geography iii von bishop elizabeth, Signiert (5 Ergebnisse)

First edition, first printing From the library of poet William Matthews and fully signed and dated by Matthews on the opening flyleaf. Near fine in like illustrated dust jacket with just the gentlest of use. The poet's last book. Payment by personal check or Paypal is required, thank you.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. FIRST. A FINE FIRST IN DJ. signed BY ELIZABETH BISHOP ON TITLE PAGE. Signed by Author(s).

Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Signed by Elizabeth Bishop and inscribed to a former owner on the title page. Bound in publisher's original brown cloth with spine lettered in gilt, Fine, in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket which is faintly soiled and faintly shelf-worn. A fantastic copy, signed by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet.

Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good+. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Signed by Elizabeth Bishop and warmly inscribed, "For Isle and Kit - I always seem to be signing my books years later for you- anyway - lots of love ^ again! - Elizabeth." Kit Barker, the inscribee, was a British artist. Of Ilse Barker, The Guardian wrote in her obituary, "In the world of literature, she is now perhaps best known as the influential American poet Elizabeth Bishop's 'Dear Ilse,' a reference to their mutual passion for letter-writing which nurtured a friendship begun at Yaddo, an artists' retreat in New York State, in 1950." [xii], 50 pp. Bound in publisher's original brown cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Very Good+ with light edge wear; top edge dust soiled with moderate foxing to all edges. Pastedowns are irregularly toned. In a Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with light edge wear. An acclaimed final work by the American poet with many of her best-known poems such as "One Art," "In the Waiting Room," "The Moose," and "Crusoe in England." A nice association copy between Bishop and British couple the Barkers (whose collection of correspondence with Bishop is held at Princeton).

First edition, first printing, review copy with the publisher's compliments slip laid-in, inscribed by the author on the title page to fellow poet Elizabeth McFarland, "For Liz Hoffman - love - from Elizabeth Bishop, Nov. 11th 1979", with one sheet of hand-corrected typed notes by the poet Daniel Hoffman, husband of McFarland, introducing a reading by Bishop at the University of Pennsylvania. Elizabeth McFarland (1922-2005) was poetry editor of Ladies' Home Journal from 1948-1962, and an instrumental figure in broadening the influence of eminent poets like W. H. Auden, Marianne Moore, Richard Eberhart, and Walter de la Mare, and popularizing promising upcomers like Maxine Kumin, Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich, William Stafford, and John Updike. Daniel (1923-2013) called his wife a "one-woman Guggenheim Foundation" as she fought for fair pay for poets. Together they were a formidable poetic pairing: he was the 22nd Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, a much decorated author of nine books of poetry, and the Felix E. Schelling Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. Bishop was invited to the university in 1979 to award a number of annual poetry prizes, including the Ellis Ames Ballard memorial prize, and give a reading of her own work. Daniel's introduction refers to this, "her most recent book", and praises Bishop's career: "there is no prize of honor for a poet in this country which has not been given to Elizabeth Bishop. when we read [her] poems we feel as does the old fisherman in her poem 'At the Fishhouses', dipping his hand into the sea". Bishop has misdated her inscription: she died on 6 October 1979 of a stroke. Dan Hoffman, "Elizabeth McFarland, a Poet Who Brought Poetry to the Millions", Poetry Society, available online. Octavo. Original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, tan endpapers. With dust jacket. Illustrated title page. Loosely inserted are two newspaper clippings, one a review of Geography III, the other an obituary of Bishop. Trivial scratch to rear cover, front inner hinge just starting. A near-fine copy in fine jacket.