Young Lafayette (6 results)

paperback. Condition: Acceptable. Original wraps show moderate wear, chipping, loss on the spine, creasing. Pages are tanned with some minor staining.

Soft cover. Condition: VG-. Limited Edition. Collection of verse by new American & Canadian poets in 1967, including Floyce Alexander, Goeffrey Young, Gordon Curtis, Gus Blaisdell, Howard McCord, James Liddy, & Lafayette Young. Designed & hand printed by H. C. Keller & Ludington Alexander in this edition of 300 copies, with only 100 made available for sale. Softcover book with greenish-brown decorative wrappers, strong & straight glued binding. Condition is VG-, downgraded due to slight rubbing/scuffing to both covers & front cover is torn from top edge 3" down spine. Else, completely clean i & unmarked Our photos depict the EXACT book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have. Same day shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, Weekends & holidays ship very next business day. Keller, H. C.; Alexander, Ludington (illustrator).…

First edition, first printing Near fine bright wraps. An attractive copy.

Presumed first edition (no direct statement provided). Paged as i-xii, 11-204. Hardcover: H 19.25cm x L 13cm. No dust jacket present. Blue cloth rubbed and stained; silver stamped lettering to front board and spine remains fairly bright. Text block's top edge darkened; toning to fore-edge and bottom edge. Some foxing/toning to interior leaves. Front and rear hinges shaken but text block remains reasonably firm. A compilation of Mississippi-authored poetry by Laurel, Mississippi resident Ernestine Clayton Deavours (1892-1966) with her Preface on pages 11-13 which, in conjunction with her leadoff comments at each poet's respective contribution, might leave one wondering whether she secured appropriate permissions to reprint all seventy-three authors which favor the obscure (Henry M. Abney, Julia K. Wetherill Baker, Chattie Beall, S. Newton Berryhill, Margaret Hunt Brisbane, Marcus T. Carpenter, Lafayette R. Hamberlin, S.A. Jonas, Eleanor Percy Lee, Walter Malone, Eliza Jane Nicholson, Irwin Russell, J. Augustine Signaigo, et al) but at least three prominent writers too including William Alexander Percy, Eron Opha Rowland, and Stark Young.…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 166 pages. 7.50x7.50x0.42 inches. This item is printed on demand.

Condition: Very good. Six letters, one type written and five hand written, between surrealist painter Wolfgang Paalen, and Lafayette Young III, a bookseller in San Diego, who created a salon that drew poets, artists and writers his shop, and was a close associate of Henry Miller. The letters dated from 1943 to 1948, much of it writing about their families and developments in their lives, but the typewritten letter from 1943 talks of his trials getting out the current issue of DYN to publication and his new collaboration with painter Gordon Onslow Ford and his wife writer Jacqueline Johnson. The one letter from Young is handwritten, possibly a first draft, of his response to receiving at new issue of DNY from Paalen. The last two letters from 1948 are of Paalen's upcoming exhibition in San Francisco and of his hopes to see his friends again. Included are four envelopes, one with Paalen's address, and one envelope from the Hotel Empire in San Francisco. The letters are in very good shape, with some wear or creasing along the edges.…