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SEIOBO THERE BELOW

by LASZLÓ KRASZNAHORKAI

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1781255105
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** SIGNED BY AUTHOR & TRANSLATOR**
Octavo, 451 pages. In As New condition with a a Very Fine dust jacket. Spine black with white and gray lettering. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering, price uncut: "£16.99." Textblock lightly age toned. Signed by Lazlo Krasznahorkai and Ottilie Mulzet, Krasznahorkai was awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art."
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Finalist for the 2015 Man Booker International Prize.Beauty, in László Krasznahorkai's new novel, reflects, however fleeting, the sacred - even if we are mostly unable to bear it.In Seiobo There Below we see the Japanese goddess Seiobo returning to mortal realms in search of perfection. An ancient Buddha being restored; the Italian renaissance painter Perugino managing his workshop; a Japanese Noh actor rehearsing; a fanatic of Baroque music lecturing to a handful of old villagers; tourists intruding into the rituals of J…Read more

The Dead Father

by Donald Barthelme

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**VERY RARE SIGNING. 1ST PRINT, 1ST EDITION**
New York, FSG, 1975. First edition. First printing. Hardbound. Fine in a fine jacket. A clean tight copy. Publisher's price intact on front jacket flap ($7.95).Slight crease line to the right of the price. Dust jacket is Mylar jacket protected. Jacket design by Ruth Ansel (illustrator). [octavo], black cloth boards, gilt spine titles, gray end papers, pictorial dust jacket, 177 pp. A short experimental novel in which a group of characters drag the corpse of a tyrannical, still-talking father across a surreal landscape to be buried. The book dismantles traditional plot and authority by mixing myth, psychoanalysis, jokes, lists, philosophical dialogue, and narrative fragments. The author's second novel, after "Snow White."
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"There is nothing unusual about the foot, except that it is seven meters high." Nineteen people are dragging, by means of a cable, an immense carcass through the countryside. The carcass is that of the Dead Father…Read more

Rustic Elegies

by Edith Sitwell

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**INSCRIBED, SIGNED, FIRST EDITION**
Sitwell (Edith) Rustic Elegies. Duckworth, 1927, FIRST EDITION, frontispiece portrait by Cecil Beaton, a few spots at page-heads, additional foxing spots on exterior pages and pages 1-7, other light foxing spots, half-title browned, pp. 94, [1, Notes], crown 8vo, original black cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in red, the latter a little faded, a few spots to edges, dustjacket with darkened backstrip panel, very good.
Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf, to a fellow-poet:
'Evan Morgan, with all best wishes from Edith Sitwell' The recipient, Viscount Tredegar, was a man in the inner circle of both the Vatican and Aleister Crowley; a poet and painter, his talent for intrigue and scandal outstripped his artistic abilities, and he was the basis for characters in the novels of Ronald Firbank and Aldous Huxley.
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The collection, first published in 1927, features several poems that explore themes of time, fashion, and human emotion.







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Selected Poems

by Theodore Roethke

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1931082782
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As New, 1st print (full # line), text new looking tight clean unmarked, NO age toning, boards likewise clean & undamaged, dust jacket NOT price-clipped, dj is as new and protected in mylar. As New condition overall.
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Theodore Roethke: Selected Poems, edited by Edward Hirsch for the American Poets Project. This collection offers a comprehensive look at Roethke's work, exploring several key themes and characteristics of his poetry:

Autobiographical focus: The poems range from recollections of his Michigan youth to the visionary longings just before his death, often drawing on childhood experiences to find self-knowledge.
Existential and emotional depth: Roethke embarked on a quest to restore wholeness to a self that seemed broken, embracing the vulnerable aspects of life and exploring the "unfathomable depths of his own being".
Formal variety: His work is shaped by an exacting formal stringency, using both vigorous cadences similar to Yeats and the more spacious idiom found in Whitman's…Read more

Wanderer’s Daysong

by Denise Levertov

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Fine First edition limited to 240 copies, printed on Frankfurt paper and signed by Levertov; 10 copies were printed on Hayle paper; 8vo, pp. [24]; original blue cloth-backed decorative paper-covered boards, printed paper label on spine; spine a little sunned, all else very fine condition. From the library of Allan Kornblum, poet, fine press printer, and publisher who founded Coffee House Press
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Denise Levertov was a renowned poet known for combining a spiritual or mystical view of the world with the specific details of nature and everyday life. Her work often evolved to include strong social and political consciousness, particularly in response to events like the Vietnam War, weaving together personal and political themes. She was considered a subtle and profound poet of her generation.

