Palimpsest
by H.D
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good-/Very Good
- Seller
-
New Paltz, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Palimpsest by H.D. 1968 Southern Illinois Press, first printing. Hilda Doolittle was a poet and friend of Ezra Pounds, who became her editor. According to the New Yorker: "H.D.'s tense, chiselled verse led critics to describe her, repeatedly, as "the perfect Imagist." Her lyrics extracted sensory abundance from minimalism...She developed a reputation as "crystalline," not just for her poetry but for her physical presence: chaste, ethereal, as lovely and cold as a classical sculpture. Always, she found people who considered her perfect. She attracted devotees, usually younger men who breathlessly affirmed that in her presence they had discovered a Greek goddess incarnate[.]" According to the jacket copy, Palimpsest first appeared in Paris in 1926 and Houghton Mifflin acquired unbound sheets. This edition is based on those sheets plus corrections H.D. made on her copies.
Condition: VG, inscription on end paper.
"He seemed inconsequently to himself, to be penned in some pig-style of illusion."
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Lightholder Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 174
- Title
- Palimpsest
- Author
- H.D
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Southern Illinois Press,
- Date Published
- 1968
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Women Writers;
Terms of Sale
Lightholder Books
About the Seller
Lightholder Books
About Lightholder Books
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Unbound
- A book or pamphlet which does not have a covering binding, sometimes by original design, sometimes used to describe a book in...