George Abbe Ed (13 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair.

hardcover. Condition: Fair.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. VG/VG, 1st edn of author's first book, signed by whole slew of people giving the book as gift to unknown recipient, dated 1936, letters of a Dartmouth man who loved adventure and the New England wilds as partly reflected in these letters in honour of the open road and woods.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair.

First Edition, thus. 8vo, pp. 111. Top edge soiled, cover somewhat yellowed and slightly soiled, o/w a VG tight copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG. 8vo, 104pp, printed wrappers. This issue includes The Hour of Man by Henry Miller (mentions Alcoholics Anonymous) as well as an essay on The State of the Jazz Lyric by Hazard Adams and Bruce R. Park. Unmarked copy, a bit of wear and toning, fraying to top of spine. Not Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1964 1st ed. 112pp. beige cloth 8vo: Very Good in a Good dj in Brodart poly cover [school presentation bookplate on front pastedown has dried out and is laid in; discolored evidence of old glue residue on that pastedown; else a very nice copy; dj = p-c; else G] Thirty-one letters on the subject from Pulitzer Prize winning poet Benet (1898-1943) to the younger American poet Abbe (1911-89).

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Illustrated wrappers. Cover design by Stephen Dowskin. 192pp. Covers slightly rubbed with modest edgewear, very good. Includes "How Our Day Began" by James T. Farrell; additional contributions by E.S. Rock, Laurel Speer, Sidney Bernard, Ed Stone, James E. Paulding, Sam Cornish, H.L. Van Brunt, Alicia Ostriker, George Abbe, James Hoggard and more.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG+. 8vo, 48pp, stapled wrappers. Another issue of this important and overlooked Beat-era L.A. little magazine. This issue includes work by Clayton Eshleman, Pablo Neruda, John Ciardi, et al. Unmarked copy, light wear. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG+. 8vo, 40pp, stapled wrappers. Early issue of this important and overlooked L.A. little magazine from the era just before the emergence of the Beat writers into national prominence. Unmarked copy (except for a newsstand date stamp to back cover), typical toning of interior stock, light soil and wear. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st edition. Good-. 8vo, 80pp, stapled wrappers. This hard-to-find issue of the long-running magazine includes an essay by Allen Ginsberg (mentions Kerouac, Olson, Pound, Williams, Blake, etc.). Unmarked copy with dampstain at bottom margin throughout, yellowing of cheap paper stock, and general reading wear. Not Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair.

Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Brattleboro, VT: The Stephen Greene Press, 1964. First Edition. Octavo. 112 pages. Photographic dust jacket. White boards stamped in black. Signed on front free endpaper with inscription, "To Sarah Bridge Graves, My very special appreciation and praise for your award-winning contribution to our Maine Conference workshop in fiction. George Abbe August 28, 1964." Graves was a poet, teacher and rock-hunter active from the 1940s to 1970s. Her archive can now be found in the University of New England's Maine Women Writers Collection. Unclipped dust jacket is rubbed and worn along the edges with a couple very shallow chips. Boards are toned along edges with traces of shelfwear to edges. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.