translated william smith (11 Ergebnisse)

Green Cloth. Zustand: Good. The Family Classical Library (or English translations of the most valuable Greek and Latin classics). Volumes XXI and XXII only, LACKS XX. LACKS VOLUME I Volume II, xvi, 286pp, Volume III, xix, 263pp, foxing to edges and occasionally to pages, green cloth with black printing to spine and upper board, some stains, spines tanned, corners bumped. Size: 6.5 x 4.25 Inches. Classical Literature.

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. Second printing. Volume two only. Translated and with a Preface by William Jay Smith and Leif Sjoberg. Trade paperback. 55pp. Small stain and faint crease on front panel, else a very good copy. From the library of poet David Ignatow with his label affixed to the inside cover. Inscribed by translator Leif Sjoberg, to David Ignatow: "for David Ignatow, with love & admiration, Leif" (on the title page). Originally published in 1979 by the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh International Poetry Forum, Volume II of the Byblos Editions-230 copies printed. Long narrative poem.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Reprint. 287pp. Corners bumped, near fine. Signed by William Jay Smith on the title page with his penned correction made on copyright page. Additionally, Inscribed to fellow author Daniel Hoffman by William Jay Smith. Poetry.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First UK Edition. First impression of the first UK edition - a bilingual edition with parallel Russian and English text - published in 1968 in a wrappers issue and this scarcer hardcover issue. Translated from the Russian by W. H. Auden, Jean Garrigue, Max Hayward, Stanley Kunitz, Stanley Moss, William Jay Smith and Richard Wilbur. Typeset in the USA. ***Near fine in black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles. The boards are clean - just slightly rubbed and marked. Head and tail of spine uncreased. Corners sharp. No bumps or creases. No reading creases to the spine. Top edge of page block slightly foxed and dusty. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Internally also near fine, with no inscriptions or annotations. Pages bright. No creases or tears. ***In a near fine dustwrapper, just slightly marked at the edges and to the back panel (being white). The dustwrapper has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of 45s. net. Some rubbing and creasing at the edges, mainly at the top of the spine and top edge of the back panel, which also has a smallish closed tear. No serious creases, chips or tears. ***296 pages with 20 pages of notes at the back of the book. ***'Andrei Andreyevich Voznesensky (12 May 1933 - 1 June 2010) was a Soviet and Russian poet and writer who had been referred to by Robert Lowell as "one of the greatest living poets in any language." He was one of the "Children of the '60s," a new wave of iconic Soviet intellectuals led by the Khrushchev Thaw. Voznesensky was considered "one of the most daring writers of the Soviet era" but his style often led to regular criticism from his contemporaries and he was once threatened with expulsion by Nikita Khrushchev. He performed poetry readings in front of sold-out stadiums around the world, and was much admired for his skilled delivery. Some of his poetry was translated into English by W. H. Auden. Voznesensky's long-serving mentor and muse was Boris Pasternak, the Nobel Laureate and the author of Doctor Zhivago. Before his death, he was both critically and popularly proclaimed "a living classic", and "an icon of Soviet intellectuals"'. (Wiki) ***A nice bright collector's copy of the much scarcer hardcover issue of this work. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.***.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. reissue edition. 552 pages. 8.25x5.25x1.30 inches. In Stock.

New Rivers Press. 1996. Printed wrappers. 207 (1) pp. Very good condition.

