Selected Conrad Aiken (16 results)
Language: English
Published by Modern Library, 1927, 1927
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Add to basketLeatherette or Plastic. Condition: Near Very Good. First Modern Library Edition. Unmarked, clean and solid copy. Dark green flexible covers with gold lettering on spine and emblem on front. Binding a little weak by title page but not broken.
More imagesPublished by Martin Secker, London, 1922
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Add to basketHardcover, red cloth boards. Condition: Good. 344 pages. Uniform with Selections From Modern Poets by J. C. Squire. Early publication of works by various 20th century poets including Maxwell Bodenheim, H. D., T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Alfred Kreymborg, Amy Lowell, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Willia…ms, and more. Some fading and wear to covers, endpapers slightly browned. Bookstore sticker on rep: 'The Holiday Bookshop 10 W. 47th St New York.' Aiken, 1889-1973, was himself a poet and editor.
More imagesPublished by The Modern Library
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More imagesPublished by The Modern Library, New York, 1927
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1927, 16mo. 367 pp. Blue flexible leather boards with gilt tamp to front and gilt title to spine. Cracked front hinges. Yellow printed endpapers. Ex libris sticker to FFEP. Age toned pages. Binding tight. Some writing to rear endpapers. Very Good+ $25.00. Modern American Poets with c…ontributions by Emily Dickinson, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Anna Hempstead Branch, Amy Lowell, Robert Frost, Vachel Lindsay, Alfred Kreymborg, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, John Gould Fletcher, H.D., T.S. Eliot, Conrad Aiken, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Maxwell Bodenheim.
Published by Jonathan Cape, London, 1923
- Hardcover
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Add to basketHard Cover. Condition: Good. No DJ. Blue cloth with clear titling on spine and upper cover. Slight wear to edges. Previous owners details on ffep dated 1924. xix, 389 pages clean and tight. Stamped on blank "Colonial Edition" xix, 389 pages clean and tight. Size: 8vo.
More imagesSheepfold Hill; Fifteen Poems
Aiken, Conrad [Conrad Potter Aiken (August 5, 1889 - August 17, 1973) was an American novelist and poet, whose work includes poetry, short stories, novels, a play and an autobiography, in 1930 was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 'Selected Poems.'
Published by Published by Sagamore Press, New York, First Edition . 1958., 1958
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Add to basketCondition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original venetian blind patterned paper covered boards, white title and author lettering to the yellow cloth spine. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Contains [xvi] 62 printed pages of text. Fine condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with light rubbing to the tips… and corners, not price clipped $2.95. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. We currently hold in stock 15 other books by this author. Member of the P.B.F.A. AMERICA [Literature].
More imagesSelected Letters of Conrad Aiken [Double Signed]
Killorin, Joseph [Edited by] Conrad Potter Aiken (August 5, 1889 - August 17, 1973) was an American novelist and poet, whose work includes poetry, short stories, novels, a play and an autobiography, in 1930 was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 'Selected Poems.'
Published by Published by Yale University Press, New Haven and London First Edition . 1978., 1978
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Add to basketCondition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original custard paper covered boards, gilt title and author lettering to the brown cloth spine. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Contains [xv] 350 printed pages of text with monochrome photographs on flat paper. Fine condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with sh…allow closed tears to the spine ends and corners, not price clipped $15.00. SIGNED by the author to the front free end paper 'June 5th, 1978 - With our love for Margaret Mackechnie from Joseph Killorin', 'and with best wishes of C. A. and M. H.' [third wife Mary Hoover 1937]. Wife Mary signed with artistic initials "C.A." for [4] him in 1978. Robert Mackechnie [Bobby had passed away] and Margaret Mackechnie [nee Barnard] English painter friends of Conrad Aiken. Until the second world war Aiken lived in the Rye district, firstly at Lookout Cottage in Winchelsea, opposite the muddy creek from where the Mackechnie's lived on the Rye side, by February 1924 he had bought Jeake's House in Rye. By the way, Margaret Barnard's sister Alison Mary Barnard was a formidable Lady and networker. She lived at No. 4, Wimpole Mews, London and 'ran' The Centre of Spiritual and Psychological Studies. Here many Peace seeking authors, artists of very different plumage came together including Walter de la Mare, T. S. Eliot, Kathleen Raine, G. K. Chesterton [early on], Laurens van der Post and many more. No doubt Conrad Aiken too, who was a lifelong friend of T. S. Eliot, no outward publicity, quite the opposite of the extrovert Bloomsbury Bohemian hack hub. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. We currently hold in stock 15 other books by this author. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0300021801 AMERICA [Literature].
