Levenson Christopher Ed (5 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Printing. 80 pp, The Long Poem Issue, contributors incl. P.K. Page (an interview), Bronwen Wallace, & George Johnston. [97].

Trade Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. 53 pp. [09].

Hardcover. 12mo. Pp: 63. First Edition First Printing. Publisher's light green dust jacket with black lettering. Publisher's black boards lettered in gilt at spine. Contains early versions of poems by Sylvia Plath [pp: 41-44] and Ted Hughes [pp: 25-28]. Very good plus in good plus dust jacket. Gilt lettering at spine a little faded. Stain [approx. 1cm x 2.8cm] to dust jacket spine. Toning to dust jacket spine. Toning to edges of dust jacket. Closed tear [approx. 1.5cm] to dust jacket at front top of spine. Some small spots/stains to front dust jacket. Occasional surface wear with light discolouration to rear bottom edge dust jacket. Still a nice copy, tightly-bound with no loss/major damage to dust jacket.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st edn. ~Quarter black cloth, dark green-black cloth to boards. Gilt lettering to spine. With original pale green dustwrapper, text in black to front, rear, and spine. Dustwrapper slightly age-browned and edgeworn, but protected in clear removable plastic sleeve. Publishes works by 22 poets, including David Wevill, Ted Hughes, and Sylvia Plath. Significant as it presents early variant texts of poems later to be published by Hughes in Lupercal and by Plath in The Colossus and Other Poems (both 1960). Plath's poems (of which only one, 'All the Dead Dears', made it into Colossus), seem to have been subject to both errors and later alterations - see her letter to Ted Hughes' parents in February 1959: 'Another book has come out with some of our poems in it - mine are old ones and much changed, or left out of the book I am working on. (.) The title is POETRY FROM CAMBRIDGE, 1958, by Christopher Levenson and published by The Fortune Press (.). Ted has five poems in it (Thrushes, The Good Life, Historian, Dick Straightup, and Crow Hill) and I have four. Levenson, with his usual waywardness, has let several misprints get by in my things, as, on the contents page, I am quoted as having gone to Brown University. and in the poem "Epitaph for Fire and Flower" on page 45 it should be "every weather-cock kiss hang (not hand) fire" in the fourth stanza, and "star's spent wick" (not wink) in the fifth' (Letters of Sylvia Plath 1956-1963, 2018_. Plath's poems here are 'All the Dead Dears', 'Black Rook in Rainy Weather', 'Miss Drake Proceeds to Supper', and 'Epitaph for Fire and Flower'. A significant record of early variants of work by Plath and Hughes. ~Robust packaging. Overseas tracking available on request. Size: 63pp. Binding sound, text unmarked.…

First edition. 63 pp w/notes on contributors. Fine in near fine dust jacket with a tiny tear to front panel, toning to spine, and light wear along the top edge. In addition to work by David Wevill and Ted Hughes, this volume features four poems by Plath: All the Dead Dears, Black Rook in Rainy Weather, Miss Drake Proceeds to Supper, and Epitaph for Fire and Flower.…