CONDITION This is a previously owned book which has been read, showing signs of handling, but which remains clean and attractive, with the following particulars noted: EXTERIOR : Very shallow reading crease on spine just perceptible are shallow reading creases along spine on both front and rear covers slight compression to head of spine soft bumps to corner tips covers bright with but mild surface rub (this more apparent on back than front) displays nicely. From the cover : A terrifying novel of a handful of men who take the world to the Moment of No Return A sudden crisis over West Berlin triggered off by the East German government An ultimatum to the West The President of the United States sends a tough reply and alerts SAC With fearful logic the forces of the world s great governments are committed to devastating nuclear war ! Said Maurice Edelman, Member of Parliament about this novel: A most exciting novel of contemporary international affairs which deals in an exceptionally informed way with the dangers, hopes, frustrations, and the possibilities for the good of the world in which we live. Original 50ยข price on front cover and spine. TITLE : Moment of No Return AUTHOR : Stephen King-Hall (William Stephen Richard King-Hall, Baron King-Hall, 1893 - 1966) IMPRINT : Ballantine Books (Ballantine Original) PLACE : New York DATE : (September 1961) EDITION : First Edition PBO STATUS : OP Out of Print // Mass Market Paperback, silver age size 192 pages 4 3/16 x 7 pictorial wraps text-block edges dyed orange. ********************************************** CONDITION - VERY GOOD - Clean and bright, with the following noted: EXTERIOR : Near-negligible surface rub and a bit of edge nicking, and soft bumps to corner tips, else bright and attractive / BINDING : Solid, tight / INTERIOR : Clean and unmarked /. ************************************* TITLE : Death Song / AUTHOR : Thomas McGrath (Thomas Matthew McGrath, 1916 - 1990) / EDITOR : Sam Hamill / INTRODUCTION : Dale Jacobson / IMPRINT : Copper Canyon Press / PLACE : Port Townsend, Washington / DATE : (1991) / EDITION : First Edition in Paperback Format (Issued simultaneously with the hardcover.) / STATUS : OP Out of Print / PHYSICAL DETAILS : Trade paperback Contains an Introduction 117 pages approximately 6" x 9" pictorial wraps, glued. As it says on the book's cover, "Mcgrath celebrated life more nakedly, more enthusiastically, than any American poet since Whitman, reaffirming our interconnectedness with one another and with the natural world." This was Thomas McGrath's last book., issued posthumously after his death in September, 1990. In these poems McGrath looks death in the face and finds, not an implacable enemy, but a natural progression from one state of being to another. With this book, "Death Song", McGrath bravely faced, accepted serenely, and embraced his own oncoming demise. He found himself being dismissed from teaching jobs because he dared to appear in the 1950s as an 'unfriendly witness" before the House Committee on Un-American Activities. The distinguished American poet, Thomas McGrath, has been courageous in more ways than one.
BINDING Solid and tight / INTERIOR Clean and free of marking. Text block edges are clean and spine has no creasing.
************************************* CONDITION - VERY GOOD PLUS - A previously owned book that is clean, bright and attractive, with the following noted :: EXTERIOR Mild surface rub, else bright and attractive with negligible wear. The front cover has a photograph of Toby Olson the rear cover has promotional text. 1937) / IMPRINT : New Directions (New Directions Paperbook NDP580) / PLACE : New York / DATE : (1984) / EDITION : First Edition in Paperback Format (Issued simultaneously with the hardcover) / PHYSICAL DETAILS : Trade paperback : 118 pages 5 1/8" x 7 7/8" photo-pictorial wraps, glued. Said poet Robert Creeley of Olson's poetry, "Toby Olson proves a writer of remarkable range and capability, and these poems join the established situation of his prose to make a singular human articulation of those inner lives we lead in this world of adamantly 'outside' reality.Haunting s recollection, provocative as familiar feelings must always be, there is no end to the preoccupations of these texts." *********************************** TITLE : We are the Fire / AUTHOR : Toby Olson (b. the themes in his poems reflect much of what happens in his fiction. Toby Olson is an award-wiinnning novelist / poet, whose work has been esteemed by both critics and readers. The paperback and hardcover formats were issued simultaneously. The book was published in 1984 by New Directions. This is the First Edition in Paperback Format of "We Are the Fire" by noted American poet Toby Olson.