Sisskind Mitchell Editors (6 results)
More imagesPublished by Living Hand/ Compton Press Ltd, Wilts, UK, 1973
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Lost Horizon Bookstore, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.Lost Horizon Bookstore
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Add to basketSoftcover. Condition: Very good minus. Octavo. 8.25 x 5.75".85pp. First issue of short lived literary magazine. Featuring poetry and prose by Paul Auster, Paul Celan, Georges Bataille and others. Pictorial wrappers lightly soiled. "Both a little magazine and a small, independent publishing house, Living Hand, which took its name… from Keats ("This living hand, now warm and capable"), was started in Paris by Paul Auster, who was then working as a telephone operator for the Paris Bureau of the New York Times and translating French poetry. Living Hand, which included a great number of Auster's translations, numbered eight issues, with numbers 1 and 4 being the most conventionally magazine-like; the other numbers were monographs."livinghand.
Language: English
Published by Paris and Chicago, 1973
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Clayton Fine Books, Shepherdstown, WV, U.S.A.Clayton Fine Books
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. This copy has light foxing at the cover extremities. This first issue of Living Hand contains a portion of "Unearth" by Auster.
Living Hand 1: Fall 1973
Sisskind Mitchell (editors & Contrib); Celan Paul; Bataille Georges; Jabes Edmond Mandelbaum Allen; Taylor John; Davis Lydia (contribute)
Language: English
Published by Living Hand, Paris & Chicago, 1973
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: The Poetry Bookshop : Hay-on-Wye, Hay-on-Wye, POWYS, United KingdomThe Poetry Bookshop : Hay-on-Wye
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Add to basketCard Wrappers. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 86pp. Early Auster preceding any books under his own name. Covers very lightly foxed. Joan Mitchell (cover) (illustrator).
Language: English
Published by Paris and Chicago, 1973
- Softcover
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: Clayton Fine Books, Shepherdstown, WV, U.S.A.Clayton Fine Books
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Near fine in origial wrappers with a light bump on the lower rear corner and wear on the rear panel on the top edge. This first issue of Living Hand contains a portion of "Unearth" by Auster. This copy is signed by Auster on the contents page. Signed by Author(s).

Living Hand 1 (First Edition)
Paul Auster, Mitchell Sisskind (editors); Lydia Davis, Paul Celan (contributorsP
Published by Living Hand, Paris, 1973
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.Royal Books, Inc., ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst Edition. First Edition, a paperback original. The first issue of Auster's influential Living Hand series. Near Fine copy in illustrated wrappers.
Published by Compton Press Ltd., Salisbury, 1973
- Softcover
Seller: Librairie Sheehy (Theologia Books), La Charite sur Loire, FranceLibrairie Sheehy (Theologia Books)
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Add to basketPaper. Condition: Very Good. Very good copy. 86pp. Book.