Lady Oracle

by Margaret Atwood

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0671223399
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**SIGNED, FIRST EDITION**
Fine in near fine dust jacket with the slightest wear along the lower edge of the dust jacket. Pages are clear, clean, and crisp. Slight crease on top right corner of front board, small blemishes on from board cover as illustrated in photos. Great copy of this book!
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An original and compelling work in which Margaret Atwood passes one woman's bizarre life through the prism of her unique literary vision. The shy, awkward wife of a perpetual radical, Joan Foster is a formerly obese woman whose delicate equilibrium is threatened by the fact that the several lives she has lived separately and secretly are coming together and will be exposed. She is newly and notoriously famous as a bestselling author; she writes gothic novels under a nom de plume; she is having a hidden affair. Love, fear, understanding, suspense, sensuality, and humour – there is hardly an emotional current that is not touched in Lady Oracle, and with a depth, vitality, and wit that are rare in …Read more

The Sense of an Ending

by Julian Barnes

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0224094157
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An as new copy of the UK Edition of "The Sense of an Ending" which was SIGNED by Julian Barnes. Book is crisp and unread copy, prtotected in mylar. "The Sense of an Ending" is the story of one man coming to terms with the mutable past. Laced with trademark precision, dexterity and insight, it is the work of one of the world's most distinguished writers. A stunning black fore-edge together with a wraparound. In October of 2011, the book was awarded the MAN Booker Prize. The judges took 31 minutes to decide the winner and head judge, Stella Rimington, said "The Sense of an Ending" was a "beautifully written book" and the panel thought it "spoke to humankind in the 21st Century." "The Sense of an Ending" also won the Europese Literatuurprijs and was on the New York Times Bestseller list for several weeks.
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Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour…Read more

The Virgin and the Gipsy

by D. H. Lawrence

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First U.S. edition hardcover, Fine bound in dark orange cloth, with black or dark brown lettering on front cover, and decorative spine with green and black (or dark brown) decoration, and dark brown or black lettering in amazing condition. Dust Jacket has seen better days, rubbing/scuffing/chipping, but boards and book are tight and sound. (Please see photos). Slight scoliosis of the spine, otherwise divine.. Normal age-toning to edges of pages. Fiction. Novella. British. Classics. DB.
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The Virgin and the Gipsy is a short novel by D. H. Lawrence, published posthumously in 1930. The story explores themes of youthful desire versus societal constraints, focusing on the character of Yvette Saywell.










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Protagonist and Setting: Yvette, a sheltered rector's daughter, lives in a repressed and stifling rectory in the English countryside.






Conflict: Yvette yearns for a life beyond her mundane existence and the expectations of her overbearing family.






T…Read more

The First Four Books of Poems

by W. S. Merwin

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0689106688
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** SIGNED, FIRST EDITION ** About this Item
New York: Atheneum, 1975. First Edition Stated. Octavo; publisher's linen in black unclipped dust jacket; x,261pp. Very light shelf wear to jacket margins, toning on boards around perimeter (please see photos, I tried my best to show the worst case scenario, haha)no foxing, crease on dust jacket by $12.50 price, unclipped, beautiful pages that are bright and appear unread. Spine is immaculate and boards are tight, square, and sound. Signed by the author on half title page and dated Oct 1982, New Haven.
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The First Four Books of Poems is an anthology by the American poet W.S. Merwin, gathering all the poetry from his early career. Summary

Content: The book compiles Merwin's first four published poetry collections into a single volume.
Included Works: It features his debut work, A Mask for Janus, which won the Yale Younger Poets Award in 1952, along with The Dancing Bears, Green with Beasts, and The Drunk in the Furnace.
Significance: This collection allows re…Read more

Flow Chart

by John Ashberry

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0679402012
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** SIGNED, AS NEW, 1ST EDITION ** About this Item
Square Octavo, 216 pages. As New condition with an As New dust jacket. Unread crisp pages with sharp corners Spine red with white lettering. Dust jacket protected with mylar covering, price uncut: "$20.00". No age toning to edges of dust jacket and edges or boards. No foxing, best copy out there.. Signed by Ashbery on title page.
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Flow Chart: A Poem by American poet John Ashbery. First published in 1991, it is a single, book-length poem, one of the longest ever written by an American poet.










