Louis Wright Simpson (13 results)

Soft cover. John Winship (illustrator). 1st Edition. Poetry by Rita Dove, Published in 1988 Gettyburg Review. Also Paintings by John Winship, Works by Frederick Busch, Robert Penn Warren, Donald Barthelme, Louis Simpson, Charles Wright, Philip Levine, Anne Beattie, and More. This is the Premier issue of "The Gettysburg Review", a literary journal devoted to literature, commentary, and art. It presents a stellar array of renowned and top-notch authors (see below), and reproductions in miniature of the stunning artwork of John Winship. Of special interest is the inclusion of work by Black poet Rita Dove. Such perceptive inclusion is likely that one reason this small literary journal has continued to be top-rate is its panel of editors, which include Donald Barthelme, Rita Dove, Garrison Keillor, Ann Beattie, Robert Penn Warren, and Richard Wilbur, among others. In this Premier Winter 1988 issue are the following contributions: GRAPHICS ? 9 Paintings by John Winship ESSAYS AND ESSAY-REVIEWS ** Cinema of-as Atrocity: Shoah's Guilty Conscience - by Steven G. Kellman ** The Menil Collection - by Richard Howard ** Why Stop? - by Mary Hood ** We're Here: Here-say and Other Versions of the Place Sense - by Robert B. Heilman ** The Power of the Principle of Resonance - by Hans C. Von Baeyer ** Physicists, Trefil, and the Role of Popularizers in America - by Tony Rothman ** Hemingway and his Biographical Wounds - by Sanford Pinsker ** Facts and Poetry - by Louis Simpson ** Endgames : or the Plague for Which There Is No Known Anecdote - by Paul West FICTION ** Keeping House With Freud - by Gloria Whelan ** War Babies, Part I - by Frederick Busch ** Diagnosis - by Ivy Goodman ** How My Father Met the Greatest Minds of the Twentieth Century - by Dan Pope ** Frog Going Downstairs - by Stephen Dixon POETRY BY: Judson Mitcham, Charles Wright, Linda Pastam, Maurya Simon, Michael Heffernan, Norman Dubie, Tom Johnson, June Goodwin, Edward Hirsch, Sharon Olds, Charles Simic, Dabney Stuart, Rita Dove, Eric Pankey, Philip Levine TITLE : Gettysburg Review - Premier Issue ISSUE : Volume 1 - Number 1 EDITOR : Peter Stitt IMPRINT : Gettysburg College PLACE : Gettysburg, PA DATE : Winter 1988 DETAILS : Quarterly Periodical; Contains 9 color plates; 6 3/4" x 10", pictorial wraps, glued; 194 pages, plus 5 pages of back material CONDITION -- VERY GOOD -- A previously owned book which remains clean and attractive, with the following noted: EXTERIOR : A bit of edge nicking and mild surface rub, spine iscolor faded, else bright and clean. BINDING : Solid. INTERIOR : Clean and unmarked throughout.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1925, First Edition, Good to Very Good/no dj, 12mo., 155pp., tan cloth hardcover, covers lightly soiled with several dark spots & smudges, binding tight, text unmarked, Presented & Signed on front free endpaper: "To Dr Mary Jepson With all good wishes, from Louis Wright Simpson.". Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition (SD). This book is 100 years young. It is solidly bound. The covers have almost no wear. The lettering on the front cover and spine is bright. There are just a few spots of light soiling (see the first three photographs). The front and back end papers have some age darkening (the author signed and inscribed the book on the front one).The rest of the pages look terrific. I didn't see any soiling or creasing. There are no markings. No attachments. And no writing other than the author's signed inscription. The book is inscribed to Frederick J. Shepard who wrote 'History Of Yale Class of 1873' which, like this book, was published in Buffalo, N.Y. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. 16mo, 154 pages, cloth Presentation Copy inscribed by the author to Ruth Ann Waring, who worked in Marshal Field's Book Department.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Mass market paperback. 201pp. Spine toned and creased, near fine. Contributions by William Stafford, Robert Lowell, Robert Duncan, Reed Whittemore, Howard Nemerov, Richard Wilbur, Anthony Hecht, James Dickey, Denise Levertov, John Logan, Louis Simpson, Edgar Bowers, Donald Justice, Robert Bly, Robert Creeley, James Merrill, W.D. Snodgrass, John Ashbery, Galway Kinnell, W.S. Merwin, James Wright, X.J. Kennedy, Adrienne Cecile Rich, Gary Snyder, and Robert Mezey. Penguin Poets D67.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG. 8vo, 208pp, printed wrappers. This uncommon 1975 issue of Chicago Review, devoted to American Poetry, includes works by a range of exponents as well as interviews with Allen Ginsberg and Louis Simpson. Unmarked copy, light spots and toning to wrappers (mainly affects back cover). Not Signed.

