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James Wright. The Green Wall. Yale University Press, 1957.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: ISBN . Hardback. First Printing of the First Edition as designated by the date 1957 on both the title and copyright pages with no other dates or later printings listed on those pages. Book is signed by James Wright with his full name only , JAMES WRIGHT, on the front free endpaper, otherwise book is in Very Good to Near Fine condition, a Tight bright attractive copy with no other markings to the book. Dustjacket is in Very Good condition with slight edgewear and two very small minute chips out of the bottom edge of the back cover. $2.50 original price is still present and unclipped on the front dustjacket flap. We have placed the dustjacket in a Brodart clear plastic protective cover and it looks much better than described.
Seller: Tacoma Book Center, Tacoma, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Description: Signed Edition xix, 93 pp., Signed first edition, with dedication in ink on the ffly, to a prominent English scholar who taught at various US universities, last at York University, Canada.with warm regards from Jim Wright May, 1957. Paper over board, blue/green dw. A few underlinings in Auden,s foreword, o/w v.g. unmarked copy. Dust jacket is worn at edges with some loss. Not price-clipped.
Seller: Book Stage, Stratford, ON, Canada
Wright, James. The Green Wall. Yale University Press, 1957.
Price: US$4750.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A Superb Association copy, inscribed by Wright to fellow poet William Matchett (who was on the faculty of the UW English Dept. when Wright was there doing his graduate work 1954-57): For Judy & Bill / with love & gratitude from / Annie & Jim Wright (ca. 1970); additionally laid in loose is 5 typed pages of poems (ca. 1955), also inscribed in pencil: Dear Bill, Sorry I was late with these (signed) Jim Wright, and signed on another page in pen Jim Wright. The poems include: A Complaint For George Doty In The Death House (included in The Green Wall); Morning Under A Tree; My Friend The Milkman Explains The Variety Of Love In A Tavern (unpublished?); The Presentation Of Two Birds To My Son (Poetry Mag. Vol. 85, No. 1, January 1955); The Shade Of Andrew Marvel Appears To His Housekeeper. (Hudson Review, Autumn 1955). Winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets award, 1957 (selected by Auden); Volume 53 of the Yale Series of Younger Poets; and Finalist, National Book Awards 1958 for Poetry; also the poets first book. xix + 93pp. Off-white patterned paper over boards with titles and devices stamped in gilt over brown on spine. A Fine copy in a Near Fine jacket that has a touch of light wear.
Seller: Arundel Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
WRIGHT, James. THE GREEN WALL. Yale University Press, New Haven, 1957.
Price: US$6250.00 + shipping
Description: Poet's very scarce first book, part of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, with an introduction by W. H. Auden. This copy belonged to Wright's wife, Liberty, with her SIGNATURE at the top of the front free endpaper and below that a SIGNED INSCRIPTION by the poet quoting two lines from a poem in the book, "Eleutheria," and adding a bittersweet, revealing commentary: "for Lib,/and the ground's deliberate/riches, the fallen pears, the/bewildered apples blown to/mounds of shade, and mainly/for the poison ivy, which I kept/out of the poem, not because/it didn't scan or rhyme, but/because it was the sweet/and secret root from which/the poem came./Love and grief,/Jim." Liberty Kardules was Wright's high school sweetheart and the mother of his sons Franz and Marshall. Wright left Liberty two years after publication of this book and divorced her in 1962. Franz Wright is now an accomplished poet. He and his father are the only parent/child pair to have won a Pulitzer Prize in the same category. Near Fine in a Good dustwrapper, worn but complete but for small chips at the spine tips and corners and a long closed split between the front panel and inside flap. Exceptional Association Copy
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.