Cesaire Aime Eshleman Clayton Smith (39 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. Reprint. It's a preowned item in good condition and includes all the pages. It may have some general signs of wear and tear, such as markings, highlighting, slight damage to the cover, minimal wear to the binding, etc., but they will not affect the overall reading experience.

Condition: New.

Condition: New. Picasso, Pablo (illustrator).

Soft cover. Condition: Good. A lovely clean crisp muncracked softcover copy in good plus condition, rubbing to cover and mild edgewear to extremities, interior pages clean and bright.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First printing. Text clean and unmarked. Binding tight. Covers have light wear. Edges of pages have light wear and toning.

First edition, first printing The poet Clayton Eshleman had a long relationship with reader and collector Richard Levasseur which shows in Eshleman's often elaborate inscriptions to Levasseur and Richard's partner. A lovely association copy. Signed by the poet on the full title page. Fine bright pictorial stapled wraps with crisp bright text. Also tipped in a letter from Clayton Eshleman to Richard Levsseur, from the stationary of the California Institute of Technology. Ever friendly and informative to his good friend.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No dustjacket as issued. First Edition. Bound in publisher's goldenrod cloth with black lettering on the spine. Very good with some light handling on the boards. Contents clean. 8vo. lvi, 235pp.

Condition: FINE. First printing. The first appearance in English of two very significant works by Cesaire: the long dramatic poem 'Et les chiens se taisaient' (And the Dogs Were Silent) and 'moi, laminaire' and other poems. 'And the Dogs Were Silent' appears only in English in this volume; the shorter poems are in both French and English. Introduction by A. James Arnold. A title in the Caraf Series which consists of works of Caribbean and African Literature translated from the French. 235 pages. Fine (as new ) in gold cloth, no dustjacket as issued.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. xxviii, 131 pp. Lower edges of boards very lightly sunned, upper edge of text block just a bit dusty. Jacket dustsoiled, bumped at edges and folds, with a few chips and small tears at head and heel of spine and folds. First printing of this edition, based on the limited edition of 1950.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG. 8vo, [ii]+190pp, printed wrappers. This scarce early issue of Callaloo includes a special section devoted to Aime Cesaire. Unmarked copy, light reading wear, some rubbing to covers. Not Signed.

Condition: NEAR FINE. First printing. Translated, with a substantial introduction and notes by Clayton Eshleman and Annette Smith. A bilingual edition with the original French and English translation on facing pages. Born in Martinique, Cesaire studied in Paris where he met Leopold Senghor, and "discovered Africa" and began his lifelong dedication to the idea of Negritude. This collection begins with his important first book, written in 1939 upon his return to the Caribbean -Cahier du Retour au Pays Natal -Notebook of a Return to the Native Land. xv, 408 pp. Near fine in very good dust jacket (one very short edgetear, other light wear and toning to the dj) Uncommon in hardcover and in this condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Introduction & Notes by Clayton Eshleman with his signature atop title page & heavy notes in the text from his hand; Brown cloth with green spine title & green endpapers / pastedown: A good copy in a good dust jacket; 408 pages.