In a Green Night: Poems 1948-1960 by Walcott, Derek - 1962

Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1969-12-01. Paperback. Good.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1962. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 79 pages. The first collection of poems by Walcott to be printed by a major publisher. Walcott went on to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992. A near fine copy with a small vintage bookstore sticker to the front pastedown and in a very good plus dust jacket with some minor wear and a bookseller sticker to the rear panel.

Jonathan Cape, 1962-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. Ex-library book, usual markings. Hardback/Hardcover with green dust cover. Clean text, sound binding.

Jonathan Cape, 1962-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. Clean copy, sound binding.

Jonathan Cape. London. 1962. First edition.. pp. (x), 11-79, (i). Price-clipped dust wrapper over paper boards, the wrapper has been damped and the green colouring has faintly bled onto the boards beneath, this has also affected the fore-edge of the rear free end-paper and the lower corner margins of the last half-dozen leaves, the wrapper is slightly worn at spine ends and corners, else text clean, with the signature of M. A. L. HENDRIKS, Jamaican poet [1922-1992]. *This collection was the first of Walcott's poems to be issued in England. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1962. First Edition. First edition, first impression. Signed by Derek Walcott twice: warm inscription to former owner on front free endpaper, "To Ruth [MacKenzie] / thanks for a very calm and beautiful afternoon at the National Gallery / Henry James Waldo Thoreau Emerson Poe / [signed] Derek /" and signature on half title dated half title dated Oct 21 68. Former owner's name written above signature on front free endpaper. 79 pp. Bound in publisher's cloth-backed patterned boards with gilt spine lettering. Near Fine with tiny stain to fore edge, bookstore stamp of The Voice Bookshop in St. Lucia, Very Good dust jacket with rubbed edges, unclipped. The Nobel laureate's first poetry collection to be published outside of the Caribbean, rare signed.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1962. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good +/none. Uncorrected Proof of Walcott's first book of poems following several plays published only in the Carribbean. Very scarce. Very good plus in light green wraps, slight lean, tiny amount of wear at lower corners. Scarce in any condition.

London: Jonathan Cape,, 1962. Hearts learn to die well that have died before Uncorrected proof copy of the first edition. In A Green Night was the author's first collection of poems to be published outside of the Caribbean. Walcott went on to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992 and is best known for his Omeros (1990), an epic poem retelling the Homeric legends in a modern Caribbean setting. This poetry collection was his first major and international success. Dedicated to his mother, Alix Walcott, the book "brought together what he considered to be the best of his verse to date... [it] represents a coming of age for Walcott, the first clear step on his Odyssean journey towards becoming a Caribbean Homer" (Thieme, pp. 14 and 38). Octavo. Original light green paper wrappers decorated with white publisher's motif, lettered in black. With dust jacket. Tiny mark to top edge: a near-fine copy in like jacket. John Thieme, Derek Walcott, 1999.

1965 - First Edition stated - A Tiger Mann Mystery - "...for Tiger is told on his wedding day that he is needed for Operation Plato." - book: very good - tight, sound, and square - no previous owner markings - dj: vibrant colors with some rubbing to the black base and abstract sun - interesting black and white photo of Spillane on the back cover - a few chips repaired with archival tape - dj in protective mylar sleeve

2014 - 1st ed stated ("1" in number line) - INSCRIBED - authors debut book - "Fourteen-year-old Audrey martin, with her Poindexter glasses and her head humming the 3/4 meter of gospel music, knows she'll never get out of Kentucky - but when her fingers touch the pion keys, the whole church trembles." - book: very good (like new) - dj: very good (like new) - dj in protective mylar sleeve

First edition. Spine ends lightly rubbed, spine has small nick, small reddish stain to front cover and rear cover, otherwise very good or better. Lacks dust jacket.

New York, Grove Press, 2022, trade paperback, 272 pp, Advance Uncorrected Proof (ARC), New. Straight, tight and clean with no wear or markings in bright, pictorial card covers, no dustjacket as issued. The pieces in this collection, written between 1956 and 1961 and including short fiction, a radio play, and a stunning early novel, offer startling insights into Cohens imagination and creative process. Cohen explores themes that would permeate his later work, from shame and unworthiness to sexual desire in all its sacred and profane dimensions to longing, whether for love, family, freedom, or transcendence. ISBN 9780802160478

New York: Delacorte Press, 1971. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good DJ. Ex-Lib w/ Usual Markings and Expected Imperfections. dj protected by new Mylar wrap.. 8 vo; black boards; 361 pgs.; illust. dj. From the Critically Acclaimed Author of From Here to Eternity. a very clean copy of this classic.

This book is in very good condition. There is little to no wear on the front, back and spine of the cover boards and there is no wear on the edges of the cover boards.There is some bumping on the cover boards. The previous owners name is written on the front end page. The pages are white, crisp and claen of any markings. "William Thomson, famous nineteenth century missionary, traveler, and author, described twenty-five years of surface study of Palestine as it relates to the Bible in his two-volume work, The Land and the Book. When he comes to describe Jerusalem he makes this remarkable statement; Do not set out...resolved to make discoveries. There is not a foot of ground that has not been already scrutinized by a thousand eyes as keen as yours, and the old adage, "If new not true," may be applied to Jerusalem and her monuments with more propriety than to any other place on earth...." - Introduction from Poet and Peasant: A… Read More

Eric Berry: The Polynesian Triangle, 1968 Funk & Wagnalls. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ VERY GOOD UNCLIPPED ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. SCARCE THUS. States First Published in the United States of America 1968. SUMMARY: THE 3,000 YEAR HISTORY OF POLYNESIA AND ITS PEOPLES. ANTHROPOLOGY. A NICE FIND.

Paris Editions Denoel, 1992, First Edition. paperback. First edition, Paris 1992, one of 3443 printed. -- Text (the cartoon captions) in FRENCH. -- Softcover, 8.3x10.8 inches, stiff cover with flaps. Condition: near fine (small surface scratch rear cover). -- Nice collectible example of Sempe's classic cartoon work, familiar to New Yorker readers. ISBN 220723861X

New York: Periscope-Holliday, 1965. First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine-. First American Edition of two early novels. 8vo: [4],328pp. Publisher's quarter-bound black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, slate grey paper-covered boards; dust jacket, priced $4.75, replicating (separately, on front and back panels) Osbert Lancaster's illustrations for the original wrappers. Near Fine (top edge soiled and stained, gilt a bit faded, gift inscription on fly-leaf); about Fine jacket. Lilley A.10. First collected in 1952 by Rinehart for the Periscope Book Shop and Holliday Bookshop in New York; the unsold stock was reissued in 1965 by Little, Brown, Powell's then American publisher (our copy), with publisher's label pasted to jacket's spine panel. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions… Read More

First Edition/First Printing with the complete number line; A Fine book in a Fine dust jacket with no visible flaws, as new and unread. SIGNED by the author on a tipped-in page. A pristine copy of this novel from the Pulitzer winning author of "A Visit From the Good Squad". Not remaindered, not price clipped, not ex-library; in a protective Mylar cover and will ship in a sturdy box.