Breaking Open, Signed (13 results)

Condition: Good. Signed Copy . Very Good dust jacket. Signed by author on half title page. Writing inside. Highlighting inside.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Signed. First Edition. Signed and inscribed by the author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Signed 1st edition, 1st printing, MIT Press hardcover w/ DJ, 2016. Book is VG to VG+, w/ clean text, tight binding. DJ is VG to VG+, w/ very light edge/shelf wear (no tears or chips). Signed by author (and inscribed to previous owner) on title page. Free delivery confirmation. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Signed 1st edition, City Lights soft cover, 2016. Fine, w/ clean text, tight binding, straight and uncreased spine. Appears to have never been read. Signed by author (and inscribed to previous owner) on title page. Free delivery confirmation. Signed by Author(s).

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. SIGNED by the author. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Notable smudging along with creasing and bumping to cover. Some interior pages have additional creasing but text is clean. Secure packaging for safe delivery. signed by author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. dust jacket is mylar wrapped. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Author's signature on front end page. Binding is tight. This book shows minimal sign of wear to the cover, binding, or pages. The book is signed by Author. Dust jacket condition is Very Good. Secure packaging for safe delivery. signed by author.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First printing, full number line. Signed by the author on a laid-in "Sally Susman" bookplate: "Sally Susman." The book is unmarked; slight spine slant; corners sharp, tail of spine bumped. The dust jacket is not price-clipped (original price $30.00); Brodart protected. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Book in very good condition; slight rubbing top and bottom edge of boards and spine; former owner's name written in marker down outside edge of book; otherwise, clean and bright, binding sound. Dust jacket in good condition; faint scuffing; three nicks along jacket spine, with one resulting in small hole; light soiling reverse side. SIGNED by author on title page. 322 pages. ISBN: 0-7679-0742-6. Black papered boards with green cloth spine; silver stamped lettering on spine. Approx. 8.5 x 5 3/4 in. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 135 pages, 8vo. SIGNED and inscribed by Muriel Rukeyser on front endpaper: " For Cousin Helen, with love, From Muriel. December 1973". Helen's bookplate is adhered to inside front cover. Shelfwear: scuffing along edges and covers, light tanning, light brown stain along outer page edges. Tight binding. Volume is in Very Good-minus condition. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. A great association copy, inscribed on the half-title page: "For Robert [Duncan], love to you and your poems and thanks for the lines on page 21." Uncommon signed in hardcover. The epigraph to the poem, "Searching / Not Searching" on page 21 is from Duncan ("Responsibility is to / use the power to respond") and there may be other lines borrowed in the poem. Both Duncan and Rukeyser are among the most significant 20th century poets. Rukeyser won the Yale Younger Award to launch her career in 1935. Anne Sexton famously said of her, "beautiful Muriel, mother of everyone," a nod to her influence.? Kenneth Rexroth said of her (as he does on the jacket's rear) "I consider Muriel Rukeyser by far the best poet of her exact generation." One of her best known works is the book-length poem The Book of the Dead about the Hawks Nest Tunnel Disaster and the silicosis it wrought on its miners, an early work of environmental justice poetics. Robert Duncan, meanwhile, was a key figure in both the Black Mountain College scene and San Francisco Poetry Renaissance, and his work, modernist in leaning, continues to be a broad influence. Breaking Open is Rukeyser's penultimate book and includes among new work a lyrical series of Inuit songs that she co-translated with an anthropologist. A fine book in fine jacket.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Trade paperback. *New York Times* newspaper article of Muriel Rukeyser laid in causing offsetting inside front wrapper, near fine. Warmly Inscribed by the author to fellow poet Daniel Hoffman. Advance Review Copy with slip laid in. Poetry.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. 8vo, V.G.in REMNANTS OF D.J., INSCRIBED "For Joe (Joseph Chaikin) with love and wishes for your Theatre Muriel, Dec. 1973, You are of course the Joe on page 132.(VVclt1ctnn2. Inscribed by Author(s).