Boris Watson (19 results)

Condition: Good. First edition copy. . Acceptable dust jacket. 1st American edition. Slightly dampstained. Owner's name on inside. (russian revolution, unimportant people).

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content has toning to page ends. DJ with some edge wear, toning and loss.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First American edition. Stated first American edition, 1954. Good. Spine and rear board lightly, evenly sunned. From the Kirkus Review: "Here is a suave blend of tragi-comedy in this tale of an estate outside a village just far enough from Moscow to interpret the new Bolshevik order as it pleases for a time. It looks back from the Twenties to the days when the landowner built Malo- Sobachina and was warned not to pay his laborers in days of serfdom. It follows the cycle forward to its completion when in the Fifties the bureaucrat who dwells in its regained splendor is cautioned against sending scraps to the ""former people"" starving at his door. It is the transition period that is the body of the piece: In the Twenties the dispossessed gentry take refuge in Malo-Sobachina, safe for a time in the official status of Sergey Vassilievich, former owner, at present forest ranger of his former grounds. The new order brings odd changes -- bogus and real tax collectors; the village drunkard as president, for he is the only ""poor peasant""; wily bargainers who grow wealthy on the trades they extort from the refugees for food. Superstition and intellectual principles dance merry rounds as famine, madness, and escape call the tune in a story rich in character and overtones, told with a minimum of inflection and a maximum of innuendo.".

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 213 pages 1 Kg.

First Edition. Hardcover. 213pp. Slight offsetting to endpapers, edhes slghtly spotted, V.g in price-clipped Lynton Lamb dustwrapper with bried inscription on inner flap, slightly browned and foxed on rear panel, spine slightly browned, titles faded.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 213 pages 1 Kg.

1st edition, hardback, 8vo, 213pp, slight foxing and browning, text clean and sound, no inscriptions, Very Good / Fair dustwrapper, wrapper frayed and browning, price-clipped.

hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. First Edition. First edition. Hardback. With dust jacket. Book is warped. Photograph available on request.

hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. A hardback volume in Acceptable condition, in a similar dustjacket. This book is in stock now, in our UK premises. Photos of our books are available on request (dustjacket and cover illustrations vary, and unless the image accompanying the listing is marked 'Bookseller Image', it is an Abebooks Stock Image, NOT our own). BUYERS OUTSIDE UK please also note the following: 1. shipping rates apply to packets of 750g and under, and should the packed weight of an item exceed this we reserve the right to ship via 'Economy', or request extra postage prior to fulfilling the order, or cancel 2. many countries apply import or other taxes - these are the buyers responsibility; we may ask for extra payment to cover any taxes which we have to pay 'up front' on the buyer's behalf.

195 pp.; 21.1 x 15.7 cm.; glue bound; black-and-white; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed; Issue number five of the journal "Art and Literature," edited by John Ashbery, Anne Dunn, Rodrigo Moynihan, and Sonia Orwell. Contents include "A Selection from 'The Venice Letters,'" by Fr. Rolfe, Baron Corvo; "The Feast of Love," by Virgil Thomson; "Poems: 'In the Wood' and 'Ballade,'" by Boris Pasternak; "Poems: 'from Laborintus' and 'from Erotopaegnia,'" by Edoardo Sanguineti; "Narcissus Pseudonarcissus," by Elio Pagliarani; "Poems: 'When I Saw the Willow,' "Grey Clearings are Kindled,' 'from Birthday,' 'from Predilections,'" by Alfredo Giuliani; "Pop Art and Non-Pop Art," by Robert Rosenblum; "Beautiful and Interesting," by Larry Rivers and David Hockney; "The New American Modern Dance," by Jill Johnston; "from 'The Red Robins,'" by Kenneth Koch; "Can we Talk," by Donald Barthelme; "Poems: 'Two Voices,' 'I See the Far,' 'Song of the Golden Gayboy,' and 'Summer to Winter,'" by Soteré Torregian; "Poems: 'Arch Romance in an Orchard,' 'Telegram for Love in Tradition,' 'Apprentice Clockmaker-Clockmaker Abroad,' 'The Two Cronies,' 'Night and Day,' 'Cameos of Philosophy,' 'The Lady in the Avenue of Love,'" by G.W. Watson; "Poems: 'The Betrayal,' and 'from Letters from a Foreign Place,'" by Stephen Donadio; "Poems: 'When Youth Shall This Generation Waste,' and 'Mirage,'" by Gerard Malanga; "Birthday in Bedlam," by Roger Hammer and "On Expression and Expressionism," by Richard Wollheim. Good. Moderate wear to cover edges including 1.1 cm. area of loss to recto edge and tears including 5 mm., 6 mm., and 7 mm., tears to recto. Discrete small rubber stamp logo inside rear cover, otherwise contents clean and unmarked.

