Search Results: Paris Review from Philip Smith, Bookseller

Flushing, NY: The Paris Review, 1985. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 208pp, printed wrappers. Interesting later issue of this essential postwar literary magazine. Includes a portfolio of photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe, interviews with John Barth and William Meredith, art by Roz Chast, other great content. Unmarked copy, corner crease to two leaves, later pages have yellowing of suboptimal paper stock used, light wear.

Flushing, NY: The Paris Review, 1983. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, 272pp, printed wrappers. Interesting later issue of this essential postwar literary magazine. Includes interviews with James Laughlin and May Sarton, a selection from Zelda Fitzgerald's letters, portraits by Don Bachardy, other great content. Unmarked copy, light wear.

Flushing, NY: The Paris Review, 1977. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 192pp, printed wrappers. Another exceptional issue of this essential postwar literary magazine. Includes an interview with Richard Wilbur, artwork by Joe Brainard and Judith Ornstein, other great content. Unmarked copy, light spots to front cover.

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, 1963. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 180pp, printed wrappers. Includes Lunar Caustic by Malcolm Lowry (about 60pp), an interview with Katherine Anne Porter, writing by Henry Miller, Lawrence Durrell, Robert Creeley, et al. Woolmer C199. Unmarked copy, faint outer stain at spine and bottom edge with minor associated waviness.

Paris: The Paris Review, 1965. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 176pp, printed wrappers. Great prime issue of this essential postwar literary magazine, includes an interview with Lillian Hellman, plus writing by Oppen, Levertov, Creeley, et al. Routing-type initials to front cover (else unmarked), a bit of general wear.

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.

New York: The Paris Review, 2002. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 340pp, printed wrappers. Thick Crime-themed later issue of this essential postwar literary magazine, includes a range of participants, and an interview with Richard Powers. Tight unmarked copy with light wear and some spotting to spine.

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 content. Unmarked copy (aside from Gunn's correction), a little outer wear and soil.

Paris: The Paris Review, 1969. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 160pp, printed wrappers. Another prime issue of this essential postwar literary magazine, includes an interview with Robert Graves, art by David Hockney, and writing by John Ashbery, Robert Creeley, Charles Plymell, Ed Sanders, Sotere Torregian, et al. Unmarked copy, light wear.

Flushing, NY: The Paris Review, 1975. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 176pp, printed wrappers. Another fine issue of this essential postwar literary magazine. Includes an interview with Bernard Malamud, a cover by Joe Brainard, a section of memoirs of Natalie Barney (by Capote, Colette, et al.), and writing by Richard Wilbur, David Ignatow, et al. Tight, unmarked copy with a little rubbing to front cover.

Flushing, NY: The Paris Review, 1989. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 280pp, printed wrappers. Warmly INSCRIBED by contrbutor Allan Gurganus in 1992.Thick later issue of this essential postwar literary magazine, includes interviews with John Fowles, Athol Fugard and Elizabeth Spencer, art by Edward Hopper (cover) and Stuart Davis, plus Stephen Mitchell translations of Rilke and writing by Marjorie Welish et al. Ink line to bottom edge (else unmarked), minor wear.

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, 1960. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, 144pp, printed wrappers. Scarce early issue of this essential postwar literary magazine, includes an interview with Lawrence Durrell, fiction by William Styron, and poetry by James Dickey, Harold Norse, et al. Nice unmarked copy with light bump to one corner.

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, a bit of cover rubbing and wear.

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.

Flushing, NY: The Paris Review, 1984. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 240pp, printed wrappers. Interesting later issue of this essential postwar literary magazine. Includes interviews with Arthur Koestler, Milan Kundera, and Edna O'Brien, art by Louise Bourgeois and Mark Kostabi, other great content. Remainder line to top edge, else unmarked copy with light reading wear and a little spotting.

Paris: The Paris Review, 1954. 1st edition. Soft cover. Good /No Jacket (as issued). Good+. 8vo, 192pp, printed wrappers. The scarce seventh issue of this essential postwar literary magazine, includes an interview with Joyce Cary, early verse by Adrienne Rich, drawings by Picasso, and work by a range of other great contributors. Unmarked copy, solid except that the front cover has a closed tear, creasing, and corner chip, and spine has some abrasion.

Paris: The Paris Review, 1963. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 192pp, printed wrappers. Thick early issue of this essential postwar literary magazine, includes interviews with Evelyn Waugh and S. J. Perelman, plus art by Ernst Fuchs. Unmarked copy, a bit of cover soil and rubbing (common with this issue).

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 Leo Herlihy, an interview with Georges Simenon, other prime content. Unmarked copy (except for correction), foxing to opening and closing spreads and some spotting to page edges.