Poems by Wright David: Signed (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus. First Edition. 1976. 152pp. "David Wright is not easily pigeon-holed. His lyrical gift governs an ironic quality of observation and style that ranges from the rhetorical to a sardonic plainness . These poems are arranged by theme - leading one to another so far as practicable - and, subject to that consderation, more or less in chronological order." Author's signature to title page thus, "David Wright March 1980". Also signed alongside by "Carole Reeves". Minor shelf wear to unclipped dust jacket. Both book and jacket are otherwise in excellent condition. All contents are tight and clean. Signed by the author.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Wrappers. Covers slightly marked and creased. Inscribed by the author on the title-page to Anthony Astbury, founder of the Greville Press, "For Tony who published half of these Love David Wright April 23 1992"; loosely inserted a sheet, 2pp. 8vo, of Astbury's manuscript notes, "Oonagh's choice from David Wright's work (not as yet in the order of her choice)". Wright's widow, Oonagh Swift, made a selection of his poems for the Greville Press in 2003. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Wrappers. covers slightly creased. Inscribed by the author on the title-page to Anthony Astbury, "for Anthony con amore & many many thanks David Wright September 1988"; with Astbury's few markings in the text and manuscript correction on p.94. David Wright wrote an introduction for Julian Orde's Conjurors, issued by Anthony Astbury's Greville Press in 1988, and published his own Elegies with the press in 1990. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. near fine. 119, [1] pp., 8vo, green cloth, dustjacket. This copy INSCRIBED by the author to fellow poet Roy Fuller (1912-1991). Ink correction to a line in one poem, possibly in Wright's hand. Fine copy of the book in a near fine dustjacket (a touch of wear to head of spine panel).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Dustwrapper slightly frayed. Inscribed by the author on the title-page to Anthony Astbury, founder of the Greville Press, "For Anthony - with affection David Wright". Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Nice copy in dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Anthony Astbury from David Wright May 75". David Wright wrote an introduction for Julian Orde's Conjurors, issued by Anthony Astbury's Greville Press in 1988, and published his own Elegies with the press in 1990. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Hard. Condition: Very Good. Good Minus. First Edition. DJ rubbed, chipped, tanned and price clipped. Top edge foxed, flat signed to title page. Clean and tight. Size: 8vo. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). A presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to the influential critic Hugh Gordon Porteus and dated the year of publication ("To H. G. P. June 1954. David Wright"), and with a single pencilled correction in the text. Slim 8vo. 42pp. Paper-covered boards. Top edge fractionally spotted, and with just a trace of wear to one or two extremities. Very good indeed in quite lightly rubbed and dust soiled non-price-clipped dust wrapper. Twenty-nine poems, the author's second collection of verse. Inscribed by Author(s).…

First edition. Small quarto. 23 pages. Stapled wrappers.Presentation copy, inscribed on the cover by the author to the publisher Timothy O'Keefe: "To Tim O'Keefe with love from David Wright" and on the verso he has written "Printed History: Edition limited to 50 copies of which 20 have been distributed & only 3 bound by the author. This is No 2 of the bound edition. Cyclostyled by the Eng Dept of Leeds University. 1967." The author has made minor autograph changes to a couple of the poems. Loosely inserted is a slip of paper with an Autograph Note: "Tim & Mimi - V. many thanks for the splendid party & the v. kind later hospitality - Love David W - I'll be in the Hope tonight -". To describe this as a bound copy when the only thing holding the sheets together (inadequately) is three staples is to push at the very boundaries of bibliographical tolerance. The item, however, is very rare.Covers (actually the title- and last pages) tanned and chipped at edges. Last two pages loose. Good.…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Wesleyan paperback edition. Frontispiece reproduction of a sculpture by Annie Wright. Octavo. xiii, 215pp. Pictorial wrappers. Pages 135-138 loose, spine and wrapper joints creased, about very good with Ignatow's extensive penciled notes throughout. Inscribed to poet David Ignatow by both the author and the artist on the title page: "for Dave and Rose Ignatow, with Love, Anne & Jim." James Wright was awarded the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for this collection.…