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Corbiere, Tristan; translated by Walter McElroy. Poems. The Banyan Press, 1947.

Price: US$8.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Owner initials on endpaper. ; Copy #990 of 1060 copies.

Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.

CORBIERE, Tristan.:. Poems.. The Banyan Press, 1947.

Price: US$19.49 + shipping

Description: First Edition. Hardcover. Translated by Walter McElroy. 65pp. V.g.

Seller: Peter Scott, Portslade, United Kingdom

Corbiere, Tristan. POEMS. , 1947.

Price: US$25.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 1947 1st Banyan press. Translated by Walter McElroy. Copy No, 647/100, printed on Bethany paper. Hardcover. Small octavo, 65pp., frontis, cloth. Good plus, spine lettering faded away.

Seller: Xerxes Fine and Rare Books and Documents, Glen Head, NY, U.S.A.

CORBIÉRE, Tristan. Poems. Banyan, [New York], 1947.

Price: US$25.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First collected edition, trade issue. Translated by Walter McElroy. Frontispiece self-portrait. Facing French and English text. Owner name on front fly and boards a tiny bit splayed at the top corners, near fine lacking the unprinted dust jacket. Copy 833 of 1,000 copies of the trade edition (of 1,060 total), printed with handset Bodoni type on Dutch charcoal paper. The translations first appeared in *Chimera* magazine.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

Corbiere, Tristan. Poems. Banyan Press, 1947.

Price: US$25.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition, hardcover, #312 of 1,060 copies, page edges and endpapers lightly foxed, slight musty odor, touch of sunning to spine, light browning to pages, otherwise a VG+ copy without dustjacket.

Seller: Fahrenheit's Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.

Corbiere, Tristan. Poems. Banyan Press, 1947.

Price: US$30.97 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Handmarked #420/1000 copies. French and English text. VG+. Hardcover, no DJ, partial cloth, 65 pp, previous owners inscription on ffep, minimal edgewear, else clean and crisp copy.

Seller: Tornbooks, Austin, TX, U.S.A.

Corbiere, Tristan; McElroy, Walter (trans.). Poems. Banyan Press, New York, 1947.

Price: US$32.00 + shipping

Description: Numbered. Sound binding and hinges. Endpapers foxed. Clean, off-white pages. Frontispiece drawing by Corbiere. Paper over boards is clean. Previous owner's book plate on front pastedown. ; This edition is limited to 1060 copies, of which 1000, numbered 1 to 1000, were printed on Bethany paper and 60, numbered I to LX, were printed on imported Dutch charcoal paper. This copy is number 45. Poems, translated into English, by French symbolist author Tristan Corbiere (1845-1875). ; Drawing ; 8.5" tall ; 65 pages.

Seller: Cat's Cradle Books, Archdale, NC, U.S.A.

Spender, Stephen. Returning to Vienna 1947. Banyan Press, VT, 1947.

Price: US$48.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Softcover with modest cover wear thus very good. Limited edition, Signed by the Poet.

Seller: Uncommon Books, Glastonbury, CT, U.S.A.

Smith, William Jay. POEMS. The Banyan Press, New York, 1947.

Price: US$50.00 + shipping

Description: First edition of the AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, one of 500 numbered copies. Light erasure on front endpaper, spine ends and corners a little bumped and rubbed, otherwise about near fine in remnants of original glassine.

Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.

SMITH, William Jay. Poems. Banyan Press, New York, 1947.

Price: US$50.00 + shipping

Description: First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 31 pages. Number 150 from an edition of 500 copies. Smith's first book a collection of 21 poems. A fine copy in paper covered boards with cloth spine and in a very near fine glassine dust jacket and with wraparound band. A lovely copy.

Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.

Smith, William Jay.. Poems.. Banyan Press, New York, 1947.

Price: US$72.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: One of 500 numbered copies. Cloth spine and decorated paper over boards. Uncut. A very good copy of the author's first book.

Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.

Spender, Stephen. Returning to Vienna 1947. Banyan Press, 1947.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: One of 500 signed and numbered copies printed, this being #263 (150 for friends of the author, and 350 for general sale). Printed by hand in Bodoni face on English handmade paper. This copy is from the library of poet/academic William Matchett, with his signature to the front blank leaf, dated 1948. [28]pp., in handsewn pattern paper wraps, with a mounted title label to the front cover. A touch of light wear, else a nice Near Fine copy.

