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PARRA, Nicanor. ANTI-POEMS. City Lights Books ( 1960 ), San Francisco, 1960.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Square 16mo, 32 pages, a little looseness at the top of the top hinge, spine rubbed Parra was called the successor to Pablo Neruda among Chilean poets. These poems have been selected from his 1954 work, POEMAS Y ANTI-POEMAS. Issued as no. 12 in the Pocket Poets series.
Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Parra, Nicanor. Anti-Poems. City Lights Books, San Francisco, 1960.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: The Pocket Poets Series No. 12. 32 pp. Text is unmarked on warmly toned pages. Yellow covers show mild shelf wear with a few soiled spots on the front and back. Original price on rear cover of 75 cents. Stapled binding is disconnected from the covers. Pages 21-27 have small creases present, and faded brown stains found on pages 19-23. Previous owners name written in black ink on title page.
Seller: Chamblin Bookmine, Jacksonville, FL, U.S.A.
Nicanor Parra. Anti-Poems (The Pocket Poets Series, No. 12). City Lights Books, 1960.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Cover is tanned and stained, but text is legible. Cover is loose from text block, but all pages remain attached to binding. Pages are tanned, but otherwise clean and unmarked. As is.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Parra, Nicanor. Anti-Poems ( City Lights Pocket Poets Series #12 ). City Lights Books, 1960.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Small Paperback. 6 1/4 X 5 inches, First City Lights Printing (75 cent cover price and no printing listed). 32 pages. FINE. All corners pointed. Binding tight, without stress creasing and square. Without tears, creases, bumps or chips. With long gifting inscription to inside front cover. But for slight discoloration to back cover and rubbing to spine edge, not marked and very bright and clean. All books carefully packaged and sent boxed.
Seller: Tree Frog Fine Books and Graphic Arts, Beaverton, OR, U.S.A.
Parra, Nicanor. Anti-Poems. City Lights Books, San Francisco, 1960.
Price: US$180.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Pocket Poets Series, Number Twelve. Very light wear, slightly soiled along one edge of the rear wrapper. Early owners' names at head of title-page (Bill & Sally Dell). Small pen note at front: "a beat poet from South America", and twelve word note at rear. A few poems marked with X and XX next to the title, perhaps a private rating system. Interior fresh. One of the scarcer titles in this series. The author is now in his 103rd year. This was his first publication in English.
Seller: John R. Sanderson, Bookseller , Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.
PARRA, Nicanor. Anti-Poems. San Francisco, City Lights Books, 1960.
Price: US$198.43 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: FIRST AMERICAN EDITION and first English translation. Translated by Jorge Elliott. 12mo, 32 pp., no. 12 in the Pocket Poets Series. Unobtrusive owner s autographs in pen and pencil on t-p. Original printed wrappers. A fine copy.
Seller: Orsi Libri ALAI, ILAB, Milan, Italy