Jules Laforgue Edited (8 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Dj mildly sunned and edgeworn w/ t2 short closed tears. Light stain to base of pages not affecting their face.

HC. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Hardcover. NAP. Corners are bumped, worn. Board edges are rubbed. Boards are quite sun-faded, with light soiling. Front hinge is cracked at title page. There is some brief writing in french on the title page, else pages are a bit age-toned, but clean. ; GFH14D; 292 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 287 pp. No DJ. First edition, #526/1000 first copies. Cover shows some wear and discolouration of spine. Binding is good, text block seems unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine in VG+ dust jacket. First edition. Cloth hardcover is like new with no faults to note; minor wear to dust jacket, spine sunned, price-clipped. A very nice copy. Experienced full-time bookseller since 1994 (selling online since 1998). Images may be added by request. Questions welcome. Summary:This edition of Laforgue's Dernier Vers stems from the editors' critical interest in the poems themselves and from their feeling that Laforgue has not been well represented by anthologies and selections, which have usually placed a wrong emphasis on his earlier, more blatantly decadent work. The twelve poems making up the Derniers Vers, written in 1886, the year before Laforgue's death, were previously thought to be a disconnected series. The editors show that they are, rather, a carefully planned and developed sequence, representing the successful resolution of artistic problems which had occupied the poet during the previous five or six years. To Laforgue, poetry as art, not communication, and throughout his life he had tried to discover a way of writing a poem the impact and character of which would be analogous to painting and music. This edition, prepared for English-speaking readers, will be particularly interest because of the important influence of the poems on Exra Pound, who called Laforgue "the most sophisticated of all French poets," and on T.S. Eliot, who acknowledged that the poetry he wrote in 1908 and 1909 "was directly drawn from a study of Laforgue," "if not quite the greatest French poet after Baudelaire . certainly the most important technical innovator." The editors have drawn on previously unused manuscripts and papers for their informative and illuminating notes. They have also provided an Introduction which places Laforgue in historical and artistic perspective, and sheds interesting light on those aspects of his personal life which are reflected in his writing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Hardback. 22x14cm. 138 pages. Clean & tight book. No inscriptions. Flat pages. Jacket is faded. Front flap is not price-clipped: £2.10 42s net. Jacket is now under clear removable covers. Dispatched Royal Mail First Class with tracking next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref XPG-JBS.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Reprint. 287pp. Corners bumped, near fine. Signed by William Jay Smith on the title page with his penned correction made on copyright page. Additionally, Inscribed to fellow author Daniel Hoffman by William Jay Smith. Poetry.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. Cloth bound. Frontis. Illus. xiv, 287 pages, bibliography. Limited edition. Number 331 of 1000 copies. Previous owner's bookplate. Spine sun faded. Cloth somewhat worn in places. Binding is tight and book is solid.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Page edges toned, else near fine in spine-toned, very dust jacket. Signed by William Jay Smith on the title page and additionally Inscribed by him to noted poetry editor and designer Harry Ford: "For Harry and Elizabeth Ford with affectionate greetings and best wishes, Bill Smith. Florence. September 1956.".