Baechler, Lea and A. Walton Litz, eds:American writers; a collection of literary biographies; supplement III, part 1: John Ashbery to Walker Percy; supplement III, part 2: Philip Roth to Louis Zukofsky and cumulative index to volumes 1-4 and supplements I, II, and III
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New York: Vintage International, 1996. Paperback. Very Good No Jacket. Vintage International Very Good Trade Paperback. Blue cover black panels with white lettering. Clean, unmarked, c… Altro …
New York: Vintage International, 1996. Paperback. Very Good No Jacket. Vintage International Very Good Trade Paperback. Blue cover black panels with white lettering. Clean, unmarked, crease at lower corner back. Winner of National Book Critics Circle Award. Roth's memoir recounts the life, decline, and death of his father, Herman Roth, from an inoperable brain tumor. New York: Vintage International, 1996. 5.25in x 8in tall; 238pp., Vintage International, 1996, Riverside, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group, 1991. CREAM JACKET. 238 PAGES. NOTE ON FRONT END PAPERS STATES 'GOOD READ', ELSE BOOK IS CLEAN, BRIGHT AND SECURE. Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group. 1991, FIRST EDITION. FIRST PRINT. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First EDITION. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. BIOGRAPHY., Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group, 1991, New York, NY: Farrar Strauss and Giroux, 1988. Buy with Confidence from a FABA (Florida Antiquarian Bookseller Association) Member - for more than quarter of a century.. 1st 2nd Print. Grey Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Hardback., Farrar Strauss and Giroux, 1988, New York: Simon & Schuster, January 1991. 3rd printing. Hardcover. Very Good Very Good. 238 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 457286, Simon & Schuster, NY: Simon and Schuster, (1991).. First edition. Blue cloth. Inscription in ink, VG, in VG DJ. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1991., NY: Simon and Schuster, (1991)., 1991, NY: Norton Pub. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1999. 1st Edition". HARDCOVER. 6x9". VERY GOOD Condition in Very Good Dust Jacket DJ; 360pg pages ., Norton Pub, 1999, Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A.: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1988. Fine in Fine jacket 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. pp.195. The author shares the experiences of his life. clean tight unread copy d/j price clipped.. Second Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine., Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1988, Jonathan Cape, Vauxhall Bridge Road, London - 1991 hardcover, 6¼" x 9½", with dust jacket Ours is an ex-library copy in transparent protective covering, with usual stamps, stickers, etc. GOOD book in GOOD unclipped dust jacket Herman Roth is eighty-six years old, a widower, retired insurance manager, suffering from a brain tumour and fighting death. In a remarkable act of memory, energy and appreciation, Philip Roth creates his most irrespressible and irresistible character yet - his father. Against all odds, this is a surprisingly funny story., Jonathan Cape, Vauxhall Bridge Road, London -, 1991, New York: Public Affairs, 2004. BI3 - A first edition hardcover book in very good condition in very good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket and book have some bumped corners, wrinkling and crease, light discoloration and shelf wear. The boodlers, demagogues, heroes, jokesters, populists, and thinkers. Contributors C. Vann Woodward, Vachel Lindsay, John Dos Passos, Jack Beatty, H.L. Mencken, Richard Hofstadter, Hooding Carter, Robert A. Caro, Conrad Black, Blanche Wiesen Cook, David McCullough, Fred I. Greenstein, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Norman Mailer, William E. Leuchtenburg, Philip Roth, Mike Royko, Lou Cannon, Garry Wills, John Aloysius Farrell, Richard Ben Cramer. 9.5"x6.5", 463 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., Public Affairs, 2004, (New York: Bantam Books, 1979. Fine. First edition. Quarto. Stapled card covers. 32pp. Fine. Front cover: Philip Roth, Ray Bradbury, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, John Steinbeck, Anais Nin, and more., Bantam Books, 1979, (New York: Bantam Books, 1979. Fine. First edition. Quarto. Stapled card covers. 32pp. Fine. Front cover: Philip Roth, Ray Bradbury, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, John Steinbeck, Anais Nin, and more., Bantam Books, 1979, W. W. Norton, New York: 2005. Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition. Chronicling the mysterious life of one of the most extraordinary American writers of the twentieth century, Redemption tells us the revelatory story of Henry Roth, whose first work, Call It Sleep, is regarded as the finest novel of the American immigrant experience. Mush has been written about Roth's inestimable contribution to American literature, but Redemption is the first book that traces Roth's unique story - from his birth in 1906 in a virtual shtetl in the disintegrating Astro-Hungarian Empire to his phoenix-like emergence as a literary curiosity in New Mexico just before his death in 1995. Includes an Index. "Henry Roth has only two peers in American-English Jewish fiction, Nathanael West and Philip Roth. Steven G. Kellman's poignant and skill biography is worthy of Roth; it memorializes the ultimately productive existence that fused its suffering into authentic aesthetic dignity." - Harold Bloom ISBN: 0393057798., W. W. Norton, New York: 2005, New York: William Morrow & Co, 1996. First Edition.. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Type: Hardback First Edition. Hardcover Book in Fine Condition with a Very Good Dust Jacket. 25 Jewish Writers, from the nineteenth century to the 1990s, write in fiction and essay about childhood in America--Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Philip Roth, Michael Chabon, Grace Paley, Chaim Potok, Edna ferber, to name a few. Clean and bright ivory cloth binding with silver titles, spotless, solid, square, sharp corners--handsome volume. Interior is also as new. Clean and bright unclipped dust jacket with light wrinkling and a small closed slit on the rear top edge. 249 pages. 6.5 x 9.5 inches. 1996, William Morrow & Co, New York, New York, USA, William Morrow & Co, 1996, Tandem [0-4260-5549-7] 1971, 1st thus. (Mass market paperback) Very good. ... Previous owner's stamp. ... Rarely in this age of action figures and product tie-ins does one come across a work as boldly and unapologetically erudite, urbane, and steeped in folklore, mythology, and literature as this early fantasy classic. Written in 1919 by James Branch Cabell, JURGEN employs chivalry, philosophy, mild eroticism, humor, and high poetic prose to celebrate man's desire for the perfect mate. Think Shakespeare crossed with Philip Roth. ... Cover illustration by Mike Foreman. ... Series: Biography of Manuel 7. ... (Fantasy)., Tandem, Touchstone Books, 1991. First paperback printing. Softcover. Near Fine Condition. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 238 pp. Binding is tight, spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Remainder mark on bottom. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; #72747; ISBN: 0671758624. ISBN/EAN: 9780671758622. Library of Congress No: 90-35891. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 32136. . 9780671758622, Touchstone Books, 1991, Sf. CA: Chronicle Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1995. 1st Edition,1p. HARDCOVER. VERY GOOD Condition in Very Good Dust Jacket; Literary photographic Biography..ANGELOU, MAYA; BELLLOW, SAUL; ATWOOD, MARGARET; UPDIKE, JOHN; VIDAL, GORE; ROTH, PHILIP; LESSING, DO ..10987654321 print line.. ..Nice, Clipt) dust jacket.. ..SILVER SPINE & COVER TITLES ON BLACK HARD COVERS..All Nice.. ..25 years of SUNDAY TIMES of LONDON Photographs.. ., Chronicle Books, 1995, New York: Pantheon Books, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Slight rubbing and minor nicks to jacket; else a near fine copy internally. [8], 293 pages. Memoir of the noted Vermont-based writer; "A pithy mix of family history and personal insight ... transforms one man's story into an American saga" (jacket front flyleaf). Notable for lower jacket cover blurbs by Guy Davenport, Alfred Kazin, Annie Proulx, Philip Roth and Robert Stone. Boldly signed by Hoagland in blue ink on publisher's printed paper label attached to front free endpaper., Pantheon Books, 2001, Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2001. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches. 160 pages. First printing with complete number line on copyright page. Condition of the book is Near Fine; Looks new on all points. Dust jacket is Very Good; very light surface wear, in clear mylar wrapper. STK, Houghton Mifflin, 2001, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991. 1st edition, 1st printing.. Hardcover in gray cloth boards; in b/w-photo jacket.. Fine unmarked; in Fine unclipped jacket in Brodart.. 