Alexander Roy Edited (5 results)

Cloth. Profusely Illustrated (illustrator). First edition. 4to, 192 pp., illustrated throughout inclulding 80 color plates. Top edges of boards and endpapers a bit faded, top corners of boards lighlty bumped, previous owner blind stamp. Jacket lightly sunned and edgeworn. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Quarto stapled wrappers. Very good with address label on front wrap along with crease. Front cover: Theodore Roosevelt. An article featuring Charles Schulz with cartoon strip. Short article on Tennessee Williams.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Magazine. Stapled wrappers. Near fine. Front cover: Troubleshooter, Robert Murphy. Article on Caitlan Thomas on page 34 and Jung on page 52.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Magazine. Stapled wrappers. Near fine with small pen notation on front cover. Front cover: Bill Moyers, The Young Man Next to the President.

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. Alexander Calder (Lyre Bird cover design) (illustrator). First Edition. Vol. 1, No. 1 - March-April 1956 - the first issue in the new series of this historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu. After a hiatus of around five years since the publication of the final issue of the original series, in 1951, Tambimuttu relaunched the magazine in New York in 1956. However, this version of the magazine only ran to four issues before cessation again in 1960. With the Lyre Bird cover design by Alexander Calder. ***Very good in cream-coloured, black and red illustrated and printed stapled card covers. The covers are slightly dulled and browned with age, with some marks to the covers commensurate with age and handling, but the covers are still very clean. Staples rusted as usual. Please note that the bottom of the spine has been bumped and this affects all pages (please see scans). Edges of covers slightly rubbed and creased, but no tears. Internally also very good with very clean pages. None of the usual foxing. No inscriptions. Spine tight. ***40 pages. 248mm x 186mm. ***Contents: Poems by Walter de la Mare, Roy Campbell, Marya Zaturenska, W. S. Merwyn, Herbert Read, W. H. Auden, Anne Ridler, Jean Garrigue, Richard Eberhart, William Empson, Dylan Thomas, Stephen Spender, George Barker, Nelson Bentley, Robert Graves, Claire McAllister, E. E. Cummings, Christopher Logue, Tom Scott, Arthur Gregor, Alice Monks Mears, Kenneth Eisold, Babette Deutsch, Diana Menuhin, Amrita Pritam, Buddhadiva Bose, Jibanananda Das. ***Vol. 1, No. 1 - March-April 1956 of Poetry London - New York, the first issue in the new series of this historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu. Of interest to collectors of poetry first editions, and the publications of Poetry London. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.