Edited by Ann N Ridgeway (3 results)

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 407 pages; 7 1/4 x 9 1/4" Foreword by Mark van Doren. Previous owner's stamp on front free endpaper; jacket spine edges are chipped and creased; middle of jacket spine has a 1/2" tear/hole; jacket is worn; jacket corners are chipped; jacket in mylar sleeve. Shipping will be extra for this heavy book, please inquire. Leigh Wiener (photographs by) (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Printed in the U.S.A. [Date from the copyright page.] First Printing. Foreword, 413 Letters, Illustrated with Photographs, Appendix, Index; xx, 407 pages, colophon. Quarter cloth: Celadon green paper-covered boards are clean with corners square; a matching spine label with black lettering; the ivory-colored cloth on the spine shows some spotting. [Please see my five images of the actual book.] The interior is fresh and completely clean, with celadon endpapers matching the covers, though the rear endpaper has a superficial crack just starting. Top-edge colored ochre. The original dustjacket is price-clipped, with a few spots and a small tear. [Again, see images.] The photograph of the sculpture by Jo Davidson on the jacket and title page was done by Johan Hagemeyer. "Arranged chronologically, [the letters] create an impressive and cumulative image of Jeffers from the age of ten until the day before his death."---from the flap. "His love letters to Una are among the most touching in the world; and so are his letters about her after she died. Without her he would not have been the person he was: the powerful poet, the complex man whose every sentence in these letters comes up out of a depth where playfulness is by no means inconsistent with a seriousness that no doubt could be terrifying even to him."---from the Foreword. As with every book from my father's collection, tipped-in at the front is the small, attractive, acid-free bookplate pictured on my homepage. All books are wrapped with special care and are shipped promptly with tracking; international sales sent via global priority, also with tracking.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Bound in quarter white cloth with olive green paper boards and olive paper printed spine label. Olive green endpapers. Fine price-intact dust jacket with protective mylar cover. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE EDITOR ANN RIDGEWAY in year of publication. See photos. Signed.…