Aiken, Conrad; H. D.; Eliot, T. S.; Kreymborg, Alfred; Millay, Edna St. Vincent; Ransom, John Crowe; Untermeyer, Louis; Wylie, Elinor; et al.

American Poetry 1925: A Miscellany.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1925). (1925). - Octavo, dark blue cloth titled in gilt. The binding is lightly rubbed with light spotting to the rear cover. The spine is darkened with its gilt titling obliterated. A few letters of the titling on the front cover are partially rubbed away. xiv & 248 pages. There is a previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown. The gutters are a bit darkened with light soiling to the front endpaper. There are a very few pencil markings in the margins of the text. Good.

First edition.

The foreword is by Louis Untermeyer who explains that this miscellany has no editor. A group of poets were given twenty pages each and made a selection of their own previously unpublished poems. Good .

Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.Professional seller

Book number: 33657

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: LITERATURE; POETRY; AMERICAN POETRY 1925: A Miscellany; POEMS; AMERICAN POETS; CONRAD AIKEN; H. D.; T. S. ELIOT; JOHN CROWE RANSOM; ELINOR WYLIE; ALFRED KREYMBORG; EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY; LOUIS UNTERMEYER; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION.

Davis, Lambert, Editor; John Crowe Ransom

The Virginia Quarterly Review. Vol. 13, No. 4. Autumn 1937

Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia, 1937. Periodical. In orange printed wraps. 8vo. 6-3/4 x 9-3/4 inches. Paginated 481-640. Features poems and stories by C. F. MacIntyre, David Cornell de Jong, John Crowe Ransom, and others. Very slight fading on spine. Interior pages unmarked, binding tight. Near Fine. .

Wittenborn Art BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 59-3525

Catalogue: Books

MENCKEN, H. L.; JOHN CROWE RANSOM; WALLACE STEVENS; ET AL.

Partisan Review (August, 1948; Vol. 15, No. 8)

NY: Added Enterprises, 1948. 1st Edition. First Printing. Soft Cover. Illustrated by Juan Gris. Publisher's printed card wraps. Conrtibutions by Juan Gris, H. L. Mencken, Nicola Chiaromonte, John Berryman, R. P. Blackmur, Robert Gorham Davis, Leslie A. Fiedler, Clement Greenberg, John Crowe Ransom, Wallace Stevens, Lional Trilling, Peggy Bennett, Isaac Rosenfeld, and Elizaberh Hardwick. Covers soiled, interior unmarked, tight, square, and clean. VERY GOOD. Partisan Review Series. Vol. 8/15/2024. Frontispiece. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. (iv), 855-943, (1-adverts) pp. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued .

Round Table Books, LLCProfessional seller

Book number: 29808

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Literature Magazine Periodicals H.L. Mencken Wallace Stevens John Crowe Ransom Partisan Review John Berryman Poetry Novels, Poetry & Literature Fiction Rare, Antiquarian, and Collectible Books

Moore, Marianne, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Cleanth Brooks, John Crowe Ransom, Elizabeth Bishop, and others

Marianne Moore Special Issue of the Quarterly Review of Literature

Annandale-on-Hudson, 1948. First Edition. 0 pp. Soft cover. Near fine with minor sunning and light wear to yapped edges. Three original pieces by Moore and essays by Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Cleanth Brooks, John Crowe Ransom, Elizabeth Bishop, and others. Near Fine.

Library Books / Clayton Fine BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 022450

Ransom, John Crowe; Delmore Schwartz; John Hall Wheelock

American Poetry at Mid-Century. Lectures Presented Under the Auspices of the Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund

Washington: Library of Congress, 1958. 8vo. 49 pp. Very Good, Soft Cover, minor rubbing & staining on covers. Provenance: volume previously owned by artist R. B. Kitaj, whose signature is inked inside cover. .

Wittenborn Art BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 15-4904

Catalogue: Books

Ransom, John Crowe,

Beating the Bushes: Selected Essays 1941-1970.

NY, A New Directions Books, (1972). VG PB. Central to Crowe's pursuit of the poetic image itself the verbal icon and his elucidation in these essays leads him to. consider both Positivist and Naturalist aesthetics.

Crabtree's Collection Old BooksProfessional seller

Book number: BOOKS056538I

Catalogue: Fiction

JOHN CROWE RANSOM.

Chills and Fever. Poems. (INSCRIBED, WITH ALS)

Alfred A.Knopf, New York, 1924. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). Very Good /Poor.

