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Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo in red and black illus wraps; 94 pages. Wesleyan Poetry Classics. [series]. Owner signature of noted UC Berkeley Biology professor Richard Steinhardt. Contents: Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; The Tennis Court Oath; "They Dream Only of America"; Thoughts of a Young Girl; America; Two Sonnets; To Redouté; Night; "How Much Longer will i be Able to Inhabit the Divine Sepulcher . . ."; Rain; A White Paper; Leaving the Atocha Station; White Roses; The Suspended Life; A Life Drama; Our Youth; The Ticket; An Additional Poem; Measles; Faust; The Lozenges; The Ascetic Sensualists; Landscape; A Last World; The New Realism; The Unknown Travelers; Europe; To the Same Degree; The Passive Preacher; The Shower; Idaho. Still a touchstone of contemporary avant-garde poetry today, this 35th anniversary edition of John Ashbery's second book celebrates an American poet who has won a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award, and a National Book Critics Circle Award. American poetry -- 20th century. Poésie américaine. Poésie américaine -- 20e siècle. POETRY -- American -- General. American poetry Time: 1900-1999 General Info: Other format available: Print version:; Ashbery, John.; Tennis court oath.; [1st ed.].; Hanover, N.H. : Wesleyan University Press, published by University Press of New England, [1962]. Two ownership signatures (same person); spine exterior partly sunned; small spot to front wrap verso; else tight clean and very good+ thus.
Seller: BIBLIOPE by Calvello Books, Oakland, CA, U.S.A.
Ashbery, John. The Tennis Court Oath. Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, 1962.
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Condition: Very Good
Description: Simultaneous first trade paperbound edition. The poet's fourth collection. 94 pp. Some toning to spine color else a well-bound very good copy.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
Ashbery, John.. The Tennis Court Oath.. Wesleyan University Press, Middiletown, 1962.
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Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Printing. A Near Fine copy of the paperback issue. Spine toned. Text and endpapers clean and unmarked. 94pp. Q17505
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$52.67 + shipping
Description: Very good paperback copy; edges somewhat dust-dulled and nicked. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; 94p. 20 cm. Subjects; Poetry. Poetry in English. American poets. American critics. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$67.60 + shipping
Description: Very good paperback copy; edges somewhat dust-dulled and nicked. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; 94p. 20 cm. Subjects; Poetry. Poetry in English. American poets. American critics. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Ashbery, John. The Tennis Court Oath: A Book of Poems. Wesleyan University Press, 1962.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Softcover. Stiff black-and-white and pink pictorial covers of many figures, with black lettering on front cover and spine. Previous price sticker affixed to back cover over top ISBN. Binding is square and tight. Signed by author, John Ashbery, on title page. No date on title page. Copyright page dated 1962. Stated first printing. 94 pages plus page about publisher. Interiors are clean and unmarked. A very good copy.
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$230.00 + shipping
Description: 8 x 6", grey cloth, 94pp, covers a little rubbed, extremities fraying, EX- LIBRARY with usual markings, but a FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Ashbery, John. The Tennis Court Oath. Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, Conn, 1962.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, 94pp; wrappers. One of the poet's scarcer titles, this copy inscribed and signed by Ashbery to a fellow poet on the title page. Foredge spotted, wrappers with some spots and stains, very good.
Seller: Locus Solus Rare Books (ABAA, ILAB), Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition (stated) First Printing in wraps SIGNED by John Ashbery with personalized inscription to last preliminary page ("to Dick Moore / best, John Ashbery"), no markings, no creases, slight shelf & edge wear to wraps, spine titles slightly faded with small bump to spine top, else a clean tight very nice signed copy of Ashbery's most enigmatic book and one of the scarcest in First Edition, issued simultaneously in hardand soft covers; 8vo; 94pp
Seller: Nighttown Books, South Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Ashbery, John. The Tennis Court Oath. Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, 1962.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Clothbound octavo in dustwrapper. 94 pp. First edition stated of the poet's fourth collection. A fine copy in very good dustwrapper with a closed tear near the top of the front panel and a chip on the bottom of the rear panel. Light wear. Wrapper has a $4.00 sticker afixed to the inside front flap.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
Ashbery, John.. The Tennis Court Oath.. Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, Connecticut, 1962.
Price: US$925.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Printing. A Fine flawless copy in grey cloth, in a Fine cream and salmon red dustwrapper, not price-clipped, unfaded, with one tiny smoothed tear mid-spine. 94pp. Ashbery's second trade collection, difficult now to locate in the hardcover in this condition. Q09582
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Stated first edition. 94 pp. Hardcover, bound in cloth with dust jacket. Unmarked.
Seller: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.
Ashbery, John. The Tennis Court Oath. Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT, 1962.
Price: US$1900.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: First edition stated. Publisher's grey cloth over boards with titles on spine. Signed by John Ashbery on the title page, inscribed to former owner. Grolier Book Shop ticket to front free end paper, rubbing to poet's name on spine, else Fine. In a Near Fine dust jacket with toning to the spine panel, and revised price sticker over publisher's price. A lovely copy of the scarce cloth-bound issue, signed by the acclaimed American poet.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.