Search Results: Poetry from modern-ISM

Brno, 1947. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The complete volume II (all 10 issues) printed in Czech and bound with the annual index in the front and the 10 front covers and foreign language (including English, French and Russian) summaries in the back. This post World War II avante garde revival is a complete review of the Czech arts scene including poetry, photograhy, film, theater, dance, painting, sculpture, musical composition, architecture, urban planning, etc. Covers a two year period, 1947-48. Highlights include work by and articles on: Picasso, Jorn, Klee, Karl Teige, Max Bill, Man Ray, Moholy-Nagy, Chagall, Picabia, Robinson Jeffers, Kenneth Patchen, Langston Hughes, Bertrolt Brecht, Le Corbusier, Prochazka, Apollinaire, Walker Evans, Weegee, Cartier-Bresson, El Lissitzky, Pasternak, Rilke, Henry Moore, Michaux, Leger, Calder, Frank Lloyd Wright, Czeslaw Milosz, Sudek, Capek, a fold-out drawing by Matisse, an entire issue devoted to… Read More

New York: Scribner's, 1991. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good +/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. VG+ copy (foxing to edges) in an Fine mylar protected dust jacket. 843 pp., illustrations, exhaustive notes, bibliography, and index. No int'l shipping due to weight.

Boston: James R. Osgood and Co., 1871. First Edition . Half-Calf. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A crisp, lightly rubbed copy with light spine edge wear and a trace of foxing to the end papers. Very good in green cloth with gilt stamping to the front cover, blind stamping on rear board, gilt title on the spine, brown coated endpapers . 149 pp.

New York: Totem/Corinth, 1961. Original Wraps. Very Good + to Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 47 pp., introduction by William Carlos Williams, cover illustration by Jesse Sorrentino. Top edges and back cover soiled near spine. No corner curls or dog ears. Spine slightly suntoned. Very clean throughout.

Anderson, SC: Droke House, 1969. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. NF/VG+ DJ in protective mylar cover.One of Australia's best known poets. This is first volume of poetry puslished in the US. Closed tear to top and bottom of front DJ cover.

San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1972. 13th Printing . Original Wraps. Very Good +. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Softbound reprint w/ slightly sun darkened spine, rubbed spine ends and mild crease to bottom corner.

NY: Masses and Mainstream, 1950. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Owner's name and date in ink on ffep. Tiny bump to bottom of spine also affecting the DJ which also has an almost invisible closed tear to bottom of front cover. A spectacular copy by this Nobel Prize winning author.

Carmel, CA: Seven Arts Press, 1928. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Very Good copy with foxing to covers. True first edition. 29 pp., Carl Cherry cover design.

Los Angeles: Occidental College, 1987. First Edition . Wraps. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A crisp, clean copy. Pp. 47. Catalogue for the centennial of Robinson Jeffers birth. The Mary Norton Clapp Library at Occidental College houses a strong collection o f books, manuscripts, photographs and letters by, and concerned with, Jeffers. The nucleus of the collection was established in 1938 with a substantial bequest of material from Jeffer's friend, Albert M. Bender. The collection was further enchanced in 1974 with a gift from the publisherTheodore M. Lilienthal. Other donors included Lawrence Clark Powell, Ward Ritchie, the Jeffers family and Melba Berry Bennett. Concurrent with the literary exhibition was an exhibition of prints, etchings, aqua tints and drypoints concerned with the Big Sur and Monterey area curated by Professor Linda Lyke. Contents of the catalogue include: An essay, "Robertson Jeffers In Centennial," by Robert J. Brophy, a fascimilie of… Read More

Los Angeles: Occidental College, 1987. First Edition . Wraps. Fine -. 8vo. Pp. 47. Catalogue for the centennial of Robinson Jeffers birth. The Mary Norton Clapp Library at Occidental College houses a strong collection o f books, manuscripts, photographs and letters by, and concerned with, Jeffers. The nucleus of the collection was established in 1938 with a substantial bequest of material from Jeffer's friend, Albert M. Bender. The collection was further enchanced in 1974 with a gift from the publisherTheodore M. Lilienthal. Other donors included Lawrence Clark Powell, Ward Ritchie, the Jeffers family and Melba Berry Bennett. Concurrent with the literary exhibition was an exhibition of prints, etchings, aqua tints and drypoints concerned with the Big Sur and Monterey area curated by Professor Linda Lyke. Contents of the catalogue include: An essay, "Robertson Jeffers In Centennial," by Robert J. Brophy, a fascimilie of Jeffers first poem, "The Measure" published in the… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: New Directions, 1981. 5th Printing . Wraps. Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Corr, Michael (illustrator). Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry for 1975.

New York: Pantheon, 1956. 4th Printing . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. VG+ to Near Fine in a VG+ to Near Fine DJ. A nice, tight copy.

Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1954. First Edition . Cloth. Fine/Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A crisp, clean copy in a DJ with light sun darkening to the spine, some light wear at the spine crown and one tiny closed tear at the bottom of the back cover. Not price clipped.

Univ of New Mexico Pr, 1995. First Edition . Hardcover. As New/Near Fine. A crisp, As New copy in a Near Fine dust jacket, 125 pp., photos, bibliography and index. Few readers today could respond the question, "Who is Witter Bynner?," but it is a question that can be variously and richly answered. As well known early in this century as his friends Carl Sandburg and Edna St. Vincent Millay, Bynner (1881-1968) was a poet, translator, essayist, playwright, and editor, and early supporter of A. E. Housman, O. Henry, Ezra Pound, Countee Cullen, and Langston Hughes. He wrote over tw enty volumes of poetry, most of them published by Alfred A. Knopf, and was part of the new verse movement that centered around Poetry magazine. He and a friend created the major hoax in American literature, a body of poetry written to mock the intellectual pretensions of the time that they called Spectra.