'An emotional recollection of the author''s father. Nice bright copy of HB 1st.' 6-1/2 x 9-1/2, 238 pp, beige endpapers., Simon & Schuster, 1991, Curley Publishing, Us, 1992. Paperback. Used; Acceptable. Ex Library. Roll to spine. Fast Dispatch. Expedited UK Delivery Available. Excellent Customer Service. Bookbarn International Inventory #2610993, Curley Publishing, Us, 1992, 2nd printingSewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 208 p. Audience: General/trade., Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1988, UK,thick 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,2nd imp.[Complete number line 10 - 2 descending.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip (£25.00) to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,matt,subject's silver+black portrait photographic illustrated front panel of dw/dj with pale blue+white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top edges slightly aged/toned, fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain black cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white eps.UK,thick 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,2nd impression,xi-xixpp+3-596pp [paginated] includes an author's introduction,Pts 1 - 6,24pp contemporary b/w auto+biographical photographs in 3 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp172/3, pp268/9 and pp412/13 respectively,notes and sources,a selected bibliography, acknowledgements and an index,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,an epigram,contents list/table,Pts separator pages,and to the rear of the book,permissions acknowledgements,illustration credits,a note about the author and 6pp blanks. SIDONIE-GABRIELLE COLETTE was the twentieth century's first modern woman.She arrived in the salons of Paris around 1900 as the provincial child bride of a notorious rake and brilliant literary impressario,Willy,who signed her first novels - the 'Claudines' - and claimed them as his own.They invented the erotically reckless teenage girl as we know her,becoming the greatest French bestsellers of their,and probably all,time. When this tumultuous marriage ended,Colette went off with a high-born woman lover,the virile Marquise de Belboeuf,and embarked on a flamboyant stage career.She bared her breast to raucous applause in the French music-hall.She became a celebrity of the lesbian demi-monde.The Belle Epoque aesthetes found her irresistible,and she explored their addictions to forbidden pleasures along with her own.While building a reputation for hugely popular fiction,drama,memoir, criticism and scandal,Colette deserted Lesbos to marry Baron Henry de Jouvenel, one of Paris's most influential (and sexually charismatic) political journalists.She was the first woman to report from the front lines of World War 1. She edited the literary pages of a major daily.At forty,she had her only (much neglected) child.At forty-seven,she seduced her stepson.In 1935,a reader's poll named Colette the greatest living master of French prose.Until her death in 1954,she continued to rewrite the rules for loving,working,and ageing.And she never ceased to shock and disarm her public. Colette was a paradox of ferocity and seductiveness,of impure appetites and Olympian vitality,of sexual dissidence and social conservatism.Her art was never more pristine than in her last,anguished years,when she charmed the world with Gigi.At the end of the century,her life and work still have the power to challenge norms and to open eyes.They have found in Judith Thurman a peerlessly witty and penetrating chronicler. 'No one has written wit less cant about sex than Colette,and no one has written about Colette better than Judith Thurman.This essential biography by a stylish writer of great sympathetic understanding and intellectual authority will disappoint the ideologues and enthral everyone else,as it did me.' - Philip Roth. Since April 2013 and again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices,weight allowances, dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too!So,please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk,because of the heavier weight/ value of this item for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!, LONDON.BLOOMSBURY,1999., New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1972. Roth's sixth book. This is a Fine copy of the First Edition (stated). Maroon cloth binding with Roth's initials in gilt on the front cover; gilt lettering on the spine. Clean text; 78 pages, with an author biography as one of the endpapers. The dustjacket is bright and unclipped, but marred by some chips at the edges and a small closed tear on the front panel. In an archival plastic protector. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good., Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1972, New York: Simon & Schuster. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. 