Lewisohn James (14 results)

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. ----------vintage paperback. Chips to corners, cover creases, edgewear, a good copy. James Avati (front cover) (illustrator).

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. ----------vintage paperback. Book is a little curved/warped, likely from improper storage, but looks great when supported by other books. A little wear to spine extremities and corners, a VG+ copy. James Avati (front cover) (illustrator).

Wraps. Condition: Good. Printed wraps. 63 pp. A collection of poetry by poet James Lewisohn, written while incarcerated for shooting and killing his wife. He served ten years in prison. GOOD condition. Moderate toning, some foxing, spotting, minor staining and soiling to the covers. Small area of loss at the upper right corner of the front cover and first several pages.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Very Good Minus. First Edition. One of 1,000 copies. Book clean and tight. Dust jacket lightly soiled with a small pink stain on front (probably a water mark from the red cloth cover that bled through the jacket).

Wraps. Condition: Very Good. 8vo, 128 pp. Heel of spine bumped, wrappers rubbed, handled and edgewon.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Limited Edition. Written in Maine State Prison by the husband of Roslyn who murdered her. Yellowing to dust jacket and light chipping to edges. ; 8vo; 91 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. An excellent copy. Not ex-library. Clean and bright. Limited to 1000 copies. Poems written in prison by Lewisohn to his wife Roslyn whom he murdered and about his life and circumstance. 91pp.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 9 x 6", wraps, 63pp, covers a bit rubbed and unevenly toned, edges of textblock a bit yellowed else a nice copy with the errata slip. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR; photo of author behind bars is on rear cover, along with a note that he is serving a life sentence in the Maine State Prison; he shot his wife.…

First edition Fine and bright red boards with gilt lettering in near fine illustrated dustjacket with light use and with clean bright text throughout. James and Roslyn Lewisohn were married 19 years, raised four children and spent their last ten years living in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. In 1974, tragedy struck their home resulting in the death of Roslyn and Jim's life imprisonment for murder in Maine State Prison. This book is the story of their lives. …

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Pictorial wrappers. 94pp. Fine. Fiction, essay, poems and reviews by K.C. Frederick, Ron Pullins, Reynolds Price, M.L. Rosenthal, Daniel Abse, Madeline DeFrees, Frederick Feirstein, Alexander Kuo, James Lewisohn, Richard Schramm, David Jeddie Smith, and Frank MacShane. "Poem Doctrinal and Exemplary to a Nation: A Reading of *Samson Agonistes*" by Reynolds Price.…

Paperback. Condition: Like New. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by The Casco Printing Company, 1975. Octavo. Paperback. Book is like new. Covers have shelf wear.

