Permit Me Voyage by Agee, James - 1934

Ams Pr Inc, 1971-06-01. Hardcover. Interior is excellent. Minimal wear to cover.

Yale University Press, 1934. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Ex-Library copy with typical library marks and stamps. Dust jacket missing. Second printing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1935. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Foreword by Archibald MacLeish. Second Printing. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($2.00), generally toned, chipped and rubbed throughout, some loss at the head of the spine. Green buckram, toned at the edges, with black ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The thirty-third volume in the Yale Series of Younger Poets, the first book of Agee's work, highly praised by MacLeish, Stephen Vincent Benet, among others.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1934. First Edition. Good+/Good+. Author's first book. Previous owner's bookplate sloppily fixed and partially removed from inside front board. Otherwise a very good copy in uncommon and fragile dust jacket. DJ is worn and chipped along the spine and lightly worn and chipped along the edges.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1934. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 61. Bound in publisher's cloth (spine faded), no dj. With the bookplate of poet and editor Barbara Howes on the ep. A very good tight copy of the author's first book issued as part of the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Mullaly B11.

New Haven, CT.: Yale University Press, 1935. Second Printing . Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 59pp.; HB greenblue w/blk.; some rub w/sun on edges&spine; clean,tight pgs. DJ green w/dk.green; rubbed w/sun on edges&spine. Poetry. Part of Yale Series of Younger Poets. foreward by Archibald MacLeish

Yale, 1934. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. FIRST. A VERY GOOD PLUS FIRST EDITION IN SECOND PRINTING DJ..

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1934. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24.25cm); light green cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; [ii],[4],5-59,[3]pp. Gentle sunning to spine ends, else a clean, Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.00), edgeworn and spine-sunned, with numerous tears and creases, and some shallow losses to spine ends and along the upper edge; Very Good. Agee's first book, issued as part of Stephen Vinent Benét's Yale Series of Younger Poets.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1934. First printing. Very good plus in very good jacket.. First edition of Agee's debut collection, published as the thirty-third volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets only two years after the author's graduation from Harvard. Claimed as a peculiarly brilliant critic, screenwriter, journalist, and novelist according to the interests and allegiances of his readership, Agee has also been hailed in turn as a poet above all - "Basically, he was a poet" (David McDowell). The nature and quality of Agee's poetry, left undefined and nearly unmentioned in MacLeish's foreword, was described after his death by his friend and contemporary Robert Fitzgerald: "A sense of the breathing community immersed in mystery, exposed to a range of experience from what can only be called the divine to what can only be called the diabolical, most intelligent in awe and most needful of mercy - a religious sense of life, in short - moved James Agee in his best work." 9'' x 6''. Original… Read More

1934. AGEE, James. PERMIT ME VOYAGE. With a foreword by Archibald MacLeish. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1934. Volume 33 of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, edited by Stephen Vincent Benet. First edition of Agee's first book. Slim octavo. 59 pp. Green cloth, lettered in dark green at spine. The paper is very lightly age-browned at perimeters, and the cloth is sunned a bit at spine and along the top-edge of boards, else fine. In a near-fine green dust jacket which is sunned at spine and shows light wear along the top-edge, with a few closed tears.