Phillips William Philip Rahv James (43 results)

Softcover. Condition: Good with no dust jacket. Square, tight binding. Clean but tanned pages. Wrappers have general light shelf wear, tanning, overall soiling. Previous owner's name at top of front of wrappers. ; Contents: Agee, "The Morning Watch (a short novel) "; Turnell, "The Writer and Social Strategy"; Dupee, "The Great Grey Babylon"; Hook, "Philosophy and'or Agony"; Greenberg, "Winston Churchill, Tory Democrat"; Schlesinger, "The Politics of Democracy"; Spender, "Reflections on the Literary Life"; poems by Leslie A. Fiedler and Louis Simpson. 9.0" tall; 128 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. Near VG. 8vo, 160pp, printed wrappers. Includes poetry by Elizabeth Bishop, Richard Wilbur, and others, plus work by a range of other important contributors. Pencil markings to three pages; fraying to head of spine, which has some lean; and some toning to spine and covers. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG. 8vo, 128pp (plus plates), printed wrappers. This issue includes A Letter from Spain by Saul Bellow, poems from William Carlos Williams's Paterson: Book II, a frontispiece by Gerard Manley Hopkins, and work by other prominent figures. Tight, copy with some pencil underlining to McCarthy story and a bit of toning to spine and wrappers. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Soft cover, light signs of age. We have many other issues of Partisan Review. Email us for a list and great price if you would like to purchase more than one issue. WE ship fast.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Soft cover, has a nick on the bottom of the front cover. We have many other back issues dating to 1938. Email us for a list and a great price if you purchase more than one book. We ship fast.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Soft cover. Has some red marks on the covers. 8vo, 128pp, printed wrappers. Contains a review essay by Delmore Schwartz (on Ralph Ellison and others), plus a poem by Allen Tate, a symposium with contributions from Norman Mailer, James Burnham, et al., and work by a range of other important contributors. We have many other issues dating back to 1938 --email us for a list and a great price on more than one. We ship fast.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Soft cover, has some marks on the covers. We ship fast.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st edition. VG. 8vo, 192pp, printed wrappers. Includes poetry by James Merrill, Robert Penn Warren, W. S. Merwin, et al., and a range of other great content. Unmarked copy, a bit of soil, toning and wear. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG+. 8vo, 160pp, printed wrappers. Nice copy of this 1962 issue, includes a story by James Merrill and interesting contributions from a range of important writers. Unmarked copy, light outer soil and wear. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG. 8vo, 112pp, printed wrappers. Contains Flannery O'Connor's story The Heart of the Park (Farmer C.1949.1; later revised as a chapter of Wise Blood), plus James Merrill, James Burnham, E. E. Cummings, et al. Unmarked copy with some toning and soil to covers. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG. 8vo, 112pp, printed wrappers. This issue includes poems by Thomas Merton and James Laughlin, a frontispiece by Noguchi, and work from other prominent figures. Unmarked copy with toning and soil to covers. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG. 8vo, 112pp, printed wrappers. This issue includes an early story by Saul Bellow, reactions to Ezra Pound and the Bollingen Prize by Auden, Orwell, et al., plus Greenberg on Braque, other interesting content. Unmarked copy with ring stain to cover and a little toning. Not Signed.

Softcover. 8vo., 160 pp., printed wrappers. Contains the first appearance of Susan Sontag's classic essay The Pornographic Imagination [Poague & Parsons B30; reprinted with minor emendations in Styles of Radical Will]. Issue also includes a play by Warhol collaborator Ronald Tavel and writing by James Merrill and others. Very Good with some age toning in blue and white printed wraps,

