3 Robert Hass first editions are documented on this shelf, from Praise (1979) to Time and Materials (2007) across 3 different publishers. Each linked guide gives the points of issue that separate a true first printing of that Robert Hass title from later printings and book-club copies — the publisher and year to expect, the number-line or edition-statement conventions, and the tells that show up in online listings.
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- Praise — 1979 · The Ecco PressVolume 17 of Ecco's American Poetry Series; 68 pp with deckled edges; dark cloth over boards (described by dealers as burgundy to dark purple), gilt spine stamping; title blind-stamped upside down on the rear board; green dust jacket with black lettering and a black-and-white photo of Hass on the rear; title page undated, copyright page dated 1979; the first printing has no remainder mark. The US Ecco edition is the true first. Issued in both hardcover and wrappers; the hardcover is the collector's first. Signed copies exist. Praise won the William Carlos Williams Award. A remainder mark or a stated later printing indicates a later state; the softcover is a true-first issue but ranks below the cloth.
- Sun Under Wood: New Poems — 1996 · The Ecco PressFirst edition, first printing with a full number line ending in 1; 77 pp; ISBN 0880014687; clothbound in dust jacket with the original price. A paper-over-board variant with a woodcut design also exists alongside the cloth issue. The US Ecco 1996 edition is the true first. It won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. Signed copies exist. A number line not reaching 1 indicates a later printing; no notable book-club edition.
- Time and Materials — 2007 · Ecco / HarperCollinsWon the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the 2007 National Book Award for Poetry. Full title Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005. The first edition was published by Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins, in 2007 (ISBN 9780061349607), with the publisher's first-edition conventions on the copyright page; issued in paper-covered boards with dust jacket. The US Ecco edition (2007) is the true first. No book club edition.
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