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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. Banyan, NY, 1947.
Price: US$72.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pp. 31. The author's first book. The book was hand set in Weiss and Geramond faces printed on Enfield paper. Author's presentation on flyleaf: "For Bill Claire : with my very best wishes | Willima Jay Smith | Washington, D. C. 29 March 1967" Patterned paper over boards, cloth spine. Some slight foxing at ends, cover little bumped and scuffed at corners and ends of spine, slightly soiled, o/w a VG tight copy. William Jay Smith was born in Winnfield, Louisiana. He was brought up at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, south of St. Louis. Smith received his A.B. and M.A. from Washington University in St. Louis, and continued his studies at Columbia University, and Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. Smith is the author of ten collections of poetry of which two were finalists for the National Book Award. He was appointed the nineteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1968 to 1970.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, 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.
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$82.67 + 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
SMITH, William Jay. POEMS. The Banyan Press, NY, 1947.
Price: US$84.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pp. 31. Bound in cloth backed printed boards, One of 500 numbered copies. This copy signed by the author. The author's first book. The book was hand set in Weiss and Geramond faces printed on Enfield paper. A fine copy. William Jay Smith was born in Winnfield, Louisiana. He was brought up at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, south of St. Louis. Smith received his A.B. and M.A. from Washington University in St. Louis, and continued his studies at Columbia University, and Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. Smith is the author of ten collections of poetry of which two were finalists for the National Book Award. He was appointed the nineteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1968 to 1970.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, 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.
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.
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.
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.