Preludes for Memnon
Aiken, Conrad [Conrad Potter Aiken (August 5, 1889 - August 17, 1973) was an American novelist and poet, whose work includes poetry, short stories, novels, a play and an autobiography, in 1930 was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 'Selected Poems.'
Published by Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, First Edition . 1931., 1931
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Add to basketCondition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine and to the upper panel. 8vo. 9½'' x 6½''. Contains 112 printed pages of text. Very light off-setting to the end leaves. Near Fine condition book in near Very Good condition dust wrapper w…ith old sello repair to the top of the spine which extends down the rear gutter, small nicks to the edges, not price clipped $2.50. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. We currently hold in stock 15 other books by this author. Member of the P.B.F.A. AMERICA [Literature].
More imagesThe Soldier; A Poem [Signed]
Aiken, Conrad [Conrad Potter Aiken (August 5, 1889 - August 17, 1973) was an American novelist and poet, whose work includes poetry, short stories, novels, a play and an autobiography, in 1930 was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 'Selected Poems.'
Published by Published by Editions Poetry London / Nicholson & Watson, First English Edition . London 1946., 1946
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Add to basketCondition: Near Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original caramel cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 7½'' x 5''. Contains 40 printed pages of text. Tiny rubs to the spine tips. Very near Fine condition book in near Fine condition dust wrapper with one small tear to the top of the… spine, not price clipped 4/6. SIGNED by the author to the front free end paper 'For Bobby and Margaret from Conrad, Christmas 1946.' Robert Mackechnie [Bobby] and Margaret Mackechnie [nee Barnard] English painter friends of Conrad Aiken. Until the second world war Aiken lived in the Rye district, firstly at Lookout Cottage in Winchelsea, opposite the muddy creek from where the Mackechnie's lived on the Rye side, by February 1924 he had bought Jeake's House in Rye. By the way, Margaret Barnard's sister Alison Mary Barnard was a formidable Lady and networker. She lived at No. 4, Wimpole Mews, London and 'ran' The Centre of Spiritual and Psychological Studies. Here many Peace seeking authors, artists of very different plumage came together including Walter de la Mare, T. S. Eliot, Kathleen Raine, G. K. Chesterton [early on], Laurens van der Post and many more. No doubt Conrad Aiken too, who was a lifelong friend of T. S. Eliot, no outward publicity, quite the opposite of the extrovert Bloomsbury Bohemian hack hub. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. We currently hold in stock 15 other books by this author. AMERICA [Literature].
More imagesTime in the Rock; Preludes to Definition [Signed]
Aiken, Conrad [Conrad Potter Aiken (August 5, 1889 - August 17, 1973) was an American novelist and poet, whose work includes poetry, short stories, novels, a play and an autobiography, in 1930 was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 'Selected Poems.'
Published by Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, First Edition . 1936., 1936
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Add to basketCondition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original dark brown cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine and to the upper panel. 8vo. 9½'' x 6½''. Contains [xii] 138 printed pages of text. Fine condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with short closed tear to the top rear gut…ter, rubs to the corners and spine ends, not price clipped $2.50. SIGNED by the author to the front free end paper 'For Bobby and Margaret with much love from Conrad, Christmas 1936.' Robert Mackechnie [Bobby] and Margaret Mackechnie [nee Barnard] English painter friends of Conrad Aiken. Until the second world war Aiken lived in the Rye district, firstly at Lookout Cottage in Winchelsea, opposite the muddy creek from where the Mackechnie's lived on the Rye side, by February 1924 he had bought Jeake's House in Rye. By the way, Margaret Barnard's sister Alison Mary Barnard was a formidable Lady and networker. She lived at No. 4, Wimpole Mews, London and 'ran' The Centre of Spiritual and Psychological Studies. Here many Peace seeking authors, artists of very different plumage came together including Walter de la Mare, T. S. Eliot, Kathleen Raine, G. K. Chesterton [early on], Laurens van der Post and many more. No doubt Conrad Aiken too, who was a lifelong friend of T. S. Eliot, no outward publicity, quite the opposite of the extrovert Bloomsbury Bohemian hack hub. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. We currently hold in stock 15 other books by this author. Member of the P.B.F.A. AMERICA [Literature].
