Translated William Jay Smith (17 results)
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Very good paperback. Spine is uncreased, binding tight and sturdy, text also very good. A very nice copy.
The Pact: My Friendship with Isak Dinesen
Bjornvig, Thorkild; translated From The Danish by Ingvar Schousboe and William Jay Smith
Language: English
Published by Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, 1984
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcovere in dustjacket. Linen cloth boards, gilt text title on spine, pristine. Protected, price unclipped, dustjacket sharp and bright. Book firm in binding, b&w photographs. A reminiscence of Isak Dinesen by one of Denmark's leading…poets. Free of any markings, not ex-library. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 169 pages.
The Pact: my friendship with Isak Dinesen
[Dinesen, Isak aka Karen Blixen] Thorkild Bjørn Vig, translated by Ingvar Schousboe & William Jay Smith
Language: English
Published by Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, 1984
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Hardcover. 169p., introduction, translator's note, illustrated with b&w photo section, very good second printing stated in cloth boards and unclipped dj. Blixen was not likely a lesbian but almost all of her writing contains lesbian and gay characters or themes. This is a reminiscence of a mystical relationship between the write…r and the young poet.
Published by New York: Pocket Books 900, 1952, 1952
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Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. First Printing. First printing, softcover, slight lean, light browning to pages, light wear to spine edges, otherwise a bright VG+ copy.
Published by New Rivers Press, 1996, 1996
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An Arrow In The Wall Selected Poetry And Prose [ Uncorrected Proof]
Voznesensky, Andrei; edited by William Jay Smith & F. D. Reeve; Prose translated by Antonina W. Bouis
Published by Henry Holt, New York, 1987
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Softcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. Advance Review Copy. Covers have a browned spine, sticker residue on the front, a small tear to the front top spine edge, a couple creases, and light smudging. Brief notation written on front cover. ; Uncorrected proof.
Published by Grove Press, 1956
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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 287 pp. No DJ. First edition, #526/1000 first copies. Cover shows some wear and discolouration of spine. Binding is good, text block seems unmarked.
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Card covers in tidy condition, 160pp Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
More imagesPublished by Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio, 1980
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Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Second printing. Volume two only. Translated and with a Preface by William Jay Smith and Leif Sjoberg. Trade paperback. 55pp. Small stain and faint crease on front panel, else a very good copy. From the library of poet David Ignatow with his label affixed to the inside cover. Inscribed by transla…tor Leif Sjoberg, to David Ignatow: "for David Ignatow, with love & admiration, Leif" (on the title page). Originally published in 1979 by the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh International Poetry Forum, Volume II of the Byblos Editions-230 copies printed. Long narrative poem.
Published by New Directions, New York, 1985
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Contact seller5-star sellerFirst Edition, First Printing. 5.5 x 8.5in. xxxvi. 160pp. Publisher's cloth boards. FINE/AS NEW in Near Fine dust jacket. The book itself is flawless. The dust jacket shows marginal shelf rubbing, otherwise is not price-clipped remaining Fine/As New. As pictured.
Published by Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut, 1972
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Reprint. 287pp. Corners bumped, near fine. Signed by William Jay Smith on the title page with his penned correction made on copyright page. Additionally, Inscribed to fellow author Daniel Hoffman by William Jay Smith. Poetry.
Language: English
Published by The John Carter Brown Library/The Stone House Press, Roslyn, NY, 1992
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dark gray cloth gilt, 8vo., 85 pages, illustrated by John DePol. One of 200 numbered copies printed from VanDijck type on Rives paper. Set and cast by Michael and Winifred Bixler. Signed by the printer Morris Gelfand, the translator and the artist. Prospectus loosely inserted. A fine copy in a clear D…W. John DePol (illustrator). Signed by Artist and Printer.
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Published by Oxford University Press, London, 1968
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Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United KingdomOrlando Booksellers
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First UK Edition. First impression of the first UK edition - a bilingual edition with parallel Russian and English text - published in 1968 in a wrappers issue and this scarcer hardcover issue. Translated from the Russian by W. H. Auden, Jean Garrigue, Max Haywar…d, Stanley Kunitz, Stanley Moss, William Jay Smith and Richard Wilbur. Typeset in the USA. ***Near fine in black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles. The boards are clean - just slightly rubbed and marked. Head and tail of spine uncreased. Corners sharp. No bumps or creases. No reading creases to the spine. Top edge of page block slightly foxed and dusty. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Internally also near fine, with no inscriptions or annotations. Pages bright. No creases or tears. ***In a near fine dustwrapper, just slightly marked at the edges and to the back panel (being white). The dustwrapper has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of 45s. net. Some rubbing and creasing at the edges, mainly at the top of the spine and top edge of the back panel, which also has a smallish closed tear. No serious creases, chips or tears. ***296 pages with 20 pages of notes at the back of the book. ***'Andrei Andreyevich Voznesensky (12 May 1933 - 1 June 2010) was a Soviet and Russian poet and writer who had been referred to by Robert Lowell as "one of the greatest living poets in any language." He was one of the "Children of the '60s," a new wave of iconic Soviet intellectuals led by the Khrushchev Thaw. Voznesensky was considered "one of the most daring writers of the Soviet era" but his style often led to regular criticism from his contemporaries and he was once threatened with expulsion by Nikita Khrushchev. He performed poetry readings in front of sold-out stadiums around the world, and was much admired for his skilled delivery. Some of his poetry was translated into English by W. H. Auden. Voznesensky's long-serving mentor and muse was Boris Pasternak, the Nobel Laureate and the author of Doctor Zhivago. Before his death, he was both critically and popularly proclaimed "a living classic", and "an icon of Soviet intellectuals"'. (Wiki) ***A nice bright collector's copy of the much scarcer hardcover issue of this work. ***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.***.
