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Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: Card. Single sheet folded to 8 1/2 x 5 1/2. With poem "Man and Bottle" by Wallace Stevens. AS NEW. Binding firm. Without tears, chips, creases or bumps. Not marked and very clean and bright. All items carefully wrapped and sent boxed.
Seller: Tree Frog Fine Books and Graphic Arts, Beaverton, OR, U.S.A.
Wallace Stevens; Helen Vendler. Wallace Stevens Poems. Arion Press, San Francisco., 1985.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Wallace Stevens, new selection of 122 poems; selected by Helen Vendler. Includes an original etching by Jasper Johns, signed in pencil. 280 pages, printed on T. Edmonds mould-made paper. Titles and initial letters were handset by Dante Titling, text in Monotype Bembo by Mackenzie-Harris Corp. The Jasper John etching was printed by Universal Limited Art Editions. The edition limited to 326 copies, of which 300, this one is numbered 165, are for sale and letters A-Z are reserved for collabators. Quarto (4to) (12 x 8 1/2"). Binding in blue goatskin spine and foreedge, with blue grey linen boards, lettering on spine in silver. Announcement for the publication of the book and an invoice to the previous owner laid-in. Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) was a modernist, an inventor of twentieth-century literature. Helen Vendler says "He created a new style for a new age. . ." His poetry of facets, reflections from the revolving crystal of the world, of multiple realities and truths, was a courageous experiment with language. Overall excellent condition, clean and solid minor rubbing on the fore edge corners is the only issue to describe. Inventory #78206-1
Seller: The Old Print Shop, Inc., New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$5500.00 + shipping
Description: With An Original Etching, Signed by Jasper Johns [ARION PRESS]. STEVENS, Wallace. [JOHNS, Jasper, artist]. Poems. Selected and With an Introduction by Helen Vendler. San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1985. Limited edition. One of 300 numbered copies for sale out of a total edition of 326 copies, this being number 230. Small folio (11 3/4 x 8 3/8 inches; 298 x 214 mm). xxviii, [1]-249, [1, blank], [1], [3, blank] pp. With frontispiece which is an original etching by Jasper Johns, signed by the artist in pencil. Titles and initial letters are handset in Dante Titling, text is composed in Monotype Bembo. On English mould-made paper by T. Edmonds. With publisher's Prospectus laid in. Bound by the Schuberth Bookbindery of San Francisco in the publisher's half blue morocco over blue and white linen. Fore-edge and bottom edge uncut. Spine lettered in silver. Some very minor rubbing to the top of the spine. Otherwise near fine. "The distinguished literary critic Helen Vendler made a new selection of 122 of the best and most representative of Stevens' poems. The print by Jasper Johns was his first public exposure of any of the four images from his renowned series "The Seasons". The four paintings, associated drawings, and other prints were not exhibited until several months after the publication. This book has been included in museum retrospectives of Johns' work." (The Arion Press Catalogue). Edelstein. HBS 68565. $5,500.
Seller: Heritage Book Shop, ABAA, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.