World Below Window by Smith William Jay (30 results)

Condition: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: acceptable. The book is complete and readable, with all pages and cover intact. Dust jacket, shrink wrap, or boxed set case may be missing. Pages may have light notes, highlighting, or minor water exposure, but nothing that affects readability. May be an ex-library copy and could include library markings or stickers.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD Standard-sized.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Signed By Author.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD Standard-sized.

Condition: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1st, 1998, Series: Johns Hopkins, poetry and fiction. Book: Very Good, Dust jacket: Very Good, HARDCOVER. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. 240 pages. Record # 467336 Record # 467336. …

First Edition. 8vo, pp. 241. Wood engraving by Jophn DePol. A fine copy in publisher's printed wraps. Signed by the author. William Jay Smith was born in Winnfield, Louisiana. He was brought up at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, south of St. Louis. Smith received his A.B. and M.A. from Washington University in St. Louis, and continued his studies at Columbia University, and Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. Smith is the author of ten collections of poetry of which two were finalists for the National Book Award. He was appointed the nineteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1968 to 1970. John DePol (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Octavo, 9 1/2" tall, 240pp, black cloth. A fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with little shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper white. In a near fine, lightly edge worn dust jacketmall scuff to rear panel of dustjacket. Publisher's promo sheet and author's photo laid in.…

dj. First Edition. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 240 pages. A clean and tight near fine copy in black cloth boards and in a near fine dust jacket.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition, Special Edition. First edition / First printing. Uncorrected proof. Printed blue wrappers. 240 pages. Very fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Dust jacket. Small closed tear at bottom edge of front jacket cover. This is a first edition poetry collection.

First edition Very fine and bright in fine dustjacket. Praise from James Dickey.

ISBN 0-8018-5859-3. Hardback. First Printing. Tight, bright, attractive copy with no markings to the book. Fine In Fine Dustjacket. As New Copy. Copy two.

ISBN 0-8018-5859-3. Hardback. First Printing. Tight, bright, attractive copy with no markings to the book. Fine In Fine Dustjacket. As New Copy. Copy one.

hardcover. Condition: Like New. First Edition. 1st edition 1st printing - a fine clean like new copy with like new dust jacket - enjoy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First printing. About fine in like dust jacket.

Condition: VG+/VG+. 1st. 8vo. 241pp. Signed by the author: INSCRIBED "For (poet and playwright) Marylou. DiPietro.this selection of sixty years--with my best.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 240 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Record # 460338.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Very Good Dust Jacket. First Edition Signed. Clean, Nearly as new condition. 241 pages. signed at the tittle page by the author "William Jay SmithWe will state signed at the description section. we confirm they are signed via email or stated in the description box. - Specializing in academic, collectiblle and historically significant, providing the utmost quality and customer service satisfaction. For any questions feel free to email us. Signed by Author(s). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good Dust Jacket. 1st Edition signed. Clean, Nearly as new condition. 241 pages. signed at the tittle page by the author "William Jay SmithWe will state signed at the description section. we confirm they are signed via email or stated in the description box. - Specializing in academic, collectiblle and historically significant, providing the utmost quality and customer service satisfaction. For any questions feel free to email us. Signed by Author(s). …

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Smith, William Jay, 1918-2015. The World below the Window: Poems 1937-1997. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998, xiii, 240pp., good dust-jacket worn around edges, good black cloth, light wear and fading, on front endpaper: lengthy full-page gift inscriptions for a recipient's birthday in 1998. SIGNED on title page: William Jay Smith / and also INSCRIBED and SIGNED over three lines to George from Bill [presumably William Jay Smith) on front endpaper. 9780801858598 ISBN 0801858593.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Fine in about fine dustwrapper with two very short tears on the front panel. Warmly Inscribed by Smith to poet Dan Hoffman.

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Hardcover. Condition: As New.

Unbound. Condition: Fine. Broadside. Measuring 8.5" x 12.5". Card stock sheet folded once (as issue) housed in unprinted envelope. Fine. Signed by Smith, as well as illustrator George Wingate and printer Morris A. Gelfand.

Ephemera. Condition: VG. Signed. 8.5 x 11 cream card, folded in two horizontally, in middle. Red/black lettering and 1 bw illustration. The poem, The World Below the Window; title poem from The World below the Window: Poems 1937-1997 by William Jay Smith. Illustration by George Wingate. Printed at the Stone House Press. Signed by both Smith and Wingate. Possible additional signature (unreadable - could be a notation). Would look great framed. (Jeffrey Myers states "The World below the Window" (1957)--as perfectly intricate as verse by Robert Frost or Wallace Stevens--characteristically displays William Jay Smith's technical skill and ambitious themes, his lyrical response to the natural world and belief in the power of the imagination. Composed of four triplets, the poem employs four rhymes, the last two formed by participial verbs. With subtle repetitions and variations on these key words the poem progresses from the commonplace and specific to the lofty and abstract. The poem begins with ordinary pink geraniums and the alliterative "left last night on the windowsill." Then, with "now," it moves to the immediate present. The deliberately pedantic diction of "To the best of my knowledge" contrasts with the colloquial "out there still" (the last word again emphasizing the present moment). This phrase also hints at the epistemological theme--the investigation of human knowledge, the way external reality is perceived by the human mind. The speaker says the flowers "will be there [only] as long as I think they will." Their existence in his mind is more significant than in their pot. When he stops thinking about them, they will also cease to exist. The second triplet, echoing and varying most of line three, shifts from thought to vision. Following the epigraph from Emily Dickinson on the opposite page: "Tell all the Truth but tell it slant--/Success in Circuit lies," the poet, assuming his own angle of vision, looks aslant out of the window. He just manages to catch the bright color of the flower as he gazes at the world outside and below the window and contemplates the riverine view. In the first two stanzas the poet describes the world of day to day reality; in the last two stanzas the he glances at and then looks beyond this reality. ).…