Lime Twig, First Edition (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Pink hardocver has likght fading to covers with light edgewear. Front cover has on scuff and on circular shadow type stain. Back cover has a couple of light scuffs with a water stain at bottom corner. Bottom edges of pages have light water stain. Owner's signature on front pastedown. 175 pages are clean, tight and otherwise unmarked.

First Edition. 8vo, bound in the original red cloth, lettered in black on the spine panel. xiv, 175 pp. A clean and tight copy. FIRST EDITION. 'The work is told in a framed narrative, with the commentary of the sports writer Sidney Slyter prefacing each chapter (at the request of Hawkes' publisher New Directions, who feared that the novella would be too confusing otherwise). Hencher narrates the first chapter, which concerns his recollections of life with his mother during World War II. The other chapters are all presented in a third-person limited style with a focus on the banal inner lives of Michael and Margaret Banks. The style is one of broken, dreamlike sequences, which suspend time in a quintessentially postmodern fashion. The novella's accumulation of events acts as wish fulfillment run amok for Michael and Margaret, both of whom become helplessly entrapped in fantasies that turn into nightmares. Hawkes underscores the theme of entrapment imagistically, with fleeting references to a sparrow attacked by a hive of bees, a wasp trapped between panes of glass, and so on. The title of the novel itself refers to the old practice of catching birds by spreading lime on a twig, the master trope of the narrative.'.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. ** FIRST EDITION ** First edition, hardcover issue. Introduction by Leslie A. Fiedler. Near fine with slight bumping on crown and base of spine. A bit of toning on boards and extremities but pages are clean and bright with sharp page corners As always, please refer to our photos attached. This book is protected in a removable Brodart mylar covering. Enjoy!

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. Hardcover in dust jacket. Pink cloth boards show light edge wear and edge wear soil. Fore edge foxing. Large gift inscription on foxed endpapers. Text pages have light soil to margins of 2 pages, otherwise clean. Illustrated dust jacket shows foxing and soil, edge wear chipping and light scuffing. Looks good in new protective mylar. Always carefully wrapped and shipped in cardboard boxes to protect your purchase. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. Hardbound in dust jacket. Inscribed & signed by John Hawkes on the front free end page. 1st trade edition. Badly water damaged. Pages, boards, & dust jacket show water damage, waviness, & stains. Pages not stuck together, but dust jacket stuck to red boards. Previous owner's notes in pencil on end ppaers & "29" in ink on the front free end page. RARE! Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. First Edition. Publisher: D.A.P. / Cantz, New York, 1995. FINE hardcover book in FINE- mylar-protected dust-jacket. DJ has a minuscule chip on its upper right corner. First Edition, First Printing. Previous owner's artistic embossed stamp at bottom of FFEP, otherwise as new.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 175 pages. In Good condition with Very Good minus dust jacket. White spine with black text. Dust jacket is protected by mylar covering and has mild edge and shelf wear. Price cut. Boards have tape impressions on both covers and black marks on tail edges. Textblock has tape impressions on endpapers, library stamp on dedication page, light foxing to some pages, and tearing from library folder removal on rear endpaper. Ex-library. 1373031. Special Collections - Downstairs.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition, hardcover issue. Introduction by Leslie A. Fiedler. Near fine with bumping at the corners in very good or better wrappers with moderate wear at the edges including nicks, tears, and creases. Inscribed to author and *Sewanee Review* editor Andrew Lytle and his wife: "For Andrew and Edna, with our love and admiration, Jack 3/12/61." The hardcover issue is surprisingly uncommon.

First Edition, second printing. Printed wraps. 8vo, pp. 175. John Clellon Holmes's copy with his ownership signature on the half title and his underlining in the text. Lepper p. 239.

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus. First Edition. First Edition. Original cloth, near fine in very good plus dust jacket with the original price intact on the front flap. PRESENATION COPY, SIGNED. "To Herb Yellin thanks admiration from me of the Johns whose work inspired you to create The Lord John Press John Hawkes Provicence 11-17-85.". By Author.