Self Portrait Convex Mirror by Ashbery John (115 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.24.

Condition: NEW.

Condition: Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Condition: Good. Good condition. 2 stories in 1 Volume. (Literature, Poetry, Poems) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

12Mo Softcover. Condition: Good. 83pp. Text is clean on unmarked, uncreased pages. Hinges are intact, spine is unbroken, textblock is square with pointed corners. Moderate overall shelf/timewear, coverwear, cover edge and cornerwear, sunning; light foxing on inner covers, endpapers and textblock edges, page patina throughout, bookstore stamp on inside front.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Second printing. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper, else very good in a very good (edge wear with a moderate sized chip in the upper corner of the rear panel) dust jacket.

Hardback. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First UK Edition. 83 pp. Hardback in dust jacket. Ink owner's name to front pastedown. Covers clean. Internally clean. 0856352098 8vo.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Near fine in original wrappers with minor wear and sunning. While not the first publication of Ashbery's most famous poem, being originally published in Poetry in 1974, it may be the best since it includes a reproduction of the basis of the poem, Parmigianino's Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1523-24).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Czech Edition. 12mo. Pp. 120, (4). Bound in purple paper covered boards with calligraphic-Pollack script printed on front cover, lettering in gray on spine. Slight wear to lower edge of boards, else Fine in a Fine dust jacket. The first Czech edition of Ashbery's Pulitzer Prize-winning collection. Dust jacket now preserved in a removable, archival sleeve.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First UK Edition. 83pp; A good copy in ragged d/w (in protective sleeving); Size: 12mo. Book.

Soft Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Third printing Penguin softcover (1977). SIGNED and inscribed by John Ashbery on title page. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. No markings. Some shading to flap of the dust jacket, in a protective cover, $5.95 on the front flap.

Hardcover. First UK Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 83 pages. In Very Good condition with Near Fine condition dust jacket. Spine is yellow with green lettering. Dust jacket protected by mylar covering, price uncut: "£2.25" on front flap. Boards have mild shelving wear along spine head and tail. Signed flat on title page by John Ashbery. Shelved Room C. 1402748. Special Collections.

Condition: Very Good. First paperback edition. 18cm; 83 pages. SIGNED by Ashbery on title page. First appearance of the cover photo of the poet by Darragh Park. Lower right corner of upper cover bumped, crease off the top edge near spine, affecting photo. Lower corner slightly bumped on both outer corners. Part of lower joint abraded, without weakness. A very good copy withal, not dogeared, not marred, not underlined, not broken. John Ashbery won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award for "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror." Not only in the title poem, which the critic John Russell has called "one of the finest long poems of our period," but throughout the entire volume, John Ashbery reaffirms the poetic powers that have made him such an outstanding figure in contemporary literature.The front cover photo took on cultural significance. The Wikipedia explains: "The Penguin paperback cover features a glamorous photo portrait of the author by Darragh Park. Journalist Thomas Vinciguerra described Ashbery's pose as if '[stood] in all hunky glory, hips slightly cocked', wearing a 'windowpane shirt open to midchest' and 'tight slacks [that] have no belt loops.' Matthew Zapruder wrote that his look was a 'simultaneously ill-advised and completely stylish ensemble.' Susan M. Schultz said the 'cheesy' cover resembled a somewhat 'cheap romance novel, like the kind you'd see near the checkout counter of a drugstore.' The bold look contrasted sharply with the conservative, uniformly preppy style Ashbery had adhered to throughout the 1960s. David Lehman recalled that, when he met Ashbery in 1967, the poet typically wore 'a tie and a jacket and he always looked very natty.' According to Lehman, his change in style reflected the progress of the post-Stonewall gay liberation movement, as Ashbery could present himself as 'more visibly and publicly who he was.'"Marina Warner called Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror "one of the most remarkable explorations of the idea of the self seen in a mirror, and how your features and your face relate to your inner being. It's an amazing poem.".

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First printing, with "Guggenheim" misspelled as "Guggenhaim" on the copyright page. Signed by Ashbery on the title page. Covers faded along top edge.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First printing. A fine copy in a fine jacket. Price ($5.95) intact on front flap. A few light pencil notes from McClatchy throughout text and on rear pastedown. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. This book came from the library of poet and literary critic J.D. McClatchy, from his estate in Stonington, Connecticut. SIGNED, inscribed, and dated by Ashbery to McClatchy ("Sandy") on title page. Ashbery won the Pulitzer, National Book Award, and National Critics Circle Award for this title. One of 3,500 copies printed. Inscribed by Author(s).

