Trees by Ashbery John, Signed (7 results)

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Signed. Mild edgewear to jacket, and some sunning to spine. Mild rubbing too. Signed by poet on title page. Internally clean.

hardcover. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good(-). Reprint. Thin 8vo, green cloth, d.w. New York: Corinth Books, 1970. Fine in very good(-) dust wrapper. The dust wrapper, designed by Joe Brainard, is chipped at the top edge. Reprint edition, signed by Ashbery.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Signed, clothbound in green. 8vo. 75pp. This is the second edition of John Ashbery's first published book of poetry, and first printing of this new, redesigned edition. Limited to 1000 clothbound copies. A near fine, collectible copy in a very good, unclipped jacket, with light fading to the spine. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition Thus. Originally published by Yale University Press in 1956, this is the Second Edition. Limited to 1000 copies in hardcover. A Fine copy in dark green cloth, in a Near Fine pale pink and dark green dustwrapper (designed by Joe Brainard), not price-clipped, slightly faded around spine. 75pp. SIGNED (no inscription) by Ashbery on the title page. This collection, Ashbery's first trade, won the Yale Prize (selected by W.H. Auden). Q15720.

Cloth. Condition: Very good. First edition, first printing of Some Trees, signed by the author, John Ashbery. (illustrator). First Edition, First Printing. Twelvemo, 87pp. Black cloth, title stamped in gilt on spine. No additional printings mentioned on copyright page. Light soiling to black cloth, offsetting to endpaper. Embossed ownership stamp on title page. Includes facsimile dust jacket. Signed on the title page by John Ashbery. This is the first published work by John Ashbery, part of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, edited by W.H. Auden. Signed.

New Haven: Yale University Press. 1956. 8vo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, in the publisher's yellow printed dust-jacket; pp. 87, [1]; cloth a touch bumped to lower spine end, jacket minimally toned and rubbed to lower spine; a fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout, in the fine, bright dustwrapper; front free endpaper signed by John Ashbery in blue ink.A particularly attractive signed first printing of Ashbery's first book, chosen by W. H. Auden as winner of the 1955 Yale Younger Poets competition, with Auden's introduction.Some Trees, Ashbery's first full-length collection, was submitted in manuscript for the 1955 Yale Younger Poets competition (an earlier chapbook, Turandot, and Other Poems, had been issued by the Tibor de Nagy Gallery in 1953). Established in 1918, the Yale Prize for the best debut collection by an American poet is the longest-running annual literary award in the United States, with the winning collection published each year by Yale University Press. In 1955, W. H. Auden was in his ninth year as the competition's judge, having taken over the job from Archibald MacLeish in 1947. During his tenure, he had chosen Adrienne Rich and W. S. Merwin as winners and would later choose James Wright and John Hollander.The curious story of Ashbery's success in 1955 has been described by the poet: 'I had submitted my poems to the Yale University Press according to the requirement of the competition. [.] Frank O'Hara had also submitted a manuscript that year, and both of us had our manuscripts returned by the Press. They'd been screened out from the manuscripts that were sent to Auden . Later we heard that Auden hadn't liked any of the manuscripts that they'd sent to him and decided not to award the prize that year, and then someone, a mutual friend, possibly Chester Kallman, told Auden [.] that Frank and I both submitted. And he asked us through this friend to send our manuscripts, which we did, and then he chose mine, although I never had felt that he particularly liked my poetry, and his introduction to the book is rather curious, since it doesn't really talk about the poetry. He mentions me as being a kind of successor to Rimbaud, which is very flattering, but at the same time I've always had the feeling that Auden probably never read Rimbaud' (quoted in Kermani, John Ashbery (1976)).Some Trees is lyrical and formally adventurous, suffused with the young poet's debts (to Auden, Bishop, Moore, Stevens, Pasternak, Raymond Roussel) but already speaking in Ashbery's own unmistakable voice.

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition, first printing of the author's first full-length book. Signed by John Ashbery on the title page, inscribed to former owner in 1992. 87 pp. Publisher's black cloth binding stamped in gilt on spine. Near Fine with slight musty odor to pages, pages toned, non-authorial previous owner gift inscription to front free end paper, in Near Fine dust jacket with a darkened spine and light edge wear. There is a faint stain to the rear panel of the dust jacket, with a faint corresponding damp affect to the rear cloth. Else a lovely copy, signed by the poet.