Robert James Simpson (119 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Years Between, 1909-69: The Eastern National Story from 1930 v. 2 This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .

Hard Cover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. The text of the book is in good condition. but the cover boards are poor. The bottom of the spine looks as if it were chewed by a dog. The binding is slightly exposed on the inside. There are a few scratches on the cover and some corner bumping. A book plate is on the inside of the front cover. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Condition: Good. VG condition book with dust jacket. DJ is clean, has fresh colours and has little wear to edges. Book has clean and bright contents.

Condition: As New. Like New condition. Very Good dust jacket. A near perfect copy that may have very minor cosmetic defects.

dvd. Condition: Used - Good.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 160 pages. Christina Johnson, Richard Madelin, Frank Downes (stories) / Stephen Spender, Manohar Shetty, Stephen Woodward, Oliver Comins, Vernon Scannell, Nicky Rice, Louis Simpson, Michael O'Neill, Robert Crawford, Roy Fuller, Jogn Gurney, Lawrence Dale, Paul Groves, Davild Gill, Chris Wallace-Crabbe, David Holbrook (poems) / Michael Pearson / James Campbell / Brigid Allen.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. cover by Hubert Rogers (illustrator). First Edition. New York: The Butterick Publishing Company. 1932 First edition Pulp magazine in pictorial wrappers, 96 pages, illustrated. Includes the first part of "Scalawag" by Gordon Young, the seventh part of "The Broad Arrow" by William MacLeod Raine, "By Command Of." by Ared White, "So-so Krooboy Palaver" by Robert Simpson, "There Were Giants in Those Days" by Paul Annixter, "Banana Herder" by L. G. Blochman, "The Mister" by Walt Coburn, etc. A Good with shallow chipping to the spine ends, creasing and the usual edgewear to the cover, name/word in pencil to the front cover, text paper toned. See Photos bx 504E.

120 pp.; 25.5 x 20.5 cm.; glue bound; black-and-white & color; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held January 29 - March 27, 1988. Introduction by David A. Ross. Essays by Fredric Jameson, Eric Michaud, Elisabeth Sussman, David Joselit, Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Alice Jardine. Artists include: Robert Gober, Albert Bierstadt, Richard Prince, Meg Webster, Dorit Cypis, Larry Johnson, Lorna Simpson, Jeff Wall, Oliver Wasow, James Welling. Includes exhibition checklist. Good / Very Good. Light wear to cover edge and top of spine on verso. Contents clean and unmarked.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Small quarto. Wrappers. xix, 491-729pp. Small pen notation on front wrapper and in the contents pages, spine cocked, very good. Reviews: "Edgarpoe and Danhoffman" by Charlotte Kretzoi, "Thom Gunn's Cornucopia" by Raymond Oliver, "Sewall's Life of Emily Dickinson" by John Cody, and more. Poetry: "In Memory of W.H. Auden" by George W. Nitchie, and others. Essays: "Hart Crane and Yvor Winters: A Meeting of Minds" by Thomas Parkinson, "Milton in Old Age" by Frank Kermode, and more. Reviews of "Delusion and Her Daughters: John Berryman's *Recovery*" by William Heyen, and more.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Gretchen Dow Simpson "seaside winter cabins" cover art; also, drawings by Robert Weber,le lorenz, James Stevensn, ed Fisher, Chon Day, William Steig, Roz Chast, etc. (illustrator). 1st. stapled wraps; 178 clean, unmarked pages; items by/about: Poetry (John Ashbury, Brad Leithauser, Edward Hirsch); Irene Dische ("Berlin Snowfall"); Frederick Barthelme ("Cleo"); ved Meta (Personal History: Arkansas School, pt. 1); Brendan Gill (Theatre); John Updike (Books);( Talk of the Town; Cinema, Theater, Arts, Music, Book Reviews, Etc.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Small quarto. 252pp. Wrappers. Slightly bowed, else near fine. Containing "Sir: I Have the Honor" by Cowley, "The Importance of Robert Lowell" by Nitchie, with reviews on Borges and Strand, Weak Henry, Philip Levine, Ezra Pound, Hart Crane, and more.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. Near VG. 8vo, 208pp, printed wrappers. Another fine issue of this essential postwar literary magazine. Includes interviews with J. P. Donelavy and John Steinbeck, and other contributions by a typically significant range of contributors. Unmarked copy, a bit of spotting to covers. Not Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Publisher's original laminated hardback; square and firm; no splits; contents fresh and clean with no pen-marks. Not from a library so no such stamps or labels. Note: this copy has been signed by the author at the endpaper. Size: 215mm x 300mm. Collation: 264 pages. Thoroughly illustrated. Tidy book in very presentable condition.

very good average edge wear, small chipping, light creases,

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Very Good. Vol. LXXXIV, No. 3. Pulp magazine. Edited by A. A. Proctor. Cover art by William Heaslip. Includes "The Crown on Crocodile Island" by Robert Simpson; "The Belfry" by Allan Vaughan Elston; "The Long Night" by Robert Carse; "Indignant American Murders Fakir" (article) by James W. Bennett; "The Ghost Riders" (pt. 2) by W. C. Tuttle; "Fences" by T. R. Ellis; "The Man from Nowhere" by Georges Surdez; "The Saga of the Sixshooter" (article) by Carl Elmo Freeman; "The Broad Arrow" (pt. IV) by William MacLeod Raine. Features: "The Camp-Fire"; "Ask Adventure"; "Trial Ahead." Illustrated by Neil O'Keeffe. Short tear at spine head; stress crack; a little less than usual edgewear; tanning; 1" tear at foredge of p. 5. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good.

