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Unknown. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. iii, [3], 32 pages. Text of the lectures delivered at the Library of Congress, January 6 and 27, 1964 by Ellison and Shapiro, respectively; 'Published . by the Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund' (title page). Slight soiling, rubbing and browning to wrappers; slight internal browning to edges.b/w Title vignettes; Title Pages (red/black).
Published by LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. WASHINGTON, D.C. 1964, 1964
Seller: Book House in Dinkytown, IOBA, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
Book
Paperback. Condition: Good. Published 1964 for the Library of Congress. Very good gently used copy. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Published by Gertrude Clark Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund, for the Library of Congress, Washington DC, 1964
First Edition
Staplebound Wraps. Condition: Good. First edition. 8vo, 32 pp. Two lectures: Hidden Name and Complex Fate (Ellison) and American Poet? (Shapiro). Wrappers stained and edgeworn, corners bumped, staples rusted, page edges tanned.
Published by Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund for the Library of Congress, Washington DC, 1964
Manuscript / Paper Collectible First Edition
Pamphlet. v, 32p., 6x9.25 inches, two lectures on writing, very good booklet in stapled printed brown and yellow wraps with mild fading to spinefold.
Condition: Good. Good condition. (Literature, Lectures, Writers, Criticism) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
Published by Washington, 1964
Seller: CARDINAL BOOKS ~~ ABAC/ILAB, London -- Birr, ON, Canada
Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Soft Cover. A clean, tight and unmarked booklet. Very neat -- a sound and handsome copy. Book.
Published by Washington, D.C., Library of Congress, 1964., 1964
Seller: Alexanderplatz Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Wrappers. 8vo, 40 pp. including preliminaries. Contains the two above-named pieces. Ralph Ellison's contribution is autobiographical and discusses his beginnings as a writer. Very good copy, slightly handled, wrappers little dusty, otherwise clean.
Published by Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1964., 1964
Seller: Monroe Stahr Books, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION in brown and cream colored stapled wraps. Covers are lightly browned. Slight foxing to inside of front cover and FFEP from newspaper article. Otherwise near fine Two lectures: Ellison - Hidden Name and Complex Fate: A Writer's Experience in the U.S.: Shapiro - American Poet? 0.0.
Published by Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., U.S.A., 1964
Seller: Tornbooks, Austin, TX, U.S.A.
Book
Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. From lectures delivered January 6 and 27, 1964, by Mr. Ellison and Mr. Shapiro repectively, under the auspices of the Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund. Softcover. Near Fine. Staplebound; paper wraps; 32 pp.; a touch of shelfwear; a few unobtrusive, tiny pen marks, else a crisp, clean copy.
Published by Library of Congress, Washington DC, 1964
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
8vo, pp. 32. Paper wraps. Cover soiled and slightly scuffed, o/w a VG tight copy.
Published by Gertrude Clarke Whittall, Washington D.C., 1964
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. 32pp. Stapled wrappers. Some pages have text bleed through to verso text, still very much readable, wrappers lightly age-toned and rubbed, very good.
Published by LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, Washington, D.C., U.S.A., 1964
Seller: STUDIO V, San Marcos, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition.
Published by Washington, D.C.: Published for the Library of Congress by the Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund. 1964., 1964
Seller: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition - First printing. Includes the text of two lectures presented under the auspices of the Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund. "Hidden Name And complex Fate: a Writer's Experience in the U.S." by Ralph Ellison on January 6 and "American Poet?" by Karl Shapiro on January 27, 1964. iii, 32 pp. Very good in stapled wrappers. From the library of poet and children's writer Myra Cohn Livingston (1926-1996,) with her bookplate inside the front cover, and addressed to her (complete with 6c in postage stamps) on the back cover.
Published by Library of Congress / Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund, 1964
Seller: Schindler-Graf Booksellers, Westlake, OH, U.S.A.
Book
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Stapled paperback in ivory cover stock; v, 32 pages. Contents: "Hidden name and complex fate: a writer's experience in the U.S.," by Ralph Ellison. "American poet?" By Karl Shapiro. Condition: Very Good, with no marks or writing to book. Light signs of prior handling, but no damage or distress.
Published by Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund, Washington D.C., 1964
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. 32pp. Fine in stapled wrappers.
