Published by New York: The American Committee for Cultural Freedom, Inc., 1959
Seller: Philip Smith, Bookseller, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st edition. VG. 8vo, 192pp, printed wrappers. Includes Present Estate of Pompeii by Malcolm Lowry (25pp; Woolmer C60). Also a Diana Trilling account of an Allen Ginsberg reading at Columbia. Unmarked copy, light outer toning and soil. Not Signed.
Published by New York: Added Enterprises, 1949
Seller: Philip Smith, Bookseller, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG. 8vo, 112pp, printed wrappers. Contains Flannery O'Connor's story The Heart of the Park (Farmer C.1949.1; later revised as a chapter of Wise Blood), plus James Merrill, James Burnham, E. E. Cummings, et al. Unmarked copy with some toning and soil to covers. Not Signed.
Published by New Brunswick, NJ: Partisan Review, Inc., 1969
Seller: Philip Smith, Bookseller, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st edition. Good (front cover has been re-created). 8vo, 160pp, printed wrappers. Includes the 15-page illustrated story The Deranged Cousins by Edward Gorey, plus writing by John Hollander and Lillian Hellman, an interview with Henry Roth, and some interesting thoughts on the present state of rock music by Geoffrey Cannon. The front cover of this copy has been remade using original printed elements on card stock. Otherwise a sound reading copy. Not Signed.
Published by New York: American Committee for Cultural Freedom, Inc., 1964
Seller: Philip Smith, Bookseller, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. Near VG. 8vo, 160pp, printed wrappers. Includes the first appearance of Susan Sontag's essay Going to Theater, Etc. (Poague & Parsons B9; this first appearance includes a brief passage on singer Tiny Tim omitted in the version in Against Interpretation). Issue also includes poetry by James Merrill and Philip Larkin, an essay on James Baldwin by Robert Coles, etc. Unmarked copy, covers have soil and some wear (including a small closed tear to bottom edge of front cover). Not Signed.
Published by New York: Foundation for Cultural Projects, Inc., 1951
Seller: Philip Smith, Bookseller, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. Near VG. 8vo, 128pp, printed wrappers. Includes James Baldwin's essay Many Thousands Gone (on Richard Wright's Native Son; later collected in Baldwin's Notes of a Native Son). This original appearance shows the early context of Baldwin's work within currents of postwar intellectual culture. Issue also includes an advance chapter of Saul Bellow's The Adventures of Augie March and other interesting work. Light pencil fill-ins to front cover (no other markings); a bit of spotting and wear to covers and some spine lean. Not Signed.