Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 2nd Printing. X2 - Book has library markings (labels, stamping, cardholder, etc.), wrinkling, dents, rubbing, stains, tanning, discoloration, and shelf wear. A Biographical Dictionary of European Literaure. Complete in one volume with 967 biographies and 309 portraits. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall. Ex-Library.
Published by Allworth Press, New York, 1996
ISBN 10: 188055965X ISBN 13: 9781880559659
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Introduction by Stanley Kunitz. Tall octavo. 222pp. Glossy wrappers with light wear and book with curvature from improper storage, bright and very good or better. Prospectus and publisher's form letter laid in. Artists Communities, from the American Academy in Rome to Yellow Springs Institute.
Published by The H.W. Wilson Company, New York, 1951
Seller: Virtuous Volumes et al., Wilson, WI, U.S.A.
Hard Cover. Condition: Good+ to Very Good. Illustrated With 232 Photographs and Drawings (illustrator). Second Edition, Revised, 4th Printing. Clear plastic protective cover taped on with browned tape, call numbers on label on spine of book, hinge stretched between pp. 248-249, pocket on back of rear endpage. Blue cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover. 309 pages. Ex-Library.
Published by The H.W. Wilson Company, New York, 1933
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Quarto. viii, 726pp. Illustrated with 320 photographs and drawings. Green buckram, gilt-stamped spine. Cloth lightly soled with spine darkened, else very good. This is the second collection following the 1931 volume.298957.
Published by The H.W. Wilson Company, New York, 1933
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Quarto. 726pp. Green buckram, gilt-stamped spine. Ex-library with the usual markings, cloth soiled with spine darkened, else very good.
Published by Modern Poetry Association, Chicago, 1969
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Pictorial mustard wrappers. Contains pages 79-136pp, [12]pp. Fine. Contributions by Henry Rago, Daryl Hine, May Swenson, Denise Levertov, Stanley Kunitz, Gwendolyn Brooks, Michael Benedikt, Daniel Hoffman, Larry Eigner, Frederick Bock, Lisel Mueller, Marvin Bell, Leonard Cochran, Richard Howard, HJ. Sobiloff, Robert Creeley, Galway kinnell, Gary Snyder, Karl Shapiro, Ralph J. Mills, Jr., and Hayden Carruth.
Seller: Westsider Rare & Used Books Inc., New York, NY, U.S.A.
Signed
Hardcover with Dust Jacket. VG/VG. Binding is sturdy and tight, no missing or loose pages. Signed by Stanley Kunitz on the first page. A very nice copy.
Published by The H.W. Wilson Company, New York, 1955
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1955 edition. Thick quarto. 1123pp. Publisher's black cloth gilt. Chipped cloth on spine and foredge on front board, else a very good copy. A supplement to the original biographical dictionary published in 1942, adding approximately 700 new biographies and 670 portraits, most of whom have come into prominence after the original publication. Authors from the foundational volume are *listed* but their listing refers you back to the original dictionary.
Language: English
Published by University of Illinois Press, 1998
ISBN 10: 0252023897 ISBN 13: 9780252023897
Seller: Twice-Loved Books, East Palestine, OH, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. ** SCARCE ** 1ST EDITION, 1ST PRINTING ** VERY GOOD HARDCOVER BOOK ** VERY GOOD DUSTJACKET ** FORMER LIBRARY BOOK, OTHERWISE WOULD BE FINE/FINE ** CLEAN AND STAIN-FREE ** TEXT UNMARKED ** Published by the University of Illinois Press in 1998, 8vo, with 191 pages. NOTE: EX-LIBRARY BOOK, please expect library markings and indicia. However, there are very minimal library markings. The book was never circulated and very likely it has never even been read. If not for the minimal library markings the book and dustjacket would both be in Fine condition. The book is quite clean and stain-free, square and straight, very firm and tight in its binding, no pages are loose, torn, or missing. The corners have not been bumped. All pages are clean and stain-free, bright and white, and all text is crisp and legible. There is no writing, underlining, highlighting, or any other such markings in the text itself. The dustjacket is perfectly clean, stain-free, complete and intact, NOT price-clipped, has no tears, no edgewear, no wrinkles. Only library marking on the dustjacket is a barcode sticker at the top of the rear panel. Only markings in the book: library stamp on top exterior page edges and withdrawn stamp on the half-title page. No card pocket or due slips, etc. Five-star seller, buy with confidence, professional booksellers for 35 years, selling books online since 1995. B34.