195 pp.; 21.1 x 15.7 cm.; glue bound; black-and-white; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed; Issue number five of the journal "Art and Literature," edited by John Ashbery, Anne Dunn, Rodrigo Moynihan, and Sonia Orwell. Contents include "A Selection from 'The Venice Letters,'" by Fr. Rolfe, Baron Corvo; "The Feast of Love," by Virgil Thomson; "Poems: 'In the Wood' and 'Ballade,'" by Boris Pasternak; "Poems: 'from Laborintus' and 'from Erotopaegnia,'" by Edoardo Sanguineti; "Narcissus Pseudonarcissus," by Elio Pagliarani; "Poems: 'When I Saw the Willow,' "Grey Clearings are Kindled,' 'from Birthday,' 'from Predilections,'" by Alfredo Giuliani; "Pop Art and Non-Pop Art," by Robert Rosenblum; "Beautiful and Interesting," by Larry Rivers and David Hockney; "The New American Modern Dance," by Jill Johnston; "from 'The Red Robins,'" by Kenneth Koch; "Can we Talk," by Donald Barthelme; "Poems: 'Two Voices,' 'I See the Far,' 'Song of the Golden Gayboy,' and 'Summer to Winter,'" by Soteré Torregian; "Poems: 'Arch Romance in an Orchard,' 'Telegram for Love in Tradition,' 'Apprentice Clockmaker-Clockmaker Abroad,' 'The Two Cronies,' 'Night and Day,' 'Cameos of Philosophy,' 'The Lady in the Avenue of Love,'" by G.W. Watson; "Poems: 'The Betrayal,' and 'from Letters from a Foreign Place,'" by Stephen Donadio; "Poems: 'When Youth Shall This Generation Waste,' and 'Mirage,'" by Gerard Malanga; "Birthday in Bedlam," by Roger Hammer and "On Expression and Expressionism," by Richard Wollheim. Very Good / Fine. Light yellowing of covers and mild overall rubbing. Contents are clean and unmarked.

Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. First printing of Watson Taylor's translation. Minor wear to cover & edge. Faint impression of letters on the cover from the book having been used as a writing surface at some time. Plain background of back cover has darkened, as has the paper of the book. Top edge of page-block foxed.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. uk1st.eddition.1st.printing/near fine softwraps original.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. Near VG. 8vo, 192pp, printed wrappers. The classic "What Is 'Pataphysics?" issue of this important little magazine, guest-edited by Roger Shattuck and Simon Watson Taylor. Unmarked copy with cover wear and some intermittent soil; 1966 San Francisco MTA ticket laid in. Not Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Minus. 1st Edition. First Edition (Harvill Press= NAP). This book was first published in England by the Harvill Press in 1953. There was an American edition published in 1954. Once listed, this will be the Only signed copy of either edition for sale on the Internet. Moreover, it is inscribed to the renowned actor Theodore Bikel (read about his fascinating life and career in his Wikipedia profile). The inscription is on the first front end paper. It reads 'To Theodore Bikel, a crypto-Russian, from the author, with best regards, Boris Watson.' The author also dated the inscription: '25/4/53'. And, as you can see from the photo, there are few parenthesized words between the inscription and the date. I can't make them out. probably a place, possibly a different language. Maybe you can identify it. You can see the green covers of the book in the photos. They are exceptionally clean. The gilt lettering on the spine is very bright. There actually isn't any wear on the covers. The edges and corners are in excellent shape. The page edges are quite clean ( a couple of specks on the top one). The book is quite solidly bound with nicely tight pages throughout. The covers are nicely tight as well. The rear inside cover does have two very tiny tears on its inside edge, quite irrelevant. Both the first front end paper and the last rear end paper have a vertical discoloration adjacent to their juncture with the inside covers. It looks like it was caused by the slightly rougher surface of the opposing area on the inside covers, just the way it's bound. The pages are exceptionally clean. I don't think there's any soiling. There is an tiny bit of spotting off the top edge of both inside covers. The condition of the pages is excellent until you reach the last nine pages (199-213, which is the last page, followed by a blank rear end paper). On these pages you will find a crease running from the top corner down as far as the middle of the outer edge (a fewf inches on some and around 5 inches on some others). The crease does not come anywhere near the print. Although I've owned the book for a number of years, I didn't notice that these pages were folded in at this edge. I've flattened them out now. Because the pages were subjected to being folded in, several of them developed two or three very small brown spots along the crease, nothing dramatic. Seemingly unrelated, there is a very vague vertical impression (not really a crease) on a dozen or so of the preceding pages. It is quite inconspicuous, but visible. I would want to make clear that the creases off the edge of the last nine or so pages (double that if you're counting sides) are quite conspicuous, although there are no tears. It may or may not get a little less so as a result of no longer being folded over. There are no markings in the book. There are no attachments. And with the exception of the signed inscription, no one has written their name or anything else anywhere. You can see the dust jacket in the first few photos. The front cover is quite clean. The spine is a little bit faded and the lettering there, while visible, has also faded. The rear cover has some toning. At the top edge of the spine there is a tiny loss and some small tears as well as loss of color. There are two tiny tears off the top edge of the front cover and there is a little scuff at the front top corner. The flaps are in solid condition, one very tiny tear off the front flap's top edge. There is toning off the top edges of both flaps. The jacket is NOT price-clipped, not clipped at all. It will be fitted with a protective cover. A blurb on the front flap from Compton MacKenzie about what was Mr. Watson's first novel: "I was much impressed by this most unusual picture of Russian Life just after the Revolution. The book is really well-written, and it provides a valuable illumination of what for most of us is dark.". Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: New.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st edition. Near Fine. 8vo, 112pp, printed wrappers. Nice copy of the third issue of this important postwar magazine of writing. Includes The Automatic Gate by Terry Southern, writing by John Symonds, other interesting content. Unmarked copy, about as nice as could be hoped given the acidic paper stock employed, a bit of inevitable toning and minor wear, small light stain to one edge. Not Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Gut. 123 Dieses Buch behandelt gesellschaftliche und wirtschaftliche Entwicklungstendenzen in Osteuropa mit Beiträgen von führenden Experten der Zeit. Zustand: Einband mit stärkeren Gebrauchsspuren, Seiten geringfügig gebräunt, insgesamt GUTER Zustand. HC1-508-4/8-00706310 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 326.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Scarce, three-hardback set copyright 1964-1967; each VG in VG dj; remarkably well preserved withdrawal from college library with usual stamps and stickers; text block and boards tight and square; dj preserved in clear archival jacket; due to weight of this set expedited and international orders will require extra freight charges 3-BNB-top.