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Norse, Harold. Undersea Mountain; Poems. Alan Swallow, Denver, 1953.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: 16mo. 54 pp. Cloth binding in unclipped dustwrapper, very good copy. (93944g).
Seller: Bauer Rare Books, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Norse, Harold. The Undersea Mountain. The New Poetry Series, Alan Swallow, 1953, 1953.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing The poet's first book. A very attractive copy. Fine gray boards in tan dust jacket with clean text
Seller: Longhouse, Publishers & Booksellers, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.
NORSE, Harold. The Undersea Mountain. Alan Swallow, Denver, 1953.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Front board a trifle soiled, still fine in a lightly age-toned near fine dustwrapper. The author's first book.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Harold Norse. The Undersea Mountain. Alan Swallow Publisher, Denver, 1953.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition of the poetâs first book. Inscribed in the year of publication on FFE. Beige card boards lightly rubbed and with some staining. Dark yellow unclipped dust jacket (Two Dollars) with a circular stain from a glass and rubbing to corner and edges, with a scatter of smaller stains to rear panel.
Seller: La Playa Books, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
NORSE, Harold.. The Undersea Mountain.. Denver: Alan Swallow, 1953, 1953.
Price: US$869.58 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing, of Norse's first book of poetry, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "For Jim, from Harold, Paris 1961". Harold Norse (1916-2009) was an avant-garde poet, best remembered today as a member of the Beat movement and, in Lawrence Ferlinghetti's words, "an expatriate voice in American poetry" (LA Times). He cultivated a number of literary relationships throughout his life: "in the early 1940s, Norse met [Allen] Ginsberg on the subway in Manhattan and became friends with [James] Baldwin in Greenwich Village. He also spent a summer with Tennessee Williams as the playwright put the finishing touches to The Glass Menagerie, and survived drinking sessions with Dylan Thomas in 1950" (The Guardian). Following the publication of The Undersea Mountain, Norse moved to Rome, where he translated the poems of Guiseppe Gianchino Belli. From 1959 to 1963, he lived in the Beat Hotel in Paris with Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, and William S. Burroughs, and there experimented with "cut-up" writing with Brion Gysin, later writing the cut-up novel Beat Hotel (1983); he then settled in San Francisco, where he stayed for the rest of his life. LA Times, 13 June 2009; The Guardian, 17 June 2009. Octavo. Original grey boards, front cover lettered in black. With dust jacket. A near-fine copy, spine ends gently bumped, light foxing to edges, contents clean and crisp, in the lightly toned dust jacket, a couple of creases to spine, front cover a touch rubbed, else sharp.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom