Alfred Aiken (46 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, fourth printing of this collection of horror stories. Light edgewear. Light age toning to the pages. Price sticker scar and residue on the bottom edge of the rear cover. In very good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. The cover has gray cloth with red lettering. 19 chapters; b/w photos. The spine strip has darkened. The pages are tanned. Scans e-mailed upon request.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Color illustrations, text. Exhibition catalogue. ; Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 42 pp.

Condition: Good. Shirazi, M.K. (illustrator). This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,4550grams, ISBN:038798447X.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Reissue. 1929-30 printing of Toledano 127.1, binding 5, purple Rockwell Kent endpapers. Lacks jacket. Spine faded, front hinge weakening, ink name on front endpaper, a few pages wrinkled or creased. 1927 Hard Cover. xiv, 367 pp. A selection of poems by American authors such as: Emily Dickinson; Edna St. Vincent Millay; T.S. Eliot; and Robert Frost, with a preface by Conrad Aiken.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. Shirazi, M.K. (illustrator). Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Shirazi, M.K. (illustrator). Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Shirazi, M.K. (illustrator). May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Softcover. Condition: Good with no dust jacket. Binding is sound. Pages age-darkened, clean. Wraps faded, soiled, moderately shelf worn. Contents: Lewy, "Pius XII, the Jews & the German Catholic Church: A Documented Account"; Babel, "Two Stories"; Danzig, "The Meaning of Negro Strategy"; Mander, "The 'New Statesman' and the English Left"; Gass, "Soviet Economic Developments"; Rosenberg, "New York Politics & the Liberal Party"; Kazin, "Remembering Jewish History"; Aiken, "Free Will (Again)." Reviews. 11.0" tall; 96 pages.

Softcover. Condition: Good with no dust jacket. Binding is sound. Pages age-darkened, clean. Wraps faded, soiled, moderately shelf worn. Contents: Morris, "Cell 772, or Life among the Extremists"; Singer, "Three Tales"; Ellison, "On Becoming a Writer"; Hughes, "The New Italy & Its Politics"; Gavron, "The Masada Dig"; Nott, "Mortal Statistics"; Sherman, "The Jacobs Affair"; Bell and Aiken, "Ideology - A Debate." Reviews. 10.0" tall; 90 pages.

Softcover. Condition: Good with no dust jacket. Binding is sound. Pages age-darkened, clean. Wraps faded, soiled, moderately shelf worn. Contents: Aiken, "The Revolt Against Ideology"; Dugger, "On Being a Southern Liberal"; Sklare, "Intermarriage and the Jewish Future"; Birnbaum, "Stirrings in West Germany"; Schiff, "Isaac Bound - A Story"; Chester, "Looking for Genet"; Schmid, "Letter from Formosa"; Moers, "The Tradition of McClure"; reviews. 11.0" tall; 88 pages.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Moderate shelf wear, covers have small areas of paper loss/chipping, stapled binding, pages clean and unmarked. Essay by Edward A. Aiken, 42 pages, illustrated in color and black and white.

Softcover. Condition: Good. Magazine. Octavo. 91pp. Printed wrappers. Wraps toned and detached from text block (but present), good only. This issue contains the first published work by Robert Creeley, a poem entitled "Return." Additional contributors to this issue dedicated to E.E. Cummings are William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, Theodore Spencer, Allen Tate, Karl Shapiro, Lloyd Frankenberg, Jacques Barzun, Lionel Trilling, Alfred Kreymborg, Harry Levin, John Dos Passos, Horace Gregory, Marya Zaturenska, Fairfield Porter, Wallace Stevens, Conrad Aiken, Mark Van Doren, José Garcia Villa, Seymour Lawrence, Race Newton, and Donald Berlin.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. hardcover with dust jacket, tight, pages clear and bright, shelf and edge wear, cocked, corners bumped, packaged in cardboard box for shipment, tracking on U.S. orders.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hillier Press: 1964. Octavo. Hardcover with a dust jacket. No additional printings indicated. Publisher has stamped the first free end paper and the last. Publisher has also blacked out the address of the publisher on the rear flap of the jacket and on the title and copyright pages. Unclipped jacket as a closed tear to the rear flap and rubbing to the ends of the slightly faded spine. Book is very good, jacket is on the lower end of very good.

1945, 186 pp, cloth binding, in good condition, some discoloration and wear, picture and book description of dust jacket are cut out and taped on the inside cover. Scarce. Pictures on request.

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Klee, Paul (illustrator). First Edition. Page edges and edges of covers browned. Includes 'Ubu Cocu' by Jarry, 'Paul Klee' by Ironside, 'Fragment of Autobiography' by John and poetry by Aiken, Lee and Spender. Includes art by Klee. First printing. Postage charge will be reduced by £1.50 when the order is processed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. Near VG. 8vo, 96pp (plus plates), printed wrappers. Special E. E. Cummings number, with writing by and about him by a range of prominent contributors, including Wallace Stevens (Edelstein C162). Also includes Robert Creeley's first published poem ("Return"). Unmarked copy with general wear and toning (spine browned). Not Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Very good copy in hardcover with very good jacket. Light edge-wear to jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. revised edition, book has slight wear to edges, corners, and ends of spine, otherwise sharp nearly new shape. dust jacket has light toning to parts of cover, slight wear to edges, corners, and ends of spine, otherwise solid bright shape.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG+. 8vo, 64pp, printed wrappers. This 1931 issue, in the scarce original wrappers, includes a Zukofsky review of Basil Bunting, other interesting content. Unmarked copy, typical wear and some chipping to edges and spine. Not Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages and text in great condition. Cover edgewear. Taped spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 186 p. ports., plates. green cloth. owner's name in pen.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book cover has a pretty large water stain all along top inner corner/top half of spine, but otherwise is largely clean and sharp. Tight binding. Pen enscription to front endpaper + a bit of pen annotation on ~6 pages, but other than these ones pages are clean and crisp. Dust jacket has a bit of rubbing and light wear to corner folds/edges, otherwise looks bright and attractive, protected from any further wear in a mylar slip. Overall a very solid copy.

hardcover. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very good, clean, tight condition. Light blue cloth. First edition. Text free of marks. Professional book dealer since 1999. All orders are processed promptly and carefully packaged with tracking.

Blue cloth, gilt spine title. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Signed "Cordially Alfred Aiken, Hollywood, June 7, 1959 on the ffep. weight: 1.0 lb. Very good in a good dust jacket with some material missing at the spine ends. 21x13.8x2.3 cm. 256 pp.

unknown_binding. Condition: Fair. 1974 pocketsize plastic-comb binding, plactic binding is broken in many places, cover has light curl & wear, sticker remnants on rear cover, no markings found- pages in nice shape.