Laughlin James Williams William Carlos (56 results)

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Condition: Good. First edition copy. . Good dust jacket. Slightly dampstained. (american poets).

Condition: Very Good. First edition copy. . Very Good dust jacket. In protective mylar cover. (American poets, personal correspondence).

Hardcover. Condition: Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: No jacket. First Edition. [LITERATURE]. Ed. James Laughlin. Contributors: Maya Deren, Tennessee Williams, Octavio Paz, Franz Kafka, Kenneth Rexroth, Paul Goodman, Henry Miller, Alex Comfort, William Carlos Williams, Paul Eluard, Jacques Barzun, Boris Pasternak, John Berryman, et al. "New Directions Number 9: An Annual Exhibition Gallery of Divergent Literary Trends." Norfolk, CT: New Directions. Printed by Vail-Ballou Press in Binghamton, NY, 1946. First edition. English language. Hardcover with tan cloth boards stamped black and orange on spine, lacking jacket. Collection of fiction, poetry, criticism, and essays, from canonical luminaries of twentieth-century literature, including six black-and-white illustrations and editor's notes. 9 1/4 x 6 inches. 27 oz. xxiv, 416 pp. No jacket. Wear, toning, age on boards. Light spotting on spine. Paper abraded on front free endpaper. Toning. Text clean. Good Plus. No ISBN. OCLC: 764717392. ASIN: B004TU3OBO. "Laughlin, the aging heir to a Pittsburgh steel fortune, was a publishing legend. In 1936, at the age of twenty-two and at the advice of Ezra Pound, he founded New Directions, which quickly became the premier avant-garde publishing house, almost synonymous with literary modernism in the US. Early on, Laughlin adeptly presented Random House as the commercial foil to New Directions in frequent attacks that he published, such as James T. Farrell?s 'Will the Commercialization of Publishing Destroy Good Writing?' in New Directions 9. Laughlin?s strategy was clever. Not only was he filling, with his front and backlists, a market niche prepared by Random House?s publication of books like James Joyce?s 'Ulysses' and Gertrude Stein?s oeuvre, but his attacks themselves were a commercial tactic. They made his brand. Laughlin was 'disavowing an interest in marketing while constantly trying to think up new marketing techniques.' It is a familiar gambit, to claim authenticity by differentiating oneself from a sell-out, then to use that authenticity to profit.".

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Light bumping to corners of boards and slight wear to extremities of dust jacket as well as moderate fading.

Hardcover. First edition. First printing, near fine hardcover with touch of bumping to bottom corners and some other very light trace wear, in near fine dust jacket (price at flap) showing just a touch of exposure toning along spine. 320 pages. Still a nice copy of these letters between the great poet and the founder of New Directions. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First printing with full number line. Minor shelf wear to binding. Foxing on edges of text block. Text is unmarked. The dust jacket shows some light handling, in a mylar cover.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Fine in wrappers. AS NEW. "A Festschrift in honor of James Laughlin, Publisher of New Diorections". 60+ major, mainly American authors of the 20th century write tributes to the publisher/writer/editor James Laughlin. Many b&w photos of Laughlin with various authors--Ezra Pound, Denise Levertov, and Gertrude Stein-- in this fantastic volume plus a fine Ray Man portrait in photograph of Laughlin as a young man.

First edition. 63 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers; a trade paperback original. Laughlin's affectionate memoir of his friendship with Williams.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Black cloth with spine titles in gilt. Octavo. 291 pages, appendix, index. Fine copy in a fine dust jacket in a mylar protecor.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. The uncorrected proof copy. Near fine in wrappers. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings.

inglés Cartoné con sobrecubierta. 287 páginas.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. 411pp. Illustrated. Cloth with modest soil and sunning, spine a bit toned, very good or better lacking the dust jacket. The interior is fine. "An Annual Exhibition of New & Divergent Trends in Modern Literature" with contributions by Henry Miller, Tennessee Williams, Octavio Paz, Franz Kafka, Kenneth Rexroth, Kenneth Patchen, Robert Lowry, William Carlos Williams, Boris Pasternak and more.

