Theodore Roethke, Signed (11 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. SIGNED first paperback edition, 1963, in overall very good used condition with only slightsigns of age, handling and storage. Internally clean. Binding tight and appears little read; no annotation or inscriptions; text bright and clear throughout. Signed by the author to title page with warm dedication to Richard Eberhart, the noted American poet, dated December 1963. Not an old library book. Signed.

VG bright copy in publishers cloth in like dustjacket. 1st edition. Signed Presentation copy to Charles Tomlinson on endpaper. ISBN 0807114898.

Hardcover. Condition: VG+. 1st Edition. Hardback in Very Good+ condition with Very Good+ dust jacket. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 212 pages. Signed by Theodore Roethke on the title page. Corners sharp, binding tight, interior clean. Very little wear to book. Dust jacket is price clipped with small chips and tears at corners and edges . Quick shipping, excellent customer service. All books carefully packaged in boxes and ship with tracking information.

8vo, pp. 39-64. Stapled wraps. Inscribed by the author: "For Bill (Claire) from John" Claire was editor of the luierary magazine: "Voyages." Laid in/ a TLS: 1 page, to Bill Claire recommending the writings of British poet Geoffrey Hill, etc.

Unbound. Condition: Near Fine. Program. Folio sheet folded to make four pages. Measuring 8½" x 11" closed. Light wear and final page lightly tanned, just about near fine. Signed and dated by festival participant and future Nobel laureate Derek Walcott on the final page. Prints a schedule for the three-day festival at Lafayette College, April 3-5, 1980.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Warmly Inscribed by the editor to fellow poet Daniel Hoffman on the title. Additionally, laid in is a handwritten card Inscribed by Hirsch to Hoffman.

Hardcover with dust jacket. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Thus. 12mo. Pp. 48. Hardcover bound in tan paper-covered boards. Light age-toning to edges. In the dust jacket that shows chips and creasing to edges, light soiling to rear pane. Price of 5/-net intact on front flap. The Bell was a Dublin monthly edited by Sean O'Faolain. This collection purports to present "the direction Irish poetry has taken since the death of Yeats." Indeed, it's the first Irish poetry anthology since Lennox Robinson's A Little Anthology.This copy is inscribed by noted poet Theodore Roethke to Thomas McQuaid, a prominent Seattle banker who financed the Space Needle. Dust jacket is now housed in a removable, clear archival sleeve. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Jacket is rubbed, soiled and edge worn with chips to head and foot of spine and at all flap folds. Edge wear includes wear to spine creases and flap folds with loss to front flap fold in addition to the chips at both ends. Quater-inch tear to center of the head of front panel with crease. Rear jacket panel unevenly toned, spine faded but quite legible. Front free end-paper professionally replaced. Inscribed and signed on title-page and otherwise an unmarked copy, binding firm. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. THEODORE ROETHKE: THE LOST SON and OTHER POEMS (SIGNED) his second book, first ediion signed in bright, green ink. 64 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Wear to the edges and spine of the dustjacket. 2 small tears and a small stain to back of dust jacket. Book itself in near fine condition.

Posthumous collected poems inscribed by the poet's widow Beatrice Roethke on the title page: 'to Jony, the amazing man who has read these poems Beatrice Roethke Lushington April 30, 2006'. First edition bound in gilt lettered salmon coloured cloth, page edges very lightly spotted, bump to bottom of spine, otherwise very good plus. in a very good jacket, very slightly chipped at the head and tail of the spine and extremities with small tears at edges, not price clipped). Beatrice Roethke settled in the UK after her husband's untimely death in 1963 where she married a British schoolteacher, Stephen Lushington. This inscription to an unknown 'Jonty' dates from2006. The book collates: pp. xi + 279 Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item.

Letter. Condition: About Fine. Fine, single-spaced typed letter on one side of a 8-1/2" x 11" sheet of paper to poet and teacher John Crowe Ransom SIGNED "Jim Wright" about permission to reprint a poem first published in THE KENYON REVIEW. Wright, 26 at the time, was a former student of Ransom's at Kenyon College and here talks about how engaging graduate school (the University of Washington) is. "You will be glad to hear that Mr. Roethke is apparently over the worst of his illness, and is teaching again. He is as brilliant and stimulating as ever. It is a curious experience to work in his class. He knows, mysteriously perhaps, a thousand practical ways of conveying to students the necessity for formal mastery in poetry. He is capable of taking fantastic pains with a single small exercise; and his exercises, even the small ones, are always difficult and engaging. Finally, I think he is the best reader of poetry I have ever heard, with the exception of Dylan Thomas." Pencil notation in upper blank margin by Ransom.