56 pp.; 41 x 29 cm.; loose leaves; black-and-white & color; edition size 1000; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed; Faux periodical / artist's publication published by Aleksandra Mir on September 11, 2002, on the occasion of her 35th birthday and the first anniversary of 9/11 in order to reclaim the day, featuring contributions from over 100 friends and colleagues. Contents include: "Editorial," by Aleksandra Mir; "Happy Birthday from the Lighthouse," by Peter Hill; "To the Editor," by Tim Griffin; "Emergency Love," by Adam McEwen; "Nobody Gives a Shit," comic by Dan Perjovsch; "How to Ride the Bus," by Jennifer Bronstein; "Bike Wreck," by Dan Wilken; "Artists'' Shocking 9/11 Predictions Bring Laughs to New York Celebs at Christie''s ''Central Asian Furniture Show'' and Charity Fundraiser! 700 People in Attendance!;" "Inventory list of my father''s compulsive collection of airline silverware between 1989 - 1997," by Cornelia Schbleck; "B irthday," by Raimar Stange; "Bring in the Clowns: Andy Smith of The Moscow State Circus interviewed by Polly Staple;" "Sydney in September," by Simon Rees; "Long Photographs," by Emil Goh; "Pink Tank;" "The Usher," by Cedar Lewisohn; "The best thing that happened to me in 2002 was that Theo my cousin became a goth and his mate Corrin became a punk," by Tasha Amini; "The World Still Turns," by Kathy Temin; "Alien Sighting," by Samuel Blum; "McCartney & Narcissus," by Gabriel Fowler; "Punching Through the Clouds," Miles Boyce after Mies Van der Rohe; "Crash America," by Ken Hollings; "The World''s Greatest Rebel - at 88," by Andrew Wilson; "Structure Kills," text and photos by hobbypopMUSEUM; "First Woman Takes North Pole!," by I. Hope Halperin; "Cities, Holiday Hotspots and Commerce Zones Rethink Slogans," by Jarrett Mitchell; "Advertisement," by Cecily Brown; "Family Takes Break," by Michelle Grabner; "Tire on Fire," by Brad Killam; "The Housitter''s Club in More Trouble with the Law than Oak Park Homeowners," by Amy Park Saxe; "I read ''Big Asteroid Leaves Scientists Unruffled'', Was Ruffled," by Curtis Whaley; "Abstract Sculpture from Park to Somewhere Else," by Wade Guyton; "September 11 Memorial," by Jeffry Vallance; "The Event Forces Us to Think," by Roger Cook; "11th September," by Kathrin Boehm; a drawing by Claude Closky; "You Deserve to Break Something; "Virulent Images," by Leif Elggren; "QRU (Wuick Response Unit)," by Gavin Wade & Garrick Jones; newspaper clipping submission by Piotr Uklanski; an image by Richard Kern; "Holiday Column," by Aleksandra Mir; a text by Andy Stillpass; "I Remember," by Kaethe Cherney; a text by James Angus; "That Horoscope," by Onome Ekeh; "Skyjack Sunday Over Europe;" "The Long Haul," by Russel Storer; "Strategic Questions," curated by Gavin Wade; "What is Negative? Why?," by Alexsandra Mir for Gavin Wade; "Top Tips," by Kate Fowle; "The Masterpiece," comic by Olivia Plender; "Aldous Eveleigh''s exhibition.;" Image with caption by Harry Staple; image by Milos Manetas; "Re: FWD: A Statement of Conscience," signed by multiple artists including Laurie Anderson, Ida Applebroog, Noam Chomsky, Eve Ensler, Leon Golub and many others; "A Cockney Poem," by Matthew Arnatt; "Curtain," by Paul Noble; "Kisses Honeywagon - The Novel;" "Page Twenty-Six," by Wallace Robertson; "Guarding the dog and the cows," by Antje Majewski and Ingo Niermann; photograph by Gurvan Madec; "woman is." by Dave Beech; "Barman Joe Latimore chronicles the underbelly of New York''s nitelife;" "Ubiquitous Recluse Revives the Eternal," by Johnny Gato; "In Memoriam: Katri Vala," by Cecilia Stenbom and Minna L. Henriksson; "Chalk Circles," by Katri Vala; "Book Review: The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore," by IB; "Suicide Note," by Nanogod; comic by Roberto Cuoghi; "Beware of Windows!," by Stefan Saffer; texts by Jonas Maria Schul; "Recipes," by Coeinna Durland; "My Friend Najla''s Babaganoush," by Jennifer Higgie; "Eulogy for the Living," by Christian Holstad; "Oh Superman," Karl Holmquist after Laurie Anderson; "Birthday Party part III," by Mika Hannula and more. Backcover: "I (Bomb) NY," by Bernadette Corporation. "September 11, 2002. Enjoying my hot-off-the-press Daily on Avenue B with a cup of burned deli coffee. New York''s Hometown Newspaper was printed in an edition of 1,000 on the first anniversary of 9-11, to reclaim my birthday on the same day The newspaper contains articles, poems, drawings, ads, and all sorts of stupid beautiful shit solicited from over 100 physical artist friends and univocally accepted under the open editorial policy as birthday gifts. The back I BOMB NY logo is by the Bernadette Corporation. Looking back though, it is interesting how certain mainstream politicians have taken all our avant-garde strategies, DADA, Punk, Fiction, Surrealism, Performance, Wigs, even FAKE NEWS (homage: Yves Klein), squeezed the dear soul out of them, and weaponized them for their delinquent purposes. If that is really the case of our times, then what is the role of an artist today? Discuss." -- Artist's statement Very Good / Fine. Light yellowing of covers, light bumping of bottom edge and slight curl to spine. Otherwise clean and unmarked. Due to large size of this publication additional shipping charges will be required for international orders.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Signed and inscribed by the author on the front endpaper. Text is clean and white, appears unread. DJ has one spot at the center of front cover, a drop of coffee, perhaps? Otherwise shows light rubbing to head and heel of spine and tips of corners. Nice cover art by Michael Williis. "James and Roslyn Lewisohn were married for 19 years, raised four children, and spent their last ten years living in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. On June 3, 1974, tragedy struck their home, resulting in the death of Roslyn. Jim's life imprisonment for murder, and the children relocating to Connecticut. While an appeal of the court decision has been filed, he remains an inmate at the Maine State Prison. (He maxed out of the prison in the 80s and relocated to Bar Harbor, Maine, where he died in 2015) Stated First Edition, Limited to 1,000 copies.…

Includes one ALS, 1 page, mechanically copied MSS of 8 poems (10 pages), 3 page mechanically copied biography with comments on his work with 4 holograph lines. His poems had appeared in Poetry, American Poetry Review, The Saturday Review, Chelsea, The Hudson Review, Shenandoah, and other prestigious publications of the era, Lewisohn writes that poet John Logan suggested that he send Claire some work and notes that if Claire does not want to publish it he should keep it. Lewisohn was quite infamous while a tenured professor at University of Maine, he was convicted of shooting his wife and served 10 years in prison while maintaining that the shooting was an accident. He eventually was released and became a Trappist monk having converted to Catholicism in prison.…