(no dust jacket) [moderate external wear, light water-spotting to covers, top corners lightly bumped, attractive vintage bookseller's label on rear pastedown (Jones Book Store, Los Angeles)]. First book by the noted American lyric poet and sometime novelist, who in 1937 became the first person named as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. This slim volume contains 67 poems, most no longer than a single page, with an introduction by Padraic Colum. View More...
[shelfworn copy, with several bumped corners, dampstaining at both ends of spine and a bit along the bottom edges of the covers; jacket is age-browned, soiled, small bits of paper loss here and there, heavily water-stained along spine, partially split along rear hinge -- a bit of a fragile mess, frankly, held together only by a shiny new jacket protector]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the poet on the ffep: "For George Kirgo / 'While Shakespeare remains, literature is firm' / Jean Garrigue / Sept 3, 1942, in full-dress moonlight." The first book (and first full-length publication) by this I... View More...
[a little wear to spine ends, otherwise a tight clean book; jacket browned at spine and around edges of front panel, with a few shallow nicks along the top edge]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the ffep: "For Soldadera Ruth / from el / Bandido / Jesse Lasky Jr. / Feb. 1940." Youthful poetry by the son of one of the earliest Hollywood moguls, co-founder of the company that eventually became Paramount Pictures. Jr. went on to a notable screenwriting career, and also produced one of the better movie-biz-scion memoirs, "Whatever Happened to Hollywood?" Signed by Author View More...
[book itself is flawless, as-new with no wear, no marks, no nothin'; jacket would be the same but for a single diagonal crease in the front flap--smoothed out as best I could, but there it is, evidence of a moment's careless handling by some ham-fisted individual (not me)]. Anthology of 200 poems, accompanied with comments by the Americans who chose them -- not critics or writers or (God forbid) celebrities, but regular citizens who responded to co-editor Pinsky's invitation (in his role as Poet Laureate of the U.S.) to write to him about their favorite poems. This book, "in a manner unlike a... View More...
[book very slightly twisted on its axis (unnoticeable when it's sitting on the shelf), otherwise both book and jacket are clean and flawless]. "In this collection Annie Reiner strikes a balance between popular imagery and the intellect, a sense of time and place written in a unique style, but accessible to all. The poems in [this book] are a synthesis of well-turned imagery and cogent observations on the human condition. They address the fragility of love, the pathos of age, and even the poetry of other writers, like Rilke and Beckett. In all of these poems an unforced cadence bears the re... View More...
[lovely copy, in as-new condition]. SIGNED and DATED by the author on the half-title page. Twenty short poems by Wannberg (1953-2011), a longtime fixture on the Los Angeles poetry scene, known not only for his own work but for his enthusiastic recommendations of books to customers of the famous L.A. bookstore Dutton's, where he was employed for many years. One of the pieces, "Cassavetes," is a tribute to the film director John Cassavetes. Signed by Author View More...
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