Edited James Simpson (27 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. 1566630517 . First edition [no statement of printing]. 263+ pages, illustrated with black-and-white drawings, index. A very good with light spotting to the cloth spine and light edge wear, the contents are tight and clean in Fine light creased Dust Wrapper. . cel.

Wraps. Condition: Very Good. First Edition.

Wraps. Condition: Very Good. First Edition.

Condition: Good. Signed Copy . Very Good dust jacket. Signed/Inscribed by editor on front endpage.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Small quarto. Wrappers. xix, 491-729pp. Small pen notation on front wrapper and in the contents pages, spine cocked, very good. Reviews: "Edgarpoe and Danhoffman" by Charlotte Kretzoi, "Thom Gunn's Cornucopia" by Raymond Oliver, "Sewall's Life of Emily Dickinson" by John Cody, and more. Poetry: "In Memory of W.H. Auden" by George W. Nitchie, and others. Essays: "Hart Crane and Yvor Winters: A Meeting of Minds" by Thomas Parkinson, "Milton in Old Age" by Frank Kermode, and more. Reviews of "Delusion and Her Daughters: John Berryman's *Recovery*" by William Heyen, and more.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Illustrated from black and white photographs. xvi, 238pp. Spine head bumped, very good in a very good dust jacket with corresponding bump.

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. Small quarto. 252pp. Wrappers. Slightly bowed, else near fine. Containing "Sir: I Have the Honor" by Cowley, "The Importance of Robert Lowell" by Nitchie, with reviews on Borges and Strand, Weak Henry, Philip Levine, Ezra Pound, Hart Crane, and more.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition, wrappered issue. 179pp. Pages slightly age-toned, spine with reader's creases, wrappers lightly worn, very good. Contributions by W.H. Auden, Louise Bogan, Philip Booth, Padraic Colum, Galway Kinnell, James Merrill, Marianne Moore, Howard Moss, Theodore Roethke, May Sarton, Louis Simpson, Wallace Stevens, Richard Wilbur, William Carlos Williams and many more.

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 6, Number 4. Stapled pictorial wrappers. Modest rubbing with a slightly sunned spine, near fine. Contains contributions by: David Ignatow, George P. Elliott, James Dickey, Lewis Simpson, Hanson Kellogg, Sheridan Baker, Daniel Abse, and more.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Single issue. Quarto wrappers. 258pp. Corners lightly rubbed, else fine. Essays, interviews, poems, fiction, and reviews with contributions by Lewis P. Simpson, M.L. Rosenthal, Glenn Cannon Arbery, James C. Cobb, W.T. Bandy, Louis Daniel Brodsky, Louis Simpson, Kathleen Atkins, Andrew Hudgins, Catharine Savage Brosman, Maureen Bloomfield, W.D. Snodgrass, Neal Bowers, Priscilla Sneff, Rosemary Gates, Lewis Horne, Michael Burns, Heather Tosteson, Walter Griffin, Maurya Simon, Henry W. Russell, David Citino, Catherine Brewton, David Case, Anne Whitney Pierce, Vance Bourjaily, Barbara Leith, Clyde Edgerton, Joyce Renwick, Daniel Hoffman, and R.L. Barth.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Single issue. Quarto wrappers. 769-1,069pp. Faint water wrinkle on page edges, corners rubbed, very good. Wallace Stevens Centennial Issue. Contributions by Donald E. Stanford, Roy Harvey Pearce, Grosvenor E. Powell, Milton J. Bates, Herbert J. Stern, William H. Pritchard, George S. Lensing, Samuel French Morse, Price Caldwell, Buchsbaum, Lynette Carpenter, Ann Hayes, Robert Penn Warren, Daniel Hoffman, Elizabeth Daryush, Timothy Steele, R.L. Barth, Suzanne Doyle, Alison A. Trimpi, Helen Pinkerton, Paul West, Alvin H. Rosenfeld, James Ballowe, and Sydney Lea.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. Magazine. Small quarto. 92pp. Wrappers. Black and white illustrations. Fine. Contributors include Charles Carlton, Eugene P. McCreary, Albert C. Labriola, James M. Osborn, Michael West, Claude M. Simpson, Jr., and Carey S. Bliss.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Single issue. Quarto wrappers. 769-1,069pp. Bottom page edges bumped, thin crease on front wrapper foredge, near fine with tear on edge of wrapper. Wallace Stevens Centennial Issue. Contributions by Donald E. Stanford, Roy Harvey Pearce, Grosvenor E. Powell, Milton J. Bates, Herbert J. Stern, William H. Pritchard, George S. Lensing, Samuel French Morse, Price Caldwell, Buchsbaum, Lynette Carpenter, Ann Hayes, Robert Penn Warren, Daniel Hoffman, Elizabeth Daryush, Timothy Steele, R.L. Barth, Suzanne Doyle, Alison A. Trimpi, Helen Pinkerton, Paul West, Alvin H. Rosenfeld, James Ballowe, and Sydney Lea.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good condition. lxxxvi, 1188 pp. Volume 84: Covering work published in 2003.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. 238pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with modest soiling.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. 238pp. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with toning and edgewear.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. Hardcover. Full leather binding. Dated 1855 on the title page. Volume 1 only. 756 pages. Poor condition. Both front and back cover are completely detached. The top 1.5" of the spine is missing as well. Pages toned around the edges, but clean and free of marks or writing. Other than the covers needing to be re-attached, the binding is snug and square. Wear to the edges of the boards and peeling to the leather. Please email with questions or to see any photos.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. xiv, 105pp. Corners lightly bumped, else fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with spine toned and dampstained.Contributions by Richard Wilbur ("A Black November Turkey", After the Last Bulletins", and "Lookin into History"), Robert P. Tristram Coffin, Elizabeth Coatsworth, Elizabeth Enright, W.S. Merwin ("Genoese Mariner" and "When I Came from Colchis"), Christopher Morley, Adrienne Cecile Rich ("Ideal Landscape" and "Versaille"), May Sarton, Louis Simpson, Peter Viereck, James Wright, and many others.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 624 pages. 9.80x7.20x1.81 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Edinburgh, 1871; The Works of Sir James Y. Simpson, Bart. Volume II; book is in poor condition; burgundy cloth covered boards; corners bumped; back strip detached and laid-in; boards detached but present; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; pages un-opened; pages 545 through rear end paper detached but present; interior clean and unmarked; 562 pages.

8vo., pp.xix,484, pictorial hardcover, 2 b/w illustrations; from the library of Professor Bernard Hamilton, with dedication inscription from the author to front free endpaper, a fresh and near-fine copy.

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.