More imagesCREEPS BY NIGHT CHILLS & THRILLS ,SELECTED & INTRO BY Dashiell HAMMETT , JAN 1932, 1ST EDITION ,Second printing STATED, OVER 500 PGS OF STORIES NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED , An important early anthology of weird SUPERNATURAL fiction, rare in the FACSIMILE YELLOW & BLACK PICTORIAL DUSTjacket
SELECTED BY by ,(ed.) Dashiell HAMMETT; H. P. Lovecraft, Conrad Aiken, Frank Belknap, L.A.G. STRONG, Stephen Vincent Benet & others .INNER DJ FLAP $2.50, BLANK ENDPAPERS tiny Sticker
Published by TUDOR PUBL FOR JOHN DAY NY, 1932
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. HBDJ , JAN 1932, 1ST EDITION , STATED Second printing, VG+/VG+ , Reproduction Dust Jacket is sharp with some internal tear to verso with small tape repair Octavo. Original THICK black cloth, spine and front cover lettered and decorated in green, The…book is in verygood condition with solid binding. Boards are sturdy with general wear. Internally there is a bookseller label to front leaf and former owners pencil remnants to upper right of front leaf. No writings, remainders or library markings.5625 PGS, NO ADS IN BACK ,Gathered here are 20 short stories , including, H. P. Lovecraft ("The Music of Erich Zann", works by William Faulkner ("A Rose for Emily"), André Maurois ("The House"), L. A. G. Strong ("Breakdown"), Conrad Aiken ("Mr. Arcularis"), ), Stephen Vincent Benét ("The King of the Cats"), Donald Wandrei ("The Red Brain") and Frank Belknap Long ("A Visitor from Egypt") ETC.
More imagesThe Kid [Signed]
Aiken, Conrad [Conrad Potter Aiken (August 5, 1889 - August 17, 1973) was an American novelist and poet, whose work includes poetry, short stories, novels, a play and an autobiography, in 1930 was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 'Selected Poems.'
Published by Published by Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York First Edition . 1947., 1947
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Add to basketCondition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original nutmeg cloth covers, blue title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Contains 32 [ii] printed pages of text. Fine condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with small piece of paper missing to the top of the spine, minor rubs t…o the corners, not price clipped $2.00. SIGNED by the author to the front free end paper 'For Margaret and Bobby with love and belated Christmas wishes from Mary and Conrad'. Third wife Mary Hoover 1937. Robert Mackechnie [Bobby] and Margaret Mackechnie [nee Barnard] English painter friends of Conrad Aiken. Until the second world war Aiken lived in the Rye district, firstly at Lookout Cottage in Winchelsea, opposite the muddy creek from where the Mackechnie's lived on the Rye side, by February 1924 he had bought Jeake's House in Rye. By the way, Margaret Barnard's sister Alison Mary Barnard was a formidable Lady and networker. She lived at No. 4, Wimpole Mews, London and 'ran' The Centre of Spiritual and Psychological Studies. Here many Peace seeking authors, artists of very different plumage came together including Walter de la Mare, T. S. Eliot, Kathleen Raine, G. K. Chesterton [early on], Laurens van der Post and many more. No doubt Conrad Aiken too, who was a lifelong friend of T. S. Eliot, no outward publicity, quite the opposite of the extrovert Bloomsbury Bohemian hack hub. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. We currently hold in stock 15 other books by this author. AMERICA [Literature].