Published by Grove Press, 1956
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. Cloth bound. Frontis. Illus. xiv, 287 pages, bibliography. Limited edition. Number 331 of 1000 copies. Previous owner's bookplate. Spine sun faded. Cloth somewhat worn in places. Binding is tight and book is solid.
More imagesChristopher Columbus, with Prospectus
Bertin, Charles | wood engravings by John De Pol; translated by William Jay Smith
Published by Printed by the Stone House Press for the John Carter Brown Library, [Providence, RI], 1992
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Seller: Michael Pyron, Bookseller, ABAA, Conshohocken, PA, U.S.A.Michael Pyron, Bookseller, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerHard Cover. Condition: Near Fine binding. Octavo. 85, [1] pp., frontis, illus. Limited edition, number 42 of 200 copies, signed by De Pol, Smith, and the printer, M. A. Gelfand. In original cloth with title on the front cover and spine. An extremely nice copy with the top corner of the rear board a trifle bumped, else fine. This… is the regular issue of a translation of Bertin's French-language three-act play, "Christophe Colomb," here limited to 200 copies with "illustrations printed in black . . . from works in the John Carter Brown Library, selected by Norman Fiering. . . . the original wood engravings printed in colors other than blank, are by John De Pol" (colophon). There was also a deluxe edition limited to 20 copies bound by Deborah Evetts, design binder and conservator at the Pierpont Morgan Library.
More imagesThe Diary of "Helena Morley": [From Dust Jacket:] A childhood journal of life in a mountain town of Brazil at the turn of the century. Translated from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Bishop
BISHOP, Elizabeth (translated & edited); MORLEY, Helen (i.e. Alice Dayrell Caldeira Brant); [SMITH, William Jay]
Published by Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, New York, 1957
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- First Edition
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FIRST US EDITION. 8vo. Quarter yellow cloth, spine lettered in blue, patterned pale blue boards. Illustrated endpapers. Spine sunned and blotched, uneven bands of offsetting to boards, extremities bruised, corners worn. Edges toned. Front joint tender, ownership signature of "W. J. Smith" inscribed to ffep in black biro, rusty e…cho of a paperclip and kidney bean-shaped stains to reverse, and faintly visible on endpaper and through to title page, a few dog-eared pages. Else, clean. Dust jacket supplied: printed in black, illustrated and lettered in blue, yellow, green and white: wear and chipping to spine ends, some rubbing, nicking and spotting, short closed tear to top of front panel. Good/ good+ A well-handled contemporary poetic association copy of the first US edition of Elizabeth Bishop's translation of the diary of a Brazilian girl in the "far-off" provincial diamond-mining town, Diamantina: the American poet, William Jay Smith's copy. A near contemporary and a fellow prize-winning American poet, William Jay Smith (19182015) also followed Bishop in being appointed Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, 1968-1970 (the nineteenth appointee; Bishop was eighth, serving 1949-50). He later described her as a "tutelary spirit," alongside Edwin Arlington Robinson, Marianne Moore, Theodore Roethke and Louise Bogan; Smith had first come across Bishop's poetry as a college freshman in 1935, and, like Bishop (and Moore), he "adore[d] particulars and exact observation" and "emphasize[d] wit and the skillful use of traditional forms" (Frank, 1998). He was not, however, a fan of her prose, observing much later in a CPR interview: "Elizabeth Bishop wrote a few essays but they were much inferior stylistically to her poems. It was clear that she had devoted less time and attention to them than she had to her poems"; sadly, no notes or marginalia feature here to hint at his thoughts on her work as a translator. We do, however, have Bishop's thoughts on Smith's translation of Jules Laforgue (and the impossibility of translating poetry); her mostly favourable review, 'The Manipulation of Mirrors,' had been published the year before in New Republic. A Brazilian literary favourite, which had been repeatedly recommended to Bishop, in her introduction the poet likens sections to Chaucer and "Wordsworth's poetical children and country people, or Dorothy Wordsworth's wandering beggars," whilst "occasionally entries referring to slavery seemed like notes for an unwritten, Brazilian, feminine version of Tom Sawyer". It did not sell well, nor bring in the income for which Bishop had wished. MacMahon A4; Elizabeth Frank (1998) 'The Pleasures of Formal Poetry,' The Atlantic; CRP Interview.
More imagesPublished by Grove Press, New York, 1956
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Page edges toned, else near fine in spine-toned, very dust jacket. Signed by William Jay Smith on the title page and additionally Inscribed by him to noted poetry editor and designer Harry Ford: "For Harry and Elizabeth Ford with affectionate greet…ings and best wishes, Bill Smith. Florence. September 1956.".