Published by The H.W. Wilson Company, 1966
Seller: Books that Benefit, Fawley, United Kingdom
US$ 13.84
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 5th or later Edition. Green cloth hard cover - small label on spine/Good. 1577 pages including small b/w portraits of authors. Withdrawn library book in a Good+ condition. Withdrawn library stamp to top of text block and a few spots. Withdrawn library stamps internally. (2881g) Photo on request. As Books that Benefit gives the proceeds from the sale of this book to charity correct postage will be asked for when more than default price quoted. This is a very heavy book so correct postage will be given on request/order.
Seller: Hard Shell Books, Granite Springs, NY, U.S.A.
Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Signed and dated by Subject, Stanley Kunitz, 5/21/02, beloved author and poet. Some very slight shelf wear, uniform bottom half rear cover, otherwise fine. Tight bindings. Signed by Author(s).
Published by The H.W. Wilson Company, New York, 1944
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Second printing. Thick quarto. 1577pp. Publisher's green cloth gilt. Cloth modestly soiled, corners bumped, a near fine copy.
Published by The H.W. Wilson Company, New York, 1977
ISBN 10: 0824200012 ISBN 13: 9780824200015
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Reprint. Small quarto. 846pp. Illustrated with 300 portraits. Publisher's blue cloth gilt. Fine. A biographical dictionary of American literature, with 1300 biographies.
Published by The Press of James A. Decker, Prairie City, Illinois, 1942
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Edited and with an introduction by Alan Swallow. Tall octavo. 133, [20] pp. Light wear at the corners and spine ends, titling a bit dulled, near fine. Owner signature of Edward Hart, who is not a contributor but cited in the "Honor Roll of Poets," listing poems published in 1942 (citing his poem "Holiday," which appeared the *Rocky Mountain Review*). Hart was a Rhodes Scholar and professor of English at BYU. Prints the first book appearance of poems by John Berryman ("The Spinning Heart"); Theodore Roethke ("City Limits"); Randall Jarrell ("The Iceberg" and "January 1938'); Weldon Kees ("Henry James at Newport"); Stanley J. Kunitz ("The Tutored Child"); Eve Merriam, Howard Moss, Muriel Rukeyser, Ann Stanford, Alan Swallow, John Ciardi, Kenneth Fearing, and Yvor Winters. A few poems and short stories are reprints, including a poem by Robinson Jeffers ("My Dear Love," which was included in 'Be Angry at the Sun' published in same year) and Robert Penn Warren ("Terror") and two poems by Josephine Miles. Also reprints short stories by Robert Penn Warren ("Goodwood Comes Back"), and Eudora Welty ("A Visit of Charity" from *A Curtain of Green*). An uncommon anthology of writing in this 1942 issue, the only issue published by The Press of James A. Decker. The final two years, 1943 and 1944, were published by Bruce Humphries.
Published by The Chrysalis West Foundation, Burlington, California, 1962
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Magazine. Octavo. 94pp. Pictorial wrappers. Light toning on the spine and rear wrap, else near fine. An avant-garde magazine founded and edited by Lish in 1961. In its pages were published many of the most influential writers of the day including many of the Beat Poets. Lish would go on to help mentor Raymond Carver and, as an editor at Esquire magazine, promote other young writer such as Richard Ford, Don DeLillo, and T.C. Boyle. This issue celebrates Jack Gilbert and includes interviews, poems, stories, art, and photography from F.W. Bateson, Dudley Fitts, Stanley Kunitz, Denise Levertov, Kenneth Rexroth, Theodore Roethke, Muriel Rukeyser, Stephen Spender, Grace Paley, Curtis Zahn, Charles Wuorinen, Paul Bowles, Cid Corman, George Cuomo, George P. Elliott, James T. Farrell, Raymond Federman, Rolfe Humphries, Frederick Rebsamen, Mark Harris, T. Mike Walker, La Monte Young, Ruth Bernhard, Beth Van Hoesen, and Carla Lopez.
Published by The Chrysalis West Foundation, Burlington, California, 1962
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Fine. Magazine. Octavo. 94pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers with a sunned spine. An avant-garde magazine founded and edited by Lish in 1961. In its pages were published many of the most influential writers of the day including many of the Beat Poets. Lish would go on to help mentor Raymond Carver and, as an editor at Esquire magazine, promote other young writer such as Richard Ford, Don DeLillo, and T.C. Boyle. This issue celebrates Jack Gilbert and includes interviews, poems, stories, art, and photography from F.W. Bateson, Dudley Fitts, Stanley Kunitz, Denise Levertov, Kenneth Rexroth, Theodore Roethke, Muriel Rukeyser, Stephen Spender, Grace Paley, Curtis Zahn, Charles Wuorinen, Paul Bowles, Cid Corman, George Cuomo, George P. Elliott, James T. Farrell, Raymond Federman, Rolfe Humphries, Frederick Rebsamen, Mark Harris, T. Mike Walker, La Monte Young, Ruth Bernhard, Beth Van Hoesen, and Carla Lopez.