Winifred rawlins (13 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Fine hardcover in very near fine dust jacket. Clean and unmarked throughout. Appears unread. Just a touch of surface wear to dust jacket. An attractive copy. 72pp.

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Near fine softcover. Clean and unmarked throughout. Appears unread. Stated first printing. 41pp.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near fine hardcover in very near fine dust jacket. Clean and unmarked throughout except for pencilled titles added to the list of other poetry books by the same author. Appears unread. Just some light age toning to dust jacket from spine about 1/3 of the way across the panel. An attractive copy. 78pp.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. 96 Pages.

Softcover. Zustand: VG, stapled. Cover title. [12] p.; 21.5 cm.

Zustand: VERY GOOD. First printing. An early collection by this Quaker poet and activist, whose beliefs and interests are reflected in her poems. Born in London in 1907, she came to the U.S. in 1957. From 1952 to 1966, she was the head resident at Pendle Hill, the Quaker Study Center, and she also served as director for several Friends' homes for the aged. She was a dedicated pacifist and environmentalist. 75 pp, Very good in very good dust jacket (previous owner's name, short poem handwritten on rear free endpaper, some rubbing to the folds of the dj).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Good. No Edition Stated. 96 pages. No dust jacket. Red pictorial cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Water marks to boards and spine.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition; First Printing. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 72 pages; Tightly bound and fresh in crisp edged and uniformly bright pictorial dust jacket. Short gift inscription in pencil to front endpage. Laid in at front is a prospectus and order form for the book mailed from the publisher in original mailing envelope. NF/NF.…

Decorative Paper. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Edition. Island, 1952. First edition. 8vo. Red and white decorative self-wrapper over boards, black lettering, 42 pp. A collection of poems, including: "Winter Afternoon", "A Traveler Speaks to the Sun", "From a Factory Bench", "The Secret Fountain", "Love Cannot Lose" and "We Who Have Died". Self-wrapper torn at spine and upper right-hand corner on front board, two pages creased where they had been bent-over, owner name on endpaper. Clean, crisp text block. Very good in a good self-wrapper. Protected in a mylar sleeve.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good+. First Edition. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 55 pages; [SIGNED] 1955 Exposition Press. HC/DJ. 1st edition. Snugly bound and neat in original dust jacket with just superficial shelf evidence to edges. Short gift inscription to front endpage. Laid in at front is a long single page typed letter from the author dated Nov 1953. VG++/VG+; Signed by Author.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. [1st edition] ; 78 pp. ; 21 cm. ; ISBN: 0823301354; 9780823301355 LCCN: 77-95849 ; LC: PS3535.A846; Dewey: 811/.5/4 ; OCLC: 52776 ; blue grey and brown textured faux leather with gold lettering and designs in pictorial dustjacket ; sunned ; Contents : Man is a tender plant -- Poem for a Spring in times of crisis -- To my hippie friends on May Day -- Waiting for the summer of '68 -- The poor people -- The view ahead is closed -- How to sink the bucket deep? -- Pure happiness is -- When I touched the flower of your life -- The knowledge-tree -- Old woman in a rest home -- On seeing a jet plane ascending in sunlight -- For Larry and Laurie -- Portrait of an Englishwoman -- For Boris Pasternak -- For Aldous Huxley -- For Kathy -- The Cosmic m an -- For you, my brother -- Brother plantsman -- For Dan -- He was himself the sound he heard -- For Dean, a brown study -- Pre-Copernican wonder -- Are things what they seem? -- Full moon, invitation to a dance -- The sky-blue pleasure -- Hymn -- The world swims in a sea of pure happiness -- The frog pond ---- Blueberry patch in July -- September equinox -- Fall is the human season -- December the twenty-first -- Come snow once more -- Walking through Winter woods -- The cry -- The children rush to unite with the curling waves -- The contraries -- Evening in Connemara -- Boys burnig trash ona rainy night -- Palm thoughts in St. Petersburg -- Mitchel Gardens (an abandoned Air Force Base in Westbury, NY). ; Winifred Rawlins, member of [Quaker] Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, peace and justice activist, and poet, died in February, 1997 at age 90. From 1952 until 1966, she was head resident at Pendle Hill. In October 1949, Rawlins spent 30 days in prison for her part in a demonstration at the French Embassy in Washington, DC. ; FINE/G. Book.…

HARDCOVER. Zustand: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Small 4to. in blue cloth with printed paper label to front cover (as issued), 68pp, numerous illustrations in text . [CONDITION: An unusually well preserved near FINE very clean and tight unmarked copy (covers and pages slightly tanned). Scarce in any condition ] . __To see more of our Poetry books type DbbPOETRY in the Keywords search box . . NOTE: Depending on destination this item may require an extra payment for insurance. If so, orders made by card will be completed only after you have approved any such extra cost. . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.…