fainlight harry (19 Ergebnisse)

First Edition. First edition. Poetry postcard that measures 4.25" x 6". Includes the poem "April" taken from Fanlight's book "Selected Poems." A fine copy. Scarce, with only 1 copy listed in OCLC.

Zustand: Good. BROADSIDE. 32mo. Poetry Post Card, Very Good minor shelf wear.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a good, somewhat edge-torn and dust-toned dust wrapper. Remains well-preserved overall. Series; Therpewin poetry series. Physical description; v, 78 pages : 1 portrait ; 25 cm. Notes; Introduction by Ruth Fainlight, a memoir by Allen Ginsberg, and a poem by Ted Hughes. Subjects; Fainlight, Harry. -1982. English poetry. 20th century. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Hardcover in Very Good condition with Dust Jacket. Review copy, card slip inside the right board. Cover design by Ralph Steadman. Jackets front left side edge has been torn and creased. Edge wear along the edges and ends of the jacket. Pages are clear. Used.

Zustand: Very Good +. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First Edition. London: Turret Books, 1986. First Edition Limited to 1000 copies. Slim octavo; publisher's textured boards in white dust jacket designed by Ralph Steadman; [6],78pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece. Light wear to jacket margins, corners bumped, else Very Good to Near Fine. Allen Ginsberg's copy signed by him on title page and inscribed to him by Ruth Fainlight on front free endpaper, "For Allen, with best wishes and thanks from Ruth. June 1987." Laid in is an autograph note on publisher Bernard Stone's postcard letterhead, "Dear Allen, Here is the Selected Poems of Harry that Bernard has just published. It has your piece in it. Bernard and I are going to Amsterdam on Friday to see [Dutch spoken word poet] Simon Vinkenoog and buy books. Simon did a 2 page review of 'Howl' which I will send you (It's in Dutch). Love, Miles [?].". Signed.

Softcover. Zustand: Fine. First edition. Cover by Adiran Henri. Octavo. 21pp. Fine in stapled wrappers with errata slip laid in. British literary journal with contributions from Allen Ginsberg, Robert Creeley, Anselm Hollo, Michael Horovitz, Adrian Mitchell, Harry Fainlight, Peter Brown, Libby Houston, Spike Hawkins, Roger McGough, Brian Patten, Heather Holden, Ted Milton, and Penti Saarikoski.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Very good copy. Stapled, mimeographed sheets.

Paperback. Zustand: Near Fine. Book. An Anthology of Anal Erotic, Pound Cake Cornhole, Arse-Freak & Dreck Poems. First Edition. Mimeographed. The anthology is "dedicated to the Brilliant Goddess of Buggery Barbara Rubin". One of 400 trade copies. Contributors include Allen Ginsberg, Ted Berrigan, Ron Padgett, Harry Fainlight and others. Condition: Fine/Near Fine. Staples in tact with all pages.Tight copy - best copy I have seen.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Original publishers cream wraps. pp 12. 150 copies printed. Verse. Narcissus spelt backwards. His only published book in his lifetime.e He was a friend and lover of William Burroughs , a keen drug user and brother of the poet Ruth Fainlight. Very slight browning at top edge o/w very good indeed.

Zustand: Very good minus. First edition. Anthology edited by Sanders from Sander's notorious press. Includes work by Ted Berrigan, Paul Blackburn, John Keys, Al Fowler, Harry Fainlight, Sanders, and Szabo. One of the scarcest items from FU. 11'' x 8.5''. Original lavender side-stapled self-wrappers. Mimeographed throughout. [20] pages (including covers), generally rectos only. Wrappers soiled with some staining. Overall sound.

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. An exceedingly rare item, the only work of poetry published in the UK by Fainlight, who tragically died young from hypothermia. Fainlight was dogged by persistent mental health issues but his reputation was secured by the posthumous publication of selected poems by his sister and fellow poet Ruth Fainlight. Sussicran, narcissus in reverse, was issued as a twelve page booklet (Turret, 1965). This is number 22 of only 50 signed copies. Signed by Author(s).

paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Paperback in very good condition. First edition. One of 150 copies. Twelve pages. Turret booklet no. 3. Covers are lightly marked, tanned and edge-worn. Upper edges are bumped. Pages are clean and text is clear throughout. HCW. Used.

