Olsen william eds (3 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. Light wear to corners, few corner creases o/w tight, solid. internally clean copy. Inscribed by Bill Olsen, one of the editors. BP/Poetry/On Reading postry. Inscribed by Author(s).

Paperback. Condizione: Very good. Paperback Octavo. wraps, 361 pp Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.

Original Wraps. Condizione: Near Fine. No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition. First printing of the first issue, with Spring 1979 on the bottom of the front cover and on the title-page. There were only the two printings of the true first edition of Granta No. 1, and this true first printing is scarce, having a very low print-run. ***Near fine in white colour-illustrated card covers. The extremities of the covers are just very slightly rubbed and slightly discoloured (being a white background). Some light smudge marks on the front cover (please see scans). No creases or tears. No reading creases to the spine. No reading lean. Spine tight. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. Pages clean. ***212 pages plus unnumbered page on recto of rear wrapper of adverts. 212mm x 146mm. ***Contents: Bill Bryson & Bill Buford: New American Writing - Introduction; Stanley Elkin: from The Franchiser; John Dugdale: Updike's Nabokov; Jonathan Levi: John Cheever in the Bourgeois Tradition; Susan Sontag: Unguided Tour; Henry Davis: A Plug for Bukowski; Ronald Sukenick: from Long Talking Bad Conditions Blues; Don Guttenplan: The Wor(l)ds of William Gass; Tillie Olsen: Requa-I; Donald Barthelme: The New Music; James Purdy: Summer Tidings; Leonard Michaels: The Men's Club; Norman Bryson: Orgy, hors-je, hors-jeu: a Note on the Work of James Purdy; Marc Granetz: Chuckle or Gasp: a Note on the Work of Leonard Michaels; Tony Tanner: Present Imperfect: a Note on the Work of Walter Abish; Joyce Carol Oates: from Son of the Morning; William Gass: The First Winter of my Married Life; William Warner: Interview - Theodore Solotaroff; John Hawkes: The Universal Fears. ***Extremely scarce first printing(Spring 1979) of the first issue of this collectable landmark literary magazine. By far the rarest of all the early Grantas. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. …