Washington Peter Selected Edited (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Small hardcover, 256 pages in fine condition with fine dustjacket. Everyman's Library Pocket Poets. A celebration of friendship in passionate, nostalgic, touching, hilarious and elegiac: a garland of friendship selected from the work of great poets in all times and places.; 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. The dust jacket is price clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Jacket Design by Barbara de Wilde (illustrator). 1st Edition. Love Letters. Selected and edited by Peter Washington. Everyman's Library Pocket Poets. Alfred A. Knopf, New York and Toronto, 1996. Fifth Printing. Handsome Everyman's Library Pocket Poets edition gathering intimate correspondence from writers, artists, and historical figures across centuries. Includes letters by John Keats, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Franz Kafka, Mozart, Sterne, and others. The volume features gilt-stamped beige cloth, decorative striped endpapers, quality typography, and a sewn binding characteristic of the series. A compact and elegant anthology suitable for reading or gifting. Condition: Near Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Cloth binding is clean and bright with sharp corners, strong gilt, and a tight square binding. Interior is fresh and unmarked with no ownership names or bookplates. Endpapers show only faint offsetting from the jacket, as typical. Dust jacket is clean and bright with only a slight surface ripple near the spine fold and minimal edge handling. Not price clipped and free of tears or chips. Edition and printing: Copyright page notes first publication in Everyman's Library in 1996 with this copy being the Fifth Printing. Printed and bound in Germany by Graphischer Grossbetrieb Pössneck GmbH.

Fine and bright in like dustjacket with crisp bright text throughout. A handsome edition with built in bookmark.

Very fine and bright in like dustjacket with crisp bright text throughout. As new.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 249pp. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in AS NEW condition. "This treasury of humorous poems brings together a sparkling constellation of witty poets--from Lord Rochester to Lewis Carroll, from Edward Lear to Ogden Nash, from Dorothy Parker to W. H. Auden--and embraces a wide range of forms, including limericks, clerihews, ballads, sonnets, and nonsense verse. [] COMIC POEMS is studded with unforgettable classics, along with lesser-known comic gems from across the ages, from ancient Rome to modern America. Here is the immortal 'How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear' beside Noël Coward's 'Mad Dogs and Englishmen'; the incomparable 'Jabberwocky' next to the famous 'There was a young lady of Riga.' From Cole Porter and John Updike on love and marriage to Stevie Smith and Dorothy Parker on mortality to the ever-talented Anonymous on almost anything, the lighthearted poetry collected here ranges from the most delightful nonsense to the most sophisticated wit." [jacket copy] Ample selection includes Belloc, Pope, Apollinaire, De La Mare, Wilbur, Burns, Gilbert, Larkin, Jarrell, dozens more. Pristine & handy hardcover w/brilliant corners & crisp edges, a square & tight binding, wrapped in a vibrant jacket image of colored dots by Sigmar Polke. Quite presentable.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A handsome 1994 second printing of Erotic Poems in the Everyman's Library Pocket Poets series, selected and edited by Peter Washington, and beautifully produced by Alfred A. Knopf. Bound in rich burgundy cloth with bright gilt titling and housed in the striking purple and white dust jacket designed by Barbara de Wilde, this compact anthology gathers erotic verse from more than twenty cultures and eras from Ovid and Lucretius to Hafiz, Octavio Paz, Brodsky, and Thom Gunn. The volume shows Near Fine condition overall: the cloth is clean, square, and sharp; gilt bright; text pages pristine; and the sewn binding tight and elegant, as typical of the Everyman's Library craft standards. The dust jacket is in Near Fine condition, showing minor edge rubbing and a few small specks to the rear flap but retaining strong color and crisp typography. Endpapers display the signature diagonal stripe motif; the rear endpaper shows a light spray of small speckling, not affecting the text block. A collectible example of one of the most aesthetically appealing entries in the Pocket Poets line, and a perfect gift copy - compact, durable, and thoughtfully curated.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. 16mo. 256pp. Fine in a fine dust jacket.