First edition. A posthumous selection edited with an introduction by Ruth Fainlight the author's sister and fellow poet. Royal octavo. pp [vi], 78. Blue leatherette covers. One of 1000 copies. One page memoir by Allen Ginsberg. Poem by Ted Hughes: ''To Be Harry''. Presentation copy from the editor, inscribed by her on the front free endpaper: ''in memory of Stephen and Harry's friendship - and for Natasha, with much affection and respect from Ruth. 18.xi.98''. The recipients are the poet Stephen Spender and his wife. Spender's letters to Fainlight are in the latter's papers held at Indiana University.Fine in very good indeed, slightly nicked dustwrapper designed by Ralph Steadman.

First edition. First edition. Mimeograph on tan paper, recto only. 11 x 8.5 inches. The Fuck You Quote of the Week was published over three weeks in September 1964, and featured inside jokes from Harry Fainlight, John Ashberry, and Kenneth Koch. Slight discoloring along outside edges, otherwise fine Mimeograph on tan paper, recto only. 11 x 8.5 inches.

London: Turret Books. 1965. 8vo. Original cream card wrappers with author and title in silver to upper cover; printed on stiff blue paper; pp. [ii], 3-12; fine.First limited edition of Harry Fainlight's only lifetime book publication Sussicran ('Narcissus' spelled backwards): one of 150 copies signed by the author, and number 22 in the Turret Booklet series.The British-American writer Harry Fainlight (1935-1982) lived in London in 1965 and rose to fame by participating in the celebrated Royal Albert Hall Beatnik poetry slam of 1965, the International Poetry Incarnation, initiated and headed by Allen Ginsberg. Here Fainlight would read the trippy and disturbing epic The Spider, an LSD-induced text, which was interrupted by a Dutch writer, high on Mescaline, shouting "Love, Love!", an event which disturbed the poet deeply.Fainlight, a heavy drug user, who purportedly once slept with William S. Boroughs, was described by Allen Ginsberg as "the most gifted English poet of his generation". He was befriended by Ted Hughes (who wrote a poem about him in 1983) and Sylvia Plath; his sister was another Beat poet, Ruth Fainlight. In 1964 he contributed to Ed Sanders' Fuck You and in 1966 he participated in launching the International Times from the basement of Indica Bookshop. Turret Books, a hub for avantgarde poetry, was founded by Bernard Stone, a friend of Alan Silitoe and the cartoonist, book and record cover designer Ralph Steadman.

London: Turret Books. 1965. 8vo. Original cream card wrappers with author and title in silver to upper cover; printed on stiff blue paper; pp. [ii], 3-12; the odd dirt mark, else fine.First limited edition of Harry Fainlight's only lifetime book publicion Sussicran ('Narcissus' spelled backwards): one of 150 copies signed by the author, and number 22 in the Turret Booklet series.The British-American writer Harry Fainlight (1935-1982) lived in London in 1965 and rose to fame by participating in the celebrated Royal Albert Hall Beatnik poetry slam of 1965, the International Poetry Incarnation, initiated and headed by Allen Ginsberg. Here Fainlight would read the trippy and disturbing epic The Spider, a LSD-induced text, which was interrupted by a Dutch writer, high on mescaline, shouting 'Love, Love!', an event which disturbed the poet deeply.Fainlight, a heavy drug user, who purportedly once slept with William S. Boroughs, was described by Allen Ginsberg as 'the most gifted English poet of his generation'. He was befriended by Ted Hughes (who wrote a poem about him in 1983) and Sylvia Plath; his sister was another Beat poet, Ruth Fainlight. In 1964 he contributed to Ed Sanders' Fuck You and in 1966 he participated in launching the International Times from the basement of Indica Bookshop. Turret Books, a hub for avantgarde poetry, was founded by Bernard Stone, a friend of Alan Silitoe and the cartoonist, book and record cover designer Ralph Steadman.

