william hearn thomas (5 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. semi stiff card covers - lightly worn.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 98 pages. cover worn.

Hardback. Zustand: Fair. Signed; rebound, ex lib.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Softcover shelf worn, some stains and marks mainly to boards, some foxing spots, pages clean and bright. Publisher: Clark & Matheson n/d but circa 1960 Clark & Matheson n/d but circa 1960. First edition, signed by William Hearn Thomas. Describing over 70 years of thrilling experience as a news journalist. Inscribed by Author(s).

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Nos. 1-9, all published. Octavos. Illustrated in black and white and tipped-in color plates. Printed wrappers. Modest general wear with a couple of tiny tears at the spine, most color plates neatly reattached, first two volumes with hinges neatly strengthened, Number 2 with a small foredge stain affecting the a small area of the margins of the second half of the text, and Number 1 with a bit of cover erasure and a bit of loss at the spine, a very good set. Text highlights include "The Night's Children" by Jean Genet (translated by Bernard Frechtman); "Japanese Goblin Poems" (translated by Lafcadio Hearn); "Forerunners of Modern Music" by John Cage; "Two Poems about Heaven and Earth" by Kenneth Patchen; "To Walter de la Mere" by T.S. Eliot; "The Gift of Understanding" and "The Landfall" by Thomas Merton; "The Furies" by Weldon Kees; "At the Edge of the Forest" by Raymond Queneau (translated by Ralph Manheim); and "Demolition Proejct" by William Stafford, among many others. In 2002 Yale's Beinecke Library organized an exhibition of Ruth and John Stephan's work, with an emphasis on *The Tiger's Eye*. Reviewing the exhibition and accompanying catalog for *The New York Times*, Roberta Smith wrote: "the magazine, which took its title from William Blake, was one of the few that 'took visual art as seriously as literature.' It was also an eccentric mom-and-pop operation, put together with love, sophistication and a fair amount of attitude, as well as Ruth's money. (Her family owned Walgreen's).'" A complete run of this important and nicely-produced mid-Century journal.