Perse John Devlin Denis (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Unclipped DJ is lightly soiled & rubbed from age & handling, a few small tears. previous owner's name on front fly-leaf. Pages clean & bright.

Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. E. McKnight Kauffer (dust jacket) (illustrator). Second Printing. 4to. Pp. 166. Bollingen series XV. Bilingual edition, French and English on facing pages. Bibliography. Black half cloth over tan paper-covered boards, lettering stamped in gilt on the spine, Kauffer Bollingen logo stamped in gilt on the cover. Small bump to lower edge of rear board. In the illustrated dust jacket, price-clipped, with an old 1" tape repair on verso, and light edge-wear. Address stamp of John Ciardi (Medford, Mass.) on the front free endpaper. With the review slip laid-in, indicating publication date will be September, 1953. Handsome presentation typical of the Bollingen Series: type, printing, binding, and cover design from a great graphic artist. Dust jacket preserved in a removable clear archival sleeve.

Hardcover. First Edition. Quarto, 166 pages. In Good plus condition. Bound in the publisher's black cloth bearing gilt lettering to the spine. Boards have slight wear including slight bumping and rubbing to the corners with minor scuffs and cocking to the spine. Text block has modest wear including slight age toning to the edges and mild age toning to the interior. Newspaper clipped photograph of the author adhered to the front free end paper. Mild offsetting to the front pastedown. Previous bookshop's small sticker to the rear pastedown. Text in French and English. First edition. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex, Quarto and Folio Case. Oversized book(s). Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For expedited/international customers, please inquire about rates. 1400342. FP New Rockville Stock.

166 pp. 4to. First edition. First edition. 166 pp. 4to. Black boards with white lettering and gilt on front board and spine, pages are bright; fine. Dust jacket is perished head of spine with tearing and creasing along top of verso. Tear along bottom of verso and some small tears on bottom of front with light bumping at corners and rubbing at edges; overall a very good copy. Publisher's advance slip laid in.

First French/English edition. Octavo (20.5cm); blue cloth-covered boards, with titling and blocking stamped in gilt and blue on spine; dustjacket; 682pp. Number 87 (LXXVII) in Bollingen Series. Upper spine lightly convexed, else Near Fine. Dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $15.00), tanned, with modest rubbing to spine ends and extremities; Very Good+. Includes Perse's Nobel Prize for Literature speech (1960), T.S. Eliot's translation of Anabase (Anabasis), Hugh Chisholm's translation of Vents (Winds), Robert Fitzgerald's translation of Oiseaux (Birds), and more. [84004].