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Published by New York: Added Enterprises, 1949
Seller: Philip Smith, Bookseller, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG. 8vo, 112pp, printed wrappers. This issue includes an early story by Saul Bellow, reactions to Ezra Pound and the Bollingen Prize by Auden, Orwell, et al., plus Greenberg on Braque, other interesting content. Unmarked copy with ring stain to cover and a little toning. Not Signed.
Published by New York: Foundation for Cultural Projects, Inc., 1951
Seller: Philip Smith, Bookseller, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. Near VG. 8vo, 128pp, printed wrappers. Includes James Baldwin's essay Many Thousands Gone (on Richard Wright's Native Son; later collected in Baldwin's Notes of a Native Son). This original appearance shows the early context of Baldwin's work within currents of postwar intellectual culture. Issue also includes an advance chapter of Saul Bellow's The Adventures of Augie March and other interesting work. Pencil notes to front cover (no other markings); a bit of toning and wear to covers. Not Signed.
Published by New York: Partisan Review, 1943
Seller: Philip Smith, Bookseller, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG+. 8vo, 96pp, printed wrappers. Scarce and historic early issue, includes the story Notes of a Dangling Man by Saul Bellow (a reworked advance portion of his first novel). This was the first issue with Delmore Schwartz listed as one of the editors, and he contributes a review of Edmund Wilson's The Shock of Recognition. Unmarked copy with toning and some spine wear to the acidic wrappers. Not Signed.
Published by Partisan Review, New York, 1943
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Signed
Original Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. Octavo. A very good, collectible copy of the Partisan Review containing "Notes of a Dangling Man," an 18 page excerpt, with some revisions to create a cohesive story, from Bellow's soon to be published first novel, "Dangling Man" published by Vanguard in 1944, and Signed by him at his entry. Other contributors include, among others: Louise Bogan, the fourth Poet Laureate to the Library of Congress, two poems from W.H. Auden, and "Baudelaire and the Abyss" by Benjamin Fondane who was captured in France and sent to the gas chambers in Auschwitz-Birkenau during the last wave of the Holocaust in 1944. Covers and spine slightly darkened, small inked date in upper corner of front cover, small stain to 3 pages, staples beginning to oxidize, otherwise a very good copy.