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ASHBERY, John (b.1927). "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror." In: Poetry, Volume CXXIV, Number 5. Chicago: Modern Poetry Association, August 1974. 8o. Original pink printed wrappers, front cover with a design by Michael DePorte. FIRST APPEARANCE, INSCRIBED BY ASHBERY TO BURT BRITTON on the first page of the poem: "For Burt Britton With my best John Ashbery September 3, 1974."
[With:] Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. New York: The Viking Press, [1975]. 8o. Original orange printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION, UNCORRECTED PROOFS, INSCRIBED BY ASHBERY TO BURT BRITTON on the half-title: "For Burt XXX Oct 13, 1975." Publication date is listed as "5/75" on the front wrapper.
[With:] Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. New York: The Viking Press, 1975. 8o. Original cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, ADVANCE REVIEW COPY, INSCRIBED BY ASHBERY TO BURT BRITTON on the title-page: "For Burt Britton Love, John Ashbery, May 5, 1975." According to the review slip laid-in, publication was not until May 15. Also laid-in: two portrait photographs of Ashbery, publisher's press release and invitation to publication party at The Gotham Book Mart.
[With:] Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. New York: Penguin Books, 1976. 8o. Original wrappers. First paperback edition, INSCRIBED BY ASHBERY TO BURT BRITTON on the title: "For Burt and Korby Love, John 11/16/76." Laid-in: review slip and press release, listing publication date as October 28.
"... CHIEFLY HIS REFLECTION, OF WHICH THE PORTRAIT IS THE REFLECTION ONCE REMOVED..."
A VERY FINE COLLECTION QUARTET OF ASHBERY'S BEST-KNOWN POEM, and the work which codified Ashbery's place as perhaps America's preeminent post-war poet. Ashbery, a founding member of the group which came to be known as the New York School of poets, earned the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. A fine association: Burt Britton was a New York City bookseller who with Jeanette Watson in 1979 co-founded Books & Co., one of the city's great promoters of modern poetry until it closed in 1997. (4)
[With:] Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. New York: The Viking Press, [1975]. 8
[With:] Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. New York: The Viking Press, 1975. 8
[With:] Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. New York: Penguin Books, 1976. 8
"... CHIEFLY HIS REFLECTION, OF WHICH THE PORTRAIT IS THE REFLECTION ONCE REMOVED..."
A VERY FINE COLLECTION QUARTET OF ASHBERY'S BEST-KNOWN POEM, and the work which codified Ashbery's place as perhaps America's preeminent post-war poet. Ashbery, a founding member of the group which came to be known as the New York School of poets, earned the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. A fine association: Burt Britton was a New York City bookseller who with Jeanette Watson in 1979 co-founded Books & Co., one of the city's great promoters of modern poetry until it closed in 1997. (4)