Beier Ulli Edited (13 results)

Condition: Good. 1964. Reprinted. 192 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Various authors. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning. Price sticker to front paper cover.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 4th reissue edition. 448 pages. 7.75x5.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Volume XXII, Number 3, Autumn 1969. Illustrated with black and white plates of "Contemporary Art in New Guinea" by Ulli Beier. Printed wrappers. Near fine with toning to the wrappers. Contributions by E.M. Cioran, W.H. Auden, Raymond Durgnat, Daniel Curley, Philip Levine, Daniel Hoffman, Wendell Berry, Stephen Farbert, Ulli Beier, B.H. Haggin, Zulfikar Ghose, George Scott-Moncrieff, J. Mitchell Morse, Herbert Liebowitz, Bernard Bergonzi, Vernon Young, Roger Sale, James P. Degnan, Joyce Carol Oates, William H. Youngren, and Marvin Murdrick. Featuring an article "Valery: L'Homme d'esprit" by W.H. Auden. Poems: "Broken Laws" by Daniel Hoffman, "The Slopes of Waban" by Wendell Berry. Review of "Fiction Chronicle" by Joyce Carol Oates, and more.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Illustrated with black and white plates of "Contemporary Art in New Guinea" by Ulli Beier. Brown and white wrappers in the original manilla envelope addressed to fellow author Daniel Hoffman. Octavo. 374-560pp. Spine slightly cocked, wrappers lightly age-toned, near fine. Contributions by E.M. Cioran, W.H. Auden, Raymond Durgnat, Daniel Curley, Philip Levine, Daniel Hoffman, Wendell Berry, Stephen Farbert, Ulli Beier, B.H. Haggin, Zulfikar Ghose, George Scott-Moncrieff, J. Mitchell Morse, Herbert Liebowitz, Bernard Bergonzi, Vernon Young, Roger Sale, James P. Degnan, Joyce Carol Oates, William H. Youngren, and Marvin Murdrick. Featuring an article "Valery: L'Homme d'esprit" by W.H. Auden. Poems: "Broken Laws" by Daniel Hoffman, "The Slopes of Waban" by Wendell Berry. Review of "Fiction Chronicle" by Joyce Carol Oates, and more.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Illustrated with black and white plates of "Contemporary Art in New Guinea" by Ulli Beier. Brown and white wrappers in the original manilla envelope addressed to fellow author Daniel Hoffman. Octavo. 374-560pp. Spine slightly cocked, else fine with Daniel Hoffman's inked notation on manilla envelope. Contributions by E.M. Cioran, W.H. Auden, Raymond Durgnat, Daniel Curley, Philip Levine, Daniel Hoffman, Wendell Berry, Stephen Farbert, Ulli Beier, B.H. Haggin, Zulfikar Ghose, George Scott-Moncrieff, J. Mitchell Morse, Herbert Liebowitz, Bernard Bergonzi, Vernon Young, Roger Sale, James P. Degnan, Joyce Carol Oates, William H. Youngren, and Marvin Murdrick. Featuring an article "Valery: L'Homme d'esprit" by W.H. Auden. Poems: "Broken Laws" by Daniel Hoffman, "The Slopes of Waban" by Wendell Berry. Review of "Fiction Chronicle" by Joyce Carol Oates, and more.

Paperback. Condition: VG-. 1st Edition. Clean and tight but paper bit browned. Book is in very good minus condition with minor but noticeable signs of wear and/or age.

Brossura. Condition: nuovo. senza sovraccoperta. terza edizione.

Original wrappers, stapled, spine and edge of the wrappers discolored, slight traces of use, else in good condition. Text in English. Please see description or ask for photos.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. 272pp. Light foxing on page edges and endpapers, spine ends lightly bumped, else near fine with the bookplate of historian, author, and African scholar Prosser Gifford on the front fly in near fine lightly rubbed and toned dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Illustrated by Susanne Wenger. Bookplate of historian, author, and African scholar Prosser Gifford on the half-title. Faint foxing on the pastedowns and a bit of faintest staining on the foredge not affecting the interior, near fine in a price-clipped near very good dust jacket with some tanning and soil on the rear panel, and a very light dampstain along the length of the lower flap fold. An imperfect but still quite presentable copy.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Small quarto. Silkscreened wrappers. Light soiling on the front wrap and modest rubbing at the spine, near fine in illustrated wrappers. An issue of an important African literary periodical published in Nigeria. Contributors include Wilson Harris, John Pepper Clark, Christia Attarrah, and others. Scarce. *Black Orpheus* was founded in 1957 by Ulli Beier, a German-Jewish lecturer at Ibadan University. Beier read widely in traditional Yoruba folklore, as well as in the modern francophone literature of Négritude. *Black Orpheus* reflected both influences, and expanded them. Before the magazine's publication, "it was not widely considered that Anglophone Black Africa had any modern art or literature," notes Paul Benson in his authoritative history of the magazine, *Black Orpheus, Transition, and Modern Cultural Awakening in Africa*.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Small quarto. Silkscreened wrappers. Age-toning along the top edge of the front wrap, else very good or better in illustrated wrappers. An issue of an important African literary periodical published in Nigeria. Contributors include Chinua Achebe, LeRoi Jones, and many others. Scarce. *Black Orpheus* was founded in 1957 by Ulli Beier, a German-Jewish lecturer at Ibadan University. Beier read widely in traditional Yoruba folklore, as well as in the modern francophone literature of Négritude. *Black Orpheus* reflected both influences, and expanded them. Before the magazine's publication, "it was not widely considered that Anglophone Black Africa had any modern art or literature," notes Paul Benson in his authoritative history of the magazine, *Black Orpheus, Transition, and Modern Cultural Awakening in Africa*.

Broken run of 6 issues. Black and white photographic and line illustrations, pagination varies between 52 and 64 pages, all in original card covers. A prior owner's name in one issue, covers worn but still sound. Issues in this group are: Volume 1 Number 1 December 1974 Volume 2 Number 1 April 1975 Volume 2 Number 2 October 1975 Volume 3 Number 1 April 1976 Volume 3 Number 2 April 1977 Volume 4 Number 1 February 1978.