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La Habana, Cuba: Instituto El Libro, 1969. First Thus. Paperback. Red and blue illus. wrappers; 8vo. 313 pp.; index. Spanish only text. Inexpensive Cuban edition of 30,000. Acidic paper toning, light wear, very good.
La Habana, Cuba: Instituto El Libro, 1969. First Thus. Paperback. Red and blue illus. wrappers; 8vo. 313 pp.; index. Spanish only text. Inexpensive Cuban edition of 30,000. Acidic paper toning, light wear, very good.
Notre Dame, IN: Notre Dame, 2011. First Edition. Paperback. Trade paperback original; 8vo. 86 pp. Inscribed and signed to an American poet associated with new Formalism, this volume from an Australian poet who works often in a formal mode. Hart has long taught in the US, at Notre Dame and.....
Frankfurt: SUHRKAMP Verlag, 1967. First German edition. Hardcover. Cloth with leather spine label in dust jacket. Large 8vo. 194 pp.; contents. Inscribed by Herbert in German in Warsaw to Werner Jansch in 1972. Early collection of poems in translation; his first books in Polish were published in 1956, 1957 and.....
Koln: Westdeutsches Herman Hess-Archiv, 1949. First edition. Paperback. 23 pp. Tall string-bound wrappers. Poems in German by numerous poets. Attractively printed, numbered pamphlet with three illustrations. Very good.
London: Cape Goliard Press, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Cloth in dust jacket; tall 8vo. Edited by Ted Hughes. Includes work by Kolar, Kainar, Wernisch, Bartusek, more. Crisp fine copy.
Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Black cloth covered boards with gold text on the spine. In black and purple decorated jacket. Translated from the French by Waldrop. Jacket has some scuffing; some wear at head of jacket. Corners still mostly sharp. Clean interior. Jacket not price clipped.....
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. Yellow paper-covered boards in dust jacket. 8vo. Essays, many personal, most of which appeared in London Review of Books. Fine in like dust jacket (in removable protective archival cover).
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Orange boards in dust jacket; small 8vo. 94 pp. Fine unread copy in complete (not price-clipped) dust jacket (in removable protective archival cover).
Montreal: The Word, 1978. First Edition. Paperback. 4 pp. in original envelope. Hand-printed by Fred Louder in an ed. of 140 copies signed and numbered copies. Contains: "Sundown at Fletcher’s Field"; "Along These Rows". Far scarcer than the poet's first book published in the prior year: his first three books.....
London: Faber & Faber, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. First printing of the scarce cloth issue. 53 pp. Translations with Polish facing English translations by Heaney and Baranczak. Fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with nearly imperceptible impressions on cover (as if someone wrote on paper over the book).....
New York: Biblo and Tannen, 1966. Reprint. Hardcover (issued without a dust jacket). Blue cloth covered boards. 8vo. 272 pp. Originally published in 1910. Minimal underlining in pencil, otherwise text is extremely clean and unmarked. Small amount of wear to tips and head of spine. Likely issued without a jacket.....
Tucson: Ironwood, 1981. First Edition. Paperback. Stapled chapbook in green printed covers; thin 8vo. Translated with "prelude & postlude" by Carruth. Inscribed "with love to Ted [Enslin] from Hayden, 22 VI 81. English translation following the original French. One of 1000 copies, but surprisingly uncommon. Excellent association. Covers unevenly toned.....
New York: Pantheon, 1997. First American edition. Paperback. An uncorrected bound proof in illustrated wrappers of this novel by the fine Australian writer.
Brockport NY: State Street Press, 1992. First edition. Paperback. Chapbook: plain stapled covers in light green photographic wraps. 28 pp. The first book from this Cuban poet, in exile in Florida. Very Good.
Buffalo NY: Black Academy Press, 1970. Second revised. Paperback. Illustrated wrappers; 8vo. 60 pp. Born in Nigeria, Mezu emigrated to the US at age 20 to continue his literary education. A near-fine copy of this scarce book, with just a minor bump at the bottom corner of front wrap. Second.....
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1998. First edition. Paperback. An uncorrected proof in gray printed wrappers: "Miscellany of poems, parables, essays, and epigrams" (from publisher copy). Fine.
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1998. First edition. Paperback. An uncorrected proof in gray printed wrappers: "Miscellany of poems, parables, essays, and epigrams" (from publisher copy). Translated by the author with Robert Hass. Fine.
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1998. First edition. Paperback. 610 pp.; notes. Bilingual edition, translated and edited by Jonathan Galassi. Uncorrected proof in light green wrappers with publicity sheet laid in. Lightly faded spine, else near fine copy of this bulky proof.
New York: The New Press, 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. First US printing in hardcover of this memoir in which the author "recounts the four years he spent at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda—threshold years during which he found his voice as a journalist, short story writer, playwright, and novelist just.....
New York: Pantheon, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. First US printing in hardcover of his second memoir in which the author recounts his time at boarding school in Kenya. The Kenya-born Wa Thiong'o has long taught in the US, currently at Cal-Irvine; he is regularly listed as a favorite to win.....
Paris: Gallimard, 1961. First edition thus. Paperback. L'edition originale sur papier ordinaire (apres 40 numerotes I a 40). [Original publisher wrappers (there were an additional 40 numbered copies)] 8vo. In original French. An about very good copy; lightly used.
London: Next Editions, 1981. Guy Vaesen. First edition. Paperback. Illustrated wrappers; spiral bound; 8vo. A Play written for Radio and first broadcast in Jan. 1981. Reproductions of seven paintings including the cover by Guy Vaesen. US price sticker on back cover, small smudge, else about fine (in removable protective mylar.....
Athens: The American College of Greece, 1999. First edition. Paperback. Regular issue, one of 940 copies in sewn wrappers (of 1250 total). A letter from Fermor to Oxford professor Trypanis in English and Greek about the contemporary Cretan poet who translated both the Illiad and The Odyssey into his native.....
New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1961. Frank Parker. First edition. Hardcover. Cloth-backed boards in dust jacket; 8vo. 211 pp. Two great French plays rendered into English by Lowell (Racine) and Barzun (Beaumarchais), respectfully. Near fine in a moderately worn, complete dust jacket, a couple of short tears and wear.....
New York: Norton, 1945. Hardcover. Cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 399 pp. Clifford Odets' copy with his signature and "9/45" date in ink on ffep. Includes two facsimile letters. A very good copy in a chipped and worn at extremities near very good dust jacket (in removable protective archival covers).....