First edition Fine and bright in like dustjacket with crisp bright text throughout. A sharp copy. Never been read. New and bright all around. Gift quality.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Trade paperback, has slight lean to binding, slight bumps to spine ends and corners with small areas of peeling at spine ends, slight creasing to corners of covers with slight curve to lower corner of first thrity or so pages of text, slight shelfwear to edges of covers and spine with very short tear near top of rear hinge, and light rubbing to covers, otherwise a solid VG copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG. 8vo, 136pp, printed wrappers. Another exceptional issue of this late 1940s little magazine. Includes Paul Bowles, Cummings, Williams, Brecht, and other prominent contributors. Unmarked copy, a bit of edge wear and cover soil. Not Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. 12mo. Black paper-covered boards. 128pp. Text in parallel English and Spanish. Selected from the New Directions edition (New York) of 1967, published here as Cape Editions 20, general editor Nathaniel Tarn, and uncommon in hardback. Just a few trivial marks to the edges and prelims, but a handsome copy in slightly lesser jacket, a little rubbed, marked/dusty in places, the spine panel and peripheries only a touch discoloured, but in fact quite crisp in general.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. 411pp. Illustrated. Small splash mark on foredge, two faint stains on front board, very good in a slightly rubbed very good dust jacket with small chips and tears along the edges and a faintly tanned spine. "An Annual Exhibition of New & Divergent Trends in Modern Literature" with contributions by Henry Miller, Tennessee Williams, Octavio Paz, Franz Kafka, Kenneth Rexroth, Kenneth Patchen, Robert Lowry, William Carlos Williams, Boris Pasternak and more.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Very good in paper-covered boards with shelf wear and wear at the spine extremities and offsetting on the endpapers and very good dust jacket with chips at the spine extremities, faded spine, crease and relatively light edgewear.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st edition. Fine. 8vo, 258pp, printed wrappers. The thick first double issue of this important sixties little magazine edited by George Quasha. Includes Pound, Olson, Williams, and many Beat and Deep Image writers. An exceptionally well maintained copy of a journal typically encountered with cover toning and wear. Not Signed.

First edition. 293 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Jacket art by Reiner. Modest foxing on endpapers with faint foxing on page edges, very good in a very good dust jacket with tiny chips, toning and modest foxing. Written pieces by Allen Ginsberg, Kenneth Patchen, Tennessee Williams, John Ashbery and more.

First edition. Black cloth in dustjacket; 8vo. 293 pp. w/ index. Approximately 150 letters. An interesting look at one of the most important relationships between publisher and writer of the twentieth century. With a useful index that includes separate sections for individual books, poems, and stories. Other than bumps to head and tail of the spine, with resulting crimping to the dustjacket, quite Fine.

Condition: Very good. - Octavo, 9 inches high by 6 inches wide. Softcover, bound in bluish-green, red, black & white wrappers designed by Alvin Lustig. The covers are lightly rubbed and creased. 196 pages, illustrated with 8 pages of color reproductions of paintings by Ben Shahn and 4 pages of photographs of 16 contributors to this issue. Very good. First English edition.The contents include William Faulkner's Nobel Prize acceptance speech, 15 poems and a story by William Carlos Williams, "Some Translations from the Fables of La Fontaine" by Marianne Moore, a poem by Kenneth Rexroth, "The Music of Aaron Copland" by Arthur Berger illustrated with musical examples, Thornton Wilder on Goethe, and book reviews by Edward Dahlberg and Randall Jarrell.

Boards. Condition: Good. Limited edition. One of 750 copies bound for distribution in 1945 (no. 69). Tall 8vo, 157 pp. Includes Chronology and Bibliography. Laid in are the July 1954 issue of Guilde du Livre (complete) with a Miller article, "Litterature et canard creve", a clipping of a 1974 New York Times article by Miller on Erica Jong, two other Miller-related clippings, and a mimeographed list of "Additional Titles for Sale" (by Miller and others, bookseller unidentified). Head and heel of spine and corners of boards lightly bumped, light soiling to covers including small stain to top edge of front board, page edges tanned, front free endpaper missing.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. LUSTIG cover (illustrator). 1st Edition. THORNTON WILDER, MARIANNE MOORE, BEN SHAHN, OSCAR HANDLIN, JACQUES BARZUN, EDWARD DAHLBERG. BOTTOM RIGHT CORNER SLIGHTLY CREASED, BACK TOP SLIGHTLY BUMPPED,INSIDE 8 TO 10 PAGES SLIGHTLY FOXED, COVER NICE.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition; First Printing. First Edition. REVIEW COPY. (Publicity release laid-in) Very close to fine in a fine dj. (Light trace of foxing at top edge).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo. Publisher's vlack cloth with title in gilt to spine. In dust jacket. | A fine copy in a near fine jacket. | INSCRIBED by James Lauglin to front free end paper. | William Carlos Williams [1883-1963]: One of the most influential poets of the twentieth century. James Laughlin [1914-1997]: The founder of New Directions, publisher and editor of the modernists. The correspondance they began in 1933 continued for thirty years during which they were on the cutting edge of the literary vanguard. The Selection of almost 150 letters is informatively annotated by Hugh Whitmeyer, professor of English at the University of New Mexico and author of the important study «The poetry of Ezra Pound: Forms and Renewal 1908-1920». This is only the second major collection of William's letters ever published. Inscribed by Author.

Condition: Very good. First Edition. thus. First edition thus of this collection of sonnets by the poet and psychiatrist, originally printed in other publications including "New Directions in Prose and Poetry" (1937) a very early New Directions publication. New Directions Pamphlet Series, No. 2. With an introduction by William Carlos Williams. Wraps. 16mo. Saddle stapled printed wraps. A very good copy. INSCRIBED by Moore to half title: "For Mr. and Mrs. Henry L. Abbott / with compliments sincerely / Boston 1938 Merrill Moore." Mild bleaching to wraps near spine. Trace rubbing. Pages mildly age-toned; else clean throughout. Good and sound. Unpaginated.