Bynner Witter Introduction (9 results)

Cloth. Condition: Good in Poor Dust Jacket. First printing. 8vo, 407 pp. A volume of the uniform edition. Spine cocked, head and heel of spine and corners of boards lightly bumped, rear hinge starting, page edges tanned, top edge dusty. Interior clean and unmarked. Jacket stained, worn, chipped and torn.…

Cloth. Condition: Good in Fair Dust Jacket. First printing. 8vo, 301 pp. A volume of the uniform edition edited by James Kraft. Includes the Spectra poems. Slight lean to spine, crown slightly pulled, corners of boards bumped, page edges tanned, top edge dusty, tiny spot to fore-edge. Interior clean and unmarked. Jacket sunned and stained at spine and folds, edgeworn, dustsoiled, with interior tape-repair at crown.…

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Printing Stated. 407 Pages Indexed. This is a complimentary book from a Santa Fe book shop and this is the fourth volume of a uniform edition of The Works of Witter Bynner, under the general editorship of James Kraft, issued under the auspices of The Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry. Prose Pieces is a collection covering over sixty years of writing. As James Kraft writes in his introduction, "One finds throughout these essays Bynner's special interests: his pleasure in the expression of human character, especially when it shows the minority viewpoint; his commitment to democracy and humor - concepts he considered related; and his affinity for Mexico and China as societies that offered alternative ways of looking at the world." There is an interview with Henry James, written in 1905; a visit with George Meredith; essays on D. H. Lawrence, Edna Millay, Bertha Kalich, Ezra Pound, and Robinson Jeffers; accounts of life in the Southwest and of the Pueblo Indians reminiscences, reviews, and public letters. This collection reveals not only the wide range of Bynner's interests but his warmth, humor, and tolerance. Krupat, Cnthia - Design (illustrator).…

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Printing Stated. 301 Pages. This is the 1978 First Printing and has a small label indicating it is a complimentary book from a Santa Fe book shop. It is the second volume of a uniform edition of The Works of Witter Bynner, under the general editorship of James Kraft, issued under the auspices of The Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry. It contains "Spectra," a famous literary hoax; "Cake," a play; "Guest Book," "New Poems 1960," and other examples of all three categories of light verse: epigrams and epitaphs, parodies, and non-sense. Witter Bynner {1881-1968} was at the center of the new American poetry movement in the teens and twenties. As a poet, biographer, playwright, critic, teacher, editor, Chinese translator, and man of letters, he deserves to be better known to readers today. Krupat, Cnthia - Design (illustrator).…

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Printing Stated. 275 Pages Indexed. Selected from over 7,000 letters, most of them at the Houghton Library at Harvard, this concluding volume of The Works of Witter Bynner distills the eighty-seven years of Bynner's life (1881-1968). His correspondence describes travels to Mexico, to China, and to Europe; his life in Boston, New Hampshire, New York, and Santa Fe. There are letters to D. H. Lawrence, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Harriet Monroe, Ezra Pound, Carl Sandburg, Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, Christopher Isherwood, Amy Lowell, Henry Miller, Carl Van Vechten, and many others. This collection represents the many aspects of a long and varied career spanning the transition from Gilded Age to Nuclear Age. Poet, critic, biographer, playwright, translator from the Chinese, editor, and man of letters, Witter Bynner deserves to be better known to contemporary readers. "He was not," writes James Kraft in his introduction to this volume, "except for a brief period in the late teens and the twenties, a member of our literary establishment-in fact, he later represented a movement away from the mainstream. Krupat, Cnthia - Design (illustrator).…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 100 pages. 5.25x0.25x8.00 inches. In Stock.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Uncorrected proof. A mildly tanned spine, sticker shadow and light wear thus near fine in wrappers.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Limited edition of 750 copies printed. 8vo, xxiv + 82pp. Hardcover, bound in original decorative red & silver paper-covered boards with black cloth spine, in the original yellow printed dustjacket. In very good condition. Binding and hinges are intact and firm. Contents are crisp, clean, and bright. Brief private gift inscription to free front endpaper, otherwise no markings or signs of prior ownership. Minor shelf-wear or rubbing to extremities; light bump to top edge of back cover. The dustjacket is in very good condition, and is now protected in a new clear Mylar wrapper. A lovely copy overall. …

Hardcover. viii, 56p., prefatory note, poems, personal inscription signed by the poet on the title page, #33/200 copies, very good first limited edition hardcover bound in green boards with an unclipped white dust jacket. Pre-publication slip laid-in. Patterson taught at Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa; he retired in 1962. The students published this memorial limited edition.…