Published by Gertrude Clarke Whittall, Washington D.C., 1964
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. 32pp. Slight age-toning on the wrappers else fine in stapled wrappers.
Published by Library of Congress, Washington DC, 1964
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. 8vo, pp. 32. Paper wraps. [Lectures presented under the auspices of the Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund. ] Cover some toned, o/w a VG tight copy.
Published by Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 1964
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition. Softcover. Lectures by Ellison and Shapiro delivered under the auspices of the Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund. A near fine copy in printed wrappers that have a little soiling and some of the typical rusting to the staples.
Published by Library of Congress, Washington DC, 1964
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
First Edition
Wraps. Condition: Very good. [6], 32, [2] pages. Occasional footnotes. Minor page discoloration. Cover has slight wear and soiling. These are Lectures Presented Under the Auspices of the Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund. Karl Jay Shapiro (November 10, 1913 - May 14, 2000) was an American poet. He was appointed the fifth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1946. Poems from his books display a mastery of formal verse with a modern sensibility that viewed such topics as automobiles, house flies, and drug stores as worthy of attention. In 1963, the poet/critic Randall Jarrell praised Shapiro's work. In his later work, he experimented with more open forms, beginning with The Bourgeois Poet (1964) and continuing with White-Haired Lover (1968). His interest in formal verse and prosody led to his writing multiple books on the subject including the long poem Essay on Rime (1945), A Bibliography of Modern Prosody (1948), and A Prosody Handbook (with Robert Beum, 1965; reissued 2006). His Selected Poems appeared in 1968. Shapiro also published one novel, Edsel (1971) and a three-part autobiography simply titled, "Poet" (1988-1990). Shapiro edited the prestigious magazine, Poetry for several years, and he was a professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he edited Prairie Schooner, and at the University of California, Davis, from which he retired in the mid-1980s. Scarce Ellison item! Mrs. Gertrude Clarke Whittall (1867-1965) was one of the Library of Congress's great patrons of music and literature. Ralph Waldo Ellison (March 1, 1913 - April 16, 1994) was an American novelist, literary critic, and scholar. Ellison is best known for his novel Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953. He also wrote Shadow and Act (1964), a collection of political, social and critical essays, and Going to the Territory (1986). For The New York Times, the best of these essays in addition to the novel put him "among the gods of America's literary Parnassus." A posthumous novel, Juneteenth, was published after being assembled from voluminous notes he left after his death. Published in 1952, Invisible Man explores the theme of man's search for his identity and place in society, as seen from the perspective of the first-person narrator, an unnamed African American man in the New York City of the 1930s. In contrast to his contemporaries such as Richard Wright and James Baldwin, Ellison created characters that are dispassionate, educated, articulate, and self-aware. Through the protagonist, Ellison explores the contrasts between the Northern and Southern varieties of racism and their alienating effect. The narrator is "invisible" in a figurative sense, in that "people refuse to see" him, and also experiences a kind of dissociation. The novel also contains taboo issues such as incest and the controversial subject of communism. In 1964, Ellison published Shadow and Act, a collection of essays, and began to teach at Rutgers University and Yale University, while continuing to work on his novel. The following year, a survey of 200 prominent literary figures was released that proclaimed Invisible Man the most important novel since World War II. presumed First Edition, First printing thus.
Published by Library of Congress, Washington, DC, 1964
Seller: Du Bois Book Center, Englewood, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Stapled Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good+++. No Jacket. First Edition. Lectures Presented Under the Auspices of the Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund. v. "Hidden Name And complex Fate: a Writer's Experience in the U.S." by Ralph Ellison. "American Poet?" by Karl Shapiro. 32pp. Stapled soft cover. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover.
Published by Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund, Washington D.C., 1964
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. 32pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Original letter from the Government Printing Office laid in.
Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 32 pages. First edition, first printing. Lectures published by the Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund. Ralph Ellison wrote: Hidden Name And Complex Fate: A Writer's Experience in the U.S. Karl Shapiro wrote: American Poet? Fine book in wrappers. A beautiful copy!.
Published by LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. WASHINGTON, D.C. 1964, 1964
First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Close to fine in stapled wrappers. (Faint touch of offsetting to covers) First printing of "Hidden Name And Complex Fate, A Writer's Experience In The U.S.".