edited william jay smith (22 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Very good paperback. Spine is uncreased, binding tight and sturdy, text also very good. A very nice copy.

Cloth. Condizione: Good in Fair Dust Jacket. First printing. 8vo, 301 pp. A volume of the uniform edition edited by James Kraft. Includes the Spectra poems. Slight lean to spine, crown slightly pulled, corners of boards bumped, page edges tanned, top edge dusty, tiny spot to fore-edge. Interior clean and unmarked. Jacket sunned and stained at spine and folds, edgeworn, dustsoiled, with interior tape-repair at crown.

First edition Fine and bright stiff wraps with strong square spine and crisp bright text throughout.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Russian and English on facing pages, no inscriptions, clean, tight, bright copy.

First edition, first printing Fine bright stiff wraps with strong spine and clean text. Fine work throughout and gift quality.

Softcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. Advance Review Copy. Covers have a browned spine, sticker residue on the front, a small tear to the front top spine edge, a couple creases, and light smudging. Brief notation written on front cover. ; Uncorrected proof.

Hardcover First Printing. First Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. 287 pp. No DJ. First edition, #526/1000 first copies. Cover shows some wear and discolouration of spine. Binding is good, text block seems unmarked.

Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 286pp. NEAR FINE in Near Fine dust jacket. The book itself shows the slightest hint of shelf rubbing at the edges, handsome bookplate neatly on the paste-down, otherwise is Fine/As New. The dust jacket somewhat rubbed, otherwise is Fine/As New. As pictured.

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. First edition. 56pp. Printed wrappers. Pages faintly tanned, wrappers lightly soiled, slight tanning to spine and edges, very good. Post War Issue with contributions by William Goyen, Stephen Spender, Peter Viereck, E.E. Cummings, W.H. Auden, William Jay Smith, Clellon Holmes, Harold Norse and more.

Softcover. Condizione: Near Fine. First edition. Pictorial wrappers. 127pp. Page topedge lightly soiled, near fine. Inscribed by the editor William Jay Smith to contributor Daniel Hoffman on the title page.

Softcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Magazine. Octavo. 112pp. Spot on front wrap and light bump at the crown, near fine. Features contributions from E.E. Cummings, Saul Steinberg, José Garcia Villa, Mark Van Doren, Jean Garrigue, John Hay, H.D., Michael Hamburger, William Jay Smith, Marya Zaturenska, Brewster Ghiselin, Kenneth Lash, Prudencio de Pereda, David Cornel Dejong, Daniel G. Hoffman, Alastair Reid, Ruth Stephan, Barbara Gibbs, Gene Baro, Denise Levertov, Nathan Zimelman, Louis Second, and Forrest Anderson.

1/4 Cloth. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. A first edition/first printing in Near Fine condition with minor edgewear in a Very Good dust-jacket with scuffing and rubbing to the surfaces and edges; This collection of poetry and prose by Andrei Voznesensky and William Jay Smith includes work from the 1960s to the 1990s. The selection includes poems about life, love, and war, as well as essays and short stories.; 8vo ; 344 pages; FSA.

Softcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Magazine. Perfectbound. Small quarto. 153-307pp. Small crack in mid-spine, else fine. Inscribed by William J. Smith to fellow author Daniel Hoffman above his memoir entitled "My Friend Tom: The Poet-Playwright Tennessee Williams", and Smith's penned notation on page 187. Additionally, laid in is a handwritten letter from Smith to Hoffman. Poetry, short stories and art by William J. Smith, Richard Howard, David Huddle, Andrew Hudgins, X.J. Kennedy, Jill McCorkle, Jay Rogoff, J. Allyn Rosser, Stephen Dixon, Castle Freeman, Jr., Scott Sternbach, Kent Lydecker, Susan Forscher Weiss, Jefferson Hunter, Richard A. Macksey, and Erin McGraw.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. See photos.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Reprint. 287pp. Corners bumped, near fine. Signed by William Jay Smith on the title page with his penned correction made on copyright page. Additionally, Inscribed to fellow author Daniel Hoffman by William Jay Smith. Poetry.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Limited Edition. Cloth bound. Frontis. Illus. xiv, 287 pages, bibliography. Limited edition. Number 331 of 1000 copies. Previous owner's bookplate. Spine sun faded. Cloth somewhat worn in places. Binding is tight and book is solid.

