Peter Porter Contributors (12 results)

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Coyright © 1979 by the Foundation for Re. 125 pp. Vol. 7, No. 1, Spring 1979 issue only! ISSN: 0090-7790. 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.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Fine in wrappers with slight wear.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Geoffrey Prowse (illustrator). 1st Edition. 52pp + 4pp card covers. The thirtieth issue of Ambit - a quarterly collection of poetry, short stories, drawings and criticism. This issue contains poems by Peter Porter and Anselm Hollo. Includes a strip- cartoon, The Silver Needle, by George MacBeth. Five small drawings by Geoffrey Prowse. Mauve titling and illustration on black and white covers. Staple bound. Shelf wear to tip of top corner of covers. Light toning to rear cover margins. Otherwise in VG condition with clean inside pages. The magazine is printed by The Lavenham Press Ltd., Suffolk. Laid in is a subscription renewal form printed orange on white.

Condition: FINE. First printing, a large trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover. SIGNED by two authors: by Ron Carlson at his story "Keith" - basis for the award-winning film of the same name - and by Houston at his story "Faith." A retrospective collection of works read by participants at the National Undergraduate Literature Conference over the past 12 years - included are prose, poetry and essays by the authors shown above and by others including Richard Ford, Tess Gallager, Carolyn Forche, John Barth, John Edgar Wideman, Tobias Wolff, Robert Stone, Jeanne Houston, Maxine Kumin, George Garrett, Robert Olen Butler, Ray Bradbury and more. A wonderful anthology which includes previously unpublished essays on the reading and writing process. 348 pgs, a slightly oversized format. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition. Very good in magenta and yellow card wrappers with flat spine. Covers nice and clean, with just some light marks and creasing commensurate with age and handling. Contents very good and clean. 255mm x 185mm. 96 pages plus two pages of adverts on the inside covers. ***This issue includes first publication of extracts from the revised edition of 'Conversations with Kafka' by Gustav Janouch, as well as 'Going Into Europe - Again - A Symposium Part III', an article about Britain's possible entry into the E.E.C., and new verse by Peter Porter, D. J. Enright, Gavin Ewart, Elizabeth Jennings. ***'The first - and incomplete - edition of Gustav Janouch's memoir of Kafka was published in 1951, and it immediately took its place as a valuable and fascinating source-book for literary research. Yet for many years the author was unhappy with the version, the fragmentation of which he thought was the fault of Max Brod to whom the original manuscript had been sent. But in this he was mistaken. As it turned out, a large part of the original text - which was based on Janouch's youthful diaries and his manuscript "Treasury of Ideas" - had never been sent off to Brod for publication. Janouch was at the time (1947) under arrest in a Prague prison; and although he was innocent, his wife had burned his papers during the year-long interrogations. As Janouch writes in a post-script to a new edition(shortly to be published by Andre Deutsch in London, and New Directions in New York), "The mutilated book became a spiritual torment to me. I was an important witness who refused to testify." Luckily enough, a missing copy of his old "Treasury of Ideas" (originally put together two years after the death of Kafka in 1924) did turn up in a dilapidated old cardboard box on the bookshelves of the lavatory of Janouch's old house in Prague's Nationalstrasse. These papers included the missing sections of his "Conversations with Kafka" --- "Max Brod had not wilfully bowdlerised my book. He had not omitted or supressed a single paragraph. I had been unjust to him for years." The following extracts (translated by Goronwy Rees) are from this new, and previously missing, material. The self-caricature (on p.19) and the other drawings in the text are from Kafka's own notebooks.' [Taken from notes accompanying the article] ***'Encounter was a literary magazine founded in 1953 by poet Stephen Spender and journalist Irving Kristol. It was a largely Anglo-American intellectual and cultural journal, originally associated with the anti-Stalinist left. The magazine received covert funding from the Central Intelligence Agency, after the CIA and MI6 discussed the founding of an "Anglo-American left-of-centre publication" intended to counter the idea of cold war neutralism. The magazine was rarely