Aiken, Conrad

"America" in Outlook (September 16, 1914)

New York, Outlook, 1914. First Edition. 0 pp. Soft cover. Near fine in original wrappers. Near Fine.

Library Books / Clayton Fine BooksProfessional seller

Book number: b24921

Aiken, Conrad, editor.

American Poetry 1671-1928, A comprehensive anthology

Modern Library, New York, 1929,1e druk,362pp., 16,5x11cm, geb.hardcover (rug verkl), goed (vochtvlek onderhoek, niet door tekst).

KastenvolPrivate seller

Book number: 105013484

Catalogue: poezie

Keywords: literatuur

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 A group of poets were given twenty pages each and made a selection of their own previously unpublished poems.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.

Aiken, Conrad

Among the Lost People

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards, gilt spine lettering; 4 preliminary leaves, 292 pages. Contents: O how she laughed!--Mr. Arcularis.--Bow down, Isaac!--The night before prohibition.--Impulse.--Silent snow, secret snow.--The fish supper.--No, no, go not to Lethe.--Pure as the driven snow.--The bachelor supper.--Gehenna.--Thistledown. Good+ (light shelfwear to boards, aging to text block and pages, binding is secure and pages are otherwise clear, inscribed and dated by author to previous owner on ffep from 1934) .

Kevin Mullen, BooksellerProfessional seller

Book number: 189727

Catalogue: Literature Young and Old

Keywords: Literature Young and Old ; Fiction ; ;

Aiken, Conrad

Among the Lost People

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. 8vo. 292 pp. Very Good, Blue Cloth, with sun-staining, rubbing, stains & edge wear on covers; some staining on end papers, in text block and on edges of text block; some pencil scribbles on end papers, shelf wear. Provenance: John Ruyle. First Edition. .

Wittenborn Art BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 16-1935

Catalogue: Books

AIKEN, Conrad

Autograph Letter Signed (Als)

25 June 1917. Letter. An early four-page handwritten letter on one 6-1/4" x 9-7/8" sheet of paper folded into fours to American poet Orrick Johns, explaining his comparison of Johns to Edwin Arlington Robinson and responding to a comparison of his 1916 book of poetry, THE JIG OF FORSLIN: A SYMPHONY, to the writing of Charles Baudelaire. In part: "I was delighted to get your letter.. As to that echo of Robinson, perhaps I should have been more just if I had said similarity instead of echo: though even so I did not mean to put too much emphasis on the idea. In two or three of your things I felt something of Robinson's trick of veiled reference, inuendo, coupled with terseness of rhythm: certainly, nothing to worry about! I quite agree with you in your feeling about him. I admire rather than like him. I imagine that if I were drunk I should call him a Missing Puritan. You are the third person to link Forslin with Baudelaire. I don't know whether to be provoked or not, because all I know of Baudelaire is hearsay. I’ve never read him-- not a solitary thing. So he is what I imagine him to be,-- a decadent for decadence’s sake,-- there, I am provoked! Because I don't think I belong in that class. The decadent stream in FORSLIN is put there merely as one part of a rather complex pattern, on the assumption (certainty?) that it is an important element in the unrealistic life of homo sapiens.-- I've got three books, some antedating FORSLIN, some contemporaneous with it, some subsequent, which I expect to get out during the next two years, in the hope of destroying any idea that I am a seeker for the merely phosphorescent. I am glad to know that you may come east. If you do, and get to Boston or anywhere near it, for heaven's sake let me know. Intelligent people are rare now in Boston. Lightly creased and toned. About Fine .

Charles AgventProfessional seller

Book number: 020952

Catalogue: Signed

Keywords: Signed, Modern First Editions, Modern Firsts, Modern Poetry, Conrad Aiken Signed Modern First Editions Autograph Letters Literature: American

Aiken, Conrad; C.S. Forester

"Back to Poetry" in Atlantic Monthly (August 1940)

0. 1st Edition. 0 pp. Soft cover. Very good in wrappers showing light soiling to panels and mild wear to spine extremities. Also, "To the Indies. A Novel" (chps 18-24) by C.S. Forester. Complete issue. Near Fine.

Library Books / Clayton Fine BooksProfessional seller

Book number: dn635

Aiken, Conrad

"A Basis for Cirticism" in Spring Book Section of New Republic (April 11, 1923)

First Edition. 0 pp. Disbound. Near fine in original wrappers with light wear along the disbound edge. Fine.

