Berry James Edited (15 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Octavo, softcover, VG in blue and green pictorial wraps. Clean and unmarked. Pages age-toned. 217 pp. These are the tales of the packmen, smugglers and wandering storytellers (knows as raparees) from the great tradition of the West of Ireland, handed down by word of mouth, telling of poor communities, living in a bleak and beautiful countryside -- secret societies, the famine (starvation), rebellion and more. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. First Thus. Trade paperback; edges a little browned, slight crease back cover. Tales from the West of Ireland. James Berry, a native of Mayo, died in 1914.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Small quarto. Wrappers. xii, 214pp. Foxing on topedge, spine lightly tanned, very good. Featuring "*And Jesse Begat . A Note on Literary Generations* by Malcolm Cowley; "Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Study in Counterpoise" by Elizabeth Walsh, RSCJ; "Cavafy's Metaphoric City" by Edmund Keeley; *Rising* by Wendell Berry; "From *The Handbook of Heartbreak*" by William Heyen, *The Concert* by John Hall Wheelock. Short stories, poetry, essays, and reviews by Lewis P. Simpson, Malcolm Cowley, Walter Sullivan, Maureen Henry, Isadore Taschen, Elizabeth Walsh, Edmund Keeley, Ardner R. Cheshire, Jr., Joseph Lawrence Basile, Hayden Carruth, Wendell Berry, William Heyen, James Whitehead, John Hall Wheelock, Mark Rudman, Anne Hussey, Brainard Cheney, John William Corrington, John Hazard Wildman, and James Bennett.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Printed white wrappers. 112pp. Modest age-toning, near fine. Essays and poetry contributions by Allen Tate, W.R. Johnson, John Pauker, Ambrose Gordon, Howard Nemerov, Erling Larsen, Hayden Carruth, Francis Berry, Marion Montgomery, Ernest Kroll, Harold Witt, John Sebastian, Wayne Booth, Daniel G. Hoffman, Myron Broomell, Gael Turnbull, Ramon Guthrie, Walker Gibson, Scott Bates, Richard Eberhart, Julian Moynahan, Louis Coxe, Philip Sheridan, James B. Hall, and Reed Whittemore.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Photos by James Daubney (illustrator). Undated, landscape format, colour illustrated stapled booklet, printed price three shillings on the front, the year 1961 is mentioned in the text, so it must have been published between 1961 and 1971. Marks on a few pages and on the back cover, handling wear mostly on the cover.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Small quarto. Wrappers. xii, 214pp. Foxing on topedge and a few pages in the front, very good. Featuring "And Jesse Begat . A Note on Literary Generations" by Malcolm Cowley; "Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Study in Counterpoise" by Elizabeth Walsh, RSCJ; "Cavafy's Metaphoric City" by Edmund Keeley; *Rising* by Wendell Berry; "From *The Handbook of Heartbreak*" by William Heyen, *The Concert* by John Hall Wheelock. Short stories, poetry, essays, and reviews by Lewis P. Simpson, Malcolm Cowley, Walter Sullivan, Maureen Henry, Isadore Taschen, Elizabeth Walsh, Edmund Keeley, Ardner R. Cheshire, Jr., Joseph Lawrence Basile, Hayden Carruth, Wendell Berry, William Heyen, James Whitehead, John Hall Wheelock, Mark Rudman, Anne Hussey, Brainard Cheney, John William Corrington, John Hazard Wildman, and James Bennett.

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.