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st edition. VG. 8vo, 160pp, printed wrappers. Includes "The Gift" by Delmore Schwartz (possibly an influence on the student story of the same name by Lou Reed, later adapted by The Velvet Underground). Also poetry by Olson and others, and a range of other great content. Unmarked copy, toning to spine and covers and light wear. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Soft cover, some signs of age and wear to the covers. We have many back issues, email us for a list. We discount if you purchase more than one issue. We ship fast.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Soft cover, light signs of age. SCARCE issue. Has the Delmore Schwartz poems. We ship fast. We also have a lot of other back issues dating to 1938. Email us for more information.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good Plus. 1st edition. Near VG. 8vo, 128pp, printed wrappers. Issue includes an advance excerpt from Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, plus two poems by Dylan Thomas and work by a range of other important contributors. We have many other issues of Partisan Review dating back to 1938. Email us for a list and a great price on more than one issue. We ship fast.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. Near VG. 8vo, 128pp, printed wrappers. Contains a review essay by Delmore Schwartz (on Ralph Ellison and others), plus a poem by Allen Tate, a symposium with contributions from Norman Mailer, James Burnham, et al., and work by a range of other important contributors. Unmarked copy, a bit of outer toning and soil with associated light rippling/faint stains to top margin. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG. 8vo, 160pp, printed wrappers. Contains the first appearance of Susan Sontag's classic essay The Pornographic Imagination (Poague & Parsons B30; reprinted with minor emendations in Styles of Radical Will). Issue also includes a play by Warhol collaborator Ronald Tavel and writing by James Merrill and others. Interiorly unmarked copy with light outer toning and surface abrasion. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. Near VG. 8vo, 160pp, printed wrappers. Contains the first appearance of Susan Sontag's review essay "Is the Reader Necessary?" (Poague & Parsons B4). This "differs considerably" from the version published in "Against Interpretation" as "Nathalie Sarraute and the Novel." Issue also contains a Stephen Spender piece on James Baldwin. Unmarked copy with moderate overall bending and some corner creasing to back cover. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG. 8vo, 140pp, printed wrappers. Partisan Review side publication of a symposium on America and the Intellectuals, which had originally appeared in installments in the journal. Unmarked copy, bit of reading wear and some toning to wrappers. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG. 8vo, 128pp, printed wrappers. This issue includes "The Trip to Galena," a section from Saul Bellow's ultimately uncompleted third novel "The Crab and the Butterfly." Also writing by James Burnham, Hannah Arendt, Robert Lowell, et al. Unmarked copy, a bit of cover soil and toning, small corner folds to a few preliminary leaves, spine is faded. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG. 8vo, 96pp, printed wrappers. Prime issue of this essential magazine, includes Auden on Wilde, other interesting content. Unmarked copy, some cover soil and reading wear. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG. 8vo, 128pp, printed wrappers. Includes an excerpt from Robert Musil's The Man without Qualities at the time of the publication of the English translation of the first volume, plus work by a range of other important contributors. Unmarked copy, cover has some toning and soil, a bit of general wear. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. Near VG. 8vo, 96pp, printed wrappers. Contains four poems by Delmore Schwartz, plus literary and critical writing by other important contributors. Penciled owner name to front cover (else unmarked); outer spotting, toning and soil and some general reading wear. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. Near VG. 8vo, 160pp, printed wrappers. Includes the first appearance of Susan Sontag's essay Going to Theater, Etc. (Poague & Parsons B9; this first appearance includes a brief passage on singer Tiny Tim omitted in the version in Against Interpretation). Issue also includes poetry by James Merrill and Philip Larkin, an essay on James Baldwin by Robert Coles, etc. Unmarked copy, covers have soil and some wear (including a small closed tear to bottom edge of front cover). Not Signed.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Volume XXVII, Number 2. P.204-383. Printed wrappers. Wrappers and spine toned, a shallow abrasion at the top of the front wrapper, and corners bumped, very good. Includes "Any Day Now" an excerpt from James Baldwin's upcoming (at the time) novel *Another Country*. Additional contributions by: Dwight Macdonald, Ted Hughes, Anne Sexton, Lionel Abel, Raymond Williams, and more.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. Near VG. 8vo, 128pp, printed wrappers. Includes James Baldwin's essay Many Thousands Gone (on Richard Wright's Native Son; later collected in Baldwin's Notes of a Native Son). This original appearance shows the early context of Baldwin's work within currents of postwar intellectual culture. Issue also includes an advance chapter of Saul Bellow's The Adventures of Augie March and other interesting work. Light pencil fill-ins to front cover (no other markings); a bit of spotting and wear to covers and some spine lean. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. Near VG. 8vo, 128pp, printed wrappers. Issue includes an advance excerpt from Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, plus two poems by Dylan Thomas and work by a range of other important contributors. Unmarked copy, a bit of toning, soil and reading wear. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG+. 8vo, 140pp, printed wrappers. Partisan Review side publication of a symposium on Religion and the Intellectuals, which had originally appeared in installments in 1950 issues of the magazine. Unmarked copy, bit of reading wear and some toning to wrappers. Not Signed.