Library Books / Clayton Fine BooksProfessional seller

Book number: b16526

AIKEN, CONRAD

Blue Voyage

London, Gerald Howe. 1927, First Edition. Hardcover. Used, Hardcover without jacket; first UK edition. Front board is marked; spine faintly sunned, with nick at head; minor exterior shelfwear at a few further points. Page block is tanned. Text is clear on clean, sound pages. TS. Good.

PsychoBabel BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 602835

Catalogue: Literature

Aiken, Conrad

Blue Voyage

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. 8vo. 318 pp. Very Good, Blue Cloth with stains, sun-fading, edge wear, & rubbing; spine slanted; minor shelf wear; stains on edges of text block. Provenance: John Ruyle. First Edition. .

Wittenborn Art BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 15-3764

Catalogue: Books

Conrad Aiken

Blue Voyage

London, Gerald Howe LTD, 1927. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Conrad Aiken's Pulitzer Prize winning novel about a man's journey from America to England. The first edition of this work. In the original unclipped dustwrapper. 'Blue Voyage' follows William Demarest, a man who is travelling on a voyage from America to England. He steals into the first class section of the ship, and is shocked to find the woman who he had been travelling to England to see. Written by Conrad Aiken, an American author, who is known for his poetry, short stories, and novels. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, generally smart, with some discolouration to the head of the spine. Very minor bumping to the extremities. A couple of light marks to the boards. Light spots to the fore edge. Dustwrapper is discoloured with some loss to the head of the spine, and some light edgewear. Minor marks to the dustwrapper. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with only a couple of odd light spots. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good/Good.

Rooke BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 678P34

Catalogue: Modern Fiction

Keywords: blue voyage conrad aiken voyage america conrad aiken novel William Demarest None

Aiken, Conrad.

The Clerk's Journal / Being the Diary of a Queer Man: An Undergraduate Poem Together with a Brief Memoir of Harvard, Dean Briggs and T.S. Eliot.

New York: The Eakins Press, 1971. 1971. - Quarto, 12 inches high by 8-3/8 inches wide. Bound in three-quarters orange cloth titled in gilt on the spine, in its original printed creamy tan dust wrapper. The dust jacket is soiled and slightly creased with a tear to the top edge of the front panel. Half-title, title, 26 pages, [1] leaf & an 18-page facsimile plus the colophon. Near fine in a good dust wrapper.

First edition published in a limited edition of 2,300 numbered copies.

The text includes a facsimile of the handwritten poem with corrections and of a one-page commentary written by one of Aiken's fellow students. Fine .

Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.Professional seller

Book number: 20154

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: LITERATURE; POETRY; POEM; POET; AMERICAN; CONRAD AIKEN; FIRST EDITION; TWENTIETH CENTURY; UNDERGRADUATE POEM; MEMOIR; HARVARD UNIVERSITY; T. S. ELIOT; DEAN BRIGGS; FACSIMILE; LIMITED EDITION; 20TH CENTURY; 1ST EDITION.

AIKEN, Conrad

Clerks Journal

1971. AIKEN, Conrad. THE CLERK'S JOURNAL. Being the diary of a queer man. An undergraduate poem, together with a brief memoir of Harvard, Dean Briggs and T.S. Eliot. New York: The Eakins Press, 1971. First edition. An out of series copy of three hundred numbered copies signed by the author, and with a holograph presentation from the printer. Large 8vo. marbled paper-covered boards backed in red cloth, spine in gilt. A near fine copy with only hints of rubbing at the spine ends. .

Boston Book CompanyProfessional seller

Book number: 46534

AIKEN, Conrad

Collected Poems

1953. AIKEN, Conrad. COLLECTED POEMS. New York: Oxford University Press, 1953. 895 pp. B/w photo frontispiece. 8vo. brown cloth. Fine in Very Good dust jacket with a few nicks to edges, closed 1 inch tear at top of spine, 1/8 inch chip to bottom of spine. Pulitzer winner. .

Boston Book CompanyProfessional seller

Book number: 78809

Aiken, Conrad

Collected Poems 1916-1970

Gebonden, hardcover, inclusief stofomslag; 1970; New York : Oxford University Press; 1049pp.; Dust jacket price clipped. -- Conditie: Goed; Original red boards, gilt and silver lettered spine, dust jacket, frontispiece b/w portrait photograph, 8vo.; Engels; ISBN10: 0195012585, ISBN13: 9780195012583

Antiquariaat KlondykeProfessional seller

Book number: 349375-VF42

Catalogue: Literatuur/Engels

Keywords: Engels