Nude Descending a Staircase

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1961 First printing of the first edition. Author's First Book and a Lamont Poetry Selection in 1961. Book with faint foxing to outer page edge, mild bump to upper corners, and mild age-toning to endpapers, else in fine condition; dust jacket with mild edge wear, light soiling, and foxing/age-toning along cover margins,… Read more about this item

Doubleday, 1961. hardcover. Good//Good. . 0x0x0. Signed. GOOD/GOOD. *AUTOGRAPHED/SIGNED* by author "Joe Kennedy" on flyleaf with personalized inscription addressed to Steve Moore. Blue jacket, dust jacket in archival plastic protector. Large chips to edges and flap folds of jacket, rubbed and heavily creased spine ends, paper is heavily spotted with light foxing to page edges, text is… Read more about this item

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1961. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Slight toning on the board edges and faint spotting on the endpapers else near fine in a very good dust jacket with rubbing, creasing, tiny tears, and gold foil label affixed to front panel of the dust jacket, stating: "The 1961 Lamont Poetry… Read more about this item

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., (c. 1961.) 1963 reprint of the author's first book of poetry. Signed and inscribed in 1964 with a small sketch of a cityscape. A collection of light-hearted verse that won the Lamont Prize of the American Academy of Poets in 1961. 71 pp. 8vo clothbound hardcover. VG/VG. Sound, tight binding. DJ shows moderate wear,… Read more about this item

Garden City: Doubleday, 1961. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Reprint. Owner's name, and previous owner's name struck through, else near fine in a well-rubbed, about very good dustwrapper. Nicely Inscribed by the author with a goofy drawing.

New York: Doubleday, 1961. First Edition. First edition. 71 pp. Cloth in DJ. Good only as end papers are stained, else near fine, in a very good complete dust jacket with light rubbing to folds (in removable protective archival cover). Without the Lamont sticker.

New York: Doubleday, 1961. First Edition. First printing. Light offsetting,fox spotting to endpapers in a complete lightly worn at crown and tail, mildly foxed dust jacket (in removable protective archival cover). Poet's first book. VG/VG.

NY: Doubleday, 1961. 71pp.Blue cloth, silver lettering, Black vertical line design. Author inscription in blue ink on front endpaper, "For BJ Sternfeld With Best Ever, XJ Kennedy Ann Arbor May 1962". Below the inscription is a drawing of a palm tree by the author. Light creasing at the corners, otherwise a near fine clean copy. Unclipped blue jacket has "The… Read more about this item

Garden City: Doubleday, 1961. Second Printing. Near fine in a rubbed dust jacket with some light wear to the extremities; Lamont Poetry Selection label affixed to the front.. 8vo, 71pp; cloth. The poet's first book, here in a nice presentation copy, inscribed by Kennedy in 1962 to fellow poet Christopher Middleton, and with a copy of Kennedy's "Christmas… Read more about this item

New York: Doubleday, 1961. Later printing Limited Edition. Inscribed (on fep, a birthday gift with drawing of a cake by the author) copy of the poet's first book. Offsetting to end papers and moderate stains to fep, else about fine, in a rubbed, and worn at extremites price-clipped dust jacket (in removable protective archival cover). Overall not quite very… Read more about this item

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1961. Fine (very slight rubbing at corners) in fully intact but heavily rubbed dust jacket (see scan). The first collection of poems by Kennedy, published when he could still be called "a new, young poet," although his work had already appeared in important magazines like the New Yorker and the Paris Review. . 1st Edition.… Read more about this item

New York: Doubleday, 1961. First edition. 71 pp. Cloth in DJ. Very near fine with only light shelfwear, in a very near fine complete dust jacket with light rubbing to folds. A nearly as new copy of the poet's first book. Without the Lamont sticker, a minor issue point but in its favor.

Garden City: Doubleday, 1961. Early Printing. Cloth. Very Good/very good. Cloth 8vo in dustwrapper. Early printing of the poet's first book. With "The 1961 Lamont Poetry Selection" sticker afixed to the front cover as often seen. From the library of poet Allen Fischer with his name and date on the front endpaper. Very good condition in very good… Read more about this item

New York: Doubleday, 1961. First Edition. Stated first edition. Cloth in DJ; 8vo. 71 pp. Near fine with a few spots on the top edge, in a very good mildly foxed worn and rubbed dust jacket (in removable protective archival cover). Poet's first book.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, Inc, 1961. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Later printing. 71pp. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with light wear to the edges and a gold sticker that states "The 1961 Lamont Poetry Selection" on the front panel.

NY: Doubleday, 1961. This is the first edition of the poet's first book. Has a 3 1/2" X 5" signed card laid in. Small press run, so difficult to find in this protected condition.. Signed Card. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Doubleday and Company, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Signed and inscribed on the first page. Binding is tight and square. few light pencil marks on some margins here an there. 'The 1961 Lamont Poetry Selection' Sticker on the upper right corner of the DJ. DJ is now protected by a mylar cover. Moderate rubbing to the edges and… Read more about this item

Doubleday& Company, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover with DJ; some spotting to blue cloth boards, but DJ is in very good condition with only minimal edge wear, not priced clipped, now in protective cover. Includes both a laid in stock card announcing the volume as winner of the 1961 Lamont poetry Selection for the Academy of… Read more about this item

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1961. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Poems by X.J. Kennedy. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1961. Inscribed and signed by the author, with a drawing. 71 pp. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Aqua cloth. Silver lettering to spine and front board. Bumped to head… Read more about this item

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1961 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition / First Printing. Octavo. 72 pp, a first book of verse. Bding tight, pages clean, cloth Near Fine. DJ Very Good. DJ in removable mylar protector. 5.9" x 8.5" blue cloth boards in blue fr & spine, white rear panel DJ.… Read more about this item