Zustand: Very good. First edition. Complete set of Ed Sanders's short-lived "Quote of the Week" from his notorious press, featuring three brief selections from Harry Fainlight, John Ashbery, and Kenneth Koch. Run off over the course of several weeks in the fall of 1964, these three gossipy, insular, self-referential broadsides are among the most ephemeral and quintessentially FU productions to be pulled off of Sanders' Lower East Side mimeograph. The first, dated Sept. 5th, is by Harry Fainlight (1935-1982) and transcribes a piece of a conversation Fainlight delivered at Bickfords in Times Square: "I have piles / I thought it was / gonorrhea / it's terrible / I have to / do all / kinds of / sordid blow job / scenes / now." The second, dated Sept. 14th, records poet John Ashbery's reaction (overheard at a party at Bill Berkson's on East 57th Street) to Ed Sanders' recently-issued TOE-QUEEN POEMS. And the third, dated September 23rd, finds Kenneth Koch having just read Harry Fainlight's first Quote of the Week: "It's shit. It's all shit." All of these Quotes are individually scarce, and this is the first time we've seen them offered as a set. Rare thus. 11'' x 8.5''. Three mimeographed broadsides printed recto only on pink paper. Mild toning to edges. Right edge of one mildly worn. Another folded in half. Overall, clean and sound.

Letters. Zustand: Very Good. A collection of 2 photographs and approximately 17 handwritten documents, which range from quickly jotted notes to full-length letters, written by the poet Harry Fainlight to his landlady, Esther Whitby who was letting Harry a small garden cell on Harmood Street, in Northwest London, for thirty shillings a week at the time. This collection also includes one letter to Esther from Harry's sister, the renowned poet and close friend of Sylvia Plath, Ruth Fainlight. These numerous missives, which include a letter Fainlight wrote on prison stationary while on remand at H.M. Prison, Jebb Avenue, Brixton, London, a note addressed from a psychiatric hospital in Scotland, letters from his parents' home in Sussex, letters from the cottage where he died in Wales, and personal notes left around the house in London where Fainlight rented a room from Whitby [to whom these letters & notes are addressed]. An itemized list of the abovementioned documents and letters follows:1.Handwritten Letter from Ruth Fainlight to Esther Whitby. 1 page. Approx 100 words; Dated 13.10.82 Handwritten blue ink on 8.25 x 8.5" white unruled paper. 2.Handwritten Note from Harry Fainlight to Esther Witby [Dear Esther; signed: Harry] 27 words; No Date; Handwritten blue ink on 5 x 7.25" white unruled paper. Approx 27 words; begins: I hope my nightmare didn't disturb you last night3.Handwritten Letter from Harry Fainlight to Esther Witby [Dear Esther; Best Wishes, Harry] 1 page. Approx 100 words. Dated September '81, Den Cottage, Powys, Wales. Handwritten black ink on 5 x 7.5" white unruled paper.4.Handwritten 2 page letter from Harry Fainlight to Esther Whitby [Dear Esther; Yours, Harry]. Undated. Location: Ward F, Craig Dunain [Psychiatric Hospital] Inverness, Scotland. Handwritten blue ink on [2] 7 x 9" white unruled paper. 5.Handwritten Letter from Harry Fainlight to Esther Whitby [Dear Esther; Yours, Harry]. 1 page. Approx. 80 words. Undated. Location: 5 Huskisson St. Liverpool, 8. Handwritten Blue ink on white 8x10" unruled paper. 6.Handwritten Note from Harry Fainlight to Esther Whitby [Best Wishes, Harry] Approx. 15 words. Undated. Handwritten black ink on 4.5 x 3.5" white unruled card. Reverse side blank.7.Handwritten Letter from Harry Fainlight to Esther Whitby [Dear Esther; Harry] Approx. 70 words. Dated May 4th (Year Unknown); Location: 14 Wolstan[sic]bury Rd. [sic] Sussex. Handwritten blue ink on white 7 x 9" unruled paper. 8.Handwritten Note from Harry Fainlight to Esther Whitby [Dear Esther; Harry] Approx. 35 words. Undated. Handwritten blue ink on torn white 7 x 4" unruled paper. 9.Handwritten Note from Harry Fainlight to Esther Whitby [Dear Esther; Harry] Approx. 