Cloth. Condition: Like New. First Edition. Type: Book No d/j as Published.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Single issue. Quarto wrappers. 769-1,069pp. Faint water wrinkle on page edges, corners rubbed, very good. Wallace Stevens Centennial Issue. Contributions by Donald E. Stanford, Roy Harvey Pearce, Grosvenor E. Powell, Milton J. Bates, Herbert J. Stern, William H. Pritchard, George S. Lensing, Samuel French Morse, Price Caldwell, Buchsbaum, Lynette Carpenter, Ann Hayes, Robert Penn Warren, Daniel Hoffman, Elizabeth Daryush, Timothy Steele, R.L. Barth, Suzanne Doyle, Alison A. Trimpi, Helen Pinkerton, Paul West, Alvin H. Rosenfeld, James Ballowe, and Sydney Lea.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 1st edition. As-new hardback copy in as-new jacket. Broad, quarto-sized book.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Mass market paperback. 201pp. Spine toned and creased, near fine. Contributions by William Stafford, Robert Lowell, Robert Duncan, Reed Whittemore, Howard Nemerov, Richard Wilbur, Anthony Hecht, James Dickey, Denise Levertov, John Logan, Louis Simpson, Edgar Bowers, Donald Justice, Robert Bly, Robert Creeley, James Merrill, W.D. Snodgrass, John Ashbery, Galway Kinnell, W.S. Merwin, James Wright, X.J. Kennedy, Adrienne Cecile Rich, Gary Snyder, and Robert Mezey. Penguin Poets D67.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Single issue. Quarto wrappers. 769-1,069pp. Bottom page edges bumped, thin crease on front wrapper foredge, near fine with tear on edge of wrapper. Wallace Stevens Centennial Issue. Contributions by Donald E. Stanford, Roy Harvey Pearce, Grosvenor E. Powell, Milton J. Bates, Herbert J. Stern, William H. Pritchard, George S. Lensing, Samuel French Morse, Price Caldwell, Buchsbaum, Lynette Carpenter, Ann Hayes, Robert Penn Warren, Daniel Hoffman, Elizabeth Daryush, Timothy Steele, R.L. Barth, Suzanne Doyle, Alison A. Trimpi, Helen Pinkerton, Paul West, Alvin H. Rosenfeld, James Ballowe, and Sydney Lea.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine.

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Near Fine. Vol. LXXXIV, No. 6. Pulp magazine. Edited by A. A. Proctor. Cover by Hubert Rogers. Includes "By Command Of" by Ared White; "Farmlocked" (poem) by Bert Cooksley; "So-so Krooboy Palaver" by Robert Simpson; "The Broad Arrow" (pt. VII) by William MacLeod Raine; "There Were Giants in Those Days" (dinosaurs) by Paul Annixter; "My First Russian Bear" (article) by Boris N. Kamyshansky; "Banana Herder" by L. G. Blochman; "Loot" (article) by James W. Bennett; "The Mister" by Walt Coburn; "Scalawag" (pt. 1) by Gordon Young. Features: "The Camp-Fire"; "Ask Adventure"; "Trial Ahead." Illustrated by V. E. Pyles. Small mark on contents page; edgewear; tanning. A very nice copy. Book.