Original Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Michael Foreman, Errol Lloyd, Ray Povey et al (illustrator). First Edition. Ambit Number 91, published in 1982. Caribbean Special issue. Illustrated throughout in monochrome. Cover design by Alan Kitching. ***Very good in textured card monochrome-illustrated textured wrappers over thin white card covers. The edges of the outer wrapper are slightly rubbed and there are a few light foxing marks. No bumps or creases. No tears. Internally near fine with no inscriptions. Pages clean. Paper stock just slightly tanned. Spine tight. ***245mm x 180mm. 96 pages. ***Contents - work by: Linton Kwesi Johnson; Sam Selvon; Edward Kamau Brathwaite; Ray Povey; Grace Nichols; Lynda Nkem Chinaka; Amryl Johnson; E. A. Markham; Elyse Dodgson and Company; S. E. Ashman; A. L. Hendriks; Michael Foreman; John Agard; Edgar White; Les Johnson; Andrew Salkey; Peter Fraser; James Berry; Errol Lloyd; Howard Fergus; Lynford French; Caryl Phillips; John La Rose; Charles Shearer; John Figueroa; David Nathaniel Haynes. ***'In the sixties AMBIT became well known for testing the boundaries and social conventions and published many anti-establishment pieces, including an issue with works written under the influence of drugs. Edwin Brock was poetry editor, and J. G. Ballard became fiction editor alongside, later, Geoff Nicholson. Henry Graham and Carol Ann Duffy joined Edwin Brock as poetry editors. Michael Foreman was art editor for 50 years. Across the magazine's history, Derek Birdsall (Omnific), Alan Kitching, John Morgan Studio and Stephen Barrett were notable designers.' (Wiki) ***'AMBIT started in '59; there were various impulses behind it. I'd been interested in the writer John Middleton Murray, who was married to Katharine Mansfield. He had run a magazine from about 1910 onwards for two or three years called Rhythm that attracted writers like D.H. Lawrence, and Katharine Mansfield of course. What was striking about it - you could look at it in the V&A library - was that Murray, who really knew nothing about art, had met a Scottish artist called Ferguson who was sending over from Paris artwork by "young" artists like Picasso, Miro, etc. They looked quite startling in this 1910 magazine. And the idea, that Murray never developed, of trying to produce a magazine that had literary and visual material really working together, came to me out of that. But the other initiatives were more simple. There weren't many magazines about then because the possibility of what everybody can do now -- produce a magazine from a 'desktop' in quite small numbers and for not very much money -- didn't exist. But electronic things were just starting to happen, and the first number of Ambit we partly set ourselves on a machine called a variotyper. It enabled us to paste down visual work of which we had some good drawings from an Australian artist, Oliffe Richmond, in this first number and enabled us to begin the notion of producing an arts magazine rather than the traditional poetry or Eng. Lit. magazine. I'd say there's still no magazine in the country that combines high class artwork, produced and found by Mike Foreman over the years, alongside writers who I think are exciting.' (Martin Bax interview with 3:AM magazine) ***An early 80s edition of the magazine in very good condition - this being a special Caribbean issue. Of interest to collectors of AMBIT and poetry magazines in general. An uncommon issue of the magazine. ***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.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Magazine. Cover by Ken Baird. Small octavo. 28pp. Stapled glossy wrappers rubbed and with wear to the extremities, very good. Literary magazine featuring contributions from Charles Olson, Louis Zukofsky, Cid Corman, Charles Tomlinson, Henry Gifford, Francis Berry and James.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Magazine. Cover by Ken Baird. Octavo. 25pp. Printed stapled wrappers with a little wear to the rear bottom edge and a small tear at the foot of the spine, near fine. Avant-garde literary magazine founded by Welsh poet John James with contributions from James, Wayte, Charles Tomlinson, Francis Berry, C.I. McNeill, M.J. Hayes, Gene Baro, David Holbrook, Neil Curry, R.W. Stallman, Wayte.

Hardbound Clothbinding. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 200 pp. Clean, crisp, unmarked pages. Solid binding. Ex-library book with stamps and inscriptions on title page. A rare gem!

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Edited with an Introduction by James Berry. Spine tanned and bottom corner a bit bumped throughout, very good in wrappers. Includes poems by James Berry (Jamaica), Faustin Charles (Trinidad), Cresswell Durrant (St. Vincent), Cy Grant (Guyana), A. L. Hendriks (Jamaica), Frank John (Trinidad), Linton Johnson (Jamaica), Rudolph Kizerman (Barbados), Claude Lushington (Trinidad), E. A. Markham (Montserrat), Jimi Rand (Barbados), and Paul St. Vincent (Antigua).

paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st. Wrappers. Cover design by Ann Felix. Includes two poems by Wendell Berry published here before his first novel.