More imagesUshant: An Essay [Signed]
Aiken, Conrad [Conrad Potter Aiken (August 5, 1889 - August 17, 1973) was an American novelist and poet, whose work includes poetry, short stories, novels, a play and an autobiography, in 1930 was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 'Selected Poems.'
Published by Published New York & Boston: Duell, Sloan and Pearce / Little, Brown and Company First Edition . 1952., 1952
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Add to basketCondition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covers, silver title and author lettering to the spine and to the upper panel. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. Contains 365 printed pages of text. Light foxing to the inside edges of the paste downs. Very Good condition book in Good condition dust wrapper…with tanning of the paper down the spine, small chips to the edges, short closed tear to the bottom edge of the front cover, the $4.50 has been snipped and now stamped $5.00. SIGNED by the author to the front free end paper 'For Bobby and Margaret in part payment for Roses and Cabbages from Conrad, 1960.' Robert Mackechnie [Bobby] and Margaret Mackechnie [nee Barnard] English painter friends of Conrad Aiken. Until the second world war Aiken lived in the Rye district, firstly at Lookout Cottage in Winchelsea, opposite the muddy creek from where the Mackechnie's lived on the Rye side, by February 1924 he had bought Jeake's House in Rye. By the way, Margaret Barnard's sister Alison Mary Barnard was a formidable Lady and networker. She lived at No. 4, Wimpole Mews, London and 'ran' The Centre of Spiritual and Psychological Studies. Here many Peace seeking authors, artists of very different plumage came together including Walter de la Mare, T. S. Eliot, Kathleen Raine, G. K. Chesterton [early on], Laurens van der Post and many more. No doubt Conrad Aiken too, who was a lifelong friend of T. S. Eliot, no outward publicity, quite the opposite of the extrovert Bloomsbury Bohemian hack hub. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. We currently hold in stock 15 other books by this author. AMERICA [Literature].
More imagesUshant: An Essay [Signed + Proverb]
Aiken, Conrad [Conrad Potter Aiken (August 5, 1889 - August 17, 1973) was an American novelist and poet, whose work includes poetry, short stories, novels, a play and an autobiography, in 1930 was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 'Selected Poems.'
Published by Published New York & Boston: Duell, Sloan and Pearce / Little, Brown and Company First Edition . 1952., 1952
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Add to basketCondition: Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covers, silver title and author lettering to the spine and to the upper panel. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. Contains 365 printed pages of text. Near Fine condition book in Good condition dust wrapper with old tape repairs to the spine ends and top rear corne…r, not price clipped $4.50. SIGNED by the author to the front free end paper 'For Bobby and Margaret from Conrad, Christmas 1952'. Robert Mackechnie [Bobby] and Margaret Mackechnie [nee Barnard] English painter friends of Conrad Aiken. Until the second world war Aiken lived in the Rye district, firstly at Lookout Cottage in Winchelsea, opposite the muddy creek from where the Mackechnie's lived on the Rye side, by February 1924 he had bought Jeake's House in Rye. By the way, Margaret Barnard's sister Alison Mary Barnard was a formidable Lady and networker. She lived at No. 4, Wimpole Mews, London and 'ran' The Centre of Spiritual and Psychological Studies. Here many Peace seeking authors, artists of very different plumage came together including Walter de la Mare, T. S. Eliot, Kathleen Raine, G. K. Chesterton [early on], Laurens van der Post and many more. No doubt Conrad Aiken too, who was a lifelong friend of T. S. Eliot, no outward publicity, quite the opposite of the extrovert Bloomsbury Bohemian hack hub. Loosely enclosed is a flimsy sheet of blue paper with an eight line proverb written by Aiken [the same hand and biro as the ink dedication to the book], which he may have gleaned from The Centre of Spiritual and Psychological Studies. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. We currently hold in stock 15 other books by this author. AMERICA [Literature].
More imagesThe Soldier; A Poem [Signed]
Aiken, Conrad [Conrad Potter Aiken (August 5, 1889 - August 17, 1973) was an American novelist and poet, whose work includes poetry, short stories, novels, a play and an autobiography, in 1930 was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 'Selected Poems.'
