Parallax by Nancy Cunard (11 results)

Paperback. Condition: New.

Milano, De Piante, 2023, 8vo brossura originale con copertina illustrata a colori, pp. 181 (I Solidi, 25). Stato di nuovo.

LeatherBound. Condition: NEW. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1925 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set and contains approximately 32 pages. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English.

Condition: Very good. Octavo. Original illustrated boards. 24pp. Illustrations by Eugene McCown. First edition, one of 420 copies hand-printed and published by the Woolfs at their home publishing firm in Tavistock Square, London. Owner's signature on front free endpaper, small contemporary bookseller's label to rear pastedown, covers lightly tanned, some scattered foxing; still a very good and extremely scarce title. From the collection of R. O. Blechman, an American animator, illustrator, children's-book author, graphic novelist and editorial cartoonist whose work has been the subject of retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art and other institutions. Nancy Cunard (1896-1965), a wealthy young socialite and heir to the Cunard Line British shipping industry, traveled and mingled with the literary elite who included T. S. Eliot, Wyndham Lewis, Aldous Huxley, Tristan Tzara, Ezra Pound, Louis Aragon, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Langston Hughes, Man Ray, and William Carlos Williams, among other notables. In the 1920s Cunard was working at establishing herself as a poet. Parallax powerfully captured the pessimism of the modernist sensibility in the manner of the Modernist Long Poem, centering on the wanderings of a young male poet through London, Paris, and Italy as he contemplates love, friendship, and art. Cunard's work received harsh critical reception, an indication of some of the struggles faced by women poets in establishing themselves in the male-dominated high Modernist literary sphere. Her style was panned as romantic and old-fashioned by the arch-Modernist Ezra Pound (whom she later published at her Hours Press). Meanwhile, T. S. Eliot mocked her poetic aspirations; for her part, Cunard admired Eliot's work, and Parallax is indebted to The Waste Land. Parallax was not quite without its admirers altogether. A young Samuel Beckett, whose early work Cunard published, was a fan, and wrote to her enthusiastically about it. William Carlos Williams thought Cunard "one of the major phenomena of history," and the influential journalist Janet Flanner thought Parallax "superior" to The Waste Land. WOOLMER 57. RHEIN p. 37. .

First Edition. First Edition. First Edition. Hogarth Press, PARALLAX by Nancy Cunard. Published April 1925 with only 420 copies printed. Size: Octavo - 5 5/8" x 8 3/4" tall 24 pp. A copy bound in white boards and printed in black with the dynamic linear cover design by Eugene McCown. Virginia Woolf set the type on this issue as well as named the book according to " The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume II p.320" *Woolner 57 Nancy Cunard, has been romantically associated with Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot. Some say she was written as Fresca in The Waste Land from the early drafts of Eliot's 1922 poem. Showing some overall light use on the cover as per the photos but overall an important and lovely copy.

Hard. Condition: Good. No Jacket. One of 420 copies hand-printed by the Woolfs. Boards rubbed and chipped, some bumping to corners and edges, spine and board edges tanned/discoloured, some light staining to rear board. Occasional foxing, else contents clean and tidy. Size: 8vo.

First edition. Octavo. 24 pages. 420 copies were printed. Original paper boards with line drawings on both panels by Eugene McCown. A poem. Pages unopened.Some light discoloration and spotting to the boards. Very good, internally fine. Scarce in presentable condition.

FIRST EDITION, faint spotting to prelims, pp. 24, crown 8vo, original cream boards with overall design by Eugene McCown printed in black, soiled overall with some light spotting and a band of browning at head of lower board, extremities gently knocked with dink to leading edge of upper board, edges untrimmed and largely uncut, free endpapers spotted, front pastedown with bookplate of Duff Cooper (a Rex Whistler design, see below), good. The copy of her friend, Duff Cooper - who does not seem to have got very far in reading this copy. Approximately 420 copies printed; Virginia Woolf not only set the type but, her Diary records, chose the poem's title. (Woolmer 57).

First edition, first impression, of the author's "forgotten modernist masterpiece", which offers "a critique of Eliot's bleak vision of post-war life" (Tearle), mimicking his style and playfully challenging The Waste Land's vision. This is one of 420 copies hand-printed by the Woolfs; Virginia particularly admired the poem and chose the title herself (see Woolf, p. 320). Woolmer 57. Virginia Woolf, The Diary: Volume Two, 1920-1924, 1977. Octavo, 24 pp. Original white boards, covers illustrated in black after designs by Eugene McCown, front cover lettered in black, edges untrimmed. Housed in a custom black cloth slipcase. Pencilled ownership inscription, dated 1981, to front free endpaper. Boards lightly marked and rubbed, tiny bumps and nicks to extremities. A near-fine copy.

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original illustrated boards. Very Good with covers soiled and toned, lightly worn at extremities. Tanning to pages. Scarce in presentable condition.