington, Mass.: Cummington Press, 1950. Call number: PS3104.T5 C7 1950 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 118)

Van Duyn, Mona. Valentines to the wide world. Iowa City, Iowa: Cummington Press, 1959. Call number: PS3543.A563 V3 1959 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 212)

Vas Dias, Robert. Ode. Omaha, Neb.: Abattoir Editions, 1976. Call number: PS3572.A8 O2 Aba (Flamer inventory: MLR 265)

Warren, Robert Penn. Blackberry winter. Cummington, Mass.: Cummington Press, 1946. Call number: PS3545.A748 B5 1946 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 37)

Williams, Tennessee. I rise in flame, cried the phoenix. Cummington, Mass.: Cummington Press, 1951. Call number: PS3545.I5365 I2 1951b Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 253)

Williams, Wightman. A blear ball. Cummington, Mass.: Cummington Press, 1945. Call number: PS3573.I456215 B58 1945 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 32)

Williams, Wightman. 'Ch(r)iss (loGod nit ane ingel laip)t. Cummington, Mass.: Cummington Press, 1946. Call number: NC1866.C5 C86 1946 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 142)

Williams, Wightman. My country dreams. Cummington, Mass.: Cummington Press, 1950. Call number: PS3573.I456215 M9 1950 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 110)

Williams, Wightman. The proper preface of Christmas from the Roman Missal. Rowe, Mass.: Cummington Press, 1954. Call number: NC1866.C5 C86 1954 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 125 and MLR 126)

Williams, William Carlos. The clouds, Aigeltinger, Russia, &c. Aurora, N.Y.: Cummington Press, 1948. Jointly published with Wells College Press. Call number: PS3545.I544 C5 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 67)

Williams, William Carlos. The wedge. Cummington, Mass.: Cummington Press, 1944. Call number: PS3545.I544 W4 1944 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 22)

Winters, Yvor. Three poems. Cummington, Mass.: Cummington Press, 1950. Call number: PS3545.I765 T5 1950 Cup (Flamer inventory: MLR 108)

Wright, John W. Poems and woodcuts. Omaha, Neb.: Abattoir Editions, 1976. Call number: PS3573.R5367 P6 Aba (Flamer inventory: MLR 261)