Hemley Cecil (71 results)

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.

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.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: USED Good. Tape repairs to the rear facing cover. Otherwise in good, clean and readable condition.

Red Cl.w. Gilt Letters. Vg/Sl.worn. Poetry & Prose. 12mo. xiv,233pp VG W. Poems, play, essays, short stories.

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

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. "Josephine Jacobsen Review copy" written on front end paper. Slight dusting at top edge. 1 1/2 inch tear in fabric on fore edge of front cover. Jacket has ragged edges. 3/4th chip at top of back of jacket. 1 inch chip at top of back of jacket. 1/4th inch tear at bottom of back of jacket. Other wear on jacket. Soil on back of jacket. Of 1 1/2 inch tear on fore edge of jacket. Folds in many top right corners of pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Poet Josephine Jacobsen.…

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.…

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 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. Janet Halverson (Cover Design) (illustrator). …

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

Condition: New. Gibran, Kahlil (illustrator).

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.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Fine Dustjacket. First Edition. Upper corners of book lightly bumped.

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.

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.…

Wraps. Condition: Good. 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.

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

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.…

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

Stapled Wraps/ Dust Jacket. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. (32pp.) 75 copies of which 50 were numbered & signed copies only designed & printed by Igal Roodenko; this one neither numbered nor signed. Staples a little rusty & dust jacket slightly nicked & toned on rear panel. Scarce. Kahil Gibran (frontispiece drawing) (illustrator).…

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

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

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

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

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First printing. Printed wrappers. Very good with pages age-toned, lightly scuffing to wrappers. Featuring: A Key to Andre Gide by Pierre Herbart, Manhunt by Alejo Carpentier, and more.

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.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. Edited by Elaine Gottlieb, with a foreword by Mark Van Doren. First edition. Fine in a near fine (a couple of tiny closed tears and very minor edge wear at the corners) dust jacket.

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., very good dust-jacket, chipped at top of spine, very good red cloth.