Verlag: SVU Press, Washington DC, 1992
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
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Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Very good plus. Paperback is a nice clean copy, except for slight warping causing curving of cover and pages. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
Verlag: SVU Press, Washington, D. C., 1980
ISBN 10: 0936570024 ISBN 13: 9780936570020
Paperback. Zustand: Good+. Unmarked, except for previous owner's name on inside cover. Mild wear on some caarners and edges. ; Book Description; Spine has no signs of creasing. Pages are clean and not marred by notes or folds. Covers are square with minor wear. Ships Safe and Fast. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 121 pages DF1.
Verlag: SVU Press, Washington DC, 1988
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. Very good in wrappers. Paperback, rubbed at spine ends and lightly bumped corners, pages browned at edges. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
Verlag: SVU Press - possibly in conjunction with Columbia University, New York City [?], 1980
ISBN 10: 0936570008 ISBN 13: 9780936570006
Anbieter: Bolerium Books Inc., San Francisco, CA, USA
Paperback. 53p., decorated wraps, numerous b&w sketch illustrations (badly reproduced), 8.5x5.5 inches, very good condition. Text in facing English & Czech. First blank is an inscribed presentation in ink, in Czech, by 'Zerlina & Gwen', following which an ownership with contact info (a different handwriting). FYI, a different translation, rendering Seifert's title as 'The Plague Column', was published in 1979. Cold war thoughts. but text concludes with the elderly Seifert (b.1901) feeling up his hospital nurse.
Verlag: Washington, D.C.: SVU Press 1988, 1988
OBrosch., 285 Seiten, 16,5 x 23 cm, von außen etwas abgegriffen, vorderer Deckel geknickt, innen altersgemäß ausgeblichen, insgesamt noch guter Zustand. Book Language/s: English.
Verlag: SVU Press, 1980
ISBN 10: 0936570016 ISBN 13: 9780936570013
Anbieter: Blindpig Books, Salt lake city, UT, USA
Zustand: Good. 0936570016 Unmarked text. Some wear. Good reading copy. Ex-library: stickers, stamps etc.
Verlag: Prague, Czech Republic: SVU Press, 1980, 1980
ISBN 10: 0936570016 ISBN 13: 9780936570013
Anbieter: ModernRare, CHICAGO, IL, USA
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Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 111 pages. Published in 1980. Retrospective collection of poems. The single best introduction to the poetry of Jiri Orten. The first and only edition. Published in a small and limited print run as a Bilingual Softcover Edition only. The First Edition is now rare. Presents Jiri Orten's "Elegie Elegies" in definitive translations by Lyn Coffin, his most dedicated translator in English. Poetry that is necessary and sublime. The original poems in Czech are presented on the left-hand side and the English translations en face. The collection is presented in two sequences: The first part is a selection of lyrical poems while the second consists of the relentless "Elegies" Suite, nine Numbered Poems ("Elegie Number One" and so on) that match - if not surpass - Rainer Maria Rilke's "Duino Elegies". Now regarded as one of the seminal poets of the 20th century by such authoritative figures as Edward Hirsch, Jiri Orten's abbreviated life, as a persecuted and finally, as a murdered Jew in Holocaust Era Europe, was nothing less than miserable from beginning until the end. Ran over by an ambulance, of all things, he was rushed to the General Infirmary, but upon arriving, was refused medical attention altogether because he was a Jew. He died two days later. "The dream I dream is of longing. The sort that dawn erases / before one awakes. This is the country where the raven is king" (Jiri Orten). An absolute "must-have" title for Jiri Orten collectors. This title is a great collection. This is one of few copies of the First Edition/First Printing (Bilingual Czech/English) still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. This is, by far, the best copy we have ever seen. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws because the book is a very fragile softcover, inexpensively produced by SVU Press The Czech Republic, in order to gain mainstream appeal. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. One of the greatest poets of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER COPY OF THIS TITLE IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0936570016. no.