Published by Published by The Poets of the Year, New Directions, Norfolk, Connecticut, First Edition . 1944., 1944
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Add to basketCondition: Fine. First edition in publisher's original grey card wrap covers [softback]. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. Contains 32 printed pages of text. Fine condition book very near in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped 50 cents. SIGNED by the author to the front free end paper 'For Margaret and Bobby with our love as always, Co…nrad.' Robert Mackechnie [Bobby] and Margaret Mackechnie [nee Barnard] English painter friends of Conrad Aiken. Until the second world war Aiken lived in the Rye district, firstly at Lookout Cottage in Winchelsea, opposite the muddy creek from where the Mackechnie's lived on the Rye side, by February 1924 he had bought Jeake's House in Rye. By the way, Margaret Barnard's sister Alison Mary Barnard was a formidable Lady and networker. She lived at No. 4, Wimpole Mews, London and 'ran' The Centre of Spiritual and Psychological Studies. Here many Peace seeking authors, artists of very different plumage came together including Walter de la Mare, T. S. Eliot, Kathleen Raine, G. K. Chesterton [early on], Laurens van der Post and many more. No doubt Conrad Aiken too, who was a lifelong friend of T. S. Eliot, no outward publicity, quite the opposite of the extrovert Bloomsbury Bohemian hack hub. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. We currently hold in stock 15 other books by this author. AMERICA [Literature].
More imagesThe Fluteplayer + Hand Typed and Signed Letter
Aiken, Conrad [Conrad Potter Aiken (August 5, 1889 - August 17, 1973) was an American novelist and poet, whose work includes poetry, short stories, novels, a play and an autobiography, in 1930 was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 'Selected Poems.'
Published by Printed circa . 1955., 1955
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Add to basketCondition: Good. Signed 8½'' x 5½'' 1 sheet folded poem printed in red and black; 'With all the good wishes of this Holiday Season Conrad & Mary Aiken' on front, with Aiken's 21-lined poem, 'The Fluteplayer' on the inside. On the rear cover is a 26 line hand typed letter to Bobby and Margaret Mackechnie, giving them a glimpse of… his and his wife Mary's life, including the risk of being evicted from his Cape Cod farm house. It is typed with uncorrected typos. Conrad Aiken's residence 312 South Capitol Street, Washington 3 D C. Starts: 'Boxing Day - Dear Bobby and Margaret, Good to have your letter, and all the geographical newses, sounds like fine international fun - and delighted to hear Bobby is at work again. And yes, I think it would be a good thing to try the parties again, but alas, the mss [manuscript] is locked away goodness knows where in our Cape Cod attic, and will therefor [sic] be inaccessible till May or so, even if then we can find it! I'm orful [sic] sorry. And hope you can get someone to copy it at lowered rates. In Hastings? What's this about Lamb House, and how would we apply? No news here as to date of eviction or compensation, so we plan to stay on as long as poss.' etc. etc. and ends 'this is a little hand printed job done for us when we judged a potry [sic] reading contest last spring, Conrad'. For quick signature and typing machine verification you can look up the first photograph of a letter from the illustrations pages in his 1978 'Selected Letters of Conrad Aiken' by Joseph Killorin in a postcard to Edmund Wilson. Robert Mackechnie [Bobby] and Margaret Mackechnie [nee Barnard] English painter friends of Conrad Aiken. Until the second world war Aiken lived in the Rye district, firstly at Lookout Cottage in Winchelsea, opposite the muddy creek from where the Mackechnie's lived on the Rye side, by February 1924 he had bought Jeake's House in Rye. By the way, Margaret Barnard's sister Alison Mary Barnard was a formidable Lady and networker. She lived at No. 4, Wimpole Mews, London and 'ran' The Centre of Spiritual and Psychological Studies. Here many Peace seeking authors, artists of very different plumage came together including Walter de la Mare, T. S. Eliot, Kathleen Raine, G. K. Chesterton [early on], Laurens van der Post and many more. No doubt Conrad Aiken too, who was a lifelong friend of T. S. Eliot, no outward publicity, quite the opposite of the extrovert Bloomsbury Bohemian hack hub. We currently hold in stock 15 other books by this author. AMERICA [Literature].
