Red Wine and Yellow Hair

New York: New Directions, 1949. 1st edition, full yellow cloth, with printed dust jacket. "A new book of verse by Kenneth Patchen is always an eagerly awaited event in the dry desert of modern American poetry . . . Patchen really communicates to the heart" (from the jacket notes). Published by James Laughlin at his New Directions publishing house,… Read more about this item

New York: New Directions, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. 64 pages. A tight near fine copy in yellow cloth boards in a close to near fine dust jacket that is lightly soiled and has a few small edge tears. A very nice copy.

New York: New Directions, 1949. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Extremities a little bumped, near fine in a lightly age-toned, very good dustwrapper with a shallow chip at the crown, and some small tears.

Verse. (New York: New Directions: 1949) First Edition. Cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. 64. First Edition. Some light staining and discoloration at head of front board otherwise a near fine copy in dust-jacket whose spine is sunned and which has some light silverfishing to its rear panel but is complete and otherwise very good.

New York::: New Directions,,, 1949... First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with a touch of age darkening to extremities. There were only 2000 copies of this hardcover edition issued. This is one of Patchen's earliest experiments with the prose poem and coincides with an… Read more about this item

New York: New Directions, 1949. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 64pp. Minor light wear/soil to the yellow cloth cover Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

New York: New Directions, 1948. First Edition. Very Good. First edition, first printing. Signed by Kenneth Patchen on the front free endpaper and inscribed to former owners. Bound in publisher's yellow cloth lettered in red and black on the spine. Very Good, with cloth dust-soiled, lightly rubbed at tips, pages toned. Lacking the dust jacket.

NY: New Directions; (1949). First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. One of 2000 copies of the first edition. Yellow cloth boards with red and black lettering on the spine. Near fine in a very good+ dust jacket. Yellow cloth is just slightly darkened at edges. The jacket is also a little darkened around the edges of the… Read more about this item

New York: New Directions, 1949. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Offsetting to the endpapers and flaps from a pamphlet laid in, else about fine in a modestly soiled, near fine dustwrapper. A checklist of Patchen's books laid in. Inscribed by Patchen to a close friend in the year of publication, with a painting of a purple tree. … Read more about this item

New York: New Directions, 1949. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Slightly bowed boards and spotting thus very good in a very good dust jacket with toning on the spine, shallow chips, and tears.

New York: New Directions, 1949. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Near fine in a slightly short near fine dustwrapper with offsetting to the top edge.

NY: New Directions, (1949).. First edition, painted issue.. 64 pp. Near fine in boards with gilt-stamped cloth spine. Patchen’s original cover painting has some surface chipping, due to the pigments used, but otherwise is a strong example for this title. While the construction of the book conforms to the painted issue, it does not have the signed and… Read more about this item

NY: New Directions, (1949).. First edition.. 64 pp. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket with light tanning to spine and extrems, and a scratch to the front panel. Morgan A18a.

New York: New Directions, 1949. First edition. Yellow cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 64 pp. Lyric even somewhat formal poems by one of the most important experimental poets of the mid-century. Bright, clean very good copy, with minor wear at the edges, in a bright (usually found toned) price-clipped dust jacket with thumbed crown, one small hole at the… Read more about this item

New York: New Directions. Good in Good dust jacket. 1949. First Edition. Hardback. Originally Priced at $2.00/Yellow Cloth Hb With Red and Black Lettering on Spine in Soiled Yellow Jacket With Red and Black Let-; Tering on front and spine/tear at top and bottom spine and at front top edge and tear at front top corner .… Read more about this item

New Directions, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Tall 8vo in yellow cloth, spine title in red and black, yellow dustjacket printed in red and black. Very light rubbing to the cloth, p.o. name on the front pastedown beneath the dj flap. The dj is not price-clipped, it's toned around the peripheries and the spine, and… Read more about this item