Cecil Hemley (78 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good hardcover, in DJ. Covers show light edge wear. Ex-Library with usual markings. Text is clean and unmarked. Binding is tight, hinges strong.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover in dustjacket. First edition. Red cloth, gilt text, boards pristine. Protected, price unclipped, dustjacket, clean and bright, sun fade to spine. Book is firm in binding, unread, 233. Edited by Elaine Gottlieb, with a foreword by Mark Van Doren. Free of any markings, not ex-library. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 233 pages.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Spine sunned and a few tiny spots on back. Hinge cracked at half title page but tight. No markings. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

PAPERBACK. Condition: Very Good. B000I7XD2W Unpaginated. First Edition. Seventy-five copies of this book were printed on Fabriano Text of which fifty, numbered and signed by the author, and of which this is No. 48. Light wear to covers, else Very Good in paper wrappers. McM-8.

Condition: Very Good. Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. (american poetry, 20th century, american prose literature ) A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Janet Halverson (Cover Design) (illustrator). Copyright © 1962 by Isaac Bashevis Singe. 311 + pp. A great, almost spotlessly clean copy! Solidly and tightly bound, essentially and nearly flawless copy with minimal internal and external wear and use. Copy with crisp pages, clean text, and light shelf wear. Smooth covers.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. The Last Summer, A short Novel by Boris Pasternak, Winner, Nobel Prize 1958. Also Karl Jaspers, I. B. Singer, Ernst Juenger and others.

Condition: Good. Noonday Press New York 1958 Binding: Trade Paperback paperback.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 183 pages. Second printing. List of contributors with notes at the end. Contents of this inaugural issue of Cecil Hemley's fat journal Noonday include The Last Summer, a short novel by Boris Pasternak, with an introductory note by its translator, George Reavey; Isaac Bashevis Singer "A Tale of Two Liars"; William Earle "Notes on the Death of Culture"; Karl Jaspers essay "The Individual and the Collectivity". Trade paperback-size, wraps soiled, crease to spine, cocked, edges and inside covers age-toned with light foxing. Name of former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff written on ffep, his underscoring and/or marginalia on eight pages in the Jaspers article.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Light Wear.

Hemley, Cecil, 1914-1966. Dimensions of Midnight: Poetry & Prose. Edited by Elaine Gottlieb with a foreword by Mark Van Doren. Athens, Ohio: Ohio State University Press, 1966, xv, 233pp., fair dust-jacket, worn around edges with chip in middle of spine, very good red cloth. "Cecil Hemley (1914-1966) was born in New York City. He received his B.A. from Amherst and his M.A. from the University of Chicago, and did further graduate work at the Yale school of Drama and the New School for Social Research. He taught at the New School, City College, Columbia and New York University, and he was cofounder of Noonday Press and its Director and Editor until 1963, when he became Director of the Ohio University Press. Hemley served literature in many ways: he was the first to bring Isaac Bashevis Singer to public attention as his editor and translator, and he was also the President of the Poetry Society of America. ".

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. [31] pp., frontispiece drawing by Kahlil Gibran, small 8vo, stapled card wrappers, blue printed dustjacket. One of 75 copies printed on Fabriano Text paper, this one unnumbered. Very good; text fine, dustjacket age-toned, lightly soiled and with short closed tear.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st. First Edition, First Printing; 183 clean, unmarked pages; lite bit of foxing at page edges.contains Boris Pasternak (The Last Summer), May Swenson (The Crossing), Isaac Bashevis Singer (A tale of Two Liars), Karl Jaspers (The Individual and Creativity), Etc.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Contains story by Boris Pastenak, work by Karl Jaspers, Isaac Bashevis Singer and others. Brown black and white patterned wrapper, light edge-wear and rubbing, binding solid.

Near Fine book in a Near Fine dustjacket. Bookplate. First Edition.

Condition: Good. SIGNED BY CECIL HEMLEY - Octavo, gray boards with the logo of the press in light gray on the front cover. The bottom corners of the covers are rubbed with a chip to the corner of the rear cover. 51 & [2] pages plus colophon. The front endpaper has been excised. Good. One of fifty copies handset by the Ram Press of New York, printed on handmade Kelmscott paper and signed by the author on the colophon.

Condition: Good. 1963. No Edition Stated. 243 pages. Pictorial jacket over quarter bound blue cloth with pink paper covered boards. Pages are lightly tanned, with slight foxing to endpapers, but text remains clear. Binding is firm. Boards and spine have minimal shelf-wear, with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. A few small white marks to front board. Unclipped jacket. Mild foxing to all surfaces. Minimal edgewear, with small tears to spine ends.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. cellophane cover. A clean and tight copy.

Condition: Good. Voyages, 1956. Cover faintly rubbed/soiled/very lightly unevenly age-toned, corners lightly rubbed/bumped, spine ends rubbed, shallow chip at upper spine end; edges faintly soiled; binding tight; cover, edges, and interior intact and clean except as noted. paperback. Good.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Near Very Good. Presumed First. Presumed first printing w/SD & NAP, trade paperback, publisher's subscription card laid in at front, has slight bumps to spine ends and corners with short creased tear to top of spine plate at front hinge, faint crease to lower corner of covers and text block, slight foxing starting to edges of covers and some pages, slight sunning to spine, and some rubbing with slight smudging to covers, otherwise a solid Near VG copy.

First edition. Hardcover. A collection of poetry. An about near fine copy in a very good dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Blue card boards. Small scuffing on cover and spine. Inner hinge split at pages 28-29. Jacket is price clipped, there are creases on it.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reissue edition. 311 pages. 8.00x5.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Wraps. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No d/w. First Edition First Printing. 183pp; includes "The Last Summer" - a short novel by Boris Pasternak, cover soiled and worn at edges with small 1/4 inch piece missing from bottom corner of front cover; internally clean and bright; Size: 12mo. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Large, sturdy thick book, dark red cloth spine, purple boards, very bright gilt lettering on spine with gilt feather design, 456 lightly browned pages. DJ beneath mylar,glossy darker red background, a color-illustration of farmers in fields of grain at center front, yellow and white lettering, praise on back. DJ and book, both As New.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reissue edition. 311 pages. 8.00x5.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Paperback (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples.Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Very good paperback. First edition. Text clean. Spine faded. 1/4 sized wrap around dust jacket. Small water stain on foredges of dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Edited by Elaine Gottlieb. Foreword by Mark Van Doren. Edges lightly fading, still fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket.