NEW DIRECTIONS BOOKS
Yukio Mishima / Death in Midsummer
Nine short stories and a
no
play by Japan's foremost novelist. "There is no
question of Mishima's versatility and lively talent nor, thanks to the flaw–
less translations, is there any doubt of his virtuosity as a stylist."-Howard
Hibbett,
Saturday Review.
Hardb·ound,
$5.50;
Paperback, $2.25
The William Carlos Williams Reader
A selection of poetry, stories, and essays, with excerpts from the novels,
and a number of important texts which have long been out of print. Edited,
with an introduction, by M. L. Rosenthal.
Hardbound, $7.50
William Carlos Williams /
In
the American Grain
A reissue of the American classic in a new format to match the clothbound
editions of Williams's work.
Hardbound, $5.00
Blaise Cendrars. / Selected Writings
A representative selection of the prose and poetry of one of the most re–
markable French writers of this century. Edited by Walter Albert, with a
foreword by Henry Miller. (Poetry bilingual)
Hardbound,
$5.95;
Paper–
back, $2.25
Lin.coln Kirstein / :Rhymes
&
More Rhymes of a PFC
"As a picture of World War II,
Rhymes of a PFC
is by far the most con–
vincing, moving and impressive book I have come across."
W. H. Auden.
An
expanded edition.
Hardbound,
$5.00;
Paperback, $2.35
Kenneth Patchen / Doubleheader
A combined edition of the earlier books
Poemscapes
and
Hurrah for Any–
thing
(with illustrations by the author) and
A Letter
to
God. Paperback,
$1.35
Thomas Merton / Raids on the Unspeakable
A collection of his recent prose writings in which Thomas Merton looks
candidly at the world of the Sixties. Abstract drawings' by the author.
Paperbound, $1.95
New Directions 19 / An Anthology
A panorama of advance-guard writing here and abroad representing many
important U.S. writers together with translations from French, German,
Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, and Chinese.
Hardbound,
$6.00;
Paperback,
$2.75
Plays for a New Theater / Playbook II
Five exciting "off-beat" plays.
The Long Night of Medea
by Corrado
Alvaro,
Methusalem
by Ivan Goll,
The Wax Museum
by John Hawkes,
The
Assault on Charles Sumner
by Robert Hivnor, and
Knackery for AU
by
Boris Viano
Hardbound,
$6.00;
Paperback, $2.95
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