Search Results: the love poems of kenneth patchen by kenneth patchen

City Lights. Used - Good. Good condition. (poetry) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

City Lights, 1966. 6th Printing. paperback. Very Good. 0x0x0. Very good stiff matte paper wraps; light rubbing along edges. Binding tight; contents clean and unmarked. 48pp. Browning on spine. All items carefully packed to avoid damage from moisture and rough handling.

Huron, Ohio: Bottom Dog Press, 1991. VG. Very good soft cover. Other than light smudge on pages viii and ix, pages are clean and unmarked. Light wear to wraps. Carefully packaged in a padded box for safe shipping. . Soft Cover. Very Good.

Bottom Dog Press, January 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo in illustrated boards, no dustjacket as issued. A small bit of rubbing at the corners and spine ends, p.o. name on the front pastedown.

San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1955. Paperback. Very Good. Fifth printing. Wraps, clean unmarked text, very good copy, some soiling and edgewear to the covers.

City Lights Pocket Poets Series Number Thirteen, 1966. Near fine wraps with trifle toning to cover. $1 original price to back cover. No one wrote them like Kenneth Patchen. A lovely collection

Pocket Poets. First Edition; First Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good/None. Covers show light wear. First edition (no other printing information on copyright page). ; 8.43 X 5.85 X 0.73 inches

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1968. 9th Printing . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 12mo or 12° (Duodecimo): 6¾" x 7¾" tall. 48 pp. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text.

Huron, Ohio: Bottom Dog Press, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo. Hardbound book. Issued without dustwrapper. 163 pp. Illustrated. Edited by Larry & Laura Smith and with a biographical introduction by Larry Smith. A fine copy.

Bottom Dog Press, 1991. 164pp. Light blue hardback with pink roses and leaves on covers, The Collected Love Poems of Kenneth Patchen, . Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Huron, OH Bottom Dog Press, 1991. Paperback Reprint Edition. Very Good+ in Wraps: shows indications of very light use; light wear to extremities; mildest rubbing; marginal lines pps 4 & 5 have been whited out; binding shows barely discernible spine lean, but remains perfectly secure; text clean. Remains close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder. NOT a Book-Club Edition. NOT an Ex-Library copy. 8vo. 164pp. Edited by Larry Smith and Laura Smith. Biographical Introduction by Larry Smith. Reprint Edition. Presumed First Impression thus, but unstated. Trade Paperback. Available again in a revised reissue, AWASH WITH ROSES, Patchen's classic collection of 100 love poems, includes a biographical introduction of Kenneth and Miriam Patchen by the writer's biographer Larry Smith. Kenneth Patchen wrote fiction and poetry, did poetry-poems, poetry-jazz, and poems-and-drawings. He was a key figure in the Greenwich Village scene of the 1930's and 1940's, then active in the pre-Beat period… Read More

Tight, square spine. Clean, unmarked interior. There are some areas of toning, light rubbing, and light edge-wear to the wraps. 'The words on the cover were the most important words in the book,' said Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who founded City Lights' Pocket Poet Series and designed most of its early covers while working out of his painting studio in San Francisco's Hunter's Point shipyard. Patchen had been a huge influence on Ferlinghetti, and this collection of poems celebrating the author's longtime muse, Miriam, is the second of his books the publisher chose to include in Pocket Poets (the first was Poems of Humor & Protest). The inspiration for the iconic series-wide design, which employs the oddly monumental typeface, Albertus, also came from Patchen, via his 1945 book, An Astonished Eye Looks Out of the Air. Designed by modernist architect Kemper Nomland, Jr., An Astonished Eye was first published by Untide Press, which was operated by William Everson (Brother Antoninus) out of Civilian Public… Read More

San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1963. Softcover. Fine. Later printing. 16mo. Printed wrappers. Slight foxing on topedge, else fine. Issued as "The Pocker Poets Series Number 13.

San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1966. Paperback Duodecimo. Paperback. Good. wraps, 48 pp, seventh printing, spine sunned, slightly soiled Standard shipping (no tracking or insurance) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.

Huron, Ohio: Bottom Dog Press, 1991. Hardcover. Fine. First edition, hardcover issue. Green cloth. Corners very slightly rubbed, still fine. Small note laid in from Larry Smith sending the book.to a close friend of Patchen's.

San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1966. 1st ed. thus. Nice copy. small quarto. card covers 48pp., Pocket Poets No. 13. (Cover price $1.00)

San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1960. First printing. Paperback. Very Good. Green and white wraps, clean unmarked text, very good copy, some soiling and edgewear to the covers, including a small tear at the spine-head.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

San Francisco, California: City Lights Books, 1960. Softcover. Good+/No Jacket. Used Book: Trade Paperback Small faint stain on the front cover along with very faint discoloration alont the sine. Discoloration on the front title page most likely from a card of some sort being placed inside the book for a long time. Pencil marks from previous owner (checks and

San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1960. First Edition, First Printing, 75c price on rear cover, no other printings stated. Cook 13. One of 1500 copies bound in white and green wrappers, Very Good, bottom corner front wrapper and first 12 pages faint crease, 1/8" closed tear fore edge front wrapper, tiny rubs at spine ends. The Pocket Poets Series Number Thirteen. . First Edition. Printed Wrappers. Very Good. 5" x 6 1/2".