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Agee, James. Permit Me Voyage. Yale University Press, New Haven, 1934.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Author's first book. Previous owner's bookplate sloppily fixed and partially removed from inside front board. Otherwise a very good copy in uncommon and fragile dust jacket. DJ is worn and chipped along the spine and lightly worn and chipped along the edges.
Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.
Agee, James. Permit Me Voyage. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1934.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Octavo, green cloth lettered in black; unclipped green dust jacket printed in black; with minor edge-wear. First edition. A lovely copy of Agee's first book of poetry, issued as part of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, with a foreword by Archibald MacLeish.
Seller: North Star Rare Books & Manuscripts, Sheffield, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$280.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pp. 61. Bound in publisher's cloth (spine faded), no dj. With the bookplate of poet and editor Barbara Howes on the ep. A very good tight copy of the author's first book issued as part of the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Mullaly B11.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 6 x 9 1/2 in. 59 pp plus 1 pg. publisher's advert. Green cloth boards. Condition is NEAR FINE ; no shelf wear at all, covers extremely clean, a mite sunned/toned at edges. Binding tight. Text bright and unmarked. DJ is VERY GOOD+ ; no repairs, not price-clipped ($2.00) very clean and fresh, with a few chips to upper front edge, a little loss to and around spine head. A very nice copy. In a Mylar wrapper. Poetry. RGR.
Seller: Andre Strong Bookseller, Blue Hill, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$394.57 + shipping
Description: Green cloth over boards, title, publication year and series # stamped in black onto spine, 8vo (9-1/4 inches tall), pp. 59, (i) Publisher's Note. Volume with toning to text and slight fade to upper edge of cloth. Price-intact DJ has a slightly darkened spine panel, light wear and shallow chips to the top edge. Pulitzer Prize winning poet Richard Eberhart's copy of Agee's first book (with his penciled signature on the ffep and occasional light pencil notation to poems within). Permit Me Voyage is the 33rd volume in the Yale Series of Younger Poets and contains an early collection of Agee's poetry.
Seller: Harropian Books, IOBA, Nelson, BC, Canada
Agee, James. PERMIT ME VOYAGE. Yale University Press, New Haven, 1934.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of Agee's debut collection, published as the thirty-third volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets only two years after the author's graduation from Harvard. Claimed as a peculiarly brilliant critic, screenwriter, journalist, and novelist according to the interests and allegiances of his readership, Agee has also been hailed in turn as a poet above all - "Basically, he was a poet" (David McDowell). The nature and quality of Agee's poetry, left undefined and nearly unmentioned in MacLeish's foreword, was described after his death by his friend and contemporary Robert Fitzgerald: "A sense of the breathing community immersed in mystery, exposed to a range of experience from what can only be called the divine to what can only be called the diabolical, most intelligent in awe and most needful of mercy - a religious sense of life, in short - moved James Agee in his best work." 9'' x 6''. Original green cloth. In original unclipped ($2.00) printed green dust jacket. 59, [3] pages. Minor edgewear and sunning to boards. Light chipping, faint soil to wrappers. Very good plus in very good jacket.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Agee, James; MacLeish, Archibald (Forew.). Permit Me Voyage. Yale University Press, New Haven, 1934.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, hardcover, Yale Series of Younger Poets No. 33 & author's first book, has light lean to spine, slight sunning to spine and upper edge of boards, and very slight bumps to spine ends and corners with faint crease near upper corner of front board, otherwise a solid VG copy in like dustjacket which has light bumps to corners with slight tearing, light edgewear with a few short closed tears, and light rubbing with some very faint soiling.
Seller: Fahrenheit's Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
AGEE, James. PERMIT ME VOYAGE. , 1934.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: AGEE, James. PERMIT ME VOYAGE. With a foreword by Archibald MacLeish. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1934. Volume 33 of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, edited by Stephen Vincent Benet. First edition of Agee's first book. Slim octavo. 59 pp. Green cloth, lettered in dark green at spine. The paper is very lightly age-browned at perimeters, and the cloth is sunned a bit at spine and along the top-edge of boards, else fine. In a near-fine green dust jacket which is sunned at spine and shows light wear along the top-edge, with a few closed tears.
