William Phillips Philip Rahv Stephen (17 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Soft cover. Good. [vi], pp. 631-736, 8vo, card wrapper. Good copy; wrapper has light wear and creasing and is age-toned; contents generally very good. We ship fast.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 98 pages. Stephen Spender "The Life of Literature" / THE CREATIVE LIFE IN OUR TIME: Letters by Elizabeth Bowen, Graham Greene and V S Pritchett / Paul Valery "The Angel" / Horace Gregory "In George Sand's Garden" / Stephen Spender "The Life Of Literature" / Richard Chase "Dissent On Billy Budd".

Softcover. Condition: Good. [vi], pp. 631-736, 8vo, card wrapper. Good copy; wrapper has light wear and creasing and is age-toned; contents generally fine.

Softcover. Condition: Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Age-darkened pages. Wraps heavily soiled with general shelf wear, age-darkening that is more severe around the edges and at spine. Contents: Howe, "Radical Questions and the American Intellectual." Sarraute, "Flaubert." Hayward, "The Moscow Trial." Bersani, "No Exit for Beckett." Cohen, "Theater 66." Donadio, "The Colected Miss Porter." Jerome, "The Common Sense of Everett Bjorkman." Poetry by Robert Penn Warren, Frederick Seidel, Gunnar Ekelof. Ludwig, "The Soft Machine." Trilling, "Capote's Crime and Punishment." Book reviews. ; 9.0" tall; 149 pages.

Softcover. Condition: Good with no dust jacket. Square, tight binding. Clean but tanned pages. Wrappers have general light shelf wear, tanning, overall soiling. Previous owner's name at top of front of wrappers. ; Contents: Agee, "The Morning Watch (a short novel) "; Turnell, "The Writer and Social Strategy"; Dupee, "The Great Grey Babylon"; Hook, "Philosophy and'or Agony"; Greenberg, "Winston Churchill, Tory Democrat"; Schlesinger, "The Politics of Democracy"; Spender, "Reflections on the Literary Life"; poems by Leslie A. Fiedler and Louis Simpson. 9.0" tall; 128 pages.

Softcover. Condition: Good with no dust jacket. Illustrated by Henri Matisse (illustrator). Square, tight binding. Clean but tanned pages. Wrappers have small amount of writing at top front, general light shelf wear, tanning. ; Contents: Gide, "Theseus (a novelette) "; Spender, "The Life of Literature"; Chase, "Dissent on Billy Budd"; Valéry, "The Angel (a poem) "; Davis, "Pound, Jeffers and Other Poets"; Flint, "Fiat Luce"; "The Creative Life in Our Time" (letters by Elizabeth Bowen, Graham Greene, V. S. Pritchett). frontispiece drawing; 9.0" tall; 105 pages.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, trade paperback, has a slight lean to the binding, light bumps to the spine ends and cover corners, a ding to the head of the text block, rubbing with stray marks to the covers, and a touch of sunning to the spine. Overall, a Very Good copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG+. 8vo, 96pp, printed wrappers. This prime issue includes writing by Vladimir Nabokov, Borges, Elizabeth Bishop, et al. Unmarked copy with a bit of outer toning and soil. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG+. 8vo, 112pp, printed wrappers. This issue includes writing by Gide, Spender, and other prominent figures. Unmarked copy with sunning to spine and a bit of general wear and light outer soil. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG. 8vo, 112pp, printed wrappers. This issue includes contributions from Tennessee Williams (a story), Delmore Schwartz, William Carlos Williams, and other prominent figures. Unmarked copy with light ring stains to cover and some general wear. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG. 8vo, 160pp, printed wrappers. Includes a poem by Allen Ginsberg, plus contributions from a range of other major contributors. Minor marginalia to under 10 pages, bump to one corner, light toning to spine, clean overall. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG. 8vo, 160pp, printed wrappers. Contains the first appearance of a 6-page review essay by Tony Tanner on Susan Sontag's Death Kit (Poague & Parsons H14). Issue also includes interviews relating to the 1968 Columbia University riots. Minor pencil marginalia to a few pages, a bit of general reading wear and soil. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. Near VG. 8vo, 160pp, printed wrappers. Contains the first appearance of Susan Sontag's review essay "Is the Reader Necessary?" (Poague & Parsons B4). This "differs considerably" from the version published in "Against Interpretation" as "Nathalie Sarraute and the Novel." Issue also contains a Stephen Spender piece on James Baldwin. Unmarked copy with moderate overall bending and some corner creasing to back cover. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG+. 8vo, 112pp, printed wrappers. This issue includes a quarter-page advertisement for Kenneth Anger's pioneering experimental film Fireworks (available for 16mm rental), plus a George Orwell essay on Mahatma Gandhi and work from other prominent figures. Unmarked copy with toning/soil to covers and spine. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG. 8vo, 160pp, printed wrappers. Includes the first appearance of Susan Sontag's review Demons and Dreams (Poague & Parsons D3), plus scenes from Saul Bellow's play Humanitis and contributions from a range of important writers. Unmarked copy, small closed tear to front cover at base of spine. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG+. 8vo, 128pp, printed wrappers. Issue leads with The Morning Watch (a short novel) by James Agee, and includes literary and critical writing by other important contributors. Unmarked copy with a bit of outer toning and light wear. Not Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Introduction by Lionel Trilling. Octavo. xvi, 688pp. Light foxing on page edges, spine ends lightly bumped with spine slightly cocked a bit, else a near fine copy in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with short nicks and tears on spine ends and corners. Containing two sonnets entitled "Salem" and "Concord" by Robert Lowell. "Poem" by Kenneth Patchen. "Two Morning Monologues" by Saul Bellow. Much of the material contained in this volume were first published here with contributions by Franz Kafka, James T. Farrell, Mary McCarthy, James Agee, Robert Lowell, T.S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, W.H. Auden, Stephen Spender, E.E. Cummings, Katherine Anne Porter, Sherwood Anderson, John Dos Passos, and many others. An important collection of poetry, essays, and modern literature. Scarce in trade.