critical of American foreign policy and generally shaped its content to support the geopolitical interests of the United States government. The launch of Encounter was sponsored by the Paris-based Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF), which was an organization of largely centre-left artists and intellectuals founded in 1950. It was dedicated, in line with its title, to countering on behalf of the non-communist West the overtures and influence in culture of the Soviet Union, still under the Communist Party rule of Joseph Stalin until 1953. Encounter celebrated its greatest years in terms of readership and influence during the 1960s, under Melvin J. Lasky, who succeeded Kristol in 1958, and would serve as the main editor until the magazine ceased publication in 1991. [Wiki] ***A very good copy of this famous literary magazine, which includes the first publication of extracts from the revised edition of 'Conversations with Kafka' by Gustav Janouch'. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Michael Foreman; Barbara Swideska (illustrator). 1st Edition. 48pp + 4pp card covers. The thirty-eighth issue of Ambit - a quarterly collection of poetry, short stories, drawings and criticism. This issue features traditional poems about Keats by Alan Brownjohn, Tony Connor and George MacBeth. Other poems by Adrian Henri and Peter Porter. Olive green titling on white covers with black drawing by Michael Foreman. Staple bound. Shelf wear to tip of top and tail of spine. In VG+ condition with clean inside pages. Appears unread. The magazine is printed by The Lavenham Press Ltd., Suffolk.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Mike Foreman; Anthony Donaldson; Arturo Laskus (illustrator). 1st Edition. 56pp + 4pp card covers. The fifty-second issue of Ambit - a quarterly collection of poetry, short stories, drawings and criticism. This issue contains the work of ten poets. Illustrations by Mike Foreman and Arturo Laskus. Green titling on white covers with green lettering and black illustration by Anthony Donaldson. Staple bound. Touch of shelf wear to tip of top of spine. In VG+ condition with clean inside pages. Appears unread.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Marvin Lichtner; Neagu'P (illustrator). 1st Edition. 48pp + 4pp card covers. The forty-seventh issue of Ambit - a quarterly collection of poetry, short stories, drawings and criticism. This issue contains the work of twelve poets, including three concrete poems by Alan Riddle. Mauve titling on white covers with photograph design by Marvin Lichtner. Staple bound. Touch of shelf wear to tip of top and tail of spine. In VG+ condition with clean inside pages. Appears unread.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Carol Annand; Mke Foreman (illustrator). 1st Edition. 44pp + 4pp thin card covers. The eighteenth issue of Ambit - a quarterly collection of poetry and short stories together with drawings by Carol Annand and Mike Foreman (who has also produced the cover illustration). This issue contains twenty-nine poems. Blue, white and black covers. Staple bound. Touch of shelf wear to top of spine. Scuff mark to rear cover spine area. Otherwise in VG condition with clean inside pages. The magazine is printed by The Lavenham Press Ltd., Suffolk.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Mike Foreman (illustrator). 1st Edition. 56pp + 4pp card covers. The forty-second issue of Ambit - a quarterly collection of poetry, short stories, drawings and criticism. This issue contains the work of four women authors and a series of drawings and illustration by five artists. It also features poems and short stories by regular contributors, including Peter Porter, Anselm Hollo, Thom Gunn and Gavin Ewart. Orange titling on white covers with black and orange illustration by Mike Foreman. Staple bound. Touch of shelf wear to tip of top of spine. In VG+ condition with clean inside pages. Appears unread. The magazine is printed by The Lavenham Press Ltd., Suffolk.

Hardcover. Condition: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. 8Vo., Original Cloth, Pps. 248, Hundreds Of B/W Ills. (Maps, Tables, Drawings, Photographs); Clean, And In Overall Very Good Condition.

Broadside. First Edition. Broadsides of varying sizes, housed in illustrated blue folder with inside pocket. Limitation sheet, introductory notes by Edward Lucie-Smith, and brief biographies of contribtors are on separate sheets. First edition (first printing). Limited edition, #202/375 copies. Contents are near fine. The Macbeth and Porter broadsides are slightly toned from adjacent broadsides. The Tarn broadside is tanned at edges. Folder with slight surface scuffs.