Introduction William Jay Smith (13 results)
Light Verse and Satires (The Works of Witter Bynner)
Bynner, Witter. Edited & with an introduction by William Jay Smith
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Cloth. Condition: Good in Fair Dust Jacket. First printing. 8vo, 301 pp. A volume of the uniform edition edited by James Kraft. Includes the Spectra poems. Slight lean to spine, crown slightly pulled, corners of boards bumped, page edges tanned, top edge dusty, tiny spot to fore-edge. Interior clean and unmarked. Jacket sunned a…nd stained at spine and folds, edgeworn, dustsoiled, with interior tape-repair at crown.
The Pact: My Friendship with Isak Dinesen
Bjornvig, Thorkild; translated from the Danish by Ingvar Schousboe and William Jay Smith; introduction by William Jay Smith
Language: English
Published by Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge 1983
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Hardcover. Condition: Book fine, Dust jacket fine. dj. 1st.
Prose Pieces - The Works of Witter Bynner
Bynner, Witter; Kraft, James - General Editor; Smith, William Jay - Editor and A Critical Introduction
Published by Farrar Strause Giroux, New York 1978
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Add to basketTrade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Printing Stated. 407 Pages Indexed. This is a complimentary book from a Santa Fe book shop and this is the fourth volume of a uniform edition of The Works of Witter Bynner, under the general editorship of James Kraft, issued under the auspices of The Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetr…y. Prose Pieces is a collection covering over sixty years of writing. As James Kraft writes in his introduction, "One finds throughout these essays Bynner's special interests: his pleasure in the expression of human character, especially when it shows the minority viewpoint; his commitment to democracy and humor - concepts he considered related; and his affinity for Mexico and China as societies that offered alternative ways of looking at the world." There is an interview with Henry James, written in 1905; a visit with George Meredith; essays on D. H. Lawrence, Edna Millay, Bertha Kalich, Ezra Pound, and Robinson Jeffers; accounts of life in the Southwest and of the Pueblo Indians reminiscences, reviews, and public letters. This collection reveals not only the wide range of Bynner's interests but his warmth, humor, and tolerance. Krupat, Cnthia - Design (illustrator).
More imagesLight Verse and Satires - The Works of Witter Bynner
Bynner, Witter; Kraft, James - General Editor; Smith, William Jay - Editor and A Critical Introduction
Published by Farrar Strause Giroux, New York 1978
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Add to basketTrade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Printing Stated. 301 Pages. This is the 1978 First Printing and has a small label indicating it is a complimentary book from a Santa Fe book shop. It is the second volume of a uniform edition of The Works of Witter Bynner, under the general editorship of James Kraft, issued under the…auspices of The Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry. It contains "Spectra," a famous literary hoax; "Cake," a play; "Guest Book," "New Poems 1960," and other examples of all three categories of light verse: epigrams and epitaphs, parodies, and non-sense. Witter Bynner {1881-1968} was at the center of the new American poetry movement in the teens and twenties. As a poet, biographer, playwright, critic, teacher, editor, Chinese translator, and man of letters, he deserves to be better known to readers today. Krupat, Cnthia - Design (illustrator).
Selected Letters - The Works of Witter Bynner
Bynner, Witter; Kraft, James - General Editor; Smith, William Jay - Editor and A Critical Introduction
Published by Farrar Strause Giroux, New York 1978
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Add to basketTrade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Printing Stated. 275 Pages Indexed. Selected from over 7,000 letters, most of them at the Houghton Library at Harvard, this concluding volume of The Works of Witter Bynner distills the eighty-seven years of Bynner's life (1881-1968). His correspondence describes travels to Mexico, to…China, and to Europe; his life in Boston, New Hampshire, New York, and Santa Fe. There are letters to D. H. Lawrence, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Harriet Monroe, Ezra Pound, Carl Sandburg, Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, Christopher Isherwood, Amy Lowell, Henry Miller, Carl Van Vechten, and many others. This collection represents the many aspects of a long and varied career spanning the transition from Gilded Age to Nuclear Age. Poet, critic, biographer, playwright, translator from the Chinese, editor, and man of letters, Witter Bynner deserves to be better known to contemporary readers. "He was not," writes James Kraft in his introduction to this volume, "except for a brief period in the late teens and the twenties, a member of our literary establishment-in fact, he later represented a movement away from the mainstream. Krupat, Cnthia - Design (illustrator).
Moral Tales [Paperback] Laforgue, Jules and Smith, William Jay
Laforgue, Jules; Smith, William Jay [Translator]; Smith, William Jay [Introduction];
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Modern Hungarian Poetry
Miklos Vajda (Edited and with an introduction by) | William Jay Smith (Foreword by)
Published by Corvina Press, Budapest 1977
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Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 286pp. NEAR FINE in Near Fine dust jacket. The book itself shows the slightest hint of shelf rubbing at the edges, handsome bookplate neatly on the paste-down, otherwise is Fine/As New. The dust jacket somewhat rubbed, otherwise is Fine/As New. As pictured.
More imagesWhat You Have Almost Forgotten: Selected Poems by Gyula Illyés
ILLYÉS, Gyula. SMITH, William Jay, edited and with an introduction by
Published by Kortars Kiado and Curbstone Press, Budapest and Willimantic 1999
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Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Pictorial wrappers. 127pp. Page topedge lightly soiled, near fine. Inscribed by the editor William Jay Smith to contributor Daniel Hoffman on the title page.
Published by New Directions, New York 1985
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Contact seller5-star sellerFirst Edition, First Printing. 5.5 x 8.5in. xxxvi. 160pp. Publisher's cloth boards. FINE/AS NEW in Near Fine dust jacket. The book itself is flawless. The dust jacket shows marginal shelf rubbing, otherwise is not price-clipped remaining Fine/As New. As pictured.
Poems of the Twenties
Flexner, James Thomas; William Jay Smith \(Introduction\) \[The Stone House Press\]
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. Roslyn, NY: The Stone House Press, 1991. 33 pages; wood engravings by John De Pol. Printed by hand from type and wood blocks; 130 cloth-bound copies and 130 copies in paper wrappers. This is a cloth-bound copy signed on the colophon by James Thomas Flexner, John De Pol and M.A. Gelfan…d, the Designer. Signed by Author, Artist, Designer. Limited Edition. Cloth. Fine. Illus. by John De Pol. 8vo. Language: ENG. John De Pol (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).
Life Sentence: Selected Poems
Cassian, Nina; Smith, William Jay [Editor]; Smith, William Jay [Introduction];
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Dutch Interior: Postwar Poetry of the Netherlands and Flanders
HOLMES, James S. and William Jay Smith (editors); Cees Buddingh (introduction)
Published by Columbia University Press, New York 1984
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Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, U.S.A.Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerdj. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm); black cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [xl],[3],4-324,[4]pp. This copy is from the library of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024), with his pictorial bookplate to front pastedown. A Near Fine copy. Dustwrapper has trivial… surface wear, with tiny chip to lower rear panel; Very Good+. Collection of verse includes works by Gerrit Achterberg, Rutger Kopland, Eddy van Vliet, Hans Vlek, and many more. [86819].
More imagesWILD BOUQUET: NATURE POEMS
Martinson, Harry; Tranlsated and with an introduction by William Jay Smith and Leif Sjoberg
Published by BKMK Press, University of Missouri-Kansas City 1985
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Add to basketHard Cover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition. As new with dust jacket in archival mylar cover. Advance Review Copy with slip laid in. With drawings by the author.