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. A two-in-one edition (paperback). Date on front free endpaper, else very good in printed wraps.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Czech Edition. A bit of spotting on boards and endpapers, light bumping at spine ends, near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a lightly toned spine.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good binding. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+ dust jacket. Octavo. [12], 83 pp. First edition, first printing. Publisher's cloth backed boards with dust jacket. Scuffing from tape removal to both boards where the jacket was taped; remnants of a pocket on the rear free endpaper. These are the only evidence that this may have been a library copyno stamps and no catalog numbers. The dust jacket is quite nice; the tape must have been applied over a mylar cover as there is no scuffing or evidence of tape; price intact on the front flap. A presentable copy of an extremely uncommon first printing of this collection of Ashbery's poems, the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 83 pages. Review copy with laid in publisher press sheet. Ashbery's acclaimed collection of poetry that won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. A clean near fine copy in paper covered boards with a cloth spine in a near fine dust jacket with some a soft crease to the front flap. A very pleasing copy of one of Ashbery's best books.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. New York: The Viking Press, 1975. Octavo. Hardcover with a dust jacket. First edition, first printing. Quarter cloth boards with mild sunning to the top and bottom edges of the boards and a remainder mark to the top edge of the text block that has smeared across the top edge. Unclipped jacket has a small scuff to the front cover and very mild edge wear. Book and jacket are in very good condition.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good+ binding. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good dust jacket. Octavo. [12], 83 pp. First edition, first printing. Publisher's cloth backed boards with dust jacket. A clean, solid copy in a very presentable dust jacket with only minor chipping along the top edge of the back panel as well as a more significant closed tear to the back panel at the flap fold; now protected in a mylar cover; price intact on the front flap. A fairly nice copy of an extremely uncommon first printing of this collection of Ashbery's poems, the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First Printing. A Fine copy in a Fine dustwrapper, not price-clipped. 83pp. Laid-in is a mimeo of Ashbery's acceptance speech for the National Book Award on April 21, 1976, along with the publisher's glossy black and white portrait of JA. The book also won the Pulitzer and the National Critics Circle Award. The cleanest, sharpest copy you'll ever see. Q17584.

Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Signed by John Ashbery on page facing title page. [xii], 83 pp. Bound in publisher's blue cloth and paper-covered boards, green spine lettering. Very Good with a few coffee stains to edges, front board, and front free endpaper, former owner's name written on front free endpaper, in a Very Good+ dust jacket with no fading, toning along edges, price-clipped, tiny tear to rear panel. A nice signed copy of the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning poetry collection.

hardcover. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. 83pp., cloth backed boards, d.w. New York: Viking, (1975). First Edition. Review copy, with publicity photo and broadside. Autographed by Ashbery on the title page.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Fine in very near fine dustwrapper with a touch of rubbing. Advance Review Copy with publisher's slip and promotional letter laid in. Inscribed by the author to fellow poet Daniel Hoffman: "for Dan Hoffman with my best, John Ashbery 11/11/76." Hoffman's first collection of poems, *An Armada of Thirty Whales* (1954), was chosen for the Yale Series of Younger Poets by W.H. Auden. In addition to publishing several other volumes of poetry and important works of criticism, he also later served as the Consultant in Poetry of the Library of Congress (the equivalent of the United States Poet Laureate) in 1973-1974. This book won the Putlitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. A nice copy with a nice association.

No binding. Condition: Near fine. Circular folio, 18 inches in diameter. (40)ff. One of 150 copies signed by the poet, John Ashbery, and the printer, Andrew Hoyem. This is the thirteenth book of the Arion Press. The Parmigianino painting which inspired Ashbery's poem is reproduced on the title page. The text is printed in lines which radiate out from the center of the pages in a centrifugal force of typography. The frontispiece is a signed photograph of the artist by Richard Avedon. The lithographs by Alex Katz, Elaine and Willem de Kooning, and Jane Freilicher, the etchings by Kitaj and Rivers, and Jim Dine's woodcut, all in circular format, are signed and numbered by the artists. Sheets all fine, loose, as issued, housed together with the phonograph record in a stainless steel container resembling a moving-picture film canister, with a convex mirror set into the lid. Quite clean and untarnished, save occasional scratches and shallow dent to side of lid. Near fine. One of 150 copies, signed by the poet, John Ashbery, and the printer, Andrew Hoyem.

