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LEAVITT, Richard F. (Ed). The World of Tennessee Williams. G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1978.
Price: US$26.25 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Introduction by Tennessee Williams. 200 black & white illustrations. 168 pages. 4to, tan cloth, worn d.w. New York: Putnam, (1978). A near fine copy in a good only dust wrapper. The dust wrapper is reinforced with tape; the book is near fine.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$48.75 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 169 pages; index; Bibliography and awards; Photographs, playbills, press clippings, cast pictures, and Williams photos illustrate the book. "I have resisted any temptation to analyze his (Williams) work and have attempted only such general comment as I have felt qualified to make, and which seemed natural and appropriate to enhance the pictorial content of the book." (Levitt's editor's note.) Book condition: Two of the cover corners have minor wear, and the rear cover has light water-stain circa 8 sq. inches total, on the upper 3 inches of the cover and on the top edge. Dj has considerable edge wear and tear (circa 8 tears, longest 1 inch)
Seller: Jane Atwood, Louisville, KY, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Price NOT clipped, DJ nicely in archival wraps with heavy wear and tears to the edges; pages dusty with light age toning. Illustrated. Inscribed by the editor (Dick Leavitt) on the inside end page with reference to Truman Capote and dated 24 May 1989.
Seller: Hudson River Book Shoppe, Waldwick, NJ, U.S.A.
Leavitt, Richard F.. The World of Tennessee Williams. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1978.
Price: US$50.05 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: introduction by tennessee williams. a bits and pieces look at the life and career of tennessee williams through mementoes, pictures, posters and more.errata slip included.
Seller: Gumshoe Books, Columbia, SC, U.S.A.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE BOXES NEW BOXES Good, hard cover book with torn dust jacket, 168 pages, 4to.
Seller: Robinson Street Books, IOBA, Binghamton, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1978. Limited Edition of 250 copies, of which this is #142. Signed by Williams and Leavitt on limitation page. Quarto. 168 pages. Numerous black and white photographs and illustrations and 16 in color. Illustrated dust jacket. Tan boards stamped in gilt. Light brown slipcase. Errata slip laid in at front. Price-clipped dust jacket is lightly worn along edges with some vertical rippling to front panel. Boards show light wear to extremities with some very light fraying at corners. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Slipcase lightly worn at corners with some sparse rubbing, but overall sturdy and square. A pictorial biography of the playwright drawing upon previously-unpublished photographs, manuscripts, and letters from the Williams family archives.
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: viii, [1], 174, [4] pages. Illustrations. Slight DJ wear and soiling. Frontis illustration. A Forewarned Word by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Preface. Chronology. Section BY PATCHEN. Section ABOUT PATCHEN. INDEX Part One (By Patchen) and Part Two (About Patchen). Kenneth Patchen (December 13, 1911 - January 8, 1972) was an American poet and novelist. He experimented with different forms of writing and incorporated painting, drawing, and jazz music into his works, which have been compared with those of William Blake and Walt Whitman. Patchen's biographer wrote that he "developed in his fabulous fables, love poems, and picture poems a deep yet modern mythology that conveys a sense of compassionate wonder amidst the world's violence." Along with his friend and peer Kenneth Rexroth, he was a central influence on the San Francisco Renaissance and the Beat Generation. Throughout his life Patchen was a fervent pacifist, as he made clear in much of his work. He was strongly opposed to the involvement of the United States in World War II. In his own words, "I speak for a generation born in one war and doomed to die in another." This controversial view, coupled with his physical immobilization, may have prevented wider recognition or success beyond what some consider a "cult" following. Patchen's first book of poetry, Before the Brave, was published by Random House in 1936. His earliest collections of poetry were his most political and led to his being championed, in the 1930s, as a "proletariat poet". He continued to push himself into more and more experimental styles and forms. Although he did not achieve widespread fame during his lifetime, a small but dedicated following of fans and scholars continue to celebrate Patchen's art. The University of California, Santa Cruz, hosts an archive of his work, entitled "Patchenobilia," and many bookstores around the San Francisco Bay Area, Patchen's final home, continue to host jazz and poetry events which include his works. In Jimmy Buffett's 1973 album A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean, one of his songs is about Kenneth Patchen -- Death of an Unpopular Poet. In a November 10, 2015 video on youtube, entitled Jimmy Buffett - Death of an Unpopular Poet, from a November 5, 2015 concert in Key West, Buffett first explains his fascination with Patchen's poetry before singing this song which Buffett says he loves. Between 1987 and 1991 there were Kenneth Patchen