In a Green Night Poems 1948 1960 by Derek Walcott (13 results)

hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardback--book e excellent--dust cover edge wear.

First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 79 pages. The first collection of poems by Walcott to be printed by a major publisher. Walcott went on to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992. A near fine copy with a small vintage bookstore sticker to the front pastedown and in a very good plus dust jacket with some minor wear and a bookseller sticker to the rear panel.

First edition, first impression; 8vo; Publisher's cream cloth-backed green boards, titles to spine gilt, with the dust-jacket, ownership signature to front free endpaper; a very good copy in the lightly tanned and little rubbed dust-jacket. The Nobel Laureate's first book to be published in the UK.

Hardcover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG-. First UK Edition. 79 pages in very good condition; some very light foxing on the few first and last pages. Previous owner's name on the fep. Quarter bound with white cloth over green boards. Gilt titles on the spine. Corners not bumped. Green DJ with black titles. Spine is a little faded, lightly scuffed. Light wear on corners and edges. VG+/VG-. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 79pp. Cloth-backed marbled paper-covered boards, lettered in gold at the spine. A single tiny blemish to the fore edge of the front free endpaper, and a St. Lucia bookshop inkstamp to the base of the front pastedown. A virtually fine copy in Germano Facetti-designed dust wrapper, lightly chafed at the natural folds and with several miniscule fractions of loss to the corner tips. Laid-in is an image Walcott, clipped from a 1991 programme of events at the National Theatre, and subsequently signed by the author. The future Nobel Laureate's first book to be published in the UK, comprising 42 poems most of which had previously appeared in various of the author's rare Trinidad-issued pamphlets. Signed by Author(s).

pp. (x), 11-79, (i). Price-clipped dust wrapper over paper boards, the wrapper has been damped and the green colouring has faintly bled onto the boards beneath, this has also affected the fore-edge of the rear free end-paper and the lower corner margins of the last half-dozen leaves, the wrapper is slightly worn at spine ends and corners, else text clean, with the signature of M. A. L. HENDRIKS, Jamaican poet [1922-1992]. *This collection was the first of Walcott's poems to be issued in England. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Ex-library book, usual markings. Hardback/Hardcover with green dust cover. Clean text, sound binding. Quick dispatch from UK seller.

HC. Signed Edition 79 pp., First edition, signed by Derek Walcott on the title page. His first book published outside the West Indies. Marbled paper over board, cloth spine with gilt title, green dust jacket. Small inventory numers inside front cover, otherwise fine, clean copy. Dust jacket price clipped with tears and loss at foot.

First edition. In A Green Night was the author's first collection of poems to be published outside of the Caribbean. Walcott won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992 and is best known for his Omeros (1990), an epic poem retelling the Homeric legends in a modern Caribbean setting. This poetry collection was his first major and international success. Dedicated to his mother, Alix Walcott, the book "brought together what he considered to be the best of his verse to date. [it] represents a coming of age for Walcott, the first clear step on his Odyssean journey towards becoming a Caribbean Homer" (Thieme, pp. 14 and 38). John Thieme, Derek Walcott, 1999. Octavo. Original cream quarter boards, spine lettered in gilt, green marbled paper sides. With dust jacket. Ownership inscription, partially erased, to front free endpaper. Foot of spine a little toned, a touch of foxing to edges; jacket unclipped, spine toned, a few chips and one short closed tear to edges, damp stain on rear panel: a near-fine copy in very good jacket.

First edition. 8vo. Original quarter cloth with marbled paper covered boards, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket. London, Jonathan Cape. The first collection by the Nobel Prize winning poet to be published outside of the Caribbean.  An excellent copy, small area of staining to fore edge, not effecting contents, some trivial shelf wear to extremities.

First edition of Walcott's first collection of poems to be published outside of the Caribbean. Dedicated to his mother, it "brought together what he considered to be the best of his verse to date [and] represents a coming of age, the first clear step on his Odyssean journey towards becoming a Caribbean Homer" (Thieme, pp. 14 and 38). Walcott won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992 and is best known for his Omeros (1990), an epic poem retelling the Homeric legends in a modern Caribbean setting. John Thieme, Derek Walcott, 1999. Octavo. Original cream quarter boards, spine lettered in gilt, green marbled paper sides. With dust jacket and publisher's promotional band. Clippings of relevant newspaper and magazine reviews laid in. Head of spine bumped, top edge foxed: jacket unclipped, spine gently toned, top edge creased: a near-fine copy in like jacket.

Uncorrected proof copy of the first edition. In A Green Night was the author's first collection of poems to be published outside of the Caribbean. Walcott went on to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992 and is best known for his Omeros (1990), an epic poem retelling the Homeric legends in a modern Caribbean setting. This poetry collection was his first major and international success. Dedicated to his mother, Alix Walcott, the book "brought together what he considered to be the best of his verse to date. [it] represents a coming of age for Walcott, the first clear step on his Odyssean journey towards becoming a Caribbean Homer" (Thieme, pp. 14 and 38). John Thieme, Derek Walcott, 1999. Octavo. Original light green paper wrappers decorated with white publisher's motif, lettered in black. With dust jacket. Tiny mark to top edge: a near-fine copy in like jacket.

First edition of the first major collection by the 1992 Nobel laureate, preceded by three volumes of verse and several plays only published in the West Indies. 80pp. Green paper marbled boards over white cloth backstrip, spine lettered in gilt. A beautiful copy, fine in a fine jacket with a couple of minor age spots on the endpapers, this copy also has the extremely rare dark green wraparound band with the Robert Graves quote ("Derek Walcott handles English with a closer understanding of its inner magic than most (if not any) of his English-born contemporaries."). This copy is signed on the front free endpaper by Walcott and dated April 99.