Here is a summary of its content and themes:





Subject Matter: The poem is a meditation on life, death, and everyday realities, perceived through self-reflection. Ashbery described it as a "continuum, a diary".






Style and Structure: It is composed of more than 5,000 lines of free verse in six connected movements. The language uses standard grammar and syntax, but the meaning is often elusive, challenging the reader to keep up with its flow.
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ATTIC

by Katherine Dunn

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Octavo. First printing. First book by the author. 134pp., An under 30 adult fantasy. Bound in brown paper covered boards backed in blue cloth, spine lettering black. fine copy in unclipped near fine pictorial dust jacket with a solid spine and boards. Amazing copy of this book!
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Attic is the debut novel by acclaimed author Katherine Dunn. It follows the story of a young woman named Kay who joins a cult-like organization that sells magazine subscriptions.










The narrative focuses on her experiences after she is jailed for trying to cash a customer's bad check. The story is a dark, emotional, and slow-paced account of her time in prison, exploring her thoughts and interactions with other inmates.










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Plot: Kay forms alliances and rivalries with fellow inmates, leading to life-changing interactions.






Themes: The novel explores the darkness within people, focusing on the character's experiences in a confined space. It delves i…Read more

The Collected Poetry of W. H. Auden

by W. H. Auden

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First edition, of the collected poetry of W.H. Auden. Octavo, original cloth. Very fine in a fine dust jacket. Boards are tight, spine is tight, crisp pages and with sharp coroners, 1 foxing spot on exterior of pages. Best copy of this book that I could find!
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The Collected Poetry of W.H. Auden is a comprehensive anthology that brings together the full range of the renowned British-American poetâ s work, showcasing his remarkable versatility and intellectual depth. Spanning his entire career, this collection includes both his early, more experimental poems and his later, more reflective and meditative works. Audenâ s poetry is known for its wide thematic range, encompassing political, social, psychological, and existential concerns, as well as his acute attention to language and form.

High-Rise

by J. G. Ballard

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0030206510
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** FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST PRINTING ** About this Item
First American edition, first printing, As New pages, unread, pages still stick! Sharp boards, spine, and pages. Fine Dustjacket. Bound in publisher's orange paper-covered boards over brown spine cloth lettered in copper. Very Fine with light wear at extremities, no foxing to textblock edges, In a Very Fine unclipped dust jacket. The best copy I could find in bookstores and the internet! Enjoy this amazing book.






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High-Rise by J.G. Ballard. The book is a
speculative novel published in 1975 that explores societal collapse within a luxurious, modern apartment building.










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Setting: The story takes place in a newly built, forty-story high-rise building outside London, designed as a self-contained community with all amenities.






Plot: The residents, initially members of the upper-middle class, gradually abandon social restraints and their lives outside the building as minor technical …Read more

Laments

by Jan Kochanowski

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0374182906
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1st Edition, Very Fine dust-jacket, As new pages, cover price $17.50, fresh attractive hardcover. Toning stains on front of board under dustjacket. Minor toning on board edges. Best copy of this book that I could find. Translated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Seamus Heaney. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1995, stated First Edition, xx, 59pp., . Polish and English on facing pages.
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Polish and English on facing pages. - Jan Kochanowski is one of the great Polish poets of the sixteenth century. Because of its intimate and domestic nature, this poignant series of poems on the death of Kochanowski's young daughter was a radical and rebellious departure from the literary conventions of his day. But it is this same intimacy that now gives Laments a startling potency and realism for contemporary readers. The poems express a candid grief, a profound angst, and an undeniably modern sense of humiliation and religious doubt.

LIES

by C. K. Williams

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** Signed, 1ST PRINTING **About this Item



First printing. A fine copy in a near-fine jacket. A clean copy, but a quarter sized stamp on title page and back (please see photos), otherwise the best copy I could find Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. A few small closed tears and rubbing on jacket (as pictured). The copy has been SIGNED on the title page.
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Lies: Poems" is the first regularly published book of poetry by the American poet C. K. Williams, first published in 1969. This collection introduced Williams as a gifted poet and contains some of his early works.











Author: C. K. Williams
Content: A collection of early poems that helped establish his reputation as a deeply moral poet, a writer of profound emotion, and a teller of compelling stories.






Themes: Williams' work often threads political and social issues with observations of everyday moments and meditations on the self.

