Price: US$19.49 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Orange-brown wrappers. Edition limited to 150 copies. From the library of the author, with the Gascoyne library book-label. "For many years," writes Robin Waterfield in a publisher's note (signed "R.E.W.") on the lower cover, "David Gascoyne collected material for a book to be called Religio Poetae. The present volume is largely the fruit of that aspiration and indeed fulfils it admirably." The last of Gascoyne's books to be published in his lifetime (apart from the 18-page, 85-copy The Entrance to That Valley Stands Alone issued by Enitharmon on his birthday, 10 October), it was advertised first as coming from the Round Robin Press, not Amate/Amaté, and includes his "A Little Anthology of Existential Thought", "Meetings with Benjamin Fondane" (in Waterfield's translation, first published in Aquarius, 1987), "Essay on Léon Chestov" and "The Sun at Midnight". Most significantly, it gathers in print (for the first time in book form?) Fondane's letter to Gascoyne of July 1937, in a translation by Ramona Fotiade, author of the learned 17-page introduction. Gascoyne had mislaid it, and wrote: "I cannot say how much I regret having not been able to keep this letter, which I carried about in my pocket for years." The letter turned up, reports Fotiade, in 1996, among manuscripts in the British Library. (Roger Scott, however, editor of Gascoyne's Selected Prose 1934-1996, 1998, reports, p.136n, that it was he who found the text, copied by Gascoyne into one of his notebooks, now in the British Library, and that it was published in the Bulletin de la Société d'Etudes Benjamin Fondane in 1995.) David Gascoyne died on 25 November 2001, aged 85. His friend Robin Waterfield outlived him by little more than two months, dying on 9 February 2002, aged 87.
Seller: James Fergusson Books & Manuscripts, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$25.99 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Orange-brown wrappers. Upper cover slightly creased. Inscribed by the publisher on the upper cover, "For Pam for old time's sake Robin", but from the library of the author, with the Gascoyne library book-label. Published by Robin Waterfield, the author's friend of some 70 years, and comprising "A Little Anthology of Existential Thought", "Meetings with Benjamin Fondane" (letters by Gascoyne and Fondane, Gascoyne's translated by Waterfield, Fondane's by Fotiade), "Essay on Léon Chestov" and "The Sun at Midnight". Edition limited to 150 copies. Four-page "Editor's Bibliography" loosely inserted.
Seller: James Fergusson Books & Manuscripts, London, United Kingdom
Gascoyne, David; Dr. Ramona Fatiode, intro. Existential Writings. Amate Press, Oxford, 2001.
Price: US$27.00 + shipping
Description: 96p., an elegant small softbound in 8x6 inch terracotta wraps titled in brown. Faintest handling, perfectly sound, clean and unmarked, an as new copy.
Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$84.47 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: One of 25 numbered copies signed by the author (of 150). 8vo. Wrappers. [vi], 96pp. Comprising 'A Little Anthology of Existential Thought', 'Meetings with Benjamin Fondane', 'Essay on Leon Chestov', and 'The Sun at Midnight'. Light crease to the spine, the inside upper wrapper with a previous seller's pencilled pricing, otherwise just light signs of use, protected in a removable acetate jacket. Loosely inserted is a bibliography for the book, which is advertised by the publisher on the copyright page; the original owner, Andrew Crozier, has made an addition.
Seller: Test Centre Books, Norwich, United Kingdom