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Varied Harvests

1953. (DEUTSCH, Babette, et al). VARIED HARVESTS. A Miscellany of Writings by Barnard College Women. Edited by Amy Loveman, Frederica Barach and Marjorie M. Mayer. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, (1953). Contributor Helen Puner's copy, with ink ownerhsip and material from author laid in. First edition. 8vo. blue cloth. Slight soiling at boards. Else, near fine, in worn, price-clipped dust jacket. With contributions from Babette Deutsch, Margeret Mead, Helen Gahagan Douglas and Winnifred Welles, among others. .

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Book number: 42060

Deutsch, Babette (1895-1982). American poet, critic, translator, and novelist.

Autograph Quotation Signed by the American Poet & Novelist Babette Deutsch.

New York, April 7, 1964. 1964. - A 29 word quotation penned on 3-3/8 inch high by 5-3/8 inch wide card stock. ".. a truly sufficing poem, uttered from the height or from the depth of human speech, would be to the region we inhabit what the universe might be to God". Signed "Babette Deutsch". The card is identified on the verso in an unknown hand as "Babette Deutsch, poet / N.Y. 7.IV.1964". Near fine.

The American poet, critic, translator and novelist Babette Deutsch (1895-1982) published poems in "The North American Review" and the "New Republic" when still a student at Barnard College. She married the writer and translator Avraham Yarmolinsky, chief of the Slavonic Division of The New York Public Library. From the 1940s through the 60s, Deutsch taught at Columbia University influencing students such as the poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti. She translated Pushkin's Eugene Onegin and the poems of Boris Pasternack among others. Marianne Moore wrote that Deutsch's poems displayed "her commanding stature as a poet". Fine .

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Book number: 96478

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: LITERATURE; POET; NOVELIST; TRANSLATOR; CRITIC; POETRY; BABETTE DEUTSCH; AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED; SIGNATURE; TWENTIETH CENTURY; 20TH CENTURY; A TRULY SUFFICING POEM, UTTERED FROM THE HEIGHT AND THE DEPTH OF HUMAN SPEECH.

Deutsch, Babette

"Ballet School" [poem] in Nation (February 4, 1925)

First Edition. 0 pp. Near fine condition with four holes punched along the binding edge and rubber stamps. Fine.

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Book number: b11821

DEUTSCH, Babette

Banners

1919. DEUTSCH, Babette. BANNERS. New York: George H. Doran Co. (1919.) First edition of the author's first book, signed by Deutsch. 8vo. white paper-backed with white paper labels. Some fraying on top and bottom of spine. Denting of spine. Some soiling and sunning at extremes. This copy of the authors first book is just good in a soiled white dj chipped at the spine. .

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Book number: 39918

BABETTE DEUTSCH

Banners

New York, George H. Doran. 1919, 1st Edition. Hardcover, 8vo - over 7¾. Book, Ms. Deutsch's first book. Lived & worked in NYC. Taught literature at Columbia & the New School. Marianne Moore thought highly of Deutsch's poetic skill. Small fraying at the top of the spine. Lite uniform fading to the boards. Square, clean, crisp, and tight. Very Good/No Jacket. Signed by Author(s).

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Book number: vvok21

Catalogue: Signed

Keywords: Poetry Poetry Author's First Book

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Brittle Heaven

1926. DEUTSCH, Babette. A BRITTLE HEAVEN. New York: Greenberg, Publisher, (1926). First edition. Octavo. [viii],326 pp. Blue textured cloth, title printed in white top spine and upper board, with author's facsimile signature to upper board. Ex-library; bookplate to front pastedown, but no other marks. A fine copy except for negligible wear to cloth at heel, crown, and corners, in a good-plus dust jacket, with an illustration by Tishler on the top panel. It is genarlly soiled and edgeworn, with a large chip at heel. Nonetheles, it is a scarce title with dust jacket. Laid-in at the front is a contemporary review, by Dorothy Van Doren, clipped from the New York Herald Tribune. .

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Book number: 75369

Deutsch, Babette.

"City View" in New Yorker (September 27, 1941).

New York, 1941. First Edition. 0 pp. Soft cover. Near fine in original wrappers with minor wear. Near Fine.

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Book number: 10443

DEUTSCH, BABETTE

Heroes of the Kalevala

New York : Julian Messner, 1971.. Reprint XII + 478 p. Ills. van B. Grosser. HARDCOVER: (Orig. lred/blue cloth cover edges bit worn, else VRERY GOOD)

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Book number: 200267

Catalogue: Cultural History

Keywords: Europe Europa finland Mythology anthropology & ethnography Folklore

DEUTSCH, BABETTE (TEXT); EICHENBERG, FRITZ (ILLUSTRATIONS)

Heroes of the Kalevala: Finland's Saga

New York: Julian Messner, Inc, 1956. Hardcover. Stated seventh printing, June 1956. The Kalevala is a series of folk tales which have been shared by the people of Finland since before history has been recorded. Many of the tales were collected and published by Dr. Elias Lönrott, then translated into English by W. F. Kirby and others. The tales in this volume are based on those writings, but revised and made more coherent by Babette Deutsch. With woodcut illustrations througout by Fritz Eichenberg. --- In full rust cloth-covered boards with decorations and spine titling in blue. Volume wrapped in jacket with color Eichenberg decorations to front panel. --- Evidence of former ownership by a lending library includes rubberstampings, sticker, mylar dust jacket cover taped to boards; also with prior owner's signature to first page & torn-out front free endpaper; else a sound copy. ; Ex-Library; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; 238 pages. Good in Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 88023

Deutsch, Babette

"History Come Alive" and "An Enchanting Poem" [reviews] in New York Herald Tribune (March 15, 1931)

First Edition. 0 pp. Near fine in original wrappers with a chip at one corner and minor foxing along the left edge.

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Book number: b5955

Deutsch, Babette

"Poems: 'Old Women' [and] 'Leningrad'" in Nation (August 27, 1924)

First Edition. 0 pp. Fine in original wrappers, but with four looseleaf holes in the left margin.

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Book number: b11151

Deutsch, Babette

"Poet in a Barrel" [review of William Carlos Williams Collected Poems] in Nation (November 19, 1938)

New York, Nation, 1938. First Edition. 0 pp. Soft cover. Near fine in original wrappers. Near Fine.

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Book number: b20242

DEUTSCH, Babette

Poetry in Our Time

1952. DEUTSCH, Babette. POETRY IN OUR TIME. New York: Henry Holt and Company, (1952). First edition. Inscribed presentation by the author along with three short, typed letters and replies. 8vo. red cloth stamped in gilt. Ink ownership. Near fine, in a dj sunned at spine, nicked at edges, with one chip at top of spine. .

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Book number: 39920

Deutsch, Babette

Rogue's Legacy a Novel About Francois Villon

New York NY: Coward - McCann, Inc. 1942. Hardcover. Illustrated by Allen Pope Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear. Spine faded. Exlibrary with markings. Spine weak. Previous owner's name; Ex-Library; 392 pages.

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Book number: 73855

Catalogue: Fiction::Biographical

Keywords: Deutsch, Babette Biographical Fiction Villon, Francois Pope, Allen Novel Illustrated

Deutsch, Babette

"Words for a Lullaby" in Nation (December 17, 1938)

New York, Nation, 1938. First Edition. 0 pp. Soft cover. Near fine in original wrappers. Near Fine.

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Book number: b20246