Published by New Directions, 1972
ISBN 10: 0811204510 ISBN 13: 9780811204514
Condition: Very Good. Very Good condition. With remainder mark. Poetry.
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Published by New Directions, 1972
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
First Edition
Condition: Good. 1972. First Edition Thus. 88 pages. Pictorial paper cover. Pages are in good condition with minimal tanning and foxing. Occasional thumb-marking present. Binding remains firm. Paper cover has mild edge wear with scuffing to edges and creasing. Light tanning to spine and edges. Mild rubbing to surfaces with curling to corners.
Condition: Good. Good condition. Book from the collection of poet Paul Grant. (poems, poetry).
Published by New Directions, New York, 1972
Seller: Book Booth, Berea, OH, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Ex-library w/usual stamps & stickers. Pages clean; binding tight; minor wear to covers; lacks a dustjacket. 88 pages. Size: 5 1/2" x 8".
88p., foreword, notes, index, very good first US edition in boards and unclipped dj. First US book of poem by British poet who edited the quarterly Ambit.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First edition, hardcover, review slip laid in, a FINE copy in a FINE dustjacket.
Published by New Directions, New York, 1972
ISBN 10: 0811204502 ISBN 13: 9780811204507
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 88 pages. First American edition, first printing. His first appearance in the U.S. in book form. He edited the quarterly Ambit. Foreword by Alan Pryce-Jones. Fine book in a fine dust jacket. Price clipped. A beautiful copy!.
Published by New Directions, New York, 1972
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition. Hardcover. First printing. 88 pages. Brock's first collection of poems to be published in the United States. Introduction by Alan Pryce-Jones. A close to near fine copy with some light foxing to the top of the page edges in a near fine dust jacket.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition; First Printing. 8vo; 88 pages; Light toning to the white jacket.
Published by NY. 1972. New Directions. 1st.ed., 1972
ISBN 10: 0811204502 ISBN 13: 9780811204507
Seller: The Bookroom, Raleigh, NC, U.S.A.
First Edition
Fine in dj.
Published by New Directions, NY, 1972
Seller: Michael J. Toth, Bookseller, ABAA, Springtown, PA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Beautiful clean copy of this first hardcover edition in dustwrapper. Only flaw is one bumped corner -- otherwise Fine/Fine.
Published by NY: New Directions, 1973., 1973
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition. 8vo. Cloth. Fine in a fine jacket.
Published by New Directions, 1972
Seller: LEA BOOK DISTRIBUTORS, Jamaica, NY, U.S.A.
Hard Cover. Condition: Like New. 88pp. First Edition. An excellent like-new copy in a like-new dust jacket.
Published by New Directions, New York, 1972
Seller: Wagon Tongue Books, Linden, AB, Canada
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good +. First Thus. The foreword to this 88 page poetry volume reminds us that Brock's first career was a policeman . Seems he was apologetic about the contrast : policeman & poet. UNillustrated. Four of the pieces, for flavour, are : `Paternal Instruction', `Back to Church', `Tiger,Tiger', and `Certain Flowers'. First Linews index at back. Cond : Paper wrapper is white with black lettering. Elizabeth Brock did the drawing of the author on the front cover. Tight in binding. No names nor marks. Light general wear and soiling. Sticker ghost front cover. Almost cillectible ! ! QUote (p. 27) : " Always my family was like this - at Christmas parties, christenings and similar occasions; it was, I suppose, the Irish streak On the other hand, it may have been that, in that overheated kitchen of my ._._._. . " Size: 8vo.
Published by New Directions, 1972
Seller: My Book Heaven, Alameda, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. Near Fine book in a Near Fine dust jacket.
Published by New Directions, 1972
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. A clean, unmarked and unclipped copy in a Mylar jacket cover.
Published by New Directions Publishing Corporation, New York, 1972
ISBN 10: 0811204502 ISBN 13: 9780811204507
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. SIGNED. 88pp. Octavo [20.8cm]. Brown cloth over boards with black printed lettering on the spine. Illustrated dust jacket. Pages and dust jacket age toned. Inscribed by the author in black ink on the half title and is dated March, 1980. Inscription reads "I nearly stayed undercover but _____ (???) it. Love Edwin." From Publisher: Invisibility Is the Art of Survival marks the first appearance in this country, in book form, of the work of Edwin Brock. Born in London in 1927, Brock says he has spent the subsequent years waiting for something to happen, occupying his time as a sailor, journalist, policeman, and adman, in that order. Yet none of this, he feels, has touched him, "except with a fine patina of invisibility." Poetry, however, is for him an act of self-definition "which sometimes goes so deep that you become what you have defined. And this," he adds, "is the nearest thing to an activity I have yet found." Thus in addition to being poetry editor of Ambit, Brock has published several volumes of his own. His first, An Attempt at Exorcism, was brought out in 1959, and was followed over the next decade by A Family Affair, With Love from Judas, a large selection in Penguin Modern Poets 8, and A Cold Day at the Zoo. For Invisibility Is the Art of Survival, Brock has gleaned a representative selection from all his previous books, adding to it a number of recent, uncollected poems. Confronted with his work, American readers will agree with the critic Alan Pryce-Jones that Brock has written "some of the most observant and compassionate poems of our time--poems, moreover, in which the poet keeps his feet on the ground as skillfully as his head in the air.".