Seller: Webster's Bookstore Cafe, Inc., State College, PA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
paperback. Condition: Very Good. Signed. First Edition. First British Edition. Signed by Ashbery on title page. Clean pages. Mild edgewear.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Inscribed by the Author on the title page. Third Printing. Inscribed by Author(s).
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Inscribed to "Boshra" and signed by "John Ashbery, 5/22/98". Some chipping to dust jacket. In a protective removable clear plastic book cover. Inscribed by Author(s).
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Poet signature (only) to title page o/w clean, unmarked copy with sharp corners, firm hinges, crisp pages and clean boards. DJ has nominal wear to extremities o/w VG condition. BP/Poetry/Signed Books. Signed by Author(s).
Published by New York: The Viking Press, (1984). (1984)., 1984
Seller: Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd., Cadyville, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Condition: Very good. INSCRIBED TO DAVID LEAVITT AND SIGNED BY JOHN ASHBERY - Octavo, blue boards backed with black cloth in a dust wrapper. The dust jacket is foxed internally & there is a short tear & creasing to the top corner of its rear panel at the head of the spine. vi & 89 pages. There is light foxing to the pastedowns & endpapers with a small stain to the rear pastedown. There is a tiny black mark to page 58. The book has a very slight musty odor. Very good. First edition.A nice gay association, inscribed on the title page in the year of publication to David Leavitt, author of "The Lost Language of Cranes": "for David Leavitt / with my best / John Ashbery / May 1, 1984".
Published by The Viking Press, New York, 1984
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Corners barely bumped else fine in near fine price-clipped dustwrapper with some light wear and scrap on rear panel. Signed by the author. Advance Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. Winner of the National Book Award.
ASHBERY, John. A Wave. Suite of 8 lithographs by Will Barnet. Small folio. Publisher's linen folding box by Claudia Cohen. New York: 451 Books, 2002. One of an edition of 30 copies, with each of the lithographs signed by Barnet. This suite of signed prints was issued to accompany the edition of Ashbery's A Wave, published by 451 Books in an edition of 90 copies. A Wave is the first book from 451 Books, designed by Sasha Cutter and Charles Miller and printed at the Grenfell Press. This new book has to be one of the most felicitous examples of bookmaking in recent times. The poetry of John Ashbery is perfectly complemented by Barnet's elegantly restrained prints.