0671703765 . "What if a look-alike stranger stole your name, usurped your biography, and went about the world pretending to be you?" Ships same or next business day. Text block is slightly pulled away from spine head, minor edge wear, slightly dirty on fore-edge; otherwise, free from major defect. Dust jacket protected in archival cover. DJ has minimal edge and shelf wear. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 398 pages ., Simon & Schuster, 1993, Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: William Morrow & Co, 1996. First printing. Fiction & essays by 25 writers, including: Edna Ferber, Chaim Potok, Philip Roth, Grace Paley, Letty Pogrebin, Cynthia Ozick, Michael Chabon, Herbert Gold and many others about growing up Jewish in America. Unread, as new in like DJ. 249 pp.. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Book., William Morrow & Co, 1996, Oversized Paperback. Very Good +. Introduction by the gifted poet, Joseph Brodsky. Author Kiss, born in 1935, and his prize-winning novel. In 7 chapter headings: The knife with the rosewood handle....The sow that eats her farrow...The mechanical lions...The magic card dealing...A tomb for Boris Davdovich...Dogs and books... The short biography of A.A, Darmolatov. Short stories: Orwellian -like, set in 1976, in the times of Stalin.Pictorial cover. ( 5 X 7 3/4 ) 135 pages, plus book ads. sku 865, USA: Chelsea House Publishers, 1986. x + 188pp, index, bibliography, a collection of 14 essays. Maroon boards, a VG clean tight copy in dustwrapper. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., Chelsea House Publishers, 1986, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.: Random House Inc, 1988. (1st US) Slightly smaller book, uniquely designed, black cloth spine, dark gray boards with embossed design and initials, very bright red lettering and design to spine, 180 pages. DJ glossy and colorfully designed beneath mylar, silver building with black shadow on front, background in shades of orange on front, praise on back from Philip Roth, Milan Kundera and others. DJ and book, both As New.. 1st US. Hard Cover. As New/As New., Random House Inc, 1988, New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2006. SIGNED by the AUTHOR on the title page (her signature only, NOT personalized to anyone). Near Fine condition in a bright and shiny Near Fine dust jacket. NOT price clipped ($23.95). NO chips. NO tears. Clean, square, tight and unmarked. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Bound in the original red boards. There is a "SIGNED COPY" sticker on the jacket's front panel (which will be neatly removed upon buyer's request). From the Dust Jacket: "Long before there were creative-writing workshops and degrees, how did aspiring writers learn to write? By reading the work of their predecessors and contemporaries, says Francine Prose. In READING LIKE A WRITER, Prose invites you to sit by her side and take a guided tour of the tools and the tricks of the masters. She reads the work of the very best writers -- Dostoyevsky, Flaubert, Kafka, Austen, Dickens, Woolf, Chekhov -- and discovers why their work has endured. She takes pleasure in the long and magnificent sentences of Philip Roth and the breathtaking paragraphs of Isaac Babel; she is deeply moved by the brilliant characterization in George Eliot's MIDDLEMARCH. She looks to John Le Carré for a lesson in how to advance plot through dialogue, to Flannery O'Connor for the cunning use of the telling detail, and to James Joyce and Katherine Mansfield for clever examples of how to employ gesture to create character. She cautions readers to slow down and pay attention to words, the raw material out of which literature is crafted. Written with passion, humor, and wisdom, READING LIKE A WRITER will inspire readers to return to literature with a fresh eye and an eager heart.". Signed by the Author (signature only). Later printing. Hardcover. Near Fine condition/Near Fine dust jacket. 8vo. (xii), 275pp., HarperCollins Publishers, 2006, New York, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1988. Slight fade at edges of gray cloth-covered boards and slight crimp to spine ends, otherwise book Fine. DJ with slightly sunned spine and slight rubs at corners and ends of spine panel. DJ in plastic cover.. First Edition, 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Milton Glaser (jacket design)., Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1988, New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, [, 1991. Hardcover. Covers slightly rubbed; edges slightly foxed; otherwise very good condition (no dust jacket). ]. Two volumes, 800p. Quarto. Supplement III, parts 1 and 2 only., New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, [, 1991<