Murray Noss (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First Edition. 179pp. Octavo [22 cm] Black cloth over boards, stamped in brown and gilt. The boards are slightly warped, the cloth at the head of the spine is a little bit frayed, and there is a small chip to the head of the front joint. In a dust jacket, with mild toning, and chipped edges. A volume containing 'Poems and Translations' by Harry Duncan, 'Samurai and Serpent Poems' by Murray Noss, and 'Another Animal' by May Swenson (May Swenson's first book). Includes a critical introduction by John Hall Wheelock.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First Edition. 179pp. Octavo [22 cm] Black cloth over boards, stamped in brown and gilt. The boards show evidence of dampness. In a dust jacket, with mild toning, and a short, chipped tear to the bottom edge. A volume containing 'Poems and Translations' by Harry Duncan, 'Samurai and Serpent Poems' by Murray Noss, and 'Another Animal' by May Swenson (May Swenson's first book). Includes a critical introduction by John Hall Wheelock.

Condition: Very Good. Charles Scribner's Sons New York 1954 black cloth boards. text block crisp. dust jacket very slightly worn with rubbing and small closed tears.

Condition: NEAR FINE. First printing. The first book - "an experiment" - in this important series which presents the first book publication of significant collections by young poets, edited and selected and with an introductory essay by John Hall Wheelock. This volume contains 'Poems and Translations' by Harry Duncan, 'Samurai and Serpent Poems' by Murray Noss, 'Another Animal' by May Swenson. x, 1797 pp. Near fine in a very good dustjacket (some light toning to pages and minor edgewear and toning to the dj, price-clipped).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Volume one only. Introduction by John Hall Wheelock. Front fly corners clipped, bookplate removal leaving small abrasion on front pastedown, small wrinkle in cloth on front board near topedge and on spine, else very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with spine toned, short nicks on spine ends.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Volume one only. Introduction by John Hall Wheelock. Endpapers lightly foxed, modest rubbing on boards, very good in a price-clipped, very good dust jacket with light rubbing, nicks and short tears, and a toned spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Volume one only. Introduction by John Hall Wheelock. Very good with edgewear in very good dust jacket with tears around the extremities, tape on corners.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First printing. A fine copy in a near-fine jacket. A clean copy in a price-clipped jacket. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Note: Light fading on jacket spine (as pictured). Although not marked as such in any way, this book came from the library of poet and literary critic J.D. McClatchy, from his estate in Stonington, Connecticut.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First Edition. 179pp. Octavo [21.9cm]. Black cloth spine and boards with gilt lettering and red ornament. Front board slightly bowed. Very light rubbing at the head and tail of the spine. Front free and paste-down endpapers slightly toned. Dust Jacket rubbed along the front fore-edge; rubbed and with one small closed tear along the spine. Upper corner of the front flap has been clipped, but price still present. Bookplate signed by May Swenson tucked in. The publication, in one volume, of three complete separate poems by three contemporary poets is an experiment. It is hoped that the larger, more impressive volume, offering the reader a greater variety and wider range, will attract and reward the audience that appears to have lost intrest in the usual slim book of verse. The publishers have been most fortunate in finding for this combined volume three young poets who have not yet been published in book form. All are sincere poets working within the vital poetic movement of our day, but with diverse skills and very divergent methoods and points-of-view. In fact, it would be difficult to find three poets more distinct and individual in tone and substance than the three so happily brought together here. The complex and highly personal vision of reality to be found in the poems of Harry Duncan; the subtly conveyed poignance of the portraitures and interpretations of a defeated people as rendered by a soldier of the occupying power on duty in Japan, who happened also to be a poet, Murray Noss; the compressed essences and abstractions which the poetry of May Swenson wrings from the apperances of things - these, all three, so diverse and so good, gain by their combination and juxtaposition.-- From inside jacket flaps.