Foreword Mark Doren (13 results)

hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Missing. Hardcover ex-library with typical marks shows moderate cover wear. No jacket. Text is unmarked. Ships FAST!

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Stated first edition. No dust jacket. VG. Light wear. Name on front pastedown. Text is clean. Ships wrapped in bubble wrap and packed with care in a box.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. 7th printing; stapled blue wraps; 38 clean, unmarked pages.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Smaller sized staplebound paperback (38 pages) in good condition. Covers are scuffed, marked and sunned. Edges, corners and spine ends are bumped and rubbed. Page block is lightly foxed. Previous owner's name label is on the FEP, along with penned notes. Binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Used.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Leigh Wiener, photographs (illustrator). First Edition. Fine in cloth-covered boards with a paper spine label and very good price-clipped dust jacket with rubbing.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Fine in dark green cloth-covered boards and dust jacket with edgewear. Previous name.

First Edition. Small octavo (19cm.); publisher's blue staplebound card wrappers; [2],38pp. Light shelf wear and a few surface scratches to upper cover, else Very Good and sound. Pendle Hill Pamphlet no. 142.

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.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition. Ribbon bound blue paper wraps. Inscribed and signed "Caroline" by Caroline Newton. Uncommon. Inscribed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. 653p., inscription on flyleaf signed by Newquist, limitation page states 319/2000 copies signed by both Newquist and Mark Van Doren, very good first edition, first printing stated in half-cloth boards in very good slipcase. Interviews with 63 writers, actors, photographers and others. From the library of Herbert Gold, a contributor.

First edition SIGNED. Fine and bright green boards with crisp bright text throughout. A wonderful showcase for all things Jeffers including photographs and portrait photographs from the poet's homestead in Carmel. And here is his correspondence. Becoming scarce. Signed by the editor on the opening flyleaf, by Ann Ridgeway which bothers none of the text. New and bright all around, gift quality.

Trade Paperback. First Edition. 55 pages. Authors volunteered to support the war effort by speaking in various cities to sell war bonds. Prizes were then awarded to those individuals or organizations that had made the largest purchases of bonds. The prizes were the manuscripts that the authors had contributed toward the end that more bonds might be sold. Inscribed by the compiler/editor on half-title page: 'With all good wishes! to the Larremores. Louis J. Bailey.' First edition (first printing). Very good in blue printed wrappers (paperback). Wrappers are spotted.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Delacroix, Eugene (illustrator). First Edition Thus. Limited Editions Club release. 1932 latest date at copyright. Later edition; unstated. Richly bound in taupe linen boards exhibiting sharp sheen, gilt stamped cover and spine titles, fine. Leaves of finest paper imported from England, Basingwerk Parchment, more beautiful and permanent than any other. Illustrated by the greatest European Romantic artist, Eugene Delacroix with eighteen painstakingly reproduced lithographs using the collotype method. Frontispiece illustrated bust of Goethe with his signature. Preserved in a light grey slipcase and still possessing the original glassine wrapper. Wrapper separated at spine area, other wise fine. Bind fine, square; hinges fully intact. Includes original Heritage Press literary supplement laying bare the effort and diligence put forth producing this finely crafted, richly beautiful volume and the history of Goethe and Delecroix's amicable, respectful as artists, relation during their lifetimes. Goethe gave high praise to these illustrations during his lifetime, saying they opened new insights into his very own masterwork. The eighteen lithographs are accepted as perfect pictures, enlivening and supplementing Faust's text and stimulating the imagination and intelllect. Considered one of the greatest illustrated books ever. This book utilizes a set of pulls of the original Delacroix lithographs, in the first state of their first edition commissioned to Arthur Jaffe by the New York Public Library. Goethe's masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, Faust has made the legendary German alchemist one of the central myths of the Western world. Faust, an audacious man, boldly wagering with the devil, Mephistopheles, that no magic, sensuality, experience, or knowledge can lead him to a moment he would wish to last forever. Here, in Faust, Part I, the tremendous versatility of Goethe's genius creates some of the most beautiful passages in literature. Here too we experience Goethe's characteristic humor, the excitement and eroticism of the witches' Walpurgis Night, and the moving emotion of Gretchen's tragic fate. 183 pages with xiv introductory pages. Insured post. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.