Seller: Arundel Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.

SMITH, William Jay. Poems. The Banyan Press, New York, 1947.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First edition. Octavo. 31pp. Quarter cloth and decorated paper-covered boards. A near fine copy, nicely printed, and issued without a printed dust jacket. Author's first book, limited to 500 numbered copies.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

Spender, Stephen. Returning to Vienna 1947. Nine Sketches by Stephen Spender. First Edition. Wrappers. SIGNED. One of 300 Copies Signed by the Author. 1947. The Banyan Press, No Place, 1947.

Price: US$80.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First Edition. One of 300 copies for sale, signed by Stephen Spender. Original wrappers, printed label on front cover, minor wear.

Seller: sonalsorises, los angeles, CA, U.S.A.

Smith, William Jay. Poems. The Banyan Press, New York, 1947.

Price: US$83.53 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: tan cloth, illustrated papered boards, no dust jacket, 31 pp inscribed by the author to Jim Lord on the front endpaper a signed Christmas card/poem laid in front endpaper and front pastedown slightly dampstained cover lightly worn on the edges Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.

Seller: San Francisco Book Company, Paris, France

ORLOVITZ, Gil. Concerning Man. Banyan Press, New York, 1947.

Price: US$85.00 + shipping

Description: First edition. Hardcover. First printing. 81 pages. Number 250 of only 350 copies printed on Ragston paper. Orlovitz's first book and the first book published by Banyan Press. A close to near fine copy with a faint bit of offsetting to the front free endpaper in a close to near fine dust jacket with some minor edge wear, toning to the spine and edges and one line on the front free endpaper markered over. Still, a pleasing copy of this debut collection of poetry.

Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.

Smith, William Jay. Poems. The Banyan Press, 1947.

Price: US$95.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" [10], 31, [2] pages. Author's first book, containing 21 poems in all. One of 500 numbered copies (the entire edition), printed at The Banyan Press, June 1947. A very good copy with slight sunning to spine; slight rubbing to covers; slight internal browning to edges and endpapers.Title Page in Brown and Black.

Seller: Arundel Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.

Friar, Kimon (ed.); Merrill, James et al.. The Poetry Center Presents. New York: The Gotham Book Mart, 1947, 1947.

Price: US$95.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 8vo, card covers, iv, 56pp., a-d. First edition, limited to 350 copies. Printed on Cortlea paper by the Banyan Press. Contains, inter alia, 5 poems by Merrill. Also represented: Clarisse Blazek, Elias Blechman, Helen Burlin, Jess Cloud, and seven others associated with the Poetry Center of the YM and YWHA (the 92nd Street Y). A VG+ copy from the library of Gotham Book Mart's Andreas Brown: light soiling to the covers, solid binding, clean and bright text. Early Merrill.

Seller: Atlantic Bookshop, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.

Orlovitz, Gil. Concerning Man. The Banyan Press, New York, 1947.

Price: US$95.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Hardcover. First edition. Author's first book. The first book of The Banyan Press. Number 5 of 350 numbered copies. Full page inscription by the author on the front free endpaper: "March 1947 / Philadelphia / For Paul-- / It would be a mockery to give you this even as a tithe of payment for your insistent loyalties & your limitlessness of friendship & love. All the poems I or anyone could write could not equal the beauty of your existence for which I give thanks. Therefore, from one who aspires to music in these verses to one who has already attained his own music--To my dearest friend--this natal volume-- / Gil". Bound in the original orange cloth with gilt title to spine. Bumped at the head and foot of the spine, stain on the rear cover, light wear at the extremities, and light dampstain to inside margins of some pages - otherwise very good, without dust jacket. 81 pages. POE/101316.

Seller: The Kelmscott Bookshop, ABAA, Savage, MD, U.S.A.

Spender, Stephen. Returning To Vienna 1947. The Banyan Press, 1947.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Sewn paper wrappers with paper label on front wrapper. Wrappers slightly discolored, extremities rubbed. A few very small stains on endpapers. Page edges darkened. Limited Edition. #172/350 copies. Signed by Author.

