Sisskind Mitchell Editors (6 results)

Softcover. 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. …

Soft 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.

Card Wrappers. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 86pp. Early Auster preceding any books under his own name. Covers very lightly foxed. Joan Mitchell (cover) (illustrator).

Soft 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).…

First Edition. First Edition, a paperback original. The first issue of Auster's influential Living Hand series. Near Fine copy in illustrated wrappers.

Paper. Condition: Very Good. Very good copy. 86pp. Book.