Vail Sindbad (5 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 7.25 x 5.25 inches. 276 pp. Printed wraps. Wraps lightly toned, soiled, rubbed along joints and spine-ends, a few small creases. Good. Includes writing by Alexander Trocchi, Austryn Wainhouse, Harold Brav, Selwyn Kitteredge, Elliot Stein Domhnall O'Conaill, Tom Furlong, Howard Griffin, Brendan Behan, John Symonds, Herbert Gold, Arlette Anneville, John Goodwin, H.E. Francis, and Roy Bongartz.

Softcover. Octavo, 94 pages. In Good plus condition. Bound in publisher's yellow wraps with red lettering to front cover. Rubbing and creasing to wraps with small tears on spine. Light penciling, scuffing, and soiling to wraps. Light age toning with creasing to corners throughout textblock. Shelved under the Front Counter. 1408646. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Paperback Octavo. wraps, 58 pp, soiled and stained all throughout Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.

Condition: Very Good -. Paris: Points, 1950-1951. First Edition. Octavo; 95pp. Printed wraps. Wear to wraps with a tear to top of spine, rubbing and spotting, and curling to corners. Binding sound. Pages toned with a few spots and chips, but overall legible and about Very Good. 8th issue of Bisiaux and Vail's literary magazine and includes "Shades of Darkness (Three Impressions)," an early work by Mordecai Richler.

paper a little toned, some occasional light water-staining to borders (in places with a reddish hue), a couple of leaves with short closed tear to fore-margin, insect damage (not affecting text) to bottom corner of last gathering in first volume, pp. 94; 110; 95; 100; 95, [1, ad]; 95, [1, ad], 4to and 8vo, original yellow wrappers, fourth number with manuscript title to backstrip, all with some soiling (only heavy at foot of backstrips), a little chipped at backstrip ends, first volume with original subscription form laid in, good. The first half-dozen issues of a little magazine in French and English, the respective sections being edited by Marcel Bisiaux and Sindbad Vail he the son of 'King of Bohemia', Laurence Vail, and Peggy Guggenheim. The magazine was intended as an organ for untested authors from both sides of the Channel (and Atlantic). Michael Hamburger, Herbert Gold (here, 'Herb' and the winner of the magazine's short story competition, his entry printed in the fourth number), Christopher Middleton and David Gascoyne all contribute early work, alongside the editors and more established domestic figures such as Philippe Soupault and André Dhôtel. Amongst the other contributors, one finds: the later film director, Elliot Silverstein; Genet's translator into English, Bernard Frechtman; and E.E. Cummings' translator into French, D. Jon Grossman, whose 'Ars Poetica: The Twentieth Century' is a savage and entertaining parody of the work of both Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot, going on to Amy Lowell, Robert Frost, Cummings, MacLeish, Wallace Stevens et al.