double dream spring von ashbery john (15 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.36.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.7.

Zustand: Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Softcover. First Edition, Third Printing. Octavo, 95 pages. In Very Good condition. Spine blue-grey with white and black lettering. Price uncut on rear flap, "$3.95" Edges slightly softened all around perimeter. Minor scuffing and small nicks across lightly soiled covers. Minor age-toning on covers and throughout textblock. Shelved Poetry. 1390394. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Softcover. First Edition. Octavo, 95 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Spine is sharkskin blue with black and white lettering. Wraps have mild age-toning along rear cover, mild bending wear to front fore corner, and a ~1.5in. scuff along front cover. Textblock has mild age-toning along head edge; faint black date stamp on half-title page, rear cover interior moderately foxed from laid-in newspaper clipping of a Peter Porter poem, still present. Signed flat on title page by John Ashbery. Shelved Room C. 1397210. Special Collections.

Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. First edition, wrappered issue. A bit of creasing on the lower wrap, near fine. Inscribed by Ashbery on the title page: "for Michael Curtis / John Ashbery.".

First edition, first printing. Inscribed association copy (Lee Harwood's copy) with, loosely laid in, a four page (two leaves) typescript, including manuscript emendations, title, and signature in the poet's hand, of the five 'Poèmes Françaises', the English versions of which are included in the book. Original green paper-covered boards, quarter-bound in black cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in dustwrapper. A very near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout. Spotting to the upper edge of the text block. In the clean, bright dustwrapper, lightly rubbed to spine tips and corners. Not price-clipped ($4.95 to the front flap). Also included is a copy of the Autumn 1966 volume of 'Tel Quel' where the French Poems appeared in their original form (their sole appearance in print), the white card wraps lettered in black and brown to front and rear panels. A little dusty with a few small marks, the spine a little darkened, it is otherwise in very good shape indeed, the contents clean throughout. An outstanding association copy of one of Ashbery's greatest collections. Inscribed by Ashbery in blue ink to the front free endpaper, "For Lee / with my love / John / 7 January 1970". The recipient is the English poet Lee Harwood. Ashbery lived in Paris for most of the 1960s, but the two first met in London. As Harwood recounts: "It was about 1965. [Ashbery] came over from Paris he was working [.] and writing art columns for the Herald Tribune and did a reading at the US embassy, and I went along. I was impressed but I wasn't quite sure what was happening there. Then afterwards there was a party and I got to know him there, and after that I went over to stay with him several times in Paris. Then he had to move back to the States. In the mid- to late 60s I was spending a lot of time going back and forth to New York, and I usually stayed with him. A lovely warm friendship built up between us." The two were, for a while, lovers (Harwood's volume, The Man with Blue Eyes (1966) is a chronicle of sorts of the affair the two poets conducted between 1965 and 1966). Although Harwood was the "junior" figure, poetic influence was exerted in both directions, Harwood one of a handful of contemporary English poets that became important to Ashbery (F. T. Prince and Mark Ford being the others examined in Oli Hazzard's monograph, 'John Ashbery and Anglo-American Exchange' [Oxford, 2018]). 'The Double Dream of Spring', Ashbery's fourth full collection, occupies a special place among the poet's books, including some of his finest poems, among them 'Soonest Mended', 'For John Clare', and the extended concluding 'Fragment'. The latter, written between December 1964 and March 1965, is cast in fifty ten-line 'dizains' (after Maurice Sceve's huge 449 dizain 'Délie' of 1544): part love poem, part elegy for the poet's recently deceased father, it is one of the most beautiful poems of the late twentieth century. As the note at the end of the volume explains, the sequence of five 'French Poems' (pp. 37-40) were originally written by Ashbery in French after which he translated them into English, "with the idea of avoiding customary word-patterns and associations". The French versions were published in the Parisian journal 'Tel Quel' in the Autumn of 1966. Curiously, the note accompanying the printed French versions speaks of the poet "Playing with two languages within a single work, John Ashbery [.] establish[ing] here, between himself and the poem, a distance which allows him to discover and to make use of that which is foreign in the language familiar to him, and that which is familiar to him in the foreign language" (translation by Sara Lundquist), both notes supporting Lundquist's seeing the poems "as a locus of Ashbery's complex linguistic self-consciousness", the poetry existing somewhere between the two languages. Ashbery composed at the typewriter and loosely laid into Harwood's copy of 'The Double Dream of Spring' is the/a typescript of the original five 'Poèmes Françaises', laid out across two single-sided sheets, titled and signed by the author in blue ink; Ashbery's signature appears in the same blue ink at the foot of both pages, the first scribbled out (perhaps because it comes in the middle of the sequence). There are a number of corrections, deletions and emendations, both typed and in manuscript (the latter including the accents unavailable to a typewriter).'Tel Quel. 27', the 1966 volume of the French literary journal in which the French versions appeared in print for the first and only time, is written in pencil (also in the poet's hand) at the head of the first page.A copy of the the journal is included with the book.The typescript was evidently given to Harwood by Ashbery. Although the English versions in the book are dedicated to the artist Rodrigo Moynihan and his (second) wife, Anne, it is likely that the French poems,written during the period when the two poets were at their closest, are tacitly dedicated to Harwood. (Sara L. Lundquist, Légèreté et Richesse: John Ashbery's English "French Poems", 'Contemporary Literature', Autumn 1991; Kermani A17) Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. 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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First edition. Fine in nominally rubbed very near fine dust jacket. Inscribed by John Ashbery a month before the publication date: "For Ted with best wishes John 1/7/70." Laid in is a complimentary card from the publisher and author stating that this title will be published on February 7th.

hardcover. Zustand: fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: near fine. First. 95p. cloth backed boards, d.w. New York: Dutton, (1970). First Edition. Signed by Ashbery on the title page. A near fine copy, with a touch of fading to the edge of the boards & spine, and a lightly edge-worn, price intact dust wrapper.

Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Signed by John Ashbery on the title page and inscribed to a former owner, dated 1/7/70, pre-publication. Advance copy, with publisher's card with compliments of the author laid in Bound in publisher's black cloth spine over green paper-covered boards. Very Good with sunning to edges of boards, foxing and dust-soiling to textblock edge. In a Very Good dust jacket, unclipped, with wear to the extremities and a short closed tear to the bottom edge of the front panel, fading and scuffs to the spine panel, foxing to the front flap and blank verso. A nice advance copy, signed and inscribed by the poet.

Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Signed by John Ashbery on the title page and inscribed to a former owner. Bound in publisher's black cloth spine over green paper-covered boards. Near Fine with slight fading at edges, in a Near Fine dust jacket with price intact, light rubbing, light edge wear and light rubbing at spine ends. A lovely copy, signed by the poet.