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Creative Media Partners, LLC. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

New York: Atheneum, 1962. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. 1st edition, 1962. A Very Good copy in a Good+ dust jacket. 8vo., 211 pp., bound in publishers blue cloth with black dust jacket, $4.50. Jacket is rubbed and soiled with chipping along edges, spine and tips. Previous owners name inside front cover, otherwise text is unmarked. Text edges spotted, binding is solid. Dust jacket now protected in mylar sleeve.

Paperback / softback. New.

Hassell Street Press. New. Special order direct from the distributor

Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1965. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1965. 1st Edition Thus. 234 pages. Purple dust jacket over black paper covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Heavier foxing to text-block edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Minor crushing to spine ends. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing. Notable tanning to spine and flaps edges. Noticeable foxing to rear panel.

(London: Eyre and Spottiswoode: 1965) First British Edition Bds pp. 234. Fine in near fine dust-jacket

Hardback. New.

NY: Atheneum. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly toned and waterstained at . lower left corner of rear panel with some paper adhesion to boards.. 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Navy cloth stamped in blind on front boards and in gilt on spine. Red topstain. Author photo on rear jacket panel. A collection of the late author's fables and essays. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1965. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo (20.75cm); black paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [ii],[8],9-234,[2]pp. Three corners gently tapped (though still sharp), else Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced 25s net), gently spine-sunned and lightly edgeworn, with a few tiny tears; Near Fine. Late collection of essays and fables by Jarrell, in which he explores his observations "on the decline of taste, learning and culture in the United States" (from front flap of the American edition). WRIGHT A10.b.

New York: Atheneum, 1967 Book. Very Good-Very Good (+) Book. Hardcover. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Blue cover with gilt spine title. Secure binding with clean pages and owner name at inside front free endpaper. The lightly rubbed jacket is in a nice protective cover and it has some smaller closed tears and creases at the bottom. Hardcover..

London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1965. Pages clean and bright, spine creased from previous readings, chipping to cloth on spine.. Soft. Fair. 8vo. Proof Copy.

Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A lot of six (6) books by and about the American poet, one of the most underrated poets of the time of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop. William H. Pritchard, ed., Randall Jarrell: selected poems (SC, VG condition, remainder mark, New York: Noonday Press, 1990, 115 pp., including Index of First Lines, and SIGNED by William Pritchard, inscribed to Kenneth Anderson, whose embossed stamp graces the title page); Richard Flynn, Randall Jarrell and the Lost World of Childhood (Fine HC in a like jacket, in First Edition, Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1990, xiii [1], 2-167 pp.); Stuart Wright, Randall Jarrell: a descriptive bibliography, 1929-1983 (Fine HC in a like jacket, Charlottesville, Virginia; University Press of Virginia, 1986, xvi [1], 3-372 pp.); Randall Jarrell, A Sad Heart at the Supermarket (Acceptable condition HC in a like jacket, foxing to fore-edge, soiling to dust jacket, New York: Atheneum, 1962, stated First Edition,… Read More

New York: Atheneum, 1962. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 211 [1] pp. Fine in faintly toned, near fine dust jacket with a tiny bit of wear at the spine ends and the spine lettering very lightly sunned. A nice copy.

New York: Atheneum, 1962. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. Signed. 8vo.; in the publisher's blue cloth binding, with dustjacket; this copy signed by the author on the flyleaf; [2].3-211 pages.~~When President Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, it is said that Mr. Jarrell spent days in front of the television in tears. He spiraled into depression. Sad Heart is prescient. It was published the year before the President's death. Mr. Jarrell is the possessor of the "Sad Heart"; the supermarket is our civilization, with its panoply of seductive treats that leave us malnourished.~~Mr. Jarrell died -- perhaps by suicide -- in 1965. Now nearly 60 years later, we believe he would find the sadness unbearable.~~. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket.

New York: Atheneum, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. A few spots of foxing to the bulked fore-edge of the text. Near Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper. This collection of essays and fables is INSCRIBED on the front pastedown and SIGNED by the poet "For David Posner/from/Randall Jarrell/with all best wishes." On the facing page, the front endpaper, Jarrell has also written out the complete short poem, "The Sign," with one word and a punctuation change from the published version in his 1969 COMPLETE POEMS. It was first published in 1966 as a broadside in about 100 copies for Friends of the Library of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. In full: "Having eaten their mackerel,/drunk their milk,/They lie like two strands of/embroidery silk/Asleep in the glider; The child/repeats, 'It's such a pity!'/And paints on a piece of/beaverboard, FREE KITTY."