Condition: Sehr gut. First Edition. 15 x 23.5 cm. XI, 291 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Includes for example the following chapters: The Sacramental Vision of Richard Wilbur, Interview with Richard Wilbur, William Stafford's Winerness Quest, Interview with William Stafford, Louis Simpson: In Search of the American Self, Interview with Louis Simpson, James Wright: The Quest for Home, Interview with James Wright, Robert Penn Warren: Life's Instancy and the Astrolabe of Joy, Interview with Robert Penn Warren.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. xiv, 105pp. Corners lightly bumped, else fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with spine toned and dampstained.Contributions by Richard Wilbur ("A Black November Turkey", After the Last Bulletins", and "Lookin into History"), Robert P. Tristram Coffin, Elizabeth Coatsworth, Elizabeth Enright, W.S. Merwin ("Genoese Mariner" and "When I Came from Colchis"), Christopher Morley, Adrienne Cecile Rich ("Ideal Landscape" and "Versaille"), May Sarton, Louis Simpson, Peter Viereck, James Wright, and many others.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Brown and white wrappers. 329-480pp. Wrappers lightly age-toned, very good or better. Contributions by William Carlos Williams' *The Farmers' Daughter*, Northrop Frye's *The Realistic Oriole: A Study of Wallace Stevens, Louis Simpson, Daniel G. Hoffman, Lysander Kemp, James Wright, John Fandel, Leonard Wolf, A.R. Ammons, James Dickey, Marius Bewley, Robert Martin Adams' *Henrik Ibsen: The Fifty-First Anniversary*, John Holloway, William S. Poster, Kenneth B. Sawyer, Roy Harvey Pearce, Louis Simpson, Benjamin De Mott, and Gerald Weales.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG. Square 4to, 112pp, printed wrappers. Fourth issue of this exceptional book-format cultural magazine from 1965 Chicago. Includes writing by Ray Bremser, Paul Carroll, Thomas McGrath, et al. Unmarked copy, light corner bumps and wear. Not Signed.

First Edition. First edition. Softcover. 8 pages. Published for Christmas 1961. Features poems by Michael Benedikt, Ann Sexton, Jerome Rothenberg, Robert Kelly, Barbara Guest, Armand Schwerner, David Ignatow, William Stafford, James Wright, Robert Creeley, and Louis Simpson. A very near fine copy in stapled wrappers. Signed by Merwin on the front cover and uncommon as such. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. A trifle bumped at the crown else fine in very good dustwrapper with chip at the bottomof the front panel. A small poetry anthology that is particularly noteworthy as Sylvia Plath's first book appearance, preceding the rare offprint *Sculptor* by two years. After contributions from a host of already-established poets there is a small "Undergraduate" section which contains two Plath entries: "Aubade" and "Two Lovers and a Beachcomber by the Real Sea." Also includes an entry from James Wright, his first book was published this year was well. Other contributors include Robert Frost, W.H. Auden, John Ciardi, Donald Hall, Richmond Lattimore, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Louis Macneice, W.S. Merwin, Howard Moss, Louise Townsend Nicholl, Adrienne Rich, Theodore Roethke, May Sarton, Louis Simpson, Robert Penn Warren, John Hall Wheelock, Richard Wilbur, James Wright, Dannie Abse, Eric Barker (First Prize), Thomas Blackburn, J.R. Brownfield, Jean Burden, Kenneth M. Cameron, Grace Carnot, Charles Causley, Robert P. Tristram Coffin, Barbara D. Cooper, Allan Donaldson, Leah Bodein Drake, Carleton Drewry, Evelyn Eaton, Thomas Hornsby Ferril, David Ferry, Robert Francis, Frances Frost, Jed Garrick, Kenneth O. Hanson, John Heath-Stubbs, Elizabeth Henley, Robert Horan, Elizabeth Jennings, Dilys Laing, Joseph Langland, Fred Lape, Norman MacCraig, Harold Grier McCurdy, Jackson Morris, David Morton, Thomas Moult, Hubert Nicholson, Gloria Rawlinson, Alastair Reid, Dorothy Roberts, James L. Rosenbert, Arthur M. Sampley, Ernest Sandeen, Marcia Masters Schmid, Burns Singer, Radclive Squires, Jean Sewell Standish, Margaret Stanley-Wrench, A.M. Sullivan, Robert A. Wallace, Peter B. Walsh, Lynne Lawner, Donald Lehmkuhl, Henry D.M. Sherrerd, Jr., Richard Roe, and Barbara Stewart. A nicer than usual copy - the thin paper jacket is very prone to tearing.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. Near VG. 8vo, 192pp, printed wrappers. This scarce early issue includes the first publication of Philip Roth's novella Goodbye, Columbus, an interview with James Jones, and poetry by Robert Bly et al. Unmarked copy, small triangular closed tear to center of front cover, some outer soil and general wear. Not Signed.