The Orlando of Ariosto

by John Hoole

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London, 1808; leather binding with tearing on top of spine. Pages appear masticated and spit out in the form of foxing. (Please see photos) Border corners appeared slightly chewed on by a rat or several, hopefully before rat bite fever epidemic. Spine edges frayed and chipped; most pages are foxing free and still sharp. Otherwise a great copy!

FANTASIA OF THE UNCONSCIOUS

by D. H. Lawrence

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First edition. 297 pp. -Publisher's blue cloth titled in gilt. Board to page 4 have a slight fold on bottom right corner, otherwise pages are clean and crisp with sharp corners. No dustjacket, the book is in amazing condition. Small soil wear on front exterior board. Please see pictures, amazing copy of this book.
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Written in response to psychoanalytical criticism of his novel Sons and Lovers, this book is the follow-up to his first volley, Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious (1921). In addition to his ideas about the unconscious, it ruminates on subjects for which Lawrence was a radical in the tradition of Shelley and Nietzsche: marriage, education, social organization, and political action. Publisher's blue cloth titled in gilt.

PYLON

by William Faulkner

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Small 8vo, blue cloth, d.w. New York: Harrison Smith, 1935. First Edition. The binding is rubbed & faded on the spine; the dust wrapper is tanned & rubbed at the edges, tear on top of spine 1cm. Pages are crisp with toning on edged bit sharp corners.
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Pylon is a novel by William Faulkner, first published in 1935. It is one of the few novels by Faulkner set outside his fictional Yoknapatawpha County, taking place in a thinly disguised New Orleans named New Valois.










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The narrative centers on a transient and unconventional flying team participating in an air show during Mardi Gras. The team includes a pilot (Roger Shumann), a parachutist (Laverne), a mechanic (Jiggs), and Laverne's young son. They live a precarious, hand-to-mouth existence, constantly moving between air shows.










An unnamed local newspaper reporter becomes fascinated by their disorderly and rootless lives. He gets deeply involved with the group, attempting to understand their mode…Read more

a last sheaf

by Denton Welch

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1st Edition 1951. Book is .A collection of prose and poetry with a brace of nine of the author's paintings reproduced in black and white, printed on coated stock, at end. Book is fine and brigh, sharp corners. Toning to all boards and dust jacket. Please refer to photos.
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A Last Sheaf is a posthumous collection of short stories, sketches, and poetry by the English writer and painter Denton Welch, edited by his companion Eric Oliver and published in 1951 by John Lehmann.[1] The volume, spanning 239 pages and illustrated with decorations by Welch himself, gathers unpublished and uncollected works completed before his death, offering insight into his distinctive style characterized by vivid, precise descriptions of everyday life, personal memories, and sensory experiences.[1]Denton Welch, born Maurice Denton Welch on March 29, 1915, in Shanghai to British parents, was the youngest of four sons in a family with roots in England and America.[2] After early education in England and a brief stint studying a…Read more

ON BEING BLUE

by William Gass

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BLUE PENCILS, blue noses, blue movies, laws, and stockings. The dumps, mopes, Mondays; the ocean, the sky, and the deep, deep ice. The Whale. Jay. Ribbon. Fin. The grass in Kentucky. The china in Grandmother s pantry. Of all the colors, blue has the widest range of associations, and the widest bandwidth of emotional tints and shades. It is therefore the most suitable color of interior life. Whether slick light sharp high bright and thin or low deep sweet thick dark and soft, blue moves easily among them all, and all profoundly qualify our states of feeling. This eccentric essay into the "world of blue" is the heart of the heart of Gass s oeuvre.

Fiction and the Figures of Life

by William H. Gass

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** SIGNED, FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING **About this Item
First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 288 pages. Gass' third book, a collection of essays on literary subjects. Gass would go on to win the American Book Award for his novel "The Tunnel." A tight very fine copy in orange cloth boards with an H red stamp the size of a quarter on the bottom right corner endpaper and a small faint spot to the bottom edge of the pages but otherwise fine. Slight foxing spots in exterior edge and bottom. ( please see photos)Fine dust jacket with some very minor wear. Signed by Gass on the title page.
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Fiction and the Figures of Life is a collection of twenty-four essays and reviews by William H. Gass, a master prose stylist and linguist. The book made an immediate and profound impact on critics, with The New York Times Book Review describing the "unlikely combination of criticism, philosophy and metaphorical inventiveness" as resulting in a "kind of poetry". The book explores the intricate relationship betwee…Read more

THE CALL OF THE TOAD

by Gunter Grass

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First English edition, first printing. Flat signed by Grass on half title page. Very fine copy all around (as in photos).
Translated from German by Ralph Manheim. Grass was winner of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature. Very fine copy in as unread condition housed in protective cover. Dust Jacket is near fine with very minor rubbing to back panel
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The Call of the Toad is a novel by Günter Grass, first published in Germany in 1992 as Unkenrufe. It is a story about a German widower, Alexander Reschke, and a Polish widow, Alexandra Piatkowska, who meet and fall in love in Gdańsk after World War II.










