From time to time we acquire signed editions of books, prints, and other artifacts by Threepenny writers, artists, and editors, and when we have extra copies we make them available for sale to our readers. Below is a partial list, with cover illustrations, of some of our available titles; for a full list and ordering instructions, please click here.
Hiding in Plain Sight
Essays in Criticism and Autobiography
edited by Wendy Lesser
“For anyone who doesn’t see The Threepenny Review regularly, this anthology demonstrates what you’re missing.”
— Washington Post Book World
“A fresh anthology, compiled from contributions to The Threepenny Review by the magazine’s editor… What is patent is that very many of the pieces are first-rate.”
— The New Yorker
An anthology of thirty essays from the first fifty issues, published by Mercury House in 1993. Contents include John Berger’s “Her Secrets,” Lars Eighner’s “Dumpster Diving,” Thom Gunn’s “Christopher Isherwood,” Elizabeth Hardwick’s “Gertrude Stein,” Robert Pinsky’s “Poetry and Pleasure,” Christopher Ricks’s “Bob Dylan,” Amy Tan’s “Mother Tongue,” and other classic essays.
Signed first edition for $60 plus shipping.
Fine press broadside
for Hiding in Plain Sight
signed by Louise Glück, Thom Gunn, and Robert Hass
An elegantly printed broadside commissioned by Black Oak Books on the occasion of the first public reading from Hiding in Plain Sight. Suitable for framing. Designed and printed at Okeanos Press in Berkeley, the sheet measures approximately 8.5 x 14 inches, with brown-ink graphics and violet-ink type on off-white textured paper. The three quotations are taken from Louise Glück’s “The Idea of Courage,” Thom Gunn’s “Christopher Isherwood,” and Robert Hass’s “Wallace Stevens,” and all three poets have signed the broadside. Available for $100 plus shipping.
Also available:
Fine press broadside with work by Anne Carson and Adam Phillips, signed by both authors
A charming letterpress broadside designed by Noreen Fukumori and printed in a limited edition by Julie Holcomb Printers in September of 2001. It includes a complete poem by Anne Carson (“Strange Hour, Outcast Hour”) and an excerpt from an essay by Adam Phillips (“On the Strange, the Weird, and the Uncanny”) and is signed by both writers. Two colors, 8.5 x 14 inches, suitable for framing. Available for $35 plus shipping.
Fine press broadside of a poem by Kay Ryan, signed by the poet
A beautiful letterpress broadside printed in an extremely limited edition by Julie Holcomb Printers in honor of The Threepenny Review‘s thirtieth anniversary. It includes a complete poem by Kay Ryan—”Still Life with Lemons, Oranges, and a Rose (1633)”—and is signed by the author. Three colors, 7 x 10.5 inches, suitable for framing. Available for $50 plus shipping.
The author of numerous works that transcend the boundaries between fiction and nonfiction, Geoff Dyer is a frequent contributor to The Threepenny Review.
Published by Pantheon in 2012, Zona: A Book about a Film about a Journey to a Room is a close, intelligent, sometimes wry examination of the Tarkovsky movie Stalker and Dyer’s lifelong relationship to it. Hardcover with dust jacket; excellent, as-new condition; signed by the author specifically for readers of The Threepenny Review.
Mendocino Fire
by Elizabeth Tallent
A Bay Area resident and longtime contributor to The Threepenny Review, Elizabeth Tallent excels at writing both fiction and nonfiction. This is her latest story collection.
Published by HarperCollins in 2015, Mendocino Fire contains ten marvelous short stories, five of which first appeared in The Threepenny Review. Hardcover with dust jacket; excellent, as-new condition; signed by the author specifically for our readers.
Signed first edition for $25 plus shipping.
Unattainable Earth
by Czeslaw Milosz
“The core of the major themes of Milosz’s poetry is the unbearable realization that a human being is unable to grasp his experience.”
Czeslaw Milosz won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980. This wonderful book of his poems, pensées, and prose pieces, translated from the Polish by the author and Robert Hass, was published by Ecco Press in 1986. Hardcover with dust jacket, excellent condition. Signed first edition for $300 plus shipping.
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Czeslaw Milosz’s Provinces: Poems 1987-1991, published by Ecco Press in 1991. Hardcover with dustjacket, excellent condition. Signed first edition for $250 plus shipping.
