Ciardi John Edited (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Printing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Second printing. Very good with slight toning and edgewear, lacking the dust jacket.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. 124pp. Printed wrappers. Spine and rear wrap slightly tanned, bottom corner lightly creased, near fine. Prints a continuation of "Notes Towards an Autobiography" by William Carlos Williams; additional contributions by William Goyen, E.E. Cummings, John Ciardi, Richard Wilbur, William Abrahams and more.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. 81pp. Illustrated. Stapled illustrated wrappers. A few pages, textblock edges and edges of covers slightly foxed, spine lightly faded, very good. The second issue of this Smith College literary periodical, containing the first appearance of "The Swivelhipped Amazon" by William Carlos Williams, "To W.T. Scott" by John Ciardi, "Jason" by Anthony Hecht, four poems by Robert Bagg and more.

Hard Cover. No Jacket. First Edition. HARDBACK NODustJacket, 1945, 1st Edition, NF-/VG-, AS-IS, NOJACKET, Beige cloth with rub, wear Scuff cvr, Titled in Red on Spine cvr with slight creases wear, Interior nice tight cleanlight wear fox. 232 pgs with List of magazines in back .Includes At Aunt Kathies, Aerial Killer, The Solitary, Noah's ark, Paterson, the Falls, ETC. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. A trifle bumped at the crown else fine in very good dustwrapper with chip at the bottomof the front panel. A small poetry anthology that is particularly noteworthy as Sylvia Plath's first book appearance, preceding the rare offprint *Sculptor* by two years. After contributions from a host of already-established poets there is a small "Undergraduate" section which contains two Plath entries: "Aubade" and "Two Lovers and a Beachcomber by the Real Sea." Also includes an entry from James Wright, his first book was published this year was well. Other contributors include Robert Frost, W.H. Auden, John Ciardi, Donald Hall, Richmond Lattimore, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Louis Macneice, W.S. Merwin, Howard Moss, Louise Townsend Nicholl, Adrienne Rich, Theodore Roethke, May Sarton, Louis Simpson, Robert Penn Warren, John Hall Wheelock, Richard Wilbur, James Wright, Dannie Abse, Eric Barker (First Prize), Thomas Blackburn, J.R. Brownfield, Jean Burden, Kenneth M. Cameron, Grace Carnot, Charles Causley, Robert P. Tristram Coffin, Barbara D. Cooper, Allan Donaldson, Leah Bodein Drake, Carleton Drewry, Evelyn Eaton, Thomas Hornsby Ferril, David Ferry, Robert Francis, Frances Frost, Jed Garrick, Kenneth O. Hanson, John Heath-Stubbs, Elizabeth Henley, Robert Horan, Elizabeth Jennings, Dilys Laing, Joseph Langland, Fred Lape, Norman MacCraig, Harold Grier McCurdy, Jackson Morris, David Morton, Thomas Moult, Hubert Nicholson, Gloria Rawlinson, Alastair Reid, Dorothy Roberts, James L. Rosenbert, Arthur M. Sampley, Ernest Sandeen, Marcia Masters Schmid, Burns Singer, Radclive Squires, Jean Sewell Standish, Margaret Stanley-Wrench, A.M. Sullivan, Robert A. Wallace, Peter B. Walsh, Lynne Lawner, Donald Lehmkuhl, Henry D.M. Sherrerd, Jr., Richard Roe, and Barbara Stewart. A nicer than usual copy the thin paper jacket is very prone to tearing.