Seller: Booked Up, Inc., Archer City, TX, U.S.A.

CORBIERE, Tristan. (COWLEY, Malcolm). Poems. The Banyan Press, [Pawlett, Vermont], 1947.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First edition of this translation. Translated by Walter McElroy. Octavo. 68pp. Quarter-cloth and papercovered boards. Text is printed in French and English on Bethany paper. Small paperclip rust mark on front flyleaf and second leaf where review slip was paperclipped to book, else a fine copy in publisher's unprinted near fine glassine dust jacket. Copy number 19 of 1000 numbered copies. Advance Review Copy with a typed review slip laid in, with a typed letter signed by an editor at The Saturday Review of Literature addressed to Malcolm Cowley noting that this copy is enclosed and requesting that Cowley review the book.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

SMITH, William Jay. Poems. Banyan Press, New York, 1947.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First edition. Cloth and decorated paper over boards. Near fine plus with some rubbing at the extremities in original glassine dustwrapper with two inch chip on rear and some scattered chips at the edges. Limited to 500 numbered copies; this copy is number 457. The poets first book.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

Smith, William Jay. POEMS. Banyan, New York, 1947.

Price: US$110.00 + shipping

Description: Linen-backed decorated boards; 8vo. 31 pp. Number 201 of 500 copies. Inscribed by the poet to publisher William Ewert. Poet's first book, and a notable small press. A very good copy, one bottom edge worn through about one inch, otherwise with little wear in a chipped and fragile original glassine jacket. Smith was a Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, a position now called Poet Laureate. A nice association copy, Smith a VT resident, Banyan its most prominent fine press: Banyan and Ewert were among the finest New England small fine presses of their day.

Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.

SMITH, William Jay. Poems. Banyan Press, New York, 1947.

Price: US$125.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First edition. Quarter cloth and decorated paper over boards. Corner's bumped and rubbed, small smudge on one leaf, very good in a good chipped original glassine dustwrapper. One of 500 numbered copies. Warmly Inscribed by Smith to fellow poet Dan Hoffman in 1970 (when Hoffman was serving as Consultant in Poetry of the Library of Congress.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

(Banyan Press) Smith, William Jay. Poems. The Banyan Press, New York, 1947.

Price: US$125.00 + shipping

Description: First Edition, No. 273 of 500 copies. 1 vols. 8vo. A virtually mint copy of the author's first book. Original decorated paper over boards, tan cloth spine, fine

Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.

Merrill, James. Metamorphosis of 741. Banyan Press, 1947.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: As New

Description: A section of an untitled longer poem. One (28) of 440 limited copies. Inscribed by Merrill in 1980. Fine copy printed on Arches paper. A beautiful copy! Inscribed by Author. Also incuded is a handwritten accompanying note from the author.

Seller: The Herbert Morris Collection, Edison, NJ, U.S.A.

SPENDER, Stephen. Returning to Vienna 1947: Nine Sketches. The Banyan Press, [New York], 1947.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: First edition. Rebound in library style buckram. Scorch marks at the edges of a few pages, clearly the book had been through a fire, else good or better. One of 150 numbered copies for friends of the author (out of a total edition of 500) Signed by the author. Additionally Inscribed by Spender to author Seldman Rodman.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

SMITH, William Jay. Poems. Banyan Press, New York, 1947.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First edition. Cloth and decorated paper over boards. Owner name, some offsetting from review materials on two facing blank preliminary pages, and some light and easily erasable pencil notes in the text, near fine in a chipped, but mostly intact original glassine dustwrapper, and with a partial wraparound band. One of 500 numbered copies, this copy is number 12, and is unsigned. However, it is an Advance Review Copy with a slip, and publisher's nicely printed promotional material laid in. Both the promotional material and the wraparound band feature a quote about Smith from Marianne Moore.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

SPENDER, Stephen. Returning to Vienna. Banyan, 1947.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: 8vo, decorative wrappers, paper label, N.p., (Banyan Press), 1947. Limited First Edition. Of 500 copies, this is one of the first 150, for friends of the author. Signed on the colophon leaf, and additionally inscribed on the front flyleaf "with best wishes for Christmas, 1947."

Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.