Illustrated Derek Walcott (8 results)

Softcover. Condition: VG-. Some rubbing & edgewear some creases at edges & corners; light duststaining; some yellowing/fading; otherwise overall clean & tight.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by WALCOTT Cover Art (illustrator). 1st Edition Thus?. VERY GOOD Condition PAPERBACK,clean, solid, bright; LIGHT YELLOW TITLES SHOWING SEVERAL PEOPLE OF COLOR ON YELLOW & RED BOAT, UNDER WHITE CLOUDY SKY. COVER BLURB "WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE"; 325pg pages; poem in five books, of circular narrative design, titled with the Greek name for Homer, which simultaneously charts two currents of history: the visible history charted in events -- the tribal losses of the American Indian, the tragedy of African enslavement.

Hardback. Condition: As new. Dust Jacket Condition: As new. First UK edition. First UK edition. Sm. 4to. Pp. [viii], 163, [1]. White textured paper-covered boards stamped in black to spine, with author's initials to front underlined by a brushstroke. Illustrated dustwrapper, priced £20.00 to front flap. Further illustrated with 26 full-colour reproductions of the author's own watercolour paintings, in an homage to Camille Pissarro. A long narrative poem, composed entirely in couplets, Tiepolo's Hound joins the quests of two Caribbeans: Camille Pissarro, who leaves his native St Thomas to follow his vocation as a painter in Paris, and the poet himself longing to rediscover a detail - "a slash of pink on the inner thigh / of a white hound" - from a Venetian painting encountered on an early visit to New York. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992. "A beautiful book and a gorgeous poem. one of the finest recent examples of the epic form." -Justin D. Coffin, The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Hardback. Condition: As new. Dust Jacket Condition: As new. First edition. First edition. Sm. 4to. Pp. [viii], 163, [1]. White textured paper-covered boards stamped in black to spine, with author's initials to front underlined by a brushstroke. Illustrated dustwrapper, priced $30.00 to front flap. Further illustrated with 26 full-colour reproductions of the author's own watercolour paintings, in an homage to Camille Pissarro. A long narrative poem, composed entirely in couplets, Tiepolo's Hound joins the quests of two Caribbeans: Camille Pissarro, who leaves his native St Thomas to follow his vocation as a painter in Paris, and the poet himself longing to rediscover a detail - "a slash of pink on the inner thigh / of a white hound" - from a Venetian painting encountered on an early visit to New York. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992. "A beautiful book and a gorgeous poem. one of the finest recent examples of the epic form." -Justin D. Coffin, The Philadelphia Inquirer.

HC. Illustrated by Derek Walcott, (illustrator). First Edition [8] 164 pp., Paintings "Published with twenty-six full-color reproductions of Derek Walcott's own paintings, the poem is at once the spiritual biography of a great artist in self-imposed exile, a history in verse of Impressionist painting, and a memoir of the poet's desire to catch the visual world in more than words." White cloth over board, dust jacket with painting on front panel and a photo of the poet/artist in his studio. [Overweight book, may require additional postage according to destination. Please, inquire before order. Thank you] New. Fine, fine.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Illustrated (illustrator). All books outside UK sent airmail. All books are tracked. Paypal accepted. Original colour printed glossy wrappers. 416 pages and cover.

Hardback. Condition: As new. Dust Jacket Condition: As new. Limited first edition. Limited first edition. Sm. 4to. Pp. [viii], 163, [1]. Dark green cloth, stamped in gilt, over cream paper-covered boards; grey-blue endpapers. No. 81 of a limited edition of 110 specially bound copies, signed by Walcott to the colophon. Illustrated with 26 full-colour reproductions of the author's watercolour paintings. As new, in acetate wrapper. A long narrative poem, composed entirely in couplets, Tiepolo's Hound joins the quests of two Caribbeans: Camille Pissarro, who leaves his native St Thomas to follow his vocation as a painter in Paris, and the poet himself longing to rediscover a detail - "a slash of pink on the inner thigh / of a white hound" - from a Venetian painting encountered on an early visit to New York. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992. "A beautiful book and a gorgeous poem. one of the finest recent examples of the epic form." -Justin D. Coffin, The Philadelphia Inquirer. signed.

Hardcover in Slip Case. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Thus (In a limited edition of 2,000 numbered copies). As-new copy, bound in painted cloth with an original Romare Bearden lithograph laid-in, slipcased, number 1,678 of 2,000 copies, signed by Derek Walcott & Romare Bearden on the colophon page. The pale blue card slipcase has unevenly sunned just faintly. The book is mint. 4to( 210 pages, illustrated with eight original lithographs by Romare Bearden). Signed.