Condition: Sehr gut. First Edition. 15 x 23.5 cm. XI, 291 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Includes for example the following chapters: The Sacramental Vision of Richard Wilbur, Interview with Richard Wilbur, William Stafford's Winerness Quest, Interview with William Stafford, Louis Simpson: In Search of the American Self, Interview with Louis Simpson, James Wright: The Quest for Home, Interview with James Wright, Robert Penn Warren: Life's Instancy and the Astrolabe of Joy, Interview with Robert Penn Warren.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. liv, 1076 pages ; 23 cm ; ISBN 9780195020588, 0195020588 ; OCLC 2513358 ; blue cloth in dustjacket ; An anthology of poems by American poets from Taylor and Bradstreet to Plath, Ginsberg, and Ashbery, reflecting the traditions and achievements of three centuries ; Contents: The prologue ; The flesh and the spirit ; The author to her book ; Before the birth of one of her children ; To my dear and loving husband ; Some verses upon the burning of our house July 10th, 1666 / Anne Bradstreet Meditation 8 ; Meditation 9 ; Meditation 10 ; Meditation 29 ;Meditation 62 / Philip Pain 8. Meditation. Joh. 6.51. I am the living bread ; 38. Meditation. 1 Joh. 2.1. An advocate with the father ; 112. Meditation. 2 Cor. 5.14. If one died for all then are all dead ; The preface [to God's Determinations] ; Upon a spider catching a fly ; Huswifery ; Let by rain ; Upon a wasp child with cold / Edward Taylor George the Third's soliloquy ; The wild honey suckle ; To an author ; The Indian burying ground / Philip Freneau On being brought from Africa to America / Phillis Wheatley The Hasty-Pudding: Canto I ; Advice to a raven in Russia / Joel Barlow Thanatopsis ; To a waterfowl ; Green River ; The prairies / William Cullen Bryant Each and all /; The problem ; The visit ;r Uriel ; The sphinx ; Alphonso of Castile ; Mithridates ; Guy ; Hamatreya ; The rhodora ; The humble-bee ; The snow-storm ; Woodnotes I ; Woodnotes II ; Ode, inscribed to W.H. Channing ; Give all to love ; Thine eyes still shined ; Merlin I ; Merlin II ; Bacchus ; Xenophanes ; Blight ; Concord hymn ; Brahma ; Nemesis ; Two Rivers ; Waldeinsamkeit ; Terminus ; Compensation ; Song of Seyd Nimetollah of Kuhistan ; Days / Ralph Waldo Emerson Hymn to the night ; The day is done ; The fire of drift-wood ; from The Song of Hiawatha: introduction ; The Jewish Cemetery at Newport ; My lost youth ; Snow-flakes ; Aftermath ; Chaucer ; The tide rises, the tide falls ; The cross of snow / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Ichabod ; To my old schoolmaster ; Skipper Ireson's ride ; Telling the bees ; My playmate ; Barbara Frietchie ; Snow-bound ; What the birds said ; My triumph ; The lost occasion / John Greenleaf Whittier The deacon's masterpiece ; The chambered nautilus ; Dorothy Q. / Oliver Wendell Holmes A dream within a dream ; Song from Al Aaraaf ; Introduction [to Poems, 1831] ; To Helen ; Israfel ; The city in the sea ; The sleeper ; The haunted palace ; The Coliseum ; Sonnet-Silence ; The conqueror worm ; Dream-land ; The raven ; Ulalume-A ballad ; Eldorado ; For Annie ; Annabel Lee / Edgar Allan Poe The columbine ; The new birth; The dead ; The grave-yard ; Thy brother's blood ; The new man; The clouded morning ; The trees of life ; I was sick and in prison ; Yourself ; The lost ; The fair morning ; The day of denial ; The lament of the flowers ; The sumach leaves / Jones Very I am a parcel of vain strivings tied ; Light-winged smoke, Icarian bird ; Inspiration ; Within the circuit of this plodding life ; The river swelleth more and more ; Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelf / Henry David Thoreau The Battle Hymn of the Republic / Julia Ward Howe from A fable for critics ; Emerson ; Bryant ; Whittier ; Hawthorne ; Cooper ; Poe and Longfellow ; Holmes ; Lowell ; from The biglow Papers: the courtin' ; Ode recited at the Harvard Commemoration / James Russell Lowell Come, said my soul ; Song of myself ; A woman waits for me ; Song of the open road ; Crossing Brooklyn Ferry ; On the beach at night ; Me imperturbe ; From pent-up aching rivers ; In paths untrodden ; I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing ; Out of the cradle endlessly rocking ; As I ebb'd with the ocean of life ; Long I thought that knowledge alone would suffice ; O living always, always dying ; Shut not your doors ; Vigil strange I kept on the field one night ; The wound-dresser ; Give me the splendid silent sun ; When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd ; One's self I sing ; To a stranger ; Aboard at a sh; FINE/FINE. Book.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. xiv, 105pp. Corners lightly bumped, else fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with spine toned and dampstained.Contributions by Richard Wilbur ("A Black November Turkey", After the Last Bulletins", and "Lookin into History"), Robert P. Tristram Coffin, Elizabeth Coatsworth, Elizabeth Enright, W.S. Merwin ("Genoese Mariner" and "When I Came from Colchis"), Christopher Morley, Adrienne Cecile Rich ("Ideal Landscape" and "Versaille"), May Sarton, Louis Simpson, Peter Viereck, James Wright, and many others.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Brown and white wrappers. 329-480pp. Wrappers lightly age-toned, very good or better. Contributions by William Carlos Williams' *The Farmers' Daughter*, Northrop Frye's *The Realistic Oriole: A Study of Wallace Stevens, Louis Simpson, Daniel G. Hoffman, Lysander Kemp, James Wright, John Fandel, Leonard Wolf, A.R. Ammons, James Dickey, Marius Bewley, Robert Martin Adams' *Henrik Ibsen: The Fifty-First Anniversary*, John Holloway, William S. Poster, Kenneth B. Sawyer, Roy Harvey Pearce, Louis Simpson, Benjamin De Mott, and Gerald Weales.