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2004580622Louisville Kentucky: Sarabande Books 2004. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Stapled printed wrappers. Small creases at the bottom corner of wraps and pages near fine. Quarternote Chapbook Series #3. Sarabande Books unknown
20041397887Louisville Kentucky: Sarabande Books 2004. First Edition First Printing. Saddle-stitched. Octavo 20 pages. In Very Good condition. Wraps have mild rubbing wear along spine. Shelved Room C. 1397887. Special Collections. Sarabande Books unknown
2004613548Louisville Kentucky: Sarabande Books 2004. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Octavo. 20pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Signed by the author. Quarternote Chapbook Series #3. Sarabande Books unknown
20048651Louiseville KY: Sarabande Books 2004. First Edition First Printing. Paperback. Fine. Thin octavo. 6 x 9 in. 20 pp. Fine in original stapled wrappers. Quarternote Chapbook Series #3. Sarabande Books paperback
2004501002Louisville Kentucky: Sarabande Books 2004. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Stapled wrappers. Faintest bit of wear at the corners still easily fine. Inscribed on the title page: "for Ted with / good wishes / Louise Glück." Quarternote Chapbook Series #3. Housed in a fine custom royal blue clamshell case with the spine titled in gilt and the author's gilt facsimile signature on the cover. Glück received the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature. Sarabande Books unknown
2004Poetry-Office-1Sarabande Books Louisville 2004 First edition. First printing. Printed black wraps. States "First Edition". A fine copy flawless. Scarce in this first edition. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 20 pages. Softcover. Quarternote Chapbook Series #3. A single poem by the winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket. Sarabande Books, Louisville paperback
2004208192Louisville KY: Sarabande Books 2004. First edition. Softcover. 20 pages. Quarternote Chapbook Series #3. A single poem by the winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature. A clean very near fine copy in stapled wrappers with some very minor wear. Signed by Gluck on the title page and with a laid in letter from Tree Swenson the executive director of The Academy of American Poets presenting this book. A somewhat uncommon book and especially signed. Sarabande Books unknown
2012121357Farrar Straus and Giroux 2012. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Name in ink to rear end paper. Highlighting to four pages. Complete number line. . Farrar, Straus and Giroux Hardcover
2012146120New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 2012. First edition of this collection of poems by the Nobel Prize-winning poet. Octavo original boards. Boldly signed Louise Gluck on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Gretchen Achilles. It is the astonishment of Louise Glück's poetry that it resists collection. With each successive book her drive to leave behind what came before has grown more fierce the force of her gaze fixed on what has yet to be imagined. She invented a form to accommodate this need the book-length sequence of poems like a landscape seen from above a novel with lacunae opening onto the unspeakable. The reiterated yet endlessly transfigured elements in this landscape―Persephone a copper beech a mother and father and sister a garden a husband and son a horse a dog a field on fire a mountain―persistently emerge and reappear with the dark energy of the inevitable shot through with the bright aspect of things new-made. Farrar, Straus and Giroux hardcover
2012177567New York: Ecco 2012. First edition first printing inscribed by the author on the title page "for Adam Louise Glück with warm wishes". This compendium "is considered required reading by any aspiring poet - and arguably anyone serious about modern American literature" obit. Octavo. Original pale purple boards spine lettered in black. With dust jacket. Spine ends bumped; head of jacket mildly creased unclipped: a near-fine copy in like jacket. Clay Risen "Louise Glück 80 Nobel-Winning Poet Who Explored Trauma and Loss Dies" The New York Times October 13 2023. hardcover
20211633<p><em><strong>EXCEPTIONALLY SCARCE SIGNED! FIRST EDITION THUS</strong></em> first printing. Full number line present. Book is brand new and unread. Personally hand signed by Nobel Prize winning poet Louise Gluck directly to bespoke bookplate which is laid in rather than affixed. NOT inscribed to anyone. Dust jacket hand covered in protective archival grade Mylar for many worry free years of reading/collecting!</p><p>It is the astonishment of Louise Glück's poetry that it resists collection. With each successive book her drive to leave behind what came before has grown more fierce the force of her gaze fixed on what has yet to be imagined. She invented a form to accommodate this need the book-length sequence of poems like a landscape seen from above a novel with lacunae opening onto the unspeakable. The reiterated yet endlessly transfigured elements in this landscape―Persephone a copper beech a mother and father and sister a garden a husband and son a horse a dog a field on fire a mountain―persistently emerge and reappear with the dark energy of the inevitable shot through with the bright aspect of things new-made.<br />From the outset "Come here / Come here little one" Gluck's voice has addressed us with deceptive simplicity the poems in lines so clear we "do not see the intervening fathoms."</p><p>From within the earth's<br />bitter disgrace coldness and barrenness</p><p>my friend the moon rises:<br />she is beautiful tonight but when is she not beautiful</p><p>To read these books together is to understand the governing paradox of a life lived in the body and of the work wrested from it the one fated to die and the other to endure.</p> Farrar, Straus and Giroux hardcover
20128311New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux / Ecco 2012. First Edition. First Printing. Thick octavo 23.5cm; light gray paper-covered boards with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; xviii45-6342pp. Signed by the author on the title page. Tiny crimp to base of spine else Fine in a Fine unclipped dustjacket priced $40.00. A substantial volume representing work from the first five decades of the Nobel Prize-winning poet's career gathering selections from her first collection Firstborn 1968 through A Village Life 2009. 8311. Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Ecco unknown
