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New Directions in Prose and Poetry. Number Eleven
by [Laughlin, James, ed.]
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- Hardcover
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- Condition
- Tan cloth. Fine in very good plus dust jacket (spine toned, a few tiny nicks and losses at top of spine panel)
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About This Item
[New York: New Directions, 1949. First edition. With 4 plates of paintings by Arthur G. Dove. 512 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Tan cloth. Fine in very good plus dust jacket (spine toned, a few tiny nicks and losses at top of spine panel). First edition. With 4 plates of paintings by Arthur G. Dove. 512 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Choice copy of the New Directions annual, with contriburions by Henry Miller, Jean Genet, Tennessee Williams, Duncan Phillips, Kenneth Rexroth, Stephen Spender, John Hawkes, and William Carlos Williams.
Notable for two early translations of Borges stories by Mary Wells, "Investigations of the Writings of Herbert Quain" and "The Circular Ruins".
"Las Ruinas Circulares was published in Sur for December 1940; "Examen de las obra de Herbert Quain" was first published in Sur in abridged format shortly before book publication in El jardÃn de senderos que se bifurcan (1941); it was subsequently incorporated into Ficciones.
Notable for two early translations of Borges stories by Mary Wells, "Investigations of the Writings of Herbert Quain" and "The Circular Ruins".
"Las Ruinas Circulares was published in Sur for December 1940; "Examen de las obra de Herbert Quain" was first published in Sur in abridged format shortly before book publication in El jardÃn de senderos que se bifurcan (1941); it was subsequently incorporated into Ficciones.
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- The Old Mill Bookshop
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 338914
- Title
- New Directions in Prose and Poetry. Number Eleven
- Author
- [Laughlin, James, ed.]
- Format/Binding
- With 4 plates of paintings by Arthur G. Dove. 512 pp. 1 vols. 8vo
- Book Condition
- Used - Tan cloth. Fine in very good plus dust jacket (spine toned, a few tiny nicks and losses at top of spine panel)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New Directions
- Place of Publication
- [New York
- Date Published
- 1949
- Keywords
- Latin-American | American
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