Full Leather Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. Fifth Edition, Corrected and Improved. 1757. Fifth edition, corrected and improved. 220pp. Cassius Longinus (c.213- 273 AD), also known as Dionysius Cassius Longinus was a Greek rhetorician and philosophical critic. The author of 'On the Sublime' is unknonw but generally credited to Longinus. It is a Greek work of literary criticism dated to the 1st century and is regarded as a classic work on aesthetics and the effects of good writing. The treatise highlights examples of good and bad writing from the previous millennium, focusing particularly on what may lead to the sublime. The book is bound in contemporary full leather boards with gold titling on a leather label and five raised bands on the spine. The case of the book is in very good condition with some expected scuffing to the leather on the boards. There is wear with a small boit of loss to the leather on the tips of the top corners and about 1/8" is missing from the top of the spine. The top 1" of the leather on the front and rear spine edges is split with a little loss and there is a thin split of about 1" on the bottom of the spine edges. The contents are tight and clean apart from a few small marks and some staining on the last page (page 220). The front endpapers and pages i to xxv have some old insect damage on the fore margin that varies in extent, but the text is not affected. Pages 116 onwards have a few snall insect holes on the botttom margin. There is a small hole near the middle of the rear fixed endpaper together with a little damage to board. There is no inscription.

Zustand: Good. Two vols 2& 3 on pochek half bound calf leather and marbled boards.

FIRST US EDITION. 8vo. Quarter yellow cloth, spine lettered in blue, patterned pale blue boards. Illustrated endpapers. Spine sunned and blotched, uneven bands of offsetting to boards, extremities bruised, corners worn. Edges toned. Front joint tender, ownership signature of "W. J. Smith" inscribed to ffep in black biro, rusty echo of a paperclip and kidney bean-shaped stains to reverse, and faintly visible on endpaper and through to title page, a few dog-eared pages. Else, clean. Dust jacket supplied: printed in black, illustrated and lettered in blue, yellow, green and white: wear and chipping to spine ends, some rubbing, nicking and spotting, short closed tear to top of front panel. Good/ good+ A well-handled contemporary poetic association copy of the first US edition of Elizabeth Bishop's translation of the diary of a Brazilian girl in the "far-off" provincial diamond-mining town, Diamantina: the American poet, William Jay Smith's copy. A near contemporary and a fellow prize-winning American poet, William Jay Smith (19182015) also followed Bishop in being appointed Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, 1968-1970 (the nineteenth appointee; Bishop was eighth, serving 1949-50). He later described her as a "tutelary spirit," alongside Edwin Arlington Robinson, Marianne Moore, Theodore Roethke and Louise Bogan; Smith had first come across Bishop's poetry as a college freshman in 1935, and, like Bishop (and Moore), he "adore[d] particulars and exact observation" and "emphasize[d] wit and the skillful use of traditional forms" (Frank, 1998). He was not, however, a fan of her prose, observing much later in a CPR interview: "Elizabeth Bishop wrote a few essays but they were much inferior stylistically to her poems. It was clear that she had devoted less time and attention to them than she had to her poems"; sadly, no notes or marginalia feature here to hint at his thoughts on her work as a translator. We do, however, have Bishop's thoughts on Smith's translation of Jules Laforgue (and the impossibility of translating poetry); her mostly favourable review, 'The Manipulation of Mirrors,' had been published the year before in New Republic. A Brazilian literary favourite, which had been repeatedly recommended to Bishop, in her introduction the poet likens sections to Chaucer and "Wordsworth's poetical children and country people, or Dorothy Wordsworth's wandering beggars," whilst "occasionally entries referring to slavery seemed like notes for an unwritten, Brazilian, feminine version of Tom Sawyer". It did not sell well, nor bring in the income for which Bishop had wished. MacMahon A4; Elizabeth Frank (1998) 'The Pleasures of Formal Poetry,' The Atlantic; CRP Interview.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First edition. Page edges toned, else near fine in spine-toned, very dust jacket. Signed by William Jay Smith on the title page and additionally Inscribed by him to noted poetry editor and designer Harry Ford: "For Harry and Elizabeth Ford with affectionate greetings and best wishes, Bill Smith. Florence. September 1956.".

5th edition, corrected and improved. 8vo, viii,216pp. Spotted and foxed throughout, ownership inscriptions on free endpaper "J. O. Underwood 1817 / J Underwood Tower London Nov. 1831". Contemporary full calf, spine label, worn and torn with loss. G-.