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. Magazine. Small quarto. 116pp. Illustrated paper wrappers. One tipped-in illustration loose and laid in, creases on wraps and spine, tears at spine ends, very good. A literary magazine feature prose, poetry and artwork from Stephan, Boris Paternak, Kenneth Rexroth, W.J. Parrish-Martin, Raymond Queneau, William Jay Smith, H. Richard Chew, Mary Barnard, Weldon Kees, K.O. Hanson, Doris B. Branch, Thomas Cole, John Nerber, Mario Carreño, Paul Goodman, Harvey Curtis Webster, Philip Murray, Herbert Cahoon, Paul Valley and art from by Leon Kelly, Photographs by Alexander Hammid, Kay Sage, Theodoros Stamos, William Baziotes, René Magritte, Milton Avery, Hokusi, Morris Graves, Max Ernst, and Adolph Gottlieb.

New Rivers Press. 1996. Printed wrappers. 207 (1) pp. Very good condition.

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. First New Rivers Press edition. Parallel text in Italian and English. Pictorial wrappers. Small abrasion on rear wrap, creases on the spine, very good. One of 2200 copies. Warmly Inscribed by Gioia to poet Donald Justice on the half-title page: "for Don - con giola e giustizia (due sentimenti nobili) Dana. 10-13-85.".

FIRST US EDITION. 8vo. Quarter yellow cloth, spine lettered in blue, patterned pale blue boards. Illustrated endpapers. Spine sunned and blotched, uneven bands of offsetting to boards, extremities bruised, corners worn. Edges toned. Front joint tender, ownership signature of "W. J. Smith" inscribed to ffep in black biro, rusty echo of a paperclip and kidney bean-shaped stains to reverse, and faintly visible on endpaper and through to title page, a few dog-eared pages. Else, clean. Dust jacket supplied: printed in black, illustrated and lettered in blue, yellow, green and white: wear and chipping to spine ends, some rubbing, nicking and spotting, short closed tear to top of front panel. Good/ good+ A well-handled contemporary poetic association copy of the first US edition of Elizabeth Bishop's translation of the diary of a Brazilian girl in the "far-off" provincial diamond-mining town, Diamantina: the American poet, William Jay Smith's copy. A near contemporary and a fellow prize-winning American poet, William Jay Smith (19182015) also followed Bishop in being appointed Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, 1968-1970 (the nineteenth appointee; Bishop was eighth, serving 1949-50). He later described her as a "tutelary spirit," alongside Edwin Arlington Robinson, Marianne Moore, Theodore Roethke and Louise Bogan; Smith had first come across Bishop's poetry as a college freshman in 1935, and, like Bishop (and Moore), he "adore[d] particulars and exact observation" and "emphasize[d] wit and the skillful use of traditional forms" (Frank, 1998). He was not, however, a fan of her prose, observing much later in a CPR interview: "Elizabeth Bishop wrote a few essays but they were much inferior stylistically to her poems. It was clear that she had devoted less time and attention to them than she had to her poems"; sadly, no notes or marginalia feature here to hint at his thoughts on her work as a translator. We do, however, have Bishop's thoughts on Smith's translation of Jules Laforgue (and the impossibility of translating poetry); her mostly favourable review, 'The Manipulation of Mirrors,' had been published the year before in New Republic. A Brazilian literary favourite, which had been repeatedly recommended to Bishop, in her introduction the poet likens sections to Chaucer and "Wordsworth's poetical children and country people, or Dorothy Wordsworth's wandering beggars," whilst "occasionally entries referring to slavery seemed like notes for an unwritten, Brazilian, feminine version of Tom Sawyer". It did not sell well, nor bring in the income for which Bishop had wished. MacMahon A4; Elizabeth Frank (1998) 'The Pleasures of Formal Poetry,' The Atlantic; CRP Interview.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First edition. Page edges toned, else near fine in spine-toned, very dust jacket. Signed by William Jay Smith on the title page and additionally Inscribed by him to noted poetry editor and designer Harry Ford: "For Harry and Elizabeth Ford with affectionate greetings and best wishes, Bill Smith. Florence. September 1956.".