Portfolio. Condition: Fine. First Edition. The celebrated Arion Press 'Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror'. Copy #42 of 175 issued, complete with all the signed prints and the original stainless steel circular cannister with mirror. Lithographic, etched, woodcut and photogravure prints numbered and each signed by Richard Avedon, Elaine De Kooning, Willem de Kooning, Jim Dine, Jane Freilicher, Alex Katz, R.B. Kitaj, and Larry Rivers; complete vinyl phonographic record, signed by John Ashbery at front and by printer Andrew Hoyem on the colophon. Loose in publisher's stainless-steel canister with applied mirror on cover, phonographic record in printed card sleeve. Minor traces of handling to canister with a light bump to the edge.

No Binding. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. This is the complete portfolio with 8 original hand SIGNED prints; ARTISTS: Richard Avedon, Willem de Kooning, Elaine de Kooning, Jim Dine, Jane Freilicher, Alex Katz, R.B. Kitaj, and Larry Rivers. Together with a foreword by the poet John Ashbery; a recording of his reading of the poem and on the album, an essay by Helen Vendler; all prints and text sheets measure: 17-3/4in diameter (450mm); housed in a cylindrical canister, with 32 text sheets ( [3] 27, [2] leaves), 8 prints, 1 sound disc). 49 cm. in diam., 4 cm. high; Limited Edition of 175 numbered copies (One of 150 copies offered for sale) and this is # 144; the paper was specially made in rounds at Twinrocker Mill in Indiana; the 40 text sheets are handset in Cochin type in lines that radiate as spokes from a hub holding the page number, so that the pages are literally turned to be read; The Foreword is hand SIGNED in pencil by the poet John Ashbery, also SIGNED in pencil by the printer, Andrew Hoyem in colophon.; Each print is numbered and signed in pencil by the respective artists; print by Larry Rivers also dated '83. The sound disc (analog, 33 1/3 rpm, mono. ; 12 in.) is enclosed in a square folded sleeve with title: "Self-portrait in a convex mirror": the poem read by the poet, John Ashbery. The essay by Helen Vendler, "Reading and hearing John Ashbery's Self-portrait in a convex mirror," appears on p. [2-4]of sleeve. cover; canister made by Atlas Metal Spinning, San Francisco, California. THE DESCRIPTION of PRINTS: No. 1) Richard Avedon of John Ashbery; 1 photomechanical print in offset lithography (reproduction of photograph), b&w full-page. No. 2) Willem de Kooning; b&w lithograph, paper made at the Twinrocker Mill in Indiana, lithograph printed from stones at Hampton Editions Limited, Sag Harbor, N.Y. No. 3 & 4) Elaine de Kooning and Jane Freilicher; contributed 1 b&w lithograph, each full-page, Printed from stones at Hampton Editions Limited, Sag Harbor, N.Y. No 5) Jim Dine; 1 b&w woodcut, full-page, Printed at the Arion Press. (References: D'Oench, E. Jim Dine prints, 178). No. 6) Alex Katz; 1 b&w lithograph, full-page, printed from a metal plate at Siena Studio, New York. No. 7) R. B. Kitaj; 1 b&w, soft ground etching, aquatint, full-page. Printed by Aldo Crommelynck, Paris. No. 8) Larry Rivers; 1 photomechanical print : photogravure (reproduction of drawing), hand col., full-page. Printed at Universal Limited Art Editions, West Islip, N.Y.; CONDITION OF PORTFOLIO: all the contents are stored in the original canister and shipping cardboard box; the Willem de Kooning was for a short time floated (without tapping to a matt) in a frame but has no flaws; the Richard Avedon has some small tape pulls on the back from once being matted for a short time (no sunning to image at all); there are some small fingers prints on the canister but nothing distracting; as far as we can tell there are no other flaws with the prints, text sheets and album; otherwise all the contents in this beautiful portfolio are in EXCELLENT COND. PLEASE NOTE: the buyer must pay full insurance on the full value within the USA and International shipping. Signed by Author(s).

First edition, first printing, presentation copy inscribed "for Anne Fremantle, with admiration, John Ashbery, December 1 1975" to half-title. The recipient is "Anne Fremantle, a British-born author, art critic, essayist and editor" (The New York Times obituary, 28 December 2002, retrieved 29.11.19), who also "published her first poems in 1931 and followed them with nearly two dozen books, both fiction and nonfiction" (ibid.). In 1977, Ashbery appeared for a reading with Barbara Guest on P.E.N. Portraits, hosted by Anne Fremantle. Octavo. Original blue cloth-backed greenish-brown paper-covered boards, titles in green to spine. With dust jacket. Slight toning and rubbing to edges of boards, else a fine copy in the near-fine jacket, minor nicks to corners, light toning to verso.