Festivals, celebrating his work, in Warren, Ohio, which encompasses the town of Niles, where Patchen was born and grew up. These festivals were sponsored by the Trumbull Art Gallery in collaboration with the University of California, Santa Cruz. The little street where he lived as a child was renamed Patchen Avenue by the town of Niles. In 2007, Gallery 324 in the Galleria at Erieview in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, held a Kenneth Patchen Festival reception on April 13. Featured were Larry Smith of Bottom Dog Press, Doug Manson, editor of Celery Flute Player (a Kenneth Patchen newsletter), numerous colorful Kenneth Patchen silkscreens on loan from the Trumbull Art Guild in Warren, and Douglas Paisley's paintings of The Journal of Albion Moonlight with text. The following day, at the same gallery M. L. Liebler and the Magic Poetry Band from Detroit accompanied readings by poets Chris Franke, Jim Lang, and others. Later that night, the festival moved uptown to The Barking Spider Tavern in the University Circle area for poetry readings accompanied by the Cleveland band The John Richmond All-Stars. In 2011, Kelly's Cove Press published Kenneth Patchen: A Centennial Selection, edited by Patchen's friend Jonathan Clark, in celebration of the centenary of Patchen's birth. In April 2012, Allen Frost published the Selected Correspondence of Kenneth Patchen, which includes letters between Patchen and James Laughlin, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Henry Miller, Amos Wilder, Dylan Thomas, Thomas Wolfe and E. E. Cummings. A full-color collection of Patchen's photos and art, An Astonished Eye: The Art of Kenneth Patchen, by Jonathan Clark, was published by Artichoke Press and the University of Rochester Library in 2014. Richard G. Morgan was on the faculty of East Tennessee State University where he taught modern literature and creative writing. He has produced a collection of essays on Patchen and revealed Patchen's Lost Plays.
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: hardcover, quarto, signed first edition, 1978, #169 of 250 copies, signed by Williams and editor Richard Freeman Leavitt, errata slip included, 168 pages, numerous photos and illustrations some in full color, bibliography, index, fine condition in a near fine dust jacket in a near fine light brown cardboard slipcase, price clipped, a touch of edgewear to jacket, contents clean, no markings, the book attempts to capture pictorially the man and the playwright. Size: Quarto
Seller: Casa Paloma Books, Green Valley, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$220.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1978. Hardcover, beige cloth, with a price-clipped dust-jacket and housed in original publisher's slipcase. 168 pages. Signed by author and Williams. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. True first edition, limited to 250 copies, this being no. 137, signed by both Richard F. Leavitt and Tennessee Williams on limitation page. A lavish 200 illustrations and errata slip laid-in. Some minor rubbing along dust-jacket edges. Box is lightly bumped at bottom edge. A fine copy in near fine dust-jacket and near fine slipcase. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. A beautiful edition for any Tennessee Williams enthusiast. Signed Limited Edition 137 out of 250 copies.
Seller: Parrish Books, Sandy, OR, U.S.A.
Leavitt, Richard F. [ed.]. The World of Tennessee Williams. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1978.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Hardcover, beige cloth, in price-clipped dust-jacket, housed in original publisher's slipcase. 168 pages. Limited/Numbered/signed. Signed by author and Williams. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. True first edition, limited to 250 copies, this being no. 243, signed by both Richard F. Leavitt and Tennessee Williams on limitation page. With 200 illustrations and errata slip laid-in. Dust-jacket is price clipped and shows minor rubbing to fore-edge at fold. Box is lightly bumped at top edge. A fine copy in a near fine dust-jacket and very good slipcase. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall
Seller: Great Expectations Rare Books, Staten Island, NYC, NY, U.S.A.
Leavitt, Richard F. (Editor). The World of Tennessee Williams. G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1978.
Price: US$285.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: SIGNED by Tennessee Williams and Richard Leavitt (the editor), number 64 of 250 copies. A lavishly illustrated book on the life and work of Tennessee Williams. PHYSICAL DETAILS: Quarto, 176 pages, in dust jacket with slipcase (hard cover). CONDITION: Near Fine in a price-clipped dust jacket in original cardboard slipcase. Errata slip laid in. Slipcase a bit dusty.
Seller: Le Bookiniste, ABAA-ILAB-IOBA, Hopewell, NJ, U.S.A.
Williams, Tennessee. Man Makes Himself. G.P. Putnam's Sons,, New York, 1978.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Edited by Richard F. Leavitt with an introduction by Tennessee Williams. Limited edition page reads. "Two hundred and fifty copies of this first edition have been signed by Richard Freeman Leavitt and Tennessee Williams." Signatures in ink by Williams and Leavitt" Copy Number:208. 168pp. Indexed. Illustrated end papers. Plain tan cloth binding with gilt title, editor and publisher on spine. Content clean, bright and sound. No faults. In original tan paper covered cardborad slip case.
Seller: Old Favorites Bookshop LTD (since 1954), Stouffville, ON, Canada