Hofmann Michael Lasdun James (62 results)

Condition: Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Condition: Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. First edition, first printing hardcover with unclipped dust jacket in very good condition. Jacket edges are a little creased. Board edges, corners and spine ends are slightly bumped. A few light marks on the page block. Boards are clean, binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Used.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. FIRST THUS. First Edition Thus, First Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1995. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is like new with the previous owner's name inscribed on the flyleaf. Dust jacket is like new with very light creasing to the spine.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Contributions by Ted hughes, Robert Pinsky, and Seamus Heaney, among others. Stated first American edition. Near fine in a near fine (sun faded along the spine) dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Hbk 298pp a new and unread copy excellent clean tight unmarked in sleeve-protected dj as new.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Minor shelf wear to binding. Light wear and soiling to edges of text block. Text is unmarked. The dust jacket shows some light handling, in a mylar cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition, First printing. Minor shelf wear to binding. Light wear & soiling on edges of text block. Dj lightly shelf worn with scuffs & sun faded spine.

Soft. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Proof Copy. Proof Copy. Pages clean and bright. Binding tight. Spotting to top hard edge. Moderate shelf wear to dust wrapper including creasing to the top of dw. Spine sunned. Size: 8vo.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. None (illustrator). First edition. A very smart first edition, first impression of this collection of poetry inspired by Ovid's Metamorphoses. First edition, first impression. A collection of poems inspired by Ovid's Metamorphoses, which chronicles the history of the world from its creation to the deification of Julius Caesar in a mythico-historical framework. The editors commissioned forty-two poets from America, Australia, Great Britain, Ireland, and New Zealand to "translate, reinterpret, reflect on, or completely reimagine" Ovid's famous work, including Alice Fulton, C.K. Williams, Mark Rudman, Seamus Heaney, and Ted Hughes. Edited by Michael Hofmann, a German-born poet, translator, and critic, and James Lasdun, an English novelist and poet. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Original unclipped dust wrapper is also excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Fine. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light wear at the spine ends. The editors "invited more than forty leading English-language poets to create their own idiomatic contemporary versions of some of the most famous notorious stories from the Metamorphoses," including poems by Seamus Heaney (first appearance of "Orpheus and Eurydice" and "Death of Orpheus"), Thom Gunn, Amy Clampitt, Ted Hughes, Michael Longley, Tom Paulin, Jorie Graham, Kenneth Koch, and Paul Muldoon.

First UK edition, first printing of the LIMITED UK EDITION - 1998. This is a very good copy. The dust wrapper is bright and clean but slightly toned at the edges, where there are also slight crumpling marks. It has not been price clipped and shows the original £46.99 net price. The board are tight and free from chips and marks. The text blocks are bright and white and without foxing. This copy is free from previous owners ink and is, overall, in very good condition. SIGNED on the half title page by: Fleur Adcock, Evan Boland, Vicki Feaver, Jamie McKendrick, Les Murray, Michael Longley, Ted Hughes, Michael Hofmann, James Lasdun, Jo Shapcott and Robin Robertson. A superb collection of signatures from poets of the 90s.