Creeley Robert Afterword (14 results)

hardcover. Condition: Very Good.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good.

Boards. First edition. 8vo, 116 pp. Head and heel of spine and corners of boards lightly bumped. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket.

vg soft cover, lite coverwear/little pinholes, o/w clean & tight. size approx 6x9 with 53 pages, states published in an edition of 500 copies. Limited. Binding is paper covers.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Gilbert Sorrentino was an acclaimed American novelist, poet, literary critic and professor of literature, born in Brooklyn. He was a leading proponent of metafiction, and this book, "Splendide - Hotel" is a fitting example. Is it fiction? Is it poetry? Is it exposition? Is it belles-lettres? We find Sorrentino was inspired by not only by Rimbaud, but by William Carlos Williams - and the whole accumulation of Sorrention's experience in the social milieu of American life. Sorrentino had a keen ear for the intricacies and vagaries of American English and the patterns of speech such vagaries produced. It is a brilliant book - deeper than its thin presence would suggest. This is likely why Robert Creeley, no figure of obscurity, himself, decided to write an Afterword to the book. This is the first Printing of the Dalkey Archive Press edition, issued in 1984 (reprinting the earlier 1973 work), and, is in fact, the First Edition Thus, for its inclusion of Creeley's Afterword. TITLE : Splendide - Hotel AUTHOR : Gilbert Sorrentino (1929 - 2006) AFTERWORD : Robert Creeley (1926 - 2005) IMPRINT : Dalkey Archive Press PLACE : Elmwood Park, Illinois DATE : (1984) EDITION : Reprint; First Printing of the Dalkey Archive Press edition, and First Edition Thus for the inclusion of Robert Creeley's Afterword. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION : Trade paperback; 64 pages; 5 1/2" x 8", printed buff-colored wraps, glued. Lettering and borders on cover printed in red and black CONDITION -- VERY GOOD -- A previously owned book, clean and attractive, with the following noted: EXTERIOR - Near-negligible spots and a touch of barely discernible blind impressions, else bright and crisp. BINDING - Solid. the book seems to have been read, but with due care . the front cover has just the slightest yawn. / INTERIOR - Clean and unmarked throughout.…

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. 2002 New Directions hard cover - 1st edition 1st printing - a fine clean like new collectible with like new dust jacket - enjoy.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Fine in wrappers. Review copy with publisher's letter laid in.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Originally published by New Directions, 1973. Dalkey Archive Press reprint in 1984; 64pp. includes an Afterword by Robert Creeley. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in Fine condition. "Arthur Rimbaud's invented 'Splendide-Hotel,' "built in the chaos of ice and of the polar night," provides the occasion for Sorrentino's imaginative meditation on letters and language. Each chapter serves as an opportunity for the author to expand on thoughts and images suggested by a letter of the alphabet, as well as to reflect upon the workings of the imagination, particularly in the art of William Carlos Williams and Arthur Rimbaud. Reminiscent of the philosophical treatise/poem "On Being Blue" by William H. Gass, SPLENDIDE-HOTEL is a Grand Hotel of the mind, splendidly conceived." [publisher copy] Alphabetricks abound among Sorrentino's many mini meditations and/or playful/critical prose poems. Pristine & unread, Fine chapbook-sized paperback w/brilliant corners & crisp edges, a square & tight binding w/no creases in spine, in handsome cream wrappers w/some slight discolorations on back o/w unmarked. Quite presentably special.…

First edition, first printing From the private library of poet, translator and editor of Origin Cid Corman with his signed bookplate, with brief marks here or there to the text by Corman. Small chip to bottom edge and inside top edge of last flyleaf nothing at all offensive. Near fine attractive stiff wraps with excellent spine. The work of Anselm Hollo for almost 209 years, 1959-1977. Close to fine stiff wraps with just the light age tone to the fore edge and small old sticker price to top of back cover.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Dust jacket has a few small marks with a Griffin Poetry Price sticker to front.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. New York: Alfred Van Der Marck, [1986]. First Edition, First Printing Stated. Quarto (31cm); publisher's boards in unclipped photo-illustrated dust jacket; 144pp.; halftone photographs throughout. Light shelf wear, jacket margins a bit curled, corners nudged, else Very Good and sound. Signed by Felver on title page. Series of photographic portraits of the leading poets of the day, including key members of the Beat Scene, from William Everson to Stanley Kunitz, Anne Waldman to William S. Burroughs. Each portrait is accompanied by a short facsimile in the poet's hand. …

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 4to.stapled mimeoed wrappers.a home-made jobbie.pretty nice given the 3rd grade construction paper on back, 1pp afterword by Creeley.(L3/1).