Walcott Derek Illustrated By (7 results)

Softcover. Condition: VG-. Some rubbing & edgewear some creases at edges & corners; light duststaining; some yellowing/fading; otherwise overall clean & tight.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition Thus.. VERY GOOD Condition PAPERBACK,clean, solid, bright; LIGHT YELLOW TITLES SHOWING SEVERAL PEOPLE OF COLOR ON YELLOW & RED BOAT, UNDER WHITE CLOUDY SKY. COVER BLURB "WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE"; 325pg pages; poem in five books, of circular narrative design, titled with the Greek name for Homer, which simultaneously charts two currents of history: the visible history charted in events -- the tribal losses of the American Indian, the tragedy of African enslavement. Illustrated by WALCOTT Cover Art (illustrator).…

Hardback. Condition: As new. Dust Jacket Condition: As new. First UK edition. First UK edition. Sm. 4to. Pp. [viii], 163, [1]. White textured paper-covered boards stamped in black to spine, with author's initials to front underlined by a brushstroke. Illustrated dustwrapper, priced £20.00 to front flap. Further illustrated with 26 full-colour reproductions of the author's own watercolour paintings, in an homage to Camille Pissarro. A long narrative poem, composed entirely in couplets, Tiepolo's Hound joins the quests of two Caribbeans: Camille Pissarro, who leaves his native St Thomas to follow his vocation as a painter in Paris, and the poet himself longing to rediscover a detail - "a slash of pink on the inner thigh / of a white hound" - from a Venetian painting encountered on an early visit to New York. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992. "A beautiful book and a gorgeous poem. one of the finest recent examples of the epic form." -Justin D. Coffin, The Philadelphia Inquirer.…

Hardback. Condition: As new. Dust Jacket Condition: As new. First edition. First edition. Sm. 4to. Pp. [viii], 163, [1]. White textured paper-covered boards stamped in black to spine, with author's initials to front underlined by a brushstroke. Illustrated dustwrapper, priced $30.00 to front flap. Further illustrated with 26 full-colour reproductions of the author's own watercolour paintings, in an homage to Camille Pissarro. A long narrative poem, composed entirely in couplets, Tiepolo's Hound joins the quests of two Caribbeans: Camille Pissarro, who leaves his native St Thomas to follow his vocation as a painter in Paris, and the poet himself longing to rediscover a detail - "a slash of pink on the inner thigh / of a white hound" - from a Venetian painting encountered on an early visit to New York. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992. "A beautiful book and a gorgeous poem. one of the finest recent examples of the epic form." -Justin D. Coffin, The Philadelphia Inquirer. …

Hardback. Condition: As new. Dust Jacket Condition: As new. Limited first edition. Limited first edition. Sm. 4to. Pp. [viii], 163, [1]. Dark green cloth, stamped in gilt, over cream paper-covered boards; grey-blue endpapers. No. 81 of a limited edition of 110 specially bound copies, signed by Walcott to the colophon. Illustrated with 26 full-colour reproductions of the author's watercolour paintings. As new, in acetate wrapper. A long narrative poem, composed entirely in couplets, Tiepolo's Hound joins the quests of two Caribbeans: Camille Pissarro, who leaves his native St Thomas to follow his vocation as a painter in Paris, and the poet himself longing to rediscover a detail - "a slash of pink on the inner thigh / of a white hound" - from a Venetian painting encountered on an early visit to New York. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992. "A beautiful book and a gorgeous poem. one of the finest recent examples of the epic form." -Justin D. Coffin, The Philadelphia Inquirer. signed.…

First edition. Publisher blue cloth with black titles to the upper board and spine, in the Peter Doig illustrated dustwrapper. Illustrated with reproductions of 51 paintings by Peter Doig, in full colour. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the bright original dustwrapper that is very lightly rubbed at the corners, and otherwise without fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped. A beautifully presented collaboration between Nobel Prize-winning poet Derek Walcott and acclaimed painter Peter Doig. Walcott wrote these 51 poems in response to the paintings reproduced alongside them. Their collaboration grew from a long-standing friendship, forged during Doig's years living and working in Trinidad between 2002 and 2021, where he became a close friend of the St Lucian poet. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.…

Hardcover in Slip Case. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Thus (In a limited edition of 2,000 numbered copies). As-new copy, bound in painted cloth with an original Romare Bearden lithograph laid-in, slipcased, number 1,678 of 2,000 copies, signed by Derek Walcott & Romare Bearden on the colophon page. The pale blue card slipcase has unevenly sunned just faintly. The book is mint. 4to( 210 pages, illustrated with eight original lithographs by Romare Bearden). Signed.…