The couple decides to start a unique business venture: the Polish-German-Lithuanian Cemetery Association. The goal is to offer burial plots in Gdańsk for Germans who had been exiled from the region after the war, and for Lithuanian Poles to be buried in Vilnius. This enterprise, intended as a way to reconcile nations, quickly becomes a successful commercial endeavor, leading to …Read more

The Double Dream of Spring

by John Ashberry

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** SIGNED, 1ST ECCO PRESS EDITION 1976, 2ND EDITION **
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Octavo, 95 pages. Fine condition. Spine is sharkskin blue with black and white lettering. Wraps have mild age-toning along edges, mild. Pages are bright, clear, with sharp corners. Light tanning and toning along edges of dustjacket, please refer to pictures. Signed flat on title page by John Ashbery. Excellent copy of this book!
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The Double Dream of Spring by John Ashbery is a significant and widely studied poetry collection, originally published in 1970. It is considered one of his masterworks and was essential in establishing the reflective, acute, and modern poetic voice that would later characterize his Pulitzer Prize-winning work.










The collection is known for its groundbreaking nature and features critically acclaimed poems such as "Soonest Mended" and "Fragment". It is a key text for understanding the development of Ashbery's revolutionary style and his contribution to modern poetry.

New Year Letter

by WH. Auden

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Reissue Original red cloth lettered in gold to the spine, in dustwrapper. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout. A little softened to spine tips with a small bump to top and bottom spine. In the dustwrapper, rubbed on top, bottom, and corners (as in pictures) but uncommonly bright. Not price clipped $2.95 stamped on 1st page, 18s net. A very attractive copy.
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The reissue of Auden's books to be published following his move to America in 1939, 'New Year Letter' (published in the US as 'The Double Man') is, as the jacket has it "as difficult to describe as 'The Orators' [1930]." The title poem, an seventy-five page philosophical letter in regular rhyming tetrameter couplets, is followed by an extended commentary keyed to specific lines in the poem drawing upon an extraordinary range of sources, including Chekhov, Henry James, Kierkegaard, Kafka, Rimbaud, Kipling, Shakespeare, Goethe, Milton, Pascal (to name just ten). The book ends with a sequence of twen…Read more
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Interview with Brian of Plot Twist

When did you get started in bookselling?
I started selling books 10 years ago.
What drew you to bookselling?
My Father would send us to book readings when we were young to listen to the writers and obtain their signatures.
Did you have any mentors in becoming a bookseller?
Yes. Amir Naghib (Captain Ahab Rare Books)Brian Cassid7 (Punch Matrix) and Aaron Beckwith (Capitol Hilll Books)
What are your specialties as a dealer?
I specialize in rare signed 1st edition books, typically they are in the best condition compared to sites like AbeBooks
What's the most amazing book you've ever sold?
That’s a tough question to answer because I have sold a lot of great books. My most recent sale was a fine condition of Gravity’s Rainbow at the Washington DC Rare Book Festival.
What is your favorite part of being a bookseller?
I love collecting and sharing great books to the public. I also enjoy sharing conversations that I have had with famous authors. My favorite interaction was with Brett Easton Ellis. He decided to sign over 20 copies of his books that I owned, including, American Psycho amd Less Than Zero.
Do you have an open storefront or have you in the past?
No and I don’t have interest, I do enjoy book festivals though.
What is your favorite bookshop (other than your own)?
Argosy Books
What do you personally like to read? Collect?
Fiction and Sci-Fi.
What's your favorite book you personally own? Would you sell it, if the price were right?
I actually sold my first collection and it’s not a single book. But I kept my signed 1st edition copies of the Xenogenesis trilogy, Octavia E Butler. I am not interested in selling and would like to keep it to enjoy.
What one book would you buy if price were no object?
The Canterbury Tales
If you were stranded on a desert island and could bring three books, what would they be?
1984, The Time Machine, and Ulysses

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