Stand Still Like the Hummingbird

Contents;

The Hour of Man
Children of the Earth
Open Sesame!
Patchen: Man of Anger and Light
The Angel Is My Watermark
An Open Letter to All and Sundry
First Love
When I Reach for My Revolver
Quest
Open Letter to Small Magazines
My Life as an Echo
The Immorality of Morality
Ionesco
Walt Whitman
Henry David Thoreau
Money and How It Gets That Way
To Read or Not to Read
Lime Twigs and Treachery
Let Us Be Content with Three Little Newborn Elephants
Aderson the Storyteller
The Novels of Albert Cossery
Stand Still Like the Hummingbird

A138a 1962 FIRST NEW DIRECTIONS EDITION

Gold cloth boards. Black dust jacket with photograph of hummingbird in flight
Published on June 28, 1962, at $4.00, in an edition of 7,500 copies.
Note: The First Edition of Stand Still Like the Hummingbird, has the front board covered with gold cloth with bright orange cloth on the back boards.

A138b 1967 FIRST NEW DIRECTIONS PAPERBACK EDITION

Black wrappers with photograph of hummingbird in flight
1st Printing: Published on October 16, 1967, at $1.95, in an edition of 2,400 copies.
2nd Printing: Published on April 16, 1968, at $1.95, in an edition of 2,930 copies.
3rd Printing: Published on November 29, 1968, at $1.95, in an edition of 3,026 copies.
4th Printing: Published on July 10, 1970, at $1.95, in an edition of 3,089 copies.
5th Printing: Published in May 1972, at $1.95, in an edition of 3,134 copies.
6th Printing: Published on June 4, 1974, at $2.25, in an edition of 3,146 copies.
7th Printing: Published on March 25, 1977, at $3.75, in an edition of 1,604 copies.
8th Printing: Published on September 11, 1978, at $4.45, in an edition of 1,402 copies.
9th Printing: Published in 1980, at $4.95, in an edition of 2,500 copies.
10th Printing: Published in 1982, at $5.95, in an edition of 1,500 copies.
11th Printing: Published in 1987, at $6.95, in an edition of 2,000 copies.
12th Printing: Published in 1989, at $8.95, in an edition of 2,000 copies.
13th Printing: Published in 1992, at $9.95, in an edition of 2,000 copies.
Note: The 12th and the 13th Printings have a publisher's device on the spine above the number. Sheets for first paperback printing were printed at the same time as the hardbound edition.

A138c 1974 FIRST VILLAGE PRESS EDITION

Black wrappers
Published in 1974, at 70 pence.

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