Winter News by Haines, John - 1966

Wesleyan, 1984. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Weslyan, 1967. SIGNED. Near fine pictorial stiff wraps with crisp bright text throughout. Fully signed by the poet on the half title page

Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1966. Hardcover. VG-/Good+; clean, tight contents; dj rubbed on back cover; tape ghosts on end papers from Mylar cover; art school ex-lib. with usual marks.. Grey cloth/boards; black lettering. Grey illus. dj with black lettering. 71 pp. with no illus. Poet and essayist John Haines was born in 1924 and studied art and painting at the National Art School, the American University, and the Hans Hoffmann School of Fine Art. In 1947, Haines bought a 160-acre homestead claim 80 miles outside of Fairbanks, Alaska, intending to pursue painting. According to Haines, when his paints froze, he turned to writing. "One would be tempted to call him a philosophic poet if his imagination were not so frequently mythic. He deals in serious ideas, but the concepts are not presented abstractly. They are revealed in bare narrative terms like ancient legends, half obscured by time." - Biographer Dana Gioia.

Wesleyan University Press. Very Good. 1966. Hardcover. First edition. Review slip laid in. Dj lightly soiled and rubbed, thin line offset to end papers from dj flaps. .

Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1966. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/near fine. Clothbound octavo in dustwrapper. 71 pp. First edition of Haines' first book of poems. Although born in Virginia, Haines is best known as a frontier poet in Alaska where he lived for many years in a house he built himself. A Guggenhein Fellowship winner and former poet laureate of Alaska. A handsome near fine copy in just slightly worn price-intact dustwrapper. A very sharp example and quite scarce in this clothbound edition.