Publicado por Toronto: The Canadian Authors Association, 1948
Librería: Philip Smith, Bookseller, Berkeley, CA, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición
Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st edition. VG+. 8vo, 52pp, stapled wrappers. Special "British Poetry Today" issue, includes early work by Denise Levertov (as Denise Levertoff), et al. Unmarked copy, light wear to overlapping wrapper edges. Not Signed.
Publicado por Woolmer / Brotherson Ltd. / Stinehour Press of Vermont, Andes, 1977
Librería: Idler Fine Books, Las Vegas, NV, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición
Soft cover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Stated first edition. Stiff, plain stapled wrappers in marble dust jacket (with French flaps), unpaginated, limited edition, 1 of 400 copies, with Cornell University Library Associates complimentary card laid in. Slightly rubbed at spine ends and faint toning to back cover margins, else book in fine condition.
Publicado por New Directions, New York, 1971
Librería: Idler Fine Books, Las Vegas, NV, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. Rollie McKenna (Author photo); Suzy Groden Ilustrador. 1st Edition. First printing of the first edition. Book in fine condition; dust jacket with minimal signs of wear, else in fine condition.
Publicado por Hovey Street Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1973
Librería: Idler Fine Books, Las Vegas, NV, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición
Soft cover. Condición: Fine. Peggy Johnston (Calligraphy); Judy Katz Ilustrador. 1st Edition. First edition, limited to 1000 copies. Book in fine condition.
Publicado por New Directions, New York, 1966
Librería: Idler Fine Books, Las Vegas, NV, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. Roloff Beny Ilustrador. 1st Edition. First printing of the first edition, with errata slip laid-in. Light rubbing to spine ends, else book in fine condition; dust jacket with two short, closed tears, and faint tanning to spine, else fine.
Publicado por Cresset Press, 1946
Librería: Arundel Books, Seattle, WA, Estados Unidos de America
Miembro de asociación: CBA
Original o primera edición Ejemplar firmado
Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Signed by author in brown ink on half title (as Denise Levertov). A superb, 'as new' copy of author Denise Levertov's first book (before she changed the spelling of her name). First edition, first printing in original jacket. Literally never read.
Publicado por Cresset Press, London, 1946
Librería: Abacus Bookshop, Pittsford, NY, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición
hardcover. 1st edition. 8vo, 45 pp., A long inscription (dated 1968) from the author's husband, Mitchell Goodman, on the front free endpaper., The front panel of the jacket has faint mottling and one tiny, closed tear;otherwise a handsome copy of the author's first book. Fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket.
Publicado por Cresset Press, London, 1946
Librería: Pelican Bay Books, Anacortes, WA, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Signed First Edition. London: Creset Press, 1946. Hardcover: Tan cloth boards, 12mo. Signature only of author (spelled Levertov) to front free end-paper, otherwise clean, crisp, and unmarked. Dust jacket foxed in places, else fine. Lovely signed first printing of author's first book. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Small 8vo. 45pp. Cream cloth lettered in gold at the spine and upper board. Just a touch of very light spotting to the top edge and endpapers. Very good indeed in slightly dust soiled and spotted non-price-clipped dust wrapper. Thirty-five poems; the author's first collection of verse, published when she was just 23 years old. The author's father was a Russian Hassidic Jew named Paul Levertoff, but after the publication of this first book the author changed the spelling to Levertov, allegedly because 'v' looked more symmetrical than 'ff'.
Publicado por Waldron Island WA, Brooding Heron Press., 1991
Librería: Bucks County Bookshop IOBA, Doylestown, PA, Estados Unidos de America
Miembro de asociación: IOBA
Original o primera edición Ejemplar firmado
First Edition of this 1991 limited printing of 300 copies; SIGNED by Denise Levertov (on title page) and also signed by the two publishers Sally Green and Sam Green (but not lettered, and lacking the supplement). -- Hardcover. Conditon: fine.
Publicado por The Cresset Press, London, 1946
Librería: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición Ejemplar firmado
Signed first printing of Levertov/Levertoff's first poetry collection - her only book to appear under her original family name, and signed with both spellings. Composed during the Second World War during Levertov's service as a nurse in London, the poems in THE DOUBLE IMAGE reflect the author's youthful mastery of traditional poetic idiom and forms before her move to the US and later affiliation with the Black Mountain school. A lovely copy. 7'' x 4.5''. Original cream cloth stamped in brown and gilt. In original price-clipped dust jacket. 45, [1] pages. Signed by "Levertoff / Levertov" on front free endpaper. Moderate bumping to boards, light creasing and soil to jacket. Jacket spine toned. Very good plus in very good plus jacket.
