Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror, Signed (13 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No marks. Light shelfwear. Signed by Ashbery. Softcover, 3rd printing. From library of poet and Outriders poetry organizer Max Wickert, with owner name at top of first blank page. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. First UK Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 83 pages. In Very Good condition with Near Fine condition dust jacket. Spine is yellow with green lettering. Dust jacket protected by mylar covering, price uncut: "£2.25" on front flap. Boards have mild shelving wear along spine head and tail. Signed flat on title page by John Ashbery. Shelved Room C. 1402748. Special Collections.

Condition: Very Good. First paperback edition. 18cm; 83 pages. SIGNED by Ashbery on title page. First appearance of the cover photo of the poet by Darragh Park. Lower right corner of upper cover bumped, crease off the top edge near spine, affecting photo. Lower corner slightly bumped on both outer corners. Part of lower joint abraded, without weakness. A very good copy withal, not dogeared, not marred, not underlined, not broken. John Ashbery won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award for "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror." Not only in the title poem, which the critic John Russell has called "one of the finest long poems of our period," but throughout the entire volume, John Ashbery reaffirms the poetic powers that have made him such an outstanding figure in contemporary literature.The front cover photo took on cultural significance. The Wikipedia explains: "The Penguin paperback cover features a glamorous photo portrait of the author by Darragh Park. Journalist Thomas Vinciguerra described Ashbery's pose as if '[stood] in all hunky glory, hips slightly cocked', wearing a 'windowpane shirt open to midchest' and 'tight slacks [that] have no belt loops.' Matthew Zapruder wrote that his look was a 'simultaneously ill-advised and completely stylish ensemble.' Susan M. Schultz said the 'cheesy' cover resembled a somewhat 'cheap romance novel, like the kind you'd see near the checkout counter of a drugstore.' The bold look contrasted sharply with the conservative, uniformly preppy style Ashbery had adhered to throughout the 1960s. David Lehman recalled that, when he met Ashbery in 1967, the poet typically wore 'a tie and a jacket and he always looked very natty.' According to Lehman, his change in style reflected the progress of the post-Stonewall gay liberation movement, as Ashbery could present himself as 'more visibly and publicly who he was.'"Marina Warner called Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror "one of the most remarkable explorations of the idea of the self seen in a mirror, and how your features and your face relate to your inner being. It's an amazing poem.".

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First printing, with "Guggenheim" misspelled as "Guggenhaim" on the copyright page. Signed by Ashbery on the title page. Covers faded along top edge.

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).

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by Penguin Books, 1976. Octavo. Paperback. Signed and inscribed on title page. Book is very good with shelf wear. A nice, signed copy of this prolific collection of poetry. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

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.

No binding. Condition: Near fine. Circular folio, 18 inches in diameter. (40)ff. One of 150 copies signed by the poet, John Ashbery, and the printer, Andrew Hoyem. This is the thirteenth book of the Arion Press. The Parmigianino painting which inspired Ashbery's poem is reproduced on the title page. The text is printed in lines which radiate out from the center of the pages in a centrifugal force of typography. The frontispiece is a signed photograph of the artist by Richard Avedon. The lithographs by Alex Katz, Elaine and Willem de Kooning, and Jane Freilicher, the etchings by Kitaj and Rivers, and Jim Dine's woodcut, all in circular format, are signed and numbered by the artists. Sheets all fine, loose, as issued, housed together with the phonograph record in a stainless steel container resembling a moving-picture film canister, with a convex mirror set into the lid. Quite clean and untarnished, save occasional scratches and shallow dent to side of lid. Near fine. One of 150 copies, signed by the poet, John Ashbery, and the printer, Andrew Hoyem.

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.

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.

DE KOONING, Willem. Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. By John Ashbery. Containing an original signed photograph by Richard Avedon, and seven original, signed prints by: Elaine de Kooning, Willem de Kooning, Jim Dine, Jane Freilicher, Alex Katz, R.B. Kitaj and Larry Rivers. With a recording of Ashbery reading his poem. Prints and record housed in a stainless steel Hollywood movie canister with a convex mirror on the lid. San Francisco: Arion Press, 1984. Limited to 150 copies. John Ashbery's Pulitzer prize-winning poem is presented in this creative format by the Arion Press, text and illustrations laid in a stainless-steel "Hollywood" movie canister with convex mirror on the lid. The cover mirror provides a self-portrait of the beholder in the manner of Parmigianino's painted portrait with elongated features. Designed as a tribute to Ashbery, his poem is accompanied by signed prints from his artist-friends, united within a circular format. Each artist created images inspired by the poem; also included is a reproduction of the famous self-portrait by Parmigianino that originally inspired Ashbery to compose the poem. The prints are in various media, including lithography, etching, and woodcut. The text is printed in handset type radiating from a circular hub like spokes in a wheel. Along with the record of Ashbery reading the poem, there is a new foreword to the poem written by the poet. The foreword is signed by Ashbery and each original print bears the particular artist's signature. Fine copy. Now very scarce. Johnson, Artists' Books in the Modern Era 1870-2000, No173. Arion Press Check List 13.