The Poets of the New York School by Myers, John Bernard, edito - 1969

1st edition. Very Good hardcover, no DJ. Blue cloth over boards, silver titles on spine; photo end papers. Bright, clean, square covers and spine; light dust spotting on text block edges; tightly bound; book store price sticker on front past down; bright, clean interior. Square 8vo, 219 pp; illustrated with art work and Scavullo photos of poets.

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1969. First printing. Hardcover. Fine/very good. Large square 8vo, cloth in dust jacket, fine copy in very good jacket with light wear: shallow loss to spine head. Poets include: John Ashbery, Joseph Ceravolo, Kenward Elmslie, Barbara Guest, Kenneth Koch, Frank O'Hara, James Schuyler, and Painters include Fairfield Porter, Red Grooms, Alex Katz, Jane Freilicher, Joe Brainard and others. A lovely anthology.

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1969. First printing. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Large square 8vo, cloth in dust jacket, fine copy in near fine jacket with minimal wear. Poets include: John Ashbery, Joseph Ceravolo, Kenward Elmslie, Barbara Guest, Kenneth Koch, Frank O'Hara, James Schuyler, and Painters include Fairfield Porter, Red Grooms, Alex Katz, Jane Freilicher, Joe Brainard and others. A lovely anthology.

New York: The Zodiac, Brownstone Press, 1969. Illustrated with b/w photographs, previous owners name on title page, otherwise unmarked, 219pp, NF/VG.. 1st Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good.

E-060: Graduate School of Fine Arts, Univ. Of Pennsylvania. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1969. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. University of Pennsylvania Department of Fine Art. 1969. 219 pgs. Illustrated with Black and White Plates. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards clean with no wear present. An historic anthology, the first devoted entirely to the "New York School Poets," and edited by Myers, who coined the term. Contains work by Poets including John Ashbery, Joseph Ceravolo, Kenward Elmslie, Barbara Guest, Kenneth Koch and Painters including Fairfield Porter, Red Grooms and Joe Brainard. E-60; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Fine Arts, 1969. First Edition. Square octavo (20.5cm); navy blue cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine; photographic endpapers; dustjacket; 219, [2]pp; illus. Fine in a very Near Fine dustjacket, with only a tiny nick to lower front flap fold to note. Anthology featuring selections from poets and painters of the New York School. Contains a lengthy introduction by editor John Bernard Myers, with contributions by John Ashbery, Joseph Ceravolo, Barbara Guest, Kenneth Koch, Frank O'Hara, Joe Brainard, Fairfield Porter, Alex Katz, and others.        .

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: of Pennsylvania. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1969. Hardcover. Contains work by Poets including John Ashbery, Joseph Ceravolo, Kenward Elmslie, Barbara Guest, Kenneth Koch and Painters including Fairfield Porter, Red Grooms and Joe Brainard. Blue cloth with silver lettering to spine, also with photographs. Dust jacket with wrap-around photograph of New York high rise buildings and white lettering to spine.. This copy signed by poet John Ashbery above his name on the contents page. ; 8" square; 219 pp; Book with little wear, solid and square binding, clean and unmarked within apart from the noted signature. Jacket rubbed along folds with small losses at tops and bottoms, in clear protective cover. .

New York: Graduate School of Fine Arts, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. 219p square octavo. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket has minor wear to corners, else fine.

Square Octavo (8 1/8 inches; 205 mm), 219, [1] pages in publisher's original blue cloth, titles in silver to spine, in a photo-illustrated dust jacket.
SIGNED by many of the contributors to this important (and now classic) anthology of New York School poets, featuring works by nine poets and illustrations by an equal number of artists. Signed on the table of contents page by: Frank Lima, Red Grooms, Norman Bluhm, Joe Brainard, Alex Katz, John Bernard Myers, Alan D'Archangelo, Tony Towle, Barbara Guest, Kenneth Koch, John Ashbery, Robert Goodnough, and Kenward Elmslie.
Interesting, lengthy introduction by John Bernard Myers, who championed many poets of the 1950s and published early works by Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, and others, either in separate editions or through his poetry journal Semi-Colon.
Unsigned copies of this book are easily obtainable, but copies signed by so many of the contributors are not often seen in the market. A beautiful copy of this landmark anthology, signed by… Read More