Self Portrait Convex Mirror by Ashbery John, First Edition, Signed (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First printing. A fine copy in a fine jacket. Price ($5.95) intact on front flap. A few light pencil notes from McClatchy throughout text and on rear pastedown. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. This book came from the library of poet and literary critic J.D. McClatchy, from his estate in Stonington, Connecticut. SIGNED, inscribed, and dated by Ashbery to McClatchy ("Sandy") on title page. Ashbery won the Pulitzer, National Book Award, and National Critics Circle Award for this title. One of 3,500 copies printed. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Signed by John Ashbery on page facing title page. [xii], 83 pp. Bound in publisher's blue cloth and paper-covered boards, green spine lettering. Very Good with a few coffee stains to edges, front board, and front free endpaper, former owner's name written on front free endpaper, in a Very Good+ dust jacket with no fading, toning along edges, price-clipped, tiny tear to rear panel. A nice signed copy of the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning poetry collection.

hardcover. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. 83pp., cloth backed boards, d.w. New York: Viking, (1975). First Edition. Review copy, with publicity photo and broadside. Autographed by Ashbery on the title page.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Fine in very near fine dustwrapper with a touch of rubbing. Advance Review Copy with publisher's slip and promotional letter laid in. Inscribed by the author to fellow poet Daniel Hoffman: "for Dan Hoffman with my best, John Ashbery 11/11/76." Hoffman's first collection of poems, *An Armada of Thirty Whales* (1954), was chosen for the Yale Series of Younger Poets by W.H. Auden. In addition to publishing several other volumes of poetry and important works of criticism, he also later served as the Consultant in Poetry of the Library of Congress (the equivalent of the United States Poet Laureate) in 1973-1974. This book won the Putlitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. A nice copy with a nice association.

Portfolio. Condition: Fine. First Edition. The celebrated Arion Press 'Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror'. Copy #42 of 175 issued, complete with all the signed prints and the original stainless steel circular cannister with mirror. Lithographic, etched, woodcut and photogravure prints numbered and each signed by Richard Avedon, Elaine De Kooning, Willem de Kooning, Jim Dine, Jane Freilicher, Alex Katz, R.B. Kitaj, and Larry Rivers; complete vinyl phonographic record, signed by John Ashbery at front and by printer Andrew Hoyem on the colophon. Loose in publisher's stainless-steel canister with applied mirror on cover, phonographic record in printed card sleeve. Minor traces of handling to canister with a light bump to the edge.

No Binding. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. This is the complete portfolio with 8 original hand SIGNED prints; ARTISTS: Richard Avedon, Willem de Kooning, Elaine de Kooning, Jim Dine, Jane Freilicher, Alex Katz, R.B. Kitaj, and Larry Rivers. Together with a foreword by the poet John Ashbery; a recording of his reading of the poem and on the album, an essay by Helen Vendler; all prints and text sheets measure: 17-3/4in diameter (450mm); housed in a cylindrical canister, with 32 text sheets ( [3] 27, [2] leaves), 8 prints, 1 sound disc). 49 cm. in diam., 4 cm. high; Limited Edition of 175 numbered copies (One of 150 copies offered for sale) and this is # 144; the paper was specially made in rounds at Twinrocker Mill in Indiana; the 40 text sheets are handset in Cochin type in lines that radiate as spokes from a hub holding the page number, so that the pages are literally turned to be read; The Foreword is hand SIGNED in pencil by the poet John Ashbery, also SIGNED in pencil by the printer, Andrew Hoyem in colophon.; Each print is numbered and signed in pencil by the respective artists; print by Larry Rivers also dated '83. The sound disc (analog, 33 1/3 rpm, mono. ; 12 in.) is enclosed in a square folded sleeve with title: "Self-portrait in a convex mirror": the poem read by the poet, John Ashbery. The essay by Helen Vendler, "Reading and hearing John Ashbery's Self-portrait in a convex mirror," appears on p. [2-4]of sleeve. cover; canister made by Atlas Metal Spinning, San Francisco, California. THE DESCRIPTION of PRINTS: No. 1) Richard Avedon of John Ashbery; 1 photomechanical print in offset lithography (reproduction of photograph), b&w full-page. No. 2) Willem de Kooning; b&w lithograph, paper made at the Twinrocker Mill in Indiana, lithograph printed from stones at Hampton Editions Limited, Sag Harbor, N.Y. No. 3 & 4) Elaine de Kooning and Jane Freilicher; contributed 1 b&w lithograph, each full-page, Printed from stones at Hampton Editions Limited, Sag Harbor, N.Y. No 5) Jim Dine; 1 b&w woodcut, full-page, Printed at the Arion Press. (References: D'Oench, E. Jim Dine prints, 178). No. 6) Alex Katz; 1 b&w lithograph, full-page, printed from a metal plate at Siena Studio, New York. No. 7) R. B. Kitaj; 1 b&w, soft ground etching, aquatint, full-page. Printed by Aldo Crommelynck, Paris. No. 8) Larry Rivers; 1 photomechanical print : photogravure (reproduction of drawing), hand col., full-page. Printed at Universal Limited Art Editions, West Islip, N.Y.; CONDITION OF PORTFOLIO: all the contents are stored in the original canister and shipping cardboard box; the Willem de Kooning was for a short time floated (without tapping to a matt) in a frame but has no flaws; the Richard Avedon has some small tape pulls on the back from once being matted for a short time (no sunning to image at all); there are some small fingers prints on the canister but nothing distracting; as far as we can tell there are no other flaws with the prints, text sheets and album; otherwise all the contents in this beautiful portfolio are in EXCELLENT COND. PLEASE NOTE: the buyer must pay full insurance on the full value within the USA and International shipping. Signed by Author(s).

First edition, first printing, presentation copy inscribed "for Anne Fremantle, with admiration, John Ashbery, December 1 1975" to half-title. The recipient is "Anne Fremantle, a British-born author, art critic, essayist and editor" (The New York Times obituary, 28 December 2002, retrieved 29.11.19), who also "published her first poems in 1931 and followed them with nearly two dozen books, both fiction and nonfiction" (ibid.). In 1977, Ashbery appeared for a reading with Barbara Guest on P.E.N. Portraits, hosted by Anne Fremantle. Octavo. Original blue cloth-backed greenish-brown paper-covered boards, titles in green to spine. With dust jacket. Slight toning and rubbing to edges of boards, else a fine copy in the near-fine jacket, minor nicks to corners, light toning to verso.