35 words. Undated. Handwritten blue ink on torn white 6.5 x 8.5" unruled paper.10.Handwritten Letter from Harry Fainlight to Esther Whitby [Dear Esther; Sincerely, Harry] w/ International Paid Reply Coupon (Paperclipped). Dated June 19th (year unknown). Location: Den Cottage SARN Powys, Wales. Handwritten black and blue ink on 6 x 8" white unruled paper.11.Handwritten Letter from Harry Fainlight to Esther Whitby and Robert (Bob) Harbison [Dear Esther + Bob; Best Wishes, Harry). Dated Oct. 11th Year Unknown. Location: Den Cottage, SARN, Powys, Wales. Handwritten black ink on 6 x 8" white paper w/national travel ticket stapled to bottom-left corner.12.Handwritten Letter from Harry Fainlight to Esther Whitby [Dear Esther; Harry]. Undated. Approx. 65 words. Handwritten red ink on 7 x 9" white unruled paper.13.Handwritten Letter from Harry Fainlight to Esther Whitby and Robert (Bob) Harbison [Dear Bob + Esther; Harry). Undated. Location: Den Cottage, SARN, Powys, Wales. Approx 150 words (1 full page). Handwritten black ink on 8 x 10" white, unruled paper. 14.Handwritten Note from Harry Fainlight to Esther Whitby [Dear Esther; Harry]. Handwritten dark green ink on torn 8 x 5.5" unruled sepia paper. Approx. 20 Words. 15.Handwritten Letter from Harry Fainlight to Esther Whitby and Robert (Bob) Harbison [Dear Esther + Bob; Till then, Harry) in Dated/Posted Envelope. Envelope Stamped Sussex Coast 23 Nov, 1976, Addressed to Mrs. Whitby. Letter undated. Location: 14 Wolsten[sic]bury Rd. Hove, Sussex. Approx 100 words. Handwritten Dark Blue ink on 5.5 x 7" unruled, light blue paper. Envelope white w/uk postage.16.Handwritten Letter from Harry Fainlight to Esther Whitby [Dear Esther; Harry]. In Dated/Posted envelope addressed to Esther Whitby, Stamped London SW2. Letter Handwritten on official H.M. Prison Jebb Avenue, Brixton Stationary, with inmate number and official instructions on how to reply to inmate. Approx. 100 words. Handwritten black ink on blue and white ruled prison stationary. White envelope includes what may be forwarding address, though it is difficult to read, below original address. 17.Handwritten Note from Harry Fainlight to Esther Whitby [Dear Esther; Harry] w/photograph mentioned in note to have been taken by Harry Fainlight. Note in Envelope w/UK postage stamped St. John's Wood, dated 17 August 1979 hand-addressed to Esther Whitby. Note Undated. Location: 21 Avenue Road, London NW8. Approx 30 Words. Handwritten Dark blue ink on 5.5 x 7.5" unruled light blue paper. 18.4 x 6" Sepia Photograph mounted on 7 x 9" brown cardboard. Reverse side handwritten date in red ink Jan 7, 1977. ; Numerous; 21 pages; Signed by Author.

London: Turret Bookshop, 1986. Large 8vo., mock blue morocco lettered in black to backstrip; housed in the original unclipped dust wrapper (PS12.50) designed by Ralph Steadman; pp. [iv], v, [i], 78; with black and white photograph frontis of the poet; a couple of brown spots to the DJ, and diry/finger marks; else near-fineFirst edition, limited to 1000 copies. Edited by his sister Ruth, who also provides the Introduction. Ginsberg also provides a short memoir.This copy has been inscribed by Ruth Fainlight, the poet's sister, to the art critic and author Edward Lucie-Smith. Also loosely inserted is an additional compliments card with the poem 'April' inscribed by Bernard Stone, the publisher, in the year of publication. Harry Fainlight (1935-1982) was an Anglo-American poet who was closely associated with the Beat movement in 1960s America. Educated at Cambridge University, Fainlight was a contemporary of Ted Hughes, and with his duel citizenship he travelled freely to and from America, where he met Allen Ginsberg, who later referred to him as "the most gifted poet of his generation". When, at the suggestion of Hughes, Faber and Faber offered to publish his work, he lit a petrol soaked-rag and posted it through the publisher's letterbox - he had suffered with mental illness for the majority of his adult life. He died in 1982 from pneumonia after taking an evening walk.