Paris Review from Philip Smith, Bookseller

Flushing, NY: The Paris Review, 1974. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 192pp, printed wrappers. Another fine issue of this essential postwar literary magazine. Includes interviews with Joseph Heller and Peter Matthiessen, plus writing by Anne Sexton, Erica Jong, et al. Tight, unmarked copy with a bit of cover wear.

Flushing, NY: The Paris Review, 1981. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 256pp, printed wrappers. A thick issue of this essential postwar literary magazine, including interviews with Tennessee Williams and Paul Bowles, plus other great content. Unmarked copy with a bit of reading wear. (Cover art by Julian Schnabel makes it… Read more about this item

Flushing, NY: The Paris Review, 1981. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 448pp, printed wrappers. An unsigned Post-It from contributor Thom Gunn to his long time partner Mike Kitay is laid in, and Gunn has made one correction to his contribution in pencil. The enormous 25th anniversary double issue of this essential postwar literary magazine.… Read more about this item

Paris: The Paris Review, 1961. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 184pp, printed wrappers. Includes three poems by Malcolm Lowry, an interview with Marianne Moore, writing by Hughes Rudd and Norman Mailer, et al. Woolmer C129-C131. Unmarked copy (aside from original newsdealer stamp and initials to back cover), minor reading wear and toning.

Flushing, NY: The Paris Review, 1974. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near VG. 8vo, 224pp, printed wrappers. Another great issue of this essential postwar literary magazine. Includes interviews with W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood, plus work by Red Grooms, Grace Paley, Pablo Neruda, et al. Unmarked copy with some wear and rubbing to covers.

Paris: The Paris Review, 1955. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 128pp, printed wrappers. This copy of the scarce ninth issue of this essential postwar literary magazine is from the collection of Thom Gunn, who contributes two poems (one of which has a minor pencil correction by the author). Issue also includes fiction by James… Read more about this item

Flushing, NY: The Paris Review, 1979. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 288pp, printed wrappers. This copy from the collection of Thom Gunn, who contributes a poem (to which he has added one handwritten correction). A thick issue of this essential postwar literary magazine, including interviews with Irwin Shaw and John Gardner, plus other great… Read more about this item

Flushing, NY: The Paris Review, 1988. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 320pp, printed wrappers. This copy is from the collection of contributor Thom Gunn, though it is unmarked. Thick anniversary issue of this essential postwar literary magazine, includes interviews with Doris Lessing and Marguerite Yourcenar, plus writing by David Foster Wallace et al. ISBN… Read more about this item

Paris: The Paris Review, 1967. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 192pp, printed wrappers. Another prime issue of this essential postwar literary magazine, includes an interview with Nabokov and poetry by John Ashbery, Clark Coolidge, Bill Berkson, Harry Mathews, Kenneth Koch, Ron Padgett, James Schuyler, Philip Whalen, et al. Unmarked copy with some outer staining/soil… Read more about this item

Flushing, NY: The Paris Review, 1975. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near VG. 8vo, 208pp, printed wrappers. Another fine issue of this essential postwar literary magazine. Includes interviews with J. P. Donelavy and John Steinbeck, and other contributions by a typically significant range of contributors. Original 1975 bookstore purchase receipt laid in. Unmarked copy, light spotting… Read more about this item

Paris: The Paris Review, 1959. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near VG. 8vo, 168pp, printed wrappers. Solid copy of this scarce early issue of this essential postwar literary magazine, includes an interview with T. S. Eliot, fiction by Terry Southern and Alexander Trocchi, and poetry by Ted Hughes, Robert Bly, et al. Clean, unmarked copy, light… Read more about this item

Flushing, NY: The Paris Review, 1977. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 200pp, printed wrappers. Another great issue of this essential postwar literary magazine. Includes an interview with Kurt Vonnegut, a deleted chapter from Burroughs's Junkie (Schottlaender v4.C441; Shoaf III-256), an early story by T. Coraghessan Boyle, and one by Ed Sanders, 8… Read more about this item

Paris: The Paris Review, 1960. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 184pp, printed wrappers. Includes Through the Panama by Malcolm Lowry (80pp, including a brief introduction; Woolmer C65) and an interview with Aldous Huxley. Unmarked copy with a little bumping and minor sunning at spine and fore-edge.

Paris: The Paris Review, 1964. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near VG. 8vo, 208pp, printed wrappers. Thick prime issue of this essential postwar literary magazine, includes interviews with William Carlos Williams, Picasso and Cocteau, plus writing by Olson, Zukofsky, et al. Unmarked copy, light stains and creasing to covers.

Paris: The Paris Review, 1971. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 192pp, printed wrappers. Another prime issue of this essential postwar literary magazine, includes an interview with Pablo Neruda and writing by Harry Mathews, Michael McClure, John Wieners, Robert Creeley, Tom Clark, et al. Unmarked copy, a bit of reading wear.

Flushing, NY: The Paris Review, 1976. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 180pp, printed wrappers. Another impressive issue of this essential postwar literary magazine. Includes an interview with William Goyen, artwork by Gilbert and George and Cletus Johnson, and writing by Rita Dove, John Updike, William Stafford, Ray Russell, Charles Newman, et al. Unmarked copy,… Read more about this item

Paris: The Paris Review, 1968. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 208pp, printed wrappers. Another prime issue of this essential postwar literary magazine, includes an interview with Conrad Aiken and poetry by Allen Ginsberg, Gerard Malanga, Ed Sanders, Hannah Weiner, Philip Whalen, et al. Unmarked copy, a bit of waviness near top edge.

Paris: The Paris Review, 1964. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 208pp, printed wrappers. Thick prime issue of this essential postwar literary magazine, includes interviews with Louis-Ferdinand Celine and Norman Mailer, plus writing by Kerouac, Henry Miller, James Dickey, et al. Unmarked copy with a bit of rubbing and bumping.

Paris: The Paris Review, 1960. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 160pp, printed wrappers. Clean copy of this scarce early issue of this essential postwar literary magazine, includes interviews with Robert Frost and Boris Pasternak, drawings by Leonor Fini, and poetry by Thom Gunn, Lewis Turco, X. J. Kennedy, Christopher Middleton, et al. Unmarked copy,… Read more about this item

Paris: The Paris Review, 1966. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, 168pp, printed wrappers. Another prime issue of this essential postwar literary magazine, includes letters from Cummings to Pound; interviews with Pinter and Albee, plus work by Di Prima, Padgett, Sotere Torregian, et al. Tight, unmarked copy with light toning and wear.