lechlitner ruth (5 Ergebnisse)

Softcover. Zustand: Good. First edition. Quarto wrappers. xxxii, 129-255pp., xxxiii-lxiv. Scattered foxing, yapped edges worn and torn, good only. Contributions by H.L. Mencken, W.M. Walker, Wm. Allen Pusey, John Walker Harrington, Ruth Lechlitner, Duff Gilfond, Robert Joyce Tasker, Charles Angoff, Sadakichi Hartmann, Cornelia H. Dam, Idwal Jones, Emily Clark, Dewey M. Owens, Chloe Arnold, W.A.S. Douglas, Mary J. Elmendorf, Karl Schriftgiesser, and George Jean Nathan.

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. Vol. V, No. 2, Summer 1936. Stapled wrappers. Wrappers soiled and worn, still very good. Contains "A Postcard From the Volcano" by Wallace Stevens, "An Edifice in Time" by Susanna Valentine Mitchell, and more.

First Edition. First edition ltd. to 600 copies, 8vo, pp. [3]-44, [1]; fine copy in the jacket. Cheever 115.

156 pp.; 21.5 x 13.9 cm.; glue bound; black-and-white; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed; First issue of the periodical Praxis. Articles include: "Bruno's Castle or Some Literary Misconceptions," by Gene H. Bell; "Art Against Imperialism," by E. San Juan; "Brecht, Godard and Epic Cinema," by Naomi Greene; "Reflections on Literary Theory and Culture,: by Jon Fekete; "A Shift in Weather (poem)," by Ruth Lechlitner; "Art, Censorship and Socialism," by Stefan Morawski; "Mayakovsky: Language and Death of a Revolutionary," by John Berger and Anya Bostock; "Art as Humanizing Praxis," by Marx W. Wartofsky; "The Living Theatre in Brazil," by Theodore Shank; "The Education to Despair: Some Thoughts on Death in Venice," by Duncan Smith; "Three Drawings," by William Gropper; "The Lumpen Drama of Frank Wedekind," by Frank Galassi; "The End of Criticism: Some Reflections on Radical Practice," by Kingsley Widmer; "Hegemony, Praxis and the novel Form," by Alan Swingewood; "The Contemporary Social Film: Its Contents and Aesthetic Characteristics," by Antonin J. Liehm; Against Duchamp," by Carl Andre; "The San Francisco Mime Troupe Perform Brecht," by Lee Baxandall and The Case for Revolutionary Culture: The Mime Troupe Versus Baxandall," by Ira Schorr. Good. 8.5 cm. area of light soiling to recto and 1 cm. tear to spine edge. Water damage to page 65 through to verso causing inside pages to be stained orange from bleed from recto. Discrete small rubber stamp logo inside rear cover.

First edition. Orange cloth w/ paper label; Large 8vo. No. 543 of 550 total signed copies, although it seems much less common than that. Lechlitner was a prominent leftist poet of the 30's and 40's, married to Paul Corey noted for his Iowa trilogy of novels. They were early ecologists in upstate New York and later in Sonoma, CA where this book was inscribed by Lichtner to Left critic Maxwell Geismar in 1969. (Wald EXILES FROM A FUTURE TIME pp. 234-238.) Corners lightly worn, else about fine with a few inkmarks, mostly corrections to the text. (No dustjacket - as issued?) Poet's first book. Scarce. The Alcestis Press only lasted a few years, but published Robert Penn Warren, William Carlos Williams, Allan Tate and Wallace Stevens among others; usually numbering 165 copies. Considering Lechlitner's book seems to be among the scarcest it seems possible that Latimore failed to print the stated number. Signed.