2021Rear-Poetry-Gluck-12Farrar Straus and Giroux New York 2021 New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 2021. First edition. First printing with full number line including the 1. Hardcover. Full black paper-covered boards with silver spine lettering. Fine in a fine dust jacket. A clean tight copy. Publisher's original price intact on front flap $40.00. Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. Octavo 634 pages. This book collects collects twelve volumes of Gluck's poetry spanning five decades including "Firstborn" "The House on Marshland" "Descending Figure" "The Triumph of Achilles" "Ararat" "The Wild Iris" "Meadowlands" "Vita Nova" "The Seven Ages" "Averno" and "A Village Life." Glück 19432023 was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature "for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.". 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York hardcover
201211396<p>2012 oversize hardcover stated 1st edition 1st printing with full number line. Store security sticker residue on inside back flap else in fine condition. Oversize book – extra shipping charges will apply for international and priority orders as this will not fit into a flat rate envelope</p> Farrar, Straus And Giroux hardcover
0374126089.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
037460438X.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
20211-037460438XFarrar Straus & Giroux 2021. Hardcover. New. 656 pages. 9.25x6.25x2.00 inches. Farrar Straus & Giroux hardcover
20123116375Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2012. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0374126089 . First edition. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Couple short tears at crest of spine on book. One corner tip mildly pushed. A few mildl dings at base of boards. 634pp. 6 6 1/2" X 9 1/4" Nobel Prize winning poet's complete poems up to this date. ; 6 1/2" x 9 1/3"; 634 pages . hardcover
201268975NY:: Farrar Straus and Giroux. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2012. Hardcover. 0374126089 . Third printing. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. . Farrar, Straus and Giroux, hardcover
20211403875London: Penguin Books 2021. First Edition Thus First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo xviii 696 pages. In Very Good minus condition with Very Good minus dust jacket. Spine white with teal and black lettering. Dust jacket protected with mylar covering price uncut: "£30.00." Slight creasing to edges and corners of dust jacket. Minor bumping to top edge of front board. Slight scratching to rear cover of dust jacket. Slight discoloration to top edge of text block. Interior pages clean. Signed bookplate adhered to title page. CM Consignment. Shelved in Case 0. Poems 1962-2012 first published in the USA by Farrar Staus and Giroux 2012<br /> <br /> Published in Great Britain with additional poems under the present title in Penguin Classics 2021. 1403875. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Penguin Books hardcover
202110285London: Penguin Classics 2021. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. First published in the USA in 2012. This is the UK 1st Edition in 2021 with additional poems. 1st Printing. New copy. Signed on a bookplate. <br/> <br/> Penguin Classics hardcover
199481141Hopewell NJ: The Ecco Press 1994. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 23.5cm; beige paper-covered boards and black cloth backstrip with titles stamped in gilt on spine and publisher's logo embossed onto lower front cover; dustjacket; xii34-1344pp. Sprinkle of foxing to upper edge of textblock a few faint scuffs to front cover with previous owner's circular embossed stamp at lower front endpaper and upper rear endpaper; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $22.00 gently spine-sunned with some trivial surface wear; Near Fine. A collection of 16 essays on poetry by the Nobel Prize-winning author. The Ecco Press unknown
1994581893Hopewell New Jersey: The Ecco Press 1994. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. 134pp. Faint age-toning at the edges of the endpapers else fine in a fine dust jacket. The Ecco Press hardcover
19941389597Hopewell NJ: The Ecco Press 1994. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo 134 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good condition dust jacket. White spine with black lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering price is uncut "$22.00 - Canada $28.99" and has mild wear along the spine head and tail edges. Boards have mild wear along the head and tail edges and stains on the head and tail edges. Textblock has stains on the end-pages pastedowns and edges. Signed flat by Louise Glück on title page. DL consignment. Shelved in Case 0. Louise Glück was born on April 22 1943 in New York City to parents of Russian and Hungarian Jewish descent. Glück was taught Greek mythology and classic stories from a young age which greatly influenced her works. Glück began writing poetry in highschool eventually taking some poetry classes and attending workshops where she more deeply developed her craft. After a tumultuous life and career Glück finally began seeing wider success in her work in the 1990's. That success however came with personal pains which she channeled into her work producing a collection of essays in 1994 titled "Proofs & Theories: Essays on Poetry" 1389597. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. The Ecco Press hardcover
19948310New York: The Ecco Press 1994. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 23.5cm; cream paper-covered boards and black cloth backstrip with titles stamped in gilt on spine and publisher's logo embossed onto front cover; dustjacket; xii34-1346pp. Signed by the author on the title page. A few very faint surface scuffs to lower rear cover else very Near Fine in a Fine unclipped dustjacket priced $22.00 with the publisher's query card laid in. Sharp copy of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet's first collection of non-fiction gathering 16 essays on poetry touching on T.S. Eliot George Oppen Sylvia Plath and her skepticism of post-modern critical thought. 8310. The Ecco Press unknown