The Famous Boating Party, and Other Poems In Prose

New York: A New Directions Book / James Laughlin, 1954 IN VERY GOOD CONDITION. Bound by Rick Tuttle in full metallic blue leather, with a sculpted wood boat attached at the top of the cover, a flowing wake of water behind it, and water endpapers. Half-title, photographic frontis, 64pp. Inner joint starting between frontis and title page,… Read more about this item

1954 -1st New Directions. 64pp. Fine in VG- Fine DJ, tiny chips on spine ends.

N. Y.: New Directions, 1954. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Printing of the First Edition. Fine but for erasure mark on front endpaper, and slightest cupping to covers, in price-clipped jacket with slightest traces of use to extremities..

NEW DIRECTIONS, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition/DJ Good. Light dampstaining to DJ. Brown paper boards with black title. Not price clipped. Clean unmarked pages. Frontispiece portrait by Chester Kessler. DJ in protective mylar.

New York: New Directions, 1954. Book. Very good+ condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo (8vo). 64 pages of text. Original (hardcover) tan papered covered boards. Price-clipped dustjacket with a few minor tears and creases, tiny chips at spine extremities, and slight sunning to spine; protected in archival mylar. Illustrated with a black & white frontisportrait of Patchen..

(New York): New Directions, (1954).. First edition, 8vo, 63, (1) pp. Frontispiece portrait, later bookplate. Original boards, d.w. with a manuscript alteration to the price on the upper flap, some light marks, a near fine copy. Morgan A22a.

Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1954. 64 pages. First printing of the first edition of this collection of prose poems by the 20th century American poet whose work has been favorably compared to that of Walt Whitman and William Blake. The book is clean and tight, with foxing on first and last few pages, that is, as usual, a… Read more about this item

New York: New Directions, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Fine w/ only slightly darkened endpapers in Fine dustjacket.

New York: New Directions, 1954. Book. Near Fine. Tan Paper Covered Boards. First Edition. 64pp. Rear endpapers slightly foxed and gentle bump to head of spine. Protected dust jacket has a matchhead sized fragment missing at head of spine and a small closed tear to front panel..