Seller: Boston Book Company, Inc. ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
AGEE, James. PERMIT ME VOYAGE. , 1934.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: AGEE, James. PERMIT ME VOYAGE. With a foreword by Archibald MacLeish. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1934. Volume 33 of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, edited by Stephen Vincent Benet. First edition of Agee's first book. Slim octavo. 59 pp. Green cloth, lettered in dark green at spine. This is a near-fine copy. The paper is very lightly age-browned at perimeters, and the endpapers are lightly foxed; the cloth is sunned a bit at spine and along the top-edge of boards. In a near-fine green dust jacket which is sunned at spine and shows light wear along the top-edge, with a couple of small damp spots at spine.
Seller: Boston Book Company, Inc. ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$412.50 + shipping
Description: First Printing. Octavo (24.25cm); light green cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; [ii],[4],5-59,[3]pp. Gentle sunning to spine ends, else a clean, Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.00), edgeworn and spine-sunned, with numerous tears and creases, and some shallow losses to spine ends and along the upper edge; Very Good. Agee's first book, issued as part of Stephen Vinent Benét's Yale Series of Younger Poets.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$417.06 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition (first printing) of the author's first book, and his only collection of verse. Tall 8vo. 59pp + [i] publisher's advertisements for other volumes in series. Green cloth lettered in black at the spine. The merest hint of browning to the free endpapers. A former owner bookplate to the front pastedown and a tiny dealer plate to the rear pastedown. Very good indeed in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, somewhat torn, chipped and tender at the front panel-spine panel join, but essentially complete. The three-page foreword precedes thirty-four poems. This copy formerly from the library of author and bibliophile John Baxter, with a receipt to him laid-in.
Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$649.99 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Original cloth. First edition. Trace foxing to top edge. Tight and square. The DJ in mylar is toned to spine with hint insecting, trace edgewear. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 59,[1] pages
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
AGEE, James.. Permit Me Voyage.. Yale University Press, New Haven, 1934.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: With a Foreword by Archibald MacLeish. 59 [1] pp. Tall 8vo, publisher's lettered cloth in dust jacket. First edition. Very slightly darkened at the edges of the cloth; else a fresh, near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with two very tiny chips to top and bottom of the front panel. A beautiful copy. The Yale Series of Younger Poets, 33.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Agee, James. Permit Me Voyage. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1934.
Price: US$700.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Octavo, green cloth lettered in black; unclipped green dust jacket printed in black, with two minor chips and slight edge-wear. First edition, issued as part of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, with a foreword by Archibald MacLeish. David Riesmam Jr.'s copy, with his library bookplate on the front pastedown. After the printed David Riesman bookplate, Riesman added in pen, "Jr., January 8, 1935." Around the time he acquired this copy of Agee's first book of poetry, Riesman was attending Harvard Law School and clerking for Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis.---- One of the pioneer commentators on American society, sociologist and educator David Riesman, Jr. was best known for his works "The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character" (1950) and "Faces in the Crowd: Individual Studies in Character and Politics" (1952). The huge successes of the studies earned Riesman the cover of "Time" magazine in 1954, making him the first social scientist to receive the honor.
Seller: North Star Rare Books & Manuscripts, Sheffield, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket. Spine a little faded, inch-deep strip at top of the back cover faded as well, otherwise a near fine copy. Spine a little faded, inch-deep strip at top of the back cover faded as well, otherwise a near fine copy First edition of Agee's scarce first book, a collection of poems. Tipped to the front free endpaper is a slip of paper on which is inscribed a note from Stephen Vincent Benét: "Dear Miss Locke, Here is the Macleish book, my sister's, and one by a young poet who, I think, has great promise, Merry Xmas to you both! Stephen Vincent Benét.".
Seller: James S. Jaffe Rare Books, LLC, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.
Agee, James. Permit Me Voyage. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1934.
Price: US$1125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 59 pages. First edition, first printing. His first book of poetry, issued as part of the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Foreword by Archibald MacLeish. Fine book in a fine dust jacket with only a touch of wear to the top and bottom of the spine and and an invisible 1" closed tear to the bottom edge of the back cover. A beautiful copy!
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
AGEE, James. Permit Me Voyage. Yale University Press, New Haven, 1934.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Foreword by Archibald MacLeish. Bookplate of author and longtime Yale English professor William Lyon Phelps on the front pastedown, fine in very good or better, price-clipped dustwrapper with two shallow chips near the crown. An attractive copy of Agee's fragile first book, a collection of poetry issued in the Yale Series of Younger Poets.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.