Trakl Georg Wright James Bly (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Sixties Press, Madison, MN, 1961.First Edition Black Cloth gilt title to spine no dj, 61 pages, name John Wain 1961 to fep absolute minor marks to covers otherwise in VERY GOOD CLEAN TIGHT READING ORDER. Full refund if not satisfied. 24 hour despatch.

Hardcover. Condition: good. Dust Jacket Condition: good. Book has toning caused by jacket on front and back endpages and slight wear to corners. otherwise pages are clean and unmarked with solid binding. Jacket has foxing on front and back, with several small tears and moderate fraying around edges, and some sticker residue in front center. otherwise clean with bright cover art, now protected in an archival cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Small hardcover. LOC no. 61-9805. 8vo (5.5 x 8.5 in.) Plain black cloth with stamped gilt spine titling. Boards are thin material, still sturdy and clean. Jacket is white with red and black lettering. Graphical image on cover, additional publisher offerings listed on rear. It has noticeable surface wear and is missing paper and the top and bottom of spine. One small separation on spine along with a closed tear. Plain endpapers. 61 pp. Pages are slightly aged, free of markings. Trakl was German and committed suicide at the age of 27. His poems fill the reader with mental images, mostly of nature. Bly and Wright edited and translated poems from the German and both present short essays on Trakl and his work. German and English text face each other throughout. A rare book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. First edition, hardcover, the poems appear side-by-side in German and English, has bumps to the spine ends and corners, soiling and foxing to the covers, small peeled flakes to the cloth along the gutters, and uneven age toning to the end sheets. Overall, this is a solid, firm and unmarked, Good+ copy in a like dust jacket, which has bumps with creased tears and small losses to the spine ends and corners, wear with creasing and short tears to the edges, sunning with cross creases to the spine, and rubbing with smudges, small stains and a touch of foxing to the panels. The jacket is wrapped in Mylar.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 5.5 X 8.5 inches. 61 pages. Black cloth hardcover with gilt type on spine. Very Good. Slight bowing of boards and toning to end sheet gutters. Unclipped DJ (2.00) is GOOD with visible water damage to bottom of front cover. Now in protective mylar. Bi-lingual edition with facing German poems. Introduced and translated by Robert Bly and James Wright.

First edition, first printing Very close to fine black boards in like illustrated dust jacket. With two fine introductions one by Robert Bly and one by James Wright. Bilingual. Tipped in a Sixties Press business card inscribed to another and signed by Robert Bly. With its usual toning to the end papers, quite a handsome copy.

Gilt black cloth. Endsheets offset, as usual, otherwise fine, in slightly smudged jacket with two chips on spine, one upper one lower. First edition 500 clothbound, early production by both poets. Rilke wrote of Trakl's poems "they seem to have disproved that prejudice which judges all poetry in terms of feeling and content only, as if in the direction of lament there were only lament but here too there is world again." Endsheets offset, as usual, otherwise fine, in slightly smudged jacket with two chips on spine, one upper one lower. Poetry Book.