Clearwater BooksProfessional seller

Book number: ARC92738

Catalogue: Poetry

Ransom, John Crowe

"Eliot and the Metaphysicals" in Accent (Spring, 1941)

First Edition. 0 pp. Near fine in original wrappers with sunning. Contributors include Katherine Anne Porter, John Crowe Ransom, Newton Arvin, Lincoln Kirstein, and Josephine Miles.

Library Books / Clayton Fine BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 022030

Ransom, John Crowe

"Humanism at Chicago" in Kenyon Review (Autumn, 1952)

First Edition. 0 pp. Near fine in original wrappers with some darkening.

Library Books / Clayton Fine BooksProfessional seller

Book number: b10783

Ransom, John Crowe; Thomas Daniel Young, ed.

John Crowe Ransom; Critical Essays and a Bibliography

Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Louisiana State University Press, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear to the lime-green cloth covers, gilt lettering over green label, bright interior, unmarked, appears unread. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, moderately worn, sunned at spine, with one short, closed tear, price-clipped, else intact. Another fine contribution to the Southern Literary Studies series, being virtually a festschrift, with contributions by Robert Penn Warren Edwin Berry Burgum, Delmore Schwartz, Cleanth Brooks Randall Jarrell F.O. Matthiessen and Donald A. Stauffer, amxii [1]n 3-290 pp.ong others. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. .Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Good,

Structure, Verses, Agency BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 352380

Catalogue: Literary Criticism

Keywords: Thomas Daniel Young John Crowe Ransom poetry poetry criticism

Ransom, John Crowe

"The Literary Criticism of Artistotle" in Kenyon Review (Summer, 1948)

Gambier, Ohio, Kenyon College, 1948. First Edition. 0 pp. Soft cover. Dampstain, but otherwise near fine in original wrappers. VG.

Library Books / Clayton Fine BooksProfessional seller

Book number: b19673

RANSOM, John Crowe

Poems and Essays

New York, Vintage Books, n.y. Hardcover. 12mo. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering. 185pp. Near fine. A tight, handsome undated (circa 1960s?) reprint edition of a goodly selection of this influential Southern Agrarian's verse followed by a small selection if his essays. A lovely little edition, and not often seen in hardbound form. .

Main Street Fine Books & ManuscriptsProfessional seller

Book number: 39799

Catalogue: Books

Keywords: Literary Criticism Poetry

RANSOM, John Crowe

Poems About God

New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1919. First Edition. Hardcover. Original brown paper boards with paper label on the front board and spine, in the very scarce printed dustwrapper. Ransom's first book consisting of poems written while he was a cadet and later an officer in in World War I. The dustwrapper is complete but for slight loss along each flap fold and a vertical 2-1/2" chip along the spine edge and rear panel that is no wider than 1/4". Copies in any decent dustwrapper are virtually unknown. Fine in a Very Good or better dustwrapper .

Charles AgventProfessional seller

Book number: 012412

Catalogue: Modern First Editions

Keywords: Modern First Editions, First Book, First Books, Early Dustwrappers, John Crowe Ransom, Modern Firsts, Southern Literature Modern First Editions First Book Literature: American Modern Poetry

Ransom, John Crowe

"Sentimental Exercise" in Yale Review (Winter, 1937)

New Haven, Yale University Press, 1937. First Edition. 0 pp. Soft cover. Near fine in original wrappers with slight lean. Near Fine.

Library Books / Clayton Fine BooksProfessional seller

Book number: b31170

RANSOM, JOHN CROWE

The World's Body

Port Washington, N. Y.: Kennikat Press, 1964. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Ex-Library; 5 1/2 x 8 3/4"; xiv, 350 pages; Hard cover is brown with gold lettering on the spine. Former library book, with typical markings. Pages are clean and tight. 'John Crowe Ransom (April 30, 1888 – July 3, 1974) was an American educator, scholar, literary critic, poet, essayist and editor. He is considered to be a founder of the New Criticism school of literary criticism. As a faculty member at Kenyon College, he was the first editor of the widely regarded Kenyon Review. Highly respected as a teacher and mentor to a generation of accomplished students, he also was a prize-winning poet and essayist. He was nominated for the 1973 Nobel Prize in Literature.'. Very Good+ .

Pegasus BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 15842

Keywords: Literary Criticism; Poetry; Poets; Intellectuals; Poetry History; Writers; American Writers; American Poets; Reference; Literature/Poetry/Classics Education American History Reference Social History