Sacred and Secular Elegies

Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1943. First Edition. Softcover. Some rubbing along the spine with slight loss. Very Good. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the verso of the half-title page: "To Bill Meredith/at Sugar Loaf -- no, Bread Loaf/August 1959 from/George Barker."

Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1943. First Edition. Stapled paperback in pink jacket. Part of "The Poets of the Year" series. Unpaginated. Not price clipped (50 cents). Some soiling and marks to cover. Rubbed corners, one is bent. Very good in good jacket.

Norfolk, Conn: New Directions, 1943. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition, hardcover issue. Fine in papercovered boards, in near fine dustwrapper with a short tear on the front panel. The less common hardcover issue of this volume in The Poets of the Year series.

New York: New Directions, 1943. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Book has bumped corners. Dj has edgewear and soiling. Scarce as a hardback..

Norfolk, Conn: New Directions, 1943. Softcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition, wrappered issue. Stapled, plain wrappers. Light age-toning, near fine being Elizabeth McFarland Hoffman's copy with her name penned on the half-title, she was the poetry editor of the Ladies Home Journal from 1948-1962, in a very good dustwrapper with front flap clipped (price intact), spine and edges… Read more about this item

Norfolk: New Directions,, 1943.. First edition.. [30 pp]. Top edge a bit dusty, else near fine in paper-covered boards and very good plus dust jacket. Uncommon in boards.

Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, 1943. Unpaginated Part of the Poets of the Year Series 1943. Wrappers. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover issue. Pink paper covered boards with black lettering to the front board. Light edge-wear, price clipped dust jacket with faded spine and few very small nicks to the dges. A good clean copy.

Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1943. First edition. Softcover. 26 pages. Simultaneous paperback issue of this volume from the Poets of the Year Series. Author Karl Shapiro's copy with ownership signature to the half title page. A near fine copy in an about very good dust jacket that is somewhat soiled and with some edge chips and tears.

Norfolk, CT: New Directions. 1943. First Edition. Nf, edge & sp browning, no dj .

Norfolk, Conn: New Directions, 1943. Softcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition, wrappered issue. Stapled plain wrappers. Fine in very good dustwrapper with a couple of faint stains and some modest overall soiling. The Poets of the Year series.

Norfolk, CT: New Directions. G/No Dustjacket. 1943. ........ Wraps. The Poets of the Year. Part of this sequence was first printed in the magazine "Hemispheres." . 8vo., not paginated, Penciling of front and rear cover; else, vg copy .

Norfolk: New Directions, 1943.. First trade paperback printing.. [32 pp]. Very near fine in stapled wrappers and near fine printed dust jacket.

Norfolk: New Directions, 1943. 1st. paperback. Fine Condition. Designed by Carl Purington Rollins at the printing-office of the Yale University Press after the edition of the Latin Elegiac Poets printed by John Baskerville of Birmingham in 1772. Bound in the publisher's original printed wrappers.

Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1943 Book. Very Good -. Soft cover. First Edition. "Impressive and beautiful elegies on contemporary themes, the latest work of one of England's most brilliant poets - George Barker." Minor exterior soils, bottom front inner flap's corner is clipped.