The Oblivion Ha-Ha by Tate, James - 1974

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1970. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition, wrappered issue. Slightly toned spine, light spotting on topedge, near fine.

The Oblivion Ha-Ha: Sixty Poems by James Tate. 1970 Atlantic-Little Brown, first paperback edition, 92 pages. Tate was a Pulitzer and National Book award-winning poet. According to his obituary in the Guardian: "James Tate . . . was one of the most original and inventive American poets of his era, whose sense of humour and love of the tall story calls to mind an earlier Missouri-born master of the fable, Mark Twain...An iconoclast and an original, Tate won both the Pulitzer prize and the Poetry Society of America's William Carlos Williams award for his Selected Poems of 1991, the National Book award for Worshipful Company of Fletchers (1994), and the Wallace Stevens award (1995)." Oblivion was his second book.
Condition: VG, some browning on back cover
"O the wedding cake and the good cigar!
O the souvenir ashtray!"

Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press Book | Little, Brown and Company, 1970. Soft Cover. Good binding. Octavo. xi, [1], 92 pp. First paperback edition. Signed by Tate on the title page. Trade paperback. Covers are rubbed with creases; spine sunned; contents are clean and solid. A reasonable copy of an early collection of poetry by the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning poet.

Little, Brown and Company, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Author's second major collection of verses; notable for the poem 'Failed Tribute to the Stonemason of Tor House, Robinson Jeffers' 92pp. Light shelfwear to boards; dust jacket has some wear along the edges.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1970. First edition. Paperback. Very Good +. Trade paperbound book. This is the so-stated Unrevised Galley Proofs for this early collection of poems by Tate. 92 pp containing sixty poems. A very good or better copy in simple bound printed brick orange wrappers. Scarce format and the first proof of this title we have handled.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1970. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition, hardcover issue. Fine in lightly spine-toned near fine dust jacket.

Carnagie Mellon University Press, 1997. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Signed by Author. Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Sixty poems. 92 pages, signed by the author on the title page.

Carnagie Mellon University Press, 1997. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.