Ciardi Robert (25 results)

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Robert Osborne (illustrator). 4to. Hardcover. Pictorial cloth. 9th printing. 74pp. Illustrated. Fine. Dust jacket price-clipped, else very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Robert Osborn (illustrator). 1st Edition. Signed By Author On Front Endpaper, Otherwise Unmarked, Clean And Solid Copy. Minor Foxing On Front Endpaper. Dj Normal Shelf Wear With A Couple Small Bits Missing On Edges And Dj Now In A Protective Mylar Jacket. Edition Not Stated But No Indication Of Other Printings. Signed by Author(s).

PAPERBACK. Condition: VG. ROBERT OSBORN (illustrator). FIRST PRINTING C.

Hardback. Condition: Good Condition. Robert Osborn (illustrator). 10th Printing. Ex Library Book.

Library Binding. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Robert Osborn (illustrator). Library binding but not ex-library. Color illustration on cover. Int. good. Orange, black and white illustrations. 74 pages. Bookplate and owners name on fep.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Panos Koutrouboussis; (illustrator). First Soft Cover Edition. Ace Book 05454. Light edge and corner wear with a faintly creased spine; no interior markings. Cover art by Panos Koutrouboussis. This anthology contains: Hog-Belly Honey by R. A. Lafferty; No Different Flesh by Zenna Henderson; The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth by Roger Zelazny; Four Ghosts in Hamlet by Fritz Leiber; Eyes Do More Than See by Isaac Asimov; Love Letters from Mars by John Ciardi; Rake by Ron Gooulart; The History of Doctor Frost by Roderic C. Hodgins; Treat by Walter H. Kerr; Keep Them Happy by Robert Rohrer; A Murkle for Jesse by Gary Jennings; The House the Blakeneys Built by Avram Davidson; The Eight Billion by Richard Wilson; Something Else by Robert J. Tilley; Aunt Millicent at the Races by Len Guttridge; Sea Bright by Hal R. Moore; and From Two Universes by Doris Pitkin Buck. Book.

Cloth Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Robert Osborn (illustrator). Book Club (BCE/BOMC). 74 pgs. Grey cloth pictorially stamped in three colors, binding slightly shaken, previous owner's name in pencil; color pictorial dust jacket with small losses, worn, no printed price, but not price-clipped. Juvenile verse in simple language, each beginning with the phrase "I met a man." Illustrated by Robert Osborn. Size: Small 4to.

Paperback (spiral). Condition: Good+. First Edition. Stiff yellow covers printed in blue with blue plastic comb-style binding (some water-spotting and wear to covers; tiny ink price on first page). Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. In Mylar cover. Out of print. Contains an original lengthy interview with Robert Frost for this edition. Dust jacket art by Byron Goto. Binding is cloth boards.

Magazine. 32p., 5.5x8.5 inches, poetry, prose, drawings, reviews & opinion, very good first edition booklet in stapled pictorial wraps.

Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First Edition. Original printed wrappers. "Purgatory Canto VIII" by John Ciardi. Scarce. We could locate no other copies for sale.

Unpaged - 32 pages including covers. Staple-bound paperback booklet: H 21.25cm x L 13.75cm. Cream paper covers toned with light soiling. A few faint foxing spots but overall interior leaves are clean. Binding is firm. "Editor's Note" cites this as the third annual issue of a Gainesville, Florida-area poetry anthology (previous two issues were published under the title "A Local Muse"). This issues features contributions by nationally renowned poets John Ciardi {"Commutation (for Walker Percy)"}, Robert Dana {"The Way We Live Now"}, and Richard Eberhart {"Classification"} who were recent visiting lecturers to the University of Florida with other contributions by university and Gainesville affiliates.

Magazine. 32p., 5.5x8.5 inches, poetry, prose, drawings, reviews & opinion, very good first edition booklet in stapled pictorial wraps.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG. 8vo, 128pp, printed wrappers. First issue (as Chicago Choice; series continued as Choice) of this exceptional book-format cultural magazine from 1960s Chicago. Includes Kay Johnson (as kaja) plus Robert Bly and a large section devoted to New Chicago Poets. Publisher's address stamp to base of contents page (else unmarked), a bit of wear and creasing to covers. Not Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 74 pages, 8vo. SIGNED and inscribed by the author John Ciardi on front endpaper: "For Hetty Whitney, with the best wishes of a man she met at Bread Loaf '61, John Ciardi". Shelfwear to DJ: scuffing along edges and covers, a few small tears and small missing pieces along edges, 1-inch missing piece at bottom spine edge and 1/2-inch missing piece at top spine edge. DJ in mylar. Remnants of previous seller's price sticker on front endpaper, light tanning along page edges. Tightly bound. Volume is in Very Good condition. DJ in Good-minus condition. Signed by Author(s).

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.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. -----------Black cloth, gilt lettering on cover and the book is larger than 11" x 9". 335 pages,----- text Italian -----and with illustrations throughout.------NEW CONDITION- - dust jacket Near New Condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Byrd, Robert J.; Gazsi, Edawrd S.; Johnson, Lonnie Sue & Waterhouse, Charles H. (illustrator). Beautiful full page colour illustrations within text. 95 pages. Binding is laminated card cover/soft cover - quite stiff. Corners are bumped. Inside pages are clean and white. VG/--. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Sehr gut. Dust Jacket Condition: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. 325 pages with many b/w-illustrations; with illustrated jacket.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. Near VG. 8vo, 192pp (plus plates), printed wrappers. Rare first issue of this important little magazine featuring a stellar roster of contributors, including Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray as well as Beat notables including Burroughs (Schottlaender C13), Corso, Gary Snyder (Sherlock v2.D45), Ferlinghetti, Dorn (Streeter C16ÐC17) et al. Unmarked copy with significant bumps and some general wear. Not Signed.

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.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. COMPLETE RUN, first editions. Five volumes, octavo (25 x 17 x 4cm). Publisher's printed card wraps. With an introductory letter from the editors and a typed letter from the press office loosely inserted. No. 5 has a postcard noting that the journal had ceased to be produced. Internally clean, press cutting in the first volume has left offset toning to facing pages. Light external wear. Fine. Scarce with only nine institutional holdings within the UK and no other copies seen for sale at the time of cataloguing. Part of US Cold War era soft power projection, a journal highlighting modern American thinking and art.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. Promotional brochure. 16pp. Stapled wrappers. Fine. An excerpt from *Naked Lunch*, distributed by Grove Press, along with comments from various writers including Terry Southern, E.S. Selden, John Ciardi, Norman Mailer, Robert Lowell, and Jack Kerouac. This copy Signed by Burroughs on the front wrap, below his printed name. Reportedly one of abut 100 copies printed, very scarce signed.

First Edition. I MET A MAN, Houghton Mifflin, 1961, first edition, fine in like full color pictorial dust-wrapper. Profusely illustrated in color by Osborn on virtually every page. Inscribed by the author/ artist to the wife of the late premier Walt Whitman collector/scholar, bibliophile and philanthropist, Charles Feinberg in 1961 at the time of publication. It would be difficult to find a nicer copy than this.