Unattainable Earth by Milosz, Czeslaw - 1986

HarperCollins Publishers, 1986. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

HarperCollins Publishers, 1986. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

HarperCollins, 1986. First American Edition. hardcover. Very Good. Very Good text and cover, minor edge wear. Dust jacket has light shelf wear and slight sunning to spine

New York: The Ecco Press, 1986. Hardcover. Very good+/Very good+. Cloth backed boards in dust jacket, octavo, not illustrated. Book has hint of toning and wear to edges of boards and spine, binding tight, text clean and unmarked, with foxing to top edge of block. DJ has hint of edgewear, rubbing, now in archival mylar wrap.

New York. 1986. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0880010983. Translated from the Polish by The Author & Robert Hass. 141 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature Translated Poland Poetry Eastern Europe. FROM THE PUBLISHER - In his first collection of new poems since receiving the Nobel prize for Literature in 1980, Czeslaw Milosz, with a playfulness and passionate restlessness of mind that are entirely characteristic, has changed the very idea of what a book of poetry can be. In Unattainable Earth, verse, prose poems, prose jottings, pensees, quotations, translations and even fragments from personal letters have been gathered into the shape of a writer's notebook, where they form a sustained meditation on sexuality, language, the problems of belief, the life of the streets of cities and the mysterious annihilating power of time. And beneath all these motifs there is, finally, a single subject - the powerful desire to confront the ecstatic experience of life on… Read More

Ecco, 1986. Hardcover. Good.

New York: Ecco Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1986. Hardcover. 0880010983 . "In his first collection of new poems since receiving the Nobel prize for Literature in 1980, Czeslaw Milosz, with a playfulness and passionate restlessness of mind that are entirely characteristic, has changed the very idea of what a book of poetry can be." Ships same or next business day. Book has minor edge wear, small bump on spine head and top right corner of front board; otherwise, free from major defect. Dust jacket protected in archival cover. DJ has minimal edge and shelf wear, lightly faded on spine. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 141 pages .

New York: Ecco Press, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. 141 pages. A collection of poems from the 1980 Nobel Laureate translated by Milosz and Robert Hass. A tight close to near fine copy with some slight foxing to the top of the page edges in a near fine dust jacket.

New York: Ecco Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1986. Hardbound. 0880010983 . Gift Inscription, .

New York: The Ecco Press, 1986. First printing. Fine in a near fine jacket.. First edition of Milosz's first new book of poetry following his 1980 Nobel Prize. Collection of Milosz's poems, translated into English by the "robust and sensitive" (Phillips) Robert Hass and by Milosz himself. The poet includes several poems by D.H. Lawrence and Walt Whitman alongside his own work, returned to English from his previous translations into Polish. As he explains in the preface: "Robert Hass was of the opinion that those poems should not be eliminated, as they make an integral part of my mosaic, so we have left them, an homage to tutelary spirits." 9'' x 6''. Original half black cloth with pale green boards. Gilt-lettered spine. In original unclipped ($17.95) dust jacket. 141, [1] pages. Faint toning to jacket flaps. Else clean and sound.