Publicado por The Cresset Press, London, 1946
Librería: Vashon Island Books, Vashon, WA, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. First U.K. Edition. In tan jacket with red and black titling tan cloth with gilt titling, 12mo, 45pp. A nice copy of Levertov's first book, published at the end of WWII. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.
Publicado por The Cresset Press, London, 1946
Librería: Idler Fine Books, Las Vegas, NV, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. First printing of the first edition. cloth boards with gilt-lettered title, 45pp., in tan dust jacket with the publisher's original price on front flap intact. Hint of bookplate ghost to front endpaper, else book in fine condition; in dust jacket with minimal signs of age or wear.
Publicado por Brooding Heron Press, Waldron Island, 1991
Librería: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, Estados Unidos de America
Ejemplar firmado
Edition limited to 300 copies, signed by Levertov on the title page; 8vo, pp. [8], 45, [1]; mounted frontispiece portrait, title page printed in red and black; fine copy in original black cloth-backed handmade paper-covered boards, printed paper label on spine. From the library of Kim Merker. Originally published in London by the Cresset Press, 1946. "Three hundred copies of this edition were printed . Twenty-six copies, lettered A-Z, as well as a small number of hors de commerce presentation copies . were additionally provided with hard Japanese-style wraparound covers and supplemented with [The token] . a previously unpublished poem [not present with this issue]" (colophon).
Publicado por The Cresset Press, London, 1946
Librería: Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Seattle, WA, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición Ejemplar firmado
Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. First Edition. 12mo. Pp. 45. Bound in light tan linen with cloth label, stamped in gilt, mounted on front board, gilt lettering stamped on spine. Signed by Levertov (with last name spelled "Levertov") in pen on the front free endpaper. A particularly fresh copy in a bright dust jacket. Levertov began publishing her poetry while working as a London nurse during WWII. Her first poem was published in 1940 (Poetry Quarterly), which inspired Rexroth and his circle to pursue (in his words) ''excited correspondence about her." This is the poet's first volume of verse, presented in an exemplary copy.
Publicado por London: The Cresset Press, 1946
Librería: a cool of books, Mastic, NY, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición Ejemplar firmado
Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. A lovely, tight and square first printing of the poet's first book. Beige boards with gilt titles, FINE. Signed twice, Denise Levertoff (1946!) Levertov (1977) DJ has a handful of foxed spots on the DJ folds, else FINE. A fresh copy!. Signed by Author(s).
Publicado por Cresset Press, London, 1946
Librería: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. First edition. Fine in a modestly foxed, else fine dustwrapper. The author's first book. Inscribed by the author in 1961.
Publicado por The Cresset Press Ltd., 1946
Librería: Le Bookiniste, ABAA-ILAB-IOBA, Hopewell, NJ, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición Ejemplar firmado
Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 12mo (7 1/8 x 4 3/4 inches; 180 x 123 mm), 45, [1] pages in beige cloth, front cover stamped in gold on horizontal brown rectangle and in gold along the spine, in an unclipped, printed dust jacket. SIGNED by Denise Levertov on the front end paper. This is Levertov's first book, a collection of poems, and the only one to use the original spelling of her name. This copy belonged to Levertov's former husband, Mitchell Goodman. They married in 1947, the year after the publication of this book, and divorced in 1975. Laid in are two handwritten letters from Goodman to another person in 1987 concerning the sale of this copy. There's also a fragment of a letter to Goodman, who has replied at the bottom of the letter that he would take $150 for the book; a canceled check for that amount is included with the book. Goodman provides some interesting details about this edition, writing in a letter dated November 12, 1987: "It was published in London by a very good small press when D.L. was 22 or 23 years old. There was a first edition of 750 copies and then no more. Most of the books sold went to English readers, libraries, etc. Long ago, there seem to be very few copies in this country--and none for sale that I've heard of in recent years. (I heard a rumor once from an English collector who said the publisher had scrapped a large number of copies that had been damaged while in storage. It seemed to ring true.)" Goodman further states: "Denise Levertov herself gave me this copy. We're old friends." Goodman's assertion of a 750-copy print run is at variance with the Levertov bibliography compiled by Robert A. Wilson of the Phoenix Book Shop. Wilson says 13,042 copies were published on December 2, 1946. (Wilson A 1). That seems highly unlikely, since this was a first book by an unknown author. Goodman is probably closer to the mark with 750. Given the provenance, this is a nice association copy. CONDITION: Light vertical creases to a couple of preliminary pages and some fading to spine letters. The dust jacket has some foxing or staining to the spine and to the jacket edges. Overall, an attractive copy printed on high-quality